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  1. Re:This is outrageous on Germany's New Internet License Fee · · Score: 1

    Tax payers! :-)

  2. Re:Still payable if TV/Radio streams firewalled? on Germany's New Internet License Fee · · Score: 1

    See? You kept it. Thus you could repair it in order to soldier your TV receiver back in ...

  3. Re:Still payable if TV/Radio streams firewalled? on Germany's New Internet License Fee · · Score: 1
    They are restricted to not showing any ads before 20:00, though, IIRC.

    They actually may not show ads after 20:00 (well, there's usually a single ad directly before and after the show/movie/etc., basically saying something like "<product> presents you <show>", I'm not sure why this isn't supposed to be a violation of that rule).
  4. Re:WGA on Microsoft's Guidelines for Customer Privacy · · Score: 1

    Well, if it would just translate screen images and sounds into keypresses and mouse clicks, I think Microsoft wouldn't be interested. However most of them also have an interface to the banking system, where they control a certain amount of money. Most companies are interested to find exploits which make them transfer some money to the company's bank account. Microsofrt is known to be particularly good at that.

  5. Re:Consistency on FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Cows · · Score: 1
    The pathogens that you need to worry about when you're talking beef and pork will be no more likely to occur no matter where the beef comes from.

    The biggest chance that you have for contamination occuring takes place when raw product, already chopped/sliced/ground is delivered to manufacturing plants.

    The pathogens I was speaking about won't harm me (at least not directly), because those animals affected by them will probably never make it into my food anyway. The pathogens I'm speaking about harm the animals (and in turn the animal farmers).

    That is, I would have absolutely no worry to eat meat from cloned animals. However, if I were to make a living from raising cattle, I'd surely avoid them.
  6. Consistency on FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Cows · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Farmers and companies [...] say cloning will bring consumers a level of consistency and quality impossible to attain with conventional breeding [...]

    I guess it will also give pathogens a level of consistency and infectability impossible to attain with conventional monoculture.
  7. Re:I think the most shocking thing about this is on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 3, Funny

    A file system designer should know best how to give her a good fsck.

  8. Re:Efficiency gains on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you want to find her, just look out for dancing trees!

  9. Re:Steve Ballmer Vs. Hans Reiser on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 1

    I didn't have any problems.

    Result:

    Steve Ballmer
    3,510,000 results

    Hans Reiser
    3,720,000 results

  10. Re:Problems for Namesys? on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 1
    I expect it has something to do with the idea that the owner literally owns the company's assets and if they should die the state may try to claim those assets.

    Except for inheritance tax, I don't see how the state should be able to do that.
  11. Re:Only suckers buy Apple anyways on Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive? · · Score: 1

    Well, two 22" screens should still be cheaper than one 30" one.

  12. Re:Wanna make employees more productive? on Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive? · · Score: 2, Funny

    This way productivity will go down, because it adds the time needed to circumvent the ban to the time used to browse Slashdot!

  13. Moving files? on Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The time I need to type mv file /some/new/destination/ may depend on the size of the keyboard, but surely not on the size of the screen.

  14. Re:That damn blogger revealed all sorts of bad *** on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1
  15. Re:sizeof(char) on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Whew! on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1

    That's called job security.

  17. Re:Couldn't resist it!! on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1

    African or European?
    Of course with Google you can also find the Holy Grail!

  18. Re:memset( pointer, size, 0 ) - NO! on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1

    MEMSET(3)                  Linux Programmer's Manual                 MEMSET(3)

    NAME
           memset - fill memory with a constant byte

    SYNOPSIS
           #include <string.h>

           void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n);

    DESCRIPTION
           The  memset()  function  fills  the  first  n  bytes of the memory area
           pointed to by s with the constant byte c.

    RETURN VALUE
           The memset() function returns a pointer to the memory area s.

    CONFORMING TO
           SVID 3, 4.3BSD, ISO 9899

    SEE ALSO
           bzero(3), swab(3), wmemset(3)

    GNU                               1993-04-11                         MEMSET(3)

  19. Re:Old-school on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the question of all questions!

  20. Re:??? Profit! on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1

    Now if I could find out how to make a successfull dypedef, I could profit as well! :-)

  21. Re:Dark corners? on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 4, Funny

    Beware of evil code!

  22. Re:??? Profit! on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Hopefully ICANN is rational on Perspectives on Spamhaus's Dilemma · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Moreover, given that there are ambitions to get control away from ICANN to an internationally controlled entity, for ICANN it would essencially be suicide to follow such an order. Because it would deliver the perfect argument: A real world case causing huge damage to everyone, which would not have been possible if it were under international control.

  24. Re:ICANNot do it cap'n! on Perspectives on Spamhaus's Dilemma · · Score: 1
    One would imagine all ICANN could do would be to put a halt on the org TLD...

    Well, that way all those .org domains at least won't have to deal with SPAM :-)
  25. Re:How many times? on Bug Hunting Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software · · Score: 1

    No, a negative bug rate is much better, because it means in order to get your code bug-free, all you have to do is to introduce enough new bugs, which should be easy. :-)