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  1. Re:The people of St. Lucie County won't go for it on Vaporizing Garbage to Create Electricity · · Score: 1


    Just the idea that this is being pitched to St Lucie County makes me suspicious. It's not the most progressive locale.

  2. Re:Whence this vapor? on Vaporizing Garbage to Create Electricity · · Score: 1


    To add to it, the Tropicana plant is physically adjscent to the landfill. I just hope they don't use well water!

  3. scam or boondoggle on Vaporizing Garbage to Create Electricity · · Score: 1


    St Lucie County is a backwoods, redneck little county whose moronic governing officials quarrel in that way one finds primarily in small towns. If there is any chance for this magic trash->power black box to be either a scam or some sort of boondoggle, it would be likely to happen there.

  4. Re:Unfortunately.... on Heroic IT Dept Less Likely to Steal... Lunches? · · Score: 0, Troll


    It's fat people... they can't see past their gut in order to aim (I am not joking).

  5. Re:Smarter or more suicidal? on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 1


    I was under the impression that fish jumped out of the tank to escape poor water conditions.

  6. Re:I'm not a php/perl guru, but on PHP Hacks · · Score: 1


    I have used both perl and PHP extensively for web development. The reality is that perl may seem like an academically better language but it scales like ass in the web environment. Modperl sucks huge amounts of memory (an httpd process will remain the size of its largest allocation) and FastCGI is almost as bad. I absolutely hated PHP when I started using it, but its performance is undisputable and with the release of version 5, the OO support just makes the language feel far more "correct" than Perl.

  7. Re:Mary Worth on The 50 Year History of Play-Doh · · Score: 1

    That would be Silly Putty, not Play-Doh.

  8. Re:Good FUDding, Slashdot. on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1


    You're about to see ads from the IndieClick network also, I just got a spam from them yesterday pimping 18 different "channels" available on LJ.

  9. Re:Only one problem on Hey Oracle, Why Not Ubuntu? · · Score: 1


    Ever seen a commercial for Tyco? What exactly are they marketing - how does one buy a Tyco?

  10. Re:Not forever. on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1


    The last big retailer to compete on the basis of price alone was KMart and look at where it got them in the end: 2 billion in sales per month with no profit. Walmart is on that route, to an extent. Their growth and margins are both diminishing and Wall Street is not happy. To avoid this, they are trying to become Target, but it's difficult with the type of consumer that Walmart attracts.

  11. Re:Typical mapper issues on Satellite Navigation a Real Crackpot! · · Score: 1


    Tiger/Line sucks, there is no comparison between it and even the worst professional cartography.

  12. Re:Have any of you actually seen it? on FCC Levies Record Indecency Fine · · Score: 1


    RTFA - none of the stations that aired the show at 10pm were fined...

  13. Re:I'm sure it's even more restricted in the USA on Digital DJs Unaware of Copyright Law · · Score: 1


    As I mentioned in another thread here, it depends on where the material is sourced. If it was ripped from CDs, that material is considered an unauthorized duplication when played in a commercial environment, because the fair use clause does not apply to commercial applications. The music must be played on its original media. And before someone asks, no, I don't know how this applies to material originally purchased in MP3 form. I suspect then the music could be played on a computer but not off a burned CD.

  14. Re:Bizarre? on Digital DJs Unaware of Copyright Law · · Score: 1


    In the US a DJ can't play the track legally, period! The fair use clause does not cover commercial use, so DJs are not authorized to play anything off a copy, it must be off the original purchased recording. I don't know how this covers source material originally purchased in mp3 form, however, only how it covers CD audio and vinyl.

  15. Re:Where's the techno, trance, etc? on After Brief Respite Music Industry Slump Deepens · · Score: 1


    Because techno and trance are not typically album-oriented formats. I assume you, you will find plenty of techno and trance compilations at walmart, but you obviously won't find the 12" singles there.

  16. Re:How can you be so sure... on eBay Slammed Over Levels of Fraud · · Score: 1


    It's actually very rare for mail, packages, or freight to be lost in transit. Although insurance protects against that, it's more for damage, which is far more common.

  17. Re:Ecological Sanitation - way of the future on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1


    Wouldn't urine be damaging for effluent irrigation? I didn't think it contained any useful nutrients and was instead loaded with salts.

  18. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1


    There is an inverse correlation between pipe diameter and drainline carry. A 3" drain line has roughly 50% greater carry distance at a 2% grade than a 4" line at the same grade. For conversion of old houses, you also have to take the cast iron versus PVC fact into account. New 3" PVC is going to carry better than rusty old 4" cast iron.

  19. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1


    As I mentioned in another thread, the problem is when you replace a high flow model with a low flow. The waste plumbing is a larger size on older houses and the low flow toilets don't properly move the waste all the way to the end of those larger pipes.

  20. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1


    With regards to the first scenario, this is caused when a low flow toilet is installed on older waste lines. The older lines are larger and the low flow toilet does not provide enough water to properly push the waste through the larger pipes.

  21. Re:Ecological Sanitation - way of the future on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1


    How in the heck would you compost urine?

  22. Re:Many improvement... on PHP 5.1.0 Released · · Score: 1


    I got the idea from the "To get these functions to work, you have to compile PHP with --with-whatever" installation instructions for the various extensions. If that isn't required then the damn docs need a serious overhaul or I need to become a mindreader.

  23. Re:Many improvement... on PHP 5.1.0 Released · · Score: 1


    Seems to me you've found the one case where Windows is better than Linux!

  24. Re:Is any work being done to improve security? on PHP 5.1.0 Released · · Score: 1


    But a noob will do the same thing with the backtick or exec. I still don't see the "server safe" thing. Or I don't see any additional attempts at safety beyond what is already offered by the web server or OS (for example, apache running as a user with restricted rights).

  25. Re:Many improvement... on PHP 5.1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting


    And another big reason is that the perl libraries (ala CPAN) do not require a recompile of perl itself. I cannot count the number of times I go to do something in PHP only to discover that PHP has to be recompiled with the switch to include such-and-such library. Need to work against an Oracle database in PHP? Bring down the production web servers to install a new PHP with OCI support enabled. Need to work against Oracle in Perl? Just install the appropriate perl module, no need to do anything drastic.