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  1. Re:Mod this up on KDE 3.0 Beta 2 is out · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i'll remember that the next i mod one of your k5 submissions........

  2. Karma Suicide!! on KDE 3.0 Beta 2 is out · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus. So moderators: Do your worst! Mod me troll/flame/OT/Overrated/Whatever to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!

  3. Karma Suicide!! on Surveillance in Washington DC And At Bookstores · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus. So moderators: Do your worst! Mod me troll/flame/OT/Overrated/Whatever to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!

  4. Karma Suicide!! on GNU-Friends and Free Software Development Network · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus. So moderators: Do your worst! Mod me troll/flame/OT/Overrated/Whatever to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!

  5. Karma Suicide!! on Dot.Con · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus. So moderators: Do your worst! Mod me troll/flame/OT/Overrated/Whatever to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!

  6. Karma Suicide!!! on Harnessing Subatomic Effects for Product Authentication · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus. So moderators: Do your worst! Mod me troll/flame/OT/Overrated/Whatever to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!

  7. Re:First Poster. on Star Wars: Galaxies Preview · · Score: -1, Troll
  8. Karma Suicide!! on Star Wars: Galaxies Preview · · Score: -1, Troll

    After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus. So moderators: Do your worst! Mod me troll/flame/OT/Overrated/Whatever to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!

  9. Karma Suicide!! on Concerning The Cancellation of Futurama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus. So moderators: Do your worst! Mod me troll/flame/OT/Overrated/Whatever to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!

  10. Re:We need technical measures, not laws, for spam on FTC Goes After Spammers · · Score: 2

    personally, I differentiate between different types of spam. Email I get from places like ebay, amazon, etc I dont consider spam because I know they got my address directly from me, and I can opt-out and that they will honor the request. I consider spam to be email from people that harvest addresses from usenet and other websites, spoof email addresses, dont respond to opt-out requests, etc. If you follow my definitions, lawmakers might be able to catch on to what the problem of spam is.

    (Note: I dont actually get email from ebay and amazon because I have unchecked those boxes when I registered myself. I just used them as examples of reputable companies)

  11. Re:Why doesn't... on What Makes a Powerful Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    java lacks multiple inheritance and operator overloading

  12. Re:Wrong way? on Spiral Galaxy Spins the Wrong Way · · Score: 0

    i agree. what if we're looking at the galaxy from the wrong side? When you look striaght on at a clock, you see the hands move clockwise. The view from the back of the clock is counterclockwise. How do we know this isnt in the case?

  13. Re:Music lesson... on Bill Joy's Takes on C# · · Score: 1

    ok, so the piano is not entirely accurate. but for the vast majority of people here it works because they are not musicians, hence it is terms they'll easily grasp.

  14. Music lesson... on Bill Joy's Takes on C# · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is no C-Flat. Occasionally it is written on a piece of music, but it refers to a B. Lowering a C half a step gives you a B-Natural. Someone suggested C-Double-Falt. That would be a B-Flat.

    The reason for this is on the piano, the player needs to be able to look down and determine where their hands are based on the missing black keys between the notes B,C and F,E.

    Although, calling C# "B" might be interesting. But then again, there was a language B by K&R that preceded C.

  15. Re:Inquiring minds would like to know... on Feds to Publish Public Comments on MS Settlement · · Score: 1

    some of those 7000 were things like "This case should've never been brought" Those could be MS generated as well....

  16. Re:Regular Expressions! on Google Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    DFAs are equivalent to NFAs, and DFA happen to run much faster because they are much smaller than NFAs. In addition, there's only one result from a DFA, NFAs produce an unknown number of results.

  17. Re:Try Truetime on Weird PC Clock Behavior? · · Score: 1

    actually, one should be careful to which version of windows is used. It's been my experience that Win98 loses time as the days go on without reboots. They lose about 30 seconds after one day, a 1-2 mins after 2 days, 7-10 after 3 days, ya get the idea -- not to mention the system slows down as the days go on too. Typically restarting puts everything back to normal, as Windows uses the system clock to set it's own clock during boot, and relies solely on it's own clock from then on.

    Win2K (and I assume WinXP) dont have these time loss and slowdown features.

  18. Re:What encrpytion? on mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 0.9.8 · · Score: 2

    oops. i had that grim feeling after posting that i goofed something. The symmetric session key is generated by the client (browser) side, sent to the server encrypted using it's private key, and ok'd by the server.

    there's a heck of a lot more to SSL that what we discussed. Take a look at an intro i found that describes it more detail.

  19. Re:yeah, this aint over... on Chip Rosenthal Wins Unicom Domain Name Case · · Score: 2

    do'h! I left out the fact that the case was being tried in California, where Texas laws dont apply.

  20. yeah, this aint over... on Chip Rosenthal Wins Unicom Domain Name Case · · Score: 4, Informative

    the case was tossed out by the judge because Chip was from Texas, not because he was there first or anything to do with trademarks. This was very similar to what LindowsOS is trying to do with Microsoft. MS wants the case tried under Washington state laws, but LindowsOS is trying to get the case tossed because they havent done any business in Washington.

    At any rate, Unicom Systems Inc will find a way to keep things going against Unicom Systems Development, we'll here more about this in a few months.

  21. Re:What encrpytion? on mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 0.9.8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    actually, SSL typically uses both RSA or Diffie-Hellman and DES to secure a connection. The server's certificate is signed by the issuer's private key, verified by the browser having the public key built in (hard-coded usually). Upon verification, the cert contains the public key of the server, and the server sends over a DES session key encrypted using the server's private key. Browser decrypts the key, and all communications from there are encrypted using that DES session key.

    Most sites use the DH algorithm because it's faster, but others use RSA because they need to maintain backward compatibility to older browsers. Those algs are only used for authentication and key exchange, DES is used for actual messages because it's faster than asymmetric cypto.

    note that the above is for unverified clients (meaning the server does not check client certificates), and is simplifed to exclude finer details like message integrity.

    so basically, Mozillas problems might be more than it's RSA implementation.

  22. Re:skip the MFCs. try java/perl on Programming References for the Win32 Environment? · · Score: 1

    what license is wxWin under?

    (btw- swing can produce native look-and-feel for the desktop system it's running on. it's just the occasional slow responses that give away the fact it's java.)

  23. sounds like a lot of people on Space Tourist Standards · · Score: 2

    It looks like if you have a history of .. lying .. you won't be going into space anytime soon, no matter how much money you have

    Gee, sounds like Billy Gates, Sun, HP, the Govt themselves, Adobe, even slashdot, wont be headed to space. Any others?

  24. Re:skip the MFCs. try java/perl on Programming References for the Win32 Environment? · · Score: 2

    yeah, i can agree that getting a Swing GUI app to look correctly is tricky, but would be just as tricky in other settings like the Perl/Tk API. However, I have found that the more I've worked with Swing, the easier it becomes just out of practice using it and the experience gained out of it.

    IMO, saying it looks like VB is stretching it. If it looks like a 93 VB app then someone probably didnt know what they were doing when they coded up the GUI part of the tool. I know for one there's a GNUtellium written in Java that looks like any other Windows app when I run it using the Windows-look-n-feel.

    There are IDEs out there for targeting the JVM that include GUI-builders. These may work in getting things to look good, but I've never used them, so i cant say which are good/bad.

  25. skip the MFCs. try java/perl on Programming References for the Win32 Environment? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    try java, perl, or some other cross-platform language. since you're writing for a school, it'll be easier to port the app to Linux or Macs should the school decide to change sometime in the future.

    Chances are good you're developing a GUI app, so Java's Swing and Perl's Tk Libraries will do well for you.

    The big plus is you dont need to learn all about MFC classes and such beforehand, hence making your life easier if you already know the abovementioned languages. You'll also have the skills of using those languages when you back to your UNIX programming.