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  1. Re:Well that's stupid on Pepsi To Release New Breakfast Mountain Dew · · Score: 1

    Hell, give them alcohol and crack then, too?

  2. Re:This is great news. on Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's what the Martian's said, too!

  3. Re:I'm Pretty Sure They Just Needed An Excuse on Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 · · Score: 1

    No. Apple do not provide Java any longer. Oracle is where you get Java for OSX from. Historically you got Java from Apple - and it was BIG on their list of priorities - it was a major part of the platform (WebObjects).

  4. Re:Fuck Java on Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 · · Score: 1

    Given the recent problems are due problems in the class library, how do you conclude the language is at fault?

  5. Re:Good on Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 · · Score: 1

    Try buying a licence for it so you can use the USB pass through support in a commercial context. Nada.

  6. Re:Actually, it DOES matter on MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings · · Score: 1

    Mod. Parent. Up.

  7. Re:I see stupid people... on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    I spend more time checking my GMail spam folder for false positives than I do reading legitimate mail (300-400 spams a day, maybe 15-20 false positives). Even mails I have explicit filters for the great Google machine decides are spam.

  8. Re:funny how everyone 'wants' your phone # on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 2

    You do realise that most spam is sent from legitimate email addresses, right? Ie they use an address from the list they are sending spam to as the sender.

    Schemes like this just fuel spam, not reduce it.

  9. Re:I recall MxStream on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's exactly what I meant - IPv6 exclusive content. If youtube was to move there would be a lot of demand very quickly (but it would be a risk for Google as users may just start using vimeo or similar instead)

  10. Re:I recall MxStream on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. Most are resellers of BT products going over the core BT network before it eventually gets into your ISP. I'm on a premium package (FTTC wholesale), and my latency is still worse than I had in halls back in 1997 when I started at university (and about the same speed). Many of my friends are able to get faster (and uncapped) 3G connections than they can get land line connections.

  11. Re:I recall MxStream on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    And many ISPs do transparent proxying of HTTP anyway (which IS the internet for most people).

    Besides, mobile networks do this almost exclusively (at least here in the UK) and everything appears to work, so it would appear the workarounds are in place.

    That doesn't mean IPv6 shouldn't be the norm by now - we just need a big service to start offering premium content over IPv6 (eg google/youtube) and the demand will force ISPs to start upgrading to avoid losing customers.

  12. Re:WRT54GL on Remote Linksys 0-Day Root Exploit Uncovered · · Score: 2

    Shock, horror: the majority of all routers run stock firmware...

  13. Re:Oh Java... on Java Zero-Day Vulnerability Rolled Into Exploit Packs · · Score: 1

    Applets now run within separate processes. Additionally, they are now deployed using jnlp in the same way as webstart.

    Java plugin2 (from Java6u10) changed a lot...

  14. Re:Oh Java... on Java Zero-Day Vulnerability Rolled Into Exploit Packs · · Score: 1

    Applets run in the same environment as webstart these days.

  15. Re:Sounds Too Good to Be True ... on All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    And I can't read families vs people - but still, its less than 10%.

  16. Re:Sounds Too Good to Be True ... on All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    40 million is one third of the country's population? Someone can't read decimals - it's more like 3% of the population.

    http://worldpopulationreview.com/population-of-china-2012/

  17. Re:How will this affect the industry? on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 1

    Nobody bought Elements anyway - it comes free with scanners and decent cameras.
    Paint.NET - everyone installs this that doesn't get a licence to PS through work,
    GIMP - nobody in their right mind installs this on Windows anyway.

    And regarding PDFs, everyone uses a PDF printer driver for PDFs (those that need PDF forms have corporate licences for Acrobat anyway). OSX ships with one, Linux has it via the same route (Ghostscript / CUPS), and Windows users install CutePDF or similar.

  18. Re:Dying gasps on C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index · · Score: 1

    You seriously find the .NET documentation on a par with the Java documentation? I find the .NET documentation really poor .

    However, none of it is as bad as Esri's, which seems to always follow the form "You can solve this problem like this. But you'll get this problem, so you should solve it like this. However, that causes this problem, so you should consider this instead. However, this approach will lead to your machine imploding and therefore you should always do it this way." Why not just tell me the right way to do it, rather than following the Oracle SCP (SCJP) approach of showing you examples of horrendous code at every opportunity?

  19. Re:How can ... on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 1

    They aren't free in most businesses though. It's better to make staff suffer on 100 (or even 10) mbit networks and Pentium 4 machines with 2GB RAM than to spend any money on hardware that may not make them any more productive. At least thats the mentality of the IT departments I've seen!

  20. Re:How can ... on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 1

    gitk the file?

  21. Re:How can ... on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 1

    Not neccessarily - the codebase can drastically change between releases, and if you are attempting to backport fixes to multiple releases it can be really painful. Not to mention you need a great connection to your SVN server (which for a large team also needs to be fairly beefy). Git makes this much more efficient, and it is far easier/faster to identify where regressions occurred, determine the ancestry of lines within files, etc.

    But anyway, SVN is relatively good. We should be bashing CVS and Clearcase!

  22. Re:Upside Down World on Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail · · Score: 1

    No... they do something illegal. Being illegal doesn't make something wrong. In many parts of the world owning a bible is illegal.

    Wow? Really - I like the sound of that!

  23. Re:How is this gasping news on Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail · · Score: 1

    So, you beat the breathalyser. Not the same as being fine to drive.

  24. Re:IE8 = "latest" version for many on jQuery 2.0 Will Drop Support For IE 6, 7, 8 · · Score: 1

    Website? Missing the point. The problems in business are typically "web applications" not websites - either internal custom applications that they have lost the source for, the developers left, or they use technologies nobody has heard of, or enterprise apps that were purchased long ago and upgrade paths are too expensive or disruptive.

    Hundreds of staff where I work were forced to stick with IE7 until earlier this year because a single app used by a handful of users in HR wouldn't work on IE8. On thin clients. Why on earth they couldn't provide a separate IE7 TS instance for those users is beyond me. But this is the insanity of corporate IT departments.

  25. Re:IE8 = "latest" version for many on jQuery 2.0 Will Drop Support For IE 6, 7, 8 · · Score: 1

    How exactly does one install that on a terminal server session where everything is locked down? And yes, I'm a developer not a member of the admin staff.