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  1. Re:See slashdot article... on Sending Mail to Hotmail Users? · · Score: 2, Informative

    (a) IN GENERAL- Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly--
    ...
    (3) materially falsifies header information in multiple commercial electronic mail messages and intentionally initiates the transmission of such messages,

    So, it's only illegal if it's for commercial purposes, and unless I'm reading it wrong, you're fine even then as long as it's within your state and the affected business is also within state.

  2. Re:What are the Downsides to IPv6? Anyone? on U.S. Government to Adopt IPv6 in 2008 · · Score: 1

    You can still have your firewall, and here's how you make it act just like a wide-open NAT:

    Deny all connections from the external interface to the internal interface.

    That's it. Put your currently existing firewall rules on top of that, and you're done. I think you're having an issue because you like the "warmer sound" of IPv4.

  3. Re:72k RPM laptop disks on 2.5" Drives On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    72,000RPM! Holy crap! For 7% extra? I'm gonna put one of those suckers in my desktop and have 60GB of swap.

  4. Re:Lee Gomes on Jakob Nielsen on Design, RSS, Email, and Blogs · · Score: 1

    Well to be fair, it is only a 2. I imagine it'll get modded up to 5 Funny, and back down to 1, Overrated, so my karma burn should be appropriate punishment.

  5. Lee Gomes on Jakob Nielsen on Design, RSS, Email, and Blogs · · Score: 1, Funny

    That wouldn't be Lee... "Underpants" Gnomes, would it?

  6. Re:This is almost useless on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG · · Score: 1

    I like motorbikel better.

  7. Re:Why? on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG · · Score: 1

    Probably not. Unless the engine has some strange quirk that makes it more efficient to have a certain volume of air/fuel put through it that's above what it would take to maintain a constant speed. Even then, the efficency would have to be greater than the increased inertia and friction.

  8. Re:Liquid Helium on Frozen Chip from IBM hits 500 GHz · · Score: 1

    What, you never heard of fusion?

  9. Re:The future on Overly Sanitized Environments Lead to Poor Health? · · Score: 1
    They countered this by (yeah, I know) giving him *worms*...

    I think I speak for everyone here when I say BLEEEEUUhhhh! Ugh! Ew.

    You could never toke up again, total freakout session. Eugh... *shudder*

  10. Re:What I expected on Origami Feedback Mixed, says Samsung · · Score: 1

    This thing is going to get Microsoft beaten to a pulp.

  11. Re:First question: on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    What kind of idiot jumps into a thread with this much discussion and still manages to get such a simple problem wrong?

  12. Re:Go Linux! on Linux 2.6.17 Released · · Score: 1

    There are plenty, and I suppose you could write your part of the kernel in whatever language you want as long as you weren't worried about it being part of the official distribution. But even if they suddenly started allowing other languages in the kernel, and AFAIK they don't, you'd still have to write your interfaces in straight C. It's the only language that basically every other language has bindings for.

  13. Re:You forgot a line. on Microsoft's Mundie to Continue OSS Outreach · · Score: 1

    Hmm. That may answer some questions...

    1981...

    A developer is slaving over a hot compiler. As he finishes the last line of code of MS-DOS, the operating system that was going to free us all, he recites the magic words, "Klatu, verata, nik... uh... nikaahem. Necktie! Nickel! It was an N word! It was definitely an N word!"

  14. Re:First question: on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    The assignment operator returns the value that was assigned. That's why you can do things like this:

    if ((fd = open("file", O_RDONLY)) == -1) {
    ;;printf("Error!");
    }

    In this case, the assigment is some theoretical data type that's at least 4097 bits long, but the value assigned isn't 0, so it evaluates to true.

  15. Re:First question: on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I figured as much, I was just being a smartass :P

    <3

  16. Re:First question: on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    You just wrote an infinite loop.

  17. Re:Why not just use pure C++? on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    Why would you even try to compete with file I/O? Disk access is slow enough that an interpreted language is going to have no problem keeping up with a compiled one. As for the 4 hours, yeah, there's some stuff that Python just does better, but I'm inclined to say they just didn't know what they were doing, mostly because they even attempted competing on the I/O front.

  18. Re:From the FAQ on LiveCoda, Real-Time Coding Competition · · Score: 1

    I'd say it's a valid question. Although I'm fluent in both QWERTY and Dvorak and have about 90% of my Dvorak speed in QWERTY for most applications, if you sit me down at VIM with a QWERTY keyboard and tell me to whip up some C++ code, I'm like a retarded monkey. I start out by typing "Z,", and within 5 minutes I'm so confused I start punching myself, crying "WHY DOES MY FACE HURT I DON'T UNDERSTAND NOTHING MAKES SENSE"

  19. Re:Well, theres a surprise. on Hifn Restricts Crypto Docs, OpenBSD Opens Fire · · Score: 1

    Nah, we're almost always wrong.

  20. Re:Thanks study on Study Says Coffee Protects Against Cirrhosis · · Score: 1

    Certainly not always. Different drugs interact differently. Sometimes 2+2=4. Sometimes 2+2=7, sometimes 2+2=0. And sometimes, 2+2=150. Just ask my friend's 15 year old little brother, who ate some Adderall, huffed some hairspray, and exploded his heart.

  21. Re:What?!?!? on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1

    Most likely GStreamer. Quod Libet uses it, XMMS doesn't. This is something that has supposedly been fixed in a recent version of GStreamer. I know I get the same thing in Rhythmbox, which is written in C, and this issue is specifically listed in the release notes.

  22. Re:Character Reuse? on Password Complexity in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Columns.

  23. Re:unlikely on Password Complexity in the Enterprise? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In my job, I talk to network administrators very frequently while supporting our software. Generally the problem is, our product's default password doesn't meet their complexity requirements. The solution is simple, I ask them what their requirements are and make one up that meets them.

    Those requirements are absolutely not unlikely. I run into requirements at least as idiotic about once a month. Some of the stuff I've heard, I didn't even think it was possible to create a password that met them, and they had to be changed once a month. I've also run into stuff that probably reduces the keyspace (requiring 2 numbers, 2 special characters, 2 upper, 2 lower tells you a lot about every password when minimum length is 8). That one also had to be changed monthly.

    These requirements are for ... well, I'm not going to even say what type of company that last particular one was in order to protect my job, but trust me, you'd be very surprised, and probably upset. The fact is, the type of critical thinker that can actually come up with a good password policy is somehow a rare person, even in IT. Since the people doing the hiring generally have no idea how to interview, you'll find that person with almost perfect random distribution at small and large companies, government offices, schools, banks, consultants, mom-n-pop stores, you name it. It's a sad, sad situation.

  24. Re:No planetarium matches the real night sky on HomeStar - 21st Century Home Planetarium Review · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the country really is the best place to trip.

  25. Re:What a day. on Chipmakers Admit Your Power May Vary · · Score: 1

    I'm only the 18th nervous breakdown!

    Waaabababababa pbbbbt! Hooo!