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  1. View-based programming on Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks · · Score: 1

    Eclipse takes an aspect-oriented approach to UI design. If your not in the "Debug View" then you wont be able to find the things you need to debug.

    Once of the advantages of this aspect-oriented approach is that menu items and UI elements change as your view changes. You keep the same oouter wrapper at all times, but your available choices very. I found it very confusing in the beginning, but once you get used to it it makes life a lot easier and keeps things cleaner.

  2. I was at a Media Lab fund raising get together.. on MIT, Boston College Refuse DMCA Subpoenas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...May 2002 to see if my company would continue to invest in the Media Lab as we had for the past 5 years. During the main Q&A session, I asked in front of about 500 attendees if the Media Lab was worried that legislation such as the DMCA would effect their ability to innovate and what they were doing to protect themselves. When I stood up and asked the question, a good portion of the audience let out a laugh. They thought it was a funny/silly question. I was probably only one of the only research-types there. Just goes to show how out of sync with reality corporate money spenders are...

  3. Re:From the StegFS FAQ on WiFi Hotspots Elude RIAA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    ...comes at a price. To ensure the security we
    have to allow data in the file system to be accidently overwritten.


    Accidentally overwritten data? So what's the difference again between Linux/StegFS and Windows/FAT32?

  4. From the article on State Of The Filesystem · · Score: 1

    In POSIX, attributes...However, as more people want more atributes (such as support for access control lists)

    Great now DARPA wants to control my access to my pr0n too!

  5. Your product is in the wrong market on Funding Open Source? · · Score: 1


    There is no 'marketing' of the the type of OS project your describe. A Palm-Java synchronization either works or it doesn't. If it works people pick up your code and make use of it. If it doesn't work, well....

    "Marketable" OS projects are ones like JBoss and MySQL that have an element of complexity that requires a skilled professional. Not to belittle the work you are doing, I'm sure it was no small task for you to develop, but as it stand now, the binaires and some Javadoc API and most Java hackers could pick up the slack.

    What's in in for a company to write you a check? By releasing your code OS, they don't jave to.

  6. Re:heh on Xbox Hackers, Linux, the DMCA, And Modchips · · Score: 1

    Don't be fooled by the FUD, the XBox is VERY interesting to the security community at large. This is the first time a 'DRM' system has been sold to consumers on a largse scale using a standard x86 architecture. It is a case study in how to lock down a general purpose computer in order to provide a platform for distribution of copyrighted material.

  7. From the code download page on Artificial Intelligence in Poker · · Score: 1

    This is not the full source code to Pokibot. Do not ask us for it. If it is not posted here, it is not open source.

    Not open source? <saltyPirateVoice>Man yer battlestation maties! We'll slashdot'em into submission </saltyPirateVoice>

  8. Look at is this way... on Glitches in Massive Government Databases? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe the bugs where put there by a malicious programmer (slashdotter?) who disagrees with all this tracking nonesense. No better way to sow the seeds of discontent.

    I was talking about something similar to a colleague about how I wouldn't be a part of a research proposal for the DoD because I fundamentally disagree with concept of a Big Brother State. He said that he actually new a researcher who had taken on defense-funded research projects in the past and just tanked-it on deliverables because of his own ideological sentiment. Not only was the research rendered innocuous, but it tied up government funds that could have been used on other more incideous projects.

    Not an approach I would champion, but interesting nonetheless...

  9. Re:Civil Disobedience as Communication Medium on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 1

    And please, above all, write your congressmen! You may only get a form letter response, but they keep a running total of which way their constituents stand on the issues. People sometimes laugh when they learn that I write my congressmen, but really, its one of the most 'patriotic' things you can do.

    If your not a part of the solution, you ARE the problem.

  10. Re:Might as well stay here on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 1

    The US agency you're refering to is this FDA. When I first heard about this I was livid. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is a drug safety and standards ogranization. It SHOULD NOT be a lobby organization for the pharma companies, but with Bush in the White House I guess this is to be expected.

  11. Re:The BitPass site doesn't give much information on Scott McCloud Tries Webcomic Micropayment · · Score: 1

    Even worse than that is their 'after-thought-esque' privacy policy. I'll consider signing up when they spend as much time drafting that as they do on their ToS.

  12. Re:Your sig on Building a PC Equal to XBox for the Same Price or Less? · · Score: 1

    I've been using vi for a lot of embedded programming lately. Is there a way to cut and paste without having to cut the entire line (e.g. just cut and paste a word from one line into the middle of another line)?

  13. Image a beowulf cluster of these! on TV Brick - Open Source TV Streaming? · · Score: 0

    Iron chef + Anime + Sumo Wrestling all @ the same frequency!

  14. Re:Great. on Netscape 7.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I too was prepared to call this code bloat, but really this is part of a larger trend - the application as an integration portal.

    There classic route with browsers has been standard, standard, standard. This is great for service deployment. When browsers first hit the scene, companies jumped on it because it drastically cut their support and development costs. No longer a Mac version, a linux version, a sun version etc., just one 'web' version.

    The problem though, is that browsers are limited in what they can do in a standard fashion. What browsers like Mozilla will allow you to do as a corporate application developer is to deploy applications built to perform on virtual machine of sorts (namely Mozilla).

    You get the benefits of standardization with the advantages of a closer platform specific integration.

    Companies will be slow to adopt this approach, but the 'portal' as a concept is rapidly approaching the limitis of what can be achieved with a standard web browser features.

    My predicition: We'll see the platform war all over again, except the M$ contender will be Explorer and not Windows *.

  15. Re:Incidental Consolidation on Why Are We on E-mail Blacklists? · · Score: 1

    No.

  16. Re:Shameless plug on Fan-Made Space Quest Prequel Released · · Score: 1

    and retrieving (and not retrieving) the money from the char

    Doh! I must have missed that part. What's that all about?

  17. Re: Does Google = God? on Does Google = God? · · Score: 1


    nyt.cpp: In function 'int main(int, char **)':
    nyt.cpp:44: invalid conversion from 'God' to 'Google'

  18. Re:But... on Build a Multi-Output MP3 Server? · · Score: 1

    This was my knee-jerk response as well. Multiple sounds cards is just plance silly. Feed one decentent card into a audi amplifier and go from there. If you really want to get funky, try and find audio am that you can control digitally. V = IR is the way to go on this one.

  19. Re:Mr. Tilley... on Slashback: Transparency, USB, Europatents · · Score: 1


    I beg to differ. Real world material DO follow Ohms law exactly. It is only our inability to make scientific measurements with infinite precision that results in a certain margin of error. Until we can measure solids accuratly to the atom electron (quark?) you'll have to pay attention to those little silver and gold stripes on your resistors.

  20. Re:Mr. Tilley... on Slashback: Transparency, USB, Europatents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I myself am a skeptic when it comes to absolutes, but if science calls it a LAW, then I'll go alongh with it. The scientific criteria for a law is pretty extreme.

    You see, we scientisits, unlike member of the USB consortium, don't base our conclusions on market surveys...

    Here's a quick review scientific method in order of refutability:

    Hypothesis
    Theory
    Law

    I find you argument that 3 LAWS of theromodynamics are invalid becuase of the big bang laughable.

    You do realize that what you saying boils down to "That scientific law can't be a law becuase of this theory over here", don't you?

  21. Re:Distributing Television on KaZaA Wants to Be An Official Content Distributor · · Score: 1

    That's were these guys come into play. The ads are embedded into the televsion programs, hence no demographic problems.

    Although, I'm not sure how, exactly, tapax advertisments would tie into the Oprha Winfrey show (I'll leave that up the marketing whores)

  22. From the web site: on More Cheap Linux PCs · · Score: 1

    From the web site:

    Linare provides home users a more user friendly and a reliable operating system to realize a digital world possible with computer and the Internet.

    This is the operating system home users have been looking for which makes the home users life easier with desktop and many other open source application
    .

    Sounds to me like this came straight from the bablefish translation of the original taiwanese press release.

  23. Re:REQ: Internet ROM on Internet Emulator · · Score: 1

    I would have expected a link to this site

  24. Bill? Bill Gates? on Bill Would Let FBI Police File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who read the title and thought that Bill Gates was in an interview where he suggested that the FBI have more powers to cruise P2P?

  25. Even if this was passed... on Using Closed Standards To Pay For Open Ones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ..the logic here is flawed.

    My company is active in SA and I had a chance to talk with a colleague about the SA gov over dinner. From what I gathered, the government there is EXTREAMLY corrupt. The cash collected here probably wouldn't be going to fund open source projects, it would be going into politicians pockets.

    While this might be a good model if properly implemented in a country not riddled with corruption, M$ would just write this off as the cost of doing business in South Africa without concerning itself with open standards comformance.