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  1. Re:Isolation slows infection down on The Pandemic vs. the IT Department · · Score: 1

    I was specificly told we had nothing to worry about untill it goes bird to bird human back to bird and finaly back to human.

  2. Re:Pricing is everything (tech better be good, too on Linux Growth Doesn't Offset NetWare Decline · · Score: 1

    You are comparing different products. eDirectory has a list price of $0.50 per user. Thats right, 50 cents. eDir will run on just about anything, and doesn't need Netware.

  3. Re:Why make the comparison on Linux Growth Doesn't Offset NetWare Decline · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Novell did have an app server, it was called "Netware". Oracle ran on Netware. Pegasus mail did too. It was a lack of third party support, not a lack of a valid platform.

    NDS, if anything, was too much too early.

    While I can see advantages to directory services for a 1 person network, DS is very much influenced by the "network effect". The more you use it, the more valuable it is. The more objects it has, the more usefull it is. Its most usefull for large networks. WfW and later NT workstation and 95, with their built in p2p networking, was, in many cases "good enough". Even for networks that used, and liked, NW 3.11, but translated to "good enough" WfW/95, when they grew, grew into other MS products. Netware 4.x, with NDS, was a race to the top, with the bottom falling out compleatly.

  4. Re:Evaluate and Improve on US Government Studies Open Source Quality · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of the potential suggestions have been made by the OpenBSD crew, and already rejected....

  5. Re:I'll tell you what I think on RIM Settles Long-Standing Blackberry Claim · · Score: 1

    Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious.

  6. How long have I been waiting to use... on RIM Settles Long-Standing Blackberry Claim · · Score: 1

    Wow, they sure got themselves a RIMJob.

  7. Re:Pain in the ass on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    Protection of property, self defense, and pervention of crime are generally accepted defenses against criminal and civil charges. All three could apply; the card belongs to you (or, I suppose to the issuing agency, but under your protection) - you can use reasonable force to retreive it. Identity theft could itself be considered an assault, at least one could argue a good-faith belief that it is, and an assault can be defended against with reasonable force. The underlying crimes of identity theft, fraud, etc. can be prevented with reasonable force.

    Criminally, at least, I dont think you would need to prove that any of the above would have, or could have happened, only that, at the time, you had a good faith belief that they would.

  8. Hire someone on How Would You Launch a Dual-Licensed Product? · · Score: 1

    Or, better yet, find an individual who wants to come in as a partner (that is, assuming that this small business is owned by its workers). Scott Mcnealy comes to mind, as an example... I think he has outlasted all the others who started Sun.

  9. Re:Turn about is fair play on IBM Subpoenas HP, Baystar, Sun & Microsoft · · Score: 1

    IBM also once dodged anti-trust findings, too. So we know that MSFT and IBM are more powerfull/larger/determened then the US DOJ, so the question becomes who of MSFT and IBM is the most powerful/large/determened. IBM almost definitly has lawyers who have been on staff longer then MSFT exists.

  10. Re:Not The Best Choice For Maintainable Code on Going Dynamic with PHP · · Score: 1

    You are comparing different things. Its not a question of if mysql_() or objects are called, but how the object is implemented.

  11. Re:Experiences on Going Dynamic with PHP · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have the choice of either type hinting OR function overloading. If you use type hinting, you have to pass that function exactly those types (and not a null, either) . And its not realy function overloading; you, as the developer, need to resolve what your being passed. Most everything else that allows overloading, you write multiple functions, and the compiler decides what to do.

  12. Depending on the editor on How Do You Store Your Previously-Written Code? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Usualy something like ":wq" "^s" "^x^s" "alt-F,a"

  13. Re:No book can teach you because the bad don't rea on Essential PHP Security · · Score: 1

    That may or may not be true. A CS student may have a solid foundation in security, but they might have no foundation at all in security. If your doing "pure" CS such as queue theory, or algorithm analysis, then security, let alone things like exception handling and even logging, are irrelevent. One could argue that the two year diploma types know only about all that irrelevent fluff, except in the real world that irrelevent fluff takes up 80% of the project. Consider the distinction between physics and engineering; a scientist may give you an answer to the Nth decimal place (ignoring friction), but an engineer will give you one rounded up to the next highest existing part, after a 50% safety factor. Both answers are right, but only one is right in the real world.

  14. Re:Google and Me on How Much Do You Value Your Office Space? · · Score: 1

    What would be cool is a RTFM mug, where those characters are reverse embossed, and printed backwards, on the side. That way, when you crack it across someones jaw, the mark would serve as a gentle reminder to others to RTFM.

  15. Sory, no. on Could Linux Still Go GPL3? · · Score: 1
    Version 2, June 1991

    Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA

    Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
    of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

    and

    Discussion Draft 1 of Version 3, 16 Jan 2006

    THIS IS A DRAFT, NOT A PUBLISHED VERSION OF THE GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.

    Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
    Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

    HTH, HAND

  16. Re:It would make sense. on Sun Urged to Give Up OpenOffice Control · · Score: 1

    I dont think its licenses, but shared control that the likes of Novell and Red Hat are after. Novell, or at least two paticular people inside of Novell, given the choice, would have prefered Mono over Java, Im sure. Red Hat, likely neither, or at least some changes to Java requirements, exposure to the codebase, and coordination with the various OSS Java projects (either a delay, or limits on default build and runtime requirements of Java).

    As far as features vs. fixes, its a matter of mandate. Sun is interested in selling Star Office, which requires features, and new features, to sell upgrades. A OOo foundation would be interested in OOo, which might mean market share and thus features, but might also mean high quality software, marketshare be dammed (relevent to commercial downstreem packagers).

    Consider, Perl 6. Perl at least appears to be loosing marketshare as new and cool things are actually being shipped by other communities. But Perl 6 has the goal of producing high quality software first, with the long term positive benifits outweighing the short term losses. The Perl hackers were well aware of this when they set down their path of choice.

  17. Which may or may not be usefull on Shuttle Retirement Costs Divert Science Funding · · Score: 2, Informative

    It costs about $1.3 billion to send the shuttle on a mission. As an example, the HST cost about $2.5billion to build (though with significantly higher operating costs). If/when it comes down for repairs, the repairs themselves would cost money, and then it would have to go back up. In short, it is a very infrequently used feature, and one that isn't practical; cost of replacement for anything but the most expensive thingies is always less then the transportation costs.

  18. A hell of a lot simpler on Tagging Devices To Aid In Car Chases · · Score: 1

    Would be to just make traffic cops work on commission. Hell, they could be independent, non-employees, for that matter. Make it licensed, and require some conviction rate.

    When have you ever seen some fucktard, turning left at an intersection, trying to sneek through a yellow, who cant clear the intersection and blocks the whole fucking thing ever get a ticket? Never. Commission traffic cops could retire in a day off asshats like that alone.

  19. What we need... on Thirsty People Feel More Pain · · Score: 1

    Is another major world war so we can resolve a bunch of these pressing scientific questions, as yet unanserable due to ethics.

  20. It looks like TinMan, but blue on SeaMonkey 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Worst. TNG. Episode. Ever.

  21. Re:Flight Simulator on Wine vs Windows Benchmarks · · Score: 3, Informative

    You missed the subtle point of the post. MS Flight Simulator was once the de facto IBM PC standard compliance test.

  22. Re:Who said getting reliable information was easy? on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 1

    Personally, I only trust my ability to not trust.

  23. Re:Fear of girls?! on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but its your ass. You get off looking at your own ass?

  24. Re:Microsoft CANNOT comply on Microsoft Source Code Still Not Enough for EU? · · Score: 1

    If you are right with 'The EU said, "Provide documentation of your APIs."', then that is what they said. They diddnt say "Provide existing API documentation" or "turn over your existing design documentation", they said "Provide documentation". If that means that MS needs to hire some tech writes and catch up on 15 years of basic engineering, well, thats not the EUs problem.

  25. Re:OH CANADA on Canadian Record Label Fights RIAA Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    My hope is that if the Conseratives try to push through absurd bills, then our upper house will finaly have a chance to earn their pay. With a majority in the Senate, if motivated to do so, the Liberals could stop anything put forth in either house. They couldn't necessaraly move their own agenda, but thats another story.