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  1. Duh. on Blackout Was Good News, For Pollution · · Score: 1

    If most if not all things that have biproducts that don't help the enivornment, and maybe not hurt it to some degree, gets turned off.. how can you do nothing but help the environment at best?

  2. Re:Time to get JavaScript off your site on Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit · · Score: 1
    It's not MY IDEA. It's the mentality of biz people. They want things in certain ways and that's how it works out. Get it through your head. If they pay me money because they want a JS related technology, it's not my say to tell them no, 'cause THEN they would fire me.


    They see it as an enhancement, thus they request it, thus they want it. Because they see it, whether it is valid or not, to get customers in. They'll see people enabling JS just to buy products and a tiny percent of people discarded. If you can't come to terms with this, then you really are beyond help.

  3. Re:Time to get JavaScript off your site on Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit · · Score: 1

    I'm just a programmer. I'm telling you the reasoning of many biz people. Not all, but many. So go fire someone else.

  4. Re:Time to get JavaScript off your site on Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit · · Score: 1
    2-3 years ago, it was 10%.. now it's 8%.


    And anyone selling something or in need of something will more likely turn JS on. I've done it before. I had to turn off my popup blocker to complete a transaction.

  5. Re:Time to get JavaScript off your site on Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it can't, you're losing customers.


    You have to measure the customers you get through faster, or better, vs the ones you lose. Considering most people.. and most meaning everyone minus a tiny percentage.. have js enabled, either 'cause they are clueless or understand it, you aren't losing much.
  6. Re:javascript on Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they are used in tracking. That's why you can easily use moz's feature of asking once about a cookie-issuing-server and allow/deny that crap.

  7. Re:I love it on Heat Insulators for Laptops · · Score: 1
    What if you accidentally put it up your nose instead of in your mouth? Huh? What then? Chaos!


    If you are driving and do it, yeah. ;)
  8. Re:Zero the data on Passwords Can Sit on Hard Disks for Years · · Score: 1
    In java, strings are immutable. So assigning it out to something else is the best you can do.


    Just a side note. More reason to keep it in a char[] or a StringBuffer.

  9. Re:And to celebrate on A New Look For Firefox · · Score: 1

    You should install the plugin, "firesomething" then. It changes the name, even in the referer (not the entire referer) of the browser.

  10. Re:My shift key!! on GoboLinux Compile -- A Scalable Portage? · · Score: 1

    Lazy says the one who attempts to be completely correct in his/her post who used mostly correct punctuation and proper use of capital letters. Irony, thy name is vijaya chandra. Now that's hard to type.

  11. Re:I do this now on Using a Password One Doesn't Consciously Remember · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only problem with this is that it takes so long to remember such a password, so as soon as you learn it you can't change it often.


    You learned it because you practiced it in a real life setting.


    I'm sure if you typed it 100 times in a row, your muscle memory would kick in and push it to long term memory.

  12. Neo Geo on Sega To Launch New High-End Arcade System? · · Score: 1

    Can we also call it the neo geo? :)

  13. Re:Oy on Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene · · Score: 5, Funny
    Do they just assume we're not going to read the article...


    You're new here, aren't you? ;)
  14. Foolish on JBoss's Fleury Abjures Astroturfing · · Score: 1

    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

  15. Re:Second Slashdotting--Drupal on Social Engineering in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    Advising so gives the illusion that it's a better architecture. No one said that it's supposed to be this way for everyone.

  16. Re:Stupid Catch Phrases on Social Engineering in the Workplace · · Score: 1
    Yeah, and instead of reverse engineering, let's call it "taking it appart and figuring it out to replicate it" or, instead of "chemical engineering", call it "making a chemical process work in a production environment". Better yet, instead of calling me sporty, call me by my name, address and dob just so we dont' be fancy about it.


    Or let's just call "social engineering" what it is, 'cause it's using social skills to manipulate people to doing certain things, since that's what it is, and it's a hell of a lot shorter.

  17. Re:Second Slashdotting--Drupal on Social Engineering in the Workplace · · Score: 2, Interesting
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    Since your database should be on the same server as your web server ...


    From the site. Smart in some ways, dumbass in others. Who the hell puts their database ON their webserver? Yeah, it may be a bit faster in some ways, but insecure and non-scalable in most others.
  18. 3 words on Tough Love - Can A Game Be Too Hard? · · Score: 1

    Ghosts and Ghouls.

  19. Re:Code folding is: on Eclipse Finally Gets Code Folding · · Score: 1

    Real programmers use the tools they like. I like code folding because it forces me to see everything that's going on in the class, when I'm say, modifying two functions.

  20. Re:Worthless Study on MIT Studies Software Development Processes · · Score: 1

    So you want a product developed to some specific documentation. Sounds like a specification to me.

  21. Re:Web, schmeb on MySQL and Perl for the Web · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it requires your developers to nto be total noobs.

  22. Re:Web, schmeb on MySQL and Perl for the Web · · Score: 4, Informative
    No. perl is not a regexp manip language. The regular expression stuff is a subset of it, just like the data structures and what not.


    Saying that perl had to be addapted to web development is just wrong. perl also, is not slower than php. Perl is a VERY modular language. You can do traditional CGI programming in it, just like php. There are many templating options as well as mod_perl, which more resembles java servlets than it does php.


    Also, stating that it's clearer means nothing. At least with DBI, i know how to connect to any database. With php, there's a seperate function to open a connection to the database, per vendor. Their function names are quite conveluded, switching orders of word types, i.e. noun_verb vs verb_noun.


    PHP is built for the web first, and is a programming language second.

  23. Tetsuo! on Stretch Announces Chip That Rewires Itself On The Fly · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    KANEDA!

  24. Re:wait on NetBSD Trademark Application Completed · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows haters that think its unchanged since the broken Windows 95 systems they last used.


    I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad nues but... ;)
  25. Re:No on Does A Good Game Make A Good Movie Idea? · · Score: 1

    No.. they took 4 heroes, and a bunch of enemies, and it was like a super power standoff. Cripes, who writes this crap?