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  1. "guaranteed"? on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 1
    The message is, if you want guaranteed stability, use Debian stable.

    Funny, the message of the day says just the opposite of what you say the message is:

    Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

    If you want guaranteed stability with Debian, this is probably your best realistic option.

  2. Re:The Full Article? on The World of Virus Writers · · Score: 1

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  3. Re:I'm Spartacus on Seth Schoen Reveals Himself Author of DeCSS Haiku · · Score: 2, Informative

    He's Chief Technologist at the EFF. Bring the pain.

  4. Re:the real reason it was there on Review: Matrix: Reloaded · · Score: 1

    Of course they were all hot. They were bred that way. The Architect gave the previous Neos the chance to choose 16 women and 7 men to start the new society. Go through 6 generations of breeding the top 16 hottest chicks in the species ... you do the math.

  5. debian-user on Looking for Linux Help When You've Lost Your Way? · · Score: 1

    debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Works every time. Not running Debian? Well, you should be. ;-)

  6. Mozilla on Programs for Filling In Web Forms? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mozilla has a form manager which remembers data that you've entered in forms previously and fills in predicted data for forms you've never filled before. It does that by remembering the personal data you fill in the form manager (e.g. "last name", "phone", etc.) and looking at field names in new forms. It also supports optionally encrypting the saved data, and/or autofilling forms (or only filling them when you select "fill in this form" from a menu). It's a good way to go.

    IE has some form data-remembering feature as well, but I don't trust MS with the data much further than I do gator.

  7. Re:Developers on Who Will Benefit From Hyper-Threading? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Neither SMP nor hyperthreading are prerequisites to writing multi-threaded programs. They run just fine on single-cpu machines, so long as the thread library and the OS' scheduler do a decent job. It's nice when you can run multiple threads concurrently on multiple CPUs, or with hyperthreading, but it's a stretch to say "now we can finally start writing multithreaded programs."

  8. harder every year on Taking a Year Off Before College? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The general trend is that the admissions process gets harder each year. Thus waiting a year will make it (at least slightly) harder to get into the school(s) of your choice. You might want to investigate applying to schools and deferring admission rather than simply applying next year. Remember, though, that deferred admissions can be rescinded, so there are still no guarantees.

    Also, removing yourself from academia puts you at risk for never returning. It's always harder to return to school than to continue at it. If you decide to take a year off, have a definite plan for your return, and make as many arrangements as possible as soon as you can to ensure that you stay on track. I think that taking a year off can be valuable, but you must consider the risk of never returning, whose cost is, IMHO, very great.

  9. Re:the word on Peer-To-Peer Encrypted E-mail · · Score: 1
    is in fact effect.

    To affect the transfer would be to influence it, whereas the author correctly uses "effect the transfer" to mean "actualize," or "cause to occur."