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  1. Re:Why is it dead: on The Forgotten Macro Language of HTML: XBL 2.0 · · Score: 1

    maybe it's just me being way too familiar with XML style syntax.

    I think so, because I find

    #nav li {
      onmouseover: doSomething();
    }

    to be more understandable than EITHER of the xbl or jquery examples. Sadly, the CSS people don't want to add javascript and nobody stepped up with a cjs (other than this but it's just css with javascript, not cascading javascript sheets).

  2. Re:The answer is... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Preserve a "Digital Inheritance"? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The account would still have to be in your name and the company would have to believe you were still alive.

    Well, that's easy. Incorporate and have Anonymous Coward, Inc. buy all your music and movies and such for you. Pass on the corporation and its assets in your will.

    Undeath: Not just for soulless corporations and liches anymore!

  3. Greed and gullibility on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    If you believe that uwingu can sell you the right to name a planet, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn you can name!

  4. Re:It's how contract work works! on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    Catastrophic insurance doesn't do jack shit for cancer or multiple sclerosis or anything else that can't be fixed in a single trip to the hospital.

  5. "Equal Terms" on How Google Fiber Could Do Some National Good, Or At Least Scare the Carriers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    City: "Ok, no franchise contract anymore"
    AT&T: "Umm, ok, maybe not so equal terms."

  6. Re:ISP Egress Filtering... on Iranians, Russians, and Chinese Hackers Are After You, Says Lawmaker · · Score: 1

    It would fix nearly all DNS-based DOSes if they filtered source addresses of outbound packets to eliminate spoofed UDP packets. If it's leaving their network, the packet should say it came from their network.

  7. Re:cheap bastards on Vudu Resets User Passwords After Burglary · · Score: 1

    Maybe they cut a new back door while the guard was watching the front one.

  8. Re:The more frivilous applications you make... on Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    smart companies aren't going to peruse patents that are frivolous and/or won't hold up in court.

    Smart companies know the patent doesn't have to stand up in court, it just has to cost the competitor millions of dollars to prove it doesn't stand up.

    Trolling companies know the patent doesn't have to stand up in court, it just has to cost their victim millions of dollars to prove it doesn't stand up in court so they'll pay a few hundred thousand to save money.

  9. Re:Kissinger on "The Kissinger Cables": WikiLeaks Releases 1.7M Historical Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wow, and here I was thinking of an alternative where we managed to partner with people who weren't corrupt murderous assholes who we could train to fight without having our own weapons and training used against us.

    Who am I kidding? The only two possible choices for dealing with the USSR were bin Laden and Santa Claus! We did the best we could!

  10. Re:Classification? on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm sure that the US Government will find grounds to classify private banking documents.

    Probably under the "embarrassing to someone important" clause.

  11. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ on Blink! Google Is Forking WebKit · · Score: 0

    By that measure, none of the browsers have diverged significantly from Mozilla.

  12. Re:No need to regulate it on Ask Slashdot: Should Bitcoin Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    and I've still to figure out what they have to gain by allowing a free site hosting that shit to stay up

    It gives other countries people to bust.

  13. Re:I'm not quite sure how you're supposed to do it on Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    It could, but only if they knew what domain your server was authoritative for when they picked your DNS server at random.

    Your server would also have to be able to cough up a pretty big response to make it worthwhile.

  14. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    I think we should mandate background checks of participants before protests

    You mean like when the government issues the permit for the protest?

  15. Re:The law is an ass on 9th Circuit Affirms IsoHunt Decision; No DMCA Safe Harbor · · Score: 1

    Beautiful, beautiful strawman. *golfclap*

    While there are a few judges that cause problems, the judge isn't the one dragging people to court, the judge isn't the one deciding what laws you broke, the judge isn't the one lying to the court.

    The real problem is the prosecutors, who are untouchable and not held to account for their actions when they railroad innocent people and obstruct justice, even when their obstruction allows the guilty to continue killing. They tell the court that their DNA evidence is incontrovertible proof of guilt when it matches, but when it doesn't there's no end of excuses how the "guilty" did the crime while leaving someone else's DNA... when they don't just order the DNA evidence destroyed before it can be tested.

  16. Just what NASA needed on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 1

    NASA's still moving? Quick find something to drain its budget!

    How many millions of dollars will have to be spent on this "export control review"?

  17. Re:INFOCOM LEVEL 3! on Possible Cyber Attack Against South Korean Banks and TV Stations · · Score: 1

    > get me the President on the horn.

    I only understood you as far as wanting to get yourself.

  18. Re:Dumbest story title, ever? on Smartest Light Bulbs Ever, Dumbest Idea Ever? · · Score: 1

    Will poison you with a lot of mercury when dropped!

    I find that the people who complain about mercury in CFLs are probably the same people who played jedi light sabers with the fluorescent kitchen bulbs when they were a kid, and probably has fluorescent tubes in their kitchen right now.

  19. Re:Whence comes the power of the IRS? on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 1

    Who elected the legislators who decided to have the taxing authority switch to the new currency?

    The people who voted for them because they promised to vote the Right Way on abortion.

  20. Re:lotr = high iq? on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 5, Funny

    The authors of the study all liked LOTR.

  21. Re:The cynic in me... on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 1

    But we were in a 4g inverted dive with it!

  22. Re:It is disturbing... on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    Wrong. That's why it's not called the Constitution of the Everyone, but rather the Constitution of the United States of America. That means it only applies to "citizens" of the United States of America, or guests (tourists, etc).

    Wrong. It's an exhaustive list of the powers of the federal government, that means it only applies to the United States of America itself. Exhaustive means that if it's not in the list, the federal government should not have the power to do it.

    You're welcome to tell us that the federal government can use war powers against citizens on US soil, just remember that Treason against the United States "shall consist only in levying War against them".

  23. Re:It is disturbing... on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the government gets to define who is or is not a "person". And Republicans and Democrats alike like it that way.

  24. Re:The enemy of my enemy on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 2

    American politics isn't about policies at all. It's tribalism

    No shit, what do you think happens when you can't vote for "policies" and any vote not for a Republican or Democrat is "wasted"?

  25. Re:The enemy of my enemy on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Where are all these groups and people now who were protesting against the war.

    In jail