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  1. Re:Could Gopher be used to defeat Censorship? on China Blocks Typepad, Prompts Weblog Blackout · · Score: 1

    The only thing it suggests is that they aren't blocking proxys. Unipeak retreives the page on its own server, then returns the results.

    It wouldn't be a very good proxy if all it did was mangle the url.

  2. Re:Natural Law on Six Months Old, Eight New Organs · · Score: 1

    In the cases of medicine, the Hippocratic Oath overrides natural law.

    "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect."

    There're arguments to be made that since we exhibit reason, we are necessarily detatched from natural law (the same argument is used for vegetarianism).

  3. This is... on Make the Debian CDs Better by Installing popcon · · Score: 1

    ... just like high school all over again.

    In other news, vim started putting up posters for prom queen.

  4. Re:Mods... on Cancelling Out CPU Fan Noise · · Score: 1

    It's a piece of hardware, not software. It replaces (or attaches to?) your normal CPU fan.

  5. Re:What about Apple? on Microsoft Facing European Sanctions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, it can. Unlike Windows, everything in Mac OS X can be removed with very little fuss. There are no programs which latch onto others, or system files, save for the system files themselves (of which Quicktime is not).

  6. Re:Move along, nothing to see here. on U.S. Plans Targeted Draft for Computer Personnel · · Score: 1

    The reason they're restaffing draft boards is to restock the number of people retiring. Contrary to popular belief, the draft boards are around even during peace time.

    Restocking of the staff boards means nothing.

  7. Re:Mandrake 8.0 beta is best for the home on Mandrake 8.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1
    If a certain program doesn't produce the same result with different compilers/platforms, the most like cause is not a bug in the compiler, but an undefined behaviour caused by a badly written program.
    Correction. A program that doesn't produce the same result with different compilers/platforms is most nearly a bug in the compiler. A program/compiler should adapt to the programmer/user, not the other way around. Saying it's the user's fault is the entire basis behind Microsoft's application base, and we all know how bad they are... Why should I have to adapt to a computer, if I'm supposed to be the one in control of it?