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  1. Re:Linux Today... on ESR Writes About O'Reilly and FSF Differences · · Score: 1

    Let us not forget that the only flerbage/free/Free (as in free/Free dom) Soft/Hard ware is GNU/Linux.

    Since when is *branding* important in a medium that claims to wants to win the good fight fairly.. by being better and more open. Its almost like any other subculture... as soon as it gets popular, it starts to lose sight of itself.

  2. Re:knoqueror? on Linux: Browser Wars · · Score: 2

    I've found that most netscape/ie incompatibility issues are based on optional vs. required tag closure, at least in the work I've done. Internet explorer lets designers get very very lazy, most tags where a closure isn't required logically (implied by the surrounding structure), simply assume that thats what you meant. Netscape is much more letter-of-the-law... if you omit a closing tag, the browser doesn't do the extra work for you.

    These errors are the most irritating, since the html doesn't *read* as invalid when you are writing it.

    I don't know if this makes IE a better/worse browser than its stricter counterparts, but from a developer's point of view, make it look good in netscape first... IE compatability will then follow.

    Its a neat contradiction that designing with MS's competitor in mind tricks their code into bending over backwards on your behalf.

  3. Re:Spellchecker on Linux: Browser Wars · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course not! If you scroll up to the first post, for instance, you can see that its ID # is clearly mispelled as well!

    Its silly to introduce a readability issue to crush trolls that were already below threshold 90% of the time, but what can you do...

  4. Re:General Agreement? on New Moon Formation Model · · Score: 1

    How have they measured the amount of iron in the moon's core? I don't rememeber any seismic experiments of that nature being mentioned in any moonwalking account...

  5. Re:My problem with this. on On The Costs of Full Security Disclosure · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft has a honeypot farm somewhere, running their newest patched versions of everything. Static IP's with default installs should turn up a lot of interesting things when you're looking at the logs...

  6. God Demands Mirror Back, Almighty Peeved on Planetary System Similar to Sol Discovered · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    In an incident unknown since the early 60's, Yhwh, a diety in good standing, has demanded that Earthbound scientists "return my friggen mirror". Apparently his shaving problems, as well as those of his son during his brief stint in the middle east, all stem from the inability to see one's own reflection probably.

    Science claims ignorance, swearing that it was like that when we got here, all we did was find it. The classic battle between faith and reason is expected to reach yet other heights later this week, when God discovers what we have done with His slippers.

  7. Wondering on Dorm Storm? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does the network topology at these places change enough between May and September that it is *really* a problem of troubleshooting the network all over again? I can certainly understand installing all the cards and such for the incoming students (at ridiculous fees, of course), but aren't most campus networks already hardened against this kind of abuse?

    I'm suspicious, I think you might just be feeling a little down, watching your fat summer pipe go down the tubes again and all. :)

  8. Re:In related news on HDCP Encryption Cracked, Details Unreleased Due To DMCA · · Score: 1

    If you came up with that line, its absolute genius, I love it. Mind if I repeat it elsewhere? ( I didn't see any encryption, therefore I *assume* that its public domain, thats the natural corollary to the DMCA, right?)

  9. Re:One of the great features of Google on Searching For Google's Successor · · Score: 1

    Nice how google has so much nudity cached... second picture in the third row of that search is topless. Heh.

  10. Press kit? on ATi Radeon 8500 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, I wish my duties included minor plagarism... after all, why write reviews when you can have them handed down from above?

  11. Re:Won't office working kill Linux? on Office-Worker Linux: It's Here and It Works · · Score: 1

    "Solitare" that magic phrase is all you need, ask anyone who has had win 3.1 or later in the workplace.

  12. Welcome to the Post-Internet Age on Rhythms Flatlines · · Score: 2

    No worries, one less company --> more customers for the surviving companies, and more chances of them becoming and remaining solvent. If this was the *last* dsl/cable company to fall, then maybe we'd have a problem.. anyone know roughly home many survivors there are?

    (Cheerfully ignoring concepts like monopoly and trust in my definition of problem)

  13. Re:Do we want total freedom? on Geography, Laws, and the Internet · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't surprise me in the least when Microsoft someday starts 'depreciating' .pl files in URLs in favor of .asp. Why should they pander to their competitors by allowing easy interoptability? Users who *want* support for .pl can download a plugin...

  14. Re:China is firewalled on Geography, Laws, and the Internet · · Score: 1

    Perhaps those "Happy Chopsticks #1" aren't happy after all!

  15. Re:Dragonball Foxed? No, stupid developers on Slashback: Mods, Books, Checkmate · · Score: 1

    I don't think they will get you for naming yourself after their characters. What you need, my friend, is a buck naked, shaved bald, pregnant Bulma skin.

  16. The full story arc: on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The Phantom Menace" "The Attack of the Clones" "My Wookie and Me" "A New Hope" "The Empire Strikes Back" "Return of the Jedi"

  17. Re:The feds must be really ptroud... on Sklyarov Released On $50,000 Bail · · Score: 1

    I can't read that link, I don't have the software on this machine necessary to decrypt that pdf.

  18. Re:Doing your job on Sklyarov Released On $50,000 Bail · · Score: 1

    They'll make allowances if you've ever killed your sister for letting a strange man see her ankle. They aren't monsters, man!

    (AC? Me? No! I'm a coward <b>with</b> a pseudonym!)

  19. Re:B.S. on Antitrust Investigation Into Music Companies' Online Efforts · · Score: 1

    $480,000,000, divided by 3 years... $160,000,000. Assuming that the population of the united states is 250,000,000, and that around half of us bought a *single* cd last year... $1.28 a person. Not too bad, especially when you divide that among multiple cd's, or notice that the prices varies much more than that $1.28 depending on where you buy them... In an ideal world, to have competition between these companies, you'd have artists releasing albums put out by more than one publisher...

  20. Re:What's the point? on Antitrust Investigation Into Music Companies' Online Efforts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Absolutely. They plan has always been to back *both* candidates with as much money as you can possibly get away with (I'm sure the law will cut into you before you actually give enough money to hurt your profits), then it doesn't matter who wins the election.

    As evidenced by the recent "tie", its these corporate votes that really count, and they are always balanced. :)

  21. Re:Where's the really popular ones? on Star Wars Toys: Concept Drawings and Prototypes · · Score: 1

    For a realistic comeback to that, check out what the kid from the Richard Pryor flick "The Toy" has been up to in recent years. In all honestly, give l'il Vader a break... we have the comfort of knowing that his punk ass will be dropped into lava and reduced to half a torso kept alive by a resperator and a robotic suit. Its only a matter of time.

  22. Mirror? on Star Wars Toys: Concept Drawings and Prototypes · · Score: 1

    Is this site mirrored anywhere? I can get the horrible, teasing text of the lists to come up just fine, but haven't found a single working picture in all my spelunking...

  23. Re:Modern Browsers.... on Pop Up Advertising Continues to Suck · · Score: 1

    In the upper right corner of both IE and the various forms of netscape there is a small "X". Click this and viola!

  24. Re:Wrong Star Wars... on Star Wars Toys: Concept Drawings and Prototypes · · Score: 1

    Its only a matter of time. And with the current advances in technology, we are bound to have bigger, better "special effects", at the expense of diploma^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hstory. Odd that the characters seem a bit... recycled too.

  25. Re:the other side on Slashback: DCS 1000, Dmitry, Lizardry · · Score: 1

    They'll just plant cocaine on your or something, then you're a 'bad guy' no matter what your nationality is. Imagine it: China holding innocent american prisoner without trial!
    As compared to: China holding innocent american narcotics dealer prisoner without trial!