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  1. Re:Why don't you have anything? on How To Show Code Samples? · · Score: 1

    I honestly believe that 90% of the really good programmers would be able to provide this easily. A certain level of expertise can only be reached by working on your own code just for research and fun. Combine this with several years of experience, and I'm sure that you've got to have significant amounts of high quality code lying around. Like the original poster said, it's not asking for code that was written specifically for the job application, it's asking for code that you have already written.

  2. Re:Networking? Cat-5e on Pimping Out a New House · · Score: 1

    I'd do the networking all as Cat5-e with Gigabit Ethernet... This is just so wrong. It does not really matter which cable you choose, it will probably be irrelevant in 10 years, if not sooner. But put in cable channel with lots of outlets everywhere, you'll still be happy in 30 years. In other words, try to use generic solutions wherever applicable.

    -Samuel
  3. Re:Stupid idea on Audio Watermark Web Spider Starts Crawling · · Score: 1

    They clearly do not have to download the entire file to find a watermark. Also, add a maximum download count for each server, problem solved. That's not to say that I believe the concept is a good idea, but the spider could probably be a half way efficient at looking at files.

  4. MiniITX with XGL? on Small Form Factor PCs · · Score: 1

    Can anyone recommend a MiniITX board that has a graphic chip that is fully supported by XGL? With a DVI port?

  5. Re:NOT TRUE on The Next Notebook Battery? Lithium Polymer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually Lipo are more likely to explode.

    If the laptop owner has a chance of survival Sony might have to replace the device. With LiPo batteries, the number of reclaims could be greatly reduced.

  6. Re:The unit will also on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    I don't get your point. Are you saying that because somebody else has an even lower standard, any propaganda is justified?

  7. Re:The unit will also on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    What's so ironic is that at the same time you point the finger at the US government propaganda efforts, I'm certain that you believe YOUR media is objective.

    I am sorry that I do not fit into your black/white, left/right scheme, because I am neither anywhere near what you probably believe is a "rightist camp" nor near a "leftist camp". In fact, I do not even watch German TV, nor do I listen to German radio. I do, however, get information through the internet, from from both sides and from different countries. I can only advice you to try a 50%-50% information gathering scheme, it might be a healing experience.

  8. Re:The unit will also on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Corrent the misunderstanding that there are not hordes of rabid terrorists queueing up to kill each and every last one of us

    Well, there may be soon, the administration is working on it. Terrorists are too helpful to ignore, they have worked beautifully in their favor before.

    I am a German, and we still get to see a LOT of information on the history of the second world war in school, including videos of the propaganda machine of that time, political strategies, and their mindless followers.
    Now what is happening in America is beginning to remind me more and more of the propaganda machine that I saw in those videos from before the second world war. It is a trend that has gained intensity over the last couple of years. Whenever you tuned into US national news during the Iraq war, it's been a display of the technological advancement of the war machinery and one-sided government-friendly reporting. 50% airtime for one side, 50% for the other? It simply does not happen in popular media.

    My point is: The goverment has now started to broaden the definition of terrorism, so these things will give them even more power. If you control public opinion, democracy is not much different from a monarchy. When more power is given to anybody, the greed for more power will grow. In my opinion, it is not a question of whether the power will be abused. It is a vicious circle and only a matter of time.

  9. Wow on Ext4 Filesystem Enters Experimental Kernel Tree · · Score: 2, Funny

    enabling Linux to support storage volumes up to 1020 petabytes in size

    Now, is there anybody who still believes that porn does not drive innovation?

  10. Microhydraulics on How Do You Get Into Robotics? · · Score: 1

    Ah, maybe here somebody knows where to get a complete set for miniature hydraulics? I have searched for something like that for ages, and phone called about 20 different vendors of hydraulic components, but found only one German language website that had some, but not all of the required components. Even that page now disappeared.

  11. Re:Their choice of principles eh? on Microsoft's 12-Step Program · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course, the documentation is pointless by now. In the future they will simply make sure to add some patented mechanisms into each API instead, and/or license the documentation in a way that shuts out developers of free software.

  12. Re:PHPGACL? on Pro PHP Security · · Score: 1

    I just read through the whole (excellent) documentation. It's exactly what I have been looking for, and I'll use it. Thanks!

  13. Re:User/role management on Pro PHP Security · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Pear does not meet the "can be installed using FTP" requirement (and is often not preinstalled by cheap webspace providers).

  14. User/role management on Pro PHP Security · · Score: 1

    While only partly on topic, I have recently been wondering how to implement user/role management in PHP in a reusable, secure and performant way. I could do it myself, but using procedural programming/direkt SQL requests you quickly end up with code that is hard to reuse. Using O/R mapping seems to be not practical because a) no good solutions for PHP exist yet so it lacks performance and/or flexibility, and b) I need a solution that the end user can install without shell access, via FTP.

    Are there any secure user/role management solutions that you can recommend? What are the advantages and where are the drawbacks? How du you solve user/role management in a reusable way?

  15. Spring Into Technical Writing on What's the Best Way to Write a Business Plan? · · Score: 1

    You want to read this. Seriously, it's good. It also includes a chapter with helpful information to keep in mind when writing a business plan, specifically for writers that come from a technical background.

  16. Re:those lcd tv integrated mirrors are a rip off on The Type-A, High-Tech Bathroom · · Score: 1

    That shouldn't be too hard to build yourself. Just buy a large mirror and remove a part of the reflection layer, then mount the LCD behind that area.

  17. Gna! on Alternatives to SourceForge for Larger Projects? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can very much recommend Gna!. They are fast, they are secure, the site is well maintained and the developers are very responsive. You have choice between SVN, CVS and Arch, backups exist, you can host files and a homepage, ...

    I host more 10 projects there since when Gna! first appeared two years ago.

  18. Burning on Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It took me more than 3 minutes to understand why "burning" would be the same as "making" stuff.

    [...] after downloading and burning pornographic pictures from the Internet [...]

    Right, so he downloaded it, printed it and later obviously showed regret when he burned the pictures. Why would that be worse than keeping them...? Oooh, *that* burning.

  19. Re:Language Acquisition... on The Future of Speech Technologies · · Score: 1

    I'm a linguist, and it seems to me that Speech Recognition would be incredibly, incredibly useful in the research that's going on right now into Language Acquisition.

    Err... I'm confused, isn't this research going on exactly to provide speech recognition/transition systems with the data? So a perfect speech recognition system would make further acquisition unnecessary. What else would you want to collect the data for?

  20. Re:the footer offs peach take no allergy on The Future of Speech Technologies · · Score: 3, Informative

    The present of speech technology already does, and did so for years. One problem is that you don't have a huge enough word corpus for training that technology (the knowledge of context is always limited to the domain that you have been training it against).

  21. Re:The failed QoS modell on Google Won't Pay Bell South · · Score: 2, Insightful

    QoS didn't fail, it was not even invented to provide customers with new products. It was invented to unify different networks and different types of traffic into one network. Carriers currently have to maintain two completely separate networks: One for voice and one for data transfer. This is extremely costly, and requires twice as much maintainance/staff.

    So carriers are hoping that eventually it will be possible to maintain only one network and have it carry all the traffic. That is why they are pushing for this model so much. QoS is in fact on a very good track to become a huge success.

    Also, the traditional phone network is (at least in theory) more prone to errors, because in a Sonet/SDH ring, or even in the old analog switches there is (virtually) no routing in case of failure of a circuit. In addition, carriers can get rid of older technologies that use bandwidth very inefficiently by providing fixed-with time/bandwith slots to a single subscriber.

  22. Re:Two questions: on Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party' · · Score: 1

    None of these languages comes close to turkish though, were you can form words of virtually unlimited length due to the huge number of morphemes: "uygarlaStIramadIklarImIzdanmISsInIzcasIna" means "(behaving) as if you are among those whom we could not civilize/cause to become civilized", example stolen from "speech and language processing", Jurafsky.

  23. Re:heh heh heh on Site tracks F/OSS coding bounties · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, here is your bounty!

    That's one way to get around the payment. ;)

  24. Blond doll on The Neediest Dolls In The World · · Score: 1

    I'll take that blond needy interactive doll sitting in the left chair.

  25. Re:Gnome-centric on Site tracks F/OSS coding bounties · · Score: 1

    The site currently lists only Gnome, projects.

    Nope.

    Nevertheless, they could also put the Ubuntu Dapper bounties on the page.

    Also, if someone were to create a gnome-multimedia-server that lets clients control the playlist, and (optionally) puts multiple clients in sync (i.e. put three songs into the playlist on one PC and see the change reflected on another), I'd be willing to donate a 1000 extra bugs. However, it's absolutely necessary that this works with GNOME audio players like Muine and Rhythmbox, with all features enabled (i.e. the server needs to provide tags, album images, etc.). If the guy from the Bounty County site reads this, feel free to add this. For more information, contact me.