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  1. Re:Not really new, but interesting on Check Boxes and Radio Buttons Conquered by DHTML · · Score: 1

    innerHTML is beautiful and an effective macro for all those clunky DOM range operations.

  2. Re:I could have told you that back in... on Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. · · Score: 1

    No! Chin rest.

  3. Re:Not SCUBA on Breathe Under Water Without Oxygen Tanks · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to heliox?

  4. Unique Item on Extinct Wildflower Found In California · · Score: 1

    But Diablo only drops Buckwheat maybe 1 in 500 times when you kill him.

  5. Other Media Myths on What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality? · · Score: 1

    Virtual Reality was stolen by Crack Babies and sold to Killer Bees.

  6. Talking to the OS on Practical Common Lisp · · Score: 1

    How does Lisp tap into a dynamic link library written in an imperative language?

  7. JavaBean properties are like advice on Aspect-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    If you have a JavaBean setter and getter that both do more than just set and return a field value, it's like writing advice around a "field".

    Or think of a JavaBean as advice around the fields of a C struct.

    This isn't "code-weaving", though, considering all the code is in one place.

  8. Open Source Everywhere on Open Source Methods Useful Way Beyond Software · · Score: 1

    Wired had a cover article about "Open Source Everywhere" in Nov 2003.

  9. Re:I hope it's not for violence on Revenge of the Sith Officially Rated PG-13 · · Score: 1

    The ultra-specific reasonings for a movie's rating during trailers did not happen until just after Columbine.

  10. Red Lion = Red Devil on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) I have stayed at that Red Lion in Portland.
    2) I have eaten at that Denny's as well.
    3) I have checked my email on the computer in the lobby.
    4) A PuTTY icon on the desktop should have clued me in that I should not have checked my email there.
    5) Over the next 3 days, my ISP account was used to spam strangers like crazy, before I finally changed my password.
    6) This was almost 2 years ago.

    Nice to see the Red Lion is still such a hotbed of criminal activity ;-)

  11. Heaven and Hell on How To Talk To Aliens · · Score: 1

    Just send Cortana and Guilty Spark.

  12. Re:We are the risk takers of our time on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yet non-risk-takers are almost never the winners. And when they are, they are merely beneficiaries of the labors of the risk-takers who did win. Like me being able to buy cheap gasoline and cheap broadband.

  13. Re:Psychology. on Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    I have a BSc in Comp Sci and a minor in Psychology as well. Georgia Tech has a Human Computer Interaction Master's Program.

    Techniques a lot of corporations use to make its workforce more efficient come from Applied Psychology, aka Industrial Psychology.

  14. Local Gaming Clubs on Fun Tabletop Games? · · Score: 1

    Try to find a local gaming group. Not only will you find good players, but I'm sure they will have no shortage of opinions on what games are worth playing ;-)

    DallasGames.com for those in DFW. Anyone can play and we're really friendly. Just jump right in.

  15. Re:Free particle accelerator for use! on Large Storms On Earth Are Particle Accelerators · · Score: 1

    Parent is Funny, not Flamebait. Someone's Sarcasm Detector is broken.

  16. Appserver costs on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    Apache/Tomcat/JBoss has no appserver costs. Oh you actually want support for JBoss? Well MS support doesn't come free either. What will the software process? Leaning more towards patient care (hospital bed allocation, tracking nurses rounds, prescription maintenance, appointment making, etc.) or health insurance management (claims, billing, enrollment, referrals, etc.)?

  17. Forces Working Against Us on Is the Future of Silicon Valley Solar? · · Score: 1

    Dallas gets plenty of sunshine year round. So it sounds like a good candidate for solar panels on everyone's roof. But the frequent hail! The hail! Hail!

  18. Mutual Satisfaction on What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side Jobs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I fix my brother's computer; he does my taxes.

  19. Shaken, Not Stirred on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    Moonraker.

  20. Pentagon on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize tanks ran on nuclear

  21. pa on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 1

    It made me cry.

  22. Tell your boss on Greatest Equations Ever · · Score: 1

    Work is mass accelerated over a distance.

    W = mad

    Work is mad! mad I say!

  23. Partial page, round-trip updates on Firefox - The Platform · · Score: 1
    Is there anything in Mozilla/Firefox that allows an event to update part of a page's content, both in visual and scripting content, with:
    1. A new request/response cycle to the server
    2. The rest of the page remains intact, meaning:
      • It doesn't have to be resent
      • The location in the browser bar remains the same
  24. Deja Vu on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 1

    I liked this story better the first time I heard it. Back when it was called Splinter Cell.

  25. Conspiracy Theories on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A lot of classic conspiracy theories revolve around ELF and VLF.

    The basic recurring premise ranges anywhere from a single person to an entire town (Eugene, OR) being bombarded with V/ELF and studying the effects. The results are hardly "mass-destructive", but rather annoying: nosebleeds, headaches, premature arthritis, sore throats, unexplainable bruised, etc. Supposedly, a US official working in the US Embassy in Moscow contracted a fatal rare blood disease, and hidden V/ELF transmitter was found hidden in the walls, aiming right for his desk.

    The theories allege the military and intelligence agencies were interested to see if purposefully exposing subjects would be effective as a form on mind control. I don't mean mind control in the literal sense where someone says "Go kill your neighbor" and the subject says ok and snaps to it. More like putting someone's mental state into disarray, hoping in the confusion the person would be more susceptible to suggestions and persuasive tactics.

    These "experiments" flat out don't work. There's no science to back it up. But the point is someone with authority believed they could work and spent a lot of taxpayer money trying. And that's the real shame.

    Please take this with a grain of salt. There's no need to go into a huge exposition trying to debunk these stories. You save it. I'm just repeating these unsubstantiated tidbits. Reports like these fueled many an X-Files episode. The producers/writers didn't come up with these things out of thin air. They're interesting to read. Not to "find out what happened", but to get an insight into the background stories X-Files sometimes use.