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  1. Re:The Web is better on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    How many CPU cycles does isset() consume?

    You probably ought to be using isset() before using any post variables anyway. Do you normally just go about willy-nilly accessing memory without checking if its initialized?

  2. Re:The Web is better on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    its a boolean, its either set or its not. isset tells you if its not, what do you expect it to return if its not set, a 2?

  3. Re:The Web is better on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    But hey who knows they might actually get it together enough by then to actually transmit the fact that a check box is NOT bloody checked instead of having to either do kludges like hidden fields or have to write backend code to check to see which ones didn't come back!

    Why don't you just check if the value of that checkbox is set or not? if it's not set clearly its unchecked instead of if ($_POST['chkbox'] == 'checked') just if(isset($_POST['chkbox'])) seriously, is it that hard? thats not exactly a cludge, that gives you a true/false just like any other checkbox on any other platform.

  4. Re:Piled Higher and Deeper on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    You do know not all web apps are hosted by google right? I'm working on a web app for a business that will run on the local lan.

  5. Re:Slowly reinventing the wheel in the browser on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    Web programming has always felt to me like a failed attempt at reinventing X11.

    Except the web works on dialup links whereas X11 feels sluggish on my 10/100 network

  6. Re:Piled Higher and Deeper on Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus · · Score: 1

    JavaScript runs within a sandbox, so while it's untrusted it shouldn't be able to affect anything outside of its sandbox.

  7. Re:Let's Talk About Captain Kirk's Resurrection... on William Shatner Takes On Social Networking · · Score: 2, Funny

    For a big enough paycheck, I suspect he'd eat live babies on national television.

    Someone start up a paypal donation page!

  8. Re:Running Very Lean Re:Same old snake oil on 50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System · · Score: 1

    I've got a friend running his 2003 Kia quite lean. He's been doing it since 2004. He gets an average of 46mpg highway. He uses an HHO booster to do this: without the booster, the engine will occasionally ping, but with the booster, it's as smooth as a kitten (with much more low-end power). He isn't having any problems so far: no spark pitting, no valve leaking, etc.

    It's highly unlikely that he's running the engine lean without major modifications. O2 sensors are narrow band in most production vehicles. All they can sense is whether you're lean or rich relative to a specific a/f ratio (iirc 13.7 to 1.) You could run it lean but you'd have no idea how lean it is and as such be unable to tune it to avoid detonation. He is probably running it with an increased level of timing if anything.

  9. Re:My fool-proof no-hangover method on Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover · · Score: 1

    For really bad hangovers, the only thing that helps is hair of the dog, as revolting as that seems at the time.

    What if I don't have any pets?

  10. Re:iPhone on Wi-Fi In a SIM Card · · Score: 2, Informative
  11. Re:I can think of two reasons on Why Apple Doesn't Market Squarely To Businesses · · Score: 1

    Typing this from a SATA only laptop running Windows XP. You just need to slipstream the SATA drivers in.

  12. Re:The police are morons on Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle · · Score: 1

    The automatic portion is the same from semi to full auto. It's still an automatic. The difference is how the seer re engages the action.

  13. Re:The police are morons on Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle · · Score: 1

    The A in AK stands for Avtomat (Automatic). If it's semi-auto, then's it's not an AK proper, but one of the many variants.

    My glock 21 is a semi-automatic firearm and it is still accurate to call it an automatic. If the firearm in question uses gas from the firing of a bullet to load another round and prepare the firing pin to strike again. Then it is an automatic.

  14. Re:This is for criminals? on Drug Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    We make about 12$ an hour starting. and we're one of the best paid prisons in the hour I make more as a sgt than my friend did as a captain at his old job.

  15. Re:This is for criminals? on Drug Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    Prison guards, on average, aren't poorly paid at all. They aren't mall rent a cops.

    HAHA, what prisons are you talking about?

  16. Re:This is for criminals? on Drug Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    Even if secure room by themselves all you need is a normal guard to watch, which I am guessing is a lot cheaper than putting a pharmacist on staff.

    I dunno what prison's you've been to. But here they have a normal officer hand out the medication, not a pharmacist.

  17. Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... on Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" · · Score: 1

    Others react by using the only weapon they have left against the guards: they fling their feces at the guards.

    I had a talk with a man once about that kind of stuff when he'd spent about 10 out of the past 20 years in solitary confinement. He reacted the same way by flinging feces, urine, whatever he could find at the officers working in his block. But he told me that he needed that time in solitary and that he felt it made him a better person for it. He told me that while it was a miserable experience, he needed that time for some self reflection and to work the piss and vinegar out of him.

  18. Re:I disagree on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    Unlike domain names, which are very scarce. Only one new DNS mine has come online since 2005, and the political situation in Angola has reduced production to a mere trickle.

    What? I live in Angola and I haven't seen any domain mines open up. And to what political situation are you talking about? I thought everyone was happy with the current warden.

  19. Problem solved on Chemical "Infofuses" Communicate Without Electricity · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Chose a sense on Hacking Our Five Senses and Building New Ones · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tell me about it. I just finished sensing it, i'm at the peeling stage now.

  21. Re:Away! Into our submarine! on Using Net Proxies Will Lead To Harsher Sentences · · Score: 1

    Aha! I thought of that already... which is why I have a little hard drive case lined with some nice Columbian ground coffee. Ohh, and I shove that up my ass.

    I don't want to hear about your honey moon.

  22. Re:Away! Into our submarine! on Using Net Proxies Will Lead To Harsher Sentences · · Score: 1

    cops dont have hard drive sniffing dogs yet.

    I wouldn't count on that. They have cellphone sniffing dogs already. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out they have hard drive sniffing dogs.

  23. Re:I hear they have these things called scanners n on 3-D Light System May Revolutionize Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    You ever had your fingerprints scanned? It's a lot more complex than that. They have to get the entire fingerprint including the sides so it involves rolling of the fingers as they are scanned.

  24. Re:Kids will Lie. on Court Reinstates Proof-of-Age Requirement For Nude Ads · · Score: 1

    Whats this got to do with models being required to prove they're over 18?

  25. Re:No way in hell! on Do We Need a New Internet? · · Score: 1

    And that's the problem right there, the word "outside". A gated community large enough to be cost-effective is also large enough to contain its own set of villains. And of course, the bigger the community, the more traffic there's going to be between it and the outside, making it impractical to perform security checks on everyone and everything entering. And let's not forget that the very existence of gates screams "rob me", both because it implies that the people living there are rich and because it reeks of elitism, which makes it easier to justify screwing them over. After all, it's always easier to do nasty things to someone who isn't one of us.

    Tell me about it. I literally live inside of a prison. (away from the prisoners but there's guards all over the place still. The worse villains are the kids of the guards who live here. They think they're untouchable and sit out on the main road smoking pot and vandalizing all night long (despite the supposedly strictly enforced 9pm curfew)