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  1. Re:Keep It Fun & Exciting on How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? · · Score: 1

    Or he could just re-enact a months worth of dilbert strips.

  2. Re:Godel on Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Heh you Godel'd him up good.

  3. Re:I'll never understand the RMS haters on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    RMS wants to go back to the days of bootstrapping your system from a compiler. Why could that possibly be, cant quite remember who the star of the linux toolchain is? Vested interest perhaps? The guy is an anachronism. I'd look to folks like Mozilla and Apache for modern OSS leadership.

  4. Re:The Cloud is pretty good for some businesses on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    Oh noes if myspazz goes down i will lose all my friends! This is fucking retarded some data is very transient and ideally suited to the cloud. Some i just pure dont care about its privacy or ownership. Thats fine in the cloud. There is legal recourse for them misusing sensitive data in the cloud so at the end of the day its not a stretch to imagine thats ok in the cloud too. Finally you can jsut use end point encryption and at one fell stroke the evil companies have lost their ability to snoop on you.

    Only reall problem is data loss if the provider goes away, but even this isnt a problem as long as your aware of the possibility.

  5. Re:Combinatorial Explosion on Working Effectively with Legacy Code · · Score: 1

    Its more like saying its impractical to seatbelt everyone in world to stationary objects in order to prevent car crashes.

  6. Re:and the fourteenth error should be... on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    My favourite has to be from prolog.

    No.

  7. Re:My 3d browser on 3D Web Browser Draws Lukewarm Review · · Score: 1

    Untrue the dimensions need only be linearly independant. The posters argument is only strange in that one of the dimensions is discrete whereas the others are continuous, making it unlike the noraml 3d vector spaces we are used to dealing with.

  8. Re:You want a business case? on IPv6 and the Business-Case Skeptics · · Score: 1

    You loser! Not only is my toaster online but it has a lvl 70 epic warlock on Skullcrusher.

  9. Re:Nice idea on Online Storage With a Twist · · Score: 1

    To do so the average disk space hosted by each user will need to be at absolute minimum (1/ Percentage Time Online) * Storage Size

    You may say thats fine alot of people will levea their computers connected all the time so its not going to be that bad, but i suspect that those people will also be driving the other side of the equation by storing the most stuff on the distributed raid.

  10. Re:I don't see this as anti FOSS on The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the wrong way to think in a corporate culture. Releasing full details before patches are available increases the risk to the customers. Not all linux systems run webservers you know. Many systems must go through rigorous testing before any maintenance is applied so as not to introduce regressions. Perhaps the machine cant come down for amintenance for another 3 months? This means that a production server could be months behind on security maintenance, sending the full details of how to exploit that doesnt sound like the best idea to me.

    Red Hat are putting their customers first which is exactly what I'd expect them to do.

  11. Re:Resources? on Chrome Vs. IE 8 · · Score: 1

    Never said there weren't. I work on portals and do AJAX work for a living and I still hate 95% of all use of flash and javascript in the web.

    Having an application that responds to user input is a totally different thing than having a lot of sizzle and no steak.

    You mean like the basic definition of a portal?

  12. Re:Alternate hypothesis on Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    Actually the Dutch have a reputation for being very good at languages, particularly English. They're probably better than the average American. (Oh noes i'll *loose* karma for slagging the USians!)

  13. Re:Blur the line. on Defining Video Game Addiction · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you suggesting that the first transhumans will being doing if for "teh epic lootz" and "ganking nubz"?

  14. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    I actually have my start bar setup with an address bar for this very reason. Plus instantly being able to launch explorer windows or webpages no matter what i work on is pretty handy.

  15. Re:Some Pointers (hehe) on Java, Where To Start? · · Score: 1

    Coming from a C++ background you could have a look at JNI, which is how you run java from inside C++. Not many people understand it and the available doc is sparse at best so developing solid skills in this area will help differentiate you.

  16. Re:Don't use Java on Java, Where To Start? · · Score: 1

    Java isnt just for applets you know. Nowadays most apps will install their own JVM to be sure they're running on a supported level and so shouldnt impact someone doing imaging at all. Sun is also not the only provider out there.

    If you're major concern about java is in internet explorer then you don't really understand java.

  17. Re:Just a thought.... on Java, Where To Start? · · Score: 1

    I actually agree with the GP, languages are trivial, architecture is not.

  18. Re:A better solution? on Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Thats right the problem isnt the spammers so much as the idiots who buy that crap. Someone should use a botnet to send out millions of spam then go round and slap every moron who tries to buy your herbal viagra or whatever.

  19. Re:Should have gone to A.B.C.D.E.F.G format. on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    I've got each digit of my ip address on its own ip address. I dont think you can overestimate the number required.

  20. Re:Killing music for everyone on RIAA 'Elektra V. Barker' Case Is Settled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I dont own any of the code I write at my day job and I certianly dont get recurring royalties from it.

  21. Re:This is going to end badly on McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments · · Score: 1

    ...is usually better than a knee-jerk response.

    I'll knee-jerk your response!

  22. Re:I don't get it on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1

    Thankfully most of my needs in that area I can get by with USS. The parent is right though this stuff is seriously weird if your coming from a distributed background.

  23. Re:Programmers? on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Sounds like C strings.

  24. Re:Sorry. trickle down economics don't really work on Study Suggests Music Industry Embrace Piracy · · Score: 1

    Thats a pretty weak argument, there's plenty of electronic acts which have taken their nusic live to a significant level think people like Massive Attack, Prodigy, Basement Jax, Leftfield, Ozric Tentacles, Sneaker Pimps, NIN, Crystal Method etc.

    Just sequence less of it and play more.....easy.

  25. Re:Infringing your own copyright on RIAA's $222k Verdict Is Likely To Be Set Aside · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But how do they know what they';re downloading til after they make the copy. I could make a file which i license at 1 beeeelion dollars then make it available under a name mangling of the RIAAs latest pop sensation. What happens then? If they have it their way then they are opening everyone to unlimited liability for downloading anything.

    Which is retarted.