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  1. The problem is formulas. on Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad · · Score: 4, Informative

    ODF does not specify the a language for formulas. Everybody but MS uses one language, MS uses another. Of course there are incompatibilities.

    Why did ODF not specify a spreadsheet formula language?

  2. Re:How do I make such a CD? on Torpig Botnet Hijacked and Dissected · · Score: 1

    I have tried several times to install to a VM from recovery discs, from Dell, HP, and IBM. It has never worked; the recovery software fails unless it is recovering to the hardware it expects.

  3. Re:Obvious--Teachers' Unions on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The teachers unions are not even there for the teachers. They are there for the unions themselves.

  4. Re:you know on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Why do teacher's make so little?

    Because if the teachers were paid and treated like professionals, they would not join the unions.

  5. Re:We need ipv4.5 on ARIN Letter Says Two More Years of IPv4 · · Score: 1

    That was a joke, right?

  6. Re:IPv4 Address Exhaustion Is Always Be 2 Years Aw on ARIN Letter Says Two More Years of IPv4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the Pope declares ex cathedra that thou shalt use IPv6, I will convert to Catholicism immediately.

  7. Re:Can we always kill javascript? on Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript · · Score: 1

    PDF Forms for offline data entry, to be submitted later when online.

  8. Who wants to live that long? on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 1, Funny

    Methuselah lived 900 years.
    Methuselah lived 900 years.
    But who calls that livin' when no gal will give in
    to no man who's 900 years?

  9. Re:Can we always kill javascript? on Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Programatically clone a page to the end of the document.

    Calculate and fill fields based on the value entered into other fields.

    Update reference data from the web.

    There are good uses.

  10. You've gotta tell them! on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Smart Grow is people!

  11. Bad premise. on Bandwidth Fines Bad, But Not Net Neutrality Issue · · Score: 2, Informative

    If company A sells something to company B which company B then re-sells to the public, but company B almost certainly cannot resell the good without committing fraud as outlined above, then company A is complicit in the fraud as well.

    A: Company A sells to Company B
    B: Company B screws its customers.

    While ~A implies ~B, A does not imply B. Company A could sell to Company B and Company B could consume the product itself.

    A is not complicit. Bad premise.

  12. Re:And nothing of value was archived on Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities · · Score: 1

    Project managers realized that they could drop support for all of this stuff ("We'll add it later!") and produce applications cheaper and quicker.

    However, the platform has gotten so bad and other technologies have gotten so good that it is quicker and cheaper to write desktop applications and deploy them via the web. But "Web 2.0" is still the buzzword, so nobody will fund a project using Java Web Start.

  13. Re:Counterproductive on UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the end the only thing this will be used for successfully is kowtowing to corporate interests and eroding the rights of citizens.

    Kowtowing is the primary goal. Eroding rights makes it easier to kowtow later.

    Surely you do not think this was done for the benefit of the people?

    Oh, you did? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  14. Re:Lead, follow, or get out of the way on Linux Boxee Users Get Hulu Relief · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What incentive do they have to use open standards? Unless it makes them more money, they will not do it.

  15. Re:A person should own their health record on Senate Bill Calls For Open Source Electronic Health Records · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it really belongs to the patient, the patient should be able to tell others to purge his records, so it will not follow him for life if he so chooses.

  16. Slick UI? Who cares? on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Let me know when it is as usable as Debian+e17.

  17. Re:If they can do it for him on Obama To Get Secure BlackBerry 8830 · · Score: 1

    I just hope that trickle down occurs.

    It had better, as we are paying for it.

  18. Re:Of course we don't need running shoes on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    Here is a great article written for the non-biologist about evolution and the common mis-perception that is has a mind:

    http://watchingtheworldwakeup.blogspot.com/2009/02/darwin-aeneid-and-days-of-our-lives.html

  19. Java 8 Preview on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Java 8 will replace String with String2, which will treat empty string and null the same.

  20. Re:Rochester on Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas · · Score: 1

    You are lucky. I am in Rochester. I tried to switch to Frontier's DSL. I am too far from the DSLAM. My options for high speed Internet are Time Warner cable or a T line.

  21. Re:Rochester on Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas · · Score: 1

    Clearwire? 128k upload.

  22. Re:Still 290$? on How To Rack Up $28,000 In Roaming Without Leaving the US · · Score: 1

    He was roaming. The issue is that he should not have been roaming based on his location.

  23. Re:Congrats on UK Gov. Wants IWF List To Cover 100% of UK Broadband · · Score: 1

    while at the same time telling the general populace "look at what a good job we are doing".

    And the general populace will believe them. You are very naive if you think the point is actually to prevent child abuse and not simply to get reelected.

  24. Re:The most widespread form of child abuse on UK Gov. Wants IWF List To Cover 100% of UK Broadband · · Score: 1

    Enable https (you can't filter on secure traffic because it is encrypted browser to server and any hops in between cannot see the content.).

    Are they blocking by the HTTP host or by IP? If by IP, https will not help you.

  25. Re:Working around government? on Working Around Slow US Gov. On DNS Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think Washington would still be protecting the horse breeders and the stable hand union.