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  1. Re:When I think of a quick GUI project, C#. on Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? · · Score: 2

    This is better now with partial classes. All the designer generated stuff goes into it's own file that shows up as a sub-file of the main file. You're free to split up the classes into whatever groupings you want. With WPF and XAML you have even better separation of logic and design.

  2. Re:Hypocrisy and Blunt Force Law Making on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    Vic Toews (pronounced taze... like tazer)

    Actually it rhymes with waves. The 'w' is read as a 'v' due to it's German/Mennonite origin.

  3. Re:To stop child pornographers and organized crime on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    I spoke too soon. Now you're either with the Tories, or you're with the child pornographers. There couldn't possibly be any other reason to oppose this.

  4. Re:Won't somebody think of the children, eh? on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    Except that this bill would still only get us as far as similar laws that already exist in the US and UK. SOPA is a whole other can of worms.

  5. Re:To stop child pornographers and organized crime on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oddly enough, he seems to be going with the line that opposing this bill is questioning the integrity of front-line police forces. Of course, I'm questioning the integrity of front-line police forces. The entire system is built around the fact that we can't expect to trust all individuals to behave.

  6. Re:Translation from Canadian CorpoSpeak on Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture · · Score: 1

    As a Manitoban, where we a Shaw / MTS duopoly, I'd have to agree with you that the west has it way better than Ontario for competition. I know plenty of people who switch internet / phone / tv providers every 6 months to play the two off of each other and get the "first six months for $xx.99" deals. You can often get the deal just by calling and threatening to switch. It's at the point where they called me up and offered a discount, without me threatening to switch.

    Even just comparing non-discounted prices, the West is in a much better position than Ontario. Just compare Shaw's 50Mbps with 400 GB cap, and 3 Mbps upload at $65 unbundled with Rogers 50 Mbps with 250 GB cap, and 2 Mbps upload at $99 unbundled. I'd link to the pages, but they both detect where you are connected from and chage what they show you. Not to mention that with Rogers, I'd be maxed out at 50. With Shaw I could switch to 250 Mbps with no cap and 15 Mbps upload for $140 / month. At that point it's my LAN that's slowing things down.

  7. Re:Sweet! on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    The current Dell 30" (U3011) has 2 HDMI, 1 DisplayPort, 2 DVI, and component inputs. At least in Canada, they don't even have the3007 WFP for sale anymore.

  8. Re:I miss GOTO...there I said it on Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboards · · Score: 1

    like it was an while statement

    Or worse - combined with exclusively global variables as a replacement for function calls. I was one of the poor souls who learned to program on BASIC, using those books with programs you could type in and run. Several of the books had all variables named A1, A2, A3... B9....X, Z. Only ever used conditional gotos to change program flow, had no concept of dynamic memory...

    It was years before I dragged myself past all that - I distinctly remember my mind being blown in high school when I started C and learned about function calls, and dynamic memory, and recursion - even usefully named variables!

  9. Re:I miss GOTO...there I said it on Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboards · · Score: 1

    That's why you use C++ and RAII. It all gets done by the descructors.

  10. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're missing the GP's point - the US government already pays more for healthcare per citizen than most countries with single-payer universal health care. You don't need to redirect billions, there's already enough being spent to provide health care to every citizen in the US. We just need to dump the insurance bureaucracy that is costing so much overhead.

  11. Re:WTF is WPS? on Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw · · Score: 1

    So what would you do if you got your eReader, but didn't have a computer to establish a wired connection to your router?

    WPS in theory gives a built-in password that you can use to boot-strap the process with only wireless devices.

    This exploit in WPS isn't due to a conceptual defect, it's an implementation defect that made the built-in PINs pretty much useless. So assuming that router vendors add in some rate-limiting, a proper-length PIN, or lock-outs for incorrect guesses (with a physical button to clear the lockout), the concept can be more secure than the average WPA password. It's ridiculous to suggest that only computer-savvy people should be able to use WIFI, and it's no longer an option to have the routers default to open access points.

  12. Re:WTF is WPS? on Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw · · Score: 0

    I use Windows XP at home

    There's your first problem. The OS is nearly unsupported. If your computer isn't up for installing 7, then install some flavor of Linux.

    ...a waste of time for experienced people

    UAC is more helpful for experienced users than otherwise. We're the ones who are going to look at the UAC prompt after opening a file, and think, "This shouldn't be running priviledged code!" and abort the operation.

    WPS is the sort of thing that we need more of - simple to set up, and until now, quite secure. The path of least resistance needs to be secure. Like in Windows, where having a blank password prevents being able to access your computer remotely at all. Or systems where if you haven't explicitly configured a daemon to start, it doesn't (or at least doesn't allow remote access).

  13. Re:Video?! on The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even in the worst-case scenario where the computer was used for nothing but logging in with the picture password, the math works out that it's still more reliable than the 4-digit pin that many other devices use.

  14. Re:Another problem on The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password · · Score: 4, Informative

    Then you can use the actual password on the on-screen keyboard. The picture password is just an optional convenience feature.

  15. Re:Quick, now's our chance! on Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling · · Score: 1

    No, not in a contract.

  16. Re:Quick, now's our chance! on Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling · · Score: 1

    Good point. Unbundled I can still get 50Mbps and a 400GB cap for $75. Either way, it's crazy that we'd be getting better access than Ontario.

  17. Re:Quick, now's our chance! on Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming that you mean 25Mbps and not Gbps. That said, I wonder what's so different between ontario and manitoba? Shaw gives me 100Mbps for $70/month with a 500GB cap. For $120 I get 250Mbps with no cap. Even MTS (our phone company) offers 25Mbps unlimited for $75.

    I had always just assumed that telecom stuff would be more expensive here with our lower population density.

  18. Re:First Yea!!! on IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate · · Score: 1

    It's more expensive, but it can easily be done.

    For significant amounts of meat it's often cheaper. I split a cow with my brother every so often. We go to a nearby farm and pick a cow, he slaughters, packs, freezes, and delivers the meat. It comes to about $3.00 - $4.00 / lb. If you only ever buy ground beef, it's a bit on the pricey side, but when you look at the price of the nicer cuts of meat, it averages out to be similar or cheaper than supermarket prices. You just need to find the freezer storage space.

    Poultry is more expensive, but that's largely because you're getting free-range chickens and also the extra costs of inspection.

  19. Re:I think we should ban cosmetics completely on US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads · · Score: 2

    That's why in the future they all wear full-body spandex (see Star Trek)

  20. Re:If the Force from Star Wars is a religion on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 2

    There's a story that Hubbard, Heinlein, Asimov, and Herbert made a bar bet on who could write the best religious book/start a religion, resulting in Dianetics, Stranger in a Strange land, Nightfall, and Dune. The veracity is a bit suspect,

  21. Re:Users disagree with him on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    the main thing missing i see are the 'Ctrl' shortcut accelerators while they show up on the File menu, the Home ribbon doesn't indicate what the shortcut for Cut, Copy, or Paste is

    Try hovering over the ribbon button for a command. Then the 'Ctrl' is usually part of the tool-tip.

  22. Re:Users disagree with him on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    So double-click on the ribbon to make it auto-hide, and use all the same keyboard shortcuts you memorised. None of those have gone away.

  23. Re:Said it before and I'll say it again ... on Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps · · Score: 1

    Then stick with pay-to-use sites. Good content and site hosting aren't free - either you pay for them by looking at ads, or you pay for them by sending money, or sometimes by providing content (this is why slashdot lets some users turn off advertising).

  24. Re:Advertisers will NEVER win. on Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When it becomes opt-in, then it's no longer spam. When I sign up to get weekly grocery store flyers, it's not junk-mail, since it's something I want. If groupon and other opt-in mediums become the next generation of advertising, then I'm fine with that.

  25. Re:Strange names on Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But having to use quotes every time you call a command is a sure way to make sure your command is never used.

    Would you rather type this:
    ./"Context-Free Grep" ...
    or this:
    ./cfgrep ..