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  1. Re:Just another step closer on Time Warner To Comply With Wiretap Law · · Score: 1
    Everything transmitted over any public network (be it the telephone system or the internet) is insecure.
    It's not a public network, it's not funded by the government. I pay a private enterprise for communication with my peers be it by phone or by internet.
  2. Re:Just another step closer on Time Warner To Comply With Wiretap Law · · Score: 1
    Surely not:

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
    Ha!
  3. Re:Just another step closer on Time Warner To Comply With Wiretap Law · · Score: 1

    and when they fail to wiretap your neurons...

  4. Re:For the ignorant (like me) on Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86 · · Score: 1
    pretty much anyone in the world, except a large number of [...]/OS X/Windows/[...] users
    That's a pretty funny way of saying "pretty much nobody in the world".

    The really funny thing about all this is I'll probably get modded as a troll...

  5. Re:Embedded/Real-time systems still need C on C Alive and Well Thanks to Portable.NET · · Score: 1
    because you get all the things I mentioned: type safety, abstraction & all the good things that go along with that.

    Sure, you could limit yourself to C developers, but I'd say that if you're capable of learning the good programming practices that the above features help you with, then you're capable of learning how to implement them in C++.

  6. Re:Pointless on C Alive and Well Thanks to Portable.NET · · Score: 1
    the point is that when you compile it to native code you instantly remove the portability of the original source. in order to run on a different machine you need to recompile. with a portable bytecode (like java/.net) you only need to compile once.

    also, there's no interpreter, the JIT compiler is effectively the same as the second stage of a regular compiler, the main difference is that it runs in the same process as your program, it's the only non-portable binary in the equation.

  7. Re:Embedded/Real-time systems still need C on C Alive and Well Thanks to Portable.NET · · Score: 2, Insightful
    there isn't any other language out there that is as efficient (both size *and* speed count) as well optimized C code
    Sure there is. C++ (with exceptions and RTTI disabled) is just as efficient as C [1], plus it's type-safe, has nested namespaces, classes & templates.

    [1] as long as you disable exceptions & RTTI and stay away from virtual/multiple inheritance & pointers to member functions.

  8. Re:This is news??? Who the fuck cares! on MS Hotmail Offline For Hours · · Score: 1

    Ah, you're forgetting one important thing: in the US you can sue for $millions in damages, just for the sheer inconvenience.

  9. Re:Think about how you vote this November. on Halloween X Author Mike Anderer Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    most manufacturers do not release details of their hardware (or open source drivers) because in most cases they do not own all the technology they would be releasing. In most cases part of the technology is licenesd from other companies.

  10. Re:Think about how you vote this November. on Halloween X Author Mike Anderer Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    it doesn't really have anything to do with monopoly, it's just simple market economics. i'd say driver availability pretty much follows relative market share.

  11. Re:build number, j2ee on Ease Into Subversion From CVS · · Score: 1

    i'm sure you could do it quite easily. We're using .NET and building with VS.NET, so we just embed the /.svn/entries XML file as a resource in the exe, and query the revision # at runtime using xpath. I'm sure you could extract the revision # at build-time if you're using something more powerful like ant.

  12. Re:.NET on Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1
    use the IDispose pattern: using (FileStream stream = new FileStream ("tt") {
    //do something
    }

    Yeah, it's sugar, but so is C++ (you're still getting an exception frame created, and the destructor called when its unwound).

  13. Re:COMPLETELY different on Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1
    Operating systems are NOT, I repeat, NOT in the same boat as operating systems.
    MAN OVERBOARD!
  14. Re:.NET on Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1
    nice. you might add, for clarification, that reference types are instantiated on the heap and value types are (usually) instantiated on the stack. boxing is the operation that moves a value-typed object's data from the stack to the heap. unboxing moves it back.

    you can create a reference to a value-typed object either explicitly by passing its stack location as a 'ref' parameter, or implicitly by boxing.

    on the other hand, that might not end up being any clearer than what you had ;-)

  15. Re:.NET on Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1
    What if you want to make both value and reference objects of the same class?
    use the 'ref' keyword?
  16. Re:That is where you are mistaken on Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    close, but no biscuit. there's plenty of stuff you can do in MSIL (even CLS-compliant stuff) that you can't do with C#. The closest natural representation of MSIL is managed-C++.

  17. Re:Architectural security vs afterthought on Linux the Tortoise to Microsoft's Hare? · · Score: 1

    Windows NT had, from the start, both a security model (far more comprehensive than Posix's) and the ability to run processes as different users. rtfm.

  18. Re:Linux will beat Windows in the security battle. on Linux the Tortoise to Microsoft's Hare? · · Score: 1
    With Linux, you use the newest version which is only a couple of months old when installing, with Windows, you get bugs that are years old because a) Windows isn't realeased nearly as often and b) you don't want to waste money on security upgrades.
    You're contradicting yourself here. On one hand you say linux is good because it's never more than a few months old, and on the other hand you say windows is bad because it's either old, or you have to download new stuff.

    So which is it? Keeping your OS up-to-date is good, or bad?

  19. Re:Linux will beat Windows in the security battle. on Linux the Tortoise to Microsoft's Hare? · · Score: 1
    chmod -R +rwxs /

    so?

  20. Re:Is there demand? on Ease Into Subversion From CVS · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yeah, I love the fact that there's a revision number that's global to the whole repository.

    We embed that number into each build of our product and our testers file bugs against a particular revision. If I can't repro a bug against my current code, I can just create a new branch at the given revision, compile, and I know I'm using exactly the same code that the tester was running.

  21. Re:Windows server? on Ease Into Subversion From CVS · · Score: 2, Informative
    i should add: I'd definitely recommend installing TortoiseSVN. Having the SVN operations available as a shell extension is a godsend. For example you can use SVN from within any FileOpen dialog. The only thing it's missing is a directory-diff, but on XP you can show the SVN status of files in explorer by configuring the attribute columns in the details view.

    Also, I'd recommend downloading perforce's p4win 3-way merge tool. It's a little better than the one built into TortoiseSVN.

  22. Re:Windows server? on Ease Into Subversion From CVS · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'm runing svnserve on a windows box in a production environment and it works great.

    If you want to start svnserve as a windows service, google for srvany.exe, it allows you to run a regular win32 exe as a service.

  23. Re:closed source != bad always on ATI Releases Drivers for XFree 4.3.0 · · Score: 1
    Sounds like a great platform...

    I've just decided. My next machine is going to be absolutely useless for the things I want to do with it, and on top of that, I'm going to bitch about how I can't do those things with it...

  24. Re:Hawking radiation on Famous Hawking Black Hole Bet Resolved? · · Score: 1

    exception: divide by zero (a-b)

  25. Re:3 times the highest frequency being measured on Cheap PC Oscilloscopes - Any Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Nyquist only works in general if you consider a long duraition (T = 1/lcd(Fin,Fsamp)) of the input. An oscilooscope doesn't have this mathematical luxury, it has to show what it sees right now, hence the innacuracy.