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  1. Re:can't you just do this now? on Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Intelligent' Cars · · Score: 1

    It's called home delivery.

  2. Re:can't you just do this now? on Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Intelligent' Cars · · Score: 1

    You are right in more ways than you know. In the case of driving, you get better gas mileage in maintaining a speed than you do in stop and go traffic (hence hwy mileage is better than city). City planners need to get out and look at their streets and think about what they can do to increase the amount of time someone is driving*, and decrease the amount of time they are waiting at lights or braking unnecessarily.

    Or they could just change the city plans so that cars become expensive, and mass transit gets benefits. No need to drive.

  3. Re:stateless firewalls on Obsession With Firewalls Could Hinder IPv6 · · Score: 1

    The ability to tell the firewall "allow ESTABLISHED traffic" is also orders of magnitude simpler than having to specify every single allowed protocol/protocol flag/port/address in the rules (where it is possible at all).

    This is why we have stateful firewalls.


    The ability to ignore the layer 3 crap and actually secure applications on the network by using a proxy is far more useful than a "stateful" packet filter.

    Yes, you need a proxy per protocol, but those need to be written ONCE.

  4. Re:Translation on Obsession With Firewalls Could Hinder IPv6 · · Score: 1

    You can just use a proxy. Use a REAL firewall, not just NAT.

  5. Re:The Java Platform on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 1

    No platform even comes close to the library support provided by the Java platform.

    Perhaps you need to visit CPAN. Use the source, Luke!

  6. Re:This is a very slippery slope -when does this e on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    At what point is it OK now to not pay for the hard work of other people, or to begin to directly steal from them?

    Until you have your own industry which needs those patents and copyrights enforced. There is even historical precendent for this.

  7. Re:spit and polish on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    RPM is a package format, not a package manager. You can use up2date or yum to install RPMs, just like you use apt to install debs.

  8. Re:That's fine on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    A L3 device *IS* a router. Just because it's a router with lots of ethernet ports doesn't make it a switch.

  9. Re:No scientific evidence, huh? on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 1

    The amount of violence in popular/mass media has increased over the past few decades. Has there been a control for that, to account for the changes caused purely by video games?

  10. Re:Things like this are easy to fix. on Google's Evil NDA · · Score: 1

    Fenyman was dismissed from the army for being mentally disturbed, according to that book.

  11. Re:What's a breakpoint? on Breakpoints have now been patented · · Score: 2, Funny

    printf(3)

  12. Re:No scientific evidence, huh? on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 1

    Quick check: does this control for the increased (and glorified) exposure to violence in the mass media?

  13. Re:Socialized medicine is here already on Can Technology Fix the Health Care System? · · Score: 1

    Now imagine that instead of melanoma this was influenza, or SARS, or any other rapidly spreading disease. Now, *everyone* is at risk.

  14. Re:I'm an Indian..... on Orkut In Pact With Indian Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    What made you think there was EVER any freedom of speech? I suggest you read the terms of the ISP license first. I work in that field, and I know precisely how bad the situation is.

    You do know that there are conflicting laws abuot encryption in India? All strong encryption is illegal under one law, and mandatory under another, so whatever happens, you ARE a criminal.

  15. Re:These charts look like shit on Custom Charts w/ Perl and GD · · Score: 1

    Or you know, actually SHOW fixed versions of whatever they think is wrong, with explanations of why.

    Someone at a conference (Aaron Siego, KDE dev, IIRC) explained this little tidbit about usability:
    The usability people who volunteered to try and help the KDE developers were speaking their own language, not one the programmers understood. Once that little hurdle was found, both sides got together and figured out common ground. The thing is that you have to learn to communicate with the programmers in the FOSS world, not they with you (they try, but without some effort from the other side, communication isn't going to be feasible).

  16. Re:These charts look like shit on Custom Charts w/ Perl and GD · · Score: 1

    The designers sure can offer suggestions and help. You don't have to write code to contribute (but it sure helps).

  17. Re:These charts look like shit on Custom Charts w/ Perl and GD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The code is out there. Whenever the graphics folks want to start contributing, they can.

  18. Re:One Question on How Would You Interview Potential Managers? · · Score: 1

    Change the deadline.
    Call for a freeze on all new features.
    Go back to the design board, and get some semblance of a design there.
    Turn off any overtime (you go home in 8 hours, period).
    Sort out the bugs into priorities, and have a few people working on fixing those.
    Hire more people if and only if the team(s) involved ask for them, and the teams are short staffed.

    Hire a few good people, put them to work on fixing the work culture upwards.

  19. Mouse brain simulated on Mouse Brain Simulated Via Computer · · Score: 1

    on a computer designed for mice to provide the question.

  20. Re:And this is how... on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Every decade we have stories like this about other countries that are going to surpass the United States because of how much better they can cough up answers on tests (the stories have been happening since AT LEAST the early 70s in my memory). And yet, it never seems to happen.

    Other countries tend to call this a brain drain, and it happened simply because the US would pay the skilled people from other countries more to come in and work. Now, that isn't really happening, so the US is going to have to draw in more on its internal resources.

  21. Re:Oh, come on! on Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? · · Score: 2, Informative

    What happens when the fibre goes down? What is the uptime guarantee?

  22. Re:Apache vs IIS on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    Lots of tools around to manage Unix systems. Mind pointing me to reliable software which lets you manage a few dozen (or more) IIS boxes?, with version control and client managed virtual hosts?

  23. Re:Apache vs IIS on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    It isn't just IIS, it's *everything* in Unix which can be automagically maintained that way. You only need to learn to maintain things once, not multiple times.

  24. Re:Why bother getting into CS on Tech Sector Expansion Blunting U.S. Job Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    So move into plumbing, and increase the competition there. Incomes will come down in that field too.

  25. Re:wait! on Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act" · · Score: 1

    PATRIOT? Check. Gitmo? Check.