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  1. Re:Alright, enough with the dead language on Ajax Back, Forward, Reload and PHP · · Score: 1

    Real coders use Scheme or XCPE for web apps. Both obscure languages, both 30+ year old languages. And both amazingly powerful.

  2. Re:I call Bullshit on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux? · · Score: 1

    BULLSHIT.
    Interopability does not require using the same code. It requires using the same specification. That's where microsoft is lacking. They don't support standards even when they could just use some sample code like for Ogg Vorbis, PNG, and NFS. Just steal some more from BSD.

  3. Re:Attacks on VoIP systems? on VoIP's Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    And did you call your representive to stop them?No? Neither did I, but I missed the vote by a short margin. We have no one but ourselves to blame.
    Get them out of office 2006.

  4. Re:I must sound like a broken record on VoIP's Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    That's just a UI issue. I installed GnuPG, and an exention for mail. GUI's exist for GnuPG, and then anyone can use it.

  5. Re:gambling on The Game Developer's Guide to Pwning Second Life · · Score: 1

    That's because gambling games are easy to make, attractive to players, and a constant revenue stream for coders.

  6. Re:More like "embrace, extend, extinguish". on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux? · · Score: 1

    Because you have the oppertunity to use our code for free for no price other then releasing the modifications. How much would Microsoft charge for use of their code? I think a lot more then the effort of modifying it is worth.

  7. Re:Virtual bots on The Question of Robot Safety · · Score: 1

    It's not as funny as the robot Darwin. This guy creates a complex device for bypassing the safety system and gets killed. He needs to grab some nuts, and the robot is an inventory robot.

  8. Re:Not so fast Sherlock... on China Frustrated In Encryption Talks · · Score: 1

    AES has a simple algebraic structure that makes breaking it a simultanious quadratic equation problem. In NP, but pretty close to getting done efficiently. That they should have seen and changed.

  9. Re:Better Universities? on Why Startups Condense in America · · Score: 1

    Irrational vs. Rational is more important then the amount of control a goverment exerts over the economy. Look at Signapore. Very stiff goverment regulations, but very prosporous. Yugoslavia under Tito is another example. Socialism, but Tito was able to make it more capitalistic then America by using socialism to lower market barriers by low interest loans and expand consumer base by welfare.

  10. Re:Just ROT2 the bits. on Fast File Encryption for Windows? · · Score: 1

    He's joking. damnit. some moderators wouldn't recognize a joke if it Goatse'd in front of them.

  11. Re:Infastructure + Content = Power Grab on Net Neutrality or Not? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They used to, but Clinton need to appease some Republicans so he let them screw the internet over.

  12. Re:Drugs are no help on Psychopharm Going 'Mainstream' In Schools? · · Score: 1

    Just because we can't be comprehened by the passive case isn't a reason to make fun of us.

  13. Re:You'd need to create a user for each process on A Windows Alternative to Linux Security Modules? · · Score: 1

    Yes it is a flaw. It prevents me from making a secure setuid program if I understand correctly, as the person running it can probe its memory at will. So now I need to use a server and client.

  14. I'm surprised on A Cleaner, Cheaper Route to Titanium · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No one found this earlier. The Hall-Heroult Process for aluminium is basically the same,and has been known for well over a century.

  15. Re:Heh, there is a lot of dishonesty to go around on Net Neutrality: Lobbyist McCurry Raises Ire · · Score: 1

    Water companies used to be competitive. Problem was that it cost a lot in duplicated efforts to compete, so some people would be unable to obtain running water as the companies did not want to compete. That's when we created the utility model. Companies bid on running a utility, which is publically funded and owned and are forced to treat everyone equally. That was how the internet used to be, and how it should be.

  16. Re:Windows only - BOO! on GameDev.net Launches Four Elements Game Contest · · Score: 1

    So use Cygwin or MiniGW. Or Java. Cross-Platform development is possible.

  17. Re:more logic on Games Seized Following Murder · · Score: 1

    your english parser needs patching.

  18. Re:Actually... on Games Seized Following Murder · · Score: 1

    Back of the neck will sever the spine and result in death due to suffocation.

  19. Re:Probably not very well.. on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Same thing in physics. Work and energy have very precise meanings in physics. A lot of 1st year students don't get them and get tripped up on questions that require you use the strict meaning on tests at my school.

  20. If telecoms on 6Bone IPv6 Network Shutting Down Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    spent as much money on implementing these protocols as lobbying for two-tier networks we would all have IPv6 now.

  21. Re:For information on Michael Bloomberg Defends Science · · Score: 1

    If only my Significant Others could take that passage to heart. I told them about Kinsey, and they said it was wrong because it went against the Bible.

  22. Re:Puzzling. on Michael Bloomberg Defends Science · · Score: 1

    It's like a Jew becoming a Nazi because they like big corperations.

  23. Re:It's good and all on Michael Bloomberg Defends Science · · Score: 1

    Because of something called facts. Facts say Terri Schavo was not going to recover. Facts say she gave orders to have her taken off life support in such a state. I like to base my opinon on facts, but you might digress.

  24. And will the Space Monkeys on Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up · · Score: 1

    start crashing server farms instead.

  25. Re:Lattice QCD people: on The Potential of Science With the Cell Processor · · Score: 1

    A little bit. The big difference is the Cell has SPE's which are like DSP's on the chip which are controlled by a PPC processor. QCDOC is a lot of PPC processors connected similarly. Also, memory is symmetric on QCDOC, while it is asymmetric on the Cell. The similarity is mostly in the kind of bus used. Think about one QCDOC node connected to seven QCDSP nodes and only the QCDOC node having a lot of memory and you will have the right idea. Ars Technica had a good review of the Cell.