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  1. Re:IHTFP on MIT Tracking Campus Net Connections Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    Enjoying some alcohol tonight?

  2. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    I read the comment I replied to as if Kyoto is part of the "once in a lifetime opportunity for the 'enlightened good progressives' to get almost total control over all aspects of life in the West".

    Since it isn't in force, it can't be part of that particular problem.

    I guess my post didn't explicitly make it clear that I was replying in context, but I was.

  3. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ranting about Kyoto would make a lot more sense if the United States Congress had ratified it.

    I really don't think that the current Congress is a whole lot more likely to ratify it than any past Congress, but who knows.

  4. Re:The real question on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    I don't think it really affects anything, signatures are weak to begin with; in any case, I don't see myself ever using one, and I hope that I am never in the situation where I am arguing about my signature (or something that is claimed to be my signature).

  5. Re:Rough on Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? · · Score: 1

    Poorly regulated capitalism. There isn't really a good way to enter the market without some kind of license; if government doesn't grant the license, what is a company interested in the market to do?

  6. Re:I don't know where to post this... on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    It might be a bug in slashcode, but if Firefox couldn't access those urls people would be chipping in to say that they have the same problem as you do (among them, me). It could be something specific to your platform or build, but I am pretty sure it isn't anything Firefox in general has trouble with.

    I expect that you are having a problem with an extension or something blocking the fsdn content. If you are seeing the problem in browsers other than firefox, you are really up a creek. Another thing you could try is saving a page locally and fixing the links.

  7. Re:I don't know where to post this... on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the source of a page. If you see javascript and css being pulled from s.fsdn.com, I'm out of ideas, if you see them being pulled from somewhere else, check that out.

  8. Re:I don't know where to post this... on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    At the moment, I can successfully load this url:

    http://s.fsdn.com/sd/core-tidied.css?T_2_5_0_252a

    This one also works (in fact, the above loaded from cache and the below from the network):

    http://s.fsdn.com/sd/core-tidied.css

    It is their content delivery network, something in the configuration must be tricking downforeveryoneorjustme.

  9. Re:Similar to Windows hate? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 1

    Except it is widely used in bitmaps where the font is rendered by the imaging software, not by a browser. I guess you could modify your reason a little bit, it is widely available and looks like handwriting.

  10. Re:I don't know where to post this... on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    Looking at the source of this page, Slashdot loads javascript and css from s.fsdn.com, so I would guess that s.fsdn.com is somehow being blocked (or otherwise failing) on your end.

  11. Re:I don't know where to post this... on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    Do you mean that you pressed reload, or do you mean that you deleted your disk cache?

    The most likely reason that I can think of is that you have a partial CSS file stuck in your browser cache. That certainly isn't the only thing that might be wrong though.

  12. Re:I don't know where to post this... on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    Refresh your cache.

  13. Re:The real question on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The robo-arm doesn't really add a lot or problems to that though (and if someone uses a naive playback attack to forge multiple signatures, the fact that they are too similar should make it easier to successfully deny the signature).

  14. Re:Good on A Closer Look At Chromium and Browser Security · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but neither one is as bad as herpes.

  15. Re:I'm wondering why we don't deploy on Predator C Avenger Makes First Flights · · Score: 1

    Because the U.S. isn't committed to significant ground operations in Somalia and the Predators would not be useful in freeing the hundreds of hostages being held on the ground.

  16. Re:Difference with the US on Swedish Pirate Party Gains 3000 Members In 7 Hours · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except Ron Paul is a loon. The Department of Education may very well be unconstitutional, but saying that you will abolish it isn't going to win you popular support (No, really, it won't), especially when you would never get Congress to go along with it (how hilarious would it be if the House and Senate had both just voted through a budget using veto override?).

  17. Re:Following the money... on Predator C Avenger Makes First Flights · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it either/or?

  18. Re:Friendly Fire. Callatoral Damage. on Predator C Avenger Makes First Flights · · Score: 1

    2016 seems pretty optimistic for a ship date for Windows 9.

  19. Re:The problem is, Time Warner is right on Time Warner Pulls Plug On Metered Billing Tests · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless of course charging $1 per wing is profitable enough that you are able to continuously expand your buffet.

    As long as prices are sufficient to cover costs and capital upgrades, you don't need to use the pricing model to address capacity problems.

  20. Re:If they'd just started with a simple price per on Time Warner Pulls Plug On Metered Billing Tests · · Score: 1

    For grandma who wants to download about 2 gigabytes of email (but probably less), it is hilarious to claim that a $50 connection is more economic. The provider wouldn't get to charge her as much, so her connection would be less profitable for them, but it isn't real likely that it would be more expensive for her.

  21. Re:When will you all realize.. on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Which party is that?

    I don't see one.

  22. Re:In a word... on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    My phrasing was poor, the trucker had been stopped a weigh station; my knowledge of the events is strictly second hand.

  23. Re:Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker on Looking Back At Copyright Predictions · · Score: 1

    It isn't terribly clear that possession is infringement. It certainly isn't the only form of infringement. For example, distribution, at a minimum, should be roughly equally as prevalent as possession. In that case, it isn't the song, but the number of times the song was distributed.

  24. Re:Fed spends $10B/year on air travel on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    Now someone needs to do the same thing for Amtrak and we have a ballgame (people can decide for themselves if they think new rail will be more, less, or equally efficient compared to Amtrak).

  25. Re:educative? on Philosophies and Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Educative is apparently a word:

    http://www.answers.com/educative
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/educative

    Personally, I would go with educational (pedagogical would mean related to teaching, rather than learning, so I don't think it works as well here).