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  1. Google policies on Google Adds Chat To Gmail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We must not forget google policies. If you let them to log your chats then you're giving them even more information about you.

    At first, all that information can, and will be used, to make target advertisement. No big deal since they already analyse our email.

    Second, all that information can, and will be used, in case of any "law" problems with them. The have in their policies that rules, so if you come to be from a rival company they will use all the information they get from your email, and not the chats too, to play dirty.

    Be carefull boys!

  2. Wireless plates on Tagging Devices To Aid In Car Chases · · Score: 1

    Well, the concept can't be that new...

    I would implant a chip on each car plate, but if people knew that the black market would provde us with "non-wireless-plates" again...

    Anyway, this seems a good option, since most of that cars use fake plate numbers and things like that. Even the system in UK that uses cameras all over the place couldn't follow those cars with 100% precision.

    But if you saw the moview "2 Fast 2 Furious II" you'll know that with some gym they can remove that things in movement... if the thing is too attached to the car with some chemical thing, in no time they will some with a new car painting tecnology that will make the device not to attach itself...

    No perfect or defenitive solution I gues...

  3. Re:I wonder on Operation 'Cyber Storm' Starts Tomorrow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The perfect time to hackers attack. In the middle of the "fake" attacks they can really attack and steal some data. It would be hard to spot. Are they doing this tests in a global way but to their structures only (UK and North America) or are they testing random sites all over the world?

  4. Re:You're not the first one.... on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 1

    You're wrogn. .Net isn't interpreted. It is pre-compiled into CIL (Common Intermediate Language) and in run-time (when loading a library/class/etc...) the JIT (Just in Time Compiler) creates native code.

    1. Yes, it can lead to a slower than usual application startup. After that the application runs at native speed.
    2. Unlike native code compilers, and because it is a JIT (*Just in TIME....) is optimizes to your current processor and/or system. No need to do diferent builds to each processor and system configuration.
    3. If you think that JIT sounds bad and means slow startups you're worgn. It is pretty fast (I've experience with huge applications) and even so, it is done once then cached in the users system.
    4. Whats cached anyway? The almost native code build :) In fact, using Mono, you can get a real native code binary file, that will run on that system or another compatible (because it is optimized to your current processor and system....)

  5. Re:You're not the first one.... on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 1

    Use the tools that were developed to solve that problem! Use .Net and Mono, why?

    1. Development time is much less and the code is easier to mantain
    2. Performance is excelent, very close to native code (because the code is actually compiled into native code at runtime, so you even take advantage of each processor strengs without doing separate builds with separated flags)
    3. From Linux or Windows to the other, its a very small step, if you take care your application will run on Linux, Windows, Mac, etc... even Nokia 770! with a very small, or none, effort
    4. If you need to use some C/C++ libraries, either because they aren't avaible in .Net or for performance reasons, .Net has P/Invoke, specificly developed to make that easy. You only need a 'extern' in C and a DllImport in C#
    5. Security and stability are first class citizens in .Net. It manages your memory avoiding leaks, security flaws and buffer overflows, without a single line of code! And because of the the memory manager algoritms, it is known to perform much better than the alloc and free - things like that :P - in C/C++

    And if you're thinking - hey! I don't want my users to install mono and/or .Net! - you can use Mono's tool mkbundle to create a standalone binary file. mkbundle creates you a binary file with *only* the .Net libraries code your application needs, reducing size and easing the deployment.

  6. Is the kernel really GPL? I don't think so... on Linus Says No GPLv3 for the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Is the kernel really GPL? In my understanding if the kernel was really GPL then anything that links to it should be GPL, as so on. I see many commercial applications making use of kernel, close-source graphic card drivers for instance, and that would be a violation of GPL wouldn't it?

  7. Re:It was his choice. on Apple Sued Over Potential Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    It is really their duty to advertise that it can cause some problems. The very same happens to those speech recognition applications that can cause you voice problems.

  8. Re:So, what's it like? on Ruby Off the Rails · · Score: 1

    I guess that if everything was coded in C/C++ we would have better performance because of those "platforms" and languages that are slow as hell.

    There are a lot to choose from, but all those options are barely optimized unlike C/C++ compilers.