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  1. Re:Biased. on Are Today's Polls Clueless? · · Score: 1

    What, Bush and his people tell no lies? They are the politicians who speak only the truth? Please awaken from your romantic fantasy and stop taking offense whenever anyone points out that a politician lies.

  2. Re:Incompatible with logged in browsing on Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta · · Score: 1
    There is a domain attribute in the set-cookie syntax:


    domain=DOMAIN_NAME

    When searching the cookie list for valid cookies, a comparison of the domain attributes of the cookie is made with the Internet domain name of the host from which the URL will be fetched. If there is a tail match, then the cookie will go through path matching to see if it should be sent. "Tail matching" means that domain attribute is matched against the tail of the fully qualified domain name of the host. A domain attribute of "acme.com" would match host names "anvil.acme.com" as well as "shipping.crate.acme.com".

    Only hosts within the specified domain can set a cookie for a domain and domains must have at least two (2) or three (3) periods in them to prevent domains of the form: ".com", ".edu", and "va.us". Any domain that fails within one of the seven special top level domains listed below only require two periods. Any other domain requires at least three. The seven special top level domains are: "COM", "EDU", "NET", "ORG", "GOV", "MIL", and "INT".

    The default value of domain is the host name of the server which generated the cookie response.


    This suggests that
    • a browser could add the nyud.net to the cookies it receives from pages sent by nyud.net
    • the page author could specify nyud.net as the domain for cookies


    Time to write some test code.
  3. Incompatible with logged in browsing on Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta · · Score: 1

    Although I can browse both slashdot and SomethingAwful forums through Coral, I cannot do so while logged in. I wonder if the "user is logged in " logic is confused.

  4. Re:Little guy still has little shot on Why Wall Street Wants Google to Fail · · Score: 1

    According to the linked USA Today articles, you appear to be mistaken.

  5. Re:Wall street getting upset because the little on Why Wall Street Wants Google to Fail · · Score: 1

    Time will tell. Barring an extraordinary coincedence, the stock will open at $130 only if some people were willing to pay more than $130.

  6. It does not understand permalinks on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    The phrase I searched for showed up on the home page of the site originally, but it has sinced moved into the archives. That is to be expected with dynamically generated pages. With Google, there is a cache, so if the engine makes a poor link choice, I can look at the cache and make a better one.

  7. Re:Authority for its own sake on Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte · · Score: 1

    Parasites are "sparring partners." It has been suggested that parasites are the reason for sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction increases a gene line's ability to adapt rapidly, so when the environment (other than the parasites) changes, gene lines that have a history of being challenged by parasites will be better able to adapt to the new environment.

  8. Re:It's crazy on 80,012 Text Messages In One Month · · Score: 1

    People can buy unlimited GPRS internet for $20 per month and use an Instant Message service to send all the text they can key in.

  9. Re:Once Again on MMO Creators Follow The Virtual Money Trail · · Score: 1

    Answered in your livejournal since this is neither news for nerds nor stuff that matters.

  10. Re:Once Again on MMO Creators Follow The Virtual Money Trail · · Score: 1

    Instead of complaining on /.

    I completely agree that Y!PP's lack of a well-functioning Complaint Department is neither News for Nerds nor Stuff that Matters.

  11. Re:Once Again on MMO Creators Follow The Virtual Money Trail · · Score: 1

    YoHoHo! Puzzle Pirates has several disadvantages to getting subscribers, and none of them are because they have poor customer support.

    Why add to natural disadvantages with a customer support representative who disparages customers?

  12. Re:Once Again on MMO Creators Follow The Virtual Money Trail · · Score: 1

    ... the documentation was updated fairly recentyl, around last week or so.

    Critical aspects of gameplay remain undocumented as of today despite multiple complaints in the forums.

    The people who get burned are not the ones with the sweetheart alpha / beta subscriber packages, but the ones who come to the game now.

    Presumably the developers are content with 5,000 subscribers and do not want the 100,000 that City of Heroes achieved in less than two weeks.

  13. Re:Once Again on MMO Creators Follow The Virtual Money Trail · · Score: 1

    A company that tolerates a customer support guy who berates and threatens customers and favors deleting posts or hiding threads over updating the doumentation is a dubious contender for your entertainment budget. I've seen a lot of people get burnt, and there's no excuse for it. They are charging $120 / year to play.

  14. Re:Once Again on MMO Creators Follow The Virtual Money Trail · · Score: 1

    the forum is moderated by a playerRight, so you get to see a forum "moderator" threaten other players with in-game retaliation.

    They are too busy codingSuggestions to spare the developers by making the docs available on a Wiki were dismissed by the same moderator on the grounds that his eyes glazed over whenever he saw the word Wiki. Maybe you will host one on drod.net?

  15. Re:Once Again on MMO Creators Follow The Virtual Money Trail · · Score: 1

    Too bad a fraction of the effort put into trampling customers' posts in the forums cannot be redirected to updating the documentation.

  16. Re:Once Again on MMO Creators Follow The Virtual Money Trail · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Puzzle Pirates had potential, but right now the vast majority of interesting-things-to-do is restricted to the few players who have been granted monopolies. One of the moderators of the Game Design forums deletes posts and locks threads in order to prevent discussion of alternative designs that would make the game more enjoyable for newcomers. Every couple of weeks you discover another undocumented bias. Stay away.

  17. Re:real life on Hello Mary Sue, Goodbye Flawed RPG Characters · · Score: 5, Interesting
    How would you make a MMORPG signifigant for 'casual' players, yet not boring or too easy for the 'hardcore?'
    • Calendar-based rewards such as rental income, interest, dividends, employee earnings, and factory sales, that accrue whether the player is online or offline.
    • Distinct rewards for logistic, strategic, and tactical activities.
    • In-game auctions of equipment and pre-built characters, both for hourly rental and outright sale.
  18. Re:Relativity on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1
    crow, may I introduce you to Tycho Brahe
    Tycho developed a system that combined the best of both worlds. He kept the Earth in the center of the universe, so that he could retain Aristotelian physics (the only physics available). The Moon and Sun revolved about the Earth, and the shell of the fixed stars was centered on the Earth. But Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn revolved about the Sun. He put the (circular) path of the comet of 1577 between Venus and Mars. This Tychonic world system became popular early in the seventeenth century among those who felt forced to reject the Ptolemaic arrangement of the planets (in which the Earth was the center of all motions) but who, for various reasons, could not accept the Copernican alternative.
  19. Re:Why is URL parsing code in the kernel? on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Did you mean IEradicator? Alas, it works with neither Windows 2000 nor Windows XP.

  20. Re:Tungsten T maintains the connection between app on No More PalmOS Instant Messaging? · · Score: 1
    I wonder if the difference is
    1. {Tungsten T + bluetooth cell} is a multiprocessor implementation
    2. GPRS vs WiFi

    The cellphone creates and persists the connection, the Tungsten T handles user input, display, clipboards, and application shuffling. This reduces the number of conflicting interrupts either must cope with.

    It is also plausible that GPRS connections are assumed to come and go as the users roll through a tunnels or burrow into parking structures where WiFi clients are assumed to stay put. This could influence dropped-connection results as well.

  21. Re:Tungsten T maintains the connection between app on No More PalmOS Instant Messaging? · · Score: 1

    Palm Web Pro, under Options | Preferences | General, has 'Disconnect on exit.' I am just guessing, of course, but I guess you had that option enabled.

  22. Tungsten T maintains the connection between apps on No More PalmOS Instant Messaging? · · Score: 3, Informative
    The Tungsten T lets you set the idle timeout on a network connection to 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, or never. You decide the trade off between battery time and reconnection hassle. If you set it to "never," you can switch between WebPro, VersaMail, WordSmith, PhotoBase, and so forth without having to re-login. If you set it to "1 minute," you can still switch, but you mustn't dillydally. Perhaps the Tungsten C lacks that preference setting, or perhaps the original poster never noticed.

    The advantages to using a Tungsten T + cellphone combination over a single device like a Tungsten C include:
    • it works whereever your cellphone can find GPRS, not just in WiFi HotSpots
    • your cellphone battery handles the radio between you and the station (distant), your PDA battery handles the radio between your PDA and your cellphone (close)
  23. Re:Technology takes time on Bluetooth Shipments Exceed 1M per Week · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see how you'd accomplish bluejacking with IRDA. Perhaps you consider the random social contacts "extremely limited value."

  24. Re:An old saying... on Female MMORPG Developers On Influences · · Score: 1

    As I recall, the author of the mantra in question is the cabaret poet, Boy George. It was from his lyric "The War Song."

  25. Re:Must be a real thrill. on Preparing for the DARPA Autonomous Vehicle Challenge · · Score: 1

    Postwar minesweeping is humane.