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  1. Re:XHTML is a bad solution on Web Designer's Reference · · Score: 1

    Suppose your page had this here mystery tag in it: foo
    What should the browser do?


    Your argument makes no sense. if foo is a valid html tag, the DTD will tell the browser exactly what to do with it. and if Foo is NOT in the DTD, it has no business being on the page. Xml vs Html is irrelevant in this case.

  2. Re:crazy idea on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    This is a crazy idea I've had in my head lately. Would it be possible to build a gaming console that runs XboX 1, PS 1, PS 2, Gamecube, and even PC games? I know it sounds crazy, but listen.

    that's when I stopped listening ;)

  3. freenet on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 1

    fails to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

  4. Re:More about saving face (was:Dumbasses.....) on HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can · · Score: 3, Funny

    you happen to be two standard deviations or further away (in the higher direction as IQ is measured) then you are considered gifted, to my knowledge. A demonstration of what I could do was nessisary...

    If your IQ is 2 standard deviations from the norm, shouldn't you know how to spell "necessary". Then again, you didn't specify in what direction.

  5. Re:Revenge of the Sith on Ballmer and McNealy Smiling Together · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the big surprise is that McNealy is Microsoft's Sun.

  6. Re:So that's how they did it. on Human Blood For Electrical Power · · Score: 1

    No they aren't, that whole "humans only use 80% of their capacities" urban legend is bullshit

    I'm not so sure! How do you account for cases where the ventricles (fluid filled cavities of the brain) have enlarged to the point where they occupy more volume than the rest of the brain? There is an effect on intelligence, of course, but it's not linear, which suggests there's some unused capacity, thanks to neural plasticity.

    Same idea when the corpus callosum has been cut... it seems that each hemisphere can do an astonishing amount without the other half! So there is probably a lot of redundancy.

  7. Re:The Known Flaws. on Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered · · Score: 1

    And "do you really want to have your security issues discussed by the Linux developer community on a public bulletin board," queries Alistair Baker of Microsoft UK.

    That's from the MS Under Attack article a couple days ago. Ironic, no?

  8. I dont know what looked funnier on Howto - Flying Snakes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seeing snakes trying to fly, or seeing humans running *towards* them like their life depended on it.

  9. In Korea... on Exploring Superstrings in the Lab · · Score: 0

    In Korea only old people rapidly rotate a one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensation in an optical lattice to cause a quantized vortex to trap an ultracold cloud of fermionic atoms.

  10. Re:rendering flash? on I, Cringely On A Momentous Week · · Score: 1

    grid computing for rendering client side graphics? without rewriting flash? I don't need to imagine anything, you have enough imagination for the both of us.

  11. rendering flash? on I, Cringely On A Momentous Week · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Google adds power to its part of the Accelerator, you don't have to add power to your end, meaning your old PC can last longer. Part of that has to come from Google assuming a larger role over time, taking responsibility for rendering Flash, for example. And they'll do it.

    wtf is this guy talking about? How is google going to render my flash? what a dumbass.

  12. asia on Internet Explorer's Share Dips Below 90% · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is strong in Asia, with Internet Explorer commanding a share of 94 percent

    in korea, only old ppl use Firefox. apparently.

  13. do you really want on Microsoft Under Attack - Part 2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And "do you really want to have your security issues discussed by the Linux developer community on a public bulletin board," queries Alistair Baker of Microsoft UK.

    ummmm.... yes?

  14. Re:Its not such a big deal on Maui X-Stream: GPL Violations, Lies, and Damn Lies · · Score: 1

    but doesn't that mean I can take someone else's GPL'd code, use it in my own stuff, and then refuse to disclose the source for less than a million bucks? If it's a server side application, I'm not really interested in selling the code anyways, just using it.

  15. Re:There is a problem on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A good way to get kids interested in programming is to open up the possibility of them creating their OWN games. Even if the games are simple, doesn't matter. Suddenly they'll want to know how to get x,y, and z done in their code.

  16. Re:Its not such a big deal on Maui X-Stream: GPL Violations, Lies, and Damn Lies · · Score: 1

    Q: Does the GPL allow me to charge a fee for downloading the program from my site?
    Yes. You can charge any fee you wish for distributing a copy of the program. If you distribute binaries by download, you must provide "equivalent access" to download the source--therefore, the fee to download source may not be greater than the fee to download the binary.


    So it's ok if I charge a million bucks to download the binary, and same (equivalent access) for the source? Doesn't the source have to be made available at no charge?

  17. no known cases? on 2 Firefox Security Flaws Lead to Exploit Potential · · Score: 1

    "no known cases have yet emerged where an attacker took advantage of the public exploit code."

    it's so lame that this line gets trotted out whenever theres a new exploit, to set people's minds at ease. it's meaningless. it's just as true to say "no known cases have yet emerged where an attacker failed when using the exploit code."

  18. 4 x 4? on Artificial Retinas Bring Vision Back To The Blind · · Score: 5, Funny

    wow, and I thought 640 x 480 was low resolution.

  19. Re:Memo about admissions... on Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend · · Score: 1

    But feel good, at least we are not Harvard. There legicies are dumber than our legacies.

    But their spelling is probably better.

  20. Re:first dupe! on Scientists Weigh Smallest Mass Ever · · Score: 1

    first dupe!

  21. Not only.. on Positive Proof of Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    Not only is there water on mars, if you look closely, you'll see that there's more than one mars!
    Amazing.

  22. Re:Automobile, feh! on Wily Octopi Walk on Two Arms · · Score: 1

    hey buddy, your wife's art is kind of on topic!!

  23. link on Palm Founders Form AI Company · · Score: 1
  24. Re:A.L.I.C.E Makes for Interesting Conversation on Palm Founders Form AI Company · · Score: 1

    Alice is pretty primitive. The program maps inputs to outputs, there's no learning, and there's no semantic processing at all. There's no effort made to represent the real world conceptually, or even to represent the mental state of Alice. There's no deductions, no inferential reasoning.

    A more interesting effort to actually do semantic processing is here http://207.148.148.73:8080/demo/index.htm (yapper generator)

  25. very handy. *cough* on Linux Server Break-in Challenge · · Score: 2, Funny

    yes, very handy for those real-life applications where the server will be on the internet for more than 96 hours.