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  1. Re:Gaming/compiler performance? on AMD Packs Six-Core Opteron Inside 40 Watts · · Score: 1

    2 * 1 = 2 < 3 = 6 * 1/2

  2. Re:first post on AMD Packs Six-Core Opteron Inside 40 Watts · · Score: 1

    Core dumped.

  3. Re:DNSSEC and ubiquitous SSL. on Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network · · Score: 1

    Since they redirect your DNS queries through a trojan, I don't see how they couldn't.

  4. Re:Adware on Legitimate ISP a Cover-up For a Cybercrime Network · · Score: 1

    So it is allowed by Estonian laws to install trojans on the computers of unsuspecting victims, to redirect accesses to legitimate sites through DNS redirection to unrelated sites, to claim bogus virus infection on fake versions of legitimate sites and offer expensive fake "antivirus" software as "cure"?

  5. Re:They are NOT Denying Global Warming on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 1

    The positive effects of the ecological tax reform were highlighted by the Federal Environmental Bureau (Umweltbundesamt) in early 200210

    Early 200210? Obviously it took quite some time for the tax reform to show positive effects. :-)

  6. Re:No... on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 1

    Actually it's easy to test: Duplicate earth, but without the humans. If both show the same trend, it's natural. Otherwise it's man-made. :-)

  7. Re:complex finance math on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    So now we know who's really responsible for the current financial crisis. :-)

  8. Re:Even worse stuff! on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Given that the code snippet only used operator*=, an overloaded operator= would have had no effect at all. An overloaded operator*= on the other hand ... ... and of course, somewhere deeply hidden in a header, there might be something like

    #define i (*some_function(j,k))

    where of course j and k are to be provided by the code using the macro.

  9. Re:One word.. J... on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    There is an assumption that code is always meant for humans to read.

    Well, some people like trivial literature, others like to read something more demanding. :-)

  10. Re:One word.. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Well, if you are programming C++ (the proper way), RAII handles that for you.

  11. Re:return, break, continue? on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    The reason I consider goto evil is because it obfuscates control flow for the reader. They must search for the label to find out where control is going to. Return, break and continue do not have this effect.

    For break/continue, they have to search for the beginning/end of the construct it belongs to instead. And unlike a label, you cannot just use your editor's search function. Also, if you are in a switch inside a loop, break will apply to the switch, while continue will apply to the loop. Now you might argue that if you have any problems to find the beginning/end of your loop, then you probably have a design problem. But the same holds if you can't find your label.

    Actually, I've never actually found the need to have a goto in my code. However if I ever come across a case where it makes sense, I'll not hesitate to use it. There only strict rule about goto IMHO is:

    Never use a goto to jump into a block. This includes "blocks" formed by a goto and its label.

  12. Re:One word.. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Similarly, the "there shall be only one exit from a function" is often used as a tautology by some.

    AFAIK they even removed alternate return arguments from Fortran. At the same time, exceptions are added to modern languages, which are noting but a different way to specify alternate return paths. The same is of course true for C's longjmp.

    However, for any language which offers neither exceptions (or similar mechanisms like longjmp) nor alternate return arguments, the "only one exit from a function" is a tautology (i.e. it's automatically true). You probably actually meant return statements inside the function, but that's not an alternate return path, but just a "goto end_of_function" inside the function. You'll end up in the calling code exactly at the same place as with a return at the end.

  13. Re:anfit on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    xenophobia === hate xor distrust of other groups

    So if you both hate and distrust other groups, you're not xenophobic?

    Well, actually your definition is wrong anyway: Xenophobia is by definition the fear of other groups (phobia = fear).

  14. Re:Tokens...I love them !! on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    I especially like the ones where one of the tokens is standing over the shoulder and pointing something out to another token (normally a female), who is sitting down looking at a computer screen.

    The male one points out something to the female one? Isn't the female one able to figure it out for herself? That's sexualism! :-)

  15. Re:He's Using A Macbook, Did You Notice? on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    ps: who cares about proper use of the photoshop trademark?

    Adobe.

  16. Re:Know your market. on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 2, Funny

    The fuck? Now the god damn porn has to be PC?!

    You really don't want Mac porn!

  17. Re:Know your market. on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    No, what parent is trying to say that it's generally a good idea to picture the sort of people you expect to sell to. If you want to sell to farmers, you'll not show bankers in your ads, and vice versa. Since there are very few black people in Poland, there's no point in showing black people in ads (unless you want to convey a specific message by doing so).
    Of course photoshopping away the black person is silly. After all, Microsoft should be able to afford shooting the picture again with white people (possibly even Polish-looking people!).

  18. Re:simple on Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simply ask that man with the beard.

    If it is a minefield, it may indeed be a good idea to ask Osama bin Laden. After all, he should have experience in explosives.

  19. Re:Dan McBride Liar on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    Darl. Darl McBride. Not Dan.

    That's what he wants you to believe. :-)

  20. Re:That is litterature on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    Quick! A Lion is roaring and approaching you. You're trapped in a cave with no other exit. What do you do?

    I read a blessed scroll of taming.

  21. Re:Texting while driving on Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly · · Score: 1

    texting while driving is definitely a real concern.

    Not to mention dressing while driving. :-)

  22. Re:Easy enough to say on NASA May Outsource · · Score: 1

    What about the lung cancer not caused by smoking?

  23. Re:and if these companies made profit? on NASA May Outsource · · Score: 1

    But outsourcing would have a big advantage for NASA: The next time their launch vehicle explodes, they can just point to the producers and say "it was their fault, not ours!"

  24. Re:The System on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1

    So people who don't have cars should have to pay extra for those who do? Why are there tolls on roads and bridges? So that the people who use the service pay for it and those that do not are not burded with that tax liability. I would be willing to bet money you would be the first one to whine when they raise taxes to pay for things YOU don't use. The implementation might be screwed, but the idea of paying only for the services you use is a great idea.

    You pay car tax for a car you don't have?

  25. Re:The System on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1

    And just how do you suggest the cities pay for road repairs or new traffic lights?

    Well, there's this thing called tax, which exists for exactly this reason.