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  1. Re:Comparisons like this don't mean squat... on Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 2

    There's a lot less holding me back from Linux than before (I'm pretty much down to SC2 and VS 2010 for the major apps), so I'll probably switch within next year. But what I _don't_ want to do is to dual-boot. I switch tasks frequently, and rebooting frequently is a pain.

  2. Re:Did Google do enough? on Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users · · Score: 1

    Just open up his Google account and go through his email attachments, you'll eventually look at him.

  3. Re:Did Google do enough? on Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users · · Score: 1

    What do you want them to do, hang him high?

    You can't prevent access to the info without stopping them from doing their jobs. All you can do is severely limit the access, and strike whenever someone abuses the right.

  4. Re:Waste on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and you're still too poor to afford a private jet.

    Congratulations, you're a tool.

  5. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    That's understandable, but it's very different than claiming that .NET is broken. I've also seen .NET bugs being fixed rather quickly - it really depends. By his definition, all software is broken because it has bugs. This isn't much different than a bug in the JDK, Ogre3D, XNA, libc or whatever.

  6. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Did that even have to do with a .NET bug? They moved away from the MS stack, not .NET particularly IIRC.

  7. Re:Names on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 0, Redundant

    GNU SHALL NOT PASS.

  8. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You submit bug reports and they fix them. Java has bugs too, C++'s stdlib has bugs too.

  9. Re:Names on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    What are GNU talking about?

  10. Re:"Safe" on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 3, Informative

    They don't like .NET yet they keep pumping versions after versions of the .NET Framework, C# and Silverlight. Citation needed? I'm not understanding you well.

  11. Re:You failed to consider: this person is clueless on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to call him a liar when he truthfully admitted to doing extremely stupid shit with his password. I don't try and invent facts, I go with what's there.

  12. Re:uhhh on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they can access the router when administrative access is disabled, what makes you think they cannot bypass the password system anyway?

  13. Re:Why didn't they fix it? on BSOD Issues On Deepwater Horizon · · Score: 2, Funny

    On that note, I really gotta check up with newegg.ca on my brand new Pentium III. I should've paid for fast shipping =(

  14. Re:Incredibly useful human group dynamics experien on World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career · · Score: 1

    Don't talk about gaming in interviews.

    About half of the people I work with have heard or have played Starcraft, and are interested in Starcraft II. Quasi-same thing for WoW. If they laugh at me because I bring it up when they ask about my hobbies, they're fucking idiots, because they're also laughing at themselves. Maybe the guy who hired you was an uppity get-off-my-lawn moron, but the bosses I've had weren't.

    You stick it in your hobbies, not as one of your skills or as past work experience, obviously.

  15. No way on Is Open Source SNORT Dead? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Netcraft hasn't confirmed it yet.

  16. Re:Can you be more precise ? on Good Database Design Books? · · Score: 1

    My favorite is seeing something like "select * from MY_TABLE where KEY_VAL=2". This is a trap when it's embedded in your code or your SQL. The asterisk will always return all data columns in schema order. If you try to rearrange the order of columns in your schema (perhaps your modeling method or modeling tool encourages keeping primary key fields in sequential order, and you add a new key field, for example) you will break any code or stored procedures that use the "select *" query.

    What the fuck?

  17. Re:I give it a month on Online Poll-Based Party Seeks Election Win · · Score: 1

    Hopefully only a few days so we can get rid of that silly Australia name.

  18. Re:I'd just like to interject. on MeeGo, Zero To VT320 In Seventeen Seconds · · Score: 1

    I like to call GNU/Linux by its proper name as well: Linux.

  19. Re:Reliability? on SSDs vs. Hard Drives In Value Comparison · · Score: 1

    I have a SSD that lasted more than 6 months. Now you're aware of one!

  20. Re:Right and wrong on Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers · · Score: 1

    What vendor lock-in? It's visual studio, and you're still working with source code. Switch over if you find out it doesn't do what you want it to do. He likes VS anyway.

  21. Re:Java is already dead for new development. on Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles · · Score: 1

    I'm faced with the problem of updating firewall rules on an ASA. So I fire up ASDM to do so. And it fails, because its been a couple of weeks since I did it last,

    Honestly, I've heard horror stories about SDM. It's the only Java app that I've heard about that behaves like this (Don't take me wrong, I understand one of the parents' argument about Java web apps, but I don't use them a whole lot), so I believe you on that.

    I've always used the command-line to configure Cisco devices for that particular reason.

  22. Re:Java is already dead for new development. on Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles · · Score: 1

    But the reality is that with DEBs and a repository, RPMs, and a repository, or MSIs and a SMS or Zenworks server, things Just Work(TM).

    They don't at all. Your admin may update the app faster than the other company's admin. MSIs don't make things happen the same everywhere, neither do repos. The action of updating isn't guaranteed to happen *everywhere at once* just because you really really want it to.

  23. Re:Java is already dead for new development. on Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles · · Score: 1

    His point is that you still have to perform apt-get upgrade eventually. Or your admin does. Or a cronjob does. Something does. On the web app site, users load the page and they get the updated version. They don't even have a choice of going back to the previous version. There's no management of upgrades because there are no upgrades. Everything is just accessed from a central location with a web app.

  24. Re:Back to the original subject... on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    Ahahahahahahahaa WHAT? ahahaha. Wow man. Wow.

  25. Re:I must be the only one on Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images · · Score: 1

    I just add it to my personal settings.