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  1. Re:Oh please! on Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued... · · Score: 2, Informative

    != on pointers checks the memory location.

    java has some sort of function to check the memory location too.

  2. Re:DUCK HUNT!!!!1 on Gaming With a Headmouse? · · Score: 1

    Mario games, for example, heavily use both buttons at the same time, though. [making B a toggle might work though in that case]

  3. Re:I'm all for treating addicts humanely... on Serial Burglar Caught on Webcam · · Score: 1

    why not tax the drugs? if you're saying deny them all access to public health, then exempt them from all such taxes.

  4. Mod parent up on Xbox 2 to Have Wireless Controllers Standard · · Score: 1

    [with wireless controllers] I can sit anywhere in the damn room i please without distance issues.

    +5 funny!!!

  5. Re:Tournaments / places with lots of Xboxes? on Xbox 2 to Have Wireless Controllers Standard · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that someone cheating gives the tournament organizer a legal right to damage property [yes, it's just a cable, but they could have sued if they wanted to make more trouble] - don't they know how to ban?

  6. Re:UTSA and other considerations on EFF Joins Fight Against Apple Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    But apple's right to dump its old merchandise before releasing the new model is being infringed
    </sarcasm>

  7. Re:Yet another repugnant violation of states' righ on House Approves Electronic ID Cards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The federal government has no incentive to make it illegal for them to coerce states into passing new laws.

    Which is why the framers had the thoughtful foresight to make it illegal to begin with, since they knew they couldn't trust a later government to pass such a law.

  8. Re:Cheats? on Tecmo Sues Game Hackers Under DMCA · · Score: 1

    How the hell do you think a gameshark works? that hex string you type in is A: the address where the "codes" you want to change are found and B: the new "codes" to change it to.

  9. Re:You can drag the map ! on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1

    Even if there are multiple choices a distribution can choose from, the idea of a "login app" is, in the present day, considered part of the "OS" for consumer-level OSes.

    Year of Linux on the Desktop, indeed.

  10. Re:Insightful??? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    I'd believe it - not many other ways to explain the CS department's current policy that 'find' on directories not owned by you is explicitly forbidden

  11. Re:What you say!! on Doukutsu Monogatari Translated into English · · Score: 1

    That's not a very credible way to say that the second translation is better than the first, since neither mention the UN. Anyway, I was disputing the claim that the first translation wasn't "understandable"

  12. Re:keybord woes on Doukutsu Monogatari Translated into English · · Score: 1

    y and z are equally far apart on normal keyboard layouts as on german ones

  13. Re:What you say!! on Doukutsu Monogatari Translated into English · · Score: 1

    What does the second version add that can't be understood in the first?

  14. Re:authority vs. responsibility on DC Could Ban 'Mature' Video Game Sales to Minors · · Score: 1

    Sure, now - but what happens next when some thoughtful lawmaker realizes that this _CLEARLY_ wasn't intended [after all, we don't allow this for tobacco, alcohol, pornography, etc] and to "close the loophole" by making it illegal for parents to buy adult-rated games [CDs, etc] for their kids?

  15. Re:Not enforceable and here's why. on DC Could Ban 'Mature' Video Game Sales to Minors · · Score: 1

    who DOES decide? The ESRB certainly won't be allowed to decide - that would take away the state's "right" to take away someone's license for selling a game which is adult content despite being rated E and "they should have known better"

  16. Re:Screw France on Google Ruled a Trademark Infringer · · Score: 1

    yeah - they've really started to suck since then - it's kind of sad

  17. Re:Linux on First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD · · Score: 1

    to "scrap A for B" is to get rid of A in favor of using B instead.

  18. Re:Dilbert is bad, very bad. on First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD · · Score: 1

    And the point of the post you're responding to is that the things on the list that Dilbert _actually_ fails to address aren't relevant to the "cubicle class.", and those which are, are in fact addressed in Dilbert.

  19. Re:Dyu think Microsoft will ever live it down ... on First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right - Emacs isn't a kernel ...yet

  20. Re:How long before ... on Microsoft Licenses Analog Anti-rip Technology · · Score: 1

    For your analogy to work, there has to be a law [even if somehow unenforceable] against driving 120mph on private property.

    Cite?

  21. Re:Good for Gertrude on The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper · · Score: 2

    So leave it to someone you hate

  22. Re:The up side? on Spam Costs U.S. Companies $22B Annually · · Score: 1

    That should be char *punchline[]. using [][] causes a 96x4 character array to be instantiated.

  23. Re:Productivity costs? on Spam Costs U.S. Companies $22B Annually · · Score: 1

    Sure, blame paranoia on its object.

  24. Re:Postal Service? on Is Anti-Municipal Broadband Report Astroturf? · · Score: 1

    While I can not debate the OSHA regulations exemption, I can debate the "first class" part. Nothing is preventing me from sending a letter via FedEx to someone (as I have done in the past)

    Except for the Private Express Statutes, that is. They can deliver letters in _different_ (faster) time frames than first class, or packages in the same time frame, but not letters in the same time frame.

  25. Re:Look, I'll tell you why they use a one-button m on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    There's no outline to delineate where one starts and the other begins. They look like one damn button with a crack in it.

    The "crack" would be the 'outline to delineate' that.