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  1. Laserfiche on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 1

    This is what Laserfiche is designed for. I've never used it myself, but know a bunch of people that work there, and it seems like it's designed to handle this problem in a way that nontechnical people can understand and with cost that scales.

  2. Re:They're all apeing OSX on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    As someone else posted below: if you really liked KDE 3.5, you should check out the Trinity Desktop Environment, which is a fork of KDE 3.5 that is being actively maintained. (site seems to be down at the moment but you can check out the google cache in the meantime)

  3. Re:They are NOT Denying Global Warming on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 1

    They [the EPA] certainly aren't trying to _actually_ clean up the air, since worse offenders than the USA already exist

    Um, the USA is the 2nd largest emitter of CO2 in the world, behind China. And China has a over billion more people, about four times more than the USA. In light of that, the EPA's attempts to legislate reduced CO2 emissions do not seem all that unreasonable to me.

  4. Re:If they don't use local resources why should th on Rhode Island Affiliates Banned From Amazon.com Sales · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, that's exactly what the GP was saying.

  5. Re:...or maybe on The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    I call BS on a study that looks at test scores, (seemingly) for high school students, and says that the more women are in the 99% percentile so it's cultural.

    So let me get this straight: you're saying that it's not significant that nations with greater gender equality have more women scoring above the 99th percentile in mathematics?

    Methinks someone failed Logic 101.

    Certainly, scoring in the 99th percentile is by no means an indication of math genius-ness. But that's missing the point entirely—what matters is that there are strong cultural factors that are pushing many capable women away from mathematics, leaving any mathematical ability unidentified, genius or not.

  6. Re:Yeah, screw you too on Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, they intend to showcase an open standard by publishing something that only works on a single "optimized" platform??

    While I understand the pragmatism, it still seems odd.

    That the standard is open does not mean that every browser implements the standard properly yet. If you intend to showcase an emerging standard, you want to actually showcase the emerging standard. As this is such a showcase, it's perfectly reasonable to restrict presentation to those browsers capable of displaying the page as intended.

    As I quoted earlier FTFA:

    We would be happy to work more closely with developers from Webkit and Opera.

    Based on that, I expect that we'll see similar demos running on those and other HTML5-capable browsers in the near future.

  7. Re:...or maybe on The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I call bullshit.

    From TFA:

    In both cases, countries with as many or more girls at the upper extreme tend to be those with the greatest gender equality, such as Germany and the Netherlands. . . . If the differences were innate, they should show up in every culture.

  8. Re:Yeah, screw you too on Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you actually read TFA, you might have noticed

    Do other browsers support this HTML tag? Yes, but our code works best on Firefox 3.5 beta and is not yet optimized for other browsers. We would be happy to work more closely with developers from Webkit and Opera.

    Considering that the demo is intended to show what an emerging standard can do better than current ones, it's understandable that they want it to look the best it can, which means they're going to want people to watch it using the optimized platform and not something that's barely going to run their demo.

  9. Re:Seriously? on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 1

    One that has been approved by the UN security council in accordance with chapter 7 of the UN charter. For example, the war in Afghanistan is a legal war. The 2003 Iraqi war was not.

    Actually, neither of those two wars are legally wars under the US Constitution. Because, of course, they're not "wars" if Congress doesn't declare them to be wars... you know, the same way that no one dies if you don't declare them to be dead...

    It's pretty messed up.

  10. Re:Tutorial on Using apt-p2p to Upgrade on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1
    From the apt-p2p website [emphasis added] http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p/ :

    Similar to DebTorrent, Apt-P2P will act as a proxy between apt requests and a debian repository server, downloading any requested files from peers (if possible), but falling back to a direct HTTP download. Unlike DebTorrent, Apt-P2P will be simple, efficient, and fast.

  11. Re:I hate to say it... on Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whooooooosh

  12. Re:Birds? on Giant Floating Windmills To Launch Next Year · · Score: 1

    What about human activities like ... eating? The most obvious problems are often overlooked. Given a highrise with 10K people inside, it really doesn't matter if one or two birds crash into it, if they are renting the ground floor to KFC. This is a serious problem, people!! Only five years ago I would see at least 3 chickens crashing into the highrise where I work on my floor alone, but today I consider it fortunate to see about a chicken a week. Won't someone think of the poor high-flying kamikaze chickens?
  13. Re:Honestly, these problems are solveable on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, Amarok is already working in Windows. While it's not ready for general use, information on the tech preview can be found at http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/583-Windows-Binaries-of-Amarok-2-Tech-Preview.html Also, I and I'm sure many others have had iPods working with Amarok just fine for years, so I'm not sure what you're talking about there.

  14. Re:Of course... on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, what they meant was "All OpenSSH and X.509 keys generated prior to the update on such systems must be considered untrustworthy, regardless of the system on which they are used, even after the update has been applied."

  15. Re:Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom of Hosts on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Freedom of speech does not mean I should have to provide any resources to help you. By using Freenet, you're volunteering to provide those resources. Nobody's forcing you to use Freenet.
  16. Re:Encrypt your email on US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email · · Score: 1

    Where can I find this encryption client that you're writing?