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  1. Re:Clarify please? on European Commission Reverses its Views on Patents · · Score: 1

    My guess would be some sort of Mercantilism.

  2. Re:they have lost control on McNealy Created Millions of Jobs? · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering what all those java applications are doing in Debian!

    I'm not getting what you are trying to say, if anyone could make their own implementation of the Java language with their own changes it wouldn't be Java anymore simply because is has been changed from the specs. The specifications of the language can be found at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/

    You want to call your implementation Java, you'll need to get the certification from the JCP.

    Are you saying the C# standards lacks such requirements?

  3. Re:Java != fat on Will Sun Open Source Java? · · Score: 1

    Almostt everytime I have seen this memory behavior it was the programmers (me) fault, being to lazy to actually check for dangling references hoping the GC will do his job just the way he would like it to.

    Azureus is the other side of this, it has huge memory leaks somewhere in native code. Azureus and the JVM are happily thinking that they are within the maximum allowed memory limits when top (and the swapfile) show otherwise.

  4. Re:This would help on Will Sun Open Source Java? · · Score: 1

    All it would take to install Sun's JVM on Debian is a small script like we already have seen for ttf fonts, nvidia and flash to wrap a wget to the binary distribution and run make-jpkg on it.

  5. Re:they have lost control on McNealy Created Millions of Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Are you just a C# fanboy or did you miss the fact that there have been multiple JVM implementations (even open source ones) around for years (http://www.kaffe.org/links.shtml lists some).

    While Java is not an open standard like ISO or ECMA standards ,it is not (entirely) closed either (see JCP).

  6. Re:Programming on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    Aha, you got swamped in Java (the API) without understanding Java (the language).

    That fact that you had a terrible textbook for $LANGUAGE, doesn't make that language terrible.

    I personally hate the fact that the primitives are not Object()s, but it is still my favorite programming environment due to its completeness (API and tons of stuff out there).

  7. Re:Quicktime? on Lessig, Stallman in New Documentary · · Score: 1

    How nice to have the an open container when the content stream are patented (divx in this case)!

  8. Re:Fritz Lang's M on Australians to Get Compulsory Photo ID Smartcard · · Score: 1

    Do you have a drivers license? If you have one you must have forgotten the costs, I'll try to help you remind them:
    -lessons (about 50EUR per hour)
    -the exams (atleast 2x)
    -the piece of paper (atleast 2x)

    THE biggest difference is that in the Netherlands you can't go to the CBR (DMV) directly yourself. No examinator will step into a car that has no insurance for being operated on public roads by an unqualified person, that is what you minimally need a driving instructor for. While the minimal costs are about 300EUR (if you don't need any lessons and can get a car), most people will be set back an average of 2000EUR.

    Back on topic: the difference between a passport and an ID is that the ID is handed out by the municipality, a passport by the Dutch government. An ID will let you move around the EU and some of it's border countries only though.

  9. Re:PINE + PortaPuTTY + Thumb Drive on Gmail vs Pine · · Score: 1

    The answer would be a http tunnel like http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html (never had to use it though)

  10. Re:One Point For Gmail on Gmail vs Pine · · Score: 1

    There is no big difference except that they need a little extra complexity to get the graphics running, but throw in a X/VNC/RDP/ICA client and all is the same.

  11. Re:Laws need to change on RMS Views on Linux, Java, DRM and Opensource · · Score: 1

    Even in the Star Trek universe there are episodes about controversial topics like ownership and copyrights within the "utopian" Federation:
    http://www.tv.com/star-trek-the-next-generation/th e-measure-of-a-man/episode/19022/summary.html
    http://www.tv.com/star-trek-voyager/author-author/ episode/26480/summary.html

  12. Re:Blu Ray? on Another Sony Format Bites the Dust · · Score: 1

    So where were the mp3 players at the time of the minidisc launch?

    This thread is really stupid, because companies like Sony and Philips try to invent new stuff a part (lots) of them fail like DCC and minidisc mostly due to overestimating consumers cares about the added quality to the old cassette or form factor compared to CD, the professionals already had their DAT.

    Some of the product are a success (CD, DVD) and they have to make sure to milk enough products to produce a successor before the competition does.

  13. Re:Bullpuckey. on Movie Downloads to Coincide with DVD release · · Score: 1

    "Good luck with that...your tail will be handed to you. No matter how you try to portray it, the point will remain that you downloaded and viewed content distributed through (presently) illegal channels."

    But luckily there are still places in the world where above is completely legal.

  14. Re:Eh? on Movie Downloads to Coincide with DVD release · · Score: 1

    Obviously the "can" should be "can't"

  15. Re:Eh? on Movie Downloads to Coincide with DVD release · · Score: 1

    You can't be much of a sendmail hacker if you can spell queue.

  16. Re:Beer sploit confirmed! on OpenSSH Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    AKA social engineering

  17. Re:How do you know it's not real? on How Hot Would a Light Saber Really Be? · · Score: 1

    So that makes Scanners (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/) "realistic" :)

  18. Re:Haven't used on GMail for Domains vs. MS Live Office? · · Score: 1

    And that is why I will keep running my own stuff: full control.

  19. Re:Tons of technical problems on Living In Oblivion · · Score: 1

    This should be modded redundant since both Daggerfall and Morrowind had these "features".

    Sure creating such games isn't easy and all the possible hardware combinations on a PC can trigger obscure bugs, but for known fixed configuration of consoles to have bugs really makes you think about testing procedures (esp. when players experience these during the main quest).

  20. Re:the real problem on Pay-per-email and the "Market Myth" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This solves nothing, 99% of spam is being send by zombies.

    If simple smtp daemons on zombies don't work anymore, zombies simply will be updated to use the users MUA. The spam remains but only it will be easier to hold an individual user "accountable" for its spreading.

  21. Re:my experience gmail hosting my email on Review of GMail for Your Domain · · Score: 1

    Which should ONLY be run in a trusted environment, I wouldn't give anyone control of my private key. I used a crude js/php for onetime RSA keys a couple of years ago, but that was a PITA. An other solution would be to run the calculations in activex or java on the client. The user would have to carry its key with them somehow though.

  22. Re:I gave it a try on Review of GMail for Your Domain · · Score: 1

    While you are theoretically right I can verify that most of my mail is delivered directly from my smtpd to the recipients smtpd (and vice versa). And the number of smtp daemons that support encrypted transport is slowly increasing.

    Most mail that isn't directly delivered is by borked postfix installations that bump the message to a secondary MX upon the first temporary failure (greylisting).

    The biggest problem IMHO is the fact that most users happily use plain old pop(3)/imap without any type of encryption for neither authentication nor transport.

    It's getting better but if you think you need privacy you should start by educating the recipients in the hope you can use some kind of encryption in the future.

  23. Re:I gave it a try on Review of GMail for Your Domain · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no such problem (at this moment) if you do greylisting BEFORE a spamassassin check. The python greylistd filters thousands of messages in the same time SA does 1.

  24. Re:The key to acceptance: on Consumer Problems with Blu-ray and HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    It's convenient for anybody who wants it to be convenient.

    HD diskspace is cheap, (archiving on) DVD even cheaper. Broadband performance/price is still increasing. P2P availability and quality is getting better, for every "public" site the *AA shuts down several "private" ones popup.

    But like DRM, most people don't know or care (enough).

  25. Re:Is this necessary? on The .XXX Saga Continues in Wellington · · Score: 1

    A little down the thread you mention you being based in Italy, I only have to recall the influence of the Vatican to imagine what that means for public access channels.

    The latest full frontal nudity I have seen on dutch public TV was yesterday at about 16:30, a documentary in which a scene is shown from The Shining: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/
    The scene is the one with "Lia Beldam .... Young woman in bath" and "Billie Gibson .... Old woman in bath".

    It's only a couple of seconds, but it is a full body shot of a naked woman. But this is so common it is hard to think of other recent examples since it's really memorable, we also have swearing on TV. We are DOOOOOOOOOOMMMed