User: lachlan76

Re:Have a Microsoft Night?

On: Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS

Would it be ok to try to do it in M$ HW? ;)

Re:Ok...

On: Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS

There's plenty of new features they could use.

Windows 2006: XP in an aluminium box

Re:What about Apollo program comparisons

On: Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS

Or better yet, do it in hardware.

Re:You'll be tried in a court.

On: CEO Indicted for DDOSing Competitors

So, your scenario only works if:
#1. You are a soldier for an authoritarian regime.

In case you haven't noticed, a fairly significant portion of the world population lives under one of these governments.

Re:You mean like Abu Ghraib?

On: CEO Indicted for DDOSing Competitors

Most people won't choose death.
And of those that say they would, how many would still say it when there's a pistol pointed their head? When you're scared, your mind doesn't work like it does normally.

For example, if I chose ten random people, and put each of them between a gunman with one bullet and some other random person, and then told them that the gunman will shoot in 10 seconds, how many would move out of the way, and how many would take the bullet to save the other person?

Re:Where's your gun?

On: CEO Indicted for DDOSing Competitors

But if you are informed that if you do not carry out the order, then you will be shot? The soldier doesn't have a gun pointed at him, but he knows that if he doesn't do what the CO says then there will be in the very near future.

By your logic, Hitler was the only person accountable for the Holocaust.

Re:SprintPCS and Sony

On: Did Your Code Ever Make Anyone Deaf?

he cheap shit you get today will break if you just drop it on a cement floor, never mind chucking it like it was a live grenade

Mine doesn't - Ericsson T100. Looks like it's made of polycarbonate.

Re:I just can't resist....

On: Anatomy Of A Bug In Microsoft Office

Don't forget:

"Now this is a map of the"
"...zap...blank"
"Fucking Windows 98!!! Get Bill Gates in here!"
"You said Windows 98 would be more stable and have better access to the internet!"
"But it is! Windows 98 has had millions invested into research and devel....*BLAM*"

Re:I'm now officially obligated to...

On: Anatomy Of A Bug In Microsoft Office

Just because there are less patches doesn't only mean that there are less bugs.
Two possibilities:

1. Less bugs
2. More unpatched bugs

Which would you prefer? More patches or more bugs?

Re:Misleading headline

On: RIAA Sues More Music Lovers

Not contributing != doing damage

Cancer DOES kill lots of people. But does piracy do a lot of damage to RIAA?

Re:Misleading headline

On: RIAA Sues More Music Lovers

No, more like someone who needs a dog to exist randomly shooting dogs which walk in front of them.

Re:Dozens?

On: Dozens Charged in Spam Crackdown

I'm sorry, but any fitting punishments are not legal - I believe it comus under the phrase "Cruel and inhuman punishment", IIRC. But I'm not an American, so I could be wrong.

Re:oldschool

On: Virus Writers Look Ahead: Target 64-bit Windows

Slightly overkill for programs of "Hello World" proportions, though,

Re:One of the saddest things I'v ever read.

On: Virtual Girlfriend

If you think that's hard you should try perl.

Re:Holy Cow!

On: Virtual Girlfriend

Same except I'm 14.

And this is the most pointless fucking idea I've heard since......no, wait. Worst idea ever. Even I'm not desperate enough to get a girlfriend running on some server in Japan.

Re:The Best Protection

On: Always Use Protection

Only works if he's the only person on the computer. My parents have done a lot more damage than I have. Including throwing out HARDWARE.

Next install will be Debian.

Re:Nope

On: Always Use Protection

their rebellion is reaching new levels

I'm getting told by my parents about how "In their day" they weren't allowed to go out with friends after 6pm when they were 18/19. It's all a matter of perspective. Why SHOULDN'T I find that just slightly unfair.....especially since most of my friends live a fair distance away and we don't get to do a lot of stuff? You think watching lots of people enjoy their lives while I'm stuck in a cage is fun? Do you? Do you? Things like this are more than "little to no reason at all".

Re:Is your son a computer hacker?

On: Always Use Protection

Forget programming with perl, what about The Cathederal and the Bazaar?

Re:Is your son a computer hacker?

On: Always Use Protection

• Popular hacker software includes "Comet Cursor", "Bonzi Buddy" and "Flash
• There are, unfortunately, many hacking manuals available in bookshops today....."The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond
• If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking
• 
  
  I sure hope that this is a joke.....

Re:Um, ThinkGeek? Hello?

On: Portable Storage?

IIRC, Win98 doesn't have USB Mass Storage drivers out of the box.

Re:yah right

On: Always Use Protection

I got street address and a directional antenna.....fill in the rest of the story yourself ;)

And yeah, same age, so I know a lot of people with unsecure Windoze boxes. Including a fresh IIS install.

Re:What's worse..

On: Always Use Protection

I am still a teenager, and I had to help someone set up a computer after he FORMATTED his hard drive, without backups, without looking for drivers (did I forget to mention that he had a winmodem, no manuals, and didn't find out what hardware he had before), and TO GET RID OF SPYWARE.

Most teenagers don't know much about computers. My brother can't get through hotmail registration.

However, MSN and email have taught us to be sure to check email addresses, and not just the names. A couple of times some friends and I did a man-in-the-middle attack on a couple of my friends....it took a while for her to realise. Ahhh.....the memories. I've downloaded GnuPG since then, of course.

Re:Strongly typed - Good or Bad?

On: Why is Java Considered Un-Cool?

#include <stdio.h>

class A
{
public:
virtual void dostuff() { printf("A::dostuff()\n"); }
};

class B : public A
{
public:
virtual void dostuff() { printf("B::dostuff()\n"); }
};

int main()
{
A* a = new B;
B* b = new B;
void* c = (void*)new B;

a->dostuff();
b->dostuff();
((B*)c)->dos tu ff();

return 0;
}

Was what I meant, and the output should be

B::dostuff()
B::dostuff()
B::dostuff()

But yeah, what you thought I meant was what I meant.

After reading it myself, and counting the errors, I have decided what I should do with my life:
It's time to get some sleep.

Re:Strong typed != inflexible

On: Why is Java Considered Un-Cool?

void pointers can be nice to have sometimes, though.

Strongly typed - Good or Bad?

On: Why is Java Considered Un-Cool?

Is having strict typing always what you want? I don't know Java very well, but is there a template-like functionality in it? In C++ for instance, if I want to make a linked list, I have three choices:

• Use a single data type for EVERY list (int, char*, struct DATA*, etc.)
• Use templates to choose the list type for every list created
• Pass a void* as data

Restricting programmers to choosing all variable types during coding is restrictive, and takes away some of the advantages of a heavily object-oriented language, like doing this (Maybe Java can do this, but I haven't learnt how yet)

class A
{
virtual void dostuff() { printf("A::dostuff()\n"); }
}

class B : public A
{
virtual void dostuff() { printf("B::dostuff()\n"); }
}

int main()
{
A* a = new B;
B* b = new B;
void* c = (void*)new B;

a.dostuff();
b.dostuff();
(B*)c.dostuff();

return 0;
}

And still call the same function every time.

Now I haven't been using Java long (started about 2 days ago) and haven't come across pointers yet. Are they in the language?