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  1. Wait a minute! on The Well-Connected Park Bench · · Score: 2
    "Visitors to the city's Abbey Gardens will be able to connect their laptops to the Internet for free through a connection on the bench, although MSN is still testing [emphasis mine] the best technologies to achieve this."
    Oh, is Microsoft just now testing DHCP and Ethernet?
  2. Re:Enough already! on Wave/Sea Power - What Are the Dangers? · · Score: 1

    Want to know who is in control of /. today? It isn't Hemos or CmdrTaco, they must have been locked in a closet somewhere. Why else would they not have posted yet?

    CmdrTaco and Hemos, if you are out there: All of today's news are belong to JonKatz, Cliff, timothy, michael, jamie, and pudge. OK, the April Fools joke is old now, cut the crap and get back to real news.

  3. Introducing life to planets on Planning For The Colonization Of Mars · · Score: 1

    Hey, isn't there an international treaty that prevents the introduction of earth-based life to other planets and the moon? Someone at JPL told me this, but it was a long time ago and maybe it doesn't apply any more.

  4. Re:Why confined to a language? on College Board AP CompSci Exam Will Be In Java · · Score: 1

    Whoa, I definitely agree with this. I think that "computer science" should be more about the logic and thought process backing the code. For all I care, they might as well make up their own language syntax that is described on the first page of the test. Most programmers should be able to adapt to new syntax quickly.

    Whatever the case, I do not believe that the language should be stressed on the AP CompSci test.

  5. Re:They've come a long way... on Send Some Mo' Zilla · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that I specifically said "markup" but some features that I wanted to implement, but couldn't were PNG graphics with IE4, and more code related, I wanted to do a hovering menu system that worked "smoothly" with IE when scrolling but couldn't, maybe this will change. This is compared to Moz in which I could code my menu system with CSS-P perfectly. See http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ WITH MOZILLA and then with IE to see what I'm talking about(The red nav menu thingy.)

    With that, IE doesn't do CSS-P very well. From your demeanor, you are probably a Microsoft developer so go ahead and add better CSS-P support to IE. Thanx!

  6. They've come a long way... on Send Some Mo' Zilla · · Score: 2

    I remember compiling pre-milestone Mozilla builds on Linux oh so many months ago. Mozilla has become noticeably faster and more standards-compliant every milestone. I am afraid though that they may be too late for normal consumers because I'm sure Microsoft is working on a another rehash of their non-standards compliant Explorer with some proprietary gee-whiz feature x that consumers will crave. This will most definitely impact Moz... err Netscape's browser usage. As a web developer, I would love to write cross-browser code but Microsoft is the dominating browser, so I have to write individual Cascading Style Sheets for each browser since their support varies.

  7. Re:PRAM on What Will Be The Next Generation Of RAM? · · Score: 1

    PRAM == Paper RAM? No...
    PRAM is pr0n RAM. It's the next generation because it accesses your pr0n in current memory really, really fast. When you need it. You could probably even throw in some encryption to hide it from family or coworkers.

  8. Extraplanetary Communication on R.I.P. Iridium · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can figure out a way to move these suckers into orbit around the Moon or Mars to use for communication on the surface. Astronauts on cell phones- I knew it would happen.

  9. Re:Got your chocolate chip cookie thing on Lightning Crashes, An Old Freedom Dies (Updated) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure whether anyone has mentioned this or not, but perhaps the girl saw the naked woman in an ad banner. Filtering software doesn't handle this very well.

    We have a filtering proxy at my school and there were a couple of kids in the library on a video game site with porn ads one day. It wasn't filtered out and all the guys gathered around the computer while the librarian wasn't paying attention. I believe that someone needs to create a .xxx TLD and require by law that all porn sites have domains under .xxx only. This would make it very easy for proxy filtering.

  10. Re:So it wasn't a dream! on 1970s Star Wars Christmas Special Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Jeez, thats one thing that I remember as being real good. Do they still even have orange-flavored Triaminic?

  11. Hmm... on Microsoft Plays Linux Games at Work · · Score: 1

    So now Microsoft has their best people playing games on Linux.

  12. Re: Sun Office on Sun May Buy StarDivision · · Score: 1

    How about SolarOffice if you think SunOffice doesn't sound right?

    SUN == SOLARIS == STAR(Office)

    Well lets see, the SUN is a star.
    Star. Sun. Whats the difference?

    Hmmm...

  13. Re:B.Y.O. Hardware? on Burger King to offer Internet Access · · Score: 1

    BK will no doubt keep the monitor and system separate from each other. Too bad, this is a great idea.

  14. Re:Which distribution? on Linux.com to go Live Tonight · · Score: 1

    Looks like Debian. See "About Linux.com"

  15. An Observation on Linux.com to go Live Tonight · · Score: 1

    Read the comment tags in the source of every page:

    "What are we? Transmeta? there are no secret messages hidden in the html."

    Hmm. It says Version 0.1.0 -- Looks fine to me!
    Conclusion: Yet another nicely designed Linux portal with a slick interface.