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  1. Re:Identification - don't need it, don't want it on Microsoft: The Gatekeeper of the Internet · · Score: 1
    Identification .... the ability to prove rights


    Can we get a redirect for the distinction between these ideas? It strikes me that the information has to be stored somewhere. If you differentiate the steps of authentication, and give reasonable pieces to distinct, trusted companies, you could possibly architect the 'proving rights', or do you mean something different?

  2. Re:No, Qualcomm beat Kyocera to it. on Treo, Combination Cellphone and PDA · · Score: 1

    It's the same engineering team. AFAIK, The Kyocera 6035 is the third iteration.

  3. Re:kyocera Beat them to it. on Treo, Combination Cellphone and PDA · · Score: 1

    Got one.
    Pretty cool, but you can't use the jog dial to browse the contacts list without screwing up the Chapura conduit for lookOut2000, requiring a soft reset. Yeah, I know, using M$ products is like admitting you vote Socialist, but...
    It'll be cool when they come out with a version that also does GSM, should you ever be travelling abroad again.
    And, in case their executives read this, how about supporting USB and lowering the price of accessories? I'd buy an extra stand, charger, and data cable, (and the RS-232 to USB converter required for use with my laptop), the combined sticker price weren't half what I paid for the phone, for crying out loud.

  4. Re:This is Stupid on £10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued · · Score: 1

    Our webmaster keeps the box fully patch, yet our NT 4.x box was thrashed by nimda. I think it all points to that bit of Southern engineering wisdom:
    "Y'all just can't polish a turd."

  5. Re:don't touch power! on How To Create a Linux Network for Peanuts · · Score: 1
    A Voice User Interface is something that will be pushed, granted. How long do you think that the product will be sufficiently compelling to make fundamental changes in the organization?
    What I'm saying is that we stare at great technology and wonder why it goes nowhere in the marketplace.
    Without sounding a full-on Luddite, I predict that the VUI will have a slower acceptance rate than the GUI, just because the general business user lacks sophistication to internalize it.

  6. Saw it Friday on Review: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back · · Score: 2, Informative
    Review is OK.
    Reviewers in general take on a Howard Cosell tone. They need to emit words to justify themselves.
    Nutshell: this movie is sophomoric entertainment. If you want that, you will be pleased. I laughed, I cried, it was a part of me.
    If drug glorification, homoerotic obsession, notional plot, and obsequious in-jokes offend you, your entertainment dollar is best spent elsewhere.

  7. My idea of a great Q computer... on Neat IBM 5150 Case Mod · · Score: 2, Interesting

    would be filling a Unisys AN/UYK-7 case with modern stuff. Actually wiring the control panel to work would be a trick...

  8. Re:Replacing our chainsaws with plastic butter kni on The D Programming Language · · Score: 1
    I see this all the time, programmers who don't know all of the cool C++ tricks that could save them development/debugging time go on rants about how useless all of the features of C++ are.
    Yes, but who hasn't attacked that which they do not understand?



    4. Objects that act like normal primitive numeric types but automatically update the gui display when they change valuue. "Score += 100;"
    Given a third-party library, you hope there would be time to savor all the nuances, but you hint at operator overloads that could mask some 'interesting' surprises...

  9. Re:Languages should be written for programmers on The D Programming Language · · Score: 1
    Programming languages are tools. How many tools does your car require?

  10. Best sentence on the whole discussion... on The D Programming Language · · Score: 1
    I don't think a very powerful feature should be dropped from a language just because some people are idiots.
    Preach it, brother.

  11. Re:I Like it on The D Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Every time I have to declare a member or function twice
    The first time it's a declaration; the second time it's a definition.
    (in heading and .cpp file)
    That's not a bug, that's a feature. You could as reasonably criticize a book for having a table of contents.

  12. Re:Putting the "Science" into "Computer Science" on The D Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Time is an even better judge.
    Give it five years, see if C++0x lives up to the anticipation, or we all just get better hardware and do Java.
    I'm curious to see how big of a performance hit the garbage collection makes on the fully compiled language.

  13. Re:Incorrect statements on The D Programming Language · · Score: 1

    He had simply missed the fact that C++ now has resizable arrays(vector), and sane string handling(std::string)
    No, just succumbing to the human tendency to ignore facts failing to support his argument.

  14. Re:Interbase Online Backups / Replication on Open Source Database Underdogs · · Score: 1
    Interbase is a Borland product.

  15. Re:Well that's the most useful thing ever on Recreating The Lost Art Of Damascus Steel · · Score: 1
    _Wired_ 9.02 (Feb01) has an interesting piece on this topic called "Forging the Dragonslayer" by Erik Davis.

    Largely an informercial for QuestTek, page 140 has some impressive photos of their Ferrium C69 blade cutting into a Japanese C60 blade.

    Now I know why I save all those back issues of Wired.

  16. Re:So Robin, I gotta ask on Office-Worker Linux: It's Here and It Works · · Score: 1
    Redhat 7.2 installed nicely from a boot CD.

    The only thing that has ever crushed me completely was trying to get Oracle8i and Designer going on a Lose98 box. After getting beat down about three times, even geek pride had to admit that some defeats are best accepted.

  17. Re:Problem is obvious--disagree on Virus Scares and False Authority Syndrome · · Score: 1
    What we need is some kind of identification verification procedure online.

    When you define a system, you imply a work-around. The only completely secure computer system is the one that stays powered down.

  18. Re:what a predicament ... on Linux Turns 10 · · Score: 1
    Well, kernel.exe had a few things to say after I wrote some code trying to access a std::basic_string < char > after trying to load it full of NULL characters.

    The moral of this story is, try some test data early, so you can realize that your hairbrained scheme of stashing binary data in a string is exactly that.

    My behavior was sufficiently bad that kernel.exe didn't feel like playing anymore. So, that's one on me against a few thousand for Bill.

  19. Definition on LinuxToday Editor Apologizes For Astroturfing · · Score: 1
    Is it 'astroturfing' due to the artificiality of the material in question, or 'astroturfing' due to the effect of the material, as in 'slamming the opposition to the astroturf'?

    If it's the latter, /. is the single longest field of astroturf in existence, and I'm no MicroSlave: just calling it as I see it.

  20. Re:man on New Language CURL Merges HTML And Javascript · · Score: 1
    ...some Al Gore joke...

  21. What about RF emissions? on Is This How to Carry Your Gadgets? · · Score: 1
    The vest seems about the best place. Sure, all of the organs, but I'd bet they're more durable that the brain for RF exposure. You figure the brain has a lot of wiring: RF not good.

    The BDUs are great, but what is the long term effect of any transmitter down around the groin area? The cell phone isn't putting out near the power of, say, a radar gun, but what if my children come out Socialists? Can I live with that?

    I've got that Kyocera QCP 6035 Smart Phone, which I use predominantly with a hands-free gadget. It's not the destination, but it's a step that way.

    Brain'll probably be a cantaloupe by the time I cash in, anyway. The price of the Information Age life.

  22. Re:There's a glaring ommission in Cringley's artic on TCP/MS, We'll Cure What Ails You · · Score: 1
    You seem confused on the difference between architecture and market share.

    MS architecture seems to be an enabler for virus writers.

    Perhaps the sum of the of MS-based virus attacks is a left-handed thank-you from Billy's anti-fan club. Now, if we could just re-direct that misguided talent towards beefing up Open Source productivity software...

    Ultimately, the market just has to gaff off XP. We don't need the gubmint and the lawyers racing Microsoft to see who can be the bigger waste of money. We just refuse to buy refuse.

  23. Re:Change 'Microsoft' to 'auto industry'... on TCP/MS, We'll Cure What Ails You · · Score: 1
    +1 Thoughtful.

    So, would you say that Microsoft-control laws are conceptually similar to gun-control laws?

  24. Possible business opportunity on Dan Gillmor on WinXP · · Score: 1
    So, if you're the computer manufacturer, you use this JVM flap to spruce up the 'Doze that you deliver with your product. Put that JVM in there. Advertise 'we put in what Mr. Softy left out'.

    And, as long as you're offering people tickets out of the People's Republic of Redmond (Prr), shave a few bones of the sticker and sell them a Linux installation instead. I'd be all over that.

  25. Re:He who needs atheos, on AtheOS 0.3.5 Released · · Score: 1
    The link is funny.

    Long term, confusing your operating system with the meaning of life, is, well, unfortunate.