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  1. Re:Targetting on First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success · · Score: 1

    Also another important factor, many cancer patients are terminal, most if not all will probably want to roll their dices with a treatment that works by targeting specifics with a small chance of misfire vs. a treatment that works by almost killing you, trying to take out the cancer in the process.

  2. Re:surrender monkeys as in on Full ACTA Leak Online · · Score: 1

    Most likely not, no one was paying any attention to what the Germans was up to - after WW round 1 the neighbours told Germany they weren't allowed to rebuild their military, Hitler had his own opinion about that - also, another tactic Hitler used with great succes against France was to drive around their main line of defense.

  3. Re:That's a nice server you got there on Oracle/Sun Enforces Pay-For-Security-Updates Plan · · Score: 1

    Good thing we have the EU, they are currently working on laws making software faults on par with hardware faults, that means, if you pay for something with manufactoring faults you have 2 year warranty with option of returning the sale for a full refund if the company selling the software doesn't fix the issue(s) in a timely manner.

    Fun times ahead...

  4. Re:sounds like a safety law suit jackpot and not a on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    If you use a table saw to cut your hotdogs this device isn't for you - you should be looking into nice shelfs for your pending darwin award...

  5. Re:Wait a second.... on Court Says Parents Can Block PA "Sexting" Prosecutions · · Score: 1

    I think one of the most insightful comments regarding "oh my god, think of the children" is your line:

    Yes, yes, pedophilia is the root password to the Constitution

    Not just the US constitution, but pretty much any first world country. A long with the backup password "Terrorism", a lot of the shit me and my friends did as a young kids would get us on all sorts of fun lists around the world, back then it was of course boys being boys...

  6. Re:Well, Yes on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wouw, here we pay 120DKR (just under $20) to see Alice in Wonderland.

  7. Re:I hope Bilski invalidates them all on Nokia Claims Apple Does "Legal Alchemy" To Mask IP Theft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why?

    Apple has brought nothing to the table, Nokia is only required to license out its patents, by no means are they required to let Apple eat mostly for free - I've seen a lot of people pointing to RAND without any of them actually bothering to read up on it, RAND just requires the licensing out to others at a reasonable price, RAND does not specify that everyone should get same discounts.

  8. Re:Sure, let's solve those disclosure requirements on Pharma Marketing Faces a Character-Count Conundrum · · Score: 1

    Also listing symptoms will make some people think they have them.

  9. Re:Allergic reaction to MySQL on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    I love the fact that you mention PgSQL as a good database - it absolutely is, but there is no way in hell it would ever be able to handle the load of Facebook et. al. PgSQL has no clustering option and thus is unable to scale out, only up - you could move some partitioning into the software, but that would lose the point of having a database.

    Also, while MySQL is in trouble, the reason for moving away to a database like Casndra for these companies isn't as much busswords as it is just a good business decision. When you don't care about your dataset, that is, you can accept "eventually correct", using casndra over *SQL makes perfect sense.

  10. Re:Titles to "own" on Sony Begins Selling HD Movies On Its PSN · · Score: 1

    True, for couch distance vs. TV fits with normal recommendation of 10" per 1m. of sitting distance (for me, milage and wanting to impress with bling may vary).

  11. Re:It's time to play... Name That Person! on Netflix Prize Sequel Cancelled Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Because that would be pretty much useless. I'm from Denmark, within a radius of 15 miles from my home you will find some of the poorest people in Denmark and some of the richest, several 100 zip codes (Copenhagen), and taste varying from the finest art to hardcore rave.

    You need to be way more specific than what state the person lives in, ZIP + quater and year of birth might be "enough".

  12. Re:Someone else would have to have on Netflix Prize Sequel Cancelled Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    So you have a job where your employer doesn't know where you live?

  13. Re:Titles to "own" on Sony Begins Selling HD Movies On Its PSN · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pure and complete utter bullshit.

    I have a 40" TV and you have to be close to blind not to see the difference between 1080p and an upscaled DVD from couch distance.

    That being said, no chance I'm paying for a BR when I can get DVD for 1/3 the price.

  14. Re:False analogy. on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    In fact often the exact opposite - one of my friends back when we where studying told me that he remembers lectures better when doodling (he got top marks in his masters degree), back then I started doodling and found that I have the same experience, doodling "removes" the bored part of me and helps me focus on whats going on.

    These days I do the same during meetings and I find that I cope better with the meeting and often remember better what went on.

  15. Re:Dear Ubuntu on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    Point 1: Yes it shows an outline, it does however not help very much when you are busy with moving the window away - I'm on a 24" screen focusing on the task at hand, showing a 2 pixel outline going down the middle isn't exactly helpful.

    point 2: No it's not. When the window has been resized it stays resized.

  16. Re:Mr Toyota-san, Tear down this Interface! on Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others' · · Score: 1

    Must be nice to believe in the system...

    What is far more likely is the police officer will get you into an interview room, show you the data and tell you speeding will add x years, but you can do a plea bargin for x-y years - that bypasses court and sends you straight to prison.

    Or if you live for instance in Denmark, any evidence obtained, illegal og legal can be used against you, done something wrong you get your day in court. (This sounds bad, but police here is generally pretty nice and the court system works as intended)

  17. Re:I just noticed it yesterday. on Google Indexing In Near-Realtime · · Score: 1

    Hope it isn't too far away, having my google apps account telling me what I need to restock in the fridge (or even the apartment) would be friggin awesome. Then when cookingwithgoogle.com starts up, just writing the recipe I want could give me a grocery list, instant win.

  18. Re:Dear Ubuntu on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 2, Informative

    I truely hate that resize function, if I move a windows out of the way suddenly windows decides to resize it in some direction losing the "back to resize" functionality I expect from the clickies in the top right corner.

  19. Re:Slashdot has programmers on Passage of Time Solves PS3 Glitch · · Score: 1

    Thats nothing, due to budget constraints a quick workaround to our watchdog has never been properly redone, so we are stuck with sacrificing a goat every month or the watchdog kills the databases.

  20. Re:Multi-touch on Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes it does. Described in paper means someone created a prototype and wrote a paper about it - and it does invalidate Apples patent since Apple's "invention" is no longer a non obvious thing.

  21. Re:If by "prescient", you mean "breaking contract" on Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones · · Score: 1

    Do you actually believe it becomes true if you say it enough times?

    You should pop by the article you link to yourself and read what RAND is, by no means does it say that they are required to license GSM away for free or whatever terms Apple wishes, reasonable terms are a subjective matter and Nokia is saying to Apple, if you want in our terms are quid pro quo.

  22. Re:Use a persistence library on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 1

    Sort of true and it is a big problem, but this doesn't go for just SPs, versioning in a database is a very very tough thing to do since some of the changes you do to a database can't be undone afterwards, especially true if you like me work on a database that isn't allowed to be taken completely down.

    What we do is keep all procedures like all normal code in the SVN repository, anything deployed is in a tagged branch, it does require high amount of discipline, but again, this is why only a few people are allowed into the database with admin privileges.

  23. Re:Use a persistence library on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 1

    Sorry apparently my brain decided to go mushy on me, the system I was thinking of was PDO (what an unfortunate name), linky: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php

  24. Re:Use a persistence library on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 2, Informative

    That really depends on your database flavour. SolidDB which I primarily work with, it is impossible to construct dynamic queries within a procedure.

    Also your claim that procedures only slow down databases is just plain wrong. Databases with procedures where the SQL is immutable will genrally run much faster than your dynamically generated versions. Philippe Bonnet and Dennis Sasha claims (their book, "Database Tuning") that as much as 9/10 of your average query time spend in the database is spend on the query optimizer, SolidDB for instance will cache all cursors within a procedure (when instructed to), enabling performance gains in some cases (in our system) of up to 3000%, moving the data up into a higher language like C is unlikely to speed up your performance because the database will be unaware of what you plan on doing with the result set and is thus unable to prefetch data and optimize the general retrieval of data.

  25. Re:Use a persistence library on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The logic for the dataset should be in the database where it belongs.

    Crazy trigger/Crazy procedure problems are the same as every where else, if it's undocumented the code is hard to maintain.

    Not sure what your problem with debugging a procedure is, most databases has interfaces for tracing procedures, I actually find SolidDb procedure trace to be preferred over normal print statements in .