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What is the evil force behind all wrongdoing in the universe?

It never had a name. Until now. Until we identified it and studied it while making ready to destroy it.

Its name is VladeKua5y !

VladeKua5y (pronounced "Vladequacy") is the root of the problem. VladeKua5y is the root of all problems. VladeKua5y is the enemy. VladeKua5y is what must be destroyed.

Kuro5hin + Vladinator + Adequacy = VladeKua5y !!

Who is the enemy? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

What must be destroyed? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

Who is the enemy of all trollers evarywhere? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

Here is some information on VladeKua5y . Expect more people like Rusty Foster to be added soon.

NAME: Burdge, Jonathan E-MAIL: jlb@io.com, jlbatdarc@w-link.net, elby@adequacy.org, darc@w-link.net ALIASES: lb, jlb, Elby

NAME: Casillas, Luis E-MAIL: casillas@stanford.edu, em@adequacy.org ALIASES: em, Estanislao Martinez, Sylvain Tremblay

NAME: Corrigan, Barry E-MAIL: barry@bjcorrigan.fsnet.co.uk, bc@adequacy.org ALIASES: bc, ktb (Kiss the Blade), Lover's Arrival, Euroderf, Erbert Paget-Paget, Anya

NAME: Dickson, Craig E-MAIL: crd@inversenet.com, mendaxveritas@yahoo.com, mendaxveritas@pacbell.net ALIASES: mv, Mendax Veritas

NAME: Flickinger, Dan E-MAIL: flikx@geekizoid.com, flikee@xmission.com ALIASES: flikx

NAME: Haberberger, George E-MAIL: ghaberbe@frontiernet.net, George.Haberberger@usa.xerox.com ALIASES: GeorgeHa, Hairy_Potter

NAME: Huston, Bill E-MAIL: bozoman@vlad.geekizoid.com, ALIASES: bozoman

NAME: Johnson, Peter E-MAIL: peter.johnson@voicestream.com, shoeboy@adequacy.org ALIASES: Shoeboy, Peter Johnson

NAME: Lockwood, Scott E-MAIL: wsl3@attbi.com, vlad@geekizoid.com ALIASES: Vladinator, Lonesome Cowboy Burt, Quick Star, Pinkerton Floyd, etc.

NAME: Linwood, Rob E-MAIL: rcl@cs.csoft.net, rcl211@is9.nyu.edu ALIASES: AuntFloyd, Con Troll

NAME: Mann, Warren E-MAIL: broken@warmann.com ALIASES: osm, OpenSourceMan

NAME: McPherson, Craig E-MAIL: craig@laceyonline.com ALIASES: craig, naked&petrified guy

NAME: Nelson, Brian E-MAIL: elenchos@adequacy.org ALIASES: Elenchos

NAME: Osborne, Michaell E-MAIL: osborm@yahoo.com, dmg@adequacy.org,

What is the evil force behind all wrongdoing in the universe?

It never had a name. Until now. Until we identified it and studied it while making ready to destroy it.

Its name is VladeKua5y !

VladeKua5y (pronounced "Vladequacy") is the root of the problem. VladeKua5y is the root of all problems. VladeKua5y is the enemy. VladeKua5y is what must be destroyed.

Kuro5hin + Vladinator + Adequacy = VladeKua5y !!

Who is the enemy? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

What must be destroyed? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

Who is the enemy of all trollers evarywhere? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

Here is some information on VladeKua5y . Expect more people like Rusty Foster to be added soon.

NAME: Burdge, Jonathan E-MAIL: jlb@io.com, jlbatdarc@w-link.net, elby@adequacy.org, darc@w-link.net ALIASES: lb, jlb, Elby

NAME: Casillas, Luis E-MAIL: casillas@stanford.edu, em@adequacy.org ALIASES: em, Estanislao Martinez, Sylvain Tremblay

NAME: Corrigan, Barry E-MAIL: barry@bjcorrigan.fsnet.co.uk, bc@adequacy.org ALIASES: bc, ktb (Kiss the Blade), Lover's Arrival, Euroderf, Erbert Paget-Paget, Anya

NAME: Dickson, Craig E-MAIL: crd@inversenet.com, mendaxveritas@yahoo.com, mendaxveritas@pacbell.net ALIASES: mv, Mendax Veritas

NAME: Flickinger, Dan E-MAIL: flikx@geekizoid.com, flikee@xmission.com ALIASES: flikx

NAME: Haberberger, George E-MAIL: ghaberbe@frontiernet.net, George.Haberberger@usa.xerox.com ALIASES: GeorgeHa, Hairy_Potter

NAME: Huston, Bill E-MAIL: bozoman@vlad.geekizoid.com, ALIASES: bozoman

NAME: Johnson, Peter E-MAIL: peter.johnson@voicestream.com, shoeboy@adequacy.org ALIASES: Shoeboy, Peter Johnson

NAME: Lockwood, Scott E-MAIL: wsl3@attbi.com, vlad@geekizoid.com ALIASES: Vladinator, Lonesome Cowboy Burt, Quick Star, Pinkerton Floyd, etc.

NAME: Linwood, Rob E-MAIL: rcl@cs.csoft.net, rcl211@is9.nyu.edu ALIASES: AuntFloyd, Con Troll

NAME: Mann, Warren E-MAIL: broken@warmann.com ALIASES: osm, OpenSourceMan

NAME: McPherson, Craig E-MAIL: craig@laceyonline.com ALIASES: craig, naked&petrified guy

NAME: Nelson, Brian E-MAIL: elenchos@adequacy.org ALIASES: Elenchos

NAME: Osborne, Michaell E-MAIL: osborm@yahoo.com, dmg@adequacy.org,

Everyone seems to have jumped on the TightVNC bandwagon. Personally, I use zvnc, which has zebedee encryption built-in.

Sure, you could tunnel VNC, but why bother if you don't have to?

I was forced by the forum admin to change the name of the link to my website Stonent's Dell Laptop Hack and FAQ on the DellTalk forums. A user complained that hacking is illegal and the forum admin said I needed to change the name in the link. Apparently the user had never even visited my website as it has info on how to upgrade Dell laptops.

nope.. I spent 7 hours on the phone with a tech trying to get it to work right.

I actually had a "tech" that had a clue and after several hours of being on the phone he discovered that the comcast/attbi modem reg site ( https://sas.r1.attbi.com/sas/pub/logon/mainauth.js p?ORIGURL=/sa/prot/admin/euser/activate.jsp ) is I.E. ONLY and that it won't work with any other browser. Tried Nutscrape, opera, mozilla.. all with no avail.

OMFG... like it's really THAT HARD to code a page to be compatible with more than internet exploder !

A little different from what you're asking, but here's what I did for a similar setup...

I picked up a discontinued Audrey from 3com and put that in my kitchen, networked through the powerlines using Seimens Powerline ethernet adapters. It mounts a SMB share from my Windows box (can also mount NFS shares) and plays my music through it's built-in speakers, or through attached computer speakers. There's a headphone jack on the device for external speakers.

It runs QNX with a full root shell, along with a web browser and other fun doodads. The mp3s play flawlessly (and there's a plugin for OGG) while taking up very little real estate on my counter. Anywhere I go in the apartment with a powerjack I can get to my Windows box. Wireless is also an option using a Linksys WEP11.

Best of all, my girlfriend loved it and wants me to get a couple more for the apartment. When not in [musical] use, it doubles as a digital picture frame.

Some sites to look over...

Audrey's on Ebay

AudreyHacking.com

www.linux-hacker.net Audrey Forum

Infinity flash image

they do make cool ads, they just won't show them here. hell, i went and downloaded that commercial. And how many people watched those BMW Films commercials?

This is currently a link to the full version of this comment, which has a screenshot image in it. The HTML body follows.

The below screen shot of DOOM for Intellivision is accompanied by some funky digital noise which I have no idea how to capture and put here from one of these emulators without installing additional software. I've installed three versions of it already. One of the emulators has an AVI capture mode on it, maybe I should try doing that. The PNG is here also so you can make a comparison, size or otherwise, in the wake of the recent discussions about GIF and PNG. I generated the screen shot below with Nostalgia, a neat Intellivision emulator. I'm sorry about the dodgy quality, but I hit alt-printscreen a little too late, and I'd already spent too much time on this. It's not like it's really playable at these speeds.

To hear the music and see the sights yourself, download doom.rom, doom.cfg or doom.bin for the various emulators you might download. (Get them from here, original source, )

I apologize for the blocky formatting of the HTML, but I am too lazy to remove it.

And to get the more precise Safari look just turn off the status bar from the View menu. :)

Compared to the multi-screen Air Traffic Control systems that are commercially available. Screens
Assembled

Some of the smaller models such as what are used at the FAA Academy use 3 27" displays. Of course the resolution is different. The big screens use $15,000 projectors and custom mounting hardware. And commercially available 3D image generation systems. But you can scale it down to a p4 and a Geforce card per screen.

Compared to the multi-screen Air Traffic Control systems that are commercially available. Screens
Assembled

Some of the smaller models such as what are used at the FAA Academy use 3 27" displays. Of course the resolution is different. The big screens use $15,000 projectors and custom mounting hardware. And commercially available 3D image generation systems. But you can scale it down to a p4 and a Geforce card per screen.

This has got to be the coolest car ad I've ever seen. All real. Wow!

There's no doubt that this presents enormous technical obstacles. But taking a look at this should give you at least a little confidence in Honda's engineers.

BTW, the wipers in the above movie activate automatically when the windshield gets wet...

I haven't used Snort all by itself, but HenWen provides a GUI interface for a lot--if not all--of its configurations, including establishing new rules. It's also very easy to install. I just copied it to /Applications and start NDIS and it takes care of launching during reboots. The Snort manual is included as part of its Help facility so you can use it as a reference as I had to do to specify a non-standard mask for my dual-ethernet equipped Macintosh. Logging is written in /var/logs/ and the permissions are set so that only root has access to secure.log and the snort subdirectory's contents. There was a vulnerability in Snort and Nick was very quick in providing an update (currently v2.0). Actually, I don't know how quickly he did it, but when I went to the website, there was a new version of HenWen along with a newer version of Snort (exiting beta cycle). Henwen Webpage

Less "hard" SF to consider - The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester, Nova by Samuel R. Delany. Maybe even Peter F. Hamilton (start with The Reality Dysfunction), if you liked Stephenson.

I have a part on my website about fixing screens: http://home.attbi.com/~stonent/screenfix.htm

It may not be the inverter, it could be the bulb.

Spam Meeting Wrap-up

Posted by michael on Saturday May 03, @03:12PM from the spam-and-eggs-and-spam dept.

wendigo2002 writes "Get used to that daily flood of e-mail come-ons, Viagra offers and lucrative enticements to invest in Nigerian pyramid schemes. Internet gurus, software designers and lawyers today ended a three-day Federal Trade Commission discussion on combating spam by concluding neither technology nor laws are yet capable of completely dealing with the plague."

"1. If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.

2. If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.

3. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.

4. If he satisfy the elders to impose a fine of grain or money, he shall receive the fine that the action produces.

5. If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement.

6. If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.

7. If any one buy from the son or the slave of another man, without witnesses or a contract, silver or gold, a male or female slave, an ox or a sheep, an ass or anything, or if he take it in charge, he is considered a thief and shall be put to death.

8. If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold therefor; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death.

9. If any one lose an article, and find it in the possession of another: if the person in whose possession the thing is found say "A merchant sold it to me, I paid for it before witnesses," and if the owner of the thing say, "I will bring witnesses who know my property," then shall the purchaser bring the merchant who sold it to him, and the witnesses before whom he bought it, and the owner shall bring witnesses who can identify his property. The judge shall examine their testimony -- both of the witnesses before whom the price was paid, and of the witnesses who identify the lost article on oath. The merchant is then proved to be a thief and shall be put to death. The owner of the lost article receives his property, and he who bought it receives the money he paid from the estate of the merchant.

10. If the purchaser does not bring the merchant and the witnesses before whom he bought the article, but its owner bring witnesses who identify it, then the buyer is the thief and shall be put to death, and the owner receives the lost article.

11. If the owner do not bring witnesses to identify the lost article, he is an evil-doer, he has traduced, and shall be put to death.

12. If the witnesses be not at hand, then shall the judge set a limit, at the expiration of six months. If his witnesses have not appeared within the six months, he is an evil-doer, and shall bear the fine of the pending case.

" and so on....

Yes. Lets vote Alex Chiu govenor
http://home.attbi.com/~dwedit/flash/jamezbond.swf
(Thanks, I finally get this reference)

If it's any consolation, that kind of 'screw with the customer' mentality gets things in the Windows market as well. A good example of it would be 'Emperor of the Fading Suns'. Built by Hollistic Design, Inc. and marketed through Sega, Sega decided that they didn't feel like waiting for the completed product and released the Beta 2 version... complete with flaws in the AI and incomplete unit lists and installation issues that left a lot of folks tearing their hair out. Sega's 'official' response was to let people eat static, showing exactly what they thought of the consumers buying their product.

Years after it was 'cancelled', there were still independant groups doing AI retools and mod packs for it; Hyperion, Reality, Roman Empire, and Nova were the big ones. Some haven't updated in quite a while now (Nova in '99 and Hyperion in '01), but Reality was still active in '02.

Another case of some nitwit deskjockey putting a worthwhile project into crash-and-burn mode. It's a damned shame that the companies don't learn anything from these disasters. I wonder how many more potentially great games will be obliterated like this... :/

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http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html

Google begs to differ.

Return To Castle Wolfenstein is the best team game out there. The depth of the multiplayer game is beyond comparison. You would be amazed at the stratagy that goes into it. (picture example of a strat) RTCW is not a deathmatch.

The problem is that the people who set this service up don't really know what RTCW is all about. RTCW is a TEAM GAME. The Medics support the Lieutenants. The Engineers follow to complete the objective. The Soldiers are a special class for special situations. They all complment each other.

You can't measure performance by kill/death ratio in RTCW. The guy that goes 2-14 can be just as valueable as the guy that goes 10-7. Sometimes, not shooting the other guy and sneaking by him is a benefit in getting to the objective.

Cheating in RTCW is a non-factor. Evenbalance's Punkbuster can stop every cheat out there. It is updated frequently and can actually take a snapshot of your screen and send it to the game server admins. It also checks your games video setting to be sure you don't have an unfair advantage.

The only way this could work is if they changed it to a clan on clan system.

Clan A puts in $100.

Clan B puts in $100.

Winner get $190, service get 10.

I have been on the end of a screaming captain in a game that had no money involved. The things that came out of his mouth could offend german shizer movie star. I don't know if my family would be safe if money were on the line and I did something wrong.

Many clans have folded under pressure of competitve gaming with no money involved. Cyber Amateur League (CAL) had a league for the elite. CAL-Invitational. After its second season it had to merge with the lower division because the top teams quit.

*WHO* will start a Linux G2 client?

Please? :)

Ps: You can also help Ashitaka.

This is old news that has already been reported on 7/19/2000 by Richard Hogland, Michael Bara, Efrain Palermo and Jill England of The Enterprise Mission. There is also a pdf file here.

These people have been at this a LONG time before this new "scientist" came out with this "great discovery". Geeeeshhh

what Wesley Willis has to say about this.

The earth is already wobbling like a top that can't stand straight any more. Appearently it's suppoed to cycle every 26,000 years or so. This is supposed to account for Ice ages.

no shit?

ryan-illman@attbi.com

http://home.attbi.com/~rymcv/LH4008/longhornsetup1 .jpg
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Or you can go to http://home.attbi.com/~dakine/defeat.htm and get a .wav file to record at the beginning of your outgoing message on your answering machine, and you get the same effect -- FREE!

The .wav files (and the TeleZapper) basically play the three tones you hear when you dial a number no longer in service. When this is played at he beginning of a call, the predictive dialling software of the telemarketer (in theory) removes your number from the database.

Might not work 100% of the time, but it can't hurt...

grnbrg

I just see a big difference between something being wrong and something being EVIL. I guess it's just a matter of degree, i feel that things can be wrong without being wrong enough to be considered evil.

I'd say the difference is in intent. YOu can do something wrong, not thinking it's wrong, and realize afterwards you did wrong. Then you be responsible, go make amends, or whatever you have to do. Maybe you need someone to point it out to you, but the point is that ultimately you accept that you did wrong and try to fix it.

Evil, on the other hand, would be intentionally doing wrong. Even if you "make amends" later, under pressure from someone to do so, you still did it intentionally in the first place and you might do it again. In fact, in Microsoft's case we can say they will do it again.

There's more to it than that, though. The basic problem is that evil and good are both quite elusive concepts. For one thing, doing something "evil" might make you feel good about yourself, so you might call it "good" while I might call it "evil". They're very elusive things, they are. Read my rant.

Good and evil

It does, however, require you to jump through certain other hoops, such as the requirement to distribute a copy of the GPL itself with your software. So the source code issue can be effectively ignored; the simple fact that they're distributing their product without a written (electronic or paper) copy of the GPL means that they're in violation of it.

I was, for the sake of argument, conveniently ignoring this part. You are, of course, correct. I think I did say something to that effect, although not as specifically as you did.

For the record, the name is "Linux," not "GNU/Linux." Might want to refer to Torvalds's trademark for further details on that point.

That would be the kernel you're talking about. Again, in this instance, you may be correct since I was talking about reading filesystems, which is handled by the kernel. Perhaps I should've said "The Linux kernel reads any filesystem...." instead.

However, regardless of Torvalds's trademark, the operating system complete as I have it today is a derivative of the first Debian distribution from back in 1993, which was dubbed GNU/Linux because it was nothing more than GNU with the Linux kernel. Therefore, since the work that I'm using now is a derivative of that original distribution, even if it's not solely GNU + Linux anymore, is correctly called "GNU/Linux". When saying this, you are conveying more than just the operating system you're using (otherwise I should properly refer to it as Mandrake Linux 9.0), but you are also referring to the history that went in to the operating system.

Now, I didn't think it was that big of a deal either, and I wrote an article to that effect. Check out this. After I wrote this article, I was feeling pretty cocky and emailed it to RMS, and we got into a discussion over it. He made his point well, and after much consideration on my part, I decided that he was right. (So no, I'm not a brainless drone) I just haven't updated the article on account of time. If you can come up with a way to trade email addresses without posting them on slashdot, I'll be happy to send you a note when I finally write the update, 'cause there's more to it than what's in this post.

Interestingly enough, there are other requirements for GPL compliance. Simply distributing your source code is a necessary condition, but not a sufficient one to demonstrate compliance. For example, "You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change." Also, the oft-ignored "banner clause" in paragraph 2c

The example you cited is assumed when you distribute the source code. But I can see how someone need pay very special attention to the fact of the license, especially considering that they can only retain copyright on their changes if they notate the changes. Otherwise, for lack of proper documentation, I imagine copyright ownership on the changes would revert to the next marked owner a la scope rules.

I don't recall the banner clause right offhand, and I'm not going to go look it up. :) I'll keep it in mind to check out next time I'm reading that way, though.

A google search for spaceplane turns up lots of articles. Another slashdot reader already recommended Gregg Easterbrook's 1980 article on Columbia's first launch. I guess one lesson from looking back on it is to take the claims of the designers with considerable skepticism. Fity or more launches per year? Cost a third or less per ton of the cost of single shot rockets? Ha.

Yet, I would guess that the general public was seeing the American shuttle as being a big success. I expect people will see it as a success again.

I like the idea of putting aerospace workers from the former Soviet Union to work. I like the idea of putting them to useful, peaceful, dignified work. I don't like the idea of them being owed six months of paltry back-pay. Not when some of them have skills developing WoMD.

I like Dennis Tito's answer to one of the questions he was asked when he returned from being the world's first space tourist. He was asked whether it was frivilous to spend $20,000,000 on a vacation, when the world faced terrible problems, like grinding poverty. He said something like:

You are correct. That money should have been spent helping the poor. And it was. Do you know the average wage of a Russian aerospace worker? About $100 per month.

But then it turned out that the Buran cafe project was a project of the former Buran workers. They were all involved.

I couldn't help really feeling for these men and women. I imagined they had traded back-pay they were never likely to see for the Buran mockup they were turning in to a cafe. (Cafe patrons were going to get to order real cosmonaut space rations.) But they hadn't given up. They hadn't given up on aerospace. They hadn't given up their dignity. They hadn't given up on peace. They hadn't given up on their country.

The Soviet Union had a space program any former citizen could be proud of. I'd like to see their talents put to use. This isn't charity. They were talented.

Plus, there is the peace factor. Everyone is worried that "rogue states" are going to acquire weapons of mass destruction by subverting penniless former defense workers from the former Scviet Union. Well, why don't we address this issue by making sure they weren't left penniless?

Yes, I know organized crime is (was?) a terrible problem throughout the former Soviet Union.

Still, would the dollars, yen, euros of the international community be better spent in the former Soviet Union, where paying an aerospace worker $1000 a month would be a ten-fold pay increase, then in, let's say, the USA.

The USA, or more precisely, the US aerospace industry, is the land of the $1000 spanner. Let's be honest. That too, is a kind of corruption.

The US's milltary-industrial complex built many weaspons systems over the years. Do you know which one provided the greatest invulnerability?

That would have to be the one with a sub-contractor in every congressional district.

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First off I put together a summary of six sigma a few years back which might be helpful (especially for the "what is six-sigma" lurkers). A lot of the stuff in six-sigma can apply to IT:
The DMAIC model outlines a software construction process.
From a high level project management standpoint bugs & non-included featues in a program are "defects" and the defect reduction models would apply.
The unity between six-sigma management structures and corporate management structures would apply.
The focus on the customer would apply ...

So yes six-sigma works perfectly for IT work. But instead of measuring number of defective widgets per million you are measuring number of defective lines of code per million or number of requirements that were failed be met per million...

As far as stupid management philosophies this one is relatively harmless. TQM is actually excellent but a great deal of the really good stuff in TQM has been taken out of six-sigma.

So in answer to your question I'd apply it to an important software project you are working on and track bugs in the program. You'll get to find out what your customers really want rather than what you think they want, or what you promised to deliver. You'll get to find out how over the years the software has been meeting their needs better (or not)...

Anyway cheer up this isn't so bad. You are actually going to learn manager speak to get time to do projects right.

Yes it can (well maybe there are artifacts and things that make it look that way)
It's called Quantum duality

It could just be an artifact though.

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as comedian dane cook says
'speak and spell... they should call it speak like the devil'
'a b c d e f g, i will kill your family'
err, here

.NET does somethings very quickly. For example, if your program is very memory intensive, it will tend to be quite slow. For kicks, I cloned a chess engine under .NET, Tom's Simple Chess Program, and ran it against the original. The original, written in C, ran about 20 times faster (by my rough benchmarks. With enough tweaking, I could probably drop that number to maybe 10x).

For contrast, I do a lot of database work with .NET, and that's quick as a button. Mainly because I'm using only the objects that are part of the .NET framework. I can use C, C++, C#, VB, VB.NET, Java or even Cobol and still see the same performance because the bottleneck is my SQL server. Therefore, I go with ease of development, where .NET really shines.

Critical thinking is very important. There is no one size fits all approach, use the right tool for the job, etc.

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If you are like me, you will no doubt notice a gaping hole in this list. What's missing is the subject of this certain-to-be-modded-down post:

Lowest Scores First

According to this chart, Slashdot readers overwhelmingly prefer reading comments that have been moderated down below zero. So why not provide an option whereby we may browse with these posts near the top of the page? These "numerically disadvantaged" posts have become an important voice on Slashdot, providing alternative viewpoints sometimes lost to the hive-like groupthink so often associated with positive moderation.

From post cold-war political commentary to corporate whistle-blowing and constructive criticism of Slashdot itself, low-modded posts are essential to the health and diversity of this site. By omitting the Lowest Scores First option, these posts are being treated like Pintos on the Information Superhighway. Notice! Other sites have added the important ability to show lowest-rated comments first! Why not Slashdot?

Information wants to be free, no matter how far down it was moderated!

Thank you, and if you are concerned about your God-given Slashdot rights, please join the fight to include the Lowest Scores First option!

Brought to you by Slashdotters For Lowest Scores First (SFLSF).

this?

I remember these transparent plastic cans with standard aluminium top at least ten years ago, selling here in the UK.

AFAICR, the drink itself was foul.