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  1. Re:Drive Errors? on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 1

    one sector of metadate [ inodes, etc ] and you can lose much much more. It is true in plaintext filesystems as well, but patterning can often be used to resolve this. Random data is just random data.

    Nice to see the entire investment community of True Crypt is out to shill for them today....

  2. Re:X Windows?? on The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' · · Score: 1

    ...besides don't most of us download, say, the browser anyway? Kind of a boot strap thing...

    nicely put.

  3. Re:not legal, ethical on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    Law is about what is allowed; ethics is about what is right. The best that the worst can claim is that "I didn't break the law".

  4. not legal, ethical on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    Law is very simple in comparison.

  5. Re:Games are like guitars... on Game-Related Education On the Rise At Colleges · · Score: 2, Funny

    but I dream of programming a guitar game....

  6. the answer... on Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems · · Score: 1

    to crappy applications isn't to tack it onto the kernel. Ken Thompsons paper, written 30 odd years ago, reprinted in linuxjournal.com/article/2792, provides a better framework for understanding why this approach is so brain damaged.

    On the other hand, every program within Gnome [ or whatever the desktop bling of the day is ] should co-ordinate ideas like 'recently referenced/saved/etc.... files', so that after clicking save in 'on app', I can find it immediately in the next app. That doesn't need any kernel work [ or even use of inotify like hacks ] to achieve.

  7. Re:Wrong! on Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Every day, sunrise should be at 6:00am and sunset at 6:00pm. Fixed time is dreary.

  8. Re:Why is Cobol still alive? on Cobol Job Market Heating Up · · Score: 1

    Sadly, after 30+ years of good times, the bean counters finally figured out that it is cheaper to maintain working systems. I think IT projects "jumped the shark" when they started coming in 10-20x budget, and were still unusable.
    It was a good ride though, and I hope the frenzied emergence of insane development methodologies and poorly considered languages are an attempt to restart the party.

  9. Re:Drink to fight cancer! ? on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    Yes, why not add it to just about everything; I mean, what could go wrong? Since it isn't recommended for anyone under 18, it would be more effective to put it in broccoli than beer.

  10. Re:An obvious question... on Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security · · Score: 1

    We have municipal elections?

  11. Re:An obvious question... on Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security · · Score: 1

    I'm not American but I think in US elections they have a large number of things to vote for, from president to how often garbage gets picked up. Canadian elections are simple - one check mark on one sheet of paper; occasionally there is a mini-referendum, so two check marks on two pieces of paper.

  12. Re:go with Perforce on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    I've only worked at one shop that used it, and it was awful.

    Most developers would keep a shadow workspace that they worked from. When they were ready to sync, go to the actual one, p4 edit the diffed files; manually copy the new versions over top; p4 sync; repeat as necessary. Pretty much defeated the point of it.

    I was new and tried to use it as intended, but it had no whims about clobbering anything it didn't understand, so its bugs were disastrous.

    It was fast; though I could have saved half my workspace if it had been a bit slower.

  13. get a grip on Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents · · Score: 1

    The votes are held within partitions C, L, B, N, I. On any particular bill, if card(Yea) > card(Nay), it becomes law. It is a minority situation, so to pass a law, it must be C + select* [L, B, N]; which is exactly the situation with the "Old government of Canada" (which, ironically called itself the "New government of Canada"). 'I' doesn't count because card(I) = 2.

    The "newest government of Canada" is as lame as the "New government of Canada" was; nothing changed, except every party leader will be gone before the next election because of said lameness......

  14. virtualization hole on Walmart Caves On DRM Removal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apologies for marginally off topic, but couldn't I write an 'audio driver' for Xen, Bochs, .... which took the samples intended for the sound card and store them to a file; un-drming anything? Same for DVDs? Where does this stand with DMCA? I'm not reverse engineering anything....

  15. Re:No substitute for self control on Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod -1, Buzzkill.

  16. Thanks on Venture Capitalism To the Rescue · · Score: 1

    You saved me from an embarrassing post...

  17. Use them as CAPTCHA... on Optical Character Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Use the handwritten words as CAPTCHAs
    2. Wait for the bad guys to come up with programs to break them.
    3. ...
    4. Profit!

  18. Re:Department of Justice on Microsoft Bids To Take Over Open Document Format · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can't we add a "+1 Shill" to the moderator options?

  19. Re:eh on Linux Rescues Battery Life On Vista Notebooks From Dell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe dell will fork a design to leave out the x86 and assorted junk. A notebook sized iPhone-like device with huge battery life would be pretty cool....

  20. carbon credits? on Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently · · Score: 1

    communist.

  21. Good Thought. on "Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker · · Score: 1

    Maybe Wall street should run it.

  22. Re:any documentation on Microsoft Documentation Declared Unfit For US Consumption · · Score: 1

    Qnx used to send a bag of cookies with the installation kit.

  23. Re:It's too bad on Adobe Adds GPU Acceleration To Creative Suite 4 · · Score: 1

    you couldn't find the mini-dvi output on the imac. You can sit on a pillow on the iMac and have a seat warmer, workstation combo....

  24. rah! rah! on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What a cheerleader! Is this really what the poor aviation industry has sunk to? If they spent a little more effort on avionics they wouldn't have to pimp such embarrassing crap....

  25. Re:Slightly OT , but can someone explain... on Sun Bare Metal Hypervisors Now GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    I think it is about device support. Although it is possible to emulate a given device [ say an ethernet controller or graphics chip ] at the register level, performance and compatibility would be pretty crappy. On the other hand, if they define an 'abstract' device, and provide a matching device driver for the target OS, they can do much better. The other choice is to give the guest OS direct access to the hardware, but that can expose the vm manager maliciousness or incompetence from the guest OS drivers.