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Comment Re:If it is platform independent (Score 1) 288

Any particular reason you linked to an older version of the documentation? :D

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/c-api-multiple-queries.html

" As of MySQL 5.5.3, CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS is enabled by default."

Anyway, there are a million reasons to sanitize input before doing ANYTHING with it, SQL injection is only one of them. Ppl blaming the DBs for these kinds of things probably had a server or 50 FUBARed and really want to be somewhere else right now.

Comment Re:My Mom Liked Clippy (Score 2, Insightful) 191

It could tell you answers to really basic things (How do I print a document?), but more advanced questions usually gave an amusing answer at best. Still, I agree with the GP Clippy could be useful for the complete novice.

The problem, if you ask me, was that the average PC was too slow at the time so the computer would almost freeze for several seconds and perhaps even swap parts of Office to disk. The frustration of this happening whenever "It looks like you're writing a letter" of course made most ppl hate the whole thing.

Oh that reminds me :)
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Comment Re:Is there the checklist for why this won't succe (Score 1) 353

...then compute every possible message that the template can produce, then MD5 hash them....

I was with you up until this point. Just consider a line of, I don't know, say 64 random characters. A complete MD5 DB just of this alone would make existing MD5 rainbow tables look tiny.

The idea of "moles" it not bad though (nor new). It would be possible for the SMTP server to look at a message and ask itself (or, more likely, an external filter) "Could this message have been constructed from this template?". As notes elsewhere though, it would be just another arms race.

Comment Re:Qqest GoldSuite Timeclock Software ... (Score 1) 655

Reminds me of the problem with Windows Terminal Services licensing where the licenses (tscal) would keep running out when running windows 2000 TS servers even if you had more than enough. The (unofficial) advice from MS back then was to turn off the TS license service... Anyone knows if that works better these days?
Games

Originality Vs. Established IP In Games 71

Ten Ton Hammer has an article about the differences between developing a game based upon existing intellectual property and the creation of an entirely new story and setting. They make the point that while doing the former may result in an easier time building a fan base, those same fans will often be the hardest to please. "By creating a game based on a popular IP, the company in question has a huge responsibility to 'do it right.' Unfortunately, not everyone realizes the reality of one little secret — every single fan out there has a different idea of what 'right' is. ... Lord of the Rings is a perfect example. For a person that may be familiar with the movies and little else, it's a great game with an impressive amount of depth and attention to detail. For the mass of fanatical fans that have spent more time poring over every book Tolkien ever wrote than even Tolkien himself, any deviation from the lore of his world is paramount to sacrilege on the most horrific scale."
The Internet

After Sweden's New Law, a Major Drop In Internet Traffic 337

iamnot writes "The new IPRED law came into effect in a big way in Sweden on April 1st. A news report has come out showing that internet traffic dropped by 30% from March 31st to April 1st. A lawyer from the Swedish anti-piracy agency was quoted as saying that the drop in traffic 'sends a very strong signal that the legislation works.' Is the new law, which allows for copyright holders to request the identification of people sharing files, truly curing people of their evil ways? Or perhaps it is just taking some time for Swedish downloaders to figure out the new IPREDator VPN system from The Pirate Bay."
Space

Submission + - What would it look like to fall into a black hole? (newscientist.com) 1

CNETNate writes: "A new video simulation developed by Andrew Hamilton and Gavin Polhemus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, on New Scientist today, shows what you might see on your way towards a black hole's crushing central singularity. Hamilton and Polhemus built a computer code based on the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and the video produced allows the viewer to follow the fate of an imaginary observer on an orbit that swoops down into a giant black hole weighing 5 million times the mass of the sun, about the same size as the hole in the centre of our galaxy. The research could help physicists understand the apparently paradoxical fate of matter and energy in a black hole."
Privacy

Submission + - Major drop in internet traffic after new law (thelocal.se) 1

iamnot writes: "The new IPRED law came into effect in a big way in Sweden on April 1st. A news report has come out showing that internet traffic dropped by 30% from March 31st to April 1st. A lawyer from the Swedish anti-piracy agency was quoted as saying that the drop in traffic "sends a very strong signal that the legislation works". Is the new law, which allows for copyright holders to request the identification of people sharing files, truly curing people of their evil ways? Or perhaps it is just taking some time for Swedish downloaders to figure out the new IPREDator VPN system from The Pirate Bay."

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