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  1. Re:Well on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1

    As I recall, you still have to register the copyright, or else you can only claim actual damages, not statutory ones.

  2. Re:Forgetting some things? on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 1

    They're not moving at all - from their perspective, time doesn't exist.

  3. Re:Use real data, not test data on Strategies for Test Databases? · · Score: 1

    o. You should never have bad data in the database to start with. If you manually put bad data into a DB, you are of course going to be running into problems that should never exist.

    Yes, because that never happens.
    /furiously rolls eyes

  4. Re:Why use only one DB? on Strategies for Test Databases? · · Score: 1

    And no: it is not in flux!!! It is reset after each developer test, or developer access to it, either by erasing it and using a back up or by "roll back" of all transactions (that likely is not possible).

    How the hell do you get anything done? That would spell disaster where I work - 1000 developers split into about 80 teams, more or less, communicating via service interfaces, all using separate databases. Devo is Devo so you can trash it and nobody cares - this makes you design stuff that is resiliant in the face of cruft lying around, which helps prod too, since it's not always perfect. Just design your use cases such that the data from one run to the next is mostly independent.

    That test can run completely without a DB if your system architecture is sound, that means if you have a class/object responsible for accessing every external resource.

    Nope, you'll never find scaling problems that way. You can verify correct behavior, but good luck bolting sql onto a flat file. Better to use a blessed schema + dataset for DB testing.

  5. Re:Novell? on Novell, Dell Face Delisting From NASDAQ · · Score: 1

    Opportunity cost - if something like email were to get nastily horked and you had no support, that could kill your company. How many chambers before you're willing to play russian roulette?

  6. Re:Ahem... on Microsoft DRM To Get Even Tighter · · Score: 1

    what form should it take? My vote is on a lit stick of dynamite.

  7. Re:The universe will out on Supernova Casts Doubt on "Standard Candle" · · Score: 1

    so, if I said that you were a carrot, it would be correct because I said so?

    No, but any deductions that you came up with would be true, provided that you accept that he is a carrot.

  8. Re:Ahem... on Microsoft DRM To Get Even Tighter · · Score: 1

    Informative often means 'it's funny, but I want you to get Karma for it'

  9. Re:Ahem...Autoclave on Microsoft DRM To Get Even Tighter · · Score: 1

    Not everything, though - some bacteria can live inside an autoclave.

  10. Re:Is it really a growing threat? on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't surprise you too much - not many people are going to want to steal radioactive stuff (designed for injection, I suppose), while lots of stoners could potentially try and steal some 'pot plants', even though the THC content is almost nil.

  11. Re:We seem to be missing an important point here.. on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Check this - CGI kiddy porn is probably legal.

  12. Re:Oh for the love of..... on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Part of the steering linkage is only good for something like 6K miles. I think his habit of taking it out and using it like it was supposedly designed to be used is part of the problem, but still, 300K?

    You gotta pay to play. I doubt that 6k miles is normal for H2s that see mostly highway and city driving.

  13. Re:Oh for the love of..... on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wake up, You've been asleep 30 years!

  14. Re: General Relativity Is At Least 99.95% Right on General Relativity Is At Least 99.95% Right · · Score: 1

    And logic, semantics, many subfields of philosophy, tactics, game theory, economics, and other purely theoretical rigorous fields. But, your point remains valid.

    I'd like you to prove something in Economics. Then prove it isn't a flavor of Mathematics. Econ deals with how people allocate scarce resources. Since there are irrational elements in the system, any proofs are more observations that generally hold.

  15. Re:that's incorrect, too on General Relativity Is At Least 99.95% Right · · Score: 1

    It's bizarre that people like you still insist that one can't prove theories unless the world conforms to some outmoded platonic ideal of physics. Most sciences figured out how to deal with incomplete knowledge, noisy environments, and observer effects some time in the last century.

    Yup. They don't pretend to prove their theories.

  16. Re:Specific Secrets vs. Fictionalized Descriptions on Ex-MI6 Officer Publishes Banned Novel on Blog · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, back in the mid-70s, a Princeton student designed an atomic bomb for his junior physics project and his paper got classified and confiscated

    Notice that it was classified after the fact. 'Born classified' would mean that that information is classified by its very existence, even if the government doesn't know about it.

  17. Re:Specific Secrets vs. Fictionalized Descriptions on Ex-MI6 Officer Publishes Banned Novel on Blog · · Score: 1

    In the US, there's very little information that's "born classified", mostly things like nuclear weapons design, names of secret agents

    Nuclear weapons design is not born classified. If I design a device that goes 20kT boom, I can publish it if I want to. It's just the stuff that the US has designed that's classified. Likewise, I might be able to publish a list of secret agents, provided I use no classified sources.

  18. Re:Banks. on Can Banks Shift Phishing Losses to Customers? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I would consider "check the URL" and "look for SSL encryption" before handing over the keys to your account fairly rudimentary parts of any banks security procedures.

    Try 'don't click on any links' as well. Only ever do banking from addresses you've typed in yourself (or bookmarked).

  19. Re:Can they? on Can Banks Shift Phishing Losses to Customers? · · Score: 1

    Yeah right. The banks set up a system where it's almost impossible to secure your account, but fairly straight forward to investigate after the fact. The bank has no motivation to fix things unless it impacts them financially, so this would be disastrous.

  20. Re:What's the point? on Pro-DRM Law May Be Coming To Australia · · Score: 1

    Somehow, I still prefer the douchebag that he is to what we've currently got. Too bad the real candidate (Dean) got dropped for having actual ideas.

  21. Re:There is a difference between luddism and boyco on How Many HDMI Ports Does Your HDTV Have? · · Score: 1

    at most the user may have to buy a new cablecard with an HDMI port for a few hundred bucks.

    Tell you what: if content providers are so paranoid about the eeevil hackerzez, then let them pony up the few hundred dollars. I've got better things to spend money on.

  22. Re:zero on How Many HDMI Ports Does Your HDTV Have? · · Score: 1

    Look up JAMMA interfaces - they use scart.

  23. Re:Avoid databases... on PostgreSQL Slammed by PHP Creator · · Score: 1

    Because the new features change the basic design, which didn't care about ACID, while performance changes should do the same stuff, only faster.

  24. Re:Proud to be a fart on Canadian Sony Rootkit Settlement Stirs Controversy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no problems with that plan.

  25. Re:What's the point? on Pro-DRM Law May Be Coming To Australia · · Score: 1

    Perfect example: Vote for Kerry, who will bumble around in office and flip-flop on everything (and *possibly* have driven us to war, or not...)

    I see you bought the propaganda. Congratulations, you're human clay. Kerry voted for the bill, then flip flopped when someone added a rider - god forbid someone change their mind due to changing circumstances. Meanwhile, Bush goes and does what he wants and justifies it afterwards by claiming sovereignity.