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  1. Re:Article is very misleading - JS benchmark only on Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser · · Score: 1

    Double posting because I forgot to use plain old text.

    Opera 9.5:
    MD5 Benchmark took 0.844 seconds for 3000 hashes (3555 hashes/second)
    MD4 Benchmark took 0.641 seconds for 2700 hashes (4212 hashes/second)
    SHA1 Benchmark took 0.859 seconds for 1900 hashes (2212 hashes/second)

    Opera 9.23:
    MD5 Benchmark took 1.516 seconds for 3000 hashes (1979 hashes/second)
    MD4 Benchmark took 1.047 seconds for 2700 hashes (2579 hashes/second)
    SHA1 Benchmark took 1.5 seconds for 1900 hashes (1267 hashes/second)

    IE7:
    MD5 Benchmark took 3.031 seconds for 3000 hashes (990 hashes/second)
    MD4 Benchmark took 5.656 seconds for 2700 hashes (477 hashes/second)
    SHA1 Benchmark took 4.985 seconds for 1900 hashes (381 hashes/second)

    If I had any other browsers installed I'd test them. This is on a C2D E6400 running at 3.2GHz with 2GB of RAM running XP Pro SP2 with latest updates.

  2. Re:Article is very misleading - JS benchmark only on Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser · · Score: 1

    Opera 9.5: MD5 Benchmark took 0.844 seconds for 3000 hashes (3555 hashes/second) MD4 Benchmark took 0.641 seconds for 2700 hashes (4212 hashes/second) SHA1 Benchmark took 0.859 seconds for 1900 hashes (2212 hashes/second) Opera 9.23: MD5 Benchmark took 1.516 seconds for 3000 hashes (1979 hashes/second) MD4 Benchmark took 1.047 seconds for 2700 hashes (2579 hashes/second) SHA1 Benchmark took 1.5 seconds for 1900 hashes (1267 hashes/second) IE7: MD5 Benchmark took 3.031 seconds for 3000 hashes (990 hashes/second) MD4 Benchmark took 5.656 seconds for 2700 hashes (477 hashes/second) SHA1 Benchmark took 4.985 seconds for 1900 hashes (381 hashes/second) If I had any other browsers installed I'd test them. This is on a C2D E6400 running at 3.2GHz with 2GB of RAM running XP Pro SP2 with latest updates.

  3. Homosexuality? on The ESRB Doesn't Take Games Seriously? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would be happy if in games we could talk about homosexuality, but we're not even at the point where we can admit that humans have heterosexual relationships Apparently Eggebrecht has never played The Sims. In The Sims your characters can have relationships with whoever you want. This includes homosexual relations, and you can even have several partners at the same time. They even let you have sex (censored of course, and called a "woohoo") with a same sex partner. This is a T rated game too. I don't see a need to "talk about" homosexuality in games. If the developer wants homosexuality in the game they should just make it happen and not try to draw extra attention to it, like in The Sims. It should just be a normal thing and the characters shouldn't act weird about it, or it shouldn't be in there at all. It's just like real life. I don't care if you're gay, but you don't have to go around telling everyone you meet you are and putting stickers on your car, etc.

  4. Re:Well Long Upgrade Cycle. on MS Says Vista Selling At Twice XP's Pace · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wait a minute. Did you just say Me was "good enough"?! Are you nuts?

    XP was a pretty big improvement over what was available prior to it. Most home users were running 98 or Me. The jump from 98/Me to XP was much greater than XP to Vista in my mind.

  5. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 1

    You apparently don't know Bill too well. First you need to look at how he started MS and what he has done to keep it going (he didn't exactly come up with all the ideas that are implemented in Windows...which they tend to call their own.) I have a very good friend (who is very honest and I trust her more than most people I know) who personally met Bill when he was staying in a 5 star hotel where she worked. After she met him (or rather observed his actions with other people and his family) she thought he was a complete dick. And someone who has that much money can be as much of a dick as they want because well, they have all the money.

  6. Re:Many FF fans would say... on Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords · · Score: 1

    That is still in Opera 9. You are presented with 3 options: Save, Never, or Not Now. But if you look above Save you will see a check box that says "save for this page only." But it's not much of a problem with Opera because you have to either hit a key combination or click on the wand to tell it to fill out fields. Chances are you won't find any phishing attempts on a real login page for a site. I have even seen a phishin page on Myspace where it looked just like the real login screen and was at www.myspace.com but Opera (which was set to remember my password for the entire site) didn't highlight the fields like it would have on the real login page.

  7. Re:Safety on A $200-Million Floating Nuclear Plant? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just want to point out a few facts here. Nimitz class carrier has 2 A4W reactors outputting 94 MW each. These carriers also have a crew of 3,200 ship's company and 2,480 in the air wing. This new facility will be powered by 2 KLT-40S reactors outputting 60 MW each. So yes, this may be a different scale of power generation. But it's a smaller scale then what the US Navy has floating already.

  8. Re:Uhhh... on Impressive GPU Numbers From Folding@Home · · Score: 1

    Uhh...did you read the whole thing where it mentioned ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about Windows.

  9. Re:Rated M on Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, it has nothing to do with how much money the parents are. They are DEAD. Didn't you RTFA? He shot and killed his father and step mother.

  10. Re:Most invasive? on EA's 'Invasion of Privacy' Policy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a key difference here. You can shop at Safeway without using a card. It is totally optional. And I'm pretty sure you get something in black and white to read through before you sign your name on it. You're comparing apples and oranges.

  11. Re:Moral of the story... on RAID Controller Shoot-Out · · Score: 1

    Look at some modern motherboards. You will find some with 8 SATA ports. I know the higher end Asus nForce4 boards do. I personally have an A8N-SLI Deluxe (one of the first nForce4 boards) which has 4 SATA I ports and 4 SATA II ports. I can enable RAID on all of them but I think only 0 and 1 on the SATA I.

  12. Re:Firefox? on Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because all viruses are transmitted through email and web pages and Microsoft patches EVERY flaw in their products, right?

  13. Re:Hmmm.... on Scientists Make Water Run Uphill · · Score: 1

    What goes up must come down. And I don't want to be anywhere near it when it does.

  14. Re:blu-ray all the way! on Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Talks End · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Umm...what?! Please check again.

    HD-DVD Blu Ray

    As you can see the difference is quite a bit.

  15. Re:I moved the dirty plates on Making Modifications to Your Computer Workspace? · · Score: 1

    I found that the McDonalds bags really get in the way as well. The Mountain Dew cans can easily be relocated to another part of the desk to free up useable space.