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  1. Re:Fat Chance on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    Apple already HAS pulled the app, assuming that the product in question was Gnu Go "by" Robota Softwarehouse.

  2. Television?!? on Comcast Disables VCR Scheduling In New Guide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who cares about the VCR's. People still watch television without downloading it?

  3. Geekdom has sold out! on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 1

    Yes, Geekdom has sold out.

  4. Re:how would you prove on Tracking Stolen Gadgets — Manufacturers' New Dilemma · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish I had mod points, because this is exactly the issue. Let's say someone puts their Kindle up on eBay, and then after it sells calls Amazon and says that the device got stolen. How is Amazon supposed to know whether the device whether the device was stolen or not? Even worse, what happens if Amazon believes someone claiming to own your device and bricks it, where does that put them? It's entirely reasonable that Amazon won't do anything without a direct request from the cops (or presumably a court order).

  5. Don't forget to pay your subcontractors on For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So the moral of the story is to pay your subcontractors, right?

  6. Re:Link omitted on Company Announces $30,000 Prize For Solving iPhone Game · · Score: 1

    What do Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont have in common for laws that they can't run their promotion there? Are they the only states which still prohibit lotteries?

  7. Version 1.? on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    If it will make you happy and make your boss happy, why not declare whatever development version you have RIGHT NOW to be 1.0 and start incrementing from there? Then you can be just like the games which ship with patch 1.02.

  8. So appearantly articles writers don't read TFA... on Apple Clients Still Vulnerable After DNS Patch · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The advisory was issued against BIND.

    Putting bad cache entries in a DNS server is bad for lots of people.

    Apple fixed BIND (if a bit tardy).

    End of story.

    If you are in the position to spoof DNS responses, you don't have to wait for the SECOND request to feeding bad results, so whether or not the client ports are predictable isn't important. But there's no way you can make the client start asking your server for DNS results, and that's the known part of the vulnerability: Injecting foreign servers into the DNS system and giving them responsibility for things they shouldn't have.

  9. Re:The problem with natural language searches... on The Future of Google Search and Natural Language Queries · · Score: 1
    Your point is slightly incorrect, and you have technical errors as well.

    First, there could in fact be a universal human grammar which supports both SOV, OSV and various other languages. The existence of variety in language grammar and semantics does not eliminate this possibility, rather it simply excludes very simple solutions.

    Second, Japanese has pronouns used according to the spatial or degree of familiarity between the topic, the speaker and the listener (the a/so/ko word group). However, they'd only be ambiguous in the same contexts that 'that' would be ambiguious in English. "I want to find out more about that".

    • kotira wa pen desu
    • sotira wa pen desu
    • asotira wa pen desu
    conveys slightly different information than 'this is a pen' or 'that is a pen'. Translating from English to Japanese and having to work out what the relationship is to get correct word choice means that English is more ambiguous than Japanese in that context.

    Isolating Japanese language samples out of the sample's context becomes ambiguous because redundant information is omitted. Japanese can do this because the redundant information is not required as a structural element of the sentence, unlike languages such as English. So, a Japanese natural language processor simply has to process slightly more context, but it is by no means special in this manner.

  10. Unstated Conflict of Interest on World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit · · Score: 1

    The blog featured in the article has a conflict of interest. Lavishsoft sells software products for multi-boxing, so it's just on the ethical side of botting. But, that blog does contain the article http://onwarden.blogspot.com/2007/08/heuristics-and-your-one-unbanned.html But not quite a company selling botting software. --Krelnor P.S. It's not a root kit, for god's sake. At worst, it would be a trojan included in WoW.