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  1. Re:All gov't-developed software is public domain.. on U.S. Gov't Planning To "Help Us" Secure Computers · · Score: 1

    With a low number like 255371, I figured you have been reading /. for a while already, no? Or did you find that account in a crackerjack box? Security thru obscurity isn't. When are people going to get this? Also, other replies mention blanking our portions for security reasons - that would be the sensitive data, it shouldn't really be the code/method that is blanked.

  2. Re:Please on John Gilmore Sues Ashcroft et al. for Freedom to Travel · · Score: 1

    In french, that would be: "Ils voulaient mon bien, puis ils me l'ont prit."

  3. Re:What about the lag? on Video Over IP Permits South Pole Surgery · · Score: 1

    Well, that's even more like the Star Trek episode! That's what we call telemedecine?

  4. Spock's Brain on Video Over IP Permits South Pole Surgery · · Score: 1
    Anyone else remembered this one?
    Luckily, Spock himself is able to provide some assistance in the procedure after McCoy manages to re-connect his vocal chords.
    Not the recursive part, that's just silly, but where Bones is just the arms and eyes, like the robot in this story. Yeah, that's a quote from Eric W. Weisstein: http://www.ericweisstein.com/fun/startrek/SpocksBr ain.html
  5. What about the lag? on Video Over IP Permits South Pole Surgery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't mean the story happening on July 5th, I mean in the transmission. I'd hate to be the surgeon cutting, like, even 100ms before I see what I'm cutting. I Take that back. I'd really hate to be the patient, being a surgeon can't be a bad thing, anyway you look at it. Seriously, anybody has numbers on this, or is it just something you get used too? Like if you had real long arms, impecceble vision, and had to operate 30,000km away..?

  6. Re:Oxymoron on Volvo's "Safety Car" Runs Windows 98 · · Score: 1

    actually, your post should be the one noted as redundant: after all, you admit to having read ahead and are now just copying what was said. Logical :)
    ps: I am joking, ok!

  7. Re:perl 6 is gonna change all this on Next Generation Regexp · · Score: 1

    know and love them, that would count as an expression with an once for satire.

  8. perl 6 is gonna change all this on Next Generation Regexp · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Anyone here that read the latest perl apocalypse, #5 it was, knows full well the regex as we know and love them are out-the-window. The apocalypse is a large document, so I picked this page to give you a little idea of wants going to change. The pages before that mention all the warts that Larry wants to bury.

    I understand that Perl 6 isn't near being done, and that the "r" in "Perl" doesn't necessarily stand for "regex", depending on who you ask, but Perl will always have the greatest influence over what is called a regex. Or is that going to change with Perl 6?

  9. Re:Gates knows modern coding! I argued him 20 mins on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 1
    Say that again? You had an oral conversation, face to face? Or was it at the keyboard? And you recorded that conversation on tape? Typed it in after, or did you have a steno with you?

    I'm confused about throwing paper to the floor and having a transcript...

  10. Re:How do they do it? on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 1
    ah ah ah, you're really funny, oupsy, I just did in my pants. Please stop it! Slashdot is just the funniest place to be, even my 5 year old nephew knows where to find humour on the net - he head straight for this place.

    P.S.: I have another nephew that comes here to cry...

  11. Re:HA HA HA HA on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 1

    There's Open Source, there's Free Software. Under those terms, there are a lot of different licences: GPL, Artistic, BSD, QPL, MPL... you get the picture. Oh, wait, the MPL doesn't exist anymore, it's all GPL now isn't it? And ogg vorbis, that's LGPL... I hope you see where I'm going with this: it's a little complicated to make heads or tail of. Not that Microsofts licences are any stabled, but it's not a black and white situation, like you seem to assume.

  12. Re:Warchalking... on Project Rainbow - 802.11 Across the U.S. · · Score: 1

    It all depends which pampers you get. See, some are good for up to 20 pounds, some even 30. There is a limit to the technology, but you can choose from a range of values.

  13. 4 wheel drive on GM's Billion-Dollar Fuel-Cell Bet · · Score: 1
    I haven't read the article, why should I, this is Slashdot. On the other hand, I've heard, like anyone else living in Quebec, about the engine in each wheel approach.

    http://www.econogics.com/ev/evcanper.htm#Hydro_Que bec

    has a few more details, but the info is a little hard to come by. The project was almost scraped, its original author losing all control over his "invention".

    It's a very sad story in fact, but now I'm almost happy the tech. is going to survive. For your information, in 1999 or so, HQ built a car, actually, used a normal car model, but replace a couple of its wheels (not the whole 4, but that's the idea) and tadam, had an EV in no time. Of course, you have to throw in all the computer equipement, but it was a normal looking car.

  14. kazaa usage graph on RoadRunner Blocking Use of Kazaa · · Score: 1
    I've been collecting kazaa usage data for about 45 days now, and it does show a little impact. I haven't looked at the numbers, but you can see the graphs for yourselves right here:

    http://tools.waglo.com:8888/kazaa.php

  15. Re:I don't know much about build times.. on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    That's why Lakos gave us redundant include guards almost 10 years ago :)

  16. Re:what I want to know is on I Believe You Have My Stapler · · Score: 1
    A memorial fund is being established in Gene's memory at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering.

    http://boingboing.net/2002_07_01_archive.html#8523 7334

    Some of us are tooking this seriously.

  17. Re:what I want to know is on I Believe You Have My Stapler · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Bet you're happy you can get your red stapler, now, are we?

    Please, inform us exactly how old one has to be? Say my dad suddenly picks up a cs book and starts programming all of a sudden. He's over 60, that certainly makes him a pioneer. No matter if he's rewritting visicalc or pacman, right? Wait a second! What if my dad came up with something completely new, say, a waglo. Now that's innovative. Can I call him a pioneer? What if it's not my dad, but my son that creates this new waglo? Oh, but he's only 10 years old, hardly a pioneer, oupsy.

  18. Re:Whoop-dee-shit. on I Believe You Have My Stapler · · Score: 1

    And I've bothered to reply. Don't mind me. It doesn't matter.

  19. Re:Mabye (sic) it means he will make C++ better on C++ Inventor Changing Jobs · · Score: 1
    I'm sure you are aware of boost, right? Their lambda library sounds just like the thing you need:

    http://www.boost.org/libs/lambda/doc/

  20. Re:I remember... on POV-Ray 3.5 Rendered · · Score: 1
    Hi morcheeba,

    You asked: "Any suggestions for a free encoder?"

    If memory serves correctly, you are looking for DTA. At least that's what I was using back in those days. Make a nice flc to share with everyone :)

  21. Re:jEdit on Extensible IDEs? · · Score: 1

    You stole my sig!

  22. Re:Does it work like the unix 'mv' command? on Laser Beam Teleported · · Score: 1

    This has me thinking... Using the cp command, one has to read the original file, to make a copy. mv on the other hand, doesn't touch the original file at all. The process involves modifying a file location - something in the filesystem, but not the actual file.

    Back to teleportation, if we are to keep the analogy correct, then there's no ethical question about murder and such. Also, there's no point in looking at the original to teleport it, what you want to modify is something in the universe, but the not individual itself.

  23. Re:SW's 256 autometa on Wolframania · · Score: 1

    As if you could write a virus in Perl!

  24. Re:Quantum Leap on Augmented Reality Billiards · · Score: 1

    Starman, it was a movie with Jeff Bridges. It also turned to a TV show, where the alien comes back 15-20 years later to take care of his son.

  25. Re:I got started on the original IMSAI... TMS9918A on IMSAI Series Two · · Score: 1

    If far I as I can recall, both the TI 99/4A and the Coleco/Adam sported a TMS9918A graphics cpu. That chip natively handled 32 z-levels, each one hosting a sprite of your design. Ah the memories, coding in Logo, booting up CP/M...