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  1. Wow, jaded much? on Railway Workers Get Daily Smile Scans · · Score: 1

    Wow! I looked up "jaded" in the dictionary and a link to your comment came up. Jesus. I think I need to go lie in a bed of flowers and cover myself with bunny rabbits for about an hour to counteract the horrible bitterness of your post.

  2. Wow, not what I expected on Doctors Baffled, Intrigued By Girl Who Doesn't Age · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, this article is not what I expected in the slightest. Here I was thinking it was some hot 21-year-old girl who was gonna look 21 the rest of her life, and I was gonna show up here and say "Some guy is gonna be a super lucky husband!" But, uh...er... anyway, moving right along.

  3. rsync on How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories? · · Score: 1

    I use Mac (a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro), so I just do rsync -Cavz ~/Documents/SomeDir/ /Volumes/myusername/Documents/SomeDir/ and then usually an rsync the other direction, and I'm done.

  4. Pure ignorance on ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings · · Score: 1

    So much ignorance in these comments. People really don't understand how ASCAP works, otherwise you'd realize it's not possible for ASCAP to collect money from people singing around a camp fire.

  5. Re:AT&T sucks balls on Will AT&T Charge Extra For MMS & Tethering? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hear hear! AT&T is garbage, and the iPhone is the only reason I'm with them.

  6. Re:Uh-oh, they're catching up! Someone tell Apple! on Apple To Face Challenge At WWDC · · Score: 1

    Thank you, this is exactly what I wanted to say. The iPhone/iPod Touch is in no danger of being overtaken by the competition any time soon... I almost laughed when I read the bit about MS, Palm, Google, etc. catching up. I know this sounds fanboyish, but to be completely honest, I don't have any product loyalty. I use whatever I feel is the best gadget for me and my purposes, and at this point in time, my iPhone 3G does everything (and more) that I need/want in a phone and mobile PDA. Apple has spent far more time and research on user interfaces and usability than the competitors, I think, and it shows.

  7. Re:vs iPhone on Palm Pre Reviewed · · Score: 1

    How you ever got modded insightful is beyond me, because you really have no idea what you're talking about. As an iPhone owner since the day it was released, and as a very tech savvy geek who is not swayed by flashy advertising and "status symbolism," I can tell you the iPhone suits my needs perfectly. For me, the App Store is probably the biggest thing I like about it. There's just an insane amount of software available for it: I can play all kinds of games on it, I can SSH into my home Linux box, as well as SFTP into it and grab files, I can email, surf, text, watch TV shows and movies. It really does everything I need it to.

    Now don't get me wrong, the exclusion of copy and paste for this long is simply inexcusable, and frankly it's absurd. I'm glad this summer they're finally adding that "feature" in with the new firmware update. The iPhone isn't perfect, and there are still a few things I could see being improved, but for the most part, it's the killer phone.

  8. Simple, no? on A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    Just use Javascript, watch for either some mouse movements or onBlur/onFocus.. and if those are present, then isHuman will == 1, and you pass that to the server side. Actually, you'll want to have some obscure variable name to make it less obvious.

  9. Re:Another one! on Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    You's guys' don't wanna knows!

  10. Re:I just don't see how it would work. on Casinos Warn iPhone Card-Counting App is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Right, imagine this: as the dealer deals out the cards, the pit bosses see your leg jiggling up and down rapidly as each card comes out. That doesn't look suspicious at all. ;)

  11. Bah! on Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV · · Score: 1

    This article is pronksurd! You can't go pronking articles about pronks!

  12. Re:Customer Backlash? on Ninth Anniversary of Amazon 1-Click Injunction · · Score: 1

    I pay for Amazon Prime, so I get free 2-day shipping on everything on the store (that Amazon stocks, of course). And in many cases, I'll get my stuff in just one day depending on where it ships from. This, plus the fact that the prices are pretty damn competitive, makes it my preferred online store. I can't see myself ever boycotting Amazon.

  13. Re:Data Theft on Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared · · Score: 1

    He's still a Republican plant. He's connected to Charles Keating, of the Keating Five scandal (which McCain was involved in). The point is, the Republicans put him up there to confront Obama to stir shit up. It was not genuine (few things that come from the right ever are).

  14. Re:Data Theft on Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared · · Score: 1

    Research and coverage was done on "Joe the Plumber," and rightly so--he's a fraud. I'm glad everyone dug deep enough to uncover the fact that his name is actually Samuel Wurzelbacher, and he is NOT a plumber at all, but a criminal (tax evasion). And a Republican plant, on top of all that. Summarily: he's a piece of shit.

  15. Re:Obvious.... on Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Left hand for most people. Right hand for Greek/Russian/Etc Orthodox.

  16. Re:Infected Websites on Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I guess I just disagreed with:

    Oh, that's right, running ads and other shit from shady people (directly or indirectly).

    Nothing to do with shady. Even some reputable carts have holes in them. Some programmers are more meticulous than others. :)

  17. Re:Infected Websites on Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill · · Score: 1

    Obviously. How is my post "joking"? I'm just explaining how it works. The solution is pretty straight-forward, but you'd be surprised how many e-commerce stores ship with vulnerable code.

  18. Re:Infected Websites on Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill · · Score: 1

    You know not what you're talking about.

    SQL injection attacks involve passing SQL code through the query-string. On a simple level:

    http://www.somesitezzz.com/page.asp?name=about

    An attacker sees that, and changes the URL in their browser to:

    http://www.somesitezzz.com/page.asp?name=about'+and+some+other+malicious+SQL+code--

    Of course, that's on a very simplistic level. They do much worse things, like throw in entire coded blocks of SQL code to do all kinds of malicious things, like insert script tags pointing to their site.

    More sophisticated attackers have bots that have a catalog of online stores' known weaknesses (for instance, CandyPress - piece of garbage), and it knows exactly which pages to target.

  19. Re:Agreed. on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    We have the right to bare arms. PERIOD. That means if I want a magazine that holds 50+ rounds, I can have it. If I want a machine gun, so be it. Handgun -you bet - and NO license if I want to carry.

    What? Wow! Imagine if every nutjob who wanted a machine gun, could have one. Sorry, but the right to bear arms was different back in the day of Jefferson. They didn't have kids going into school with a musket and blowing everyone away. Times have changed. The founding fathers couldn't have possibly fathomed where we would be today as a society.

    That being said, I think legal concealed carry would reduce crime (criminals will be less confident trying to mug someone who's packing a Glock), but gun-carriers would have to pass a regiment of psychological profiles, emotional intelligence tests, and whatnot. And sorry to say, but you, my friend, would probably not pass those tests.

  20. Moist?? on NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Moister Mars · · Score: 1

    "Moist" is just one of those words that is automatically associated with one other particular word, usually sexual in nature. "Pert" is another.

    I just had to make that comment. It was either that, or "mmm, a moister, chewier Mars."

  21. Re:svn == unpleasant and maybe buggy on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    No prob. :) I didn't mean to be snarky if it was taken that way, just being sarcastic. I actually had no clue if what you wanted to do was possible, but a simple "svn help" got me my answer pretty darn quickly.

  22. Re:svn == unpleasant and maybe buggy on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Subversion usability leaves a lot to be desired (although the book is really nice). For example, cd into a working copy that you've never seen before and try to determine its exact repository URL.

    Uhh, ok.


    $ cd tortoiseSVN
    $ svn info
    Path: .
    URL: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk
    Repository Root: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
    Repository UUID: 612f8ebc-c883-4be0-9ee0-a4e9ef946e3a
    Revision: 33826
    Node Kind: directory
    Schedule: normal
    Last Changed Author: hwright
    Last Changed Rev: 33826
    Last Changed Date: 2008-10-21 15:16:27 -0500 (Tue, 21 Oct 2008)

    That was tough. I think I broke a sweat.

  23. Re:I have considered Git but... on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    svn has no merge tracking.

    As of 1.5, it does.

  24. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lo! they cannot escape.

    I misread that as "Lol". 4114h00 4kH bR !!!

    No, you're right. It does say "Lol". Full excerpt:

    "and let not n00bs who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip ALLAH'S PURPOSE!!!!1 lol they cannot escape. make ready for them all u can of armed force and of...OMG PONIES!!! rofl. so um..that thereby ye may dismay the enemy of Allah and u can haz victory."

  25. Re:Some standards are just too strict... on Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    So, web devs, let your users decide. Give the 'rel="external"' attribute to your external links, and put a simple checkbox or dropdown on your web site saying "Open external links in new tab/window?" And if that option is enabled.... (jQuery code follows)

    $('a[href!=""][rel="external"]').attr("target", "_blank");

    Problem solved.