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Comment Do you know how hard it is to update their DB? (Score 5, Funny) 279

Adding an IP address to their whitelist is no easy thing. You see, they hire only blind, deaf quadriplegics, so each octet is entered in binary through a mouth open/close morse code interface. But that's only after your request makes it through the queue to be read through tactile forehead tapping tty... Perfectly understandable that these folks detest spam, isn't it?

Comment Re:Windows Server (Score 4, Insightful) 229

There's a simple solution - install Windows Server 2003/2008. It doesn't need fancy graphics card to operate. That is, if you are looking for server/virtual server OS. Otherwise you can just go with Windows XP or Windows 7.

A headless windows server doesn't need a fancy graphics card... but neither does a headless linux server.

Comment lock in & license fees. (Score 5, Insightful) 543

If you invest in accessories for the new connector, you'll be less inclined to buy a non-Apple phone.

Perhaps their connector has additional pins for HDMI, but they could have placed a real HDMI connector beside the USB connector for easy docking. Alternately, they could sell a dongle to pipe HDMI video out from USB2 as other manufacturers already do.

But then they couldn't lock their customers in and charge exorbitant licensing fees for their connector.

Comment Re:But this is India we are talking about (Score 1) 164

By telling us his method, he lost the advantage of his method vs just using AES. IE, if we don't know how he generates the stream against which his data is XORed, that stream might as well be a one time pad. But now that he told us, the problem is reduced to brute forcing the initial stream generator parameters.

Comment Re:Maybe because it compiles down to the metal... (Score 3, Informative) 793

> How do you add two ints? How about two floats? Why is overloading bad?

Add the string "0.5" to the string "1.0." with the '+' operator. Is the result "1.5" or "1.00.5" ?

Is there an easy way to find out based on the syntax of the language, or do you have to dig into the class libraries you're including which may contradict each other?

Always "1.00.5" unless you or one of your includes declared some extremely evil operators.

Because they can lead to surprising behavior, c++ operators are usually defined with care so that they won't be accidentally invoked and don't do strange things when they are used (such as interpret strings as floating point values).

Comment hmm, another idea for fucking up my Linux systems (Score 1) 287

Oh hey, it's another brilliant idea for fucking up my Linux systems. I wonder if Lennart Poettering has anything to do with it.

Let's see:

  • It's an unnecessary change that comes from the Fedora project. 90% chance it's Lennart Poettering.
  • The defense for it is extremely passive aggressive and suggests we "don't understand how things work in the real world." 99% chance it's Lennart Poettering.
  • It's a bad idea. 100% chance it's Lennart Poettering.

Comment Re:Windows Mobile Ruined It For Me (Score 1) 1027

But "Windows Mobile" has NOTHING to do with the new WP7 phones...

It's the version that came after windows mobile 6. If what you say were true, they'd call it Bing Phone 1.0 or something. Hmm, that's a shit name.

Ok, how about XBox Phone 1.0? Alright, I agree, also terrible.

Zune Ph... nope. Kinect Phone? Damn.

You know what? How about Metro Phone. It's all about Metro, anyway. So they should call it Metro Phone. Everyone will know to avoid it once Windows 8 comes out and they learn to hate Metro, but at least the name would make sense and it wouldn't be stuck with the even worse association with Windows Mobile.

Comment Re:I don't have a beef with one (Score 1) 1027

You are delusional, I cut& paste nothing, and I'm not paid anything to post here or anywhere else. I was responding honestly to a comment. You're just being a dick (and being wrong) while adding nothing of any value to the conversation. Congratulations.

Laying it on a bit thick, aren't we? Yeah, I get that you're being ironic to make pro-Microsoft people look bad. Very funny. You can stop, now.

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