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  1. Re:sounds like an on Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily true. Depending on how they link up their centers between cities / regions you might still be hitting a backbone, or you might be hitting some other network connecting them.

  2. Re:And the evidence is compelling... on Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error · · Score: 1

    As I understsand, MediaSentry downloaded the files. Which means at the very least there was an upload from her IP.

  3. Re:Dumbing down the text... on Hackers Find Remote iPhone Crack · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is an attempt at a new form of Six-Sigma compliance?

  4. Re:Scientific method to the rescue on "Burning Walls" May Stop Black Hole Formation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It does, however, require a bit more than being one that "sounds like something invented by a writer for a Japanese cartoon series."

  5. Re:wowsa ! on "Burning Walls" May Stop Black Hole Formation · · Score: 1

    One could suggest using a gravity powered accelerator, though that might be a tad difficult. However, from what I understand you should be able to use other hadrons to investigate collapse into subhadronic matter, which is precisely what LHC was built to play with.

  6. Re:Pure Python != panacea on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    Good luck targetting a handheld device with 4 MB of RAM and a 67 MHz CPU with Microsoft's SDK/c compiler? If you can manage this, surely you can deal with the warning that it would generate from using memcpy, yes?

    Just because all you happen to see are nails, does not mean that a hammer should be your only tool.

    Seriously, this is a security guideline. They are not removing anything from the language. They are not forcing you to deal with this. If your company treats warnings as errors, schedule a process meeting and add this particular warning to the list of ignored warnings.

    Talk about much ado about nothing.

  7. Re:Let Java do it for you. on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    Given that you do not know the size of the problem, claiming that any program that uses 8+ gigs of memory means that its programmers are incompetent shows a severe lack of foresight on your part. Unless of course you think 8GB should be enough for everyone.

  8. Re:What is actually happening? on Justice Dept. Opens Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Books Deal · · Score: 1

    The point is, that copyright is a right granted expclusively to the author of a work, unless the author explicitly grants it to someone else.

    This settlement breaks that model of copyright, by saying that a work is only copyrighted if the author of the work notifies everyone that might have a copy that they are not allowed to copy it.

    While not unreasonable, such changes must never be retroactive (as this one is) because it creates a disadvantage for authors of past works, which may not have specified such.

    Then again, according to strict interpretation, given that practically all books come with a copyright statement by the publisher, reserving all rights, but granting none, all books are already "opted out." The real question here is, who owns the copyright - did the author sell the copyright to the publisher? In that case, this is binding, and Google cannot use the book as the publisher "opted out." Otherwise, it would up for the author to decide. Having to figure this out on a book-by-book basis would be a real pain, but probably the only way to protect themselves from serious liability.

  9. Re:A big mess on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    Well, if you think about it, given its availability for PRO/ENT/ULT editions of the operating system, this is a tool for businesses to deal with LOB/internal applications that are needed now but are not easy to port to run on Windows 7 or to replace. This opens up the avenue to upgrade for those companies.

  10. Re:Yes but ... on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    Perl has taint tracking, right?

  11. Re:No need for him to lift a finger on RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Having access to internal mail and to old mail is already much better than not having access to mail at all.

  12. Re:So.. on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    The whole "butterfly flapping its wings" thing is starting to get annoying. The metaphor means that minor variations in starting conditions can lead to radical shifts in their solutions. The butterfly is not causing the storm any more than any other part of the inital condition of the Earth's weather is causing the storm.

  13. Re:How MMOs should be viewed on How Gamers View Their MMOs · · Score: 1

    They are the beginning of ForEx to those other worlds. Though with a much worse reputation than the average Money Changer...

  14. Re:WTF? Do you know what you're talking about? on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 1

    If you try really hard, you can hook into the exception handling system using C, because it is an artifact of the C++ runtime. Therefore there is no reason you cannot set up a catch-all exception handler in C for C++ exceptions. C standard libraries also provide top-level error management faculties, and the static errno constant is another way to propagate errors (which is not resilient to multiple errors occuring at once, but what can you do?) In Java, you can set up exception handlers on a Thread Group level, though doing that, if I remember correctly, will still result in the death of the thread in question, since control passed out of the Run() method.

  15. Re:doesn't sound too secure yet on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thanks to Microsoft's known influence to corrupt all the standard bodies the "(applet)" tag is now depreciated. ITs been depreciated since html 3 last century.

    Realize that the <object> tag is vastly superior to the <applet> tag in that it can be used for other things, like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, as well as new technologies yet to be developed. It is that Java was very slow (pre-JIT), loaded very slowly (pre-"New Bytecode Verifier") and was a pain to do anything good looking or active in - see Flash and Silverlight - added to the fact that Javascript was easier and faster to write and gave developers a platform nearly as robust that killed applets. The tag has nothing to do with it.

  16. Re:magnetic reversals are not periodic on This Is the Way the World Ends · · Score: 1

    The scaremongering that a reversal would lead to "the end of the world" or mass extinctions is equally puerile. Reversals of the geomagnetic field show no particular correlation with extinctions in the past.

    That said, we would still be in a world of trouble as we struggle to adjust our infrastructure for the change. Think navigation, and avionics.

  17. Re:It's about licensing fraud on UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    Not even that; the license in question gives those paying for it the *right* (which is all a license can give) to install these products on any machine that the license is paid for. Because the terms are set such that any machine the school owns that supports the software is included, the school must pay Microsoft for all those computers - in return they get access to an unlimited number of binaries and the right to install and run them on those computers. To offset the issue that the school might not want to run a Microsoft solution on all those machines, or might want to run only a subset of a Microsoft solution on any one of those machines, the price for the license is significantly lower than buying (up front) the same quantity of licenses. Note here, is that the same quantity would be a full Device CAL for each machine (for the servers), the Servers themselves (for each machine) and the client software for each machine. Microsoft *requires* this because they do not want to deal with the issues of sublicensing and trusting those buying licenses of their software from abusing the terms of their licenses. Historically, there has been a problem with piracy of the Microsoft platform, and they are dealing with it in one of the possible ways. Is this an ideal solution? Probably not. Would I argue against the statement that certain anti-competitive practices by Microsoft ecouraged aforementioned piracy? No. I wholeheartedly support the association warning the schools that the alternative should be considered. At the end of the day, I want the best education for my family, which means spending less resources for a particular solution. Merely because Linux is a "free" solution does not mean that fewer resources need to be spent to set up and administer the infrastructure. The schools decided to get a Microsoft solution - now it is up to them to determine which of the available terms that Microsoft offers is better for them.

  18. Re:No Firefox is not evil. on Microsoft "SiteFinder" Quietly Raking It In · · Score: 1
    Having tried several of the sites listed with different default searches (I use Google, Live, Wiki and eBay fairly often, though most commonly my default is Live). In all cases the http://www.lexus-financail.com/ site went to the:

    Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

    Most common causes:
    [...]
    Then again, I am running IE7 on Vista RC2, so this could change when I get a released OS.