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  1. Re:Fundamentally different on AJAX, Echo, .NET - What Impact Have They Had? · · Score: 1

    Echo2 uses XMLHttpRequest for client-server interactions.

    But really, it's not significantly different from using background form submission in hidden frames. AJAX is not qualitatively different, in terms of user experience.

  2. Re:This isn't new on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    It was a CIA rolodex listing Mujahedeen assets in Afghanistan, later a database. "Al qaeda" also means "the toilet" in Egyptian Arabic, so I doubt that literate Islamists would have adopted the name for themselves without a compelling reason, such as the widespread use of the name to represent opposition to foreign invaders.

  3. Re:Oh great. Wonderful. on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    You need to understand that the believing Muslims are not struggling to invade anyone, but rather to repel the invaders of the Ummah.
    When the U.S. stops messing with them, they'll ignore the U.S. Until then, we've got a billion enemies.

  4. Re:Oh great. Wonderful. on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    Given that Kerry was a Bonesman too, don't you think he was just a patsy in a one-party rigged game?

    Anyhow, the Democrats are unlikely ever to win a presidential election until they drop the abortion issue. That's the only thing motivating the Christian majority population to vote Republican.

  5. Re:Oh great. Wonderful. on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    *I* knew there were no WMDs. Scott Ritter made the case very clear.

    If I knew it, I rather think the Office of Special Projects knew it too.

    American lives aren't worth much to the neos.
    Arabs and Persians are an outright negative.

  6. Re:Justification. on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    In fact, there were VX traces found by international observers. They wanted to verify that they were not plants left by the U.S., so they returned to the site for more samples, but the U.S. Army locked them out.

  7. Re:Arabic Translators on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    It was triacetone triperoxide, and the only reason it didn't go off is that it was past its explode-by date. TATP is very shock-, heat-, and friction- sensitive. Heck, you can set it off by taking a flash picture of the stuff.

  8. Re:Radical Islam and Deterrence on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    As it turns out the SAS hit team lied. Menezes did not have a heavy coat on, nor were there any wires. The shoot-to-kill policy was not well-known until after they capped him. He ran because he was on an expired visa, which is pretty reasonable, if you ask me.

  9. Re:Just sensationalism... move along. on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 4, Informative

    Donald Rumsfeld tells the Congress that unreleased torture photos from Iraq are too hot to handle, showing people with electrified wires inserted into their anus, rape of small children, and lots of blood.

    Torture, indiscriminate slaughter, and targetted assassination is a way of life in the new Iraqi order.

  10. Re:24 on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    Remember the Lone Gunmen pilot in which a remote-controlled jet is to be crashed into the WTC in order to fake a foreign terrorist attack?

  11. Re:Just sensationalism... move along. on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    > why didn't they prevent it from ever happening?

    Umm, because the Department of Pre-crime is fictional?

    If you still think the Cavemen of Tora Bora made NORAD stand down and suspended the laws of physics in order to cause three modern skyscrapers go into freefall and turn into a molten puddle, well... I'm speechless.

  12. Re:Remote-control women? on Researchers Create Radio Controlled Humans · · Score: 1

    Remotely controlled women? I just wish I could control the local ones.

  13. Re:Here we go again... on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    > Saying you were created by a god is about as legitimate as saying you're a brain in a jar.

    I.E., it's legitimate if you were created by a god, or are in fact a brain in a jar, respectively.

  14. Re:Here we go again... on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    Neo-darwinism is an invention of metaphysical materialists, and its intended purpose is to seem non-religious. Evaluated as science it is based on myriad fallacies.

    One fallacy is its claim that evolution is a "random" process. Evolution is not random at all, as its progress is constrained by the anthropomorphic principle.

    Another of these fallacies lies in the claim that living systems have arisen from a random process. However, it has been demonstrated that the formation of structures essential to life as we know it is far too improbable to reconcile with the historical window allowed by the theory.

    Evolution does not belong in the classroom except as a case study in the falsification of evidence to achieve a political and ideological goal.

  15. Re:Doesn't Pluto have a small moon? on Slashback: Randomness, Donations, Ramp · · Score: 1

    Besides, the name of the new planet is Xena.

  16. Re:Contradictory? on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The shower example is no more or less contradictory than the execution example. Mutatis mutandis, the two shower cases are reconciled by positing a compelling differentiating factor, for example, observing that the number of men who rape women is much larger than the number of women who rape men, so having a single chick in the men's shower is much safer....ummm... nevermind.

  17. Re:Here we go again... on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1, Troll

    Intelligent Design is both an argument from evidence and falsifiable in principle. Thus it is a scientific theory. But I think it is premature to teach it below the graduate level until a basic facility in philosophy of science has been taught. Controversies such as this generally result from ignorance, and do not lead to enlightenment. Public education, rather than deciding such a controversy, will preclude it.

  18. Roll your own on Skype Start-Up To Undercut International Wireless · · Score: 1

    Skype has the advantage of negotiated low rates to other countries. A little app using
    the Skype API to allow you to call your Skype-in number and then dial Skype-out using your cellphone keypad would quickly replace this service. Of course for those who have Asterisk running connecting to a VOIP provider, it's just a matter of changing some configuration files to make this work, but a lot more people use Skype than Asterisk.

  19. Re:"Innocent people" on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    Nuking London and New York would slow it down for a while, but I don't think it's really a long-term solution. Now the Japanese are gearing up to go nuclear -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki just slowed them down for maybe 100 years, tops.

  20. Re:I have a new game... on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    For GWB that would be 3 degrees, since his dad and OBL's dad were business partners in the Carlyle Group. I haven't been able to verify stories of OBL and GWB meeting in Texas in the late 80s.

  21. Re:Who and How? on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    Therefore, George W. Bush is a traitor.

  22. Re:Who and How? on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think the name "al Qaeda" is totally hilarious. In Arabic, it means "the toilet".

  23. Re:Who and How? on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    The notion that it is legitimate to broach civil liberties in the service of defense fails on two grounds:

    - "Defense" generally consists of killing hundreds of thousands, or millions, of innocent people. I'm sorry, but that can't justify ANYTHING.

    - Resisting evil with evil just makes more evil. It's not just bad, it's a bad idea.

  24. Re:Who and How? on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    When the U.S. was at war with Japan, they did not hesitate to kill millions of innocent people. When the U.K. was at war with Germany they did not hesitate to kill millions of innocent people. When the USUK axis of evil invaded Iraq they had already killed more than 500,000 innocent people, according to U.N. figures. Justice will be served when a few million Americans, British, and Israelis have died in pain and agony. The more of them that die in the city of London, the more appropriate and just the outcome.

    How can the citizens of a democracy deny responsibility for the actions of the governments they elect?

  25. Re:Who and How? on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    The terrorists have already won because they are right. It doesn't really matter whether they win or lose in the sense of forcing the invaders to withdraw from Iraq, because they have God's approval, for acting courageously on the side of justice, in defense of the innocent victims of the USUK axis aggression. Those who love to rape, torture and murder children may enjoy themselves for a while, but they invariably lose in the end, when they burn eternally in hell.