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  1. Re:Breeding? on Giraffes May Be Six Separate Species · · Score: 1

    Assuming.

    A spartan reply eh? :-P

  2. did anyone notice on Congressman Hollywood Wants To Make DMCA Tougher · · Score: 1

    that Howard Berman looks a bit like Steve Ballmer (in some pics)

  3. Re:Browsers? on CSS Pocket Reference · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look up on "conditional comments" for IE. They allow you to add styles (and consequently override existing rules) that only IE can see. Also, test your pages in IE as you create them. It only takes a few minutes to fix an IE bug that just popped in, rather than try to fix the whole page.

  4. Re:Microsoft and $$$ on Facebook Beacon Privacy Issues Worse Than Previously Thought? · · Score: 1

    Why can't it be Big Brother? It's an elective free service, which is two things that the figure Big Brother in 1984 most definatelly does not represent. When it starts as a trend it's optional. Later it becomes mandatory.
  5. Re:Military grade anonymity? Say what? on Spying On Tor · · Score: 1

    those with said access won't reveal what they know, on pain of prosecution What if we show them goatse?
  6. Re:and then.... on Vista at Risk of Being Bypassed by Businesses · · Score: 1

    And the only reason Vista nags so much, is because people (presumably Mac users) slagged off XP so much for not asking you, and said how OS X was better because you had to enter your password to do such things. So that's who we have to thank for that! 1. It's Microsoft who choose to put that thing into Vista, not the users, not Apple
    2. OSX (and Linux) doesn't nag you that much, and for such trivial things. In other words it's bad implemented.
  7. US is the number one country in spam on US Internet Control To Be Topic #1 In Rio · · Score: 1
  8. Re:I don't see any stars is this a fake video of t on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 1

    You can make the stars appear by taking a set of photographs with different exposure times (not aperture values because it might change the depth field of the picture) and combine them to create something more close to what the human eye sees.

    This is usually called HDR for High Dynamic Range. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

  9. Re:I caused the mass extinction on Volcanoes May Have Caused Mass Extinctions? · · Score: 1

    This is modded informative while it was meant to be funny.

  10. Re:Ironic... on Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe · · Score: 1

    I have Ubuntu 7.04, Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Flash 9.x (I don't recall which exact version). It's ok.

  11. Re:Now say after me on Australian Army Invests in Electrical Shirts · · Score: 1

    No, you are wrong, the parent is right. This energy needs to come from somewhere.

    First, let's talk about movement.

    Yes, he would have made the same movements without the harvesting shirt. But wearing it will increase the difficulty of movements. The same gesture will require more energy. This energy will be transformed into electric (with some losses of course).

    The amount of electricity that we will harvest is analogous to the effort that the soldier makes.

    Perhaps if the shirt is "genle" enough the soldier will not notice. But don't expect to power anything more than a watch.

    And now, about the heat.

    If the shirt harvests heat, then that heat must be taken away from the human body. Lack of heat means cold, or just colder. Now, if the shirt harvests just the exceeding heat (e.g. the amount of heat that makes you sweat), then I suppose everything is fine. So you would have a shirt that turns on the harvesting after the heat reach a given temperature. But then again you would need to have a small computer in the shirt or some analogue mechanism to check that. And that would be mean more energy spending and loses. Generaly complex structures have more energy loses. So the benefit from this would be small, if not zero.

  12. Re:Nostalgia isn't what it used to be... on Woz Still Misses Homebrew Computer Club and Apple · · Score: 1

    There are companies out there that will sell a $100 'embedded PC' with an x86 400MHz cpu, vga output, ps2/usb ports, 10/100 networking, and even 2.1 sound. It will even run linux just fine; you can surf the web, do email. Yes, it will run Linux. I am running Slackware on a 500Mhz CPU with 256MB of RAM. It runs ok. But you can barely surf the web with that. Firefox is just too heavy for it.
  13. Re:Trusted Computing is by definition closed. on The Future of Trusted Linux Computing · · Score: 1

    And in this world In this country, not world. Although I am afraid it's becoming a trend. I agree with the rest of your post.
  14. Re:Seems to coincide with patents on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: 1

    as for the price, i expect each module is going to be a lot cheaper than a world of warcraft subscription :) I don't. When you are monopoly you don't care about the price.
  15. Re:IE7 on MS VirtualPC on Internet Explorer Drops WGA Requirement · · Score: 1

    You can have ALL versionf of IE under the same installation of Windows: http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

  16. Re:Non-issue on A Case Study In GPLv2 / GPLv3 Compatibility · · Score: 1

    If.

  17. Or... on Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google · · Score: 1

    they can convert all links to lowercase and then hash them. Easy ;-)

  18. Re:Misleading info on Linux To Be Installed In Every Russian School · · Score: 1

    No matter what it does, the Russian Ministry of Education is not stupid .. they just want a better deal. Wait a minute. Why would they be stupid for using Linux (or BSD) or developing their own fork from it? That would make them smart (not to depend on an American company), not stupid.
  19. Re:flawed in the first place on Method of Reading Discovered · · Score: 1

    This happens in stages, the brain:

    1. looks for the first and last letter
    2. counts the letters of the word (underscores make the word lose it's "picture")
    3. looks at the letters inside the first and last as pairs or triplets
    4. and if all other fail to recognise the word, it just observes the letters one by one

  20. Re:As big an RT fan as I am... on Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire · · Score: 1

    In the place of the world where I live this is the intro music that I had:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h8NvEMqGvQ

    And it remains till today one of my favourite themes.

  21. Re:Damn It! on G.I. Joe No Longer the Real American Hero? · · Score: 1

    Like the war for independence from United Kingdom pale compares to WWI and WWII?

  22. It's not official yet on ISO Says No To Microsoft's OOXML Standard · · Score: 1
    From the article:

    Our sources inside ISO report that ISO is preparing to announce the results of the OOXML vote to be "NO". These sources cannot be identified, and the result is not official.
  23. Re:Solaris has known stability... on Sun Says OpenSolaris Will Challenge Linux · · Score: 1

    Try Slackware. It's very stable but the cost is that you will not have the latest versions.

  24. Re:Who cares? on A Preview of Opera 9.5 · · Score: 1

    Nahhh, he said BSDL, it must be Theo :-P

  25. Re:Give us gtalk on linux already! on New Google Apps For Linux Coming · · Score: 1

    Version 1.4.2 of jabberd supports this. Pidgin 2.1.1 (whish is the latest at the time of writing this) doesn't support this feature yet.