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  1. Re:Question about email lists ?????? on Good Guys 2, Spammers 0 · · Score: 1
    It is in Quebec, Canada. Since the latest Civil Code reform, sharing of personal information should be authorized by the person. This authorization must be gained for each transaction.


    Opt-out are also not permitted. If you subscribe to a magazine for example, the form should not contain "Check here if you don't want us to share your info".


    here is the text of the law

  2. Re:But will he collect? on Good Guys 2, Spammers 0 · · Score: 1
    I know about 100 million people


    How do you keep track of all the people you know?

  3. Re:To hell with special effects. on Cubism For CG And Movies · · Score: 1

    If you want a storyline (good or bad) go read a book!

  4. Re:This was a stupid lawsuit. on Register.com Loses Class action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It is not like people will actually see the advertisement by going to a domain that has just been registered and that nobody knows about!

  5. Re:Best line ever: on RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl · · Score: 1
    On the other hand beyond simple ignorance, downloading music from the Internet is like going one mile and hour over the speed limit


    However, by going 1 mile an hour over the speed limit will not cost you up to $150K and you risk not goin into jail for doing it either.

  6. Re:This isn't totally off base on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 3, Informative
    If you consider the productivity gained by using an IDE such as Visual Studio .NET 2003.

    You have intellesense statement completion, automatic code formatting and highlighting, and intelligent help that will pull full documentation on any statement you are typing with one click.


    You have the same thing with Java IDE such as Eclipse (free) or WSAD ($$$) or JBuilder ($$$). The Java IDE that cost $$$ will have the additional benefit of having wizards and views that speed up the creation and configuration of EJBs and other J2EE stuff (Eclipse has some of these too, but they still have a some way to go).

  7. Re:Time Spent on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 1
    With the current development tools available for Windows, as well as all third-party utilities/db drivers/etc, development on Windows goes by much quicker.


    That is not true. With any large project the benefit of a development tools will be drawfed by requirement gathering, analysis and design. The development process used will actually drive the cost factor. The technology and tools will not be a real factor.


    If you apply the same development process to develop an application for J2EE to developing an application for .NET, then you will roughly get the same development cost.


    The study look a little weird... The say that 7 .NET application were used vs 5 J2EE applications. It,s kinda of strange that they did not pick more J2EE application as a research by Gartner point out that 67% or companies use J2EE for entrprise application vs 24% who use .NET (the remaining use both). So they should have easily been able to pick a greater sample of J2EE applications.

  8. When the iPod will come with bluetooth or WIFI? on New iMacs (and iPods) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Instead of increasing the disk capacity of the iPods, they should include bluetooth or WIFI.

    This would allow one to listen to live stream with their iPod. This could also be used to use the iPod as the computer headset so you can ear the system sounds while listening to your music.

    Another use (which the RIAA would certainly not approve) would be to allow one to stream it's music to somebody else (make it to one device at a time with not recording feature, so the "industry" is not to grumpy about it) listen to ones tracks.

  9. Re:Trojan, or propaganda? on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You know the US is also know to abuse human rights quite a lot!

  10. Re:free distribution, too good? on Film Distribution Comes To The Internet · · Score: 1

    Setting the region restrictions if very straingh forward. They just have to check that the address registered with the credit card is in the UK. It's even possible that the country restrictions is due to the contract they have with the credit card validation company which will charge them less money to validate only "local" credit cards.

  11. Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret! on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 1

    Obviously, you never heard of Stealth Geek!

  12. Re:Who? on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 1, Funny

    What? Can't somebody fix Lynx so it can render images as ASCII art!

  13. Re:Jeopardy style!! on Failure Is Always an Option · · Score: 1

    None will last longer. As soon as Microsft disapear (which would be very surprising in the short-mid term), people fighting them will also disapear... They will have nobody to fight against!

  14. Re:XP FUD on Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability · · Score: 1

    You are absolutely right! Before XP, the Windows look & feel was NOT changed since the release of win95.

    Since Win 95 was release in late 1995 and XP in late 2001, the look & feel of Windows has not changed for 6 years!

    That a little bit more than the "every couple of years" that the parent parent is refering!

  15. Re:Windows suffers same problem on Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability · · Score: 1

    I think that if you spend a couple of days in XP you should have found where to change the look & feel to the good old W2K look & feel. There you would have feel at home.

  16. Re:Others on Hall Of Technical Documentation Weirdness · · Score: 1

    Muscle actually has a much higher density than fat, thus adding muscle very well might increase your weight.

    On the other hand, muscle consume more energy than fat. So you'll burn your fat even while resting if you build muscles. In the long run, you'll weight less because you build muscles (assuming a constant intake of calories).

  17. Re:But is it safe on Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed · · Score: 1

    It's a lot safer that putting something else (especially when you are "working").

  18. Re:next work is going to use goofle on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 1

    The subject should have read next worm is going to use google

  19. Re:not quite on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, technically, they are using Linux to serve the page faster that their Windows box is able to.

  20. next work is going to use goofle on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I predict (maybe this post will help a little :-( ) that the next iteration of the worm (or another one) will google up "windows update" and will attack the 3-5 bests results.

    Let's see what happen then... Microsoft is going to pressure Google to remove www.google.com from their DNS Servers ;-)

  21. Re:Sea level... on Global Warming To Leave North Pole Ice-Free · · Score: 1

    Also, if the Artic is metling, then the Antartic will also melt (maybe not completely). As fas as I know most of the Antartic ice sit on land and not on water. So the sea level will rise.

  22. Re:Correct MD5s on FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyway, the only purpose of the MD5 checksum should be to make sure that the file was transfered properly. And with TCP/IP it would be quite uncommon to get bit flipped while traveling from the server to you (unless their is a "man" in the middle).

    Any use of the checksum to ensure that the file has not beeen altered before the transfer is useless. As a person who crack a server will replace the file and it's checksum.

    File checksum should always be signed by someone who can be trusted. If that's not the case, they are worthless.

  23. Re:Missed the most promising one: Java/SWT on GUI Toolkits for the X Window System · · Score: 1

    You can surely increase the maximum heap size for the VM in jbuilder_home/bin/jbuilder.config.

    Change "vmparam -Xmx128m" to "vmparam -Xmx512m" or more if you want.

    That should help a bit.

    Have one project with >3500 files seems a little weird to me, you could probably split that in many subprojects which would make more sense, especially if you use build scripts.

    I've work on large project too with JBuilder, be we put each component/module in it's own directory structure with their own build script (Ant). Then have a build script at the root of the project that will orchestrate building of each component/module based on their dependencies.

    Then we have one JBuilder project for each component/module.

    That allow for faster builds and we never hit a performance snag in Jbuilder.

  24. Re:Missed the most promising one: Java/SWT on GUI Toolkits for the X Window System · · Score: 4, Informative

    The fact that Netbean is very slow is not due to Swing.

    Just look at JBuilder, it load as fast and is as responseive as Eclipse. JBuilder is using Swing.

    You should never compare two different toolkit by just comparing just one application for each toolkit.

    Also SWT as some portability problems. They get addressed pretty fast, but is not as portable as Swing is.

  25. Re:Windows Update slashdotted? on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 4, Funny

    or maybe the machine reboots every 60s