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Comment: Commendable (Score 1) 255

by countach (#43789911) Attached to: Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is

I like what I read. I'm always conflicted by my good experiences with untyped languages, compared to my good experiences with typed languages finding hard to find bugs. It's nice to see people looking at how they can be mixed. And I like they've added some stuff that Java lacks which is useful. (no such method) etc.

The trouble is: it looks too much like Java for it to be likely that anybody will bother. With all languages I usually end up thinking... is this as elegant as Scheme? No? So why bother. I think even CLOS type schemes can have the compiler do type checking, so what do we gain? Has anything ever surpassed Scheme plus whatever favorite libraries, or macro/ object collections you like? I don't think so. Scheme allows you to overlay pretty much anything onto its syntax. It always seemed like the final word to me.

Comment: Re:That "false positive" was BS (Score 1) 104

by countach (#43735591) Attached to: Australian Government Initiates Covert Internet Censorship

Err.. what are you waffling on about? If every web site had its own IP address, we'd run out of IP addresses by dinner time. There is nothing wrong with sharing IP addresses, and you shouldn't be penalised for doing so. In fact, its darnright community minded to not take one for yourself.

Comment: Re:An eminently sensible policy (Score 1) 76

by countach (#43703909) Attached to: How an Aussie University Creates the World's Best Hackers

Yeah, but nobody knows until its too late if a particular organisation is enlightened or not. Now that I think about it, responsible organisations should have a disclosure policy on their web sites. Something like "if you find a vulnerability in our systems, please report it, and there is a small reward" or something, so that people feel safe to report this stuff.

Comment: Re:Not that amazing, built in. (Score 1) 108

Actually, it's very decentralised. Anyone, including me could give them a domain. The trouble is, it wouldn't be quite as convenient as if they can get a top level domain. Hey, maybe slashdot could give them one, then they would be piratebay.slashdot.org. It's kind of hard for the studios to get blocks on every single domain owner from giving them a sub domain.

Comment: Re:After RTFA (Score 1) 312

by countach (#43605661) Attached to: Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges

OK, but who is to say what the right behavior is in this case? It's not like people are provided with a software specification before they put their money in the slot. There are lots of scenarios where the right set of fruit or cards in the fruit machine results in some bonus or doubling or whatever complicated rules, that the typical slot player doesn't understand.

Comment: Re:I'm gonna say... (Score 1) 953

by countach (#43530165) Attached to: Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade

If you can't afford $10,000 I'm guessing you might have problems paying for VMWare, then paying for quite a few hours for an IT professional to migrate you and support the new setup. Then probably new hardware to support the setup, and some training to know how to use it. I'm guessing you'd rack up quite a few thousand dollars on such a project. Might as well just pay the damned $10,000.

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