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Comment Infinite compression? (Score 3, Funny) 386

If a hash were a replacement for data. that's all we'd need....goedelize the universe? Sometimes I just want to scream, or weep, or shoot everybody....or just drop to my knees and beg them to think - just a little tiny insignificant bit - think. Maybe it'll add up. Probably not, but it's the best I can do.

Comment Re:"But would anyone volunteer to go on such a tri (Score 1) 917

I searched for the first person to use the word "heartbeat", and sure enough, in the same sense I use it in this question. No hesitation. They don't need me, but I'll go if they'll take me. Wife knows that from early conversations - I wouldn't ask her, and she'd be stuck with the kids. Everything you need to know me is in my username.

In.a.heartbeat.

Comment There is only one reason for. an opt-out link (Score 1) 481

That is to give the spammers your new address on mail that's forwarded from an Bld and possibly expiring one.

Back in 1998, when I was putting my company on the internet, I received a spam on my regular address. I created a new fake user, and opted out with it. Within a day, it was receiving spam. Over the following week, its level of spam reached that sent to my own. One opt out was the only way anyone in the world except me could possibly have known about the existence of 5l1ckw1lly@kingsystems.com. I tried a few others after that in case the one I chose was a "bad apple". The other usernames were less clever and I don't remember them, but they all got the same result.

Honestly, there were so many duplicates of my experiment (it was 11 years ago - I was probably a duplicator, not an originator) that it's surprising to me to see this question even asked. Spammers know you don't want to hear what they're saying. They try to fool you into reading it, like a tranny trying to fool you into letting it... well, just ask that Anrade idiot. What makes you think anything else they say or do is trustworthy? I wouldn't trust a spammer I saw crossing the street to actually be there when I ran over him.

Comment One way it might be valid and true (Score 1) 515

If the benchmark he's using sends a set of data, which is stored on disk and then sent back, at least in my experience, there could be a WORLD of difference between windows and Linux on similar hardware, even with twice as much RAM for windows as for Linux. Every windows desktop I use becomes almost unusable during any continuous disk access - rsync, cp, etc., while much lesser-equipped Linux systems don't act any different doing the same tasks.
I'm talking desktops here - 1G or less RAM, single IDE hard drive, single-core post-pentium somethingorother. The server-class windows systems seem to be every bit as capable as the desktop-class Linux systems.

Comment Potential thread hijack (Score 3, Informative) 80

Ok, Kandela. If you're "Daniel Cotton", let me be one of the ones to tell you - that was fscking brilliant! I haven't been so pleasantly smacked in the face by a short story in a very long time. That bit of fiction is a much bigger story than that of some writer trying to get inspired... and yes, I admit it - I've never heard of Robert J. Sawyer, though I've got on the order of 19 untouched copies of "Asimov's" piled up from between the onset of presbyopia and the procurement of reading glasses(it was hard to admit that need).
Space

Spirit Outlasts Viking 2 Lander 137

ScottMaxwell writes "Spirit, the Mars rover designed for a 90-day mission, has now outlasted the Viking 2 lander. Viking 2 survived until its 1281st sol (Martian day); Spirit is now on sol 1282 and counting. Assuming both rovers continue to weather the ongoing dust storms, Spirit's sister, Opportunity, will reach the same age in a few weeks. They aren't breathing down the neck of the all-time record just yet, though — the Viking 1 lander lasted 2245 sols on the surface of Mars; Spirit and Opportunity won't break that record for another 2.7 Earth years."

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