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  1. Re:Parents ARE to blame on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Or why not ask your physician who, I would think, knows a bit more than a writer who does the bare minimum of research, if any, to meet his deadline.

    Perhaps you should read back through Ben Goldacre's blog and see what else he's written about the MMR scare - this is something he most definitely does know about. Oh yeah, and if you read his biography you'll see he is also a medical doctor.

    John

  2. Re:Oh really? on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 3, Informative

    Developer lock in. You get to use their (admittedly good) IDE to develop your product for free, but you can't go on and sell it unless you then buy the full version of the software. That's not actually true: from the FAQ:

    Can I use Express Editions for commercial use?

    Yes, there are no licensing restrictions for applications built using Visual Studio Express Editions.

  3. Silverlight on Linux on Library of Congress's $3M Deal With Microsoft · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Domain owners: Don't bother on What's With All This Spam? · · Score: 3, Interesting
  5. Re:How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"? on Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car · · Score: 1

    It just might be a joke...

    john

  6. A better solution on Free Web-Based Exception Reporting · · Score: 4, Informative

    This application is better in that it collects all the relevant information into a zip file (including a stack dump), and helps the user to e-mail it to you. It works in C/C++ (Windows only) and doesn't require any third party involvement.

    We use it in a deployed product and it works very well.

    john

  7. Re:I thought Cambridge was nice? on Serial Burglar Caught on Webcam · · Score: 1
    If you knew Cambridge you would know that he lives somewhere off Newmarket Road, since that was the Co-op that was ram-raided last week. :)

    john

  8. Re:I'm lazy, refuse to RTFA on IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure · · Score: 1

    I think you want "not implies", hence my '=>'

  9. Re:I'm lazy, refuse to RTFA on IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure · · Score: 1

    Do you really mean:

    useful != (!obscure)
    which simplifies to
    useful = obscure

    or do you actually mean

    !(useful => !obscure)

    ?

  10. Re:They'll get my patronage if... on OpenBSD Project Will Release OpenCVS · · Score: 1
    ..they enable tag/update/diff/etc. by date on a branch, add a special tag like HEAD but for a given branch, and keep track of when branches have merged so that you can actually keep 2 slightly different versions in sync.

    CVSNT is an actively developed, native port of CVS to Windows, but which also runs on Linux, that implements at least the first and third points here. I'm not sure what you mean by the second.

    john

  11. Re:don't be greedy on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1
    Have you tried using mutt to bounce the messages to Gmail? Such messages should retain the date attributes, as well as sender, destination, and other such goodies, assuming Gmail doesn't mangle this stuff (and I don't believe it does).

    Yes, the headers are all correct, but the date that Gmail displays is the received date at Gmail so if you do a mass import, all your e-mail is sorted as if it was sent on the date of the import.

    john

  12. Right? on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Where exactly does the right to travel anonymously come from? I tried to look up the 28th amendment, but couldn't find it.

    john

  13. Re:fake email on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1
    $ whois no.com
    ...
    CentralNic Ltd (NO202-DOM)
    64-66 Coleman Street
    London EC2R 5BX
    UK

    no@no.no would be even better though.

  14. Re:More Eowyn? on LOTR: Two Towers Extended Edition Reviewed · · Score: 3, Informative
    Hollywood felt that the story just wasn't good enough without a love story (LOTR not a good enough story???), so her character took over other parts, and new content was created for her. New content created from nothing when they are having to chop out so much due to time constraints????

    There was even pressure to make her part of the fellowship that the director and cast resisted.

    I think you're talking about Arwen rather than Eowyn here.

    John

  15. Re:Why on God's earth... on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the CVS repository is a read-only export of the BK repository to allow non-BK users to access the historical data.

    The attacker modified the raw CVS repository.

    John

  16. Re:Pfff on Xen High-Performance x86 Virtualization Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, VMware runs unmodified binaries.

    What they do provide is ready made installations of various operating systems you can just install, although you have to pay for these (well, the MS ones at least).

  17. Re:attention, release candidate 1 ... on Mandrake Linux... Not Dead Yet? · · Score: 1

    What is a release candidate if it is not something that is considered possibly ready for release?

    john

  18. BBC Support on Slashback: Slammer, Frames, Pop-Ups · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out the detail the BBC provide about their servers and network.

    john

  19. Re:Sick the Lawyers on Them on World's Most Annoying IE Toolbar · · Score: 1
    Foreign countries don't much care what our congress legislates and passes into law.

    Too right.

  20. Re:That is advertising, not a contract on Google Responds to SearchKing's Lawsuit · · Score: 2
    Would you have purchased the product if you'd known that the advertising claim was inflated?

    Not that you're actually buying anything from Google anyway.

    john

  21. Re:Which robot? on Will Smith as I, Robot · · Score: 2
    -- The # of the Beast is 666 in octal, not decimal.

    438?

  22. Re:5 year study on Win2k Cheaper than Linux · · Score: 2

    No, it's a projected TCO over 5 years. Read the article.

    john

  23. Re:CVS / RCS on Has Software Development Improved? · · Score: 2

    Linus has never used any source control, just patch and diff, up until BK.

    Many of the subsystems, e.g. mtd, have however.

    john

  24. Re:Better yet get rid of PPOE on MSS Initiative Makes Progress · · Score: 5, Informative

    I agree that PPPoE (note the 3 P's) is not the most elegant solution, but it is perfectly valid to have smaller MTUs. It is peoples' firewalls that are broken here.

    john

  25. Re:Anyone actually use Darwin? on Darwin 6.0.2 for x86 Released · · Score: 2

    Care to say why you think Linux sucks?

    (Not a troll, just interested.)

    john