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  1. generics on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1
    The official way to implement

    public <T> void foo(T o) { o.somemethod(); }

    Is to write"

    public <T implements SomeMethodable> void foo(T o) {o.someMethod();}

    This is not a great soltion, though, as you might as well just write:

    public void foo(SomeMethodable o) {o.someMethod();}

    The point here is that this was delt with with interfaces, and this isn't where generics help.

  2. Ties? on 2000 Election with Proportional Electoral Votes · · Score: 3, Informative
    When a tie happens the House of representaives votes (1 vote per state) to elect the president. If they tie then the Senate chooses a president to serve until the House comes into agreement. I can't remember the details completely, somehow the vice president candidates are involved (perhaps these are chosen to serve temporarily?)

    Perhaps you might find the 12th amendment illuminating.

    From amendment 12:

    The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote

    And from amendment 20:

    If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified


    As a final note; if you live in the US, be willing to read your constitution.

  3. scanning in parts on U.S. Offers $50 Download · · Score: 1

    And why not break the anti-counterfitting portion into two separate parts? It can't recognize five dots when the image only has two or three.

  4. Valid email address on Slashback: Echo, Lunchbox, Questions · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Vote for 10 of them at The New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate. You don't even need /. mod points--just a valid email address!"

    I don't need no valid email adress; I use Mailinator. You can give the spammers anything and check it on the Mailinator site. Everything's public, though, so avoid confidentials.

  5. Colored buddy names on Gaim Maintainer Rob Flynn Interviewed · · Score: 1
    I like how it highlights your buddy's names in the buddy list with color codes depending on current messaging status: green if they're currently typing, blue if they've typed something into a window you haven't checked since then, etc.

    I agree that it is nice, but Gaim does it was well.

  6. video-card inputs on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 5, Funny
    One monitor runs off of my video card's digital input, and the other monitor runs off of the card's analog input.

    You might get even better results if you tried using the video card's outputs.

  7. $50 limit on Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that the situation is you pay a maximum of $50 towards bills the thief racked up before you called to cancel, and none towards anything charged after you call in.

  8. Address included? on New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing · · Score: 1
    From the bill:
    (5) "True name and address" means information that accurately identifies the name of the person who is disseminating the commercial recording or audiovisual work, along with his or her valid e-mail or mailing address.
    So it looks like you may choose either an email or a mailing address.
  9. Re: sig on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1

    In response to your sig, TANSTAAFL!

  10. OT on Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend · · Score: 1

    re sig: interest (cbr2702 to yahoo d0t com)

  11. GPL compliant? on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 1
    Hence, if ffmpeg is bundled (but not linked into the program), and if he is not distributing ffmpeg source, then he is guilty of violating the GPL.

    Not to be nitpicky, but if he made no modifications to the ffmpeg source then he was not required to distribute it at any point.

  12. Gentoo on Linux Desktop Distros with Quality Fonts? · · Score: 1

    The default fonts look nice, though.

  13. Re:The Tally for Today on West Virginian Mayor Might Defy Popular Vote · · Score: 1

    I don't see how this is an Anti-bush article. Where would you get that idea?

  14. Mission Critical on Exploring Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    One could be using Firefox on a corporate intranet for some web-based accounting software, could one not?

  15. Magnetism on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    Nickel can also be magnetic (though 1/20th the amount of iron). So a nickel might work.

  16. Active window palette setting on Presenting APNG: Like MNG, Only Better · · Score: 1

    This used to happen in Windows 95/98 too when the color depth was 256.

  17. Analog copying on European DRM News · · Score: 1

    An analog signal is nessacary only for the step directly between the machine and us. Everything prior to that step, extending even to the speakers can be made digital and DRM'd. The increased quality of digital signals will push analog devices out of the market, and if MS, the *AA, etc. have their way, digital devices will be locked down with strong encryption-based DRM. So perfect DRM is possible, and by the time it comes analog copying will no longer be possible.

    </paranoia>

  18. Paying for a drivers test on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 1

    In MA, the RMV charges $25 per road test and $15 per permit test.

  19. Re:Prior Art? on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 5, Funny

    How? Everyone knows those Open Sores hippies stole everything anyways.

  20. Pricing on Note Taking Devices for Students? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure. $250 for the first and $25,000 for the second.

  21. Re:Reusable Tokens on RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work · · Score: 1
    I'm sorry I didn't RTFA (excuse, excuse: their server was overloaded) but now I have and I see that you're right. Point 10 addresses my question exactly.

    As an aside, it's not that I was "sitting at [my] computer thinking [I] had foiled this system that a bunch of very smart people invested a ton of time and money in" but that I was confused (obviously) about the way the system worked, and wanted clarification.

  22. Apple //e on Is the 80 Columns Limit Dead? · · Score: 1

    My Apple //e shipped with a native resolution of 40 characters. My grandfather had an 80-column addon card, but as the display is a TV-screen, 80 columns was fuzzy. I still use my //e, as a dumb terminal off my linux box.

  23. Re:Reusable Tokens on RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work · · Score: 1

    But the inconsistency with the way you've discribed the system is that it is supposed to be computationally cheap to verify a problem/solution pair. So there would be no benifit to holding onto pairs to use as challenges in the future because it would be both more secure and eficient to generate a new problem every time (to which the anwser is not known, but a solution can be easily verified).

  24. Re:Reusable Tokens on RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't attach it to multiple messages? Whyever not? Imagine I get a token in a message from someone, I attach it to a new message, and send it on to someone else. That is the way reusable tokens are supposed to work, right? But let's say instead that I attach that reusable token to two outgoing messages. Without some central DB of token usage, the recipients can only determine that the tokens I have provided are valid, not that they have not been used for other messages. So this does not prevent spam.

  25. Reusable Tokens on RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I recieve a token from someone else, can I copy it and attach it to multiple messages? If so, what's to stop spammers from calculating one token and attaching it to a large number of messages?