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  1. Re:Konqui on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 2, Informative

    And how do you read your slashdot user page? It does not render properly (or sometimes at all) on Konqueror. As well as many other webs, because style engine is broken.

    BTW, my Mozilla 1.7/linux on "shell:/bin/ls" says

    Alert! shell is not a registered protocol

    So, I see no problems with mozilla on linux.

    Note, your Konqueror probably has some other obscure protocols, such as system:, settings: or programs: which may render your machine vulnerable by means you can't even imagine. You really should check if they are on just now.

  2. Unification and Backtracking on Favorite Programming Language Features? · · Score: 1
    Not so many coders are able to grasp mentally a declarative paradigm of logic programming.
    member(X,[X|_]).
    member(X,[_|R]):-member(X,R).
    This is 'is a member of list' predicate in prolog.

    Or another example:
    qsort[]=[]
    qsort(x:xs)=(qsort[y|y<-xs,y<x]) ++ [x] ++ (qsort[y|y<-xs,y>=x])
    This is complete quicksort algorithm written in haskell. Please compare the code above to an average implementation of quicksort in your favourite C or java library.

  3. How to aim horisontally rotating CD... on Homemade CD Shooter? · · Score: 1

    Use a side rail.

    I would like to post an ascii blueprint here but the lame "lameness filter" won't allow it, sorry.

  4. Optical Air Link on Hybrid Community Networks? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For many community nodes, CZFree network in Prague (and other czech cities) uses an optical light, but no laser(!) device called Ronja. Garage design by professionals, becomes a marketable technology after several years of experiments. Range of the two way direct visibility link is measured in kilometers, band is about 10M.

    Here some links:

    Home page
    Some 64 existing deployments of the device
    An example of installation in dense city area

  5. Words as tools? on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My advise to all opressed people: Use the same technique law/politics people are using very often against you. New-speak. Just change terminology, invent new words, as they do to infect you with false distractive ideas.

    In case of P2P, say 'an equiv' instead of 'a peer'. Say 'resource scattering' instead of 'file sharing'. Say 'support lobby' instead of 'tracker server'. Insist you are not a peer, but an equiv, that you do not share files but scatter resources. Make a difference out of nothing, just as is the method of making human laws.

    Words are software. Human brain is adaptable. Geeks are the most adaptable from all people, because they understand nature of software. Resist rigidity of any ideology by resillience of mind.

  6. ".Z" on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 1

    They should name them in chinese characters, in order to not to run out of alphabet too soon.

  7. Bravo, man! on Professor Creates His Own Cisco Manual · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Superiority of open culture over corporate culture has been examplified.

    Superiority of law enforcement over sane intellect will be examplified later.

  8. Printer & Scanner Backup System on Bulk Data Storage For The Common Man? · · Score: 1

    Print your data with tiny bar code or ocr font. Don't forget to number pages.

    Several months later, you can try to sell some outdated backups to geeks as a wallpapers.

  9. Change Security Procedures... on Military on Alert for Killer Coke Cans · · Score: 2, Funny

    Drink beer.

  10. Re:Stargate on Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets · · Score: 1

    McGuyver???

    O'Niel!!!

  11. Re:Hehe... on UML, PostgreSQL Get Corporate Support · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is flamebait. I can't help it. And you 50 Postgres users love it anyway, don't you?

    PgSQL is of my choice for a database.

    Superior technology is only understandable by superior elite intellect, as you admit.

    Yeah, this flamebait is better than yours.

  12. Magic?! on Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference? · · Score: 1

    Verily the difference between the two becomes distinguished when power user casts his sacred Will upon the operating system. Linux obeys. Windows stays doomed.

  13. Almost not a competitor for Google on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Search engine deficiency is easily detected: by what it cannot or does not find. I suspect Microsoft engine will be pretty biased against open source technology and competitors, and pro to minion partners. Attractive for blind consumers, but less practical for IT specialists.

    Well, I predict a failure to Microsoft, unless they will run indexing and lookup machinery on some better platform than theirs.

  14. AMD from EU! on Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License? · · Score: 1

    Pentium 4 a weapon? Well, I need no stinkin' Pentium 4. Soon, I'll be happy with an AMD64 Opteron made in Europe . Meanwhile a PDA, katana and a crossbow are quite sufficient for my arsenal.

    BTW, here I didn't seen U.S. made computer components or other electroncs for more than a decade. Everything from chips to cards, boards and displays is made in Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Korea, Ireland. Including Intel CPUs.

  15. Deus Ex on In These Games, the Points Are All Political · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Note that Deus Ex plot already predicted the government/terrorist cross dependency and public manipulation, in 2000.

  16. Nice price... on ViewSonic VP2290b Super High-Res Monitor · · Score: 1

    With that price, they could bundle in a free computer to encourage customers to buy.

  17. Ask Slashdot: on Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to reduce stupidity with XML too?

  18. I first read it... on A How-Not-To Guide to Cyber-Extortion · · Score: 1

    ... as Moron Tereshchuk, not Myron. But at the end of the post it's clear I was correct.

  19. Open technology? on The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet · · Score: 1

    Weather measure and forecast is a good theme for distributed p2p network application over internet. It is only a matter of time only until some smart man will get an idea and start an open source project on it.

  20. Re:Some actual problems... on NewsForge Reviews Excel Clone for Linux · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, from fonts which came with planmaker, only roman contains correct glyphs. And system fonts, which are proper elsewhere in mandrake shows incorrect kerning in your application. I am sorry but I still must qualify your product poorly supporting my native language.

    Can you also explain what is a raw socket library doing in a spreadsheet application?

  21. Some actual problems... on NewsForge Reviews Excel Clone for Linux · · Score: 0

    I just tried that trial version in mandrake, and I can't understand why a piece of software made up in central Europe can't handle central european langugages correctly. No support for iso-8859-2 at all.

    Also, I have no problems with it costs money, but I have a serious problem with it not being open source, especially if quick dump reveals there is a socket library linked in the code statically.

    strings ./planmaker | grep soc

    socket
    setsockopt
    getsockname
    11CAssocArray
    SocketINETGetAddr: getsockname() failed: %d
    SocketOpen: socket() failed for %s
    SocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to determine socket type for %s
    SocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for %s
    SocketOpenCLTSClient: Unable to determine socket type for %s
    SocketOpenCLTSClient: Unable to open socket for %s
    SocketINETConnect: sockname.sin_port = %d
    SocketINETGetAddr: getsockname() failed: %d
    SocketOpen: socket() failed for %s
    SocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to determine socket type for %s
    SocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for %s
    SocketOpenCLTSClient: Unable to determine socket type for %s
    SocketOpenCLTSClient: Unable to open socket for %s
    SocketINETConnect: sockname.sin_port = %d

    Meanwhile, I will stick with gnumeric, of course.

  22. Re:Me predicts... on SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC · · Score: 1

    I didn't wrote the seti client will be vulnerable to worms or server hacking. It surely would be but that is another story.

    I did wrote about the next generation of worms will use the architecture very similar to BOINC technology to propagate themselves, securely and stealthy, with better immunity to mutants attack we see today.

    It is not about p2p, nor binary hygiene.

  23. Me predicts... on SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This BOINC thingy seems to be an adequate infrastructure for the next generation of... worms.

  24. Make it civilised, yes. on Building a Better Office · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Silence is essential for good concentration. So small office room for engineers, no more than two people per room. Generally, assign the same task to both people.

    Artists are often more socialisable then coders, keep them together in a bigger room.
    One large room for teaming, keep regular meetings.

    Also, assign sales people into two competing teams and sit them in two larger rooms.

    What to do with support staff depends on your technology. If they are going out often, they should have a separate office. Keep them in good contact vith sales people.

  25. Re:And after hearing this news on France Considers Open Source · · Score: 1

    You missed some qt-surrender, xsurrender, Jsurrender. You also didn't mention pySurrender supporting curses and tix.