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Comment Re:How about uname? (Score 1) 397

Oracle owns it. This is less likely a Larry thing and more likely regular marketing dept changes. From a pure business standpoint (ignoring the technical issue for a moment) why is there anything wrong with a name change to bring a new acquisition in line with yourself? There's not. If you were to keep the original company name on every product acquired from every company acquired, especially when the size or Oracle, it would become hard to manage everything.
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Submission + - Programming Jargon (msdn.com)

icepick72 writes: Every field comes up with its own jargon, and oftentimes subgroups within a field come up with their own specific words or phrases. A question recently posted on Stack Overflow asked for people to submit programming terms that they or their team have coined and have come into regular use in their own circles.

Comment nuances and language mechanisms galore (Score 1) 116

As soon as you start trusting a vandalism detector over manual monitoring a lot of stuff will start to slip through, gets through the news, then the detector won't be trusted any longer. It will have a short life but will be interesting to watch.

Sew m@ny things that can bee done to bypass mechanisms. Even simple euphemisms like cleaning the old rifle http://images.clipartof.com/small/5039-Man-Cleaning-Inside-The-Barrel-Of-His-Unloaded-Rifle-Gun-Clipart.jpg ...are sure to slip through. There are so many language mechanisms that can be used to fool automated tools, but that will be immediately recognized by people.

Comment Re:Reason (Score 1) 451

Now go through all my past posts and see the plethora of mistakes I make. I'm just farting around online. Originally I was going for +5 Funny but it obviously sucked, and I think it came off as mean spirited. Thanks for putting up with yet another asshole online. This time it was by happenstance but still...

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