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  1. Re:feature? on Unipage - A PDF Alternative? · · Score: 2

    PDF Forms are also Javascriptable.

  2. Re:But what about the space program's future? on NASA To Retire Atlantis by 2008 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Damn that's short-sighted. Crap all over our nest and the solution is to bring more stuff in to make more crap?
    To mix metaphors, the reason to get out of this hole is not to keep all of our eggs in one basket.

  3. Re:err, i don't think it's from google on Search Engine For Coders to Launch · · Score: 1

    Given the hype it's more likely meant as short-hand for
    "a Google-like search engine".

  4. Re:$1,500,000 in funding to show ads... on Search Engine For Coders to Launch · · Score: 1

    Except that Google doesn't properly index/search for all those
    incredibly meaningful characters in code like: # / % $ ; , & |

  5. Re:michael jackson on Consumers vs. IP Owners: The Future of Copyright · · Score: 1

    He owns the songs, not the recordings.

  6. Summary overstates things on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    Since when is potable water an environmental issue? Sure concerns about potability brought about many
    environmental regulations in the west but these are with respect to industrial pollutants, not cholera.
    As others have noted, dung does not exactly burn cleanly, why not use existing tech like methane harvesters?
    Besides, how much dung? A kilowatt per kilogram would make it a wundertech, a kilowatt per kilotonne
    is a joke.

  7. Re:Olympic committee morality on Olympic Medalist was Spyware King · · Score: 1

    I'm no fan of the current administration but you need to familiarize
    yourself with a little latin phrase: ex post facto.

  8. Re:Amateur Hour? on Olympic Medalist was Spyware King · · Score: 1

    The Dream Team is a bad idea, but it was adopted after many years of US frustration
    with other countries refusing to enforce the required amateur status of participants
    (namely in soccer IIRC).

  9. Re:copy of TFA on Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements · · Score: 1

    Novell isn't exactly in the content business. CnP of an NYT article is more suspect.
    Besides, it's only really done because /. refuses to take responsibility for the flash
    mobs it incites.

  10. Re:All I want from OSS... on Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements · · Score: 1

    MDI with each document as a task is evil, try current versions of MS Office.

    The feature of MDI not duplicatable elsewhere is to avoid taskbar clutter
    for the certain kinds of apps that may have lots of individual documents
    open but you don't necessarily need to see the list. Thusly a taskbar that
    autogroups things of the same time is not good enough because I might
    want chat windows clustered, but not file browsers.

    I don't see any real reason why something like OpenOffice couldn't let the
    user choose SDI or MDI. There seems to be relatively little difference in the
    guts, as opposed to a tabbed interface which would be harder to expose as
    an alternate model.

  11. Re:Missing the point.... on Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because Anyone who can use App X but not the functionally equivalent App Y with only minimal adjustment (but perhaps much bitching) is just a monkey in a suit. The have not learned how to do
    their job per se but only how to go through the motions of using App X.

  12. Re:Claptrap? on Mario All Grown Up? · · Score: 1

    Tamagotchi don't mess on the carpet.

  13. Re:Game Theory on Time To Stop Calling Them Games? · · Score: 1

    L'academie is often mocked. They come up with some of the most outlandish terms you could think
    of, although a few are nifty like vacancette (little vacation) for weekend. While I learned of the naming
    restriction from an old text book too, it was dropped sometime ago.

  14. Re:Infinite, Finite, and Over-inflation on The Great HDCP Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Gasoline is not overpriced (less than a dollar a liter). Did the CEO's rig the system and rape the people?
    Probably, but that doesn't mean the price is too high. The difference should've gone into alternative
    energy subsidies and tax relief for the poor instead of making a fat wallet fatter. Otherwise you more or
    less have the right idea.

  15. Re:I am so tired. on Craigslist Sued For Violating Fair Housing Laws · · Score: 1

    It is also the lawyers, see asbestos. See "are you still alive
    but have a scar from surgery? Well they fucked up and owe you money!" You can't argue that personal injury attorney ads don't
    contribute to Joe Blow's sense of entitlement. A non-trivial
    number of lawyers search for clients for whom they can sue on
    behalf of, for a percentage of the profit, instead of you know
    being ethical and waiting until someone actually needs them.

  16. Re:Anybody even care about the other side? on Danish, Western Websites Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Can't speak for the rest of Europe but France does not seem that bad. Perhaps those
    living in the ghettos have it bad, but the problem there is the ghettos, and it does
    nobody any good to conflate matters because they find it a convenient means of
    ascribing mailicious intent.

    Jews where yarmulke, many christians (especially catholic and orthodox) where crosses.
    None of that is allowed by the French law. But then, this is a country where you
    can be stopped and asked for your papers and nobody thinks anything of it.

    I spent 6 months outside of Paris this past spring at several universities and
    noted no strong racial tensions whatsoever. I daresay the French I encountered
    are more tolerant than some of (geographically) middle america.

    See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ofili/, while not
    received in as an enlightened matter as we ought to be capable of the theatrics
    certainly do not compare.

  17. Re:Can we please... on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    Denying reality sure sounds child-like.
    Which by right means we could call monkey man in the ovoid chamber a kid too :-D

    La la la la I can't hear you.

  18. Random comments on Longer Laptop Battery Life under Linux · · Score: 2

    No laptop to try it on, but the code seems to be not awful (though a file named
    "include" for a few subs out in its own place on the drive is questionable). A
    direct link on the sf site instead of a hlaf-dozen clicks would be nice. The
    biggest thing of note is that it seems to be slightly Gentoo specific:
    #!/sbin/runscript in powermgr, and the use of an external binary named osd_cat.

  19. Re:Hmm... on King Tut Killed by a Knee Infection? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Silver is. Gold is largely inert; this is the reason it's used for
    teeth, electrical contacts, etc. Of course it's possible the body
    could still simply recognize it as being foreign and try to fight
    it but it'd just make a lot of puss I think. Undoubtedly something
    else could've entered at the same time.

  20. Re:NIMM on Fight Tooth Decay with Electricity · · Score: 1

    Sealants are just an acrylic filling.

  21. Re:fluor ions? on Fight Tooth Decay with Electricity · · Score: 1

    F-, fluoride ions.

    Many of the elements--especially those in the first two rows, as well as many p-block and mostly-full d-block--have different names in other languages, owing to their early discovery.

  22. Re:27 point IQ drop? Where is that reported? on Loss of Applied IQ Among UK Youth? · · Score: 1

    Small data set = a single study

  23. Re:27 point IQ drop? Where is that reported? on Loss of Applied IQ Among UK Youth? · · Score: 1

    So your beef is with extrapolation from a ssmall data set, and not with simple
    math. You would of course do better to actually state this in the first place.

    HAND

  24. Re:27 point IQ drop? Where is that reported? on Loss of Applied IQ Among UK Youth? · · Score: 1

    Duh, uh... I think it's stated in the blurb posted on /. , along with the
    derivation. You wouldn't happen to be an 11 year-old Brit would you?

  25. Re:There may be no fix, but there is a workaround on Faulty Microsoft Driver Saps Intel Core Duo power · · Score: 1

    6. In the Value data box, type 1, leave the Hexadecimal option selected, and then click OK.

    Why do so many windows "tweak guides" include lines like that?
    1=1; be it 0x01, 1, or 0b1.