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Comment Re:Comments are good (Score 1) 660

2. When you have to explain what you are doing, it helps you to discover possible errors in your code. Particularly logic errors.

What if the logic error was in the choice you made not to comment that piece of code because its function should be obvious to anyone working on the project?

Comment Re:Effect on games, etc.? (Score 1) 402

In response to multiple posts saying you can't unlicense the music, etc. Here is another question:

If it is licensed under terms where a certain percentage of sales goes to the record company in exchange for the song, or a certain percent of movie sales goes to the publisher of the book...

Will the record company/publisher/whatever still be getting paid even though they no longer hold the rights to the work, or will whoever it is licensed to be required to pay the original author/artist?

Comment Re:How is this zero-day? (Score 1) 289

PS how, exactly, would a malicious third party patch a bug? If you can't tell me for security reasons it's OK, I trust you. You're a security professional!

Is this part of the trolling or are you also trying to be a grammar nazi here? I assume he meant.... "If the developers or security researchers discover the bug and patch it before any malicious third party discovers it [and exploits it]"

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 402

I would assume for software, movies, etc. it would be different as you are being paid hourly to work for the company. Although if you had written software and turned the distribution rights over to microsoft, then it would be affected by this.

Comment Re:No Locked Hardware! (Score 1) 167

I think the only significant benefit to having patient adjustable settings on a pacemaker would be if the patient is in an area that does not have the equipment necessary for making an adjustment and one is necessary. This could be done with encoded commands so the patient (or someone wanting to cause harm) can not mess with things, they would just have the equipment to make the changes.

Comment Re:Welcome to government (Score 3, Funny) 411

I always thought it would be a good idea to do that with comcast. Have a bunch of people call them every single day to check their bandwidth usage. I wonder what the costs of having thousands of people making support calls (preferably all at about the same time of day) to verify the amount of transfer they have left that month compares to getting rid of the limit

Comment Re:I like the Ras Al Gul approach (Score 1) 218

It appears that there are registration date and update date fields in at least some whois records. I don't know who is actually responsible for these though, and if the block is from a major company that is just reassigning ips between servers then there is only a small possibility of the record being changed (some providers let you set part of the whois record yourself)

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