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  1. Re:Theft? on Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins · · Score: 1

    Guys, Don't forget the perfectly valid legal concept (probably from English Common Law?) "adverse possession." If John makes use of Jack's real property in a "productive" way for seven years, and in that time Jack makes no attempt to assert title, John can file title on the property and claim it, citing his productive use.

  2. Re:Wine - an unmitigated SUCCESS! on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I can only heartily agree. I have a compute-intensive .exe for which I have no source and no resources to rewrite, thus wine is my only viable means to port to a real OS. Works like a charm in wine, *and* because it's compute-bound, its performance in wine beats that of the OS for which it was written.

  3. Re:I tried to visit once on The National Cryptologic Museum · · Score: 1

    > I've literally had NSA employees jump in surprise when I said hello to them. Most of the time, if you look them in the eye they look away. It's a weird place.

    And this distinguishes itself from New York City exactly how?