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  1. Re:Send PTC an email on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 1

    Or, one could assume that that large majority don't care. I'd probably peg this more as the cause.

    Unfortunately, most people have lives and activities that prevent them from weighing in, or even forming an adequate opinion, on many matters "pressing" to other people.

  2. Re:How about an email program that does this on Lycos Pulls Vigilante Anti-spam Campaign · · Score: 1

    Who says the spam needs to be used to directly drive sales?

  3. The math. on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    They're much bigger than you. Therefore, on average, what's good for them is good for both of you, and therefore good for you as well.

  4. Re:No real comparison done here... on CBS Sees no Journalism in Blogs · · Score: 1

    Which license?

  5. Re:Bad CPanel Design Choice on Control Panels for Web Hosting? · · Score: 1

    Let's write an HTTP daemon in Perl and use it to serve up the user portion of the control panel instead of using Apache

    Having written that daemon, let's run it on port 2086, again ease of use for the customers


    Actually, as an end-user of CPanel, I've found this quite useful in that I can crawl in and check the statuses of my site, even when Apache bombs out.

  6. Re:Wrong on How to Get Music Off Your iPod · · Score: 1

    See: Sarcasm
    Actually, the phrase works.

  7. Re:Interactions? on Battery-powered Cigarettes? · · Score: 1

    upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time

    Nor a cig, at the advice of your doctor.

  8. Re:Interactions? on Battery-powered Cigarettes? · · Score: 1

    If a smoker can't smoke because the company can't sell them cigarettes... that's controlling the smoker. If you have the mental ability to procure cigarettes, then you undoubtably have the ability and foreknowledge to make the concious decision to smoke.

  9. Re:Typo in article headline on What's Going On in Canada? · · Score: 1

    Clarification: Granted, some of these exceptions may not apply to this instance (I haven't seen the transcripts), but people should have a right to argue.

    This was misworded.

    I'm not saying to allow speech with these exceptions, but expressive speech, if it is free of these elements, should be allowed.

  10. Re:Typo in article headline on What's Going On in Canada? · · Score: 1

    Propaganda, as long as it is not untruthfully libelous, and doesn't yell fire in a crowded theatre, should be allowed. Don't like it? Come up with better propaganda! Granted, some of these exceptions may not apply to this instance (I haven't seen the transcripts), but people should have a right to argue.

    As for "possible"s, anything from a fiery speech to a dog-food commercial could be used as a "go code", provided that the proper pre-planning is done.

  11. Re:go Zilla on Godless Godzilla and Godzilla at 50 · · Score: 1

    Well, in that instance it would be. Two sentences, or possibly a colon in place of the comma. A semicolon might work, although I'm not sure on that one.

  12. Re:If Hannu H. Kari dosn't work for... on Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years · · Score: 1

    So, like ICQ... only not lame. Trillian-on-ICQ?

  13. Re:Very true on The War Of The Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    And oh, if you want world peace, why don't you stop bombing people who have never been a threat to you?

    Recursive comment there... should've at least thrown a warning.

  14. Sorry, but on Starting A Digital Art Program With Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm going to have to agree with many of the above posters. The area of graphic arts/design is very "industry-standard" based. If you're looking to teach people that will go out into the digital art world, you'll probably need to suck it up and go for the same old package of commercial sofrware, or you'll be doing your students a disservice.

    To agree with another poster, don't base your curriculum around the software, especially with software that isn't big already in the design world. The fundamentals can, and should, be learned with good ol' pencil-and-paper sketching. Then, once the thought process is done on paper, teach "Now you have your idea, how do you make it happen with x software?"

    That said, I think people going into 3D should be forced to scratch out at least a few scenes in POV-RAY*... but then again I'm just a masochistic bastard!

    * May not be FOSS... they have their own license, IIRC, and I really don't care enough to look it up just to qualify my postscript.

  15. Re:Dodgy TV software? on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meanwhile... IT'S A FREAKING TELEVISION! "TV" and "crash" should not be sharing the same sentence.

  16. Re:In related news... on "Phishing" Attacks to Increase · · Score: 1

    As long as the term never applies to music (a la Apple Computer versus Apple Corps), I'd imagine it's all right. Add to that the fact that there isn't any commerce being done under the "phishing" name.

  17. Re:That is useful for sure, HOWEVER... on "Phishing" Attacks to Increase · · Score: 1

    I also recall hearing about people using Unicode domain names with characters in other sets that were different characters, but had the exact same glyph.

    Don't recall where, tho'.

  18. Re:Movies while working are newsworthy & produ on A Dual Monitor Experiment · · Score: 1

    :: drools ::

  19. Re:Movies while working are newsworthy & produ on A Dual Monitor Experiment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He talks a little bit about the cost of having a dual monitor setup. Yeah, CRTs are cheap and LCDs are costing less and less but I'm mostly concerned with the amount of electricity that two monitors use up when they are both fired up and running constantly.

    If you do video, image, or web editing, it can be very useful to have a second monitor (for option pallettes or previewing, or browsing documentation on the second screen). If you're worried about power consumption, why not just turn off the supplementary monitor when you're not using it?

    I'm personally a fan of dual-heading. I use a POS 15" monitor along with my (somewhat less POS) 17" at home, which usually just has Moz eternally open in it to preview the page I'm working on, or to look stuff up.

  20. Re:For those fellow Maya fans ... on Can't Draw? You Need The Inkulator 9000. · · Score: 1

    Once you use it for a significant amount of time it will reveal itself to actually be a very well designed interface.

    Perhaps, but after using it for 10 or 20 minutes, I find it to be headachingly obtuse. Unfortunately, familiarity and standardization is also part of a good interface design.

  21. Re:My experience on OpenOffice.org Is 4 Today · · Score: 1

    After all, the situation is completely hopeless and there's nothing that can possibly ever be done about it...

    Fix the import filters?

  22. Re:Follow the money on Political Cybersquatting Or Free Speech? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    o Van Hollen's failing grade on taxes
    o Van Hollen's failure to support our troops
    o Van Hollen hurts small business
    o Van Hollen refuses to debate

    Okay, a little sense here. Anyone who can't tell that this site, with headers like this, isn't a pro-Van Hollen site... should they really even be voting? (That box marked "Pitch In!"... that's the ballot box... really!)

    I could understand it being called deceptive if it were written in the first-person "I'm Chris Van Hollen, and I eat children! Vote for me!" But this is written from a third-person perspective ABOUT the candidate.

    As for using the domain name, I say "no foul", as long as Floyd originally registered it first. I'd have more of a problem if the domain were sniped after its expiration (misleading from what once WAS an actual campaign site), but Van Hollen just failed to stake his claim.

    Now, as for an amateurish smear-site with a color-scheme close to (but not quite) as bad as it.slashdot.org, featuring a chicken costume (?!?) and a name-calling "nyeah-nyeah!" graphic... I'd be more inclined to vote for the other guy, at first glance.

  23. Re:Wrong Response on UCSD Vs. Free Speech, Round 2 · · Score: 1

    s/murder/kill/g probably.

  24. Re:Whom the gods would destroy on Just BASIC 1.0 Beta 2 Released · · Score: 1

    Caps lock?

  25. Re:You couldn't make this up! on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 1

    Efficient vigilante justice!