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  1. Re:I must be new here... on Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing · · Score: 1


    Just because a law wasn't broken implies that its not news?

    If the AG says "prosecute 10 democrats or your fired", clearly thats not ethical. If the public or the congress thinks the president should fire the AG, they can certainly voice that opinion.

    Get your head out of the damn sand....

  2. Re:What the hell? on To Verizon, "Unlimited" Means 5 GB · · Score: 1

    Its called caching.

  3. Explorer is.. on Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? · · Score: 1

    just a model.. Shhhh!

  4. Re:gecko 1.9 on Firefox 3 In Alpha · · Score: 1

    And should they be porting back to DOS too? At some point you need to make a break and I don't see this as a bad thing. The only OS that might still be in use would be ME and there are so many reasons not to be running ANY of those OSes, atleast on the MS side..

  5. Re:What do I think? on FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM · · Score: 1
    First they need to figure out if it's dead or alive, and whether it should be treated as both.
    Come on, DRM is not Quantum Mechanics!
  6. Re:The Perceived Threat of Science on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    So I should just blindly follow what other have told me is fact rather than try to come to my own conclusions? I envy thoose who find solace in organized religeon - its easier than the alternative. Ignorance (not that the faithful are ignorant, more are able to ignore the details of the questions that truly surround our reality) truly is bliss.

  7. Re:The Perceived Threat of Science on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    I don't think either is plausible at all, ergo they are equally plausible to me.

  8. Re:The Perceived Threat of Science on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    Its only a model. (Shhhh!)

  9. Re:The Perceived Threat of Science on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    Ever notice how everyone snickers at Scientologists? Ever notice how people get pissy if you snicker at Christanity? Really, there both just about as pluasible as each other. Aliens? Satan? Whats the different.

  10. Re:The Perceived Threat of Science on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    speak of the devil, my tagline!

  11. Re:Data Recovery Specialist on UK ISP PlusNet Accidentally Deletes 700GB of Email · · Score: 1

    I've never known a sysadmin who hasn't made this mistake. Just never have I heard of a situation that was more spectacular than this. I still giggle when I remember being a first-year jr admin and I pulled the plug on the Juniper with 2 OC3s and a DS3 rather than the little catalyst 2950.. 2 minutes of downtime for 20k web sites =)

  12. Be sure to leave something nice on Ted's Desk on Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! · · Score: 1

    http://www.sysadminday.com/Time.html ..Because Ted just loves a good mystery.

  13. Re:Now, I am but a lowly programmer on New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they realize this and also realize that they can just give out what they consider the real IP address instead of NXDOMAIN in order to "redirect" you to the correct addreess... There's no reason to overparse their tech speak in a "fluff article"

  14. Re:Unfortunately on The $899 Educational iMac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The point behind a good CS major is that you can program in any language - MS, Linux or whatever. Personally, my alma mater, UMASS Amherst had pretty much all Linux machines and all software was writeen in Java. MS has very little to do with my day to day other than a little desktop support for my end users and is completely unessential for a CS major.

  15. Re:It costs money? on Why Aren't Powergrids Underground? · · Score: 1

    omg, and there are trees on the side of the road. Imagine if we chop all of them down, people could just coast to a stop. Stop the trees/poles before they kill again!

  16. Re:Love of free software on Ask Håkon About CSS or...? · · Score: 1

    Hack Off.

  17. Re:Impossible to Read on Blizzard's 'Secret Sauce' · · Score: 2, Funny

    They also have some seriously borked fixed-height css crap. Short sighted frontpage-illiterate web design bafoons.

  18. Re:context: education on What Should One Know to be Truly Computer Literate? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've based my carrear around Linux/Open Source and I get tons of calls if I fish my resume out there.

  19. Re:A question... on What's the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails? · · Score: 1

    Templating is key and has been greatly imporved with rails 1.1. I'm acutally a rails developer for a living and I'm in the proccess of writing a contact management system with a fully interactive AJAX/JS interface which feels and reacts much like a normal desktop application yet not breaking the user experience of a web browser. Everything we written works great and works immediately on all browsers. Rails just makes everything easy!

  20. Re:My experience on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    High Schools make the same mistake every HR director makes - its not about the language;. Computer Languages are not like foreign languages. The "computer esperanto" is the theory, the boolean logic, the math, the architecture/design. Preping students with at least basic knowledge of these areas will allow them to succeed upon reaching further studies and inspire them to solve harder problems since they'll have the tools to do so.

  21. Re:Local affiliates, meet Dodo Bird on NPR & The Modern Media Distribution · · Score: 1
    (why should a person give to their local affiliate when they show they're listening to is produced by another affiliate?).


    Because your affilate pays the producing affilate hundreds of dollars per episode for the right to air that show! Morning Edition, according to the pledge-a-thons costs my local npr station $600/hr to broadcast.. On top of thoose costs, radio towers don't power themselves, microphones aren't free and you gotta heat the place...

    Quality radio costs money and its worth every penny.
  22. Re:Another great tutorial, but.... on Apple Publishes Ruby On Rails Tutorial · · Score: 1

    MySQL has a time type. Besides, why does this have to be so difficult. I spent an half an hour on this little conquest for something that I should find an answer for in the index. I was writing a script tracking portal, I really didnt' want datetime, I just wanted time. And I certainly didn't want datetime in my input...

  23. Re:Another great tutorial, but.... on Apple Publishes Ruby On Rails Tutorial · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong, the pragmatic progarmmer's book is pretty good, but its sparse in many parts.

  24. Another great tutorial, but.... on Apple Publishes Ruby On Rails Tutorial · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The authors of rails books need to stop writing tutorials and write some comprehensive documentation. Even the page is quite lacking.

    For example, suppose you have a time field, not a date field, no year, just time. And you want to create that element in your webform.

    If it were date, you'd use date_select, pass it the name of the object and the name of the field, and your done, you get a nice input box. Suppose you want the same thing for time, its still date select with a series of discard attributes, e.g.

    date_select('meeting','starttime', :discard_year => true)

    However, you as the person looking for the documentation for this are led on somewhat of a goose chase becuase your time input box information is not even close to what you'd expect (time_select perhaps?) and you should be looking under "date" for "time".

    (Incidentally, Rails 1.0 has a bug where it seems to ignore :discard_year so the whole exercise is quite fustrating when you do find the docs, but i can live with bugs that will be fixed)

  25. Hmm.. on RadioShack CEO Resigns · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Its been news for the last few days that he never gradudated college let alone had the two degrees he claimed. I'm suprised the article writeup only touched on this in italics in the bottom. One of the degrees he claimed wasn't even offered by the university that he claimed awarded it to him.