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Comment When new numbers meant new features (Score 1, Informative) 378

When Linux 2.0 release june, 9 1996 was the first stable complete workable versatile version.
As of January, 25 1999 Linux 2.2, many new distro was available to average user.
January, 4 2001 Linux 2.4 introduced many device changes. There are still so much embeded devices running the 2.4 kernel.
Decembre, 17 2003 Linux 2.6 stabilized and enhanced changes from 2.4, introduced the fully able IPv6 stack.

Now the 3.0 Linux branch is just plain about shiny numbering.

Comment RFC2965 need merging and update with HTML5 storage (Score 1) 143

Session tracking really need new standard and some merging with the HTML5 client side storage. This with clear client enforceable client policy, server and DOM standard way of reading the access and store policy settings.

The situation now is:
- an obsolete RFC2965 cookies standard with no average user know/can manage safely,
- and a still to be standardized HTML5 incompatible client storage and database.

New cookies should become part and merge with the HTML5 client side storage, with backward compatible but marked obsolete API.

Comment Intelligences are a kind of many abilities (Score 1) 189

Genetic may gives patterns and draft how one may develop some of the many kinds of abilities and qualities.
There are no such thing as useless or valueless quality a human can have in the void. All these get values or weight from the social and cultural environment. As for the physical smartness/cuteness you mention. It show it's value in the kind of society that value it as some visual/perceivable sign of other expected qualities. And these expectations are strongly rooted to culture and surrounding dominant genetic heritage.

Some genetic patterns may be considered as bad as disabilities or illness, like 21 trisomy in most if not every where in the world. That as an extreme example of maybe strong or evident consensus still enlight the fact that, 21 trisomycs show some very uncommon and strong social abilities, and the kind of intelligence and smartness they develop is only a weakness in front of the dominant other kind, as a matter of incompatibility. In a world where natural selection would have reversed the majority with 21 trisomy as the dominant genetic pattern, the other kind of here considered healthy would certainly be the disabled and mentally ill then.

Comment Re:netflix site is IPv6 accessible? (Score 1) 406

Their badly configured server is redirecting to self in a loop.

telnet ipv6.netflix.com 80
Trying 2620:0:ef0:13::20...
Connected to ipv6.netflix.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: ipv6.netflix.com

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:03:29 GMT
Expires: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:03:29 GMT
Location: http://ipv6.netflix.com/
Pragma: no-cache
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Via: 1.1 nflx
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive

Intel

Submission + - Intel's New Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Tested (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: "Intel recently launched a speed bump of their flagship Extreme Edition Core i7 processor, known as the Core i7-990X. Its multiplier is unlocked and it's clocked at 3.45GHz stock speed with a Turbo Boost top-end speed of 3.73GHz. Intel claims its the fastest desktop chip on the planet; like geek tiger blood for your PC. The new Core i7-990X is also based on the 32nm Gulftown core and the performance metrics show it's easily the fastest 6-core chip for the desktop currently but of course it'll cost you as well."

Comment not so easy (Score 2) 223

The summary look like curing cancer is a matter of very simple solution. I doubt this.

Even if cancer behavior rely on primitive gene programming. There where billion years of incremental evolution build and re-factored over that, I firmly doubt it is a matter of turning on/off or stripping out some cytochrome block cancerous cells from forming/growing.

Classic Games (Games)

Super Mario Bros. 3 Level Design Lessons 95

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Significant Bits about how the early level design in Super Mario Bros. 3 gradually introduced players to the game without needing something as blatant and obtrusive as a tutorial: "Super Mario Bros. 3 contains many obvious design lessons that are also present in other games, e.g., the gradual layering of complexity that allows players to master a specific mechanic. What surprised me during my playthrough, though, was how some of these lessons were completely optional. The game doesn't have any forced hand-holding, and it isn't afraid of the player simply exploring it at his own pace (even if it means circumventing chunks of the experience)."

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