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  1. I am not a lawyer on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Due diligence?

    Patent enforcement is the job of the patent holder. You do not need to do "due diligence" unless you are basing your design on someone else's patented product. Or you are attempting to publish your own patent.

  2. Re:Conflation on Wilco on P2P, Digital Music and the Internet · · Score: 1

    I was agreeing. Boy bands would be maligned for being effeminate and homosexual, not for being gigolos.

  3. Re:Getters/setters bad? on Holub on Patterns · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's what he's talking about.

    He's saying that if you need to access data in an object, you have probably failed to properly design your objects. He's saying that you should minimize any data access and any data sharing between objects. If some object has information that you need in order to do something, tell the object to do it for you.

    Thus, if you feel the need for getters and setters, you've made a mistake elsewhere.

    Whether or not that's always good advice I'll leave to someone who is a better programmer than me. I'm best at VBA coding in MS Access. So maybe I should just sit down.

  4. Re:One quote is ominous, unfortunately on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1

    But we don't know that he has actinomycosis. Apparently sulfur lung granules may be caused by a few different types of disease.

    I'd say the most disheartening part of his case is the symptoms. Whatever it is, it isn't great.

  5. Re:Conflation on Wilco on P2P, Digital Music and the Internet · · Score: 1

    Seriously, though.

  6. Re:Conflation on Wilco on P2P, Digital Music and the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's a pity you think that's misogyny. You do women a disservice.

    Not really.

    Grandparent is saying that specific people are just selling their bodies, rather than selling music.

    No, he said they were just interested in entertainment rather than music. You've interpreted it that way, but that's not necessarily what he was saying.

    I simply think that he's factually incorrect: If these idiot performers were never famous, I do not think that they'd be doing lapdances instead. I think that there would be... many other likely paths for their lives to take. I think the only reason he could leap to this conclusion is because they are women and their popularity is largely based on sexual attractiveness, and for some reason that indicates that they are bad people.

    I've been wrong before.

    The fact that they're women isn't particularly relevant... imagine the same post rewritten around a boy band or some latin music stud. The post would then talk about how they'd be working as gigolos or some such. It would remain essentially intact.

    I think this is incorrect too. The same post would not be written about a boy band and talk about how they'd be working as gigolos. It could be, but would not.

  7. Re:Article's on fark.com too on Wilco on P2P, Digital Music and the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since they only care about entertaining and not making music, they'd probably be just another coked-out stripper on the LA Strip, telling you how they're going to make it big and be somebody between lapdances and serving you a $10 cocktail.

    Damn. I was worried you weren't going to be able to work any misogyny into that post.

    Saved it at the end. Close one.

  8. Re:First Heinlein Reference on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    The end of a single tyranny is a tail event. However, so is the end of a freedom. The goal is to have the greatest freedom for the greatest period of time. The amount of time matters.

  9. Re:I know wikipedia is hip and all on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1

    Er, disregard judgmental comment please. He says he's been using the antibiotics properly. I'm sorry.

    Much luck getting to your specialist.

  10. Re:I know wikipedia is hip and all on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1
    It sounds like he has identified sulfur lung granules, but according to this article they are not only indicative of Actinomycosis. And "sulfur lung granules" are not actually granules of sulfur, they just have sulfur in them.
    In tissues, Actinomyces grow in microscopic or macroscopic clusters of tangled filaments surrounded by neutrophils. When visible, these clusters are pale yellow and exude through sinus tracts; they are called sulfur granules. This is not an exclusive finding of actinomycosis, and its absence does not rule out the diagnosis. Other conditions, such as eumycetoma and nocardiosis, have been linked to the production of sulfur granules.
    Sounds like they might be made of the same stuff as tonsil stones (what you are describing), only smaller, in greater quantity, and originating from the sites of infection rather than the tonsils.

    And no, none of us are doctors. He needs to stop self medicating with antibiotics (which it sounds like he's doing a lot, and badly), and get to a specialist who can properly identify his disease and prescribe a cure. If he's lucky, the popping in his head was his sinus clearing. Either way, he might succeed at killing himself if he continues to mistreat himself so ignorantly.
  11. Re:I know wikipedia is hip and all on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 5, Informative

    As per the dude's post, googling for sulfur lung granules works fine.

    The first hit is fine.

  12. Re:Get Help Now, Maybe? on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1
    Yeah.
    "I have an appointment on Friday."
    Jesus. Hope he makes it.
  13. Re:First Heinlein Reference on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    And in the end, no empire that wields the sort of oppresive power you are talking about can last, it WILL fall. History has shown it.

    How soon? I don't think that history has exactly shown us that justice prevails.

  14. Re:Buy your Senator a TiVo on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    It will be called "Failure to Obey".

  15. Re:First Heinlein Reference on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 2, Informative

    What makes you so sure this would take us closer to the end? Why won't this just further solidify the existing power structure?

    Maybe there's a way out.

  16. Re:ROMs on Ask Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade · · Score: 1

    I failt to see why that presents a significant qualitative difference between the two.

  17. Re:What happened..... on Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Launches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Viewtiful Joe is one of the best side scrollers ever.

    Paper Mario looks fun.

    Alien Hominid will rule.

  18. Re:Money For them Forever... on Ask Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade · · Score: 1

    Whatever. The argument isn't that Nintendo isn't making money off it.

  19. Re:ROMs on Ask Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade · · Score: 1

    Nintendo still makes money off of Super Mario 3, just like Disney still makes money off of Fantasia.

  20. Re:not my cup of tea on DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber · · Score: 1

    Spotlights are also good.

  21. Re:Ever try using Visual Studio 6.0? on Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in WinXP SP2 · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Windows needs a rewrite on Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in WinXP SP2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are a complete jackass.

    Windows' insecurities are by design. If they didn't want everyone to be local administrator, they wouldn't ship the OS that way.

    There is no reason (at all) to think that a "rewrite" would be better than what they're already working on.

    You are a complete jackass.

  23. Re:Oh noes! on Marvel Sues City of Heroes Makers · · Score: 1

    Thank you, I know.

  24. Re:Oh noes! on Marvel Sues City of Heroes Makers · · Score: 1

    This is akin to suing Bic because it allows users to draw pictures extremely similar to Hulk or Wolverine.

    WTF are you talking about? Ok, I can kindof see how giving yourself sideburns could be using a Bic to "draw pictures extremely similar" to Wolverine, but are you saying that every clean-shaven guy is infringing on the Hulk trademark??!

    Or are you talking about lighting cigars? That's stupid!

  25. Thank God for experts. on MSN Search Roundup · · Score: 1

    Otherwise I might have accidentally switched to search.msn.com. That was so going to happen.

    yahoo for up-to-date images. A9 for searching in books. Google for the web.

    Right?

    Have any search engines fixed it so that you can type in a product name (like a particular digital camera) and not get a billion crappy web store spam entries? That's the main thing Google doesn't work for.