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  1. Re:Window management on 10/GUI — an Interface For Multi-Touch Input · · Score: 1

    As timeOday and SuperKendall posted earlier in this discussion, one way around that navigation problem would be to have the open windows in a ring, like emacs does with buffers. That way, navigating from #1 to #15 would just involve moving in the opposite direction.

  2. Re:UI Border controls aimed at stopping tourism on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    As a U.S. citizen on recent international travel, I had few problems passing borders, outside of the fact that my backpack was searched and put through the bomb sniffer test by security people in both countries. But, given I had this in there, I was expecting some delay. It turned out to be much less of a problem than I thought it would be, and the Immigration folks in Boston were actually surprisingly cordial.

  3. Re:Titinians say the same thing about Earth on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course! Everything is made of Uranium on uranus, of Plutonium on Pluto, and Titanium on Titan. And Hafnium on the planet Haf, but that hasn't been discovered yet.

  4. Re:huh? on Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's off topic for certain, but your sig reminded me of something.

  5. Re:Cracking success? on Cracking Open the SharePoint Fortress · · Score: 1

    Having done a couple of large Sharepoint projects, I think it's an okay platform, and fairly flexible. Many of the complaints I see here aren't so much about Sharepoint per se, but more about lack of planning on the part of the people rolling out the product. If you don't have a plan, Sharepoint (or any other CMS, for that matter) can get out of hand pretty quickly. Sharepoint has a pretty fine grained permissions framework - If people are allowed to put content anywhere, it isn't the fault of the product.

    On the other hand, Sharepoint enforces it's L&F pretty tightly, and it can be a fair hassle to make it look like anything like Sharepoint, and it really, really, wants you to use IE for editing. And, speaking of editing, since almost everything is done in the browser, if you break a template badly enough that it can't be rendered, you're screwed. Not that I've done that or anything. ;-)

    And, finally, it's a long way from cheap, once you add up all of the various licenses you need for it.

  6. Re:That's how IT saved the world. on Reddit Javascript Exploit Spreading Virally · · Score: 1

    November-shmovember. They're only going to power the LHC up halfway. So, they'll only make half a solar-system-eating black hole. Nothing to see here, move along...

  7. Re:The perfect weed? on Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed · · Score: 1

    They can also eat conifer needles and branches, which I believe few other animals can, due to the resin content of the material. A neighbor has a big herd of goats, and all of his pine trees (indeed, all of his trees) are very neatly trimmed to the trunk at about the 1.5 meter level, which is about as tall as a goat standing on it's back legs. I agree with the parent poster - If a goat won't eat this stuff, it's gotta be pretty badass.

    But, if it burns hot, sounds like it might work well as a biofuel.

  8. Re:Not being an apologist... on Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App · · Score: 1

    And the movie for which it was the soundtrack is pretty mindblowing too.

  9. Re:The weight of those bits adds up! on Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China · · Score: 1

    Woah! Hot USB-on-USB action!... 8-O
    Ahem...Sorry to hear about your nasty lappie, man...

  10. Re:Paranoid on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Renraku says:

    Paranoia, yes, but on who's part?

    ...Now they're instating this to make sure that if someone else comes in with a funky rhythm...

    If someone comes in with a funky rhythm, the school should encourage them to listen to some James Brown or Parliament Funkadelic so that they can get that shit down right.

  11. Re:Old fashioned attitudes on The Rise of the Digital Nomad · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been working in this fashion for several years now. My company has employees here and there all over the US. And the buzzworthy social networking sites have nothing to do with communication, which is all done via IM and LiveMeeting inside the VPN, and phones. About once every other year I go to company HQ for a meeting, but all other times, I'm wherever - Generally at home, but sometimes at the local public libraries, or at bookstores and coffee shops. As long as the work gets done, my company doesn't care when you work or where.

  12. Re:So let me get this straight... on 40 Million Identities Up For Sale On the Web · · Score: 1

    What, no Cowboy Neal? You people are slipping!

  13. Re:The downside of high capacity batteries. on FOIA Documents Detail iPods Overheating, Catching Fire · · Score: 1

    If you carefully mix the right oxidizer into the candy bar you can get it to explode too but you'll never mix it as thoroughly.

    This assertion is just begging for a Mythbusters feature.

  14. Re:Not Necessarily News on Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town · · Score: 1

    Poisonous cows? It must be something they're eating that makes the meat bad. Now, venomous cows, that'd be something to see. Sort like running into a deer that eats frogs

  15. Re:Next time . . . on Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again · · Score: 1

    Obviously a "Post Of The Year" candidate. Two thumbs up!

  16. Re:Things like this... on Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption · · Score: 1

    It will "suck when Yellowstone blows" in the same way that it will suck if an asteroid a couple of hundred meters in diameter hits Earth. The Lost Creek eruption of ~630K years ago put about a half meter of so of ash over about 2/3rds of what is now the US. Reference and maps here

  17. Re:great comment on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 1

    In the original blog post, I stopped reading after: "...That mass gets destroyed in the singularity. So does the energy it is composed of..." Attempting to refute thermodynamics in a discussion is sort of a red flag to me, for some odd reason.

    But the Carlos Casteneda bit after that is sort of entertaining. Thanks for pointing that out.

  18. Re:All I want for X-mas! on So Who's Running Apple Now? · · Score: 1

    Man, I never seem to see stuff this good when I have mod points.

  19. Re:And the first hack will be... on Lexus To Start Spamming Car Buyers In Their Cars · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the 2nd hack would be a binaural recording of a police car, dopplering up in frequency as if it is overtaking the Lexus. Played at random intervals. At earsplitting volume.

  20. Re:zzz on Rover Exiting Crater To Continue Martian Marathon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And a tire life of ~400K miles (~644K km).

  21. Re:Okay.... on My Job Went To India · · Score: 1

    Yes, unfortunately, a fair number of HR people responsible for hiring can be replaced by "grep -iR [skill] resumes/". Sad, but true.

  22. Re:Wrong choice of lens? on Photographers Face Ejection Over Lenses · · Score: 1

    Excellent. Besides perhaps being a decent camera, the advert should probably mention that being Soviet-era tech, that camera can likely keep working after a couple of bullet hits, and is probably of a weight that would make it a decent weapon if you need to fight your way out of a bar (or an art museum).

  23. Re:Verified not to work on Net Shoppers Bullied Into "Verified By Visa" Program · · Score: 1

    "Order went through without a hitch. Another satisfied customer (of NoScript)," One little typo - There, fixed that for you.

  24. Re:Overreactions on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    "If your land isn't posted at each entry, you really should be a decent human and operate under the assumption that they don't know that they are trespassing."

    In the US State of Texas, the law is that if you cross over a fence or go through a gate onto private property without permission of the landowner, you are trespassing. No signage needed. I can't speak for other jurisdictions.

    This came directly from the local Sheriff's deputy, who I called in after my Texas ranch was vandalized. The portion vandalized was out of sight of the inhabited parts of the property, so I asked him if signage was required.

    BTW, I do carry a gun on the property on rare occasion - About once a year a venomous snake decides to mess with us or our dogs, and on autumn nights it's clear that the coyotes are calling from somewhere quite close to the horse pastures.

  25. Re:Nice to know on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. The last time I gave notice from a job with a secret clearance, I was busy at work up until about noon of my last day. And still got invited to some company parties after that too. Of course, this was pre-9/11.