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  1. Re:Slashdot search question on Learning About Full-text Search · · Score: 1

    I don't know... see for yourself, then come and tell us...

    The <a href="http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/0 2/09/183217&mode=thread&tid=4" >comment on this page</a> suggests that you are right...

  2. Re:Interesting stuff! on Learning About Full-text Search · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually no... one of the interesting things is that it is far more efficient to "scan" through a stack than to pop it if you're looking for something... (Assuming you have an in-memory stack, which is easily manipulated by memory operations as well as stack ops.)

    It breaks the abstraction, but the improvement may actually be worth it sometimes...

  3. A chatbot is... on Scientific American's Sci/Tech Gifts for 2003 · · Score: 1
    ... something like this.

  4. Re:U.N. has sold out! on Scientific American's Sci/Tech Gifts for 2003 · · Score: 1

    fanatical?

    (religious fanatics?)

  5. Re:Okay... on JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity · · Score: 1
    The Geronimo Developers, the ELBA developers, and the Core Development network all seem to be made up of similar people. And one of these organisations was formed by former members of JBoss, and key developers at that!

    Does that change anything?

  6. Re:Almost all Geronimo developers worked on Elba! on JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity · · Score: 1
    And add to that the fact that they are also similar to the list of names at the Core Development Network, which is the company formed by the former members of the JBoss dev team...

    This is ideal territory for a copyright infringement lawsuit...

  7. Re:It's math on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1
    Well, at any rate, the numbers themselves do not mean much... at least, that's what the numbers guys say about it...
    How do I qualify for Mensa?
    Membership in Mensa is open to persons who have attained a score within the upper two percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test that has been properly administered and supervised. There is no other qualification or disqualification for membership eligibility.
    The term "IQ score" is widely used but poorly defined. There are a large number of tests with different scales. The result on one test of 132 can be the same as a score 148 on another test. Some intelligence tests don't use IQ scores at all. Mensa has set a percentile as cutoff to avoid this confusion. Candidates for membership in Mensa must achieve a score at or above the 98th percentile (a score that is greater than or equal to 98 percent of the general population taking the test) on a standard test of intelligence.
  8. Re:I've said it before, and I'll say it again.... on Mono-culture And The .NETwork Effect · · Score: 1

    The worry is that Mono might not just fall out of step with dotNet, but that it might become illegal, and go away entirely... You're right that just being incompatible with Windows will not make too big a deal... But if Msoft was able to evaporate Mono, then you'd be pretty much stuck...

    (I don't want to emphasise this too heavily, since I think that it's a small risk at this stage, but still, we need to be clear as to what is at stake.)

  9. Re:Telstra on Spam Slows Australian Net Traffic · · Score: 1
    Oh, yeah... I can read too...

    If you go down to the Aggregation Summary, and click on the link for 30217 AS1221 ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd you would notice that their 30k advertisements include:

    Current: 30217
    Withdrawn: 29289
    Aggregated: 205
    Reduction: 29084
    Leaving Announces of: 1133

    Which is a 96.25% reduction on their previous announce list!

    Not that I think they're good for anything, but complaining after they've cleaned up their act is kinda childish, don't you think?

  10. Re:13 sentences...??? on Spam Slows Australian Net Traffic · · Score: 1

    You do realise that The Age is not one of Murdoch's rags, don't you?

  11. Assignments with personalisation on Non-Technological Ways to Combat Cheating? · · Score: 1

    The EE department at my Uni (I was a Science student) used "personalised" assignments in many subjects... The questions were all set up so that one of the inputs to the problem was your student number, last name, initials, or some other personally linked detail.

    Therefore, while students could still work together to some extent, each assignment had to be "solved" individually.

  12. Re:Broadband in Oz on ACCC Asks SCO To Explain Themselves · · Score: 1
    Nope, that's HELLstra

    FWIW, we can get 1.5Mbps at home, we just pay shitloads for it...

  13. Re:That silly on Company Files Motion to Stop IE Distribution · · Score: 1
    Well, at least they're not threatening to charge a $699 license fee to every user of IE...

    Actually, they are.... from the article:

    Lueck said Eolas would still permit Microsoft to distribute IE as is, as long as it's being used in conjunction with an application provider or a corporate intranet that has an Eolas plug-in license. [which they can aquire from SCO for the discounted price of $1, when they buy a $698 Linux licence... mwahahaha]

  14. that is the original article... on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: 2, Informative
    See also here ...

    google cache

  15. Re:Hmph... on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves · · Score: 1

    That depends on your point of view... oftentimes, the intended recipient is not a human but a machine...

    In that case, this is encrypting such that only the intended device (a CD player) can read it...

    I still hate the stuff, but they can make a case for calling it encryption...

  16. Re:Huh? on Who Owns Your Weblog? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the story is actually telling you TO be concerned...

    Re-read your employment contract... chances are that it says that they can claim ownership of your "wn personal bit of webspace given to [you] as part of [your] private dial-up account" if they want... Probably also your letters to the editor...

    Be careful what you assume...

  17. Re:Suddenly, Except... on Kazaa Sues Record Labels · · Score: 1

    yes you are... if you have your own instance of legalSystem, you can modify the source to your heart's content...

    but as long as you use the hosted solution, you are bound by what your hosting provider uses... :)

  18. Check out their news timeline on Cat Mother Open-Sources Game Engine · · Score: 3, Funny
    what's funny is that the news on their homepage suggests that their company timeline was:

    1. Get seed funding from Venture Capitalists
    2. Become a registered Xbox developer
    3. go bust!
    So now their trying the slashdot principle:
    1. Release all code as open-source
    2. ???
    3. profit!!!

  19. Re:What would you translate it to? on Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites? · · Score: 1
    And if you didn't know it, you should
    (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)

    the link...

  20. Re:What would you translate it to? on Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites? · · Score: 1

    The users who use IE6 probably already use MSOffice. They are not who we are talking about. The point is to support everybody...

  21. Re:Give this man a PhD! on Linux Crypto Packages Demolished · · Score: 1
    From what I understand, Open Source means that the source is available, and can be used (relatively) un-restricted.

    Closed Source means that the source is not available.

    Security requires not(Closed Source), but not necessarily Open Source.

    PS: most open-source things require source to be provided to the user, not to the world. I develop software. I sell it to my clients. Then I give them the source. They have security, because they can examine the source. I am GPL compliant because I don't stop them from re-distributing the source. But that doesn't mean that I have to give it to YOU...

  22. Re:Who wrote this headline?!? on Where is the Replacement for the JAP Anon-Proxy? · · Score: 1
    (For those of you that forgot what NT stands for, it means New Technology)

    That depends on who you talk to... there are other interpretations to consider

    Anyway, JAP appears to be a recursive acronym (ala GNU or Wine) for JAP Anonymity & Privacy, if you look at the site. So your point is less notable...

  23. Re:Off topic, but it's not. Why PDF and not HTML? on Open Source Database Clusters? · · Score: 1

    No, PDF's are a useful document format. _ACROBAT_ is what you are complaining about...

    For me, moz silently downloads the file in the Download Manager, then spawns xpdf... No browser lockup, no 100% CPU... In windows, GSView achieves the same effect. No need to complain just because you choose to use an inferior (for your purposes) product...

    Why not just switch to another PDF viewer... There are tons out there...

  24. Re:phew, finally.... on Register.com Loses Class action Lawsuit · · Score: 1
    Funnily enough, that's not compliant...

    The HTML spec has always _REQUIRED_ the TITLE element...

    from the RFC:

    5.2.1. Title: TITLE

    Every HTML document must contain a <TITLE> element.

    The title should identify the contents of the document in a global
    context. A short title, such as "Introduction" may be meaningless out
    of context. A title such as "Introduction to HTML Elements" is more
    appropriate.

    NOTE - The length of a title is not limited; however, long titles
    may be truncated in some applications. To minimize this
    possibility, titles should be fewer than 64 characters.

    A user agent may display the title of a document in a history list or
    as a label for the window displaying the document. This differs from
    headings (5.4, "Headings: H1 ... H6"), which are typically displayed
    within the body text flow.
  25. Re:What about the classified ones? on Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux · · Score: 0, Troll
    as some AC pointed out below, you can have classified supercomputers that people know about...

    2 classified supercomputers in the US, dedicated to nuclear weapons research...