User: SweetCyanide

Re:Yet anotherTax

On: British Government Considers Tax on Computers

If you live in poverty, feeding and housing yourself are higher priorties than having a TV.

Public, unbiased access to BBC radio is not taxed.

Re:shortcomings to sql?

On: An Alternative to SQL?

One way to do this is through the use of compound types, such as the array and the row type.

Single greatest thing I've ever done

On: Laser Vision Surgery for Developers?

wish I done it earlier. I'm a developer and couple of months after I had no problems with a monitor. Read some of the blogs by people as they go through the process and the recovery.

My personal one can be found under the 'personal' section here.

Re:Would you like to by an Atlas?

On: The Last Place

You'll find the tolerance level for prejudice pretty low on this board

and yet there is so much of it. I mean, really there is.

Re:Implying Bacteria found weren't Martian?

On: Construction Begins on Beagle 2

Firstly is wasn't collected from mars, the rock fell to earth and is believed to be from mars..

Secondly, it didn't contain bacteria, but what is claimed to be fossilised evidence of bacteria.

Thirdly, the evidence is merely suggestive, but far from incontravertable, of alien life.

Re: Electrics?

On: Construction Begins on Beagle 2

ESA is the European Space Agency. We're well accustomed to using metric over here.

Re:Does Australia have an extradition treaty ?

On: American Movie Execs Could Face Aussie Jails For Hacking

IANAL but... Under English common law (as Australia's system is based on) there has to be reciprocality, i.e. there has to be an equivolent law in the country to which you you apply for extradition.

So because the action would be legal in the US, OZ would not have a case for extradition, though they could legitimately arrest the perp. if s/he travelled to OZ.

Salesmen

On: What Turns You Off About Evaluation Software?

Its the calls, the endless calls.

I hate people ringing me up trying to sell me stuff. If I tried an evalutaion and wanted it or had any q's *I'd* contact *them*.

Now, I don't go near any evalutaion s/w for that very reason.

Re:Uhh.... what's LDAP?

On: LDAP Tools - Where are they?

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Acronym lookup dictionay for your reference:
http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html

Java based browser/editor

On: LDAP Tools - Where are they?

I like Jarek Gawor's Java based editor:
http://www.iit.edu/~gawojar/ldap/index.html

Rotors are missing

On: Stolen Enigma Found

Apparently three of the four rotor wheels are missing. Don't know how different these rotors are from 'normal' Enigma machines.