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  1. Re:Holding off using it for other reasons on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    You seem to be completely glossing over / forgetting the fact that in order for the "web developer"'s site to be farmed out, it needs to be served up by an engine, written by a software developer - one who has a metric crapton of libraries and tools all geared toward working with XML.

    The web engine gets high re-use; people don't write their own, they use one that's already available. Web developer's sites are written custom, and are written constantly. Therefore the standard should be built for the convenience of the web developer, not the engine developer.

  2. Re:Just wait till they're grown in Belgium. on Mussels With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found · · Score: 1

    Then we will have the mussels from Brussels!

    We'll have to hustle if we want the mussels from Brussels.

  3. Re:Are they -trying- to kill Firefox? on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    If you write a WWW application that uses HTML, anything can use it.

    Such a statement reveals to me that you don't do serious web development. Every web browser supports a *different* HTML. Sometimes they break things deliberately. Sometimes it's a bug. Sometimes it's a major departure for from the standard. Sometimes it's small difference, but one that breaks your app. But the fact is, you expect your HTML to run on a given web browser without testing because you wrote "HTML", you are in for a very, very rude shock.

  4. Re:Warranty on Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Too Hot For Intel? · · Score: 1

    Yep. Since Intel is no longer installing the heat sink, you'll have to prove proper installation to get your warranty replacement.

  5. Re:Oh, they can fuck right off. on After Cell-Phone Switch-Off, Anonymous Promises BART Protest · · Score: 1

    A number of citizens believe that shutting off the repeaters would be an unlawful prior restraint on speech that is protected under the 1st amendment.

    And a number of citizens believe that the government is covering up UFOs because Mars wants women.

    Unfortunately, these citizens won't find any support for their position in Constitutional law; a right to free speech is a right to use your own personal property. It is NOT a right to demand the use of property that is not personally yours.

  6. Re:Try this simple test: on Bing More Effective Than Google? · · Score: 2

    Seriously. Try it on Bing, then try it on Google.

    I did, and got pretty much similar results: a lot of pages about Shaft. No real difference.

  7. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    If you look it up, you will discover that thorium is not even a rare-earth element.

  8. Re:And the winner is on Review of IBM's Original Personal Computer · · Score: 1

    That 640k limit while we all make fun it now. 640k ram cost a lot of money...

    And it was a lot of chips; more chips than you could install in the box, in fact. 640KB was only a theoretical limit in the beginning. At its original release, you couldn't get more than 64KB on the motherboard, using 16 Kbit DRAM chips. Max configuration was 256KB, and that took three expansion cards. They didn't really hit the 640KB limit until well into the XT era.

  9. Re:The Slashdot test: Failed on Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, the article specifically says that servers quadrupled in the past two years under a policy approved by Obama (although it was started by Bush). So it was Obama who bought those servers. But, what the heck, you don't need to think when you know it's all Bush's fault!

  10. Re:That is awesome on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1

    And if we all could have internal photosynthesis, we wouldn't need to eat, therefore food is a overhead, not useful output. The fact that money is needed as a control system makes its manipulation a service.

  11. Re:That is awesome on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 2

    Toll booths collectors are jobs. But they add nothing to anybody's standard of living

    Not true. They make it possible to fund roads, which add to people's standard of living (if they didn't, people wouldn't be willing to pay to drive on them).

  12. Re:Doesn't matter on The Biggest Dangers to Your Fiber · · Score: 1

    In my experience, they spray paint where *not* to dig. Maybe that was his problem.

  13. As was said... on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 1

    "Like fools we clung to the old hatreds...and fought as we had for generations. Until the day the sky rained fire, and a new enemy came upon us. We stand now, upon the brink of destruction, for the reign of chaos has come at last."

  14. Re:Gaming + laptop = contradiction on External Thunderbolt Graphics Card On Its Way · · Score: 1

    A laptop is much more convenient to take to a LAN party than a desktop.

  15. Re:Watch the video on the linked site. on Science Fair Entry Shuts Down Airport Terminal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Listen when he explains the FOUR items that each IED has: 1. Power Source 2. Initiator 3. Explosive Material ...

    4. Profit!

  16. Re:So Cloud v Cloud.... on Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds · · Score: 1

    FATALITY.

  17. Re:Just ask What would Jobs do? on Ask Slashdot: Overcoming Convention Hall Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    FYI, this will not work. Steve Jobs does not have an English accent.

    Then we'll have to use Cary Elwes.

  18. Re:Still, they must leave prints of some sort. on Why Some People Don't Have Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Instead of one big trauma, it can be an accumulation of a lot of little trauma. Older people who have done hard physical labor all their lives commonly don't have any fingerprints left. This is proving one of the challenges in India's big biometric ID project, as they are finding that a lot of their lower-class older citizens do not, in fact, have fingerprints.

  19. Re:related? on UK Health Service Fears Huge Legal Fight Over Unwanted Contracts · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the wonderful world of government. While I won't pretend that such things don't happen in corporations, eventually it catches it up to them, as you say. In government, you never have to worry about that. It's a wonderful thing when you don't have to depend on people voluntarily giving you money.

  20. Re:Sarbanes-Oxley on What 'Consumerization of IT' Really Means For IT · · Score: 2

    If the device cannot be properly secured so as to ensure the requirements of these laws are met, then, yes, these laws very much preclude the use of the device.

  21. Re:Polyhedral dice? on Detroit Maker Faire Was Kinda Awesome · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Internet? on Hackers Could Open Convicts' Cells In Prisons · · Score: 1

    If there is a hostile situation *and your remote connection hasn't been compromised*, you still have control of those doors.

    Fixed that for you.

  23. Re:It's the risk you take on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 1

    I suspect it's more liability than cost. Once you start checking identities and past history, you can get sued for missing stuff.

  24. "We want to spam all your customers at will..." on Movie Studios Want Automated BitTorrent Warnings · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...but it's too much trouble to do it ourselves. You do it for us."

  25. Re:Is that really a GPL violation? on Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    Correct. The problem is, EMACS didn't do any of those things. They didn't provide a written offer of this source code, so they don't meet b) or c). You could get copies of EMACS from repositories that did not include this particular source anywhere within them, so they don't meet d) either. They're in violation.