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  1. Re:duh.. on The Problem with DHS's Plan to 'Buy American' · · Score: 1

    i guess you mean MTBE right?

  2. Re:awesome on Free Pascal 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    can you give an example of exactly what you mean?

    (ie an example using the C preprocessor of something you can't do with the pascal constants system).

  3. Re:awesome on Free Pascal 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    yeah and they improved the string handling again in delphi 2 to make it one of the best systems around. (refcounted copy on write)

    and freepascal followed ;)

  4. Re:What's worse on Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security? · · Score: 1

    is it all tri-licensed yet or are there bits still mpl only?

  5. Re:Why Does SlashDot Probe My System's Ports? on Tor Anonymity Network Reaches 100 Verified Nodes · · Score: 1

    i suspect its scanning for open proxies like many irc networks do

    whilst such scans are by no means perfect they do deal with a lot of proxies that are left open by accident.

  6. Re:Important question: Why was the term popular? on Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive · · Score: 1

    mmm i have a (modern) can of spam here and i can't find any nutrition information printed on it.

    btw i consider a 200g can of spam to be one serving what do other people here think?

  7. Re:Spam on Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive · · Score: 1

    i keep it around i generally use it when i run out of cheese.

    its not too bad but i think i'd get sick of it if i ate it all the time.

  8. Re:I'm not sure I agree with this... on Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security? · · Score: 2, Informative

    so if you think a project will unreasonablly delay responding to a security bug just cc Full-Disclosure@lists.netsys.com when you report it.

  9. Re:Not so on Completing BitTorrent Decentralization · · Score: 2, Informative

    seeds/finished downloaders don't/can't engage in tit for tat and so will give you as much as they can.

    so it seems likely that in your case you were simply getting data from a seed/finished downloader when your rate spiked like that.

  10. Re:RealTek? on More on OpenBSD 3.7 Release · · Score: 4, Informative

    the full comment that gave it that legendy reputation is in the following source file (you have to scroll past the license boilerplate first).
    http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/pci/if_rl.c?v=REL ENG5

  11. Re:Canadians have it figured out on Push a Button, Land on a Carrier · · Score: 1

    is this winch down system the normal way of landing or a system reserved only for bad weather etx

  12. Re:Slowing adoption on "Get the Facts" Campaign Working · · Score: 1

    sure however ms try and imply that the issue is linux not the choice of hardware.

  13. Re:The point is... on Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack · · Score: 1

    iirc access EXPECTS there to be macros there and doesn't warn unlike the other office apps.

    so an unknown mdb is as dangerous as an unknown exe

  14. Re:Huh? on No Billboards in Space · · Score: 1

    i'm sure i heared it was kinda like that once with the seas/oceans too

    all countries had terratorial waters extending from thier coast. Exactly how far wasn't clearly defined until later but there were certainly areas of water that noone could seriously dispute were not under the control of any country in particular.

    imo any height that can only be realistically maintained by orbit should be considered outside of a countries airspace at least for now.

  15. Re:NO SPOILERS! on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1

    yeah i probablly should have said when rather than if ;)

  16. Re:Real Programmers on Free Pascal 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    ahh didn't notice someone was posting an extremely outdated peice ;)

  17. Re:That's nice on Mars Rover Opportunity Working Free · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i'm not sure overcautious is the word i'd say given the fact the fucking thing is on mars they NEED to be extremely cautious.

    how many sysadmins can honestly say they've never fucked something up on a remote box? now when you fuck up a box in a colo it may well cost you a couple-hundred dollars and/or hours of travel time to fix so you take care!

    now imagine your box is somewhere you CAN'T go and fix it and has all sorts of mechanical parts to fuck up. you are going to be extrodinerally carefull.

    do you really think the rovers would have lasted this long if driven with a gung-ho attitude?

  18. Re:NO SPOILERS! on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1

    i watched the original star wars once but it was several years ago and i don't remember much detail

    sometime i wan't to watch all 6 in the order they are set in preferablly quite close together. I wonder if they will do a box set of all 6 movies on DVD.

  19. Re:Now the question is... on VoIP Providers Given 120 Days to Provide 911 Service · · Score: 1

    what would count as a line?

    they usually have more pairs to customers than back to the exchange so unless they do a party line or something there is no way every single pair to every customers premisis could be active at once.

  20. Re:dead batteries = dead babies on VoIP Providers Given 120 Days to Provide 911 Service · · Score: 1

    i think that depends on how the landlines are disconnected.

    if they are connected through to the exchance but just not currently in service then sure.

    if they are physically not connected to the exchange anymore then you won't.

  21. Re:Recent security vulnerabilities on Netscape 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    plugins like flash java etc have to handle thier own sandboxing.

    short of writing the whole plugin in some form of managed code there isn't a whole lot you can do to change that.

  22. Re:Bruised self esteem on Free Pascal 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    i've never had a problem buliding and installing freepascal and lazarus on linux

    i think compiling everything from source on win32 is quite a bit trickier though and its also much slower so it tends to get tested less.

  23. Re:Damn it! on Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Very Stressful... on ISS Oxygen Generator Fails for Good · · Score: 1

    not really you can't just "generate" oxygen from nothing. you either have to recycle it from C02 or water (which afaict is what this oxygen generator did) or you have to ship it up from earth (either in elemental form or in the form of theese oxygen candles.

    i guess the generator could work with the C02/water from a fire but it wouldn't really help in terms of outright losses.

    finally remember they do have a soyuz docked which they can use as an escape pod if they need to.

  25. Re:One for Access on CA's $1mn Open-Source Bounty Results · · Score: 1

    does kexi let you make both the backend and frontend of a database as a single self contained file that can be handled like any other file?

    if not then its not all that valuable imo