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  1. Re:Solution! on 2002 ICFP Programming Contest · · Score: 3, Informative

    In C and C++, the line "#include 'filename'" tells the compiler to act like the contents of 'filename' are inserted at that location.

    Since Unix treats all devices as files (keyboard, CDROM, hard drive, etc) /dev/tty refers to the keyboard (teletype). You can therefore type anything you want into the file at compile time.

    It works in Windows/DOS, too, with the filename 'con', i.e., #include "con" .

  2. Re:And when have we heard this before? on JVC Announces Technology To Prevent Software Copying · · Score: 1

    I was just figuring that the JVC thing wouldn't come out for a while. :)

    It will be out in weeks/months after the JVC thing hits the streets, you're exactly right...

  3. Re:And when have we heard this before? [OT] on JVC Announces Technology To Prevent Software Copying · · Score: 2

    http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=531479

    (n) Originally a term from Reconstruction time (1870) to mean southern men. Now it means white bigot, from whip-cracker or slavedriver.
    "Got a little problem with the redneck cracker" -- Ice Cube (The Predator).

  4. Re:And when have we heard this before? on JVC Announces Technology To Prevent Software Copying · · Score: 2

    Except that the efforts of a few are easily transmitted to the masses.
    The majority just has to find the work of the few good hackers.
    In 2 years, do a Google search for "JVC CD crack" and see what Russian websites you end up on.

  5. Re:Ugh on Violence, Video Games And Donahue · · Score: 1

    i like your sig.
    it is nifty.

  6. Re:The Needle?! on Lasers for Pain-free Dentistry · · Score: 2

    Oh, i got the anesthesia too. I am still baffled as to why they thought that gassing me beforehand would be helpful.
    It knocked me for a good solid loop, afterward - I don't remember the drive home (thanks, Dad), and I just collapsed into bed, gauze and all.
    I woke up a few hours later...

    My basic recollection of the whole recovery experience was that "it hurts until it doesn't."

  7. Re:The Needle?! on Lasers for Pain-free Dentistry · · Score: 1

    i knew i was taking a chance with that one... i couldn't remember, and should've checked.

    thanks for setting me straight.

  8. Re:The Needle?! on Lasers for Pain-free Dentistry · · Score: 2

    When I got my wisdom teeth out, I discovered that I react very poorly to nitrous. The best description I can manage is "bad trip".
    It put me just under consciousness, and I drifted back slowly... all the while not knowing where I was, and feeling trapped inside my paralyzed body... listening to my panic-induced pulse increase on the heart monitor.
    The assistants' inane chitchat (part of the plan to "relax"/distract me, I'm sure) was painful, too, as everything was happening in slow-motion... (Sssooo tthhee wweeaatthheerr'ss bbeenn wwaarrmmeerr..... heeeheeeeheeee...) and I would say whatever they would prompt me to, not what I wanted to, even though I knew it was false.

    All in all, next time I just go for the injection straightaway, none of that NO2 crap.

  9. Re:So...? on More on the Effect of Digital TV · · Score: 1

    it won't be a "perfect digital copy" then, so i don't think it's as big of a deal to them.

  10. Re:Slashdot enabled pages on Home Entertainment PC Mod · · Score: 2

    Here's a mirror.

    I don't have the full-size images (I've got bandwidth concerns, too) but the thumbnails are pretty representative.
    If you want to jump straight to the gallery, there's the link.

  11. Re:Imagine how it smells by now! on Back to the Moon? · · Score: 3, Funny

    but it's vacuum-sealed!
    well, almost.

  12. Re:BattleTech in recent times on Build Your Own Battlemech · · Score: 4, Informative

    here's a mirror... the CSS didn't copy completely, so it's jacked in a couple places, but i got all the pictures.

  13. Implications on "hacking"... on Making Games Live Longer With Mods · · Score: 2

    Although modifying began among hard-core hackers, it's not illegal.

    I was a little bothered when I read this sentence... even "hard-core" hacking isn't illegal in and of itself. I'm troubled by this continuing implication in mainstream media.

  14. Re:What a great fuss about nothing on AT&T Concerned About H2K2 · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Also a hammer... on Using Your Privacy Against You · · Score: 2

    This is more like someone taking another hammer and hitting you in the head with it.
    These merchants will suffer as much as the rest of us if the fraudulently-acquired goods are used against, say, the USA.
    Everybody loses when terrorism's involved.

  16. Re:GNU/Google on Slashback: Gnoogle, PlayStation, Assault · · Score: 2

    Richard Marie^H^H^H^H. Stallman, major figure in the free software realm.
    Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation.

    Everything2 is helpful for these types of questions.

  17. Re:I didnt like them. on lowercase music · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was confused about the different genres inside electronica until I read this:

    http://phobos.plato.nl/e-primer/

    VERY helpful, complete with sound samples.

  18. Re:The end of extinction on Cenozoic Park: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger · · Score: 2

    yes, but not his experience.
    it'd be like asking if you could recreate Michaelangelo's David from only a chip of marble... you could create the physical potential, but it was his experiences and environment that shaped him into the man we remember.
    he'd be no better than the celebrity impersonators we have already.
    his brain structure is lost forever.

  19. Re:Lone Gunman Series on The Lone Gunmen Aren't Dead? · · Score: 1

    your .sig is (Score:5,Insightful)

  20. Re:As Johnso14, I have to agree on First Human Clone Eight Weeks Along · · Score: 2

    A perhaps more recognizable case is that of George Foreman, who named his 9 children George, Jr., George III, George IV, George V, Michi, Freeda George, Georgetta, Natalie, Leola, and George VI.

    I wonder if they just start calling them 3, 4, 6...

  21. Re:Ummm... licensing? on MPAA Wants Copy-Controlled PCs · · Score: 2

    ... and the subsequent legislative recourse that was taken (21st Amendment) fixed the problem.
    If there is enough public outcry against the prosecutions of copyright violation - either directly or through the election of suitable officials - then the laws will be changed.

    But of course, people will whine and say they have a right to violate these laws because the RIAA, the MPAA, and corporate America have too much sway over the legislative process...

    I'm a bit more idealistic...
    and I've actually purchased a majority of the music I downloaded ("previewed") on Napster...

  22. Re:Ummm... licensing? on MPAA Wants Copy-Controlled PCs · · Score: 2

    No. Making more extensive, far-reaching laws instead of enforcing the laws that already exist is simply (by ignorance or design) setting up a framework for a larger-scale limitation.
    That's what looks to be happening here.
    Give government only the control needed, not a bit more.
    That's the parallel.

  23. Re:Ummm... licensing? on MPAA Wants Copy-Controlled PCs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Indeed.
    This is precisely the tactic anti-gun forces use, (and which was so prevalent during the Clinton administration)... instead of encouraging the Justice Department to enforce the (quite sufficient and strict) laws currently the books, they try to add more on top.

    It smells like it's building to the day when *surprise!* all of the laws will be enforced.

  24. Re:Where? on Most Detailed Image Of Earth Yet · · Score: 2

    I did this a few years ago with Pov-Ray. The resulting fly-bys were quite impressive for a 486.

  25. Re:Havent then BEEN doing this? on Electric Company Using Power Lines for Data · · Score: 2

    Yeah, the data rate is quite slow. I just got back from the lab where I was reading 13 byte data chunks from a meter via DLC/PLC - each message took about 3 seconds to send, including header and CRC info.

    Definitely not on par with my cable modem. :)