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  1. Re:Lots of IT/Legal Depts. won't like InPrivate on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd fully expect all of that those kind of settings to be available via Group Policy, you've been able to configure most of IE's major settings across your network that way for some time now.

  2. Rumour has it... on Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies · · Score: 1

    Rumour has it that Nintendo have asked him to take up plumbing and Italian in his spare time.

  3. Re:What does this do (for graphics) better than GP on Intel Reveals More Larrabee Architecture Details · · Score: 1

    Its architecture could (potentially) make for better multi-GPU solutions (i.e. with a shared frame buffer across all cores instead of x amount of RAM per GPU), and the use of tile-based rendering has a fair amount of efficiency benefits to make it interesting.

    It's way too early to say whether it'll even be equivalent performance-wise to AMD and NVIDIA's GPU designs in Larrabee's release time frame, and it'll be very dependant on its compiler and drivers, but as a concept right now it's hugely interesting in a number of ways as a pure graphics architecture alone.

  4. Re:Interview on UK Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 1

    The article is dated Saturday July 9 2005.

  5. Re:Security questions on Most Bank Websites Are Insecure · · Score: 1

    On more than one occasion I've been asked for a security password over the phone and have prevaricated so long trying to remember what it is they've just told me "not to worry about it" and moved straight on to what I was calling about.

    I suppose it should be termed "anti-social engineering".

  6. Re:Codeboxing on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 2, Funny

    At last it comes out - The real reason for all those delays to Windows Vista.

  7. Re:Pinkerton on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    Or ninjas.

  8. That's great and all, but... on JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners · · Score: 1

    The agency also said that a blurring algorithm is applied to passengers' faces

    It isn't my face that I'm worried about them seeing...

  9. Re:mod 04 on Google Crawls The Deep Web · · Score: 1

    Googlebot, is that you?

  10. Re:So not an April fool then? on Crytek Bashes Intel's Ray Tracing Plans · · Score: 1

    Intel will be re-entering the discrete graphics market at either the end of this year or early 2009 - How well they can compete in the traditional Direct3D/OpenGL graphics market remains to be seen (although Intel are rather bullish about it at the moment), but it appears that they will also be targeting 'Larrabee' (for that is its codename) parts at other possible market sectors such as real-time ray tracing and other general-purpose computing tasks a la NVIDIA's Tesla GPGPU offerings.

  11. Re:Le translation on Murdoch's Hacker Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    Well, they don't have to worry about Slashdot readers breaching the first of those rules...

  12. Re:What makes me wonder... on NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing was changed 'at the last minute', the major changes to the graphics driver model in Windows Vista were well-known years prior to the retail release of the Operating System.

  13. Re:Oooh Oooh on D Block Spectrum Auction Fraud Alleged · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wouldn't worry about the tinfoil hat too much, considering nobody wanted to pay for the block of the wireless spectrum they were planning to use to beam thoughts into your brain.

  14. Re:Frank Zappa was first on Apple Sued Over Fundamental iTunes Model · · Score: 1

    He was going to call the company ZappaMedia...

  15. Re:Self Interest on Panic in Multicore Land · · Score: 2, Informative

    AMD's Chuck Moore presumably has a lot of self interest in pushing heterogeneous cores. They are combining ATI+AMD cores on a single die...

    It's worth noting that Intel will also be going down this route in a similar timeframe, integrating an Intel graphics processor onto the CPU die.

  16. Re:for those 1337 3D games on Unreal Creator Proclaims PCs are Not For Gaming · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably not a good example considering we're still waiting for a PC that can play Crysis. ;)

  17. Someone's gonna be in trouble on Underground Freight Networks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the first rule of Freight Club is that you aren't supposed to talk about it?

  18. Re:What crime? on Aussie Cops Want Powers To Search Any Computer · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they can hide their crimes using the Internet, the crimes can't have been that bad in the first place?

    You'd be amazed how many dead bodies you can hide in a series of tubes.

  19. This isn't right... on OLPC Mesh Networking Tester Explains How It Works · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    "The school might have a generator or a solar panel, or in one school where we've got laptops deployed now we have two cows who walk around pushing a lever which rotates a generator that powers fifteen laptops for charging"

    Shouldn't they be using a couple of penguins instead?

  20. Re:Refund? on Toshiba To Halt HD-DVD Production · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, they now can't spend loads of money rebuying all their favourite movies on HD-DVD... Sounds like a relief to me.

  21. Re:Excessive? on Australia's Geekiest Man · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it really happen THAT often you go to the pub for a few pints and comeback so drunk you've lost all your possessions?

    Yes.

  22. Re:This is bad on many levels on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    I know for a fact that moral will sink and people will leave Yahoo.

    I know this is a typo, yet is still sounds so right with regard to a Microsoft take over...

  23. Re:What you say!! on Artificial Bases Added to DNA · · Score: 1

    Someone set up us the evolutionary bomb!

  24. Re:it's missing stuff on AMD's Dual GPU Monster, The Radeon HD 3870 X2 · · Score: 1

    Why only pci-e 1.1 a 2.0 switch would better split the bus to the 2 gpus.

    Because there simply aren't any 3-way PCI Express 2.0 switches available on the market yet - Waiting for that would have delayed the product substantially for very little in the way of real-world gains.

  25. Oops... on RIAA Website Hacked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like someone was using the RIAA web server's CD-ROM drive to listen to their Sony album collection again...