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  1. Re:The French are in Full Retreat on French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. And the UK isn't part of the Schengen Agreement.

    Meh. The EU abolished the need for a *passport*, if you have a valid ID. Schengen abolished the checks at the borders between those countries: if you're welcome in France, you're assumed to be welcome in Belgium, Germany, Austria and Hungary too.

    And please don't cite me Wikipedia, I just did that trip.

    Not to UK, that isn't into Schengen

  2. Smalltalk on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    What about Smalltalk.. am I left "faithless"??

  3. Re:Damnit!!! on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    ... and mercenaries

  4. Re:from TFA on Saudi Arabia Begins To Realize Supercomputer Ambitions · · Score: 1

    You can start by googling Elbrus or BESM and see that russians had real shitty hw but the knowhow was there http://mailcom.com/besm6/index_ru.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_(computer)

  5. Re:fantastic on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only within the Continental U.S., Hawaii and some U.S. territories. Let Google go offshore somewhere and set up a test facility. I doubt Mexico would care very much (probably just grease a few palms.)

    I'm not Mexican but work here. It would be equally easy to grease the correct hands in gringoland so don't think you are in the land of perfect innocence!

  6. Re:yay! on Clean Code · · Score: 1

    It was a network proxy involving PKI-related messages embedded in LDAP, all based on ASN.1

    a PKI based SSO solution? Maybe the architecture was as clear as the code that was badly documented. Certainly didn't need speed requirements as handling 3G GPRS that is easily done in Erlang (interpreted) in Ericsson SGSNs

  7. Re:Too many morons in IT. on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1
    Not onliny in IT but also Telecom/Mobile industry

    [snip]

    sprintf(cmdbuf, "/usr/bash /bin/sed -e \"s/%s//\" > /tmp/filename", inputbuffer); system(cmdbuf); fp = fopen("/tmp/filename", "r"); ...

    WONDERFUL Must be the Technical architect of the project I'm on. GPRS Core, he asked me what GTP was and a couple of days he was proposing to subnet VLANs

  8. Re:Perjury and impeachment? on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    You think so? Gringos are more afraid of blowjobs that loosing their freedom and believe all the crap about terrorists set up to hide so many private interests

  9. Re:How many failures before.. on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    When I said there were companies who could provide excellent Linux support, he said his ass was on the line if something broke so he wanted to be able to justify his software choice to the the C-level guys. And those guys knew the name Microsoft. So he didn't see anything else as an option.

    In other words, he used the "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" defense.

    But maybe a Z/OS based system wouldn't have had 7 hours down time..

  10. Re:This makes me sick... on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 1

    Google for Blackwater then tell me that the Bush & friends were fighting terrorism... also Goggle for Erik Prince

  11. Re:Wrong Question on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    Yup, I'll second this. Parallel programming is going to be a HUGE deal in coming years, and current languages don't handle it well - threading is complicated and prone to errors, leading to product delays. Erlang handles parallelism very elegantly and in a low-fault manner, as it must as it's used in critical telecoms applications. Unfortunately, the language also has a high barrier to entry as it is not Algol-based (like C, C++, Java, etc. are). And verrrry error prone to parameter mismatch, sloppy code, quick&dirty coding. A sort of modern age APL. When I started working with Erlang it seemed like a great thing especially parallelism , distributed Erlang etc but reality in a telecom application is certainly sadder.
  12. Re:Verilog on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1


    Erlang you say? Please elaborate. I daily work on a commercial product that is deeply based on Erlang and would only suggest it to some enemy. Smalltalk is wonderfully, too early in time. Maybe ADA but never did real work with it.

    But please no Erlang

  13. Re:No questions on Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must be joking! How can a transmission method (Edge or 3G) make pages look better???

  14. Re:No questions on Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV · · Score: 1

    Could it be that ATT doesn't have such a good 3G coverage casue it wants to get every cent of the EDGE investement.
    Certainly it is not a battery issue

  15. Re:Crazy? on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Yep, thinkl of those second generation arabs in UK that want to apply sharia (spelling) while on UK territory. How on earth can you possibly think to impose your rules to the country that is givving you hospitality. Don't like local rules, then go back to your homeland

  16. Re:No real drive on How Feds are Dropping the Ball on IPv6 · · Score: 1

    In addition my understanding is that you can no longer get 'your own range' but will depend on your ISP habding out sa lice of addresses, thus giving certainly less freedom than having your on class B to force onto the ISP

  17. Re:France... on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    Just a doubt... everybody is touting user readability of XML compared to for example BER, so whu isn't this applied to PDF? At least with PostScript I could edit almost any document even with vi

  18. Re:Tracking? on Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI? · · Score: 1

    IMEI is not set to the core network, what you are thinking is the IMSI. The IMEI is used to track stolen devices, feature is optional and the operator need to have an EIR (db of stolen devices). Maybe IMEA + some other info helps track exactly hacked phones and in some way act on them (bricking??)

    Nonetheless, this certainly enables tracking quite reliably user activities.

    Would add a good reason not to buy the device.

  19. Re:So ... on Apple's "Time Machine" Now For Linux... Sort Of · · Score: 1

    Like TimeMachine, can this restore multiple versions of the same file? Did you use ZFS? Or is this just a GUI front end for a simple rsync backup? VMS was doing versioning ages ago... but the GUI does the trick apparently
  20. Re:I don't get it on EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected · · Score: 1

    I think I get it. This Franco Frattini jerk is trying to show he does some work to earn his salary. well, he is also of Berlusconi's party and apparently wants to gain some glory after the woman killed in Roma by an immigrant from Romania.

  21. Re:It is retaliation... on EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the gringo super database project shutdown?