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  1. Re:Pure FUD. on Vonage Signs Deal to Escape Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    3 nines uptime does not cut it in the telecom world

    Who lives in the telecom world? Three nines is what, 1.5 minutes of downtime for every 24 hours and 5 nines is 0.015 minutes of downtime? Does it really matter at this point? Doesn't everyone own a cell phone at this point anyway?

  2. Re:Ramanujan on Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked · · Score: 1

    I saw a documentary about him once.

    He was in and out of foster homes throughout childhood. He ended up taking up menial jobs at a local university to be around math. But he lost his job when he almost went to jail for assault and battery and hitting a cop. But luckily one of the professors at the university noticed he solved some "unsolvable" problem on a chalkboard and got him paroled.

    He skips out on his parole, but Robin williams saves him by telling him it isn't his fault and he ends up driving cross-country for his girlfriend after Ben Affleck talks some sense into him. And then he dies from the Affleck brothers' acting.

  3. Re:Multiple bugs in the code, wrong measurements ! on Sort Linked Lists 10X Faster Than MergeSort · · Score: 1

    I haven't followed the actual code, but setting pointers to 0 is actually wrong (if right for the specific architecture then it is semantically wrong). Shouldn't they be NULL instead? I haven't coded C in a long time, but I remember reading the comp.lang.c faq, and they warn against using memset to zero data structures because not all architectures use a 0 for Null.

    Personally, I think you might never get bitten by the bug, but it makes good programming practice to use Null instead.

  4. Re:EULA? on Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy · · Score: 1

    Maybe i'm using his software becuase his EULA is invalid in my state? Btw, by you responding to this comment you agree to granting me the right to kick you in the balls.

  5. Re:Believe it or not... on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Lots of folks making the switch on Windows Expert Jumps Ship · · Score: 1

    Regardless, the parent topic demonstrates there is a free market. You can buy a personal computer w/o Windows on it. Mac owners do it all the time.

    Wow, you come off really high and mighty and then say there is a free market because you can by a computer with either windows or mac on it? That's why where is a free market? Uh huh. That's what a free market is, two choices. Not that there isn't a free market but your reasoning doesn't hold up.

  7. Re:Bravo on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Ha Ha.

    Mod this troll funny. How can you say you guarantee if you are posting anonymous? Nice guarantee--backed fully by the name behind the guarantee.

    Wouldn't it be easier to talk your way out if it since you are using Tor? Just like it would be easier to talk your way out of something if your AP is unsecured?

  8. Re:Not a fair comparison on To Media Companies, BitTorrent Implies Guilt · · Score: 1

    I don't think they are going to harass you for being in a swarm for Fedora DVDs.

    I for one feel better knowing that you don't think they are going to harass me.

  9. Re:You may still have a non-compete in place on Can You Be Sued for Quitting? · · Score: 1

    No way man. Someone called your wife to find out where you were going to work?

    This is why you only tell your mistress these type of things...

  10. Re:Bukd your own binaries on Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, the difficulty of one person rolling back changes to 500 servers in an environment built on everything compiled from source is a huge drawback.

    You just blew away all your credibility. Everything compiled from source? Are you kidding me? Since you are talking about stability in the enterprise, first of all you have identical hardware running the same build and packages. Secondly, you have a central build machine that builds the packages from source and acts as a binhost--binary host for these packages.

    Then you push out identical packages, to all of your servers, once you test them on your staging server. I'm not exactly why you aren't following all of the other enterprise level procedures when you mention gentoo. It's like they C developers that i see write python code -- they forget to use and good software programming techniques and wonder why they don't "get" python.

  11. Re:Let's check the Documentation... (4th Amendment on 'Full-Pipe' FBI Internet Monitoring Questionably Legal · · Score: 1

    What to be searched is described: All of the class C that the suspect can get a DHCP address from.

    Why not just specify a Class A and be done with it?

  12. Re:Two Words: Pocket-W3 and iPod-connector. on Why the iPhone Keynote Was A Mistake · · Score: 1

    Opera? Oh yeah. didn't they have real tabs (true MDI) and gesture navigation in 2001? They are so behind...

    Try cascading tabs in any other browser. Try having two different tabs side by side in one browser window. Let me know when that works...

  13. Re:Good Point on Why the iPhone Keynote Was A Mistake · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make much sense to me. First the author says it's going to be hard to sell many iPhones and uses the facts that RIM only sold 5.5M blackberrys last year and the iPhone will be Cingular only. Then he says that people aren't going to buy ipods in order to wait for the iPhone. I'm not sure how he can have it both ways there.

    I guess you didn't see the parent post he was agreeing with.

  14. Re:A few interesting things about the bird flu on Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu · · Score: 1

    You are still missing the point that influenza has already caused a pandemic! Research around 1918. My great-grandmother died in the pandemic. The worst part is that it killed the young and then strong. So millions of young healthy people were killed by it and it would be asinine to ignore conditions that might come together to create another pandemic. If it takes a number of factors to co-join before becoming a pandemic, isn't it a good idea to try and prevent them from happening?

  15. Re:Another demonstration of the tolerance of the l on Political Strife Erupts in Second Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    US leftists are aiming to revoke the 1st Amendment

    Please back this up with a link, troll. How exactly do you revoke the 1st Amendment?

    I thought it was the Supreme Court's job along with Bush's to erode the Bill of Rights? Why would Bush let the Leftists do his job?

  16. Re:Both Sides are Special Interests on MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist Named As MA Tech Advisor · · Score: 1

    99.9999999999% of offices use doc and excel

    So, you are saying that if i find 2 offices that don't use doc and excel out of the 1,000 Billion here on earth, i have proved you wrong?

  17. Re:Hey I know what day it is! on Gamers Divorced From Reality? · · Score: 1

    you're probably one of those left-wing people who believe soldiers are too stupid to make an informed decision, and who can't figure out why somebody would be proud to serve his country because they themselves have never felt that patriotic in the first place.

    Dad? Dad, is that you?

    Or maybe it's because they lack the physical capabilities of serving, with their frail bodies and all that ?

    But i thought all i had to do was drink milk! "my bones are getting stronger!"

  18. Re:Probably not right on Florida Judge Upholds Conviction By Defining "Email" To Include IMs · · Score: 1

    Why not charge him soliciting an underage girl then instead of changing the definition of email?

    Next time i hope they charge someone who actually used email but sent it to an 18 year old girl. Then he can redefine 18 to mean 17 and charge him under the same law. I mean why let these guys slip by, just because the girl had a birthday the day before.

  19. Re:Python is SLOW on Core Python Programming · · Score: 1

    What are the pyc files for?

  20. More offtopic on BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison · · Score: 1

    No. IIRC, there have actually been some economic studies indicating that slavery was basically a drag on the economy, aside from all of its other inexcusable faults. And it isn't hard to see how it would have slowed industrialization down: if you have a population of slaves to do manual labor, you have a lot of sunk investment into them, and it's harder to get you to mechanize.

    More offtopic, but here goes. I can agree that the Colonies didn't benefit as much, but everyone likes to ignore the large supply of cheap raw materials that were produced using slave labor that helped fuel the North and the UK.

    As for the on topic stuff, i agree with most that you've said, and realize that i've done a sloppy job articulating.

  21. Re:good question on Informing a Company of a Security Discovery? · · Score: 1

    Ha.

    Ever drive across the George Washington Bridge from NYC? There are signs everywhere saying "Camera usage Prohibited by law," or something along those lines. You can't even take a picture of the bridge. Try putting strain gauges on it...

  22. Re:I can't see the problem here on More Voting Shenanigans in Florida · · Score: 1

    I thought you were being taxed to pay for Defense spending and the interest on our debt? Aren't those in the top 3 too?

  23. Re:Silly Punishment on BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison · · Score: 1

    I can agree that copyright law was less important then the IP law at the time. I was really thinking of general "IP" laws. However, i think copyright law is much more important then the credit you give it regarding only computer software (unless you are constraining your statement to copyright and technology...)

    Offtopic:

    You don't think slavery in the new world help fuel the textile portion of the IR? The Americas were able to cheaply export large quantities of raw materials needed by the IR because of slave labor (for example cotton)

  24. Re:Silly Punishment on BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to said it was coincidental that the industrial revolution happened after advanceds in technology, law, and banking? I can understand it if i had said that the meteor shower of 1928 caused the stock market crash in 1929. But pointing out something with sufficient evidence to warrant a claim that A is the cause of B?

    I can see that murder defense. "After the defendent shot the victim, the victim died!" Objection! Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!!

    If you don't think there is enough evidence to support my claim come out and say it instead of just trying to sweep it away. I don't think those two events are unrelated.

  25. Re:Silly Punishment on BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison · · Score: 1

    The lack of any laws wouldn't be all bad. There were no copyright laws prior to 1710 in England, and in most of the world not until well into the 19th and 20th centuries, and often copyright only covered some kinds of art and not other kinds.

    And look at the explosion of commerce and innovation that happened once we had a good framework in place. There are a number of reasons the Industrial Revolution happened, but advances in technology (and law) and banking are huge contributors.