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  1. Re:The author has some articles on nested classes. on Hardcore Java · · Score: 1

    Blocks aren't the done thing? What on Earth do you mean by that? Most Java programmers use loops rather than tail recursion.

  2. Re:Teach People the Drums on Password Memorability and Securability · · Score: 1

    Yes, I seem not to have expressed myself very precisely. My point was that if you learn a pattern on a QWERTY keyboard, then trying to log in from your mate's computer will be pretty difficult if he uses Dvorak.

  3. Re:Teach People the Drums on Password Memorability and Securability · · Score: 1

    Try using a keyboard with a different layout.

  4. Re:Mu on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 1

    No, actually I break it when it falls out while I'm cycling to work, but the net effect is the same.

  5. Re:Recruit the community on Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? · · Score: 1

    I rather doubt the lecturers intend to sell those notes to the students. I realise that my experience at a British university may not correspond at all to the experience at an American college, but most of our lecturers just handed notes out on the door at the first lecture. If that's not what the lecturers in question here are planning on doing, one wonders why they don't go to a publisher and get their notes published as a book.

  6. Mu on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 1

    I don't carry my phone in my trouser pocket. It's in my coat, which is loose-fitting. When I used to have the phone on vibrate only, I missed about 70% of calls.

  7. I don't have a ringtone to be cool on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 1

    I have a ringtone so I can tell that it's my phone ringing.

  8. Which dice? on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but D6s or D20s?

  9. Re:Subject line irrelevant on FTC Porn Spam Regulation Now in Effect · · Score: 1
    Some of us don't like changing our email addresses every few weeks. My email address hasn't changed since 1994. I'm getting about 650 spams per day.
    That would make sense under the substitutions s/week/decade/ or s/1994/April/.

    Would you now give your e-mail address away in the way you gave it away in 1994? Time was I was quite happy to post my address on the web as a mailto href and the link text of the href. I don't do that with my current address, which I've had since 1999, and I get about one spam a month, without any filters.

  10. Subject line irrelevant on FTC Porn Spam Regulation Now in Effect · · Score: 1
    Right now you can't tell anything from the subject line - porn spam comes with subject lines ranging from (no subject) to "Your Mother Called".
    Sure, automated filtering is nice, but I don't need the subject line to filter out spam - I just look at the from address. If you're getting so much spam that you need automated filtering, perhaps it's time to change your address.
  11. Re:suck rules on Internet Problem Solving Contest 2004 · · Score: 1
    Firstly, if you can't just pull a library off the shelf, it forces you to think about alternative, heuristic, approaches. Secondly, it's testing your ability to (optionally derive and) implement algorithms rather than simply your ability to select a language which has libraries with good documentation.

    Incidentally, if you write tens (yes, I know that 54545633 / 532 is larger than that) of getter and setter methods per class, I think you need to study OO a bit more.

  12. Re:will take place on Friday May 21st. on Internet Problem Solving Contest 2004 · · Score: 1, Funny

    As I write this, it's 09:38 BST on Thursday the 20th. I think you need to check your clock.

  13. Re:suck rules on Internet Problem Solving Contest 2004 · · Score: 3, Informative

    As I read it, they're not prohibiting you from using libraries for basic datastructures like trees, but from using libraries for things like symbolic algebra and graph algorithms. The example given, LEDA, contains basic datastructures but it also contains MSTs, max flow algorithms, BFS, convex hull, ... The competition is about problem solving, not real-life programming, so it's perfectly reasonable to let people use their favorite language rather than require them to do some research into which libraries are available for the languages permitted.

  14. Re:NTFS is not so bad on Measuring Fragmentation in HFS+ · · Score: 2, Informative

    HFS+ is also journalled by default.

  15. Re:This is excellent on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I was just clobbered hard by having no backups, but if I had storage elsewhere I'd use that instead and still have no backups"? I think that's a fair summary of what you said.

  16. Re:On whom? on European Council Approves Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I've written to the five main parties contesting my region (the Eastern region of the UK). So far I've only had a reply from UKIP, who don't appear to have a policy on software patents, although they might have a policy this term of voting against every single piece of legislation put before the Parliament. Edited text of reply.

  17. Re:I always wanted OSX on PC on Successful PearPC/Mac OS X Install Documented · · Score: 1

    And tech support becomes a lot harder, because everyone expects you to support all the peripherals they could plug into the box if it were running Windows.

  18. Re:Gambian National Anthem on Trained Rats for Mine Detection · · Score: 1
    Many people ask: What is Dr. Fegg a doctor *of*?
    Not, however, those with sufficient education to know that DD stands for Doctor of Divinity, which is usually an honorary degree.
  19. Hey! on Economics of Online Gaming · · Score: 2, Informative
    And while kids still play, the market for cards is not nearly what it once was.
    Who you calling a kid?

    I didn't play M:tG back in the days of the Power Nine, but I estimate it's still the case that you can make more by selling the cards individually - most sets have one or two rares which sell for four times the cost of a booster, and the last couple have uncommons which sell for twice the cost of a booster. Sell the commons in chunks of 100 cards on E-bay, and you've probably got a viable business model. (I haven't done a complete analysis, but AIUI there are a few businesses running on a model similar to this).

  20. Mod parent up as Funny on EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography? · · Score: 1

    Or should that be Insightful?

  21. Half-willing? on EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tony wants to be at the centre of the EU, and so do the Lib Dems. I've no idea what the official Tory line is this week, nor how many of them support it, but there's a very solid majority in the House of Commons pushing a pro-EU agenda.

  22. Re:SPAM = DDOS on Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online Spam Clubs · · Score: 1

    He didn't say it was entirely effective.

  23. Re:why does Mandrake open a port 80 proxy? on Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online Spam Clubs · · Score: 1

    Take a look at /etc/apache/httpd.conf

  24. Re:What if you are shy? on eyeBlog · · Score: 1
    How do you recognise an extroverted mathmo?

    He looks at your shoes when speaking to you.

  25. Re:What a great way to start a dreary Sunday! on P-P-P-PowerBook for a S-S-S-Scammer... · · Score: 4, Informative

    Under UK law, there are four requirements for a contract: offer, acceptance, consideration and intent to create legal relations.