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  1. Re:supply and demand - no real problem on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    You are my hero.

  2. Having long abandoned PHP on PHP Application Insecurity - PHP or Devs Fault? · · Score: 1

    It's reading about issues like this that make me love Hibernate, Struts and Tomcat. At least at work. ;-) It's all about the sensible security defaults and maintainability, neither of which are particularly common in PHP development. Seriously. All you PHP fanboys, I don't know if you're just scared of the learning curve or what, but the jump to J2EE is totally worth it for any serious application.

  3. Re:Some simple fixes would be sufficient on How to Crack a Website - XSS, Cookies, Sessions · · Score: 1

    Of course, one could avoid all this kind of nonsense by not using PHP :-)

  4. remarkably content-free on 5 Gorgeous 2D Games · · Score: 1, Funny

    mod article down ;-)

  5. Re:Finally... on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    mod parent up. man, i wish i had some points.

  6. Re:On the subject of loosers... on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1

    And we've made the number system more consice and practical, for example thousand million -> billion.

    And yet you persist with incredibly inconsistent anachronisms such as imperial measurement ;-)

  7. Re:Why not different backgrounds for workspaces? on Fedora's OpenGL Composite Desktop · · Score: 1

    KDE does this.

  8. Re:Pennies must go! on Earth's Copper Supply Inadequate For Development? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Australia replaced its dollar note with a coin in 1984, and the $2 note with a coin in 1988. If I recall correctly, 1 and 2 cent coins were not actually eliminated in the 1990s, but some law was passed whereby retailers had to round to the nearest 5 cents, and people could change their 1 and 2 cent coins for real money at the bank. They soon dropped out of usage.

  9. Oh no, not again. on Tango Project to Make Open Source Beautiful? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tango is also the name of the ugliest excuse for a web development platform on this green earth. It is, hands down, the most putrid language I have ever seen. Kind of like a mutant offspring of BASIC, RPG, and old ColdFusion.

    These guys should seriously consider a name change.

  10. Slow news day? on Protothreads and Other Wicked C Tricks · · Score: 1

    Um, who cares? Really? Shouldn't this be hidden under "Developers"? I mean, I'm a developer, and this might be great to someone who might use it... but that ain't me. (Self-centered huh?)

  11. Re:nvidia drivers? on Debian Sid Moves to X.Org · · Score: 1

    well this explains a thing or two.

    I'm stuck with a TNT based card myself. Even with the old drivers, my entire machine would randomly hang for no apparent reason, if X was using the "nvidia" (not nv) driver.

  12. Re:Speedy Limit on The Super Superhighway · · Score: 1

    The left lane is always the fastest.

    Not in Los Angeles, matey.

  13. Re:Divorcies yes.... on Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack, Senate Told · · Score: 1

    And is it any wonder men don't initiate divorce? A male divorcee is a dead man walking.

    Are you nuts? Speaking from my own experience, I found divorce to be completely liberating, and I'm having more fun, sex and money than I could ever have hoped to have previously.

    Oh yeah, and I initiated that.

    I agree that there's nothing in marriage, for a guy. It's a pointless anachronism. Love is not proved by law, and commitment doesn't require paper.

    Although I will admit that married couples do have one advantage over the rest of us, and that is the privelege to act on our partner's behalf in medical emergencies.

    For example, if I'm in a coma for six months, or got alzheimers, or in some way become someone other than myself as a result of a medical condition, I would want my girlfriend to be the one to say "Pull the plug, let him go". That's what my Will will say, when I get around to writing it. But that could get overridden by my family because I'm not married to her.

    The rest of us who are domestic partners, long time boyfriends, girlfriends, straight, bi, gay, or poly - we're screwed, and not in an "ooh baby" way.

  14. Re:The real reason it's not a threat on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    Firefox will, from this point forth, be renamed, "Internet".

    mod parent up :)

  15. Re:Total privacy ends at your doorstep... on Intelligent Transportation Systems · · Score: 1

    you mean like this?

  16. Re:Oooo! Talk about stuff no one cares about on Review of Yoper Linux v2.1 · · Score: 1

    Double Kingburger with egg OWNS.

  17. Re:Talk about an uber-trojan on Video Chat Via Transparent Desktop Overlay · · Score: 1

    that amused me.

  18. Re:w t f on Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering Production · · Score: 1

    what's stopping them? they already eat dirt. a memory card would be a step up, i think.

  19. Re:Wow. Out of touch.. on The GNOME Roadmap · · Score: 1

    Where's the list of applications - indexed by function?

    That would be here.

  20. Re:What, do lawmakers get paid per law now? on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    well, it _is_ a republic... go figure.

  21. Big Deal. on Sprint Routers Stolen; NYC Internet Outage Ensues · · Score: 0

    A handful of customers down? Who the hell cares! This isn't even remotely newsworthy.

  22. Re:Speaking as one of the masses... on Dan Gillmor Reconsiders Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice computer: $2000; Operating System: $0; Never having to reboot: Fucking Priceless

    Damn, think I found a new sig... can I quote you on that? *grin*

  23. What drivel! on Social Networking in the Digital Age · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That was, bar none, the most content-free article I've read this year.

  24. Re:Missing poll option on Security Experts Doubt SCO's Claims of DoS · · Score: 1

    No, but who runs Cowbody Neal? :P

    In Soviet Russia, CowboyNeal runs YOU!

  25. Re:Just to address a few on IBM's New Linux Advertising · · Score: 1
    Any competent sysadmin...

    How many windows 2k/XP/whatever boxes out there sitting on DSL and cable modems have competent sysadmins sitting at them?

    It's not the competent sysadmins I pity.