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  1. Re:Why is this news? on Librarian Stands up to the Feds · · Score: 1

    He can't "make you wait" without arresting you - if he tries that without actually saying you are under arrest, reading your rights, etc, just drive off. [Don't do this unless you can actually get him to say you're not under arrest]

  2. Reverse DNS on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 1

    I suspect they'd hesitate more in doing this if the article history showed the reverse dns ....senate.gov rather than just some ip address.

  3. Re:I remember exactly where I was-after the electi on Challenger Tragedy - In Depth, and Deeply Felt · · Score: 1

    Teh Hells? The only thing that makes sense as "[foo] generation's 9/11" for the generation whose 9/11 [JFK, challenger, etc] actually was 9/11 is, well, 9/11.

  4. Re:Real reason for this ruling on Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn · · Score: 1

    Joe Sixpack

  5. Re:Yup on Soap Opera for Luring Women to Tech is a Flop · · Score: 1

    (Disclaimer: I do not actually know Jenna Jameson. She could be a fascinating person, but it sure doesn't show on TV.)

    Yeah. TV. riight.

  6. Re:WTF? on German Wikipedia Threatened w/ Injunction · · Score: 1

    The fact that you can't have non-photographic representations of the nazi symbols in a work intended to be historically accurate [say, a video game which includes ships from world war 2, and has to have a big empty white circle on the deck of the ship] would seem to support that, though.

  7. Re:Pure White on Scientists Spot Rare 'In Between' Black Hole · · Score: 1

    blackbody radiation (i.e. radiation of light due to high temperature) is a continuous spectrum - an incandescent lightbulb (if hot enough) will be as "pure white" as it gets.

  8. Re:must be more zero tolerance on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 1

    I think there's a certain threshold of automation for a DOS attack. Repeatedly hitting F5, no matter how many people are doing it on how many keyboards, falls rather below that threshold

  9. Re:Reporters... Don't They Know Anything? on Futurama to be Resurrected? · · Score: 1

    Eh? Do what, now? Unless you're talking about the one with Stephen Hawking (which IIRC was a "what if"), you're incorrect.

  10. Re:How did you spend the extra second? on Leap Second At The End of 2005 · · Score: 1

    Given that the ball wasn't set to drop for another five hours [and one second], that hardly makes sense.

  11. Re:No, I was there and what happened was . . . on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 1

    I didn't doubt it for one second - just was thinking that it might not have been exactly as told. Sorry if i came across as disbelieving

  12. Re:No, I was there and what happened was . . . on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 1

    Hmm - if del was aliased to rm -r [not what del actually does on dos], _and_ rm allowed removal of dot, _and_ the shell matched dot, it could have attempted to remove everything.

  13. Re:You seem to be around my age, then. on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 1

    Just our luck, a 'helpful' sysadmin had alias'ed "del=rm". Do you know what happened when my associate typed "del /? "

    rm: /?: No such file or directory

    Or, on the off chance that the shell matched dot (as mine doesn't)...

    rm: "." and ".." may not be removed

    If his system's "rm" doesn't guard against this case (as mine does)...

    rm: /.: is a directory

    Or, if it calls remove() instead of unlink()...

    rm: /.: Directory not empty ....your point?

  14. Re:Same old EU whining on Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day · · Score: 1

    What is a monopoly, then?

  15. Re:Same old EU whining on Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "your assets will be seized if you decide to operate outside the law" doesn't sound like rocket science - why would this put off other [presumably more law-abiding than microsoft] companies?

  16. Re:Uhmm, what are you talkin about? on New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download · · Score: 1

    Does this mean all those binaries under /usr/bin/X11R6 are going to be moved to /usr/bin/X11R7?

    Hopefully they will move where they belong: /usr/bin


    Or /usr/local/bin

  17. Re:Motive? on Paramount Sues Ohio Man For $100,000 · · Score: 1

    What utilities are available to do this? just create a huge file of all zeros and delete it?

  18. Why? on MPAA Gives Film About Ratings an NC-17 Rating · · Score: 1

    With a title like that, why did he submit it to be rated?

  19. Re:I'm Happy on Forbes Fictional 15 · · Score: 1

    I'd have to wonder how much all that gold is _really_ worth - like, if he sold it a small amount at a time at market price [in effect flooding the market]

  20. Re:Proper use. on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 1

    Not all noise regulations are based on safety conerns.

  21. Re:I hope it doesn't get widely deployed on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 1

    area denial is not a legitimate response to loitering - this also prevents legitimate shopping, and being accompanied by parents, etc, etc.

  22. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    The fact that they are not fulfilling their obligations does not mean that they did not assume them in the first place. I would go so far as to say that [despite supreme court decisions to the contrary] the federal government has no right to deny the states highway money, since they tax too much to allow the states to pay for their own roads.

  23. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    Don't get in mind that the Federal took responsibility for anything by taking a larger share of tax revenues. They still make the lower levels do most of that work. Interstate roads are maintained by State government, for example, they just get additional Federal money to do it.

    I meant that, morally, they assumed the financial obligations - I did say "financial responsibility" didn't i?

  24. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    Local authority comes from the state - any "local taxes" would by necessity be state taxes. There are only two levels of government that have any actual sovereignty in the US - federal and state.

  25. Re:Nitpick on Goto Leads to Faster Code · · Score: 1

    PS - consider what's easier for most people? solving a math problem, or following a recipe?