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  1. Re:The Seven Deadly Sins of Erlang on Programming Erlang · · Score: 1

    Talk's cheap why don't you just upload an implementation your quaint little language to a server and show us your parallel quicksort algorithm.

  2. Re:Postblablurb on Programming Erlang · · Score: 1

    But the Postmodernism Generator makes more sense than the Loon.

  3. Re:Can you say "class action" ? on Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is no legitimate use of BitTorrent. Anything BitTorrent can do, FTP can do better.

    There is not legitimate use of FTP. Anything FTP can do rsync can do better.

  4. Re:Can you say "class action" ? on Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Major ISP's in the US have told me in meetings that P2P makes up 70-80% of their total traffic. Do you really believe that the majority of this is legal content?

    That's not for the ISP to decide.

  5. Re:More to Come on Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six · · Score: 1

    Why not compare screen resolution?

  6. Re:And so help us... on China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate · · Score: 1

    If we are going to accept what the Wikipedia says about Tibetan Buddhism [wikipedia.org], he's more of a guru (a teacher) than a priest.

    In certain cultures and religions priests are actually expected to be teachers rather than the spewers of rhetoric and dogma.

  7. Re:Then sue the Fuckers on Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit · · Score: 1

    And Comcast refused to reveal level of usage which degraded the network for other users, therefore the clause doesn't stand up.

  8. Re:no more so than Radio Shack on Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy? · · Score: 1

    Actually after I posted the previous comment I realized: OSS is actually less useful that above stores. Software doesn't do anything, it just sits there on a disk waiting for compatible hardware.

    All sorts of places to get off-the-shelf technology and/or parts to build your own. Just about any tool or technology can be used for good or evil. I'd be concerned if someone was asking questions about weapons delivery or other issues where the intent was fairly clear, but even then, do you respond by clamming up, thus indirectly telling them of your suspicions, (and greatly increasing the chances that they will work to avoid attention), or do you maybe notify the authorities so they can use the situation to their advantage?

    In general I would assume the person asking questions about weapons is somewhere between the ages of 12 and 16 and just ignore them. But there are a few things that would tip me off that the person is trouble and those would get them reported pretty quickly.

  9. Then sue the Fuckers on Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hire a lawyer and sue the fuckers for breach of contract. Both parties in a contract must be privy to the terms of the contract. So sue the fuckers, because if they haven't revealed the limitation on the TOS, the limitation isn't valid.

  10. no more so than Radio Shack on Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy? · · Score: 1

    Its no more of a threat than Radio Shack or Home Depot.

  11. Re:if we had a tough FCC, on New HD TiVo and Cable Incompatibilities · · Score: 1

    Spoken like a true Comcast stockholder.

  12. Re:If only it were that simple on Should We Spam Proxies to China? · · Score: 1

    Of course, the reverse is also true. You don't have to bomb the capital of every country that violates the basic human rights of its citizens to make a point. You just have to bomb one (pick a small, easy target like Iraq) and then tell China "keep this crap up and you're next".

    And we know how well that worked.

  13. Re:I'm not buying any more WoTC products... on Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Announced · · Score: 1

    I finally understand D&D. In D&D the rules are the content. They need to change them frequently because you run out of content.

    Wouldn't modules and campaign settings also be considered content?

  14. Re:Did they fix the stupid combat system yet? on Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Announced · · Score: 1

    You seem to have missed the bit in first edition where combat is abstract, so a 'hit' doesn't mean a literal hit, and damage doesn't mean literally being cut with a sword. A hit means inflicting damage, where damage is a combination of injury and exhaustion.

  15. Re:Remember... on Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Announced · · Score: 1

    They published The Primal Order long before MtG.

    MtG was where they first found success.

  16. Re:Java Programmers == Typists on Sun Lowers Barriers to Open-Source Java · · Score: 1

    Java programms are nothing more than typists who can understand how to string together bits of code from the latest 'Type and Learn' Java Book.

    You mean what C and C++ were like 15 years ago?

    To Me, a Programming Language is 'Real' When it can fully bootstrap itself. That is, Compile it's own Compiler. Java of Course, being an interpreted language, fails that test miserably. I've once seen a student project, a java interpreter, written in Java. I've seen frozen molasses move at a faster pace.

    Perhaps you need a dictionary because that's not the definition the rest of the world seems to use.

    Java is nice if you don't want to worry about complexity, or managing algorithms, etc. I think of it like VB, nice for building proof of concepts, fast 'throw-away' prototypes.

    If your job is managing algorithms that's nice. Many of us get paid to deliver software, not dork around with sorting, searching, and memory pools.

  17. Re:Pass the buck on Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp · · Score: 1

    And then these Ass Holes elected him.

    There I corrected you.

  18. Re:Risk Pools on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    That's nice, but that doesn't mean it can happen. That's all I'm saying. If you can get an insurance company to segment populations based on self-reported political affiliations, more power to you.

    If I could manipulate insurance companies that well, I would be posting from my own private island.

    Insurance companies want maximum segmentation to ensure maximum profit. If they thought that they political segmentation would maximize profit, I'm sure they would try.

  19. Re:Risk Pools on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    You sort of mentioned the exact point I'm making: people have personal/arbitrary criteria as to who they want to be in the pool with. It could be money, it could be something else. In the case of group rates for companies, its very rare to have much choice about which pool you want to be in.

    Just for a little fun:

    To gullible people and/or Republicans get sick or injured more often? I've not seen any evidence of that.
    • Cheney is a Republican and has bad health: Heart problems
    • Ford was a Republican and likely to be injured: Kltuz
    • Reagan was a Republican and had bad health: Alzheimer's
    • Soldiers are more likely to vote Republican, and they're are more likely to be injured. War is dangerous.
  20. Re:Imagine drowning if you couldn't hold your brea on Surviving in Space Without a Spacesuit · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the non-zero energy ground state, which allows the virtual particles to exist, of empty space as being not absolute zero. Not the virtual particles themselves.

  21. Re:Analysis of the "hack", or how sum of parts bre on The Java Popup you Can't Stop · · Score: 1

    Window.setAlwaysOnTop(): Used to set the window on top. Essential for displaying "Modal" dialog boxed like error boxes. Nothing sinister here.

    As far as I'm concerned, this has always been sinister.

    Remove support for "System Modal" for unsigned applets for "setAlwaysOnTop". Application modal is fine, system modal is not.

    Please remove this from the entire system. I hate when an application opens a splash page when starting that is "Always On Top", developers who do this need to be flogged. If the app doesn't start immediately, I want do look at something else. I already have the application, I don't need or want to see the advertising.

  22. Re:Risk Pools on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    I don't want to be in the same pool as anybody who was stupid enough to vote for Bush or believed his lies about Iraq.

  23. Re:Imagine drowning if you couldn't hold your brea on Surviving in Space Without a Spacesuit · · Score: 1

    But in a practical sense, space doesn't really have a temperature-- you can't measure a temperature on a vacuum, something that isn't there. The residual molecules that do exist aren't enough to have much of any effect. Space isn't "cold," it isn't "hot", it really isn't anything.

    Actually space does have a temperature. Ever hear of cosmic background radiation? the entire universe, that includes empty space radiates microwaves as a 2.725 Kelvin black body. Furthermore space is full of 'virtual particles' better known as Zero-point energy, this is due to the ground state energy of space is non-zero; this allows for the Casimir Effect and Hawking Radiation.

  24. Learn to deal with Nerds on Coping Strategies for Women in IT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want to increase the number of Women in IT I suggest changing your focus. Rather than looking to colleges, try recruiting grade school teachers. They're used to dealing with people who have underdeveloped social skills. At a previous job we had 2 former school teachers they were both able to deal.

  25. Re:Sucks to be you, Elton on Elton John Says Internet is Destroying Music · · Score: 1

    Hey, Elton's actually made music that isn't the same canned love-song crap. The songs he writes are autobiographical, about people important to him, about things important to his lyricist, etc.

    But what had he done for us lately, other than make canned music for The Rat?