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  1. Re:Everyone needs to start somewhere on Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code · · Score: 1

    Like they'd really give a shit. After all, the dev team are employed specifically to implement their dumbass^H^H^H^H^H^H^H fantastic ideas anyway. They're helping them by contributing.

  2. Re:Marketing guy's function on Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code · · Score: 0

    Please stop submitting Java style code as JavaScript.

  3. Re:College textbooks a scam? on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I accidentally a word in my rhetorical question (language)

  4. Re:College textbooks a scam? on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    Computer science textbooks don't have code. That's for computer programming textbooks. Even then, they don't necessarily have code if their purpose is purely paradigms, concepts and methodologies.

      That book you bought for Comp Sci? It's for the practical application (programming) bit of your curriculum.

  5. Re:stop making choices for us on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 1

    By your comments it appears that MoneyFucker-69 is someone who has seriously wronged you.

  6. Re:No prior art on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 1

    "it's about using different assumed names for different communities, with one central location that knows all"

    Yep, I've already got one of those. Me.

  7. Re:Why bother when you can on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 1

    Amazon thinks my US address is Wrigley Field...

  8. Re:16.777 != 16.9 on UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, the widescreen version.

  9. Re:Cable box metaphor on Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8 · · Score: 1

    So a converter box isn't an upgrade? Seems like one to me.

    Plus, if people are frustrated because they are attempting to use resources that cannot be used with what they have, isn't the onus on them to do something (like, upgrade) in order to use those resources? It's like complaining that your power steering doesn't work all the while refusing to get the hydraulics installed.

  10. Re:Weird on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden · · Score: 1

    And my question remains unanswered. Cambodia says he broke immigration law. What did he do to break it? Does anyone know?

  11. Re:Cable box metaphor on Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8 · · Score: 1

    A URL is a URL. You trying to attribute semantic meaning to it based on what happens after its purpose (to denote the Location of a Resource in a Uniform manner) has been achieved merely defeats your argument as you don't know what you're talking about.

    I never said anything about cable boxes. I was referring to televisions that receive over the air transmissions. But let's run with your unwarranted addition; when Cable and Wireless enabled customers where upgraded to be fully digital in the UK, did they expect it to work fully with the old boxes or did they use new ones (hint: the latter)?

    Oh, and the answer to your question is Chrome Frame.

  12. Re:Weird on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Plus there's the whole deportation business. We all know he broke Cambodia's immigration law, but what did he actually do that was illegal?

  13. Re:Using both outdated and HTML5 web apps on Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8 · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as a "HTML 5 URL". In any case, why does a user think that everything will work everywhere? Do they also expect to receive digital only channels on an analogue only television?

  14. Re:Asperger on Rewiring the Autistic Brain · · Score: 1

    But isn't putting additives in fuel the same as prescribing supplements / drugs to correct a perceived flaw? My engine is fine, does what it was designed to do and does it well. It wasn't designed for urban pootling in low gear, unless I give it drugs to "correct" this "problem" (quoted because it isn't a problem that needs correcting in my opinion; it's my car, not some focus group's)

  15. Re:As they should on Google Kills Apps Support For Internet Explorer 8 · · Score: 1

    Nothing, apart from no more updates, is stopping intranet applications from continuing to be used. That isn't the issue. It's the "I want everyone to use the same outdated, buggy software that runs the outdated, buggy intranet applications to run web apps that use HTML 5 functionality like I use on my iPad / home PC and if you peon developers can't do that you're fired" mentality that is the issue. Upgrade or GTFO.

  16. Re:Asperger on Rewiring the Autistic Brain · · Score: 1

    Time for a car analogy!

    My car has shitty gas mileage but is fast and powerful. Should I fuck around with the engine so it performs more like the societally accepted "norm" of a Jetta?

  17. Re:they are confused on French Court Levies First Fine Under 3-Strikes Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    This law is interesting to me as part of my wireless connection is open, a simple deal with BT meaning that in return for allowing some bandwidth to be used by anyone in range I get to use hotspots all over the world for free where others would have to pay.

    However, as the router handles this the IP from BT remains the same regardless of which network is used. This means that copyrighted content can be downloaded via the open network and it would appear at first glance that I am the likely culprit. How would this law deal with that, given that this open network functionality is encouraged by BT?

  18. Re:Why not a vacuum on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 2

    Not sure if trolling...

  19. Re:A strange thing I noticed... on GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System · · Score: 1

    I was in an office just along from the Lloyd's building when it was attacked. I was more annoyed at the inconvenience this caused (street closed so I had to take a different route to the Tube) than afraid.

  20. Re:The author's take on this on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement · · Score: 2

    So what about Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Carnival of Souls?

  21. Re:Caution, clicker. on Converting RSS Feeds To a Dynamic 3D Scene In 120 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    nyud.net is used to try and lessen a Slashdotting of the original site. Coral cache is another option if you don't want to use AWS

  22. Re:hands up on Ask Slashdot: Hackable Portable Music Player For Helicopters? · · Score: 2

    Only if they play Wagner exclusively and require you to bring a surfboard.

  23. Re:Not the first on Rare Form of Autism Could Be Curable With Protein Supplements · · Score: 1

    Easiest way to avoid phenylalanine is to not drink diet sodas. They're full of the stuff.

  24. Re:Communications white paper 2000 on Jimmy Wales Threatens To Obstruct UK Government Snooping · · Score: 1

    That's the thing though. On one hand you have the Govt. passing a law that means you have to declare what tracking you do via cookies (and Silktide have just said "go ahead and sue us for not doing so") while they are proposing to pass a law that requires ISPs to route via a black box that performs MITM SSL interception to track ALL visits to ANY site, regardless of security *and not tell anyone*

  25. Wrong terminology on Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass · · Score: 1

    In the UK, lager is not beer. Beer is never served in lager glasses.