David M. Andersen - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Why don't apps just use their own copy of the . (Score 1) 433

by David M. Andersen on Sunday October 04, 2009 @05:53PM (#29638445) Attached to: "Side By Side Assemblies" Bring DLL Hell 2.0

Actually that was a big problem with the GDI+ library a few years ago. People have even written their own vulnerable DLL scanners for this sort of thing.

Submission + - Oracle buys sun

Submitted by dweezeldude on Monday April 20, 2009 @07:39AM

dweezeldude writes: Oracle announced to day that they bought Sun

Comment Re:Just do it! (Score 5, Informative) 438

by David M. Andersen on Monday January 26, 2009 @10:26PM (#26616675) Attached to: Senate Approves 4-Month Delay In Digital TV Switch

Obligatory Wikipedia page explaining this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Comment Re:"Not on the phone!" (Score 1) 115

by David M. Andersen on Saturday January 10, 2009 @10:26AM (#26398041) Attached to: UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed

"Never write when you can call; never call when you can visit; never talk when you can whisper; and never whisper when you can wink." -- supposedly by Russell Long

Comment Re:no privacy here, no privacy there (Score 1) 388

by David M. Andersen on Sunday October 19, 2008 @01:06PM (#25432101) Attached to: Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK

Well... Their transport secretary gave some great quotes in about building a massive telephone/internet database:

"If they are going to use the internet to communicate with each other and we don't have the power to deal with that, then you are giving a licence to terrorists to kill people."
"The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist."

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