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Word choice? I'm guessing 'fucking' is ruled out then. Poor old linus excluded again. Swear words are almost a staple of writing code as shown in this nice graph: https://www.vidarholen.net/con... [vidarholen.net]

I once had a coworker who would name global variables with coarse language, in the hope that it would discourage anyone else from messing with them.

"you now have direct access to useful guidance about voice, tone, word choice, and other style considerations"

Word choice? I'm guessing 'fucking' is ruled out then. Poor old linus excluded again.

Swear words are almost a staple of writing code as shown in this nice graph: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/old.html

You can also see a graph of the curse-word count here (also includes "Penguin")

The "Can you recover overwritten data?" question was answered a few years ago in the paper Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy. The conclusion was with an electron microscope you could get 1 bit back but the chance of recovering more than that is negligible (and that is in the new barely used drive scenario).

Considering the amount of vulgarity already in the Linux Kernel, I'd say that 'big boobs' is a very minor infraction. Also, I call bullshit on "big boobs" being sexist. I find it doubtful that anyone would be complaining if it was 0xA146ED1C (a large dick) instead.

It is my understanding that there has never been a single proven recovery of a drive that was simply zeroed out. No silly "military grade" wipe software necessary.

More or less, you are right. See this paper.

http://www.vidarholen.net/~vidar/overwriting_hard_drive_data.pdf

The purpose of this paper was a categorical settlement to the controversy surrounding
the misconceptions involving the belief that data can be recovered following a wipe
procedure. This study has demonstrated that correctly wiped data cannot reasonably
be retrieved even if it is of a small size or found only over small parts of the hard
drive. Not even with the use of a MFM or other known methods. The belief that a tool
can be developed to retrieve gigabytes or terabytes of information from a wiped drive
is in error.
Although there is a good chance of recovery for any individual bit from a drive, the
chances of recovery of any amount of data from a drive using an electron microscope
are negligible. Even speculating on the possible recovery of an old drive, there is no
likelihood that any data would be recoverable from the drive. The forensic recovery
of data using electron microscopy is infeasible. This was true both on old drives and
has become more difficult over time. Further, there is a need for the data to have been
written and then wiped on a raw unused drive for there to be any hope of any level of
recovery even at the bit level, which does not reflect real situations. It is unlikely that
a recovered drive will have not been used for a period of time and the interaction of
defragmentation, file copies and general use that overwrites data areas negates any
chance of data recovery. The fallacy that data can be forensically recovered using an
electron microscope or related means needs to be put to rest.

Are you defending against someone with a magnetic force microsocope?

Yes, see Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy. Even with a magnetic force microscope, one pass is plenty. You can correctly identify a bit overwritten once with a probability of 0.56, up from 0.50 when randomly guessing. That's a 1% chance of correctly identifying any given byte.

Yeah it would be cool to have some sort of linux kernel swear counts but with /. stories, which matches some patterns like:

• in soviet russia * you
• i, for one, welcome our new * overlords
• but does it run linux
• imagine a beowulf cluster of those
• there. fixed that for you
• goatse
• [no carrier]
• you must be new here
• cowbowneal

Come on /. devs, bring us a xmas gift ! ;)

Are you sure it's a typo? They could be taking a lesson from the Linux kernel but being a bit more subtle.

I'd pay extra if it had swearing.

http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

How many lines contain expletives?

for your reading pleasure.... the linux kernel fuck count

It's appears to be a common practice. The Linux kernel contains many swear words, and so does Mozilla.

Better yet: The word 'fuck' is here so you can graph for it.

There's been a quite notable increase in crap in 2.6.5!

Virca is good for J2ME phones with socket support, but WirelessIRC is even better on phones like the Nokia 7610 (plus 7650, 3650, N-Gage, 6600, 6620, Siemens SX-1 and Sendo X), and SymIRC is nice on the P800 and P900.

Here!

I bet there are some websites that wish there was such a thing as a national do not /. list. I have seen some people post really nasty messages after a site was linked by /. staff. Such as this one. For about a week this website had a "F*** You /." message on it.

Mirror!

More here

It seemed a little sluggish, so here's a mirror. Be gentle with it.

will do!