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  1. Re:The first rule on playing against the house... on Justice Department Joins Fraud Lawsuit Against Oracle · · Score: 1

    I do believe he is referring to the house of congress.

  2. Re:Explaining Piracy Figures on Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market · · Score: 1

    That isn't from the US Constitution. It's from international copyright law.

  3. Re:The study just involves blind people on Utah State Prof Says Hybrids Don't Kill More Pedestrians · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correction, it could say that the issue with hybrids running quieter is a relatively insignificant factor in pedestrian deaths, and if you want to reduce that, then the legislation should perhaps look into more significant factors.

  4. Re:Or do not have variable delays at all on OAuth, OpenID Password Crack Could Affect Millions · · Score: 1

    A better solution is to use a pre-defined salt, and md5 hash the input with it. Then generate an appropriate random hash, and re-hash using sha1 both the input and a pre-salt-hashed stored password with it, then compare both with strcmp.

    Good luck trying to reverse that. It's not impossible, but it's the best I can come up with, and likely to withstand any (reasonable) attack in the next 50 years on conventional hardware.

  5. Re:Am I a cheap bastard? on Fastest Graphics Ever, Asus ARES Rips Benchmarks · · Score: 3, Informative

    First 30 FPS is probably too low for a FPS because you are likely stating what the FPS is when you are motionless and in one particular spot. Now, replay a few matches and tell us what your minimum frame rate was, and I best it's in the very low teens or worse. That isn't acceptable, and you are more likely to lag when the action gets thick and you need your FPS the most.

    Secondly, Crysis/Crysis Warhead is a 3 year old engine that's a generation behind. Of course playing games from 3 years ago play fine on $100 video cards, but those cards would have been the $600+ cards 3 years ago too. Try picking at least a current gen game.

    And lastly, 1680x1050? My LCD's native resolution has been 1920x1200 since I got it 5 years ago. Try getting a decent monitor.

    Playing old games on low resolution monitors and cherry picking frame rates only proves how wrong you are.

  6. Re:Other countries should start policing Internet on US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail · · Score: 1

    You can. Packets requesting for a specific domain name to be resolved are easily enough to pick out and drop and if you aren't using secure dns, you can redirect the request elsewhere or insert your own answer.

  7. Re:Other countries should start policing Internet on US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, no. However, you can go back once cleared of charges and sue the government for monetary damages.

  8. Re:Did you understand it? on Supreme Court Throws Out Bilski Patent · · Score: 1

    After years of reflection, the Supreme Court Justices realize that they look ridiculous wearing bikini's under their court robes, so they have decided to throw the bikinis out.

  9. Re:No it isn't. Now let's get back to work. on Is the CodePlex Foundation Truly Independent Now? · · Score: 1

    How would this benefit .net? .net is (mostly) a serverside technology,and it already knows all about cultures.

  10. Re:No it isn't. Now let's get back to work. on Is the CodePlex Foundation Truly Independent Now? · · Score: 1
  11. Re:No it isn't. Now let's get back to work. on Is the CodePlex Foundation Truly Independent Now? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone seen MS ever do something pro open source/pro free software?

    Off the top of my head:

    http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/10/jquery-globalization-plugin-from-microsoft.aspx

  12. Re:One standard does not mean one interpretation on How HTML5 Will Change the Web · · Score: 1

    Are you from adobe?

  13. Re:Firefox does not use process/thread-per-page on Firefox 3.6.4 Released With Out-of-Process Plugins · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but deciding to go one process per thread (almost) forces the developer to write code with a higher separation since trying to coordinate things across process boundaries can often be more difficult that implementing it correctly. In the end, this makes the code depend less on synchronization and scales much better.

    It doesn't HAVE to work that way. You CAN write highly efficient multi-threaded code that has few dependencies and/or code/data sharing, it's just doing so across process boundaries is so much more difficult that it is often easier to rethink the whole problem and implement it so that the dependency and/or code/data sharing isn't necessary.

  14. Re:First on Firefox 3.6.4 Released With Out-of-Process Plugins · · Score: 1

    I would agree with your assessments in Opera and Chrome. I'd really like to like Chrome, but it's still missing firebug, and that unfortunately is pretty important to me.

    However, your experiences with firefox stability and mine are completely different. You say you can count the number of times firefox has crashed since the beginning of the year on one hand, while I can barely count on one hand the number of times it's crashed on me TODAY. I am hoping this release reduces that number significantly.

  15. Re:Oh good! The trolls are out in full force! on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 1

    You seem to be misinformed about a lot of things in the cellular marketplace, especially in the US. See, in the US, we realize the stock anroid UI is absolutely horrid. The only stock android phone I know of is the nexus one. Every other one has their own custom ui placed on top of it, along with fixing some other shortcomings. So people with the nexus one can upgrade to android 2.2 now but the vast majority of users need to wait for their carrier to release a version that works with their custom pieces. Upgrading without it is either impossible( relatively) or means you have to downgrade back to the stock UI. Neither option is very good.

    Also apple releases quite a few updates. Probably averaging an update every 8 weeks or so, but you are probably only aware of the large updates that the media covers. So having to wait "30 days" (which last I heard from the major carriers is more like 90-150!) is quite a bit. You'd be 2-4 updates behind compared to apple. Which brings me back to my original point in this thread: calling android the most updateable phone is a joke for the vast majority. It would be more appropriate to say with android, you are always waiting 90-150 days for stuff to "just work".

  16. Re:Unfortunately on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 1

    The original iPhone does not support iOS 4.0.

  17. Re:Oh good! The trolls are out in full force! on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Really? Have you gotten Android 2.2 on your "far more flexible and updatable" phone yet? No? Oh.

  18. Re:This is classic Tavis. on Miscreants Exploit Google-Outed Windows XP Zero-Day · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I do believe this proves otherwise. What was a previously unknown bug, not being exploited has now turned into machines getting exploited, and it took what? Less than a day? Full disclosure is irresponsible.

  19. Re:It was too easy on NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps, but none of those things are time sensitive. China, Japan, India should all be capable of sending a man to the moon in short order, and as an American, I'm happy to see them be able to do so. I don't think it detracts from what we've accomplished, nor do I feel the need to send someone up there right now just to beat them back there. Why? I see no problem with sharing and/or helping other countries be able to reach the stars. Reaching other planets like Mars, would be best served as a cooperative move from many nations, not just one.

  20. Re:Moreover, the US results look inflated... on Global "Last Mile" Performance Stats Going Public · · Score: 1

    35/35 here at the office and 50/30 at home.

  21. Re:30 inch HP LP3605 here @ 2560x1600 on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    Well, it's a highly overclocked GTX 470, but it's slower than the GTX 295 that I replaced in the few tests I've done with it so far. I'm about to rip it out and put the 295 back in.

  22. Re:30 inch HP LP3605 here @ 2560x1600 on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    Odd considering I actually have one.

  23. Re:30 inch HP LP3605 here @ 2560x1600 on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    So why would manufactures offer 300dpi when customers would just set them back to the 96 DPI they're use to?/quote?

    Because that setting doesn't change the DPI of the monitor at all. That setting is supposed to correspond with the DPI of your monitor so that Windows knows how many pixels it has to use to make the text a particular size.

  24. Re:30 inch HP LP3605 here @ 2560x1600 on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 0

    Welcome to 10 years ago with the introduction of ClearType. That's exactly what it does.

  25. Re:30 inch HP LP3605 here @ 2560x1600 on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    No, it won't -- unfortunately. Not unless you start turning off/down all the eye candy.