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  1. Re:IQ is bullshit ... so? on What Does IQ Really Measure? · · Score: 1

    I agree that children deserve more equal state support, but the evidence for "the increasing gap between rich and poor globally" is mixed. See The Economist: Global economic inequality: More or less equal?

  2. Re:Missing feature in Java: Copy on write on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 1

    Copy-on-write is actually PHP's default behavior--you have to go out of your way to pass arrays by reference--but, heh, that's probably not the answer to your memory optimization concerns.

  3. Re:If they're so profitable on Valve Beats Google, Apple For Profits Per Employee · · Score: 1

    I know I'm unusual, but I actually dual-boot Windows for work (C#) and Linux for gaming (Minecraft on an integrated graphics card).

  4. Re:I love the caps lock key on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    That's a great idea! Mine is already taken for Esc for vim, though.

  5. Re:I'm about to turn it off on Did Google Go Instant Just To Show More Ads? · · Score: 1

    That's when your query is filtered by Safe Search. For most people, I'd call it a feature, not a bug--you don't want "bra" results popping up when you're looking for information on "bran".

  6. Re:I'm not exactly impressed... on Autism Diagnosed With a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    I love how many possible parsings that has.

  7. Re:To be replaced by...? on Will Ballmer Be Replaced As Microsoft CEO? · · Score: 1

    I'm no Microsoft fan--I use Ubuntu when possible and have an iPhone--but I love my 360. My Wii gathers dust; I won't buy another Nintendo product, despite growing up on the systems.

  8. Re:Disposable?! on When SSD and USB 3.0 Come Together · · Score: 1

    Insightful. It would be more compelling to worry about our grandchildren if it didn't appear that they will be profoundly better equipped to deal with their problems than we are.

  9. Re:Let it begin on The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey · · Score: 1

    Allowing everyone to obtain citizenship also means it's a fiscal impossibility to guarantee any level of income or health care. Having a limitless green card program is politically intractable enough; a limitless citizenship program is hard to imagine this century.

  10. Re:Bad Idea on The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors · · Score: 1

    The number one risk, cross-site scripting, can automatically be almost eliminated through the use of a templating system that automatically escapes HTML in variables, as does Django.

  11. Re:The Good, the Bad, the Ugly... on 100,000 Californians To Be Gene Sequenced · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Insurance is for amortizing risk over time and population. Knowing the degree of risk makes it better insurance, not worse--it's not illegal to charge higher car insurance rates to people who are bad drivers. It's the role of the government to redistribute wealth to those who've gotten a crappy start, not the role of insurance firms. (And I dispute the notion that those unfortunates who share our nationality should be our first moral responsibility.)

  12. Re:Mod parent down on Reddit Javascript Exploit Spreading Virally · · Score: 1

    I don't feel his post should be modded informative, because it's recommending a practice I don't agree with. Perhaps I was being too negative, though. I wouldn't have if there hadn't already been a "mod parent up" reply.

  13. Re:Mod parent down on Reddit Javascript Exploit Spreading Virally · · Score: 1

    I suppose you're correct on both counts. I don't like invented protocols with no advantages over established standards, though.

  14. Re:Mod parent down on Reddit Javascript Exploit Spreading Virally · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're incorrect. HTML Purifier builds a tree of the HTML it understands and allows, then outputs a clean version of that tree. If it doesn't recognize the markup, it doesn't pass it on to the browser. I'll give $20 to the first person to show me an XSS exploit in the current version of HTML Purifier that isn't the result of an overly permissive whitelist. (Disclaimer: I use HTML Purifier and submitted the patch for CSS.AllowedProperties, but am in no other way associated with the project.)

  15. Mod parent down on Reddit Javascript Exploit Spreading Virally · · Score: 3, Informative

    The correct solution is a whitelisted HTML parser and generator, like HTML Purifier.

  16. Re:No problem on Feds May Soon Be Allowed To Use Cookies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm a Javascript developer, and I use NoScript, because I'm frequently Googling for information and checking sites I haven't visited before. Almost any time a Firefox vulnerability is announced, NoScript already prevents the exploit. Besides, I don't want third-party tracking and flashy ads when I'm just browsing for information. I'm happy to add genuine web apps to my whitelist, but blog comment forms, for example, should never require Javascript to function.

  17. Re:Standing still on South Korea Deploys Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up--hybridization isn't a magic bullet, though I love my mixes too. See Wikipedia: heterosis.

  18. Re:What about cookies/isolation? on Firefox To Get Multi-Process Browsing · · Score: 1

    IE6 actually supports isolated processes with separate cookies when you launch another instance of IE. (Unlike Firefox, it doesn't detect and combine with the running instance.) My wife launches every new window from the start menu because she likes this behavior.

  19. Mod parent up on HTML Tags For Academic Printing? · · Score: 1

    If you want to print HTML, Prince is the way to go. It even makes our end-user-generated TinyMCE documents look good.

  20. Re:Cue the other subjects on A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education · · Score: 1

    If everyone was smart, who would work at mcdonalds?

    Robots obviously.

    Only assuming that we follow Japan's xenophobic lead instead of opening the floodgates to cheap immigrant labor.

  21. Re:It's the apps stupid! on Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo? · · Score: 1
    Then try searching for "generic.h" and it returns pages with the string "generic" (no .h).

    Put it in quotes. It's considering the period a word separator.

  22. Re:Real time is the key claim on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · · Score: 2, Informative

    True, but onkeypress works.

  23. Re:My items to be fixed on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Improve array speed (for simple arrays, use internally one simple C array/list - current days, any array is a map);

    Try the SplFixedArray class. The SPL data structures are much, much faster. I actually rather like the "easy by default, fast when you need it" dichotomy.

  24. Re:Not very early on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 1
  25. Re:W3 Schools on Styling Web Pages With CSS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Quite right. The interactive examples make it a far better learning experience than a book.