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  1. Re:Explicitly disallow it. on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    That's not enough. You have to give him a good reason:

    "BECAUSE I SAY SO!"

  2. Re:Okay Hands Up... on Mass Hack Infects Tens of Thousands of Sites · · Score: 1

    1. Never concat input into SQL. In fact, avoid dynamic SQL entirely. Use stored procedures with parameter binding so that user input can never be used to inject SQL statements to the database. It's not necessary to use stored procedures. You can use parameter binding in all major databases without SPs.
  3. Predictions on UK Moves to Outlaw 'Hacker Tools' · · Score: 1

    Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison.
    -- Richard Stallman, The Right To Read

  4. Re:1984 on Protecting IM From Big Brother · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be funnier if it was someone named GoldSTEIN?

    Oh, I get it, all ashkenazim are the same to you... ;-)

  5. Pearl Jam said it on Storm Worm Strikes Back at Security Pros · · Score: 1

    It's evolution baby!

  6. Re:No encryption by default on Vista For Forensic Investigators · · Score: 1

    No, we can't.

    Next question...

  7. Re:(sigh) on Voting Machines Wreak Havoc in Maryland Elections · · Score: 1

    It's even simpler in Argentina.

    There's a different piece of paper for each candidate.
    That makes it almost impossible to make errors.

    The results are computed by ordinary citizens, and there have been very few reports of fraud in 23 years of continued democracy.

  8. Crime? on Hong Kong Using Children to Hunt for Piracy · · Score: 1
    so the government program is no different than asking young people to tell the police if they see a crime
    Except, there is no crime here.
    A better analogy would be the children telling about their friends/family thoughtcrimes... I think I read that somewhere...
  9. I know why these things happen on UK Law May Criminalize IT Pros · · Score: 1

    Richard Stallman is the one to blame for all these abuses.
    He gave them ideas!

  10. Re:Why are they suing Google? on Google in Trouble for Suggesting Illegal Software · · Score: 1

    Easy: Google has deep pockets. Most pirate sites don't.
    Not to mention they can be in different countries, be registered under fake names, etc.

  11. Of course! on Prayer Does Not Help Heart Patients · · Score: 1

    Obviously, they were praying at the wrong God.
    Or in a way He doesn't like.

  12. Re:Education on human rights, liberalism & cap on Google.org to Spend an Initial $1.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    [...] their theocratic / despotic / fascist [...] Governments


    You mean, like the US?
  13. Re:Objective information? on Congress Made Wikipedia Changes · · Score: 1

    "You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. [...] reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal."

    1984

  14. Futurama Quote on How to Do What You Love · · Score: 1

    "You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do."

    And then we wonder why people always choose the "Slow and Horrible" death...

  15. Interesting fact on Earth's Copper Supply Inadequate For Development? · · Score: 1

    In Argentina, kilometers of copper cables (from phone and power lines) are stolen all the time, and sold on the black market.

    Entire neighborhoods can be without electricity and/or phone for days because of this...

  16. Ob. Simpsons Quote on Fakes, Coming to a Store Near You · · Score: 1

    "Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny."

  17. Re:Format War on HD DVD Demo a Disappointment · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there's no "Free World"(tm) to help us after this war...

  18. Re:The hard way on Leap Second At The End of 2005 · · Score: 1

    Too easy...

    I'd rather modify the cesium 133 atom to reflect the ephemeris second.

    Yeah, *I KNOW* that requires changing all the universe rules...
    C'mon, haven't you ever changed the database design one week before the release??

  19. Re:Intel is just... on Intel Calls $100 Laptops Undesired Gadgets · · Score: 1
    you dont need a $500+ processor to surf the web, and you can get by just fine with 4 year old technology
    4 year old technology to surf the web only?
    I've made thousands this year programming ASP.NET on a Pentium III/450 from 1999.

    It was also good enough to watch/write/encode DVD/DivX, play any game created before 2001, and even run VMware to test strange user setups.

  20. See, mom? on Cannabinoids Induce Brain Cell Growth? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't getting high!

    I was improving my brain! You don't understand!

  21. Re:Aarrrrgh.... on AMD to Adopt DDR2 Next Year · · Score: 1

    I agree. Of all the things you can upgrade, the CPU is the less probable.

    For example, I bought a PIII in 1999. Since then, I upgraded the HDD once (8+30GB), the video card once (8->32MB), the optical drive twice (CD->CDRW->DVDRW), and the memory twice (128->256->512).

    Now, I'm gonna buy an Athlon64. And I'll go for a 939, not for the possible X2 upgrade, but because 754 boards have only 3 memory slots. And, in a Windows World, I'm pretty sure THAT is what's gonna need an upgrade sooner.

  22. DRM on Old-Fashioned DRM Protects Harry Potter Book · · Score: 1
    Think how much cheaper and easier it would be if they just used an E-book s with DRM

    Yeah, but DRM is evil.
  23. Re:Easier to remember random passwords on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 1

    Wrong.
    Remember I'm using both cases, most of the time miXING them IN the SAme woRD, which, along with the ran!dom symb@ls, fools dictionary attacks completely.
    And it could be five words instead of 3, and it would still be easy to remember. I was just showing a pattern.

  24. "do for Fortran what Java did for C"? on Fortress: The Successor to Fortran? · · Score: 1

    Please...

    Java did NOTHING for C. They are languages with completely different uses.

    C is a low level language, where you can do anything you want. Java is a "managed" language, with automatic memory management, where lots of operations are just prohibited and there is NO way around.

    It could have been "what C++ did for C", but since Sun wrote Java and not C++...

  25. Re:We haven't had that wake-up call yet? on Microsoft Messenger Virus Hits Reuters IM · · Score: 1

    No, they don't.

    Most of them restrict IM so the employees don't waste their time chatting.

    But, as with almost every tech problem, 50% of it can be fixed with cultural changes.