That's just doesn't make any sense. The amount of RAM is not a factor at all. The problem at hand is caused by the amount of _address_ _space_ required, not the amount of RAM. That's a completely different issue. I hope you understand the difference between the RAM and the address space. And the culprit is not VS or Microsoft compiler. The culprit is the rampant massive-scale global namespace pollution, which has been taking place in FF source code for quite a while. Someone was indulging recklessly in Linus-Torvalds-style coding practices. The result is perfectly logical.

It is not news to anyone that we are currently living through a massive wave of anti-Russian propaganda cooked by the rampant Nazi lobby inside the GOP. However, I have to admit this particular piece is too primitive even for those guys. "U.S. Air Force cyber analyst"? Sounds like John "Adolfie" McCain to me...

... As for admitting anything. No, actually. I'm a human being, not that de-bred organism that you are (i'm not sure they even have a scientific name for you). You don't get to meet human being too often in your silly life (if you can call that "life", of course), but today is your day apparently. Having a chance to speak to me, even if just over the Net, is the highest point of you stupid little life. Enjoy the moment. It will be all downhill from here.

It is not about what you can do. It is about what makes sense. Hackers in Eastern Europe has long ago focused entirely on targeting Eastern European victims. Nobody in the Eastern European computer crime scene even heard about some country you call "USA" ("Where is it? Somewhere in Africa?"). Targeting Eastern European victims simply makes more economical sense. It is easier, it is closer and, just for starters, the people there are significantly richer a typical American, in a sense that they have significantly more "loose" money on their hands.

Anti-aliasing, by definition, must be performed in object space or, possibly, in picture space. But it cannot be possibly carried out on an already rendered image. They must be trying to market some glorified blur technique under the anti-aliasing moniker. Nothing new here...

Yes, it is supposed to be controversial. You just missed the controversy. You see, the US State Department spends considerable amount of taxpayers money on disseminating propaganda about "Russian", "Ukrainian", "Romanian" and etc. hackers trying to get ahold of your credit card information in order to steal your identity. They just ignore obvious questions about why would all those people in Eastern Europe want to get this information (totally useless to them, of course), they just keep churning out the propaganda regardless of how nonsensical it is. The lemmings swallow this bullshit, and that's perfectly enough for the State Department. And now, suddenly we have some guy in GA with all the "loot" on his hands. Doesn't really fit into the picture. Of course, it is possible to twist the story to get the "Russian hackers" involved, at least making it believable enough for a typical ignorant lemming, but the "controversy" will still be there. No, I don't have any high hopes for it. It will quickly be forgotten. (And those who are not too quick to forget will quickly be explained that it is better to be more forgetful for their own good...) But nevertheless, it is rather interesting to see this story to pop up instead of getting "contained" as usual.

They have train vultures now? Ugh... Next time I'm in Germany I'll better take a car or a bus.

The linked video is raw: it was not edited in accordance with the US censorship requirements and was not fed through the typically mandatory US reality distortion filer. Consequently, it can case moderate to significant amounts of butthurt among the typical bumper-sticker-US-patriot types.

LOL! No. The currently standing record for GSM decryption "from scratch" requires several hours on a typical "supercomputer". You laptop will not not decrypt GSM communications "with a lag measured in seconds". On a laptop you can get "lag measured in seconds" only if you actually know the key, i.e. if you receive immediate direct support from the provider. BS like yours is usually spread around by crooks selling fake "cell intercept" software on the Net.

Of course, you can capture the actual GSM radio transmission off the air. There's no way to stop that. However, that GSM transmission will not be readable, since it is encrypted. You can decrypt it without provider's help, but that will take a considerable amount of time and computing power. In order to decipher it immediately, you will definitely need provider's cooperation. So, the answer is that it is impossible to perform real-time monitoring of GSM conversations without the provider's help. GSM is absolutely secure in that regard. It is not clear what Lukashenko meant by what he said. Did they monitor her phone in real-time? If so, then it immediately means that they had access to internal provider's information. If they were only able to do it later, then it is possible that they actually deciphered the communications without provider's participation.

Belarus has moved to modern European hardware at least 20 years ago. In fact, most of the post-Soviet space has communication infrastructure that is incomparably more advanced than what is currently used in the USA. It is actually dumbfounding how archaic the US communications are compared to Europe.

The fate of the actual flying Buran is rather well-documented, as well as the fate of the second flight-capable vehicle. What you see in those pictures is neither. This is probably one of the full-scale mock ups, which is known to have ended up in an amusement park.

I mean I understand that certain people are clueless and therefore can be convinced to believe anything. And there are certain people who prefer deluding themselves even though they know that their delusions are just that - delusions. However, anyone who ever worked with Windows knows that IE is indeed a part of Windows. There's no debate about that and there has never been. Just because the user can switch from one version of IE to another doesn't in any way contradict the claim. It simply proves that the IE, as a system component, is designed properly and very professionally, i.e. with a sufficient level of decoupling and interface abstraction. I understand that this very fact has been a significant source of inferiority complex attacks for the followers of certain of other OS-es, developed by certain half-illiterate crowd of various "c00l hack0rz". So they will undoubtedly try to pervert its meaning. But that doesn't change the reality, at least for those who prefer to live in connection with it.

Yes. Except that it did not have the huge sales numbers of Zune.

... will be discovered at the scene of a car accident.