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  1. Re:Mobilize the mob on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Hold your horses! High Treason cannot by applied as he does not come from the right Kingdom. That leaves us with boring hanging.

  2. Entanglement on JavaScript/HTML 5 Gaming? · · Score: 1
  3. Mobility problem! on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly, the iMac was not mobile enough comparing to the bullets.

  4. Great C on Carnivorous Clock Eats Bugs · · Score: 1

    All hail Great C... and start preparing the questions (unless you are on a quest to paint Deus Irae).

  5. Re:Dumbing down the text... on Hackers Find Remote iPhone Crack · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    FTFY:
    Half of the geeks have inteligence below the median inteligence of the geek population.

  6. Re:Other sites with support exist as well on Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard · · Score: 1

    And as any PHB will tell you "The customer ultimately pays the costs, one way or another."

  7. Problem with versioning on The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pirated copy is version 0.5 - it has half of the world. So the full version will be 1.0 - it has the whole world. When EA provides version 1.1 will I get 10% of world extra for free?

  8. Re:Why is it harder on GPUs than CPUs? on AMD Breaks 1GHz GPU Barrier With Radeon HD 4890 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wide vector processing with "800 stream processing units" (or "pipes" or "cores") - it is hard to put 800 cores in one chip and not to boil the silicon.

  9. Re:did anyone read the summary and think on Europe Is Testing 12.5 Gbps Wireless · · Score: 1

    I am reading it in work now :) (work can wait, it won't run too far)

  10. Re:The school owns it. on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You forgot about "fast" before the date http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2009-01-24/

  11. Re:SYN on Gears of War 2 Patched To Fix Matchmaking Issues, Problems Persist · · Score: 1

    Don't forget correct sequence numbers and their acks!

  12. Re:How is this different.. on Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format · · Score: 1

    Two new great features making it useable!
    1) binary
    2) not "human friendly"

  13. Re:MachIne Learning for Embedded PrOgramS opTimiza on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 1

    Every project funded as EU FP project (Framework Programme) must have an acronim. It is a requirement in the project proposal forms. I know that most of the acronyms are hard to read and understand. I can assure you it is much harder to create one that is new, creative, having any similarity to the project scope and matching letters with the full name of the project.

    A "small" group of currently on-going projects can be found here.

  14. Re:What's the point of a new wireless-G one? on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 1
    IEEE 802.11 in general has 3 independent layers:
    • LLC - logical link control (connecting to access points, handover, encryption, ...)
    • MAC - an algorithm to share the same radio channel among many terminals (users)
    • PHY - physical transmission (modulation, coding, EM signal spreading, timer values, ...)

    Magic letters mark the extensions of the original standard. And a/b/g (and new 'n') extensions define only the PHY part that is done in hardware.
    MAC implementation has very strict operating requirements (response delay to various events at level of 10 microseconds or lower) so it is also implemented in hardware (or FPGA, or any "chipset").
    The part that you are concerned about is the LLC (partly done in hardware, partly done in OS). Linux must have a way to configure it to use available features (including WEP/WPA). And we are back to the problem of Linux drivers and chipset manufacturers that ignore Linux.
    Solution: use cards with Linux-friendly chipsets (Ralink, Intel, Atheros) and you may have working WEP.

  15. Re:What's the point of a new wireless-G one? on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is how to use the same "free" radio frequency (2.4 GHz) both for "b/g" and "n" without interferencing each other.

  16. Not only splash screen on Blizzard Announces Diablo 3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... much more here

  17. Re:Once you're past the router... on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 1

    There is only one usable/scalable QoS tag - DSCP. And it seems that finally there may be agreement on common classes, see RFC 4594 and RFC 5127.

  18. Re:Once you're past the router... on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 1
    Define neutral. I would follow ITU-T NGN approach:
    • there are 3 groups of entities: users, service providers and network providers
    • network provides network services, e.g. real time traffic handing, guranteed bandwidth traffic handling, ...
    • every user/service provider has open access to the network resource management; you can ask for "better service" for your TCP/UDP streams
    • yes, you are going to pay for "better" - it seems to be unavoidable
  19. Re:QOS should work on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 1

    I use ingress shaping (via IMQ) and it seems to move the downstream bottleneck for TCP traffic to my WRT54. Of course I loose 5% of DL bandwidth, but every traffic control has a price.

    And I agree that any TCP traffic control involving packet droping is useless (ingress policing, RED, etc).

  20. Re:Modularity on PhD Research On Software Design Principles? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree. Functional decomposition helps in developement scaling, but you need a genious to design an architecture and understand what "it as a whole" should do.

  21. Re:Outsourcing bioinformatics! on Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game · · Score: 1

    ... tempting idea ... now we know why they give away those XOs for free.

  22. Re:To sum it up. on The Dead Sea Effect In the IT Workplace · · Score: 1

    ... and with Gausian distribution you can have negative values of programming abilities!
    In real life Pr{X<E[X]}=0.5 is quite rare.

  23. Re:To sum it up. on The Dead Sea Effect In the IT Workplace · · Score: 1

    In general "below average" should be "below median".

  24. Re:And where can I buy this flow management? on ARPANET Co-Founder Calls for Flow Management · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no flow routing in Anagran solution - it is just per (TCP) flow shaper/policer that you put at the ingres/egress of your network.
    Anyway, in 99% of cases to achieve same thing you could use Linux with SFQ queueing.

  25. Re:Indict Google... on Four Indicted in Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 1

    I agree in 100% that meaning defines the content, but let's focus on math :)
    Assume that there are two numbers X1 and X2.
    When I store the X1 in file named X1.png I can see a picture of tree that I made and own (or picture of any other thing that won't sue me).
    When I store the X2 in file named X2.mp3 I can hear a song.
    Assume that I invent mathematical function f1() that can do: f1(X1)=X2
    1) Am I allowed to distribute X1?
    2) Am I allowed to distribute f1()?
    3) Am I allowed to tell people to use f1() on X1? 4) Are people allowed to use any function f() on any number?