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  1. Re:For closed societies on Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites · · Score: 1

    OK, you're right that Mohammed Atta didn't do the 9/11 attack just because he was a muslim. Otherwise, the 1 billion muslims would be doing the same.

    You do need more information on Iran and terrorism. They have been supporting hezbollah, which has been the vanguard of terrorism for 20 years.

  2. Re:Yeah, right on Free Ebook on C# Programming · · Score: 1

    Mono and dotGNU are NOT complete implementations of .Net

    Linux is not a complete implementation of Unix

  3. Re:Really warranted? on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 1

    Hm, my home PC is a 400Mhz Celeron. Maybe i should make that AMD64 purchase, so i can play DOOM3 at more than 0.2 fps.

  4. Re:Event Horizon on Doom Movie Update · · Score: 1

    I saw this movie, and i didn't think it was poorly made - more like very dark, scary, and depressing. But it was interesting, and i don't mind movies which leave the viewer a lot to figure out.

    I'd have to agree, it is so dark, that was a good reason for the lack of commercial success.

  5. Event Horizon on Doom Movie Update · · Score: 1

    Someone pointed out to me that this film already lifted most of the elements from DOOM. I realized he was right.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/

  6. Re:Tenet = worse CIA director ever on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 1

    I don't know - James Woolsey was pretty bad. In contention at least.

  7. Re:Shouldn't this be posted Anonymously... on Preview of KDE 3.4 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is, since they get the +5 informative points.

    Its not exactly informative, since there was no discussion, and the link was there at the top of the page.

    We still could have read it if posted anonymously.

  8. Geeks and Conservatives unite on P2P on U.S. to Get New IP Czar · · Score: 2, Informative

    Criminal Penalties Suggested in S. 2560 are Anti-Consumer and Set Dangerous Precedent, Says ACU

    http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/040920.asp

  9. Re:Who cares? on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    What about the automobile? You only use it to get from one place to another right? Doesn't matter what it looks like, how it runs, if the locks work, etc.

    I think the reason people care is that its the app used for hours and hours every day. At least i do for work, and for fun. Anything people use that much, they notice all the little things (along w/big things), and often want to improve or customize.

  10. Re:External DB on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use BIND 9. I have a homebrewed DNS SQL db w/all the zone info, and run a perl script to export and generate all the bind zone files.

    It is sometimes convenient to be able to do updates using SQL. However, there is no dependency on the DB server for serving DNS - a very mission-critical service.

    1. if the DB server dies, DNS will hum along normally.

    2. If i get hit by a truck, any unix sysadmin can ignore the SQL DB and hand-edit the zone files.

  11. Re:It is the default, and not hard to understand on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really like BIND 9 - easy to use, the most features, plus a full rewrite since BIND 8.

    DNS servers are low on resource usage anyway, so switching to a leaner daemon would always be a niche product (like Apache alternatives).

    The only motivation for switching is the exploit issue. With the rewrite, its less of a case, and everyone should be keeping up to date w/security patches anyway.

  12. Re:Stupid Quote on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 1

    Voting was illegal in America, until we had a revolution and established the institution of voting. And it is still illegal for billions of people.

    So there is a nugget of truth to the quote, however it is an example of reactionary self-defeatism. It presupposes there will always be an evil authoritarian government to protest, and if anyone actually creates something better, it is just as bad.

    The undercurrent is that voting is uncool, violent revolution is cool. Or just a provocative statement.

  13. Re:in australia I hear they have mandatory voting on Hardly Anyone Cares About Computer Voting Problems · · Score: 1

    who determines who is qualified to choose the experts? I'm sure you will keep this opinion until the "experts" decide you are not qualified to vote.

    This is why we have representative government. The citizen elect representatives, who become "expert" in public affairs. But mandate has to come from the "masses" ulimately. The alternative is tyranny.

  14. Re:How to get it? on Red Hat Advanced Server Gets DoD COE Certification · · Score: 2, Informative

    I compiled the SRPMS myself and installed. Not easy, but it worked.

    - Download
    - rebuild all the SRPMS on Red Hat Linux 7.2 (seemed to be the closest)
    - look at the errors from missing devel packages
    - install *-devel rpms
    - rebuild again
    - rpm -Fvh *.i386.rpm
    - rpm -ivh the redhat-release package

    No installer seemed to be included.

    Then repeat every time a patch SRPM is released!

    Maybe it's worth the $800.

  15. Re:XML::Simple on XML and Perl · · Score: 1

    I think you're better off using XML::Writer and XML::SAX.

    Writing a SAX handler is invaluable for parsing huge XML files. There's only do much you can fit in memory.

  16. Re:The Right Tool for the Right Job on XML and Perl · · Score: 1

    Actually, i use the SAX interface with Perl. This is writing an OO event handler. Same way Java folks do.

    http://sax.perl.org/

    It's just as natural to do OO w/Perl as it is doing text parsing. Perl just doesn't force you to do it one way.

  17. Re:try exercising on Surgery Beats Splints For Carpal Tunnel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I has tendinitis years ago, and the things that helped me were proper positioning (without any brace things), and exercise.

    If your muscles are strong enough, there's less stress on the tendons and ligaments. Within a month of easing into weightlifing, i could feel the pain going away.

  18. Re:just like the RFC's on Patent Granted on Sideways Swinging · · Score: 2, Informative

    RFC's are not enforcable by law.

  19. Re:View Source on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 1

    This bug is one of the few reasons i ever need to switch to MSIE while doing web development at work.

    Otherwise, its all Mozilla. I love having the same browser and graphical e-mail program at home (Linux) and at work (W2K).

  20. Re:Marketing Failures.. on The Sad Parable of OS/2 · · Score: 1

    One time i was at the Chase ATMs. One had crashed and failed at reboot. It was OS/2.

    I actually thought, "Wow, must be pretty good i only saw one crash screen out of thousands of visits to Chase ATMs.

  21. Re:Also on Maui on Hawaii Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    Dude, this is cool. I always was checking out what it would take to get better-than-modem access around Maui, where i'm from. DSL is almost double the cost of it in NYC.

    I noticed that you can get coverage up to the top edge of Haleakala. Must be for those researchers!

  22. Re:more to feed the machine on Red Flag Linux: Real, and Reviewed · · Score: 1

    > When all they are, are just people just like me and
    > you. In fact more humane than us, because we do
    > more harm to them, then they have ever to us.

    Very subjective. Yes, our gunships helped subjugate China early 20th century. But don't assume that just because we (USA?) are the "superpower", doesn't mean we do more harm to everyone else.

    Also, don't lump the one billion chinese all together. There are different groups in China, and the gorverment is doing its own thing. Yes, they have suffered brutality from outsiders (Japan, British, Mongols), but also as happened "internally". Esp. under Mao and the Cultural Revolution. And hell, if you go to debtor's prison there, you get the death penalty, and they charge your family 6 cents for the bullet.

    You can have an open mind and open heart, but don't have an empty mind. Keep you eyes open, and don't shy away from contradictions. They are all over in life. Just like you don't assume "we good", don't assume "we bad".

  23. Re:In theory ... on Web Services - More Secure or Less? · · Score: 2

    I have to agree, because letting in "dangerous" function requests in over HTTP is fairly close to the same risks as running CGI scripts.

    CGI programmers have had to be trained to code safely, not doing stuff like:

    system "$unchecked_input";

    SOAP programmers have to trained similarly. GIve 'em some rope, but make sure they don't hang you with it!

  24. Re:PNG Open Source Masturbation on Apple Patent Blocking PNG Development · · Score: 1

    KDE uses MNG for animations. I noticed that when trying to install KDE RPMs once.

  25. Mozilla patch or option on Browser Spyware: Watching Where You Linger · · Score: 2

    Since the crucial part is not the javascript getting mouse positions, the crucial part is javascript communicating those positions back to the web server.
    Mozilla already has fine-grained control over which sites you allow to send cookies to. Someone could add another fine-grained feature to control what sites you allow javascript to send http GET/POST commands to. It could also set which javascript commands you want to enable. This is already the case with window.open()

    I also thought maybe we could make the broswer show you what info it is posting back, and let you approve it. But then, sites would just encode it so its not human-readable.

    So this is a complicated issue, but one we can deal with, since we have Open Source Mozilla.