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  1. Re:A worm that deletes everything. on Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found · · Score: 1

    Since you claim to know, what did ever happen to them all. I await your answer...

  2. Re:Compelling reason is: don't get sued on CT High Court Rules GIS Data Can Be Kept Secret [UPDATED] · · Score: 1
    Actually, I posted a fact. An opinion can't be proven wrong. I don't live in the US anymore. It used to be true, anyway.

    My belief was based on the 11th Ammendment to the US Const., but it turns out that "The immunity of a State from suit is a privilege which it may waive at its pleasure" and "Mitigation of the wrongs possible when the State is immune from suit has been achieved under the doctrine that sovereign immunity, either of the States or of the Federal Government, does not ordinarily prevent a suit against an official to restrain him from commission of a wrong, even though the government is thereby restrained."

    and from http://www.greatsource.com/amgov/almanac/documents /supreme/1999_avm_1.html:
    Although the FLSA purports to authorize private actions against States in their own courts, the trial court dismissed the suit on the ground of sovereign immunity. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed ... The States' immunity from private suit in their own courts is beyond congressional power to abrogate by Article I legislation.
    Also see Justices Give the States Immunity From Suits by Disabled Workers

    It appears that I was wrong, but you may judge from my evidence how entirely so I am.
  3. Re:Compelling reason is: don't get sued on CT High Court Rules GIS Data Can Be Kept Secret [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    Fine, but the statement was that people would be lining up to sue the government, so I responded with a fact.

  4. Re:A bit naive if you ask me on CT High Court Rules GIS Data Can Be Kept Secret [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    And that is the exact reason that there's a fourth ammendment which guarantees the right to a firearm. If the governemnt is self-regulating, then what happens when it gets really out of hand?

  5. Re:Compelling reason is: don't get sued on CT High Court Rules GIS Data Can Be Kept Secret [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    The government is not suable, at least not for damages that an ambulance chaser would want...

  6. Re:Turbo Tax, AGAIN on Tax Time Again: Any Linux Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Wow! So you did something useful with all that dotCom money, eh? Kudos to you. I bet a lot of the other Slashies that spent all their money on Jags and BMWs wish that they had invested in their futures, like you did.

  7. Re:Includes? on Open Source Alternatives to Dreamweaver Templating · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey Mark, I'm really surprised that you didn't explore something like Smarty or PEAR templates. Put it on a development machine with rewrite, then when you're done, just copy the whole tree to the real server, and BAM, static site that is as easy to update as a dynamic one.

    Dan

  8. Re:There's a missing fifth fundamental freedom on Being Free is Hard to Do · · Score: 1

    That would be
    (xor sell said improvements to the public for profit)

  9. Re:Unsurprisingly Enough on Being Free is Hard to Do · · Score: 1

    Yes, and since we're talking about Photoshop vs. Gimp, I think that MDI has been ruled one of those "things not to do." Everybody's used to it by now, though, so it's better for them. Maybe personal taste really is important...?

  10. Re:What, no remote exploit?!? on Local Root Exploit in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 · · Score: 1

    Hey, it still beat my US$1000 Model I with 4K RAM. The Vic had color, too.

  11. Re:OT - disapproval is not a phobia on eGenesis to Develop New MMO with Orson Scott Card · · Score: 1

    Actually, I often agree with a person's idea, but disagree with them because they arrived at their opinion fallaciously.

  12. Re:I've got a better title for Episode III: on Revenge of the Sith Pics Leaked · · Score: 1

    If your childhood didn't melt with episode VI, then you were either still a child, or didn't watch it carefully.

  13. Re:That's not just unix. :P on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1
    OK, I love Debian, but how about this one you forgot:

    Go into the channel, state that you are having trouble with sound on a new install of unstable on ix86, get told to give some useful information, instead of that crap, spend ten minutes giving various info only to find out that sound was currently broken in Sid. "You're using Sid?" "Why yes, and I told you that" "You didn't say that. When did you say that?" "My first sentence, which apparently you didn't read."
    #Debian is not the bastion of decency that you make it out to be.
    I love the distro, though...

  14. Re:Not unpredictable, but probably unavoidable. on Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia · · Score: 1

    My girl and I saw this news earlier today and heard that Phuket got plastered and that many people were missing. I told her a story about how, when I was in HS in Hawaii about twenty years ago, there was a giant earthquake in Alaska, and I was kept at school until about 11:00pm because my house was in the zone that could've been destroyed, about three blocks from the beach. Scary.

    I am waiting to hear the final death toll on this. Should be huge...

  15. Re:I have a dream... on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    I always preferred the military time/date format:
    200412220221 It's just like chuna fish -- no bones!

  16. Re:Some parallels... on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The imperial system offers great approximation and visualization advantages. It's based on twos and threes.

    A cup is about what you drink your coffee in

    Two cups is a pint

    Two pints are a quart

    A foot is about that long

    divide a foot in half, and you've got six inches

    Most people can fairly accurately divide into three parts. That comes to about two inches.

    An inch is half that.

    A yard is three feet, which you can visualize, or you can rough from your shoulder to your hand. The imperial system came from a time when close enough was good enough, and it still works well in those situations. Unfortunately, like analogs clocks and rounding to the nearest quarter hour, those days are all gone now.

  17. Re:Some parallels... on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    I'm an American living abroad. A Canadian that I work with insulted the US for still stupidly using degreesF instead of the proper degreesC. Two days later, when I told her my weight in kilos, she insisted that I tell her in pounds, because she didn't understand kilos.

    My point? It's not only the US holding onto the old system.

  18. Re:Compatibility on OpenOffice 2.0 Preview Release · · Score: 1

    I have solved this problem by making my resume and all necessary documents available online. Simply supplying a link in an email to the necessary pages assures that everyone who needs to will be able to read them. Haven't had a complaint yet...

    Then, they can copy / paste into whatever format they use internally.

  19. Re:An Access-like program? on OpenOffice 2.0 Preview Release · · Score: 1

    Well, apparently 2.0 includes HSQL, so that should satisfy you.

  20. Re:Computers and education on Setting up a High-Tech Language School? · · Score: 1

    Let me preface this by saying that I have been a foreign language learner for most of my life, with three non-western ones under my belt. I have never studied Japanese, but I have done Mandarin, Thai, and Lao, and am now working on Korean, which shares many similarities to Japanese. I also spent a lot of time with other students who were studying Japanese (go A Co!).

    Anyway, I disagree that computers are useless in language teaching. They are good at what computers do well, being patient. Computers make great tools to learn non-latin alphabets, drilling vocabulary, and, with the right software, improving pronunciation.

    About two years ago, I put a self-learning language center together for a University, and it was quite a success.

  21. Thailand is Secure on Linux Asia 2005 Conference and Expo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My brother-in-law just asked my wife to have me install Linux for him the next time that I'm in Thailand, because he's tired of Windows and wants something modern. You see, it seems that the Prime Minister (who owns a telecom and is the richest man in Thailand) uses Linux and is recommending it.
    I'm pretty sure that he just wants to keep his porn surfing from the eyes of his daughter...

  22. Re:Real Window Managers on Preview of KDE 3.4 · · Score: 1

    "You all" is a little general... I think that this is stupid default behaviour. Nautilus should just start in "browse home directory" mode and allow --desktop. I don't think that a newbie will be running Enlightenment, like the GP, so it's not a problem. In Gnome, it all just works perfectly.

  23. Re:Wrong on Preview of KDE 3.4 · · Score: 1

    But there's a new QT port of Moz, right? Due out soon, I hear

  24. Re:Konqueror + Gecko? on Preview of KDE 3.4 · · Score: 1

    kdebindings offers a dialog to choose (or did some time ago). I can't give more details now, because I don't have KDE installed currently. I switched to Gnome when Thai input and readability became important to me.
    I first did it after being told it was possible a couple years ago, right here on Slashdot. This comes up almost every KDE discussion, and I have seen a comment similar to mine in almost as many cases. I'm really quite tired of the question...

  25. Re:Does it have a proper exchange handler on Preview of KDE 3.4 · · Score: 1

    I use Debian, not Suse, but I think that you're talking about the kontact-plugins and the setup app for it. It works fairly well against eGroupware for me, but I've never tried Groupwise. I suspect all this fuctionality will be better than in 3.3, but the new stuff will probably not be complete and be buggy, because that's just the way it always is.