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  1. Re:Wriggling on Microsoft's Martin Taylor Responds · · Score: 1

    I don't agree. Think about apt-get. I have never had an debian package provided by debian, fail to install and run perfectly. Hence I would think the claim could be made that if ms-compliant software is used, the product will be fit for X, Y or even Z.

    But to claim that it is not necessarily fit for any purpose whatsoever, then charge money for it, should be against the law of contract (basically value given for value received).

    Justin.

  2. Re:Mono And Linux on Miguel de Icaza Talks About Mono · · Score: 1

    No, you don't. You can create one class and pass it in to all of them, in an MVC controller-type pattern. You just need a class that's clever enough to handleall the events - or create a factory for them!

    J.

  3. Congratulations. on Linux-Based Cat Feeder · · Score: 1

    That's the best worst joke I've ever seen on Slashdot. Moderators look and learn!

  4. Re:Mono And Linux on Miguel de Icaza Talks About Mono · · Score: 1

    You do realise that they don't have to be anon, don't you? That's just for convenience.

    J.

  5. Re:Of course the don't include... on MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting
    2005-to-date appears to be a unique time in history that he can make this claim vaguely valid, but when you just look at the totals for the systems you get different into.

    Secunia totals are...

    Server 2003; 5 unpatched of 44
    Office; 2 unpatched of 7
    Exchange 2003; 1 unpatched of 3
    IIS 6; 1 unpatched of 3
    SQL Server 2000; 1 unpatched of 10
    Total; 10 unpatched of 67

    Justin.
    Apologies for the crap formatting, /. should let me use tabs. So there.

  6. Re:He chose the wrong word on Blog Content Based Solely on High Paying Keywords · · Score: 1

    They don't have to spell it, he does!

    Google's adwords are chosen based on your site's content, and ads with associated adwords are displayed embedded in your page. So you could mention mesothelioma yourself, which would cause a a mesothelioma-related advert to get selected and displayed, then if someone clicks on it, voila! Free money!

    Justin.

  7. Re:Some thoughts on Blog Content Based Solely on High Paying Keywords · · Score: 1

    Oh I don't know. After all, most of the content at /. is external cos *everyone* reads the articles, and *noone* just jumps right in and posts ;-)

    J.

  8. Re:Firefox is good, but it does have bugs (duh) on Spyware for Firefox Coming This Year? · · Score: 1

    I was calling him a shill cos of the whole tone of his post. Oddly enough, not being 12 years old I am aware that all software has bugs.

    Incidentally, failure to block pop-ups isn't a security issue.

    J.

  9. Shill, shill, shill, shill, shill. on Spyware for Firefox Coming This Year? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are a shill. Sod off.

  10. Would someone *please* mod this overrated?! on The Sub-$100 Laptop? · · Score: 1
    Using slower memory is not better per se but the ability to use slower memory gained by slimming down your system when your primary target is cheapness is rather useful.

    J.

  11. Re:I've already seen some... on Spyware for Firefox Coming This Year? · · Score: 1

    I was worried for a minute, till I realised that this attack also needed MS Office for it to work... Let me know when OOo has a vuln ;-)

    J.

  12. Re:It's advancements like these... on Patients get Solar Implants in Eyes · · Score: 1

    I'm one of the 19 ;-) but I know that advancements in computing and algorithms are useful to the world at large. Imagine if this biomedical team had not had computers to design their implant?

    Do what you can. Do it well. Don't worry that you can't do everything. Don't worry about being unsung, so long as you know you did what you could.

    Justin.
    PS Oh, and slander Microsoft/SCO every chance you get.

  13. Re:This isn't a newly discovered exploit. on Shmoo Group Finds Exploit For non-IE Browsers · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're right - the example from a couple of years ago was using www.microsoft.com but with the Os in microsoft being a russian character that is drawn identically.

    I can't be arsed to search for it either.

    Justin.

  14. Re:US Government missed its own prior art on Microsoft Seeks Latitude/Longitude Patent · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough the UK Ordnance Survey has used a similar system for over two hundred years.

    Justin.

  15. Understand the F patent test. on Microsoft Seeks Latitude/Longitude Patent · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand the meaning of the phrase "not obvious". Any half-competent programmer would have suggested some scheme along these lines if asked "how can we represent all those numbers more easily" by their PHB.

    Justin.

  16. Re:Question for you astronomers out there.... on A Star of Space and Film · · Score: 1

    Sharpness is also a quality of scale: this is fucking huge, so /relatively/ it is sharp enough to compare with like a few microseconds old coming from your four-year-old niece riding her bike for the first time.

    J.

  17. Re:The Creator on Moglen's Plans to Upgrade the GPL · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Nah, that's exactly right. Cos an operating system doesn't include a desktop, a media player and , it just does device and memory management. Linux is exactly that: an operating system.

    See here

    Justin.

  18. Re:Hopefully good will come out of this. on Moglen's Plans to Upgrade the GPL · · Score: 1
    They just want to make money and contribute back when it's nessisary and important.
    Yeah, and I just want to borrow your XBox and give it back when I feel like it too.

    Man, some people/companies just don't get the whole 'give and ye shall receive' - and vice versa! - thing, do they?

    J.

  19. Re:It's not just cell phones on PDA Sales Fall for Third Year in Row · · Score: 1

    That's odd cos my new phone does everything I need plus plays MP3s (and takes a gig card to store them on) ;-)

    J.

  20. Re:It will only get worse before getting better on Torvalds Joins Anti-Patent Attack · · Score: 1

    Don't think they didn't consider it, but it fails the 'prior art' and 'obvious' tests. Unlike RMS, however, he isn't overbroad.

    J.

  21. Re:any software patent is bad on Torvalds Joins Anti-Patent Attack · · Score: 1
    In any organization of significant size, you can rest assured they've got at least one bastardly lawyer.
    I think you meant "In any organization with at least one lawyer, you can rest assured they've got at least one bastardly lawyer."

    Justin.

  22. Re:Ugh... on Torvalds Joins Anti-Patent Attack · · Score: 1

    I'm confused... I thought the WMD already did disappear and Bush and Blair have certainly stopped using it?

    Justin.

  23. Re:Interesting quote on 4 Linux Distros Compared To Win XP, Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd like to see inbuilt antivirus security in all operating systems first. Then let's have medicine for the trojans and other socially spread stuff.

    J.

  24. Heh. on MSN Search Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    The page crashes (freezes) my IE (6.0 on xpsp2) here at work ;-)

    Justin.

  25. Also join the 'fuckthis' community. on TiVo to Offer SDK · · Score: 1

    NYT has a fuckthis/fuckthis logon. So have lots of other soul-sucker sites. Use them freely! If you find a site that doesn't, please add it.

    NB, some have fuckthis/fuckthis2,3,4 etc. This is for the rare occasions when sites require updated passwords.

    J.