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  1. Re:it's easier than you think on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 1


    1. Learn to CamlCase your API, variable names, etc


    FYI that's PascalCasing. camelCasing uses a lowercase for the first letter.

  2. Re:Marx predicted this on White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users · · Score: 1


    Communism is a system of commerce


    Bull. How can you say the legal theft of an individual's property has nothing to do with liberty? Why do you think communist implementations always require a totalitarian government to enforce such a theft?

  3. Re:Marx predicted this on White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users · · Score: 1


    Enron


    Are you insane?

    You are trying to compare the corruption of one company whose CEO was punished by taking away his freedom (read: he was jailed) with the mass slaughter of communism, not to mention the outright theft of people's property and *LIBERTY*? Communism and liberty are not compatible -- that is all there is to it.

  4. Re:Hardware Firewall on New Batch of XP SP2 Holes · · Score: 1

    And ofcourse, in this case, it would solve nothing since it's not the firewall that is the problem but a flaw in remote desktop.

    The solution is for people to not open up these services to the internet and to use a VPN solution like OpenVPN which is *free* and *opensource*.

  5. Re:Help...(useful) ideas needed. on Fujitsu Debuts Bendable Electronic Paper · · Score: 1

    or event worse... goatse

  6. Re:Yuk on U.N. To Govern Internet? · · Score: 0


    They'll usually tell you that they in general blame unfair trade practices. For example, even with their low labor costs, African farms often have a hard time competing with subsidized US and European ag exports


    Funny. What has starkly been demonstrated in the last year is that it has to do with socialist despots who aquire farms and destroy infrastructure in the name of equality. Zimbabwe has gone from exporting food to begging for food in 5 years thanks for corrupt government.

    Look at how much everyone here complaints about outsourcing -- that's capatilism working to make the average human wealthier.

    Why is it ok to give hand outs and teach people this and that but it's not ok to teach them the most important thing: HOW TO RUN A CIVIL GOVERNMENT?

  7. First task on U.N. To Govern Internet? · · Score: 1


    the U.N. will make a bid for control of such governing functions as assigning TLDs and IPs


    Eliminating ".il" and creating ".pa"

  8. Re:No tyranny of the masses on The Great Firewall of China, Continued · · Score: 1


    At least china is open about it or too clumsy to hide it.


    Do you listen to yourself?

  9. Re:Jeez... on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like the way the islamics treat other cultures. It's not like they try to take over countries and convert them to an islamic way of thinking or anything. It's not like it's getting so bad in southern thailand now that they're allowing school teachers to carry guns. Those damn buddhists and their oppression and disrespect of muslim culture! Build them more mosques with public money!

  10. Re:Someone from the UK on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1


    We're just too busy crying over tens of people who've died in a one-off event and can't be brought back to care for the thousands who die daily and can be saved in the future.


    And we would have even more if pseudo socialist wanna-be governments and insane dictators wouldn't rape their countries and destroy infrastructure. Feeding the poor is only a temporary fix. Teaching them proper self-governance is the key but most leftists think that that is "wrong".

  11. Re:Respond with more force on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1


    Okay, now breathe and think: what proportion of Al Qaeda/various Islamic extremists are there in proportion to the civilian population of a city like Fallujah?


    Hmm...I guess that's why the city was evacuated before the cleanout.


    Killing civilians is wrong and moreso dangerous because now you have just created more terrorists from the survivors


    That explains why the terrorists kill civilians then!

  12. Re:I beg to differ: NAT can do it, and well too on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    STUN doesn't work between users if they both are using NAT. It's not the solution I was think you were talking about. A link would be helpful after all :)

  13. Re:I beg to differ: NAT can do it, and well too on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Never mind, found the RFC on STUN.

  14. Re:I beg to differ: NAT can do it, and well too on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1


    Actually there are hacks now available which can establish a direct UDP connection between two NATed clients without even using port forwarding. Basically you use a third party to exchange port numbers, and then you both send the initial transaction at the same time. You can even do it with TCP if you exchange some additional information.


    Sounds interesting. I can't find any information on this ...have you got a link? It sounds like a security flaw unless you're talking about using UPNP to automatically forward ports.


    You don't need to have an IPv6 connection to the internet to have an IPv6 home network, though.


    I never said otherwise. The grandparent was worried about his fridge being hacked and I assumed he meant that it was attached to the internet.

  15. Re:I beg to differ: NAT can do it, and well too on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 4, Informative


    Intelligent use of NAT can get a lot of users into one IP. 9 out of ten surfers only need outgoing-initialed connections (web surfing, email, instant messaging, IP-based broadcasting and legal music download software).


    But if you want to do video conferencing or VOIP then you're screwed unless you go via proxy servers and give up speed and security.


    In an ideal world yes, every device could be addressed by its own IP address, but in this world I don't want some cracker port-scanning my fridge and getting a backdoor through a butter overflow exploit.


    It doesn't matter whether you use NAT or IPV6 . There's no reason why your fridge ith an IPV6 address should not sit behind your home firewall. At least, when you need to be able to open certain ports (at which point you're vunerable to buffer overflows regardless of the protovcol), you'll be able to do so using router rules rather than port mapping (which can only go so far). In both situations you'll have to buy an additional device -- an IPV6 router/firewall or a NAT based IPV4 router/firewall. There is no reason why an IPV6 router/firewall needs to be configured by default to permit all incoming connections.

  16. Re:I'm starting to get fed up on ICANN Won't Get DNS Root Servers · · Score: 1


    Hey, you forgot to say "Halliburton". And "black helicopter". And "Gore really won, and so did Kerry".


    Exactly what I was thinking. Rarely have I seen a more whiney and ungrateful person.

  17. Re:If only on James Gosling on Java · · Score: 1


    Nothing in the C standard prevents an implementation from implementing pointers with handles, either.


    Everything about C prevents pointers from being implemented as handles.

    A pointer is expected to be just that, a pointer (not a reference to an abstract idea like an object).

    A C program expects (char pointer + 1) to be the next byte in memory. (char handle + 1) will not be the next byte in memory.

    Please explain how an implementation of C using handles instead of pointers could work with this valid C program:


    char c;
    char *cp = strstr("abc");
    int x;
    x = (int)cp;
    x++;
    c = (*(char *cp)x);

  18. Re:If only on James Gosling on Java · · Score: 1


    Huh? The terms "reference" and "pointer" mean the same thing in Java. It is the address of an object.

    On, say, a 32-bit machine, the reference to an object is the exact same 4-byte value - the same size, shape, and numerical value as a pointer in C.

    If you disassemble the machine code produced by Sun's JVM, object references go in registers and are dereferenced using the exact same instructions as what a C compiler produces.


    Nope. Java spec doesn't dictate the implementation of references and they in fact don't have to be implemented as pointers -- like I said, some VMs use handles. Hell, an interpretor could use a hashtable even. There is no restriction because references can't be treated like pointers (used as to access object memory by address).

  19. Re:If only on James Gosling on Java · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. Sun mistakenly named the exception NullPointerException instead of NullReferenceException (which MS corrected in .NET).

    Java uses references -- not pointers. Hell, even the implementation of references in some VMs is handle rather than pointer based.

  20. Re:My memories on Discovery Set to Launch July 13 · · Score: 1


    We have angered countries


    Hang on just one minute... why is that wrong? Perhaps its those very countries that are the problem and not America. If you do the right thing and make people angry, is that wrong?

  21. Re:Carrot Top Story for Wil on Wil Wheaton Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Yah, a new /. canned joke.

    I *AM* carrot top you insensitive clod.

  22. Re:I don't think it will work. on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 2, Informative

    You make it sound like the process of moving towards a middle-weight stable element somehow magically causes "energy release" because nature likes it.

    It's clearer by just saying:

    The extra energy comes from the destruction of matter which is converted to energy.

    For example, in a fusion reaction, the reactants (usually deuterium and/or tritium) have a greater mass than what's left behind (helium and neutrons). Since e=mc^2, you get a huge amount of energy for a small amount of lost mass.

  23. Re:No... on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 1

    Indymedia freaks love NK and Soviet Russia tho.

  24. Re:Is'nt americas working against Democracy on Iran Continues to Censor Internet Communications · · Score: 1

    And if the US government prevented companies from dealing with iran then you'd be crying over how many little kids won't be able to get internet access because of the "sanctions".

  25. Re:Looks like FireFox on Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7 · · Score: 1


    It's not just below - it means that the menu bar is part of the tab and can change when you switch tabs. It's actually a pretty clever design. I think they will use it for plugins and web pages that add items to the menus (PDF, Office, etc.)


    There is absolutely no technical reason why the main menu can't change anyway. It doesn't need to be part of the tab at all.