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  1. Re:It just goes to show you... on Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP · · Score: 1

    Actually, in our legal system (assuming you are in the US) we give the benefit of the doubt to the defendant (both civil and criminal). The complainant ("victim") must prove they were a victim, either civilly or criminally.

  2. Re:Sweet! on Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Express, VS 2005 Beta · · Score: 1
    TYPO MARK II:

    s/All the variables I use to store state in C programs is/Every variable I use to store state in a C program is/

  3. Re:Sweet! on Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Express, VS 2005 Beta · · Score: 1
    TYPO:

    s/IT X_DONE/IF X_DONE/

  4. Re:Sweet! on Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Express, VS 2005 Beta · · Score: 1

    My one complaint with VB is that every other english word is a reserved word. All the variables I use to store state in C programs is a VB reserved word. I end up having to tack on extra characters just to get around this "IT X_DONE" and so on...

  5. Re:Diabetes analysis is done now... on Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath? · · Score: 0, Troll
    s/sur eif/sure if/

    s/just ketosis/just as ketosis/

    s/can)/can)./

    Think those are all the typos...

  6. Re:Diabetes analysis is done now... on Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath? · · Score: 1

    Not sur eif the two are comparable. Diabetics don't properly process sugars which can lead to detectable scents in both the breath and urine (just ketosis and other conditions can) Cancer, per se, does not produce anything similar. So I don't think a comparable test for generic "cancers" would work.

  7. Re:Wonder How Microsoft Will React on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1
    Agreed.

    I once had a job where I was forbidden to use perl, not just for production, but even as an admin tool on Solaris 2.5/2.6 boxes, as it wasn't supported. I had to script everything in Solaris' quirky "ash" implementation (which they called sh).

  8. Re:Wonder How Microsoft Will React on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Until they tried to reach an "active X required" page...

  9. Re:Wonder How Microsoft Will React on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 3, Insightful
    More interesting is the thought that the internet presents a huge security risk, his wife's machine may be compromised, but he tells her to use that possibly compromised machine to pass his financial info over a possibly compromised network.

    THIS is a technology expert?

  10. Re:Russian Spacesuits on ISS Spacewalk Cut Short · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a general rule for falls? It's not the fall that kills you, it's the landing.

  11. Re:This stuff is useful, look for yourself! on RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    "By-- that; logic. This (is) a -- perfectly, reasonable... sentence:"

  12. Re:Architect is not a verb. on Response to Gordon Cormack's Study of Spam Detection · · Score: 1
    I agree. However, my biggest complaint is that "architecting" makes a new, vague word to replace the perfectly clear word "design".

    Not to mention the fact that he neither "architected" nor designed, but simply wrote....

  13. Re:You're missing the point of gov't adoptions on ESR's Halloween XI -- Get the FUD · · Score: 1

    But how many MCSE's with secret clearance does your MS system need? probably the same number as a linux/unix network of comparable size. So how much extra does the unix/Linux system cost?

  14. Re:Word: nice -- if and when... on Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing · · Score: 1

    s/Starofccie/staroffice/g

  15. Re:Word: nice -- if and when... on Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing · · Score: 2, Informative
    Had a lot of good experiences using abi word, when Starofccie/open office had issues running on BSD. The only problem was rendering MS specific extensions to the Latin-1 character set. OO/SO renders them fairly well (with a very few glitches), abiword renders everything using the standard Latin-1 set, which makes a few documents a bit hard to read.

    (For a while, I skipped even abi word and just used a script [deoffice? deword? can't recall] which changed .doc files into ascii text...)

  16. Re:Heard about this on Rush Limbaugh yesterday... on School Internet Program Audit Shows Fraud and Waste · · Score: 1

    I survived for years on 300 baud, then for many more years on 2400 bps. 15 kbps is not wide enough? What school-related work requires them to download at more than 15kbps? (Remember, it is a school... They aren't supposed to be using this for Quake3 marathons, etc.)

  17. Re:Wow, 10 already? on Slackware 10-RC1 Released · · Score: 1
    Nothing new there. SunOS/Solaris counts 1,2,3,2.4,2.5,2.6,7,8 ...

  18. Re:Load average misleading... on FreeBSD, Stealthy Open Source Project · · Score: 3, Informative

    My experience from load testing a few years ago was that linux's biggest problem was properly closing/destroying sockets after they were no longer needed. BSD cleaned up very quickly even with thousands of connections, while Linux (Red Hat 8 Beta) and Solaris 2.6 had serious problems and ran out of fd's after a while.

  19. Re:Could someone on Xandros Releases Open Circulation Edition · · Score: 1

    Besides the fact that they are in two different languages? (Unlike, say, liber and gratis...)

  20. Re:Konqueror on Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9 Release Candidates Out · · Score: 1

    Fetch vs. wget. Browsers are for wimps.

  21. Re:Writing an OS isn't hard. on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 1
    s/study what they/study that they/

    Still not great grammar, but less unintelligible.

  22. Re:Writing an OS isn't hard. on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 1
    I don't think I would attend that program.

    What did they study what they don't know how OSes work, and don't know any C?

    Are you sure these are computer science students?

  23. Re:Linux is magically more secure on Lindows Allowed to Use Company Name in Holland · · Score: 1
    s/BSD\/Linux has/BSD\/Linux have/

    My mistake. Typing too fast.

  24. Re:Linux is magically more secure on Lindows Allowed to Use Company Name in Holland · · Score: 1
    I am no fan of windows (far from it) but I have to take issue with one point:

    Windows is no harder to patch than, say, Solaris (Have you ever tried to apply the endless Solaris 8 security patches?) Windows is not properly patched because, with such a huge market share, the number of non-professional users is much, much higher. BSD/Linux has a higher percentage of computer-literate users, and so has a higher percentage of patched machines.

    This really says nothing about the OSes themselves.

  25. Re:Linux is magically more secure on Lindows Allowed to Use Company Name in Holland · · Score: 1

    Frequent updating is a two-edged sword. The spee dof updates means holes are patched faster, but it also gives an increased probability of introducing a new hole. Faster patches mean less review before a patch is released.