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Comment Re:How can they tell its tidally locked? (Score 1) 575

People are making lots of stupid posts today.

Yes, a lot of them don't seem to be able to write unambiguously. If that many people think you were saying one thing when you meant another, it's generally you that fucked up. Hope this helps. If you say someone has a lifetime of 75 years (about the average for the US) and don't mention that they're 12 years old, you probably shouldn't get angry when people ask what the fuck you're talking about.

Comment Re:No problem... (Score 1) 470

Similarly, I think the US should hold off on oil extraction until the other nations have started to exhaust their supplies. Once the prices start to rise, only then should we tap our reserves.

Unfortunately "once the prices start to rise" will be the very second your retarded plan is put into action, you fucking Yankee cretin.

Comment Re:Um.. (Score 0, Troll) 195

Yeah! To fight dupes I compute CRC checksum for each file and store it (and only it) on my back up drive. That method removes dupes almost automatically and there is a side effect of a huge compression ratio too. I have been downloading the high def videos from Internet for quite a while now and with my compression method I have used less than 10 percent of 1GB flash drive! I strongly recommend this method to everyone!

You only actually need one bit. The "I'm not fucking funny and this is the 5th time I've seen the same fucking joke in the same article bit". I call it the "twat" bit.

Comment Re:De-Dupe on Linux? (Score 1) 195

Instead of working full-bore on The Next Great FS, it would be really nice to have compression, encryption, deduplication, shadow copies, and idle optimization running in EXT4.

Maybe I'm just jaded, but I've been a Linux user for 12 years now. Sometimes it feels like the names of the technologies are changing, but nothing ever gets 'finished'. Maybe the NTFS/BSD model (good core design, long intervals with only minor changes) would be wise in Linux filesystem development.

So you're saying you'd like to see it evolve slowly like NTFS, while adding all these whiz-bang new features stat?

Comment Re:Oversubscription (Score 1) 129

When can we just effectively get what we pay for? This would explain the sudden jump in Intel-based Camfrog servers with a higher offering of hardware.

This effectively means people can now lie about the hardware they're leasing out to you in a data center. They say you're getting 4GB, you're actually getting 1.5GB of RAM.

Our internet is oversubscribed, our processors are getting there, and now RAM?

When are the designers of this stuff going to just build the fucking hardware instead of trying to lie about it?

Sorry about your anger issues and obvious lack of understanding about what this is.

Comment Re:100 Comments and No Cospiracy Theory yet! (Score 1) 178

There was a story a few years back about a Security researcher that determined the quartz units in every computer are unique and have different enough time drift to fingerprint the individual machine's traffic despite IP address changes, proxies or anything similar.

Does it work with TCP timestamps disabled? I'm guessing it doesn't. I always turn them off when deploying Linux servers. At the very least it's worth doing to confuse pen-testers, since it makes OS identification significantly harder. And as far as I'm aware it has roughly zero useful functions these days.

It's really easy to do - it's just a single sysctl setting. And it's even easier on Windows - you just put it behind a Linux router with the right sysctl settings.

Comment Re:nice news (Score 1) 262

thank you for the info and explanation given http://crownrentcar.net/

Weren't they the Indian car rental company believed to have links to the Mumbai shootings?

FYI - This probably isn't a good place to try your SEO bullshit.

Crownrentcar, semtex, Al Quaeda, Crownrentcar, Bin Laden, Mumbai, Crownrentcar, AR-15, Echelon, Crownrentcar, 9/11, Omaha, Tamil Tigers, Crownrentcar. Does that help ya any?

Comment Re:Oh geee is it. sounds like bullshit ... (Score 1) 283

'messing a game up while playing on a gaming platform' is not software programming.

This is the stupidest and most obviously wrong statement I think I've ever seen on the Internet, and I love to troll the forums where whackjobs like you hang out. So er, well done I guess. So wrong in so short a space, there should be a prize really.

Comment Re:I love OpenBSD (Score 1) 143

Maybe the first was the really easy installation process...

The trouble with BSD people in general is that you can't tell if they're trolling (Theo), being trolled (80% of the BSD community are responding to obvious trolls at any one time which is why they advance so slowly,) or they actually believe what they're saying.

Maybe you're the same guy that said he was running the Linux Quake 3 under OpenBSD's Linux emulation and getting a higher framerate? This was on Slashdot quite a few years ago. It was soon pointed out that it really, really, wasn't possible to run the Linux version of Quake 3 on OpenBSD, and what's more it didn't have any 3d accelerated drivers (at the time anyway). He probably still believes that he did it though and I bet he's not the only one.

Comment Re:VP8 won't replace MPEG 4 AVC (H.264) (Score 1) 312

chill out and stop taking pot shots at things that aren't related to the subject. this is the internet. you can find a supporting argument or case for anything. you can find test results that agree with any point of view when you're using a lossy bandwidth reduction algorithm because they used just the right input data.

Chill out and stop using AC as a sock puppet. It's the sort of pathetic shit only somebody with a Republican sig could contemplate as a good argument strategy.

i do like the way you just stopped capitalising the first letter of each sentence. if you can do that, then there's literally no need to change your writing style. nobody would ever see past a ruse like that.

Besides, as a right winger, taking pot shots at things unrelated to the subject is your bread and butter. If you can't do that, there is nothing else to distract you from the constant cognitive dissonance required to keep your little brain in one piece and Blammo!, total breakdown, several killed, gunman takes own life, news at 11.

To keep this on on topic did you know that codec stands for Coder/Decoder? Isn't that neat? Now go back to trying to get Newton out of your textbooks, faggot.

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