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  1. Re:Security implications? on Automatic Wireless Network Organisation · · Score: 3, Informative

    I fail to share your concerns. A hardwire network has only access security. Anyone is able to plug into it and your so called security turns instantly into anti-security.

    You should be using encryption at the software level, and the data level, not the hardwire level. Software level encryption and data level encryption can be changed on a daily basis. hardware level security is permanent and once broken you can toss your foolish devices in the toilet.

  2. Re:Hmmm . . . on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 1

    White colar crime is the worse crime of all. They deserve the harshest punishments. Not the weakest.

    They hurt the most people.
    They have the lest need in the first place.

  3. Re:Difficulties .. and Wireless on FCC Abandons Linesharing, Kills DSL Competition · · Score: 1

    I did lay out serious amounts of money to establish COs and copper to (nearly) every house in the United States, and I am a little pissed at the government for not opening up the lines to appropriate competition.

    Yours,

    Citizen.

  4. Re:Solutions on FCC Abandons Linesharing, Kills DSL Competition · · Score: 1

    nO, they never lost money, only control over the end of line prices. too many companies offering a service has a way of driving the service price down.

  5. Re:Claim is too general on Open Code Has Fewer Bugs · · Score: 1

    Indeed code bugs may be a function of programmer performance and code complexity rather than open vs. closed source. However, the fashion and frequency of when those bugs are discovered and/or fixed IS a function of open vs. closed source.

    Personally I use mostly Microsoft software and have experienced many bugs in it, but have yet to contribute 1 single patch or even file a bug report. Who dares when as soon as you pick up the phone they start talking about how much you want to spend today!?

    As for open source I have contributed development and/or patches to

    JHotDraw
    PMD
    Netbeans
    Java

    And I have made specific bug reports on many more open source projects like

    Linux sound drivers
    XDoclet

    I tried unsuccessfully for about 2 years to get a simple but tremendously annoying bug fixed that really affected the usage of VisualCafe.(switched to JBuilder then Netbeans)

    I have done these things only for my own personal benefit in general. Yet the open source products have benefited, while the closed source ones have not.

  6. Re:Space shuttle code is closed on Open Code Has Fewer Bugs · · Score: 1

    How can it be regarded as bug free if no one has the opportunity to review it?

    I'll believe it when I see it.

  7. Elementary on Microsoft Going After Hotmail Spammers · · Score: 1

    If the domain from the email server does not match the given IP address of the given server BLOCK IT.

    forgetaboutit.

  8. Re:Google is becoming the global memory... on Should you Fear Google? · · Score: 1

    It won't take a malicious group. What it will take is Google getting a new CEO/president. At that point the new CEO must show the world that Google was nothing before he came. He will then seek any_and_all ways to turn Google into a cash cow, whoring and prostituting Google as best he can.

    That is when you should worry.

  9. promises promises on Baby Bell Deregulation Bill Fails To Pass In Kansas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Please. If they thought they could make money from the network, they would have already developed it. If they think they can not make money, or they envision a free ride somehow, they won't develop one.

    Their is only 1 consideration for corporations. How much money. Promises are meaningless.

    Let them develop the (quality lowcost) network on the promise that they will be deregulated after they do. See if that happens...

  10. Re:We've got to decide where the line is to be dra on Science Editors Urge Nondisclosure Of Bioterror Info · · Score: 1

    No, we enhance access to information that might be useful to terrorists in the name of security.

    I guarantee you we have more brains than they do. If you publish the info, MUCH more good will come than bad you will ever prevent.

  11. Re:I just bought that yesterday! on TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?! · · Score: 1

    I will not stand up in the lowest of courst. Their is a thing called 'Law', and no 'agreement' can superceed that.

    Such as those 'no refund' signs in the windows of shops in Michigan. Meaningless.

  12. Why? on Warcraft 3 Expansion Beta Signups Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do they really need beta testers for an expansion??? Or is this simply traditional and an inseperapable part of their marketing?

  13. And a do not mail list on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry On the Way? · · Score: 1

    The US Govt can regulate everyone else, can they regulate themselves?

    Junk mail is the original, will it be the last regulated? Im sure junk mail generates LOTS of money for the Post Office, as well as the logging industry.

  14. Re:Confusion on Budget for This on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry On the Way? · · Score: 1

    If telemarketers are forced to 'purchase' this list, I think that will be quickly unconstitutional. It favors businesses with money, and disfavors those trying to startup. That is BAD.

  15. Re:Hurry Up! on AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+ · · Score: 1

    I dont believe you. 40MB/s? you scsi or some fast drive? Or you have a really small resolution and window on the video you are streaming?

    40MB/second is faster than most network cards. How can a moving device perform faster than a non-moving one? Maybe you are looking at the burst speed of your cache. when streaming the cache is really not the speed you want to look at.

    on the AnimationMaster mailing list they are always talking about the speed of the drive being the bottle neck, compression/decompression is quite fast.

  16. Re:you have a shallow understanding of the issues on The Future of Money · · Score: 1

    So then how does money leave the market? I gotta get some books...

  17. Re:No VPN service? on UK ISP Imposes Download Limits · · Score: 1

    Are you posting from home? Most every port is blocked here in detroit. I can't serve anything except its on the telnet port...

  18. Re:Don't Worry on NCR Patents the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is going to be redundant on my part and the last time I will post this correction...

    Ebay and friends are not chosing to pay because its cheaper than fighting in court. They are chosing to pay because they know lots of their competitors can not. Get it?

  19. Re:It looks like they're patenting database "filte on NCR Patents the Internet · · Score: 1

    Sorry, if Borland found said copy, they would use it only for their own protection. Jumping in bed with NCR as most of Borlands competitors would come under fire. I think Borland would see this as an advantage to them.

    You need to start thinking like a soulless corporation.

  20. Re:The "Big Picture" is TOO big for most people on Programmers and the "Big Picture"? · · Score: 1

    As an automotive systems engineer I am going to disagree with you and all those who say the big picture is not required or that it is a hinderance to know it.

    It is impossible to test 2 ends of a system without knowing the middle. You are eliminating the "interaction equation" and attempting to work in isolation. My model for success is lots of overlap. Not overlap of responsibility, but overlap of knowledge.

  21. Re:Abstraction is necessary! on Programmers and the "Big Picture"? · · Score: 1

    " Being able to abstract chunks of a program or system out and not worry about implementation is utterly vital. No human, however gifted, is capable of understanding the entirety of more than a trivial system at once."

    Uhh, and John Carmack does not understand every ounce of the quake code. And Linus torvalds does not understand every ounce of the Linux core.

    I have to disagree, or rather ammend your statement.

    No human, however gifted, is capable of understanding the entirety of more than a trivial system at once, _in a timely fashion_.

  22. Re:Wow, they are patenting RPC and Web Browsers on Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hehe, I worked with a lawyer at my company with a coupla workmates filing a patent we came up with for my company.

    When we entered the room, we knew what it did, and the lawyer had no clue. When we left, we had no clue, and he seemed to be telling us what it did.

    He really did research and stuff, real work he put in. But still its quite funny. They are English Obfuscators.

  23. Re:dear miguel, et. al., on Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent · · Score: 1

    I think he is fully aware of this and somehow plans to capitalize on it. I certainly would not feel safe working for him. He seems to betting on the success of .NET.

    To me .NET is a complete contradiction and will never succeed. M$ will directly see to it because the description of succeed in this field is currently beyond M$ influence. Succeed means ease of development, and choice of deployment platforms. M$ will never give choice of platforms.

  24. Re:Will this be the first GPL test case? on Castle Denies GPL Breach · · Score: 1

    So I can use any copyrighted material I can 'obtain?' Seems like the usage is also somewhat licensed.

  25. Re:Hurry Up! on AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+ · · Score: 1

    That is flawed.

    With CPUs it is cheaper to buy only what you _currently_ need as their value depreciates even faster than an automobile's.

    2100+ $100
    2800+ $400

    Their is absolutely no way you can justify buying a 2800+ based on future needs.