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  1. Re:Too little too late on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: 2

    That post is about enhancing their wiki code templating language, not switching away from PHP. The only thing they're switching is to HHVM, which is still PHP code.

    http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014...

  2. Victory on French Police To Switch 72,000 Desktop PCs To Linux · · Score: 2

    For the french too!

  3. Re:A better question... on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 1

    Everything! Suppose there isn't a god and you chose to make the non existent god happy, what have you lost? Nothing!

    Do you know how many people have died for religion?

  4. Re:WTF on iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken, Hack Enables Siri on iPhone 4 · · Score: 2

    It looks like it's the wrong link. This appears to be the proper article: http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-iphone-4s-5.0.1-ios-by-iphone-dev-team/

  5. Tablet for school on When Should I Buy an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    I'm also in the market for a tablet for school (or maybe a laptop, though i'd like to play around with android). I'm looking for long battery life, and quick startup/sleep. My old laptop only lasts for about 20 minutes without power so I need to get something soon. Probably going to use it to markup slides or maybe handwritten notes (formulas and stuff like that). Also would be used to remote desktop to my windows pc at home for any heavy lifting (compiles). There's wifi everywhere, so don't need or want a data plan with it.

    The galaxy tab seems cool, but I don't want to be forced into a data plan. The archos 101 seemed much more reasonable. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

  6. FlashForwardD on Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead · · Score: 0

    Maybe it's caused by the same thing that killed all the crows in FlashForward!

  7. Re:Take that china on Copernicium Confirmed As Element 112 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoosh

  8. Re:Monitor gamma? on Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others · · Score: 1

    I have ImageZoom, and zooming in on the pictures shows that they're actually the same image.

  9. Re:I'll never use Facebook on Facebook Founder's Pictures Go Public · · Score: 1

    I guess now we all know the most important things about you.

  10. Re:Wikileaks on "Lawful Spying" Price Lists Leaked · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Free market on Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not everyone has the time to become a Cellphone grandmaster. This was a tool for the people to use to simplify the process.
    This is like the grandmaster burning the novice's move book, because it might give the novice a chance.

  12. Re:Bad metric on A.I. Developer Challenges Pro-Human Bias · · Score: 1

    You should try communicating with the fungal bloom. You will learn something, or the mind worms will destroy you with their psi attacks.

  13. Re:H.M. Is the Father of my Field on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 1

    I believe he's referring to a finite state machine.

  14. Re:the future of gaming is almost here on "Minority Report"-Like Control For PC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of the weak minded geeks may degrade into jocks.

  15. Re:It's too bad on Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants · · Score: 1

    That definition of uploading/downloading I seems rather outdated. Bittorrent will try to send to some peers automatically if they are present without being asked (optimistic unchoking I think it was called), so even by your definition, there is uploading.

    However, uploading means sending data, downloading means receiving data. Who initiates the transfer is irrelevant and that only defines if the machine is acting as a client or a server. If you want to get really details, for every packet I download, I also upload an acknowledgment packet.

    Either way it doesn't matter. If the RIAA can download the infringing file from you, you still run the risk of getting sued if you're called an uploaded or not.

  16. Re:BitTorrent? on OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    The tracker can count how many people have finished downloading it.

  17. Re:hallelujah on Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As opposed to the mechanical prosthetics that feed information back?

    Now we can reuse stuff that's already built in.

  18. Re:Rental only on Playstation 3 Video DRM Only Allows One Download · · Score: 1

    So if i scratch up my cd or dvd, I'm entitled to a new one? Interesting..

    If you bought the CD, then probably not unless it's covered under the warranty. If you just bought the license, then they should help you get a new one.

    Of course, you could create backups of the media you bought just in case you do break something.

  19. Re:we'd better hope... on First Image of a Planet Orbiting a Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I couldn't see any legs dangling off it to be certain it was an Overlord. Perhaps it's just the Queen.

  20. Re:Term? on US Court Gives 15 Months' Jail, $415,900 Fine For Game Piracy · · Score: 1

    It's trivially easy to drive drunk. This guy made almost $400k by selling the games and consoles in large volumes. That isn't as easy and would either require some good equipment or a lot of time.

  21. Re:I have a serious question: on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, set affinity only means that it'll only use that one CPU. Theoretically, with an intense program, that cpu should get to 100% and leave the other one available for other things.

    In windows though, a multicore processor will try to split workload by threads, not processes, so even a single program can take advantage of multiple cores; especially if multiple threads do heavy lifting.

  22. Must be a very firefox friendly site on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't see these numbers at all with my site... Our IE to FX 52% to 40% Of the IE users 70% are ie7, 25% are ie6 Of the FX users close to 80% are 2.0.0.14, barely more than 10% are fx3. This is out of 600k+ visits

  23. Re:The end of ctrl+enter days? on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You obviously haven't used Firefox 3 yet.

  24. Space Debris on New Method Discovered For Making Telescopes On the Moon · · Score: 1

    And how much will the giant shield (aka atmosphere) cost to protect this mirror from all the meteorites and various junk flying around out there?

  25. Re:p4p means on ISPs Say P4P Negates Need for Net Neutrality Regs · · Score: 1

    Latency