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The optional AP Computer Science exams they give at my school allow you to use any names you wish for your variables, classes, and methods.

I am so taking them this year.
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I seriously almost had this as FP myself. I clicked on the story and opened it in a background tab, then went and looked at something else for five minutes. I came back, and noticed... there were NO COMMENTS. I refreshed the page, hoping it would still be blank (yeah right) and thought of this same thing to post. BUt of course, now there's 38 comments. Crap, I need to pay more attention. Would have been my first FP too.
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They were looking for an antonym, and I guess they figured Slashcode could do a demonstration.
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Lets look at some of the things you quoted - apache, php. Both relatively large, complex pieces of software and open to external (and internal) attack. Your comment of "Saying "it's okay" to write software with security holes, because shucks, some kind soul will fix it for you." Is rather misguided. I doubt anyone on those projects is deliberately writing bad code, they will be trying as hard as they can. On something large and complex it is inevitable there will be bugs, some of those will turn out to be security related. People are not perfect, there will always be something that a single individual will miss: I'm sure, if you wrote a large piece of software then I or other ./ers could find some faults (just as you may be able to with software I wrote). No matter how good you may think you are at programming you *will* make a mistake (I'm assuming a degree of arrogance given the "since maybe 95% of the coders out there can't code properly." comment). Shame I have never had the chance to interview you, would be amusing you see you sit some of the programming tests I have had to devise and administer over the years. As for "Working for someone else without getting paid." In terms of reporting a bug. I assume from other comments you work involves OSS systems in some way, so OSS existence in effect helps to pay you. Lets assume you work for a company, say you do not report a bug you find... say that letter a nasty exploit comes out, using that bug, and causes lots of damage (not to your system obv. but to others worldwide). Reputation of that particular bit of OSS plummets. Your company CEO, despite the fact you ensured his system was fine, decides to bring in a different product, for arguments sake not OSS..., your job goes. So end result is lost job, overall reputation of OSS software damaged to some extent, great result for a bit of arrogance. A key thing is the attitude of people once you report a problem; OSS development people will (generally) be glad of your help in spotting a problem, after all it is about community involvement, just because someone is not involved in day to day coding does not stop them contributing by code audit, testing the code, documenting the software etc. A bug report is not a criticism, its an aid to improving the software. The response for "commercial" / "closed" software is likely (not guaranteed) to be slightly different - more bureaucracy, coders might not even be told of the bug or not be allowed to investigate it Maybe you should read your comment and see how arrogant it came over. It exuded the sort of "I'm all right Jack" approach. By your reasoning its an "oh shucks" thing that lots of people died in New Orleans because they were too poor to own their own transport and so could not evacuate. Remember life is not just about you, its about people working together, things might seem to be OK for a while with a selfish tack, but sooner or later generosity to your fellow man is needed. Regard placing a OSS bug report as just one minor little selfless act you can do. Its not a big life saving thing, but its all part of doing the right thing.
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Lets look at some of the things you quoted - apache, php. Both relatively large, complex pieces of software and open to external (and internal) attack. Your comment of "Saying "it's okay" to write software with security holes, because shucks, some kind soul will fix it for you." Is rather misguided. I doubt anyone on those projects is deliberately writing bad code, they will be trying as hard as they can. On something large and complex it is inevitable there will be bugs, some of those will turn out to be security related. People are not perfect, there will always be something that a single individual will miss: I'm sure, if you wrote a large piece of software then I or other ./ers could find some faults (just as you may be able to with software I wrote). No matter how good you may think you are at programming you *will* make a mistake (I'm assuming a degree of arrogance given the "since maybe 95% of the coders out there can't code properly." comment). Shame I have never had the chance to interview you, would be amusing you see you sit some of the programming tests I have had to devise and administer over the years. As for "Working for someone else without getting paid." In terms of reporting a bug. I assume from other comments you work involves OSS systems in some way, so OSS existence in effect helps to pay you. Lets assume you work for a company, say you do not report a bug you find... say that letter a nasty exploit comes out, using that bug, and causes lots of damage (not to your system obv. but to others worldwide). Reputation of that particular bit of OSS plummets. Your company CEO, despite the fact you ensured his system was fine, decides to bring in a different product, for arguments sake not OSS..., your job goes. So end result is lost job, overall reputation of OSS software damaged to some extent, great result for a bit of arrogance. A key thing is the attitude of people once you report a problem; OSS development people will (generally) be glad of your help in spotting a problem, after all it is about community involvement, just because someone is not involved in day to day coding does not stop them contributing by code audit, testing the code, documenting the software etc. A bug report is not a criticism, its an aid to improving the software. The response for "commercial" / "closed" software is likely (not guaranteed) to be slightly different - more bureaucracy, coders might not even be told of the bug or not be allowed to investigate it Maybe you should read your comment and see how arrogant it came over. It exuded the sort of "I'm all right Jack" approach. By your reasoning its an "oh shucks" thing that lots of people died in New Orleans because they were too poor to own their own transport and so could not evacuate. Remember life is not just about you, its about people working together, things might seem to be OK for a while with a selfish tack, but sooner or later generosity to your fellow man is needed. Regard placing a OSS bug report as just one minor little selfless act you can do. Its not a big life saving thing, but its all part of doing the right thing.
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I played a map in CS:Source yesterday called "007_temple" that was, obviously, a remake of the GoldenEye "Temple" map. It was way different from those screenshots in TFA, but I wonder if there's a connection.
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Since anyone can edit a Wikipedia article, it could just be someone playing a practical joke :) It's not hard to make stuff like that up.
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Change a few words, and his post is as appropriate here in the gaming section as it is in the pr0n section! http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161288&c id=13492184 What the fuck is this garbage? I've been with the same woman for nearly five years and just married her this weekend. If anything, porn/videogames has STRENGTHENED our relationship through mutual viewing. Are they trying to say that porno searching online/gaming online is a "gateway" to become some sort of "sexual/gaming deviant"? Give me a fucking break. Just because people's conservative sexual/gaming knowledge and behavior is the prevailing behavior (and IMHO negative) it doesn't mean that "graduating" to a different behavior is heinous. Mod -1 Flamebait/Troll I'm sorry, but 100 people aren't going to tell the tale of ALL those that enjoy porn/gaming either in solitary viewing or in group situations. I'd like to read this pile of shit and actually give a true account of the book/non-existant study rather than an obviously biased and conservative viewpoint on it.
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Mother, may I be the first to point out DUPE? Thank you!!
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Problem is, it's not about thousands of threads - if it was that would not be too badits about a small number of threads. Read the article... Basic multithreading, in so much as a handful of concurrent threads work OK without huge performance hit, is still important on "desktops".
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Sorry for the "wrights" error. There's just no forgiving that.
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Given that openoffice is essentially zipped xml.... I doubt unzip utilities will vanish in 5 years. Once unzipped, the XML is human readable and its trivial to use a bit of XSL(T) to export it to teh format you like (again I doubt XSL(T) transformation technology will vanish in 5 years). That would be my preference over PDF which is far more effort to port to a human readable state using "standard" tools.
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Rain-X is quite destructve on the plastic visor ... and it is not made for anti-fogging. Says so right there on the bottle.
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That's exactly why I love last.fm (formerly Audioscrobbler & Last.fm). It automatically tracks what you listen to and then allows that information to be used to give you neighbors in the music world based on what interests you have in common. You can add friends, join groups, and even tag your music. All of this is extremely useful in finding new stuff. They've got plugins for all the major media players (and even some minor ones).

Add on top of that the ability to play a custom-built radio station, set it to play only new music or listen only to music from a particular user profile.

Linux and BSD supported! Open source plugins and radio station player! Could it get better? ;)

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I use a nice configurable non IE browser, amongst the near endless tweaks is the ability to set to background download (or not) links from a site, so if I choose to go to taht link its "instant" as already downloaded. Say I had this feature set on a site where I knew I would be browing a lot of the pages, forgot to turn it off and went to another site that happened to have a link to a torrent.... By the MPAA logic I am guilty, whereas all I have done is forgot to turn off a bandwidth sucking feature of my browser, and have downloaded a torrent "tracker" file but never used it in any way.
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Q3:A has the distinction of being battle proven in a commercial product over the others.

I'm afraid not. Most deli meat comes from certain cuts of the Spamalope. Shoulder cuts ususally taste like ham, limb and joint cuts taste like capricola and bolognia, and the haunch tastes like...spam.

The statement "This spam tastes like ass!" is therefore redundant.

Spamalope are native to the Hudson Valley area in New York (the state), which is why the best deli meat comes from New York City. The Yiddish word for the Spamalope is Delicatessen.

Once they covered the landscape from horizon to horizon, but their numbers have been drastically reduced. The only known free range spamalope are now controlled by a consortium of deli meat companies, particularly Hormel and Oscar Meyer.

It is rumored you can still hear the lonesome mating cry of the Spamalope in the wilds of Yonkers and Sheboygan, but most people write it off as just another Urban Ledgend.

Hope that clears things up.

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Exactly! For example: If you check the WOW Server Status page now, you will see that ALL of their servers are currently (21:10BST) down and have been that way for quite some time now, yet there is no sign of any activity on their message boards here.
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Exactly! For example: If you check the WOW Server Status page now, you will see that ALL of their servers are currently (21:10BST) down and have been that way for quite some time now, yet there is no sign of any activity on their message boards here.
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We are working in an electronics environment and are mainly working on embedded software and PCB design. We cannot get accross to those Java ppl that memory does not come for free (What! only 32 MB) in terms of money and board space, nor does processor speeds (money, space and energy dissipation)(What! only 66 or 300 MHz, why can't you put a 1GB processor on the board).

Good call...at least they are trying
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Ya, it's to prevent joint damage.
Still... it gives them an "I told you so" angle if anything like this ever gets to court.
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So *you're* the guy who's been modding my posts down!!!
I swear, I had a post at the default Score:1, and someone modded it "Overrated". Wtf?
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Actually, you won't have to worry about not knowing for a little while. If your cooling system breaks, your CPU will be a blob of silicone in about four seconds, IIRC.

But fans usually make some kind of noise when they're dying/in need of maintainace. When it starts making grinding sounds, you'll notice it.
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1. The shuttle *has* to fly where it does. There's only two landing strips capable of taking it in the world.
2. Do you live in a city with an airport?

The only time I've been woken by the shuttle coming down was when it desintegrated over my house. I didn't know what it was then, (there were no clouds for thunder) but as soon I saw it on TV, I knew what I had heard.
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Yeah typing input has a ways to go for conveying free form information that departs from the simply textual. Over even formated textual... like ever tried doing impromptu columns in a word processor vrs just jotting three lists next to each other on a sheet of paper ? With practice and knowledge (insert and tab stops) it can be done quickly but it isn't very intuitive.

Has that changed? There should be a lot of material that students still need to write longhand, until some kind of standard in-class "terminal" that's hackproof is installed in classrooms.

Don't forget the sneaky introduction of Yahoo toolbar with the installation of the Macromedia stuff .... That couldn't possibly have anything to do with the increase in searches ....
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On Slashdot? Dude, none of us wear designer clothes anyways. It would be like saying "Boycott Microsoft!!!"
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defend Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong

Because the majority of the readers on /. are American, and we think in miles per hour and feet per second. They did give you KPH, so you shouldn't be complaining - they could have left it out completely, if they felt like it.
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Go to sleep.
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He should have just used the jump pads.
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You should be ashamed. I have a higher userid than you, and I've already made a parody of my own.
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...a short story by Philip K. Dick called "Foster, You're Dead". Find a copy and read it, it's good. It's about a kid during an alternate-reality cold war whose father refuses to buy a nuke shelter. Wikipedia Link
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Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Natalie in the restaurant, but Natalie doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the ISS nearby the restaurant, in the bed-room, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bed-room like that, they got a lot of room accross the tube where the equipment used to be in. Havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the equipmnet, they decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage for a long time.

We got up there, we found all the garbage in here, and we decided it'd be a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the Earth. So we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a white Boeing orbiter, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the Earth.

Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the landing strip saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a landing strip closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we flew off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.

We didn't find one. Until we came to low orbit, and off the side of the orbit there was an atmosphere and at the bottom of the atmosphere there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one slightly burned big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.
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VG Cats #111
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I had an inner ear infection last year, and I went through that. It's way not cool, you seriously cannot stand in one place (or even sit up!) without falling and it's very nauseating to be still or even lie down with your eyes closed. (I must have thrown up at least six times that morning, and I had dry heaves the rest of the day.) It was also very scary because we didn't know what the hell was going on until I had been diagnosed at the hospital.
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ASF
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4) How many processes does it startup on boot?

one to reclaim its file associations every 20 seconds. one to keep a tray icon visible at all times. one to check for updates. and one that sends "usage statistics" back to Real. all 4 are added to the startup registry everytime the player is launched.

Seriously blows the GP out of the water, and is very informative.
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It doesn't matter, they modded your broken post up anyways. That means they either read your mind, or didn't understand it at all.
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brontosaurus
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brontasaurus

A man with the courage of his convictions, and the courage to face facts.

Man, we need to set you up with some (Christian) women so you can breed. Let's not leave the next generation to chance.

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The dog is on fire.
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What about when you run out [of water]?

Exactly ending world hunger.
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The terrifying thing is the parent was modded "insightful" rather than funny.

Gallows humor, anyone? Oh, sorry, that's handled by our OffShore staff now...

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