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  1. Re:The question is... on Conquest FS: "The Disk Is Dead" · · Score: 1
    And if it doesn't reset, that's good, but then would it not also introduce security concerns? For example, if we're talking small files, wouldn't the internet cache qualify? What about /etc/passwd files? Wouldn't it a simple matter to read this off the RAM?
    is it any less simple to read it off a traditional HDD?
  2. Re:Buy a Tivo on Home-Grown TiVo Stories? · · Score: 1

    Hradware works w/o a subscription, it just doesn't get the show times. You can still do stuff like pause live tv, etc. Plus I think 200 would probably be well worth it.

  3. Re:Main advantage of paper on Online Newspapers Turning a Profit · · Score: 1

    I know about amazon's sample thing. I was speaking in slightly more selfish terms. Not so much to see if you like how the book is written but rather to literally read quickly about some topic in the book, or even see how they treat a given topic.

  4. Re:Main advantage of paper on Online Newspapers Turning a Profit · · Score: 1

    Allright but flip through the book on amazon, check out the index, look up a topic in the book, etc. OTOH you do get the benfit of reviews on amazon.

  5. Re:Main advantage of paper on Online Newspapers Turning a Profit · · Score: 1

    This comment should be modded through the roof.

  6. Re:Firewalls? on Building a Bigger Search Engine · · Score: 1

    well since you don't know that robots.txt is on the webserver anyway, I'm sure it won't be a problem that the secretary doesn't know this ;)

  7. Re:In cahoots on U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers · · Score: 1

    But what keeps all the review boards from being corrupt? Anyone on a review board would be immediatly be the target of bribery, because not only do they have the power to get rid of you, they have the power to get rid of your opponents. Just because the corrupters have a slightly larger number of people to corrupt does not mean there will be any less corruption, especially when you give a reviewer the tantalzing power to arbitrary, immediately, and permanently remove someone completely from politics. I'm sorry I just don't think by adding reviewers it would stop the corruption. As far as severe punishment, since a given reviewer (at least as far as I can tell) is equal in terms of power to any other reviewer it would simply be a race to point the finger first.

  8. Re:shouldn't the Supreme Court have the final word on U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers · · Score: 1

    Must resist urge to correct...can't stop self...arrg...I think you meant "ripening".

  9. Re:In cahoots on U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers · · Score: 1

    I read the "Accountabilitarianism" thing. But who reviews the review boards? How are the reviewers placed into power? The only thing I can see your system doing is adding an extra layer of complexity (and potential corruption) to an already complex system.

  10. Re:Why Stop at Leap Seconds? on The Future of Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Irrational numbers are only a problem if you're too attached to decimal points.

  11. Hmm on Belgium Rolls Out Java ID Cards · · Score: 2

    The new mark of the beast?

  12. Re:Good on Oregon's Open Source Bill Stalled by Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You know whats really funny? NT is POSIX while Linux isn't.

  13. Re:Why Stop at Leap Seconds? on The Future of Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Its all about the radians. 2(pi). such a simple and yet useful measurment. Want a quarter of a circle? (pi)/2. A half? (pi). 2/3 of a circle? (4(pi))/3.

  14. Re:OOP is frequently the wrong answer on The Post-OOP Paradigm · · Score: 1
    you know you have a problem when someone in your 300 level programming class asks "what's slashdot?"

    I'm sorry but I don't agree that thats necessarily a problem. I know plenty of successful programmers who have no idea what slashdot is. I realize you were using this statement to drive home a point, I jsut don't think its a very effective way of doing so.

  15. Re:CAE without a pointer on Switch Interviews Douglas Engelbart · · Score: 1
    (AutoCAD used to have a "line here there" command, IIRC?)

    Speaking as a college student who is forced to use AutoCAD (while being a CS major) I can tell you it still does.

  16. mailing lists on Looking for Linux Help When You've Lost Your Way? · · Score: 1

    Have never failled to save the day when I've run out of non-interactive resources.

  17. Re:Bah. BAH I say! on Building ATA RAID and SMP Support into Slackware 9 · · Score: 1
    "I compiled kernels for use on IBM X series e-server SMP systems and ServeRaid (ips) or MTP Fusion Chipsets...plus sound card support" Bah. Bigass systems, big disk arrays, whatever. it's cool that you got the sound working though...
    I really can't add to this. I guess I will just applaud. *applause*
  18. Re:Ack! on Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble · · Score: 1

    They said it reached Earth on March 29. Which means the gamma rays are/were already here.

  19. Re:Just in case... on Anger as a Software Design Philosophy · · Score: 1

    No its not. I have the feckfeck gui open right now. My productivity is sky-rocketing

  20. Re:Other games on the Build Engine on Duke Nukem 3D Source Released to GPL · · Score: 2, Informative
  21. Re:news "flash" on Slashback: India, Kartoo, Orbs · · Score: 1

    What about homestrrunner? It's .net!

  22. BeOS? Is that you? on A Better Finder? · · Score: 1

    Live search folders? Arbitrary file-system meta-data? Come back to me Be!

  23. Re:Why are his conclusions a suprise? on Web Services Not Always Better · · Score: 1

    Yeah after posting I realized I meant to say in general. Thats what I get for making sweeping genralizations.

  24. Re:Interesting? on Another Breakthrough in Prime Number Theory · · Score: 1
    just because of its meticulous nature

    Seems like an odd reason to enjoy math. Do you sit down and write out the Fibonacci sequence for kicks? Not that I am saying I don't think math is interesting (it is) but I don't think its interesting *because* of its meticulous nature, and even if it is for some, I seriously doubt its *just* because of its meticulous nature. Joking about the fibonacci thing, btw.

  25. Why are his conclusions a suprise? on Web Services Not Always Better · · Score: 1

    Of course sometime with a runtime/vm is going to be slower than C++. As for verbosity, isn't that also kind of obvious too? Like he says, speed vs. grace. I always thought that would be the quite obvious tradeoff you'd make when switching to .NET.