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  1. Re:bad Idea on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean the Ewok shows or the Christmas special?

  2. Here is somthing funny on Mono: A Developer's Handbook · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can run ASP.NET on Linux using Mono, but you cant run it on Windows. You would think there would be a big push to get in working under Apache on Windows since this woulod be the perfect bridge to moving your site to Linux.

  3. Where are the screenshots? on Interview with Tom Lord of Arch Revision System · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously, the last thing I want is another commandline POS where I have to remerber a ton of commands and switches. Does it integrate with the OS?

  4. Stupid on Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you build any house less than 2000 SQ. FT. these days you wouldn't find a buyer. This is where the greenies allways miss the mark. Build the same house with modern amentities (including elbow room) and you may get someone to listen.

    Hell, just publish easy steps for the new homebuilder and people will listen. I'm 2/3 the way into building a new house. Months ago I tried to have Slashdot run a "Ask Slashdot" on this very issue. It was rejected , of course.

    Here is what I actually did: thermal barrier in the attic, manifold water system, insulated all interior walls, install only one waterheater, cathedral ceilings, return-air ductign in all major rooms and high SEER air conditioning system. Wish I could have found other (affordable) ways to save energy.

  5. Not Even Close on Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future · · Score: 1

    I don't see Image search or Froogle. Plus you can't configure it very well.

  6. Crap on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    ignore his military's and CIA's and other nation's intelligence reports


    Well, I read many of the same reports Bush did and I came to the same conclusions. Even Clinton knew somthing had to be done.

  7. Bad Cops on Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside The Library · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please remember the percentage of bad cops is proportionate to the percentage of bad citizens- perhaps a little higher. With little pay and very little respect from the general public, the only incentive beyond pure altruism I can see for becoming a cop is the power trip.

  8. Bzzzzt! Wrong answer: on Florida Ruling May Lead To E-voting Paper Trail · · Score: 1
    From CNN

    "The U.S. is obliged to invite us, as all OSCE countries should," spokeswoman Urdur Gunnarsdottir said. "It's not legally binding, but it's a political commitment. They signed a document 10 years ago to ask OSCE to observe elections."


    ""OSCE-participating [nations] agreed in 1990 to observe elections in one another's countries. The OSCE routinely monitors elections within its 55-state membership, including Europe, Eurasia, Canada and the United States," a State Department spokesman said.

    "


    Of course, injecting political slander into the need to audit the voting process doesn't help.

  9. Re:ars technica usb review on Portable Storage? · · Score: 1

    My Cruzer lasted ONE day. A customer easily bent the USB connector.

  10. Demo Video on Gametrak Controller Wins Award · · Score: 2, Informative
  11. Alternate Picture on Gametrak Controller Wins Award · · Score: 1
  12. Acting Suspiciously on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    I guessed the ID checkpoint was an opportunity for someone to do a basic check for people acting suspiciously. Most people really do lie poorly. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were flagged for further searches, the inspectors were just too stupid to recognize the pattern.

    Personally I'd rather expend the effort preventing flights or other forms of travel from countries known for exporting or growing terrorists. Put it in the air and we'll ground it. Put it in the water and we'll sink it till you start policing your own people and shut down schools preaching hate.

  13. Free? on Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped · · Score: 1

    Utilities use public land, resources and in other ways burden the taxpayer. Maybe the government shouldn't have to pay.

  14. Patent Wars on City of Munich Freezes Its Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Easy fix. OS developers grant control of their patents to a central repository like the EFF, Then we use the bank of patents to threaten countersuits.

  15. If you do....Naming conventions on Stored Procedures - Good or Bad? · · Score: 1

    I only have one compmaint about usign stored procedures. Fro ma programmign prespective if can be rather difficult to debug queries when you add this extra layer between you and the underlying query. I highly recommend you decide on an elaborate naming scheme before you begin. It can be very difficult to 1) Look at a stored procedure and identify the code that is using it. 2) Find a stored procedure in your DB managment tool if you have a buttload of stored procedures. The more well defined the naming scheme the easier it can be to find your stored procedures.

    I would recommend some sore of pattern like [Program Module]-[Verb (Select/Delete/Update)]-[Noun]... or somthign along those lines. Sorting out a SP with a name like "USER_ADMIN-SELECT-USER-BY-USER_ID" is much easier to find than "Get-User" or "SelectUser".

  16. Help is on the way.... on Are You Annoying? · · Score: 1

    I keep getting these offers for penis enlargements in my email that I could forward to you?

  17. Too Bad on Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Half of them think we are Evil

  18. Rooting for Death on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 2, Funny

    By the end of that scen I was mentally screaming for her to die.

  19. Won't stop a thing! on Custom DVDs & Players For Academy Members · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the device is capable of outputting a standard video sognal for display on a monitor, encrypting the disc is almost pointless. The correlation between video quality and bootlegging worthiness is small. People in third world countries routinely rent movies filmed with handheld cameras- audience noise, mysterious shadows and crappy acoustics, etc.

  20. VBscript/WScript to the rescue! on NewsForge Reviews Excel Clone for Linux · · Score: 1
    You can easily automate Excel to convert tons of Excel spreadsheets to any format you want (HTM,CSV,DBF, etc) with VBScript/WScript. The link below will take you to a file I wrote for converting workbooks on the fly to HTML but I also included the XL constants for other formats.

    Simply save this file to your windows drive that contains the spreadsheets, rename to XLS2HTM.vbs and run. Edit the file to Change the SaveAs constant and the file extension you want and away you go. To get better results converting Excel or Word files to HTML also use HTMLTidy (tidy.exe) along with this config script

    XLS2HTM.vbs.txt

  21. Strange on Linux Journal On Linux's Adoption In U.S. Courts · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isnlt that the branch we don't get to vote the members into?

  22. Use Visio on Building a Better Office · · Score: 1

    A really good tool for laying out office spaces is Visio 2003. I've used it to design my office as well as draft the plan for a house I'm building and plan the kitchen cabinets in the kkitchen. Wonderful product for the price. And I use it for software development (UML). Unfortunatly it is a MS product.

  23. No Cubes, Lots of Windows on Building a Better Office · · Score: 4, Informative

    I once toured a nify building in Melbourne Florida owned by Encso. Each floor had a ring of offices around the outside and a communal lab in the center. Everyone had plenty of windows and they a shared area to work together in.

  24. They Already Give Back on Google Plans to Reveal Some of its Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriuosly folks, they probaly make me 30% more effective because I can find the information I need more quickly than anyplace else.

  25. Freaking brilliant on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Mod this guy to the moon.