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  1. Re:Mental maps... on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    I second that, I dont even know the names of the streets blocks away from where i have lived my entire life, i navigate entirely by landmarks.

  2. Re:Oil refining capacity on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 1

    The refinery in Richmond CA wants to simply change to a cleaner method of production, but the NIMBY people have decided that they cant even FIX their refinery.

  3. So the msn server has to attack you? on Pidgin Adds Google Talk Voice and Video Support (and a Vulnerability) · · Score: 1

    A vulnerability that is ridiculously unlikely to ever be seen in the wild? Oh no!

  4. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 1

    People are buying those for retirement accounts. The vast majority of government issued bonds only pay out after a decade or more.

  5. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 1

    If you have more debt than assets you declare bankruptcy....

  6. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 1

    Bonds? Nobody with real money would in their right mind invest in bonds...

  7. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Inflation does not reduce the value of the vast majority of wealth. Anybody with real wealth has it invested in assets which protect against inflation.

    The only people who lose from inflation are people with a large percentage of their over all wealth in cash, which is to say poor people lose out from inflation.

  8. ridiculous on SpinVox "Recognition" Is Often Expensive Human Transcription · · Score: 1

    they dont even need to have speech recognition, they just need to recognize when a few word is spoken and have people listen to individual words.

  9. Re:Yeah, right on Firefox 3.5's First Vulnerability "Self-Inflicted" · · Score: 1

    http://www.cutekittens.com/ how about that one? :D

  10. Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu on BOINC Exceeds 2 Petaflop/s Barrier · · Score: 1

    The irony that climate models usually require super computers to run in a timely manner is not lost on me.

  11. Re:American newspapers on EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News · · Score: 1

    It probably doesnt hurt that norway is dark and encased in ice for a huge chunk of the year.

  12. Re:FTPS on R.I.P. FTP · · Score: 1
  13. Re:FTPS on R.I.P. FTP · · Score: 1

    chroot only applies to file descriptors open after the call. If there is a file descriptor opened before the call to chroot on say a directory? you can easily transverse the file system.

  14. Re:FTPS on R.I.P. FTP · · Score: 1

    I have moderator points, but I decided to reply instead.

    There are several ways to break out of a chroot'ed environment.

    You do not need root privileges to break out of a chroot. If you can find a file descriptor which was opened before the call to chroot() you can break out of the chroot. That is only one example, but it gives a good idea of how complex compartmentalization of an entire operating system is. It is important to realize that chroot is not a security mechanism.

  15. Re:We've heard this before on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    And then would have fried him; guarantee or not.

  16. Re:hmm.... it's summer? on Is IE Usage Share Collapsing? · · Score: 1

    It's simple. When Europeans go on vacation they're on vacation

    Crazy idea, right?

    Hell if you go to France the wrong time of year you'll end up without any restaurants open.

  17. Re:No hacking on Gaikai Drawing Interest With Low-Key Demo, Believable Claims · · Score: 1

    Well it certainly would be more difficult, but you could maintain a collection of the maps in different games then construct overlays based on inputs.

  18. Re:In other words, it's Apple-baw on Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs · · Score: 1

    Yeah that makes perfect sense. I mean Nokia's browser would need to support it also!.

    Whats what? Nokia doesn't have a browser

    Oh right, who gives a shit what Nokia thinks.

  19. It's pretty obvious on Your Browser History Is Showing · · Score: 1

    I am using Firefox 3.0.11 on Ubuntu 9.04 with a T7500 CPU (Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz).

    That site pegged one core of my CPU.

    Really? That would be damn obvious, not to mention most people would see the slow down and close the browser.

  20. Re:In NYC, we have less tolerance...for cars that on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 2

    You said it yourself NYC is the most crowded place (in the US at least). NYC is unique, there is a functioning large scale subway system, the entire island of Manhattan is only 2 miles wide, NYC is uniquely suited to pedestrian and bike traffic.

    Unfortunately for the rest of the country bicycles more often than not have a combined negative effect. Most urban area's around the country have little residential traffic and most of the commuters are coming from widely dispersed areas. Widely disbursed commuters means that mass transit is essentially impossible. The Bay Area has one of the best mass transit systems (especially when you consider that most of the commuters are commuting to san francisco from places across the bay). But if you have work at 9am you would still need to be catching the bus at 7:45am to guarantee you get to work by 9am, and that's if you're in the city i can barely imagine relying on mass transit to commute from a place farther away.

    Bikes and cars should not be sharing the same roads. It's dangerous for all parties involved. I know that a lot of the bicycle riders want to believe that everybody could ride a bike everywhere, but it's just not true; i would contend that the vast majority of people could not physically bike to work unless that was time they were paid too bike.

  21. Finally? I've been doing that in VMware for ages on Virtualbox 3.0 Announces OpenGL/Direct3D Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Direct3d support is not designed for gaming, but it works for the most part. I have found a few games which do not work, Fallout 3 America's Army 3, but also many which do work, Counter Strike Source America's Army 2 Team Fortress 2 Rise of Nations.

  22. Re:Firefox 3.5 freezes loading background tabs on Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome · · Score: 2, Insightful

    VMware is probably swapping to free memory. You can disable the swapping of memory by VMware which will significantly improve performance (as long as you do not run out of memory).

    Basically it sounds like you're waiting for the hdd to load something while at the same time writing out swap data.

  23. Detection Should be Trivial on New Click-Fraud Attack Is Stealthiest Yet · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Alright and then google almost immediately bans that person for adsense.

    Wow brilliant plan guys.

  24. Re:You cannot use viruses/bugs as an example of co on The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    Fingerprinting is absurdly far from perfect.

    Most if not all load balancers are linux which means a fair number of sites running IIS appear to be on linux when you do TCP/IP fingerprinting.

  25. Re:TCP? on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    The checksum used by TCP is a weak and only 16 bits.

    On networks with extremely high error rates the probability that a packet will be corrupted in such a way that the checksum is still valid becomes very high.

    The use of jumbo packets causes the probability to increase substantially as the same hash must now verify far more data.