let's take a hypothetical company that was going to enforce a screen saver policy with password lockout and a time-out of 15 minutes. In this hypothetical...
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... If the screen saver is any good (which is by no means guaranteed), it should respect the following: SetThreadExecutionState(ES_CONTINUOUS |...
... Or then again, maybe not. The remarks for the function say: "This function does not stop the screen saver from executing either." Regards, Jeroen...
So do I. I especially care that Americans get the truth, and they're certainly not getting it from Loose Change. The first link I posted is a point-by-point...
+1 Popular Mechanics is a great magazine and its refutations hold considerable water, much much more than the Loose Change video. The ccdominoes link also ...
... I lump Loose Change and Micheal Moore into the same bucket... people not above distortionary editing and emotional-tinted bias obviously showing through. I...
Declan McCullagh [politechbot] has never sent me anything bogus, if he backs this we should. Kavalec ... From: Declan McCullagh <declan@...> Date: Jun 1,...
... I take your point, but disagree with your example. I stopped subscribing to Scientific American several years ago, when they started running articles that...
<Wonders to self where the un-subscribe to this thread button is> Thanks, Shawn Wildermuth <blocked::http://adoguy.com/> http://adoguy.com C# MVP, MCSD.NET,...
Hi all, I'm looking into some code that waits for multiple events and has each event signifying something to do. Something like (pseudoish): while(true) { ...
Looking at the docs for the return value... "If more than one object became signaled during the call, this is the array index of the signaled object with the...
Not a hoax. According to Declan the chaser article is unrelated. ... From: Declan McCullagh <declan@...> Date: Jun 1, 2006 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: [OT]...
Hi Richard, ... Right, but are all other auto-reset events involved in the wait really supposed to reset? Of course, I guess they can't tell the difference. A...
I'm working on my personal blog backend right now and I'm deciding what I want to do prevent comment spam. Most of the methods I've seen involve a Turing test...
If you're writing this in asp.net, check out ReverseDoS[1]. It uses a rule-based technique to take action against (comment and referral) spammers. Actions to...
... supposed to reset? Well - I guess I'd have to say yes. I've always viewed an Auto-reset event as like a door. The door opens, allows precisely one thread...
Hi Richard, ... I think it makes sense, it just didn't match our expectations when we wrote the original code... It's no big deal, though, if I exchange the ...
It's Friday, I hope folks don't mind this short plug. We have an opening at Corillian for a staff scalability engineer. We're seriously jonesing for someone...
On an interestingly related note... http://www.isp-planet.com/cplanet/tech/2006/prime_letter_060522.html DSL Prime: Free Nationwide Wireless One company has...
... The code is an idiom for a thread waiting for a stop event (the manual reset one), and some other event to perform a work without wasting CPU time. If the...
Thanks for the information on ReverseDoS. This looks very interesting and I had not heard of it before. The source is open as well. I've since found one or two...
... I saw a dude with a great anti-comment spam widget the other day. Check it out [1]. He makes you enter two long 'random' numbers. I.e. all a user who wants...
... I'm not sure now either. I've heard conflicting tales. This seems to indicate it's real too [1], and it includes a link to the actual bill [2] (which I...
... Yeah, that's what it seems like to me too. ...and that would be *good*, wouldn't it? So, what exactly is eBay's concern? That the telco's might be able to ...
This seems like it should be a really basic question. But as is often the case with HTML, getting stuff almost working is easy, but getting it working exactly...
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