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  1. Re:For the rest of us on It's Time To Revive Hypercard · · Score: 1

    You're not modding anything with comments like that!

  2. Re:Information Collected on Data From Windows 10 Feedback Tool Exposes Problem Areas · · Score: 1

    Only use a local account, and Microsoft's cloud services are disabled.

  3. Re:They _Should_ Replace It on CSS Proposed 20 Years Ago Today · · Score: 1

    For a bonus I wanted the left and right columns to collapse if the screen got too narrow (smartphone). This turned out to be...challenging in CSS.

    @media selectors are your friend here. You can supply one layout for a smaller, and a different layoutfor everyone else. Check out how I did it by viewing the source of FrillerWorks.com. You'll want to be looking at the link tags under the head.

  4. Re:Lines of Code?! on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 1

    Poor python, where newlines have syntactic effect!

    So do semicolons. For example:

    >>> print "this";print "that"
    this
    that
    >>>

    works.

  5. Re:Unified Kernel on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    So does this make Windows CE officially completely dead?

  6. Re:Can we have a [credible] MS Access equivalent? on Why Munich Will Stick With Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm not a Visual Basic guy, so I can't help you in that respect, but SQLite + Glade + Python is my favoured way of building a database with a scripted GUI. I think I successfully pulled of a nice form once with OOBase, but it's not that great, and I can see why many people wouldn't like that.

  7. Re:C++ is not the language you start with on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Ah yes. I also have heard of Minecraft.

  8. Re:What the fuck happened to gedit's UI? on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    Check out pluma. It's a fork of gEdit before it got all ridiculous looking.

  9. Re:Legal Precedent? on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 1

    I believe No-IP should have emailed you as well. They emailed me. Check your spam filter?

  10. They mentioned node.js, so I believe they mean server-side javascript. That can do proper input-validation.

  11. Re:Answer: Both on Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay · · Score: 1

    about Android: it can't ever be updated

    Uhh... yeah... bout that... When an update came out for my phone the update notifier sat in the notification drawer until I successfully updated my phone. Guess it can be updated then, huh?

  12. Control Group on Study Finds Porn Exposure Associated With Smaller Brain Region · · Score: 1

    The portion of the brain that they were looking at was the one that comes up with lies. Everyone's been exposed to porn, some just lie about it.

  13. Re:646 lines of Perl? on No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    Better yet: Why are there both DOS Batch and Bourne Shell scripts in the same project? I could understand that for a multi-platform PC program, but a website?

  14. Re:IDE autocommit? on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't happen to be piping the output of cat to a file now, would it?

  15. Re:You missed the biggest downside on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    Yup. Autosave is only good with a version controlled document.

  16. Re:Stupidity != righteous anger on Declining LG's New Ad-friendly Privacy Policy Removes Features From Smart TVs · · Score: 1

    What VCR do you have that connects to the internet?

  17. Re:Good idea on Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics · · Score: 1

    I have a smartphone, but it can't scan QR codes because the camera is too crappy.

  18. Re:But that's the deal, surely? on Microsoft's Security Products Will Block Adware By Default Starting On July 1 · · Score: 1

    Babel Toolbar isn't the "free program". Babel Toolbar is what gets installed as the price of the free program.

  19. Re: Meet the new boss: on GNOME 3.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Use Cinnamon with MATE apps like I do. It's a great experience.

  20. Re:Firefox is the most unstable program in common on Firefox Was the Most Attacked & Exploited Browser At Pwn2own 2014 · · Score: 1

    Yes. Flash has run in a separate process for 5-6 years now IIRC. When Flash crashes, it doesn't take down Firefox, it just displays a block say that Flash crashed, and I believe it gives you a report link.

  21. Re:Twice as much work for instructor, 5% benefit? on The Post-Lecture Classroom · · Score: 1

    The way one of my previous schools justified their non-recording rule was that it prevented any unauthorized learning (someone might share the recording and then someone might gain valuable information without paying for it). Yeah, I know. It just makes them look worse.

  22. Good job on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do · · Score: 4, Informative

    Great inclusion of the link to the service, samzenpus. I love how I didn't have to hunt for it at all.

  23. Re:Companies shouldn't have this anyway on Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services · · Score: 1

    1. 1. A company shouldn't have my password stored anywhere in a form that they can decrypt it.
    2. 2. A company shouldn't have the answers to my security questions stored anywhere in a form that they can decrypt it.

    That's why the agency is asking for the salt as well. They're trying to eliminate the parts of the formula that make it so that you can't figure out what the password is. Reverse engineer the impossible formula, so to speak.

  24. Re:Quickly!! on Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services · · Score: 1

    Dang. So I was just trying to continue the joke, but apparently if you type the asterisk symbol enough times, it actually writes your password out. Weird...

  25. Re:Quickly!! on Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services · · Score: 1

    Hmm, sounds like a good idea. Here's mine: absdXGH4420078jkl!@gy