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  1. Re:Cybersex Can Be Dangerous on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    I assume you know about those washable silicone rubber keyboards?

  2. Re:The Worst. on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    Your lesson: Don't take things so literally, you end up looking like a nitpicking jack ass.

    "Nit-picking" is hyphenated.

  3. Re:On a similar note... on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully mom learned a valuable lesson.

    (If a system message appears, it does not just appear randomly. It is there for a reason. Read it, do not just push OK.)

  4. Re:Hastily implemented hacks on How Much Java in the Linux World? · · Score: 1

    In that case, why does the page I posted a link to list SAX as a deprecated API of Java 1.4.2, and SAX2 as its replacement?

  5. Hastily implemented hacks on How Much Java in the Linux World? · · Score: 1
    It may take time to get features in through the JCP, but it also ensures there are no hastily implemented hacks making their way into the system.

    Now that's what I call comedy!

    What are those deprecated classes and methods, then? Even things as simple as date and time classes and InputStreams were hacked in, then deprecated and replaced. Then there's the SAX parser, which was replaced with a totally different API...

  6. Re:The problem with Camino on Friday Mac Release Roundup · · Score: 1

    Oh, I just keep my left hand near the modifiers.

    Or my right hand, depending on which one I'm mousing with.

  7. Re:The problem with Camino on Friday Mac Release Roundup · · Score: 1

    What is this "middle button" thing of which you speak? :-)

  8. Ooh, the insight on Analysts Predict Tough Christmas For Game Publishers · · Score: 4, Funny

    GTA: San Andreas will be coming out in, what, late October early November?

    Ooh, the poor publishers, I'm sure they'll hardly sell a single unit of it.

  9. Re:Frames are evil, anyway on HTML Frames Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Well, if you really care about download speed, you skip the images and use CSS. That'll give you a much better improvement than frames.

  10. The problem with Camino on Friday Mac Release Roundup · · Score: 1

    The Adblock plugin doesn't work in Camino.

    Until that's fixed, it's useless.

    Pity, it looked good.

  11. Re:i've always wondered... on Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open · · Score: 1

    No, not just that. The government also gives the airlines free infrastructure, like air traffic control.

  12. Re:Mod me redundant on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 1

    Should be, but doesn't seem to be. I can mDNSPublish server _nfs._tcp 111
    and the Mac appears to see it, but when I double-click it claims it vanished, saying "the alias could not be opened because the original item could not be found".

    DAAP and SSH work fine, though.

  13. Re:Much better alternatives that will work with Li on Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The ShowCenter page on Pinnacle's site says it needs special server software and is XP only.

  14. Re:i've always wondered... on Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open · · Score: 1

    And your plane fare costs $200 because of the massive subsidy given to the airlines.

  15. Re:Microsoft's gonna lose this one on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Used to be everyone used Altavista to search, and everyone on the web had heard of it.

    Who uses Altavista now?

  16. Re:Boycott on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter to me if Microsoft supporters can't find my web site, so I'm not "hurt".

    I wouldn't want to be indexed in their search engine because it increases their credibility.

  17. Re:Mod me redundant on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 1

    Got any pointers to documentation on setting up the SSH stuff? How about NFS?

  18. Re:Red Hat? on Suggestions for Apache Tomcat Support? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, perhaps it would have been clearer if I said that WebSphere and Tomcat are both based on the same code.

    WebSphere's servlet engine is heavily based on Sun's reference implementation of a servlet engine for J2EE, and so is Tomcat.

    IBM licenses the code from Sun, and Sun also donates the code as open source to the Apache Software Foundation. Tomcat 4, for example, combines the Sun reference code for the JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.3 APIs with the independently developed JServ technologies.

    Similarly, the HTTP server bundled with WebSphere is based on Apache.

  19. Boss fights on Spider-Man 2 Game Goes Spider-Man Theft Auto? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    the boss fights range from stupid to incredibly annoying

    Don't all boss fights range from stupid to incredibly annoying?

    I can't think of a more stale, worn-out cliché than the "boss fight".

  20. Re:That's called a "ghetto" on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    So, Mr Expert, if your attitudes are the secret to marital stability, how long have you been married?

    And how do you account for the fact that the divorce rate is significantly higher for conservative Christians?

  21. Re:Pathetic on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    As Bukowski once said, the trouble with having an open mind is that people try to dump so much crap into it.

  22. Re:Arrogant on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    As a left wing libertarian, I find myself mostly comfortable with both right-wing libertarians and liberals.

    The right wing libertarians may be right wing, but at least they know how to mind their own damn business...

  23. Re:Arrogant on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    ...it was my understanding that Libertarians are on the right...

    A common misconception, which like the "liberal media" myth is largely caused by America's politically active population predominantly being way over to the right of the political spectrum.

    To put it another way: the Libertarian Party USA is right wing, because there are vastly more right wing libertarians than left-wing ones (like Noam Chomsky and, er, me).

    In fact, some far right libertarians refuse to believe that it's possible to be a left-wing libertarian--just like I'm sure some politically extreme Christians view it as impossible to be Christian and at the opposite political extreme.

  24. Re:Red Hat? on Suggestions for Apache Tomcat Support? · · Score: 1

    Since WebSphere is based on Tomcat, moving to WebSphere might not be a dumb move.

  25. Re:closed minds on Real adds GPL to Helix Player, RedHat/Novell Join In · · Score: 1

    Real won't let you use the binary codec to decode Real files into other formats. Are you trying to tell me that's because of code or patents licensed from someone else?

    I don't think so. I think it's Real being two-faced.