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  1. Re:OOP on Re-Tooling Your Skills for the Future? · · Score: 2

    And even writinh [sic] OO code is often harder, especially when you're faced with decissions like ``should this member be publicly accessible?''

    That one's easy. The answer is always "No".

  2. Re:From now on, we'll all travel in TUBES! on Pipeline Mass Transit? · · Score: 2

    You're in Chicago? There are car co-ops springing up around the city. One in Logan Square and one in Hyde Park that I know of.

  3. Re:The system won't change on Mathematicians: Elections Flawed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am aware that the word "socialist" is part of the acronym "NSDAP" - put please don't be bamboozled into believing that that is what they actually were.

    That's probably similar to the trend that, any country that puts "Democratic" into its name, likeley isn't. For reference, the old German Democratic Republic.

  4. Re:I used to write betting software on Computerized Betting System Proves Vulnerable · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recall seeing a story about a programmer who reversed engineered the pseudo-random number generator used in Keno games. The impression I got was that it was a clean-room solution, and yet he was arrested for fraud anyway. Needless to say, I disagreed with the notion that his act was illegal (assuming it was clean room).

  5. Backwards on Another J2EE vs .NET Performance Comparison · · Score: 1

    You got those numbers backwards.

    .NET: 2,096
    J2EE: 14,004

    It's not surprising that the more recently language takes fewer lines of code, given that it has had the time to look at Java and some of its structural shortcomings in terms of verbosity.

  6. Re:not exactly tailless! on Boeing Bird of Prey Stealth Fighter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashcodedoesthissoyoucan'tdopagewideningpostsbyno tputtinganyspacesinyourposting.

  7. Nice troll on Creating Applications with Mozilla · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good work, chum.

  8. Re:Perfect People To Tell... on Rosen, Valenti Warn Colleges About P2P · · Score: 1

    ...and who cares if they get it wrong every now and then....

  9. Re:Eclipse? Feh! on Tuning Java Swing apps for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Interesting

    eclipse took me a small amount of time to get used to, but to me, its the best Java IDE on the market. Of course, the availability of refactoring is the bar to clear to even enter the competition, so that limits things a bit. JBuilder blows goats in comparison. My recommendation would be to create your own project in eclipse and start using it, rather than using sample apps.

    To be fair, I haven't tried eclipse for Mac OS X, but all new builds of the 2.1 series are being created for Mac OS X as well, including the stable Milestone 1.

    Is it the same as what Microsoft did? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure you had to use MS's JVM to run Microsoft "Java". SWT will work with any JVM, provided the appropriate native libraries are installed. I am a little disheartened by the limited number of alternate platforms available, but more keep coming. Give it time.

  10. Re:If you want to make money, patent it on What Would You Do With a New Form of Encryption? · · Score: 1

    You really don't know what you're talking about. Neither do I, but that's beside the point.

    OTP data needs to be random. You can't compress truly random data, so you'd have to send the whole message. If you're encrypting that with your OTP, you're sending, say, 2000 characters: 1000 of your message, 1000 for the next OTP. Of course, for the next OTP, you only have 1000 characters in which to send your message and next pad. Obviously, your pad size and message are going to keep getting shorter.

  11. Re:SWT? on Tuning Java Swing apps for Mac OS X · · Score: 5, Informative
  12. SWT? on Tuning Java Swing apps for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about SWT, as used in eclipse?

  13. Re:Not bad... on Tuning Java Swing apps for Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean the different Swing look-and-feels? Already done.

  14. To the moderators of this thread: on New Trailer For The Two Towers · · Score: 1

    Fucking sheep.

  15. Clint Mansell on New Trailer For The Two Towers · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Clint Mansell, by the way, is a goddamn genius.

  16. Re:Bombardier Beetle on Ready, Steady, Evolve · · Score: 1

    An infinite number of monkeys would produce all the works of Shakespeare instantaneously. Its a finite number that you have to wait a bit for.

    I think you have the problem with the infinite that other people have with very large numbers =).

  17. Re:It's called Punctuated Equilibirum... on Ready, Steady, Evolve · · Score: 1

    People also forget that PunkEek still occurs on geologic timescales, which are on the order of tens to hundreds of thousands of years (at best). Even for large, long-lived animals, that's a lot of generations over which those features develop.

  18. Arg. on Why Does Software Cost So Much? · · Score: 1
    Correct that to: -1 for anyone who can't infer that the book is primarily talking about bespoke software, not retail commercial software.

    I suck at life today.

  19. Moderation hints on Why Does Software Cost So Much? · · Score: 1, Troll

    -1 for anyone who can't infer that the book is not primarily talking about bespoke software, not commercial software.

  20. Re:An XML module that has surely been missed... on Professional PHP4 XML · · Score: 1

    Its a shame they chose "server.ip" rather than the more XPath-like syntax of "server/ip".

  21. Re:virtual meat grinder on NASA's 'Virtual Glovebox' · · Score: 1

    A virtual meat grinder would have helped this guy out a lot.

  22. Or... on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Programmer: Firing you.

  23. Re:One simple little function... on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    The only thing pointers are useful for is implementing whatever programming language i'll actually be using.

  24. Re:Just an Ad on Watercooling Made Easy · · Score: 1

    You misspelled "timothy".

  25. Translation...... on Game Engine Marketing Models Compared · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to license the Quake III engine because it rocks, but I'm too much of a cheap bastard to do so. Maybe if I post that on /. id will magically change their economic model for me.