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  1. Re:so wait... You're telling me that all I have to on Don't Sever A High-Tech Lifeline for Musicians · · Score: 1

    Not sure whether to laugh or cry, but I sure feel icky having you within 200 of my UserID.

    Anything else I have to say will break Godwin's Law and about 4000 corollaries, so I'll shut up now.

  2. Re:Discovering on Don't Sever A High-Tech Lifeline for Musicians · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it's exactly what you meant, but Yes was great to OD on, and Pink Floyd went hand in hand with grass. I wanna see a study of how the great bands of the 70's are "discovered" at the same time in a person's life that drugs are "discovered".

    "Sharp...distance... How can the wind with it's arms all around you"

    Thanks for the memories, but I hope I didn't get your niece in trouble :)

  3. Re:If they catch the guy... on When Will The Next Slammer Strike? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh dear, I must....

    In the Slammer, Bubba will set his ar-Sapphire.

  4. Misread PDF title... on How to be a Programmer · · Score: 1

    First look read as:
    "How to be a Short, Comprehensive and Personal Programmer"

    But I already am.

  5. From the article... on Potato Bazookas · · Score: 1

    "An apple fired from one of the guns (near Berlin) almost took out the eye of a middle-aged man near the Baltic coast."

  6. Re:TCO on Slammer Worm Slams Microsofts Own · · Score: 1

    yeah. suppose I'm going to get a serious answer to a flippant comment :) But anyways:

    External costs (e.g. indemnity insurance, legal costs, etc.) are passed on to the consumer. I suppose TCO should include office christmas parties, marketing junkets, advertising, staff, legal costs, intellectual property portfolio costs (but I repeat myself :)

  7. Re:Here's some REALLY immortal code on Immortal Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    ^Z
    bg

    move along. nothing to see here...

  8. Re:Might actually help on [H|Cr]acker Insurance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Excellent point. Home contents insurance is a good example of this. Minimum requirements in Australia are proper locks on doors and windows (hint, hint, MS). They expect you to deter the basic burglar attacks by doing things that you might not if you didn't care about insurance. You also get a discount with some brokers if you have an alarm system installed. This analogy applies well to networks.

  9. Re:Java on Mono - 'Breaking Down the .Net Barriers' · · Score: 2, Informative

    No problems. A great new Aussie developer (old-skool, with code and great articles) mag has started coming out. Australian Developer, Issue 2, page 17 in an article about web services, where Mark Driver (Gartner) was discussing the fight for platform domination between Sun and Microsoft.

    The actual quote was:
    "Java will sacrifice productivity for flexibility and .NET flexibility for productivity"

    Cheers.

  10. TCO on Slammer Worm Slams Microsofts Own · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does the cost of lost GLOBAL productivity (lost internet access in the workplace) and lost commerce (the ATMs going down) of this shizzah get get added to the total cost of ownership of MS products?

  11. Re:Big Surprise? on Slammer Worm Slams Microsofts Own · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the parent wasn't modded insightful, I'd call it a troll :)

    Anyway, I think most people who work with MS patches know they are a trade off between patching the latest holes and breaking something/everything. The only way you can ensure a fully functional application running on an MS OS/DB/web/ActiveX etc. is to baseline the production environment after the application is released. For their activation interface, that would mean not wanting to take the risk of patching once the product is released. That's the price of uptime. Hope they get it now. I bet the admins weren't allowed to patch.

  12. Re:Java on Mono - 'Breaking Down the .Net Barriers' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Read a good quote:
    "J2EE is flexibility at the price of productivity. dotNet is productivity at the price of flexibility."

    Nuff said.

  13. Re:DAMN! on Australia May Adopt DMCA-Style Copyright Regime · · Score: 1

    Agh, tell me if you guys have Vic Bitter (DB sucks the big one). If so, then I'll go there when I get a fat VPN to my workplace in Australia. Sorry, don't wanna give up the salary.

    Cheers, sheepfuX0Rs!

  14. Re:I still don't get it. on Segway Banned In San Francisco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, you got it all right. Years ago, when they were spouting, "Cities will be redesigned around this invention!" we thought that it would be so great, that the cost of redesigning a city was well worth it. What they actually meant, was that it has no place in today's cities. Doh!

  15. Re:Growing access. on Dave Hughes' Campaign To Connect 6 Billion Brains · · Score: 1

    Using a microprocessor as a hoe would be cheaper than picking one up off the street, but I bet it would hurt. If you had just taken it out of your computer, it would burn, too.

  16. oblig: SR on David Brin On LOTR · · Score: 1

    In soviet russia, darrens switch movies

  17. Switching Darrens on David Brin On LOTR · · Score: 1

    I never got over them switching Darrens in Bewitched. Tell me it's not true!

  18. Re:Business plan on Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses? · · Score: 1

    I think you came in a little late on this one buddy. But SP does rule.

  19. Re:built to last on 50 Year Old Computer Still Going · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not about quality. This baby had to have tons of valves replaced constantly just to keep it running. And that was when it was NEW!

  20. IN SOVIET RUSSIA,,, on Adobe Finds No Elcomsoft-Cracked E-Books · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People are taken away from freedoms

  21. Re:Good Science Fiction on What Makes Great Science Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Be my guest, if there's room :)

  22. Re:Good Science Fiction on What Makes Great Science Fiction? · · Score: 1

    1*111*2*3=666
    2*666+2+3=1337
    2*666+1337-69=2600

    Um, in the last line are you saying that if are too evil and elite and you can't get a blow job while eating out a chick that you are a hacker?

  23. Re:Refactoring may very well be a waste of time on Interview With Martin Fowler · · Score: 1

    Code review combined with refactoring is, however, a great way to improve code in your project that was written by outside contractors, or programmers with less ability.

  24. Re:Killing the internet on Danish Anti-Piracy Organization Bills P2P Users · · Score: 1

    Without being a killjoy, 200GB of bandwidth could send most struggling companies broke.

  25. Re:Advocacy howto on Microsoft Responds to Leaked Memo · · Score: 1

    mmm. must remember to put tags around these postings. If you don't get it, look at section 6 and see if I missed any of it.