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  1. Re:Google Maps is off-topic on Seeing the Earth Almost Live · · Score: 1

    No, it's "much more live than Google Earth" which shows images that might be recorded years ago, and "less live than the LIVE, you see on TV" which shows images that might show images that are just recorded a few seconds ago.

  2. Re:GPL for all? on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    > Perhaps some Microsoft patents?

    You didn't answer the question as to why those patents wouldn't cover java.

  3. Re:GPL for all? on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    Which patents would cover mono but not java? Are you saying that java is a patent disaster waiting to happen and the only reason sun is releasing it now is to distance itself from java?

  4. GPL for all? on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will they use the GPL for all the components? That is the compiler, the class libraries and the runtime? Then it will still be easier licensewise to use mono.

  5. Re:A Waste of Time on HTML to be 'Incrementally Evolved' · · Score: 1

    > XHTML is valid XML

    And HTML is valid SGML, so what's your point? SGML can also be parsed by automated systems. That much of the content out there contains errors, have little to do with whether it is encoded in xml og sgml.

  6. Re:It's probably limited by AJAX. on Google "Office" Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, then only load the part of the document being edited to the client.

  7. Why? on RFID-Reading Passport Scanners Installed · · Score: 1

    Are there any arguments in favor of RFID as opposed to chip-cards? I mean, conventional chip-cards that need physical contact with the reader would be safer in that the can not be wirelessly read and could contain processors to do crypto-calculations on card (since they have better power supply). The extra time it perhaps would take to read the card shouldn't be a bottleneck since airport checks are plenty slow as they are.

  8. Re:Desktop Applets on Why Johnny Can't Code · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Further everybody have the runtime on their desktop and access the distribution medium (flaky tape drives need not apply). Sure you can do some advanced stuff in a browser, but you can also do some really simple stuff and that's the point.

  9. Re:Stats on IP usage? on U.S. Government to Adopt IPv6 in 2008 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just like the space of possible e-mail addresses is to large to iterate over, and it therefore is infeasible to create an exploid that propagates via e-mail?

  10. table vs. div on Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would like to ask a follow-up question: Do the replacement of tables with div-elements really help anybody (besides giving job security to web developers)?

    Note that I am not at all against css. But I just find the table-tag very usefull for layout. If you need to do a three-column layout it will be much easier and give cleaner code to just use a table, than to use one of the many css "hacks" needed to give the wanted result in most browsers. If you want the layout to do something "extra" (eg. "make the center column 400px wide, but allow it to grow if the cell contains a wide image, pushing the right column") it will (probably) be impossible using divs, but trivial using tables.

    One reason to not use tables, that is usally given, is that tables should only be used to tabular data and not for layout, as to not create problems for blind users. But just an empty alt-attribte on an image signals to the user-agent that the image is for layout only, a empty summary -attribute on a table could for example be used to signal that the table is for layout only. My guess is that, that convension would be much easier for user agent implementors to use that to parse through all of the css hacks. I also feel that it would be semanticly much cleaner to have a table with one row and three cells than to have three or four divs nested and floated in strange ways.

  11. Re:That's funny... on Oracle and Sun Team Up to Provide .NET Alternative · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried?

  12. Re:Important to Note on Xbox 360 File System Decoded · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My guess is that the ps3 will have come out, including a linux devkit, before the xbox360 is broken so much that it is usefull.

  13. Re:We are surrounded on FSFE Becomes WIPO Observer · · Score: 1

    Well, the things you yourself create would be the IP of you, so, no, you wouldn't live in an IP-free environment.

  14. Re:Best quotes on Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire · · Score: 1

    No, John was saying that they were deliberately disguising song and dance as political "debate".

  15. This is why we don't like MBAs. on Estimating Software Development Costs? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read "The Mythical Man-Month" by Fred Brooks. It's short, you can read it in a day/couple of days.

    And no, we do not think that MBAs are evil. They are just illinformed about what programmers do, and still like to take the dissisions that programmers should take. As you've just demonstrated. (No, asking slashdot, giving so little information that it is a joke, is not "letting the programmers deside")

  16. Yes, they are all basicly the same. on What are the Real Differences Between Distributions? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They are all linux, which means that they are all the same. Just like both c++, java and scheme are Turing complete and therefor the same, and an IBM compatible computer and an Apple both can do computations and therefor is exactly the same. Next Question, please.

  17. Maybe your event isn't such a good idea afterall. on Organizing Large Key-Signing Events? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can't check, you shouldn't trust. By trying to bypass some of the checks, you bypass your own security and the security of those who trust you.

  18. gzip will work, but... on XML Compression Options? · · Score: 1

    I think, that if you use something like wbxml you will keep some of the stucture in the file (aka. your parser will be simpler/faster). http://www.devx.com/xmlzone/articles/bs120101/Part 1/bs120101p1-1.asp
    (Well I newer tried it, so mayby I should just shut up.)

  19. Spam on IBM Crypto Up For Grabs? · · Score: 1

    Damn! Now "Get rich quick"-schemes are turning up in slashdot-stories.

  20. The Star Chamber on UUnet's Case Study, or The Trouble With Spam · · Score: 1

    12 sys-admins around a dimly light table:

    - "Here is yet another one: 'My friends, are you running into brick walls with your job?'"

    - "Shall me vote right away?"

    - "Guilty"

    - "Guilty"

    - "Guilty"

    - "Guilty"

    ...

    - "I'll the arrangements"

  21. Re:This isn't what I submitted on Whistler MAY Refuse To Run All Unsigned Code UPDATED · · Score: 1

    Isn't this why you run (the app) postgresql as (the user) 'postmaster' and (the app) apache as (the user) 'www'? So you can control the access a app has to your system.

    (Windows do this too: the webserver run as 'iusr_machinename')