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  1. But aren't they addresses? on Swedish Court Says IP Numbers Privacy Protected · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't the whole point of a publicly routable address to trace to a specific host or gateway? I sense some significant unintended consequences here. A ton of services will have real problems if this gets enforced thoroughly.

    I'm comparing this to phone numbers in my head. Even if you have an unlisted number, should it be illegal for someone to write down your number if it shows up on caller ID when you call them?

  2. Re:hmm on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 1

    I miss the Microsoft of the 1980's, when they actually had products that weren't copies of everybody else's products.

     
    Such as? Really, I'm not trying to razz you (ok maybe a little) I'm actually curious.

  3. Google Latitude on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Prepaid cellphone with long standby life in the pocket of her backpack or book bag.Recharge the battery a couple nights a week.Manage the lattitude account yourself to ensure only appropriate monitoring.

  4. Re:This is only the beginning. on CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree · · Score: 1

    I apologize in advance if reading the above post causes the unprepared to die from pnumonia or similar ailment.

  5. This is only the beginning. on CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next thing you know Jimbo will be rounding up Scientologists,forcing them into camps near active volcanos, and then blowing them all up with H-bombs.

  6. Ocaml on Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Every time I see one of these things, OCaml always rocks it. I wonder why it never caught on to a greater degree?

  7. I havent had time to post lately. on Understanding Addiction-Based Game Design · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been playing Heroin Hero 60 hours/week. Someday I'll catch that pesky dragon!

  8. Re:Will we get to see the request? on Adobe Uses DMCA On Protocol It Promised To Open · · Score: 1

    Under the law, SourceForge is compelled to honor the request to remove the user's content unless and until the takedown letter is contested by the user. If the user contests the notice (basically sending a formal letter stating "Nuh-uh"), SourceForge can put the content back up. If Adobe then proceeds to litigation or files a criminal complaint, a judge might order SourceForge to pull the content, or not.

    This is of course my layman's understanding of the law, not legal advice.

  9. Re:Database abstraction layers people on Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair? · · Score: 1

    I'll take L^2P^2 please (Linux Lighthttpd Postgres Python)

  10. In Other News: on Sun To Build World's Biggest App Store Around Java · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Debian Project has announced the creation of an Apt Store. This exciting repository will allow users to get whatever packages they need without even touching their mice.

  11. Re:Heroin? What Kinda Book Reading Do You Do, JR? on Space Vulture · · Score: 2, Funny

    There seems to be s serial pattern of homophone substitutions in the review.

  12. Re:What "Cash"? on Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale · · Score: 1

    MS Bolivia - "Where do you want to go to escape extradition?"

  13. Re:It's time... on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I would wan to be informed of that eventuality.

  14. Re:RIP DNF on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps the projects could merge. HIRD of Users Reviving Duke?

  15. Re:uClibc on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is not dead which can ACPI, and with strange ions charge is stored on Li.

  16. Re:Yay! on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 1

    I'd bet money that IBM EBCDIC z/OS deployments vastly outnumber all other EBCDIC implementations combined. At the very least "Do EBCDIC like IBM" should be the default option.

  17. Amusing on Atari Emulation of CRT Effects On LCDs · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of the audio effects that add pops and scratches to music to imitate (badly) the sound of old vinyl.

  18. Re:The joke writes itself. on Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin · · Score: 1

    I do have an LDS buddy who goes beyond the official "No Hot Drinks" proscription to the extent of not only avoiding soda, but also most chocolates and Excedrin due to the caffine content. Of course that his his own interpretation rather than the orthodox one, but I don't think he's alone in the practice either.

  19. The joke writes itself. on Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin · · Score: 4, Funny

    In addition to Rock n Roll, the mormon crickets are repelled by alchohol, caffine, premarital sex, and gay marriage.

  20. Re:Good-bye MySQL on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 3, Informative
    • ACID across the board rather than as an option.
    • Extensibility with at least half-a-dozen languages
    • EXCEPT/INTERSECT in UNION,

    • (Ironically)Broad compatability with Oracle pl/SQL

    ...just to name a few.

    MySQL offers some speed benefits, but mostly when you're using MyISAM, which costs you ACID. For some applications that may be a desirable trade off, but I'm inclined to use BerkelyDB or SQLite for those, and use PostgreSQL when heavier lifting is called for. Most of MySQL's speed advantages over PostgreSQL narrow when MySQL runs with InnoDB rather than MyISAM and Postgres is given more memory than its rather conservative (for up to date hardware) default settings.

  21. Re:Not formatted on How Does Flash Media Fail? · · Score: 1

    There's a good chance that even is the filesytem is corrupted, the image files themselves may be intact and recoverable. A good camera store will offer that as a service, but if you pick up a new memory card you can often get them with recovery software bundled. I've used Lexar's Image Rescue software to good effect in similar circumstances.

    If you were shooting at full quality, 5MP JPEGs should work out to around 2.5MB, give or take. OTOH if you were shooting on "Normal" rather than "Fine" or whatever, 10MB could be a dozen pics or more.

  22. "Three Strikes?" Nevaire! on French Assembly Rejects Three Strikes Bill · · Score: 3, Informative

    As if the National Assembly would adopt a policy rooted in the Diversion Nationale de les Etats Unis.

  23. Re:Head hurts parsing this sentence... on Rackable Buying SGI Assets For $25M? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You have parsed the sentance correctly. The construction is an idiomatic one, typically used by older folks looking back on how times have changed or younger folks affecting a similar attitude.

  24. Great Book! on Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat" · · Score: 1

    I much prefer Mastering cat to Teach Yourself cat in 24 Hours.

  25. Obligatory Ghandi Quote... on German Police Raid Homes of Wikileaks.de Domain Owner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

    Keep up the good work, wikileaks. Somebody's got to.