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  1. Re:How to stop the bots on 25 Percent of All Computers in a Botnet? · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! You just outlawed anything capable of running a CGI script.

  2. Will this run PS1 games in high res? on Sony Fixes Back Compat Issues in PS3 Update · · Score: 1

    Or is it like PC console emulators, where they use some fancy algorithm to round the corners of the pixels? Or maybe they do nothing at all?

  3. Re:Do those security rings exist anymore? on Why the iPhone Keynote Was A Mistake · · Score: 2, Informative

    They've been taken out of AMD64 native mode, and they expect people to just use the NX bit for everything now.

  4. Re:Not To Bad on Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM · · Score: 1

    No, DRM is the equivalent of passing a law that says all new roads must be built for cars with hexagonal wheels.

  5. Re:Bloviating...While Losing Money on Solar Power Eliminates Utility Bills in U.S. Home · · Score: 1

    That's based on the assumption that home electricity will cost exactly $1500 and car fuel will cost $1000 each year until 2032.

    I'd say the benefit of having a full-home UPS is worth the extra cost.

  6. Re:Will it be cheaper? on Vista to be Downloadable (Legally) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Tried Ubuntu recently?

  7. Re:In related news: on Videogaming Most Popular Activity Among Kids · · Score: 1

    IMO, you're right with all three assertions. Especially the last one.

  8. Re:Solution to crappy parenting? on MySpace to Offer Spyware for Parents · · Score: 1

    What may seem obvious to you may be an alien concept in American society.

  9. Re:Discolouration on Why Your SNES Turned Yellow · · Score: 1

    Maybe that'd explain why the analogue stick on my Wii controller's turning blue after just three weeks...

  10. Shenmue 3. on Sequels We'd All Like To See · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Might as well finish the series given that they've spent more than $20 million to make the first two.

  11. Final? on x86 Linux Flash Player 9 is Final · · Score: 1

    Hopefully then they've fixed the regression in the betas where sound just didn't work at all.

  12. Re:Yay on PCI SIG Releases PCIe 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Variable framerates are one thing I hate in games. The crap level/model design that causes it is another. When you only have a low-end card and 30fps is as good as it gets, even having something walk in front of you on screen can be fatal. Not to mention bloody annoying.

  13. I've read about this before on Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene? · · Score: 1

    Basically it works this way: If you're involved in the demoscene, you don't have to worry about stealing because your colleagues will happily mob lynch thieves like this for you. If not then you'd better have a big fanbase.

  14. Re:Against the spirit of Trek on Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean IKEA?

  15. PHP is no worse than C. on PHP Application Insecurity - PHP or Devs Fault? · · Score: 3, Funny

    C gives you enough rope to hang yourself with.
    PHP gives you lego bricks. Most PHP users, for some inexplicable reason, try to eat them and choke.

  16. Forcing MS in schools should be illegal. on UK Schools At Risk of Microsoft Lock-In · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In my last years of my old school they'd just finished throwing out around 300 perfectly functional 512K Macs and 2 rooms of Acorn computers, for a few hundred Pentium 2s running Win2k.
    On a good day the Windows machines "only" took 10 minutes to thrash their way to a login screen, 5 to get past the login screen and another 5 to go quiet. Until you tried to move the mouse. And the right mouse button was permanently disabled in explorer.exe, apparently for "security".
    When I'd left they were already halfway through replacing all the hardware because of constant complaints that apps like MS Office took 10 minutes (not kidding) to open. And close. Most people didn't bother logging out because of that, and you can imagine the fun that resulted.

    Then I got dumped with more of the same in college... *sigh*

  17. They should make a full PC from this design. on OLPC Available to the Public Early 2008 · · Score: 1

    A Linux alternative to the Mac Mini, with just enough extra bits to run AIGLX while still on a 12V adaptor.

    I'd buy one. Hell, I'd buy ten and give them away to people.

  18. Was there ever a one-size-fits-all database? on Is the One-Size-Fits-All Database Dead? · · Score: 1

    The closest thing I can think of that fits that description is Postgres.

  19. Re:Yes! And I love it! on Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst? · · Score: 1

    I had exactly the stability problems you describe... until I replaced my GeForce FX 5200 with a Radeon 9250.

  20. Re:Desktops? on Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dmix only works as long as you don't have a braindead app that accesses the hardware directly. Flash 7 does this, and it's going through the alsa OSS emulation...

  21. Re:This isn't a film for geeks. on WarGames Sequel Now Filming · · Score: 1

    Threading, pages, correctness, code that fits on one screen.
    Pick three.

  22. The guy's right. on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3 · · Score: 1

    They released a next-gen Sega Saturn here, hardware, marketing and all.

  23. Re:Lights? on Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets · · Score: 1

    I got two LED spotlights a few weeks ago, and I have to say they are better. They may be expensive for the light output, but they use next to no power at all (these are 1.4W each) and they look damn cool.

  24. Re:Has Roland reformed? on High-Performance Flexible Organic Transistors · · Score: 1

    Maybe the people operating the bot caught on that people had noticed the "read more" repetition, and changed its output.

  25. Re:MySQL short on features on PostgreSQL vs. MySQL comparison · · Score: 1

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/miscellaneo us-functions.html INET_ATON/NTOA convert between ints and IPv4 strings. You can use it in a view if you're really that lazy, and I guess you are since you didn't do your fact-checking to begin with. As for CIDR blocks, they're just a bitmask on a u32 int. You do at least know what a bitmask is, don't you...?