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  1. Re:Ha, I'm doing just the opposite on MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    Wow. Good thing it isn't one of those hard-to-configure Linux boxes.

  2. Re:"Resistance is futile..." on MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    It actually used to be that the comma before and was required. However, language evolves, and now both forms are accepted.


    "I'd like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
  3. Re:Fortran isn't successful? on Facial Hair and Computer Languages · · Score: 1

    Still, taking a broader look at it with respect to who is using it today, and how much code has ever been written in it... you can see how it might be judged unsuccessful.


    As you can see from the other replies, a ton of people are using it today. In legacy applications. In math-heavy applications--Fortran's math libraries are unmatched by any other language. And as far as how much code has ever been written in it--I'd bet that more line of Fortran have been written than any other single computer language other than COBOL.
  4. Re:Reasonable Doubt on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 1

    They did. He was making it up. Looking into finished.

  5. Re:I'm hoping... on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 1

    You're not making any sense here. He made it up, therefore it's not relevant.

  6. Re:Reasonable Doubt on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 1

    The judge decided it wasn't relevant because he decided the guy is a delusional nutjob who was making it up. Which is apparently the case.

  7. Re:Develop from Prison on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 2, Funny

    They used to run Windows ME, but the Supreme Court ruled that cruel and unusual.

  8. Re:I'm hoping... on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 1

    A *six-inch wide* bloodstain is not a "trace amount of blood".

  9. Fortran isn't successful? on Facial Hair and Computer Languages · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whatever he's smoking, he needs to share.

  10. Re:I'm hoping... on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 1

    When the "confessed serial killer" did not in fact kill anybody, no, it doesn't create much reasonable doubt.

  11. Re:Down here... on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Habeas corpus is a metaphor, correct. It has *never* referred to having the murdered body. It refers to the "body of evidence" the prosecution has that indicates that the suspect is guilty and, in fact, refers to any crime, including those like theft and the like in which there was never a dead body to begin with.

  12. Re:Summary of the evidence on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Read upthread. He bought the books *after* Nina disappeared. Second-degree does sound much more likely.

  13. Re:Down here... on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have NEVER needed a body. Actually having a body has never been a requirement for bringing or convicting on a murder charge. It's too easy to dispose of a body--cremation, hell, simple burial if you're good at concealing where you dug the grave.

  14. Re:Security not just about encryption. on Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP · · Score: 1

    Because there are no US agents anywhere outside the boundaries of the US.

  15. Re:Look no further than LARPers on Effect of Virtual Avatars On Real-Life Behavior · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are the D&D players who eventually get into Wicca and other "majik" kind of stuff to the point where they believe that they can cast spells and talk to spirits.


    I would've bet anything that Jack Chick didn't post to Slashdot.
  16. Re:My brain asplode on Smithsonian Gets Military UAVs · · Score: 1

    They needed to add U(nmanned)A(erial)V(ehicle)s.

  17. Re:All Five? on Smithsonian Gets Military UAVs · · Score: 1

    Four. Three in the Department of Defense, and one in the Department of Homeland Security. Unless you can name the Secretary of the Marine Corps for me.

  18. Re:Even smaller servers on Data Center In a Shoe Box · · Score: 1

    Some time back, Slashdot ran a story on a server that was the size of a Russian matchbox


    "Russian matchbox"? Do Russians use matches of unusal size or something?
  19. Re:Parkinson's Law hold true after 60 years on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 1

    *That* was true long before they started filling up the Internet.

  20. Re:*Still* no encryption?? on Backup Tapes With 2 Million Medical Records Stolen · · Score: 1

    You have a very good point. I would say that backups that stay in the data center and are just shelved back in your tape vault should *not* be encrypted. Backups that go outside the high-security area of your data center or pass into the hands of people who shouldn't be reading them (and your off-site storage people may be trusted to hold your backups, but they still have no business reading them) need to be encrypted.

  21. Re:*Still* no encryption?? on Backup Tapes With 2 Million Medical Records Stolen · · Score: 1

    They're not complete idiots.


    We believe they may be lacking some critical parts.
  22. Re:Ultimate (Frisbee) on The Future of Space Sports · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A spinning disc has lift


    No, it doesn't. A frisbee gets no lift from the fact that it is spinning.

    Because of its shape (it's an airfoil) it does get lift from moving forward, however. It gets *stability* from the spin, which helps maintiain the the edge-on direction of movement that gives it lift.
  23. Re:It's all fun and games... on The Future of Space Sports · · Score: 1

    I don't like playing with an ugly ball of mostly water.

  24. Re:From my cold dead fingers on FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone · · Score: 1

    "Your offer is acceptable."

  25. Re:Basically, you can't on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 1

    In which case there is *no* way you can establish the trustworthiness of the system.