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  1. Re:Other than supposed security improvements... on Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite · · Score: 1

    you cant use (only) a quantum communication channel to communicate, because you cant control what values are sent. they're random. you have to use a classical communication channel together with it. the data sent through quantum entanglement is meaningless until you compare it to data sent via the classical channel.

    so there is no speed increase. you cant communicate faster than the speed of light.

  2. Re:Other than supposed security improvements... on Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite · · Score: 1

    i'm not sure it would use less energy, i think it would actually use more, because quantum communication can only work together with a classical communication channel.

    you cant actually send information using the quantum channel, because you cant control it. you can only compare it to the classical channel. the quantum channel gives you random bits, and the classical channel tells you whether each bit is correct or the opposite of what it should be.

  3. Re:Holographic Storage on Vaporware - the Tech That Never Was · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's actually available, apparently, but i'm pretty sure it's ridiculously priced. it's certainly not targeted at the average consumer.

    i've been anxiously waiting for news of a consumer-level product for 2 years now. alas, still not in sight.

  4. Re:Source on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    firebug shows the generated source, not the original source. so, for example, if javascript changed something on the page, those changes would be in the generated source but not the original source.

  5. Re:Source on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 · · Score: 1

    i do use DOM inspector constantly, but there are certain things it wont help with (e.g. debugging certain HTML typos). i havent used View Selection Source, but i suspect it generates the source from the current DOM rather than displaying the original source, which means it would have the same problems as the DOM inspector.

  6. Re:Source on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I disagree, viewing source is very important, and if it's dynamically created content and it has to reload the page, the source you're viewing may not be the same source that created the page. It's essential for debugging (e.g. HTML typos). and for a POST request, reloading is absolutely unacceptable.

  7. Re:How the Universe Expands on The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old · · Score: 2, Informative

    If space is all expanding, how can we even tell?
    we can tell that other objects are moving away from us because of the Doppler redshift of light coming too us. the further the object is from us, the greater the redshift, meaning that the further the object the faster it's moving away from us.
  8. Re:Firefox on Acid3 Test Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    the test is here.

    i'm getting a 50/100 in Firefox.

  9. Re:For those of you playing at home, a TB is on Where's Our Terabit Ethernet? · · Score: 1

    really? i have a Gigabit network with a NAS and it seems to be just as fast as local drives (both are 7200 SATA 2). they both max out around 50MB/s. unless you have faster hard drives, I think the bottleneck on a gigabit NAS would be the hard drives and not the network.

  10. Re:People Who Buy Products Because They Saw A Bann on Microsoft Says Not All Ad Clicks Are Created Equal · · Score: 1

    if the ad is served via a tag (most are), the browser wont load anything after the tag until it downloads the javascript file. if the server hosting the ad is slow, it slows down the webpage with the ad on it.

    ad servers are usually pretty fast, but when they slow down it's very noticeable.

  11. Re:What about digital cameras? on Secret Printer ID Codes May Be Illegal In the EU · · Score: 1

    the watermarking could be built into the compression algorithm, or added after the algorithm runs.

    i imagine it might even be easier to watermark lossy formats, since imperfections (and anomalies) in the final product wouldn't arouse suspicion.

  12. Re:Users Used on Time-Warner Considers Per-Gigabyte Service Fee, After iTunes · · Score: 1

    But if I'm seeding a torrent and I let the upload exceed about 25KB, my cable modem mysteriously starts cutting in and out.
    i have the same problem with Comcast. it doesnt exactly cut out, but if i max out my upload, my download with drop down to dial up speeds.

    i'd suggest finding some way, hardware or software, to throttle your own upload speed just south of where it starts crapping out.
  13. Re:they don't get it. on Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker · · Score: 5, Informative

    TPB will have to change their end first. currently, the site redirects you to http://thepiratebay.org/ if you go to their site without thepiratebay.org in the host, e.g. : http://83.140.176.146

    you'll have to put thepiratebay.org in your hosts file until they change it.

  14. Re:am I missing something here? on The Notable Improvements of GNOME 2.22 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    these are mostly just changes to applications in the "official gnome apps" list, and new apps added to that list. they're not really going to affect the performance of the desktop itself (i.e. gnome-panel, nautilus, metacity, etc).

  15. Re:Poor Bastards on HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    doorstop.
    aka, $150 upconverting DVD player. slightly overpriced, but considering it comes with 9* free HD movies, i'm happy. and yes, i bought it this week knowing full well HDDVD is probably going to lose.

    * 2 you pick from the shelf, 2 in the box, 5 you choose from a small list and mail away for
  16. Re:First thoughts on W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    it's because the end-user is supposed to decide whether or not to open a link in a new window/tab, not the site.

  17. Re:So only 4 people played Crysis? on What Is Your Game of the Year? · · Score: 1

    make it 5, and i agree. it'd easily, easily be my #1 of the year, followed by COD4.

  18. Re:Been a while since I've heard of "Opera"... on Opera Tells EU That Microsoft's IE Hurts the Web · · Score: 1

    I think it's more a case of Opera being pissed that it's not funded with Google money like Mozilla Firefox is.
    they are, actually. they're funded for adding them in the search engines at the top right, same with firefox. this was mentioned in a mag article i read a few months ago, but i cant remember the mag.
  19. Re:will AJAX development finally be easy? on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 2, Informative

    here's a good intro. this assumes you have a file time.asp on your site that just outputs the time.

    if, instead, time.asp outputs an XML file, in the code change .responseText to .responseXML, and from that you can use DOM functions (e.g. xmlHttp.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("time")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue.

  20. Re:HTML skills are a commodity? on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 2, Informative

    How else would you like people to make clickable text that executes a JavaScript method, and how would it be better than that approach?
    use the onclick attribute, with return false at the end to cancel the href. that way, you can use the href for a URL to degrade gracefully. for example, if it's opening a popup window, have the href be the URL of the page that loads in the popup.
  21. Re:will AJAX development finally be easy? on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 2, Informative

    i was thinking the same thing. there's all of about 5-10 methods/properties to learn, and then you just need to know basic DOM functions for the response. it's not hard at all.

  22. Re:The moment after this becomes fairly common. on Will ISP Web Content Filtering Continue To Grow? · · Score: 1

    not if everything, including the URL you typed, was over HTTPS (and the SSL certificate matched up). they couldnt do anything to a request over HTTPS, except corrupt it.

    if, however, you type in http://www.google.com/ and that site is supposed to redirect you to https://www.google.com/ they could change that first HTTP page to have a frameset and put their ads in.

  23. Re:In a perfect world on Gates Expresses Surprise Over IE8 Secrecy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    from the link:

    System Requirements
    Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP
    File Name:
    IE6_VPC.EXE
    IE7_VPC.EXE
    it's a good thing he bought XP and VMWare, so he can run those EXEs :)
  24. Re:Isn't it 'ECMA'? on Promise of OOXML Oversight By ISO Falls Through · · Score: 1

    this happens so often that even Wikipedia's entry for EMCA redirects to ECMA.

  25. Re:Compatibility on Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling? · · Score: 1

    it takes me 10 seconds to create it myself.