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  1. Re:The issue is late-binding. on LGPL is Viral for Java · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Linking is a step done by the final user, who executes the program/applet.

  2. Misleading AKAImBatman on LGPL is Viral for Java · · Score: 1

    Paraphrasing:
    The #include <stdio.h> is a preprocessor directive ONLY. No actual linking is done by using it.
    No actual linking takes place until you run your program, when ld.so links it with libc.so. Bah.

  3. Re:The good (not legal) advice on Sexual Harassment for Consultants? · · Score: 1

    The Funny,+1 thing is that I was not trying to be funny... I had a similar problem when I teached in a private course and this hideous girl (which was my student) kept coming on me. So I showed up couple of days straight without brushing my teeth, ate some garlic-and-onion-strong food everyday, and gave her a sample up-close. Done deal.

  4. The good (not legal) advice on Sexual Harassment for Consultants? · · Score: 1

    Skip bathing a couple of weeks. Suspend brushing your teeth for the same period. Talk to her really close-up afterwards. Work done, next case.

  5. Re:Too late to fix a bug in legacy code? on Latest Proposals for C++0x · · Score: 1

    in gcc 3.3, it works, as the standard says it should. (I mean, ++++i);

  6. Machines in the bedroom on Thailand Imposes Gamers Curfew · · Score: 1

    Speaking as someone who *has* a kid, I don't mind if he has a machine in his bedroom. But hell would break loose if I tell him to shut it down at 10pm and he doesn't. It's my home, anyway. All I need is wait till he's deep asleep to get drunk.

  7. Re:Emperor's New Clothes test... on .Net:... 3 Years Later · · Score: 1

    I have yet to find a distro of linux that won't mess up on my IBM laptop after about 2 weeks of running
    You should have recognized this as a troll, 'cause when you get some linux distro running in any machine, it just keeps running fine afterwards. It's not like windows, that can bork unexpectedly.

  8. Re:Have you noticed... on FSF Statement on SCO vs. IBM · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but when I, personally defend RMS's views, I do so because I believe in many of the same things that he does (that proprietary software is a social problem, to cite the most radical example). And more, I try to avoid personal attacks to both sides of any argument. Everyone is entitled to its opinion; I have mine and (much like RMS) I like to defend my point of view. That said, I'm not obsessively fanatical about it, just firm. And I don't think RMS is, too.

  9. Actually, you're wrong. on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    The thread is about USian hardworkers being overtaxed. The subthread is about hardworking USian single parents being WAY overtaxed. In both cases, specially if you compare their taxing to that of wealthy (and possibly USian) people.

  10. Mod up, please! on A Replacement Term for 'Intellectual Property'? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Author's rights it is. (PS: it's the legal Brazilian term to copyrights: "Direito Autoral")

  11. But, you know, it DOES! on Why Are We on E-mail Blacklists? · · Score: 1

    If you do this (redirect port 25 to your mailserver) and use some kind of e-mail filter there (Razor, maybe, combined with Bayesian filter, or whatever makes your clock tick) rejecting what seems to be spam then... voila... nobody will spam from your netblock again and you are free from blacklists!!!
    Been there, done that. Some guy running a mailing list will call you saying all the list's email are being rejected, you adjust the filters and go for another cup of Brazilian coffee.

  12. Re:Linux no longer essential on RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    [AC] This comment is really irking me. I have absolutely NO desire to run *BSD or his bullshit OS
    This is irritating me, too, because the AC, if running Debian, slack, mandrake, redhat, gentoo, or any other distro IS running "his bullshit OS", just isn't running "his kernel."
    [psxndc] Don't let RMS get to you.
    Better yet, let him get to you, understand why he thinks what he thinks and does what he does, and mainly respect the right he has to express freely his opinions, because you, me and a lot of other people, we are benefitting from his work, too (GPL, gcc, etc etc etc), so we could at least show some respect.

  13. Re:Linux no longer essential on RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD · · Score: 1

    It's kind of 'simple'... port *BSD libc to linux, set up a chroot, make world, and voila ;-) that's the reverse of what Debian-(Net|Free)BSD folks did...

    Seriously, I'll stick with GNU, thanks.

  14. To my knowledge, on Industry Leaders Discuss Java Status Quo · · Score: 1

    Robust means "something that does not bork under wrong input, unexpected load or any reasonable condition", with many many nuances of what reasonable means.

  15. Luckily... on Speed of Gravity Experiment Challenged · · Score: 1

    Vulcans don't have a sense of humour, this one would make mass suicide the only logical thing to do in a galaxy that produces such kind of joke (the parent and the grandparent posts, I mean)

  16. Re:eh? on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    I tought it would be a counterexample, but it is not: where I do live, one litre of gasoline is R$ (Brazilian Real) 1,976 (yes, one real ninety-seven centavos [=cents] and six milavos [=tenths of cent]). And no, we don't have milavos coins. It saves me R$ 0,18 (about a US-nickel for the USians around here, but I won't convert from the UI units, nor use the decimal point instead of the comma:) each time I fill the 45,5 litre tank of my car, as compared to what R$ 1,98 per litre would cost.

  17. An offtopic answer to you on (When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop? · · Score: 1

    My personal case is: I work as a developer in the State House, and my wife is a district attorney. I have the following work and personal friends/acquaintances demographics:

    200 Computer Science people
    20 IT-management people
    20 programmers
    10 engineers (not software engineers)
    50 journalists
    20 lawyers
    30 district attorneys
    30 law clerks and paralegals
    30 other

    Of all those, I know for sure 5 know what /. is; only one reads it eventually. I read it everyday and post eventually. I would not be fooled into suspect this is the most popular site around (altough it is the coolest).

    On the other side, of all those mentioned, only one is a Mac user; some 20 use Solaris workstations at work; some 5 use Linux servers at work; I am the only one I know (last time I checked) that uses Linux in my personal workstation at home (no dual-boot) and at work.

    Hope I added some useful, on-topic information.

  18. Wrong on Special Ops · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Arathorn is the father of Aragorn

  19. Red Escolar (School Network) on Stories of Open Source Failures? · · Score: 1

    It seems that this school-network-linux initiative in Mexico failed.

  20. ooops... on Mono & SourceGear Move Forward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not "as part of the GPL", but GPL-licensed. Microsoft can buy it (the copyright from every Mono copyright owner), pull it from public view, and you and I -- well, we can still fork it! From the source that I checked out from cvs just few seconds before the transaction. He.

  21. wrong. on Investigating Angular Velocity · · Score: 1

    The phrase he's looking for might be LESS ductile.

  22. Re:Huh? Just in case you wanna know... on A Blog With Unlimited Bandwidth (Beta 1.2) · · Score: 1

    p2p upside down is d5d, not babylon V babies.

  23. WINE on Orbiter Sim Gets You Spaced · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does it run under WINE or can it be compiled under WINElib?

  24. harakiri on Latest SCO News · · Score: 0

    harakiri or, more apropriately, sepukku is the Japanese word for the ritual suicide of a warrior (samurai) that finds itself dishonored.

  25. Re:Radio-TiVo? on 1.5GB HDs On a 1" Platter · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a matter of fact silence (or just ambient constant noise) takes up ZERO space, with decent digital encoding.