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  1. I assure you on USPTO Imposes 'Undue Hardship' On 1-Click Lawyers · · Score: 1

    There are courtrooms in California.

  2. Re:Hungarian notation does not do that on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    Good coders don't use hungarian notation to start with, so we know from the get go that it's only being done by the below par ones.

  3. Terrible idea on Would You Pay Pennies For Game Features? · · Score: 1

    Most people play games to get away from that sort of economic social stratification bullshit.

  4. Why isn't it being held on the west coast? on USPTO Imposes 'Undue Hardship' On 1-Click Lawyers · · Score: 1

    It makes far more sense to arrange meetings in PST than EST, so why is it happening in DC?

    The one-click patent is bullshit, but this is just the USPTO being arrogant eastern bastards.

  5. Hungarian notation does not do that on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    It adds random characters which may or may not correspond to what the scope and type were at one point in time. Those random characters do not necessarily conform to any standard, so you have to go find the coder who added them and ask what they mean, rather than just looking at the declaration.

  6. Didn't it stand for... on G.I. Joe No Longer the Real American Hero? · · Score: 1

    General Infantry?

  7. random line noise does not capture meaning on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    I prefer variable names that describe the *purpose* not the container.

  8. I've got your word of the day on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1
  9. That seems perfectly fair to me on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't those willing to improve themselves be treated better than those who aren't?

  10. Hungarian notation is bad for humans on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    On any project of sufficient size, hungarian notation will become outdated. And it's just fucking hard to read.

    Good programmers know this intuitively, so it makes a good interview question. I thank people for their time if they say anything positive about it.

  11. That's all well and good for the blind on Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US · · Score: 1

    But for the rest of us, there are far better solutions.

  12. Linux based DRM is impossible on BBC's iPlayer To Be Crossplatform · · Score: 1

    You're only a kernel (or X) module away from a digital version of the analog hole.

  13. No on Will the Pope Declare Google Evil? · · Score: 1

    The pope is decrying living in a collectivist society and cheating on taxes within it. He's not criticizing actually moving to places with lower tax rates.

    If you don't like collectivism, leave your collectivist country.

  14. *legacy* clients on Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet · · Score: 1

    Newly written clients aren't supposed to use it.

  15. Crumbs from the table aren't appealling on New Google Apps For Linux Coming · · Score: 0

    Wine is buggy and slow. That isn't the wine developer's fault, they're implementing a buggy and slow interface.

    If they're going to do it at all, they should do it right. Slapping shit on a shingle just makes the whole thing look bad.

  16. You can read it that way if you want on Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet · · Score: 1

    SHOULD simply means that you MUST NOT require that particular feature to operate. Which is exactly what Vista is doing.

  17. You read it wrong on Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is relying on an optional feature whose use is discouraged. Servers are not required to implement it. Clients are required to be able to operate without it.

  18. It's not trivial... on Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet · · Score: 1

    People who need hand holding to use email aren't going to be able to edit their registry.

  19. Taxation is voluntary on Will the Pope Declare Google Evil? · · Score: 1

    If you don't like the way your nation is run, you may avail yourself to the free market of nations to find one you like better, or you may build your own.

  20. Wrong on Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet · · Score: 1

    The ISP has implemented the DHCP standard correctly. Microsoft has not.

    The ISP is not "screwing" Microsoft, it's holding it to the standard as well they should.

  21. That's how MS works on Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet · · Score: 1

    Thousands upon thousands of special cases dating back to dos and 16 bit processors. It's a large part of why, for the most part, windows just doesn't work.

    The ISP is doing the right thing.

  22. It's more than just "principle" on Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet · · Score: 1

    It's a good technical decision.

    Vista is not ready for prime time. Microsoft will surely fix this at some point, probably before Vista itself is ready to be connected nakedly to the net. Until then, it's a very good idea to discourage users from putting up a known unreliable system that'll just get rooted.

  23. It's overall population density on The US Rural Broadband Crisis · · Score: 1

    The US's overall population density is quite low. Rather than live in cities like civilized folk, they're spread out in thousands of festering, incestuous hamlets. The cities can't get proper communication infrastructure because the voting block of over entitled yokels wail and cry until the government forces providers to lay useless cable out into the hinterlands.

  24. It has everything to do with density on The US Rural Broadband Crisis · · Score: 1

    Did he offer to pay for maintenance to the line in butt-fuck nowhere? Did he offer to replace it when one of the Neanderthals that live out there digs it up with farming equipment?

    When you leave the city, you're leaving civilization. There are consequences to that.

  25. Not really on Hear No Evil, See No Evil — E-mail Kills the Phone · · Score: 1

    You're assuming the organization keeps it's mail logs (most don't, and of those that do, most don't keep them long, and the percentage that would store them offsite approaches 0). Even if I grant you the particularly far fetched scenario where logs are successfully and incontrovertibly presented, that does not prove the mail was delivered or read. Further, the logs don't say what the message contained. It's entirely plausible to argue that you wrote said email an hour ago with a forged timestamp, and signed it then.

    Signatures are useful for proving to the recipient that it was you who sent the message. They're quite useless for proving it to others if the recipient isn't cooperative.