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  1. Re:Idiocy on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tell it to Apache, Navajo, Sioux and the rest... This is just too good - the society of immigrants complaining of... immigrants. :D Yes! Deport them all!!! :D

  2. Re:Does it matter which data you send first? on Phony TCP Retransmissions Can Hide Secret Messages · · Score: 1

    Not even that - you would have to have it on the receiving system, as the packet can get corrupted in the very last hop - especially if it was fragmented. As to - if it matters which data is sent first - IMO encrypted should go anytime but last. So - one can imagine sending some data + NACK + encrypted data + NACK + some data + ACK.

  3. Re:Much more than you think leaves Word & Co. on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 1

    As a developer I have it completely reversed - tech writers want me to give them documents in Word. What is more, they've found some funny rules to name those word docs, because no real version control exists for this format. The result being - everyone is running like hell from writing this. And additional 'advantage' - as my company switches from one client to another, we have to shuffle with word versions, as one client can't switch, because "...", and the other has switched and thus needs a new version... 'Sleek' ;).

  4. Re:correlation is not causation, but... on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 1

    "\frac{4}{5}" is exactly what I wouldn't like to have.

    Is exactly what I would like to have, of course.

  5. Re:correlation is not causation, but... on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 1

    I really don't see how this is more horrible than "\frac{4}{5}". In fact, it's fewer keystrokes.

    "\frac{4}{5}" is exactly what I wouldn't like to have. "4/5" is not - because I do not know what will become of it. Simple example: I do know exactly what will become of "\frac{4}{\frac{10}{2}}", but not what will become of "4/10/2".

    It's as simple as this: I want to type what I mean, and I want what I see on the screen to reflect what I mean.

    You're contradicting yourself! You type "\frac{4}{5}" and expect NOT to see what you just typed on the screen, right?

    Well... did you really understand the line you replied to? Hint: reflect is the word you are looking for...

  6. Re:correlation is not causation, but... on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 1

    Why stopping at a simple 4/5. Go ahead, do this:
    \begin{equation}
    \| \mathbf{A}\|_p = \sup_{\mathbf{x} \ne 0} \frac{\| \mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}\|_p} {\| \mathbf{x}\|_p}.
    \end{equation}

  7. Re:And what about five years from now? on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 1

    Well, I do still remember Word97 crashing after being fed with Word 6.0 documents. I had to export to RTF first to be able to open them... So - have you checked you can really open them, or are you guessing? And have you read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810

  8. Re:TeX vs. Office on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 1

    Can I merge? Automatically? With all the rest of my C, Java, ... sources? Or do I have to take two files, open them in Word, merge by hand, save the new version? Well, it is certainly better than to print and compare, but not much...
    Does it have commit comments?
    You call it "version control system" - can I keep my other sources in it? Compilable? If not, then it is not a VCS, just a marketoid hype.