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  1. Re:Only when I'm in public on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 1

    what's the reason?

    or just tell the whole story, and we'll find a reason for you.

    of course, as other posters have pointed out, it's no surprise you got your ass kicked, your annoying as all hell.

  2. Re:Only when I'm in public on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 1

    Tell the story. It all depends on what you claim is unprovoked.

    Suppose you're walking down the sidewalk and a group of drunks are coming towards you. You keep you're posture and walk through them. They decide you "dissed" them, and beat the shit out of you. Are they wrong? Yes. Are you right? Sure. Was it unprovoked? No. You should have gotten out of their way.

    Just because you behave in a legal or proper or whatever manner doesn't mean you can't provoke someone.

    I've seen many times where someone claimed they weren't at fault. Sure, they're innocent, but they could have avoided the situation. I have no sympathy for them when they chose not to.

  3. Re:Only when I'm in public on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the UK, but in the US if you are under the influence and you get in a fight with someone, in most cases the other person won't get prosecuted. Drunks and drug-users get in fights all the time. In most cases, they just get charged with being drunk. In fact, I've seen several cases where the cops pit the two parties against each other to get them both to drop charges. In their mind, you're both waste-oids and they don't give a shit.

  4. Re:your posts on slashdot aren't a political platf on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 1

    killing other humans which is a sin

    Or so you believe.

    we do have a right to kill them

    Or so you believe.

  5. Re:Only when I'm in public on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 1

    Unprovoked; they were drunk, I was drunk.

    Unprovoked my ass.

  6. Re:Good for them, but not far enough. on Apache Rejects Sender ID · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Good for them, but not far enough. on Apache Rejects Sender ID · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's an inferior attempt at authentication. Yahoo!'s DomainKeys is superior in every respect.

    I was really interested in SPF for a while, but I'm tired of this shit. Like the grandparent says, it's all a big waste of time. I'm going to delete those TXT records right now...

  8. Re:Monopoly? on Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store · · Score: 1

    Humans are machines.

  9. Re:your posts on slashdot aren't a political platf on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 1

    In fact, the whitetail deer population in the U.S. is out of control

    According to humans or natural trends?

    and without the hunting season, you actually have a greater chance of being killed because you struck a deer while driving.

    That's the deer's fault? Animals weren't put here so we could shoot them when they interfered with our driving habits.

  10. Re:Hunters are pro Endagered Species Act on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 1

    Hunters are not opposed to the Endangered Species Act. Hunters and fishermen appreciate government regulations that provide them with more animals to catch or kill. Check out Ducks Unlimited, for example. The biggest opponents of the ESA are developers and polluters. Both of these groups are very friendly to the GOP when it comes to fundraising.

    Things are a lot more complicated than they seem.

  11. Re:your posts on slashdot aren't a political platf on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of all that you posted, this is the only one I disagree with:

    p. 2 #18: "We oppose the Endangered Species Act."

    That's enough to kill my vote for Bush. It's also enough to kill my vote for Kerry. (For those of you who haven't been paying attention, BOTH Bush and Kerry are pro-hunters/sportsmen.)

    It's a sad day when one's only choice is to vote "no confidence", and even that has to be a write-in.

  12. Re:A land-line...? on VoIP And Cell Phones Eroding Traditional Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Then you should call the board governing telecommunications in your state, because they most likely just broke a law (statuatory or administrative).

  13. Re:Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    That's missing the point. If I have a C/C++ routine taking two pointer dummy arguments of the same type, then there is no way of guaranteeing that the pointers won't be aliased

    Sure there is. C99 specifies __restrict__ and __restrict for just this case.


    You simply do not know what you are talking about. The keyword "restrict" in C99 makes a recommendation or statement, if you will, to the compiler that it can safely perform an optimization because there isn't pointer aliasing in the function call. It does not *guarantee* that that is the case. It simply makes a recommendation, which could be wrong.

    See http://www.cbau.freeserve.co.uk/Compiler/RestrictP ointers.html for more details.

  14. Re:Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    When did I say anything about "technique" or "device"? It's quite obvious to me, the other guy, and everyone modding this discussion that you had no clue what "pointer aliasing" even was.

    It never fails when some troll has nowhere to go

    Hmm, who is more likely the troll? 743925? or 81920? The fact is, I simply called you on your statement and made you look stupid. Now that makes me a troll?

  15. Re:Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ONE used such a device

    You don't use pointer aliasing, it's a concept. Pointer aliasing does occur quite commonly by the way, evidenced merely by the existance of memmove() and memcpy().

    Here's pointer aliasing that most people wouldn't even recognize:
    void swap (int* a, int* b)
    {
    int temp = *a;
    *a = *b;
    *b = temp;
    }

    int v[40];

    swap(&v[20],&v[21]);
    You make me worry

    No, you make me worry. Especially after the HUNDEREDS of applications you've written. You can't even spell "hundreds" correctly for Christ's sake.
  16. Re:Options? on A C Compiler For The HP49g+ · · Score: 1

    I can't quite be bothered to do (1024/8*256) in my head, or need to find out what 2^64 is, quickly

    You're a Master's student? To think that I thought the quality of education in SE was good.

    Here's a clue:
    2^10 = 1024
    2^3 = 8
    2^8 = 256
    1024/8 = 2^(10-3) = 2^7 = 128
    128*256 = 2^(7+8) = 2^15 = 32768
    1024/8*256 = 2^(10-3+8) = 2^15 = 32768

    I'll give you 2^64, but really you should have 2^0 - 2^32 all memorized.

    calculus classes (stuff involving integrals, derivatives, matrices, equations with multiple unknown variables, etc), and I believe it will come in handy in physics and mathematical statistics

    What does that have to do with a Master's program in IT? That's stuff that you should have taken as an undergrad.

  17. Re:Vocational Rehabilitation on Note Taking Devices for Students? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whining that the taxman is keeping you from going to college is baloney.

    That's not what he's whining about, and I think that's obvious. You're using his comment to start an argument of your own.

    He was dissatisfied that no one was there to help him go to college, yet he now has to pay for many others to do so. He's right, it isn't fair, and he has a right to complain.

  18. Re:To put it more accurately on Yet More Google Gazing · · Score: 1

    What makes you think I'm a computer geek? How do you know I didn't study business law for several years?

  19. Re:To put it more accurately on Yet More Google Gazing · · Score: 1

    Those have nothing to do with how much money you make. They have to do with how widely the interest in your company distributed.

  20. Re:All I know is... on Yet More Google Gazing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually from what I understand it is those profit numbers that actually made the FCC se mi forcegoogle to IPO in the first place. Apparently there are regulations concerning how much a private company can earn.... shrugs.

    Then you understand nothing. There is no such regulations, there never have been, and there most likely never will be. Some of the largest companies in the world are privately owned.

  21. Re:Progressive taxes are worse than regular ones on Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped · · Score: 1

    Unless they got shot down...

    He was a jet fighter pilot. We didn't have too many jet fighter planes in Vietnam. He wouldn't have been there regardless. Get over it.

  22. Re:Progressive taxes are worse than regular ones on Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped · · Score: 1

    No longer will I assume that George was skipping National Guard duty in Texas rather than slogging through the jungles of Vietnam because of his family connections. It was probably just the luck of the draw.

    Actually, he was a fighter pilot. They weren't sent "slogging through the jungles of Vietnam" regardless of who their family was.

  23. Re:This inspired me on Todd Need[ed] a Liver · · Score: 1

    Too bad that's not a real website, I was about to make a donation. Assuming you loan me her for a day...

  24. Re:Your firewall.... on Dealing with Intruders? · · Score: 1

    Having your firewall bogged down by rules just to ignore some dialup user that'll probably have switched IPs the next day

    Actually, most of the machines attacking me recently have been compromised static-ip servers at various hosting providers.

  25. Re:Your firewall.... on Dealing with Intruders? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Better yet, block everything and whitelist your shit.