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  1. biggest problem on Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth · · Score: 1

    Can't have a 1 to 1 mapping of all domain names to unique ip's.

    Imagine a world where everyone did have a homepage on a unique machine w/ no redirecting depending on the ip or hostname or other network tricks.

    Nat will never solve that. It'd solve really silly things like, tracking who connects to what and how. And we wouldn't have silly kludges of solutions, like HTTP 1.1's Host: thing.

    Put up a new website? Just give it another ip! And do an ip mask in apache.

  2. Re:Open source? on E-Voting Done Right - In Australia · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, you are right. It's a wonderful idea.

    But with all the people who have a vested interest in it being done right, it's MORE likely that somethign stupid does NOT slip by. If this type of tech were around years ago, we could have a "why" a miscount would have happened and could have fixed it. If nothing has changed, last years (proverbial tech) is still being used.

  3. Will it run? on IBM To Design Technology For XBox 2 CPU · · Score: 1

    Will it run OSX? /g5 reference

  4. Re:ERP Applications aren't that simple on Compiere on Postgres/MySQL · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you have EVER use an enterprise applicaiton before. Even if it IS just select/inserts/deletes for basic GL/AP/AR applications you are talking about people, systems and components requiring gigs to terrabytes of data and hundreds if not THOUSANDS of concurrent users.


    ERP software doesn't need to be complex or "large". It depends on the number of departments you are cutting across and the data you are manipulating. Look at something like exchange. Exchange suffices as ERP software as long as you don't need anything else.

    The reason most ERP software is so huge, but not necessarily bloated, is because it needs a featureset that makes everyone happy. Unfortunately, every company works differently, so having a field for "isMarried" may be wanted by some, and not by others. Manufacturing, contracts.. all those things are taken care of somehow. Some ERP software like to do it in various plugins and what not. But for a very base set, ERP software can be very VERY simple.
  5. Re:with a sample size that small on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1

    But from multiple professors?

  6. Re:with a sample size that small on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1

    Sounds like bullshit to me. Sure, there are varied ethnic groups and people of different ages and what not, but they're all living in an Urban environment. They've probably been exposed to the Internet earlier, since it was widely available in cities and tech centers (like college towns) before it was available in Podunk, Flatstate. Also, New Yorkers are probably more naturally suspicious of scam artists. That's probably a generalization, but I believe that it's easier to be naive in a small town filled mostly with trustworthy people than it is to be naive in a big cities which, although not "riddled" with crime, has a lot more of it than a small town.


    You'd be surprised. We have relious people of all types, people who buy "rolex watches", the people hwo live outside of manhattan or the downtown areas.. that's certianly not urban... we have ALL kinds. I rather believe my professors (plural) than your reasoning :)
  7. Re:with a sample size that small on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1

    You'd be amazed. In nyc, if you got 1000 (or is it 100) you can actually use that as a proper representation of the united states. It's so mixed here, it's not funny. Or so my psych professors tell me :)

  8. Re:One problem... on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1

    Unless you have an interface that consolodates the approval requests. I'd hate to not do it via an excel table form where I can sort and what not. Have it purge old entries after a while...

  9. Re:There is no line on Where Do Game Subjects Cross The Line? · · Score: 1

    If you agree with the censor, then that's it. If you don't, you ignore the censor and come up with your own rules for what your kids an dyou see. EOS.

  10. Re:There is no line on Where Do Game Subjects Cross The Line? · · Score: 2

    I say freedom all the way.


    Until you see tastless games like, "Abortion by coathangar!" or "Rape that chick!"

    There's some behaviors you don't even want to demonstrate much less promote.
  11. That depends.. on Software Defects - Do Late Bugs Really Cost More? · · Score: 1

    Uh.. that depends on the bug. A bug where the grammar and spell checker are switched has a small initial cost to the user, but once they figure it out, it's fine. Fixing it should be near minimal cost. Something in an errata to the manual.. if there was a printed one, and poof. A software bug that costs near nothing.

    If it's a bug where something is off by a dollar per 100 or so transactions, that is hella costly. Both to find if it's not consistent, customer support and all of the other efforts to fix it.

  12. Re:Run DMC on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 1

    Except you cant' use iTMS mp3's on a nomad :P . I know.

  13. Re:Run DMC on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine pointed out... if you download an mp3 not in iTMS.. say, mp3.com or some other service, you CAN copy it into itunes and sync it to your pod.

    Same thing with the nomad manager. You can point itunes and the nomad music software at the same mp3s and still use it.

    So what's the big deal?

  14. Re:Yahoo! on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    Uh, yahoo creates cached pages. They dont' run php all the time. That'd be sick.

  15. Re:No.. on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget things like RMI/SOAP/XML-RPC. As a server technology, not client only.

  16. Re:Here's why... on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    Ah, the old attack and make invalid points scheme. I see how it is.

    Well, if you didn't know, VB and PHP are programming languages written by MS and Rasmus themselves. Over the years, they've gotten quite popular, so popular, that yahoo, blackplanet.com, asianavenue.com use for instance.

    The php compiler is obtuse. It requires a quirky recompile that taps into the internals. It's not built in a way that you can upgrade one or another.

    So in closing, you are a friggin moron, and.. uh.. you smell like pubes. There, I think i've evened out to the age level of your post.

  17. Re:Here's why... on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    When things started to go awry because php didn't scale w/o some obtuse compiler.

    They had to use some obtuse compiler.


    Mental blip.

  18. Re:Here's why... on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    no.. perl is really really easy to program in. same w/ pyton and ruby. basic as well. Problem with VB and php are they were badly designed yet widley used as an all purpose solution.

    For instance, I worked on a company that shunned java thinking it'd never get big, and promoted php. When things started to go awry because php didn't scale w/o some obtuse compiler. Then there were things like the error messages you got back. Once, php had a problem with number of includes (not memory size, just # of includes).

    Same thing with VB. There were little quirks in it that made it so dog slow, but "commercial apps" were written in it.

    Now lets step back and look at java. Java only has a slow startup time, just like netscape. It has it's set of issues. But you can easily work around them by using different methods. SWT is (I think) based off of JINI so you that IBM created it's own native widget set. If I didn't like swing? I could create my own widget set with the language.

    PHP and VB didn't create languages first. They created solutions first and then tried to backport to everything.

  19. No.. on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    W/o fine grain controls such as managing the persistent connection pool to resources...

    No, it's not.

    That's not to mention all the other architectual mishaps within the language. You thought perl was bad..

  20. Re:I wish people would make up their minds on Meet The New PHP5 Toolkit, Pidget · · Score: 1

    The best way is to simply keep the data away from your view. That way, you can replace one without having to affect the other unless your business logic changes.

    XML + XSLT, some teplate engine..

    assembling objects and then converting it to HTML is no more efficent, but if you want to move a submit button from the bottom of your screen to the top, you affect both.

  21. Speration of data and stuff on Meet The New PHP5 Toolkit, Pidget · · Score: 1

    This doesnt' seperate design from code. Infact it just keeps them tied together. I can't take a program using pidget that dynamically gets data and throw it at something else.

    XSLT does this, but let's skip XSLT. Let's use FreeMarker. It's a java templating engine. It has a little logic in it, but nothing like jsp and scriptlets. If I don't like the layout of how things are, I can leave my program the same and replace the tempalte.

    This doesn't facilitate keeping data seperate unless you have the due-dillagence to create a Render.class and throw all your data at that. This feels more like CGI.pm where you tell it to render last.

    When possible, you'd like to not have your data so close to your layout. Unfortunately, with QT, GTK, Java, you can't help that. So please, don't claim that it seperates it when it doesn't. All it does is give you another way to create HTML, something that can be done with true seperation with XSLT or some php template engine.

  22. Re:xbox too slow for the cost on Boot a CD and Make Your X-Box Join the Cluster · · Score: 1

    It was a joke. ;P Talk about tight assed.

  23. Re:xbox too slow for the cost on Boot a CD and Make Your X-Box Join the Cluster · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the price of screwing over the man? Priceless. SCREW OVER THE MAN!

    /spastic

  24. Re:Guess Who's To Blame on Spammers Using Hacked Machines as Decoys · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there are always exceptions to the rule. When was the last time you saw an ssh capable cisco router ;)

    Well, you have to remember, that things such about desktop software, is people don't want to have to learn how to set things up. THey wanna know that it works and it's easy to get to in less than 3 steps. You are right, things like making it hard is definitely worth while, and I think it's nice that XP has a firewall, but making it too complex would only aggravate the user.

    I particularly like how apple did it, and have everytyhing blocked, and you can unblock services. Problem is, having services initially blocked w/ no feed back could be a real problem to a user. "File sharing don't work" is all you'd hear. Maybe MS would make a special firewall taht initially redirects recognized traffic to a watcher that says, "Hey, someone is trying to do something." Or watches for a driver presence.

    I'm not sure how keychain particularly works, but it must need a key of some sort to get to the encrypted information. It may be a matter of time before someone writes something that captures that key in some way, and exploits that. It's on the same level of that entire SSL fiasco, where people were self signing their own keys and having it accepted on behalf of anyone they wanted to fake.

  25. Re:Microsoft is the problem. on Spammers Using Hacked Machines as Decoys · · Score: 1

    Dude, Bill Gates is paying you good money to write drivel like that, can't you use his grammar checker?


    Cry me a river. I made a few mistakes before submitting. Let's not forget how infallable you are, eh?

    I'd go point by point over your rant about how screaming and crying at MS would solve something. All in all MS makes money for the choices it makes. It pisses off a large amount of people, but a lot of people like things the way they are.

    After all, you are 100% right about how the real world works, right? 'cause Linux and *BSD are the way of the future. Unless you can write something better, quit yer' bitchin'.