Someone should take all the XKCD comics, mark 'em up a bit, turn 'em into nice pictures, and .... Profit!!

Pics or it didn't happen.

They would very much prefer that you didn't.

My kids have the LG Xenon and the price for ringtones is $2.49! Zoinks! The whole idea of repaying for songs you already have, for a second purpose is utterly ridiculous. I've made my own mp3's rips that I like to use as notifiers ie ringtones or text notification etc, or sounds like my daughter's cry as a baby. No reason I need to be paying for that and no reason I shouldn't be able to use it. In my mind they are taking advantage of children and teen wonderlust ie the record companies. Now if its your company and you're using the rolling stones to make your company seem hip and cool to the 50 somethings out there then I think you should pay the man, but if you're just a kid who wants to use it on his answering machine or phone then I would like the tell the RIAA, MPAA, Apple, ATT, Verizon, and all the others to SUCK IT and let the creativity grow and fund your intellectual property virally. The corporations are always looking at what the kids are doing and trying to be hip and cool, you can get your money from them. I own the iphone and have lots of my own ringtones that I don't use. ;)

A detailed liveblog of the event with a ton of screenshots is available at Engadget.

You know, you don't really take "screenshots" of real life. Most people just call them "photos".

_Usually_ equivalent to XOR. Consider the following statement:

"It will rain today or tomorrow".

If, in fact, it rained today _and_ tomorrow, would you consider the statement false? Most people wouldn't. Therefore, in that particular case, English "or" is equivalent to logical OR not XOR.

Maybe you should RTFA before posting ...

Of course there are a million machines you can install Linux on, but the PS3 was particularly nice because of its Cell architecture. That allowed for some super-computer like performance for a low, low price. Lots of research institutions used PS3 clusters for low cost supercomputing. Now that future is jeopardized.

Speaking of "getting your facts right" ...

Um, [citation needed] much? Seriously does anyone expect RSA to be broken in the next few decades?

Certainly much longer key lengths will be brute-forceable in the next few decades, but that's a far cry from coming up with a polynomial time algorithm that breaks RSA.

Concepts are (were) cool. But let's be realistic: unless you're doing a lot of template library programming, you wouldn't use them much.

I think much cooler additions are lamda functions, move semantics (rvalue references), auto keyword and others. Also additions to the standard library like threading and decent smart pointers.

Often? That's the definition of salt.

Also, rainbow tables don't revert the hash back to salt+plaintext. Rainbow Tables don't work if salt was (correctly) used. Well, I guess you could make a set of RTs for every possible salt value ... if you have an ice age or two to wait.

True. Correctly salting your password hashes will make rainbow tables useless.

But ... Guess which system still doesn't salt passwords? Windows!

(Really? No takers? Huh. Well, a geek's gotta do what a geek's gotta do:)

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!

That is indeed the trick. The fact is, the harm that bad dictators cause greatly outweighs any good that "good" dictators provide. And a dictator system, once in place, is very hard to get rid of.

Also, I feel suspicious of the idea that there are "good" dictators. Some may start out good, but power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Call me when someone ports Nethack to the iPhone. Or figures out a good mobile device type interface for roguelikes in general.

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amiright?