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  1. Re:Before we bash on outsourcing... on Outsourced Confidential Data On Children Posted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, but when you sue, you can either sue the employee which you have a direct contract with for damages, or the company from which you outsource. With the case of the developer, he has a closer relationship, so is less likely to do wrong since he's not under the protection of a company. With the case of a company, you sue the company and the worse the company may do is fire them. Less vested intereste in what the big boss might say -- depends on who your big boss is.

  2. Re:Starting salary? feh. on Computer Engineering Degree Most Valuable · · Score: 1

    Perfect example of what you are talking about happens to performers. Opera singers pay out of the nose to study and make little money until they land a long term gig professionally and get well known.

  3. Re:great idea on Two Blanks Against the Trend · · Score: 5, Funny
    Every journey starts with one step!

    Didn't Wile E. Coyote fall off of many cliffs due to this?
  4. Re:Does this count? on Remotely Crash OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    It's not a hole. A hole would imply gaining access. This is just a DoS attack.

  5. Re:Equivalent to a password on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1

    All you'd need to have is for the pattern to change in a sequence, similar to skey. Rotating passwords woul dmake it even better.

  6. Re:Too little, too late on Java SDK 1.5 'Tiger' Beta Finally Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    generics support

    C# innovated this, and already has this in the spec


    C++ had this way before. Next...


    autoboxing of primitives

    C# innovated this, already implemented years ago


    Ruby.. next...


    syntactic sugar for loops

    "foreach": C# innovated and already has this, implemented years ago


    Perl...


    enumerated types

    Java didn't have this before? LOL


    No, and not always very useful. It's just neat.


    and a bunch of other bugfixes, enchancements

    Bugfixes in a language? WTF?


    In the VM or in the java support classes library, i.e. j2ee.jar

  7. Re:Top 5 reasons. (in no particular order) on What's the Point of Building a Home Theater PC? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. - you probably mean features more advanced than bookmarking. It really depends on what firmware is on your dvd player. Mine gives the option to set 5 bookmarks until i eject the dvd. Not the most ideal, but it works.

    3. - 1 stero cable from your computer to your stero system solves this w/o building a seperate dedicated machine. heck, it's the same thing w/ the difference of which machine does the work.

    5. - i post on slashdot already :)

  8. Re:Odd title. on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    by SoSueMe (263478) on 04:39 PM January 16th, 2004 (#8002480)


    I think sue that one. :)
  9. Re:No advertising on Lindows Takes a Hit in the Netherlands · · Score: 1

    Just ask them not to type in the url. Duh...

  10. Re:Just my 2 cents. on Do You Make $60/hr for Programming? · · Score: 1
    Unless you live at the tip of coney island or in mil basin, you have NOTHING to complain about. It's a 40 minute trip in on mass transit. I pay $70 a month to sit down and go anywhere in the city (brooklyn, queens, bronx and staten island are part of the city).


    Oddly enough, 2 people out of the whole is NOT an example of the full set.


    I took a sample from nytimes.com realestate. I found at least 6 appartments, two of them two bedrooms, for $1000 rent, searching in one area of brooklyn that is not even considered dangerous (I live in it). I found 3 pages of listings searching all of brooklyn, with a bunch of 3 bedrooms.

  11. Re:Just my 2 cents. on Do You Make $60/hr for Programming? · · Score: 1
    You must be living in a 700sq box, drinking sparkling water called beer.

    Not trying to rag ya, but I don't want to live that way and I am sure he does not either.


    Wow, that was hypocritical. "I'm not going to say you're wrong but.. " No, I don't live in a box and I certainly don't need 1k feet+ to live in by myself. I'm not doing gymnastics or anything outlandish. Unless you are a middle american who expects to have 2000feet plus and expects to drive everywhere in their large american suv with 2 acres of land to call home. It's a lot of work to keep up on a large living space.


    Lived there for 3 years. Although this does not make me and expert...


    Fine, you aren't an expert.


    1000 a month for what? Where? Could I stick you stick a 4 people in that place? He has kids and a wife.


    For 1000-1200, easily get a 2 bedroom until you buy a house. I'm not sure why you'd raise your kids in an appartment in the first place.
  12. Re:Huh?! on More MyDoom Gloom · · Score: 1

    Only to cavity causing bacteria :) So yes, we all have a little evil in us.

  13. Re:Just my 2 cents. on Do You Make $60/hr for Programming? · · Score: 1

    I know the best programmer I have ever had the chance to work with made 112k a year. Keep in mind these are "New York City" rates, where he was paying 2200 a month in rent. 1600 a year for car insurance, and 10.50 for a mixed drink at your downtown bar. Lets not get into the fact that he was working 75+ hours a week on average either.


    Try $1000 a month, easy. Mixed drinks, easily not more than $5 if you go to real pubs. It's also common for a programmer to work between 40 and 60 hours a week depending on what he's working on. On a slow week, I can do 35 standing on my head. In the middle of a big project, I've done something like 70 'cause I was doing things "right".

    If you choose to live in Battery Park City or Brooklyn Heights, yeah, $2200 is about right. And go to bars in those areas, or around union square, where things are "hip". You deserve to get ripped on a drink.

    NY may be a little pricey, but at least check your figures.
  14. Crowned on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    I'd rather he be crowned instead.

  15. Re:IP6s problem is the numeric addresses r so comp on The State of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    DNS is your friend.

  16. Reachable on Cell Phone Is The Most Hated Invention · · Score: 1

    I don't know about most of you, but I work consistent hours. 9ish-6ish every day. Sometimes my schedule changes, but when it does, it's for a long period. When I'm at home, I'm obviously at home. Can't people just call me at those places and be done w/ it?

  17. Re:Do they monitor the domain registry? on Microsoft to sue Mike Rowe for Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Simple, you pay a registrar to query the registry on your behalf. MS has the money, registrars have the tech. Just check the registries to see if domains are available over the course of a week and give back a report to MS on soundex values.

    Nothing particularly hard.

  18. Re:I don't get it on Oracle Embraces Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they are building a bridge, so you don't need a web server to connect to, but an internal driver that connects to oracle databases via soap or something. How about letting them produce something before we jump on the unknown, eh?

  19. Re:Odd title. on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, your UID is low enough, you prolly have friends in the right places ;)

  20. Re:Debian Installer on Debian World Domination Plan · · Score: 1

    Did you talk try working with the debian email groups on finding what your bug is? I've never seen such a problem in my life.

  21. NAT is NOT a solution. on MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Let's take my network. I use 192.168.0.xxx and 192.168.1.xxx. The class b 0 subnet is for servers, 1 for random machines. Makes my firewall rules a little cleaner to read (nothing routes to .1).

    So I decide to use VPN software to connect to my office, which uses vpn software too. Now how do I connect to any of the machines on the 192.168 blocks on either side?

    Worse yet, what if I want to add a second vpn? IPv6 solves this by giving everything an ip.

    So what of the NAT provides network security issue? Simple. Accept all traffic on one nic for an ip address, and bridge it out on the other nic. Between the two nics, your CPU comes into play, where a process (the kernel, ipfw, ipf, pf.. something) takes in the traffic of one and limits output to the second.

    So tell me.. where's the secuity problem?

  22. Aliens on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that the exoskeleton in aliens?

  23. Re:Care? on Transmeta's New Smaller, Faster Chips Announced · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People who run home servers and get reamed on electric bills.

  24. Re:No problems traveling here.... on Security Tips for Traveling with Tech Gear · · Score: 1
    Flame me all you want, but after the WTC thing, I got the entire "while brown" thing.


    I'm not saying that "non brown" don't suffer, but everytime I've flown, a majority of the people checked for shoe bombs and stuff, are mostly non-black, brown skinned people. Hell, I've gotten yelled at just walking down the streets citing that I'll bring down some other buildings. Cripes. And I have no family outside of the Americas!


    You my friend, are lucky.

  25. Re:Small Servers? on Low Powered Mini-Server for the Masses · · Score: 1

    For those of us who run servers in our homes or don't have space. Turning off a 1ghz machine at nite cuts off my electric bill by $30 a month. If i can do the same of my other computesr, joy. :)