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  1. Re: BBC North America Business Correspondent on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 1
    I guess as Linux users aren't a particularly organised bunch

    After the slashdotting the feedback page is getting today, the BBC might change its opinion on that.

  2. Re:an annoying quirk on Java SDK 1.5 'Tiger' Beta Finally Released · · Score: 1

    I presume the method was typed something like
    process(ArrayList list)
    If you have another method
    process(Object obj)
    then a plain ArrayList will be bound to the second. This is a slight nuisance for writing code which requires casts, but otherwise shouldn't be an issue.

  3. Re:Logic, but not of a good quality. on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 1

    If the main purpose was DDoS, why would only 25% of the infected machines do it?

  4. Andrew Gilligan? on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 1

    Although he at least had a respectd source from the subject area in question, whereas Mr Evans doesn't even seem to have read the Symantec analysis of MyDoom.

  5. Re:I'm Doing My Part on SCO Offline · · Score: 1

    I tried pinging it on Saturday evening, and forgot that the GNU ping keeps pinging by default. Came back from dinner to find I'd sent over 2700 packets with a 100% loss rate.

  6. Who needs textbooks? on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why are students required to buy textbooks in the first place? I got a book grant from my college (Trinity, Cambridge) of 135 pounds in the second year, and I couldn't find enough books I needed to spend it all. I ended up getting a couple of thick hardbacks containing the Java 1.2 API which are very useful for raising my monitor above the desk, ML for the Working Programmer because the author was one of the coolest lecturers, Concurrent Systems by Jean Bacon because it might be useful sometime (although it turns out the handouts she gave were photocopied from it), and Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell (what? It's from the O'Reilly ... in a Nutshell series, isn't it?) The comic book's the only one I ever read, although I did buy one (1) book the following year because it covers the maths I needed for my dissertation project extremely well.

  7. Confused on Scientists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    Are you claiming Nobel was American?

  8. No such thing on Scientists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as "a degree K". It's simply "a Kelvin".

  9. Re:Democratic?! on SCO Wants to License Europe · · Score: 1
    That's still a democratically elected government...
    To pick the first five definitions from dictionary.com of "democracy", #1 is vague (what does "by the people mean" - see #4), #2,3,5 are irrelevant, and #4 is "Majority rule". When a government controls 60% of the votes in Parliament having received 40% of the votes in the election, I don't think "Majority rule" reflects the situation.

    Though that 25% turnout sounds awfully low. Are Brits really that lazy?
    I think it's cynicism rather than laziness.

  10. Democratic?! on SCO Wants to License Europe · · Score: 1

    Democratically elected governments? I don't know much about Continental politics, but I do know that the British government got 40% of the vote, with a turnout of about 25%, in the last General Election. That hardly qualifies as a popular mandate.

  11. Re:Two simple changes to improve the dock on Tog Takes on Mac OS X 10.3 · · Score: 1

    In 10.2 (and IIRC 10.1) you can change the dock orientation in System Preferences.

  12. 1987 + 22 = 2009 on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    Should that be 12 years?

  13. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    "Those of you who live in democracies"? Why the plural? Can you name a country other than Switzerland which is remotely close to being a democracy?

  14. Re:Challenge/Response AntiSpam App on Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple · · Score: 1
    You could just configure your blacklist to immediately delete any email you receive that has your email as the From

    I don't see how that will stop me receiving challenges for e-mail I didn't send.

  15. Re:A method for removing spam from your life. on Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple · · Score: 1

    I use three filters (plus whatever my ISP does). I reject any e-mail containing X-RBL-Warning: (bl.spamcop.net) Blocked a href img I've had one false positive and no false negatives in over 6 months.

  16. Re:Challenge/Response AntiSpam App on Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple · · Score: 1

    Given the number of bounces I get to my Yahoo! account from spams sent using my address as From, I'm glad challenge/response isn't widely used.

  17. It's autoinserted on Filter-foiling Gibberish Becoming A Spam Staple · · Score: 1

    The [SPAM] was inserted by a spam checker. It wasn't in the original message. I think it's SpamAssassin suitably configured, but I could be wrong.

  18. Browsers don't screw up .zip? on Novell Releases SCO Letters · · Score: 1

    Some browsers automatically unzip zips containing a single file, but still save them with the .zip extension. IIRC I've had problems with IE doing this in the past.

  19. The last two? on Earthquake Prediction Months In Advance · · Score: 1

    If they haven't missed any, and they predicted the last two, they must be predicting at a vast rate. Last December, there were three earthquakes which made international news, in California, Iran and Indonesia.

  20. The British version's still chasing companies on RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets · · Score: 1

    The British Phonographic Industry is apparently investigating whether Amazon.com is breaking UK law by importing music from outside Europe.