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  1. Re:first post on Mozilla Hits Back at Browser Security Claim · · Score: 1

    Here's one bug that hasn't been fixed for a long time. No, it's not a security bug, but EVERY bug is a security problem. Anytime you can make something do what it's not supposed to do, it's a security problem:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74331

    Does this mean Mozilla Firefox is less secure? No. I don't get what you people are talking about. More security fixes doesn't mean less secure. It means more secure. What are you thinking? Where is your logic? Come on. Thing about it seriously for a few minutes and you'll understend.

  2. Re:Proper citations on Google Launches Scholar Beta · · Score: 1
    And when is scholar.google.com going to support exporting to BibTeX-style citations?

    roffe, please do NOT bang or tap on the glass. You will disturb the MS-Word-using animals.

  3. Re:Google is becoming THE INTERNET! on Google Launches Scholar Beta · · Score: 1

    Bah! Google Scholar doesn't even turn up any results for retro encabulator. Now, that's lame. You can't call them "the internet" if their scholarly search doesn't turn up any results for this brilliant piece of research!

  4. Re:Dvorak is very good on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 1

    I agree. I switched in 2002. I've never looked back. I also highly recommend the Kinesis MPC USB keyboard. Forget the Dvorak version of it with Dvorak-labeled keycaps; you need to learn to touch-type anyway. Just get the regular one, press Shift + F5 + Program simultaneously, and you're done (I also remap the - and \ keys manually with Program + F12 for my typing ease, because the built-in Dvorak layout isn't quite the standard one). It was miserable trying to type for about two weeks, my typing was slow for about a month or two, but then I was much better off after that. This is not an exception; anyone, even someone who isn't a good typist (I wasn't) can do this. It is not hard to learn or relearn. I've seen several people do it. My brother, for one, though he still uses QWERTY most of the time. I almost lost the use of my arms from typing and mastu^H^H^H^Housing too much. I'm happy now. Praise God for Dvorak.

  5. Re:Uh on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I love the time Amazon showed me "People who buy music from blahblah also buy clean underwear from the Gap."

  6. ISMIR 2003 on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 1

    I saw this technology demo-ed a couple years ago at ISMIR 2003 and it blew me away. The software was able to pick out songs transmitted over a cellphone in a noisy nightclub, in a shopping mall, and finally to really impress us all, he mixed together 8 or 10 songs, including two versions of the same symphony by different orchestras, and it picked out all of them. In each case I wasn't able to even distinguish the music from the noise. I mean, literally, if you'd asked me "is there music playing in this noise" I'd have said "I can't tell." It really blew my socks off that his software was that good. The point of this system is when you're in the nightclub and "that song" comes on. You know, the one you've only heard three times in your life, and there are no lyrics, and you have NO CLUE how to find out what it is, and no one knows, and the DJ is an asshole. Presto, you pull out your cellphone and make that call.

  7. Re:Separating Content from Presentation a Good Thi on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 1
    There is a big difference between seperating presentation from content and removing the presentation totally.

    Exactly. There are any number of ways you can do this. For example, placing a stylesheet in the top of the document, or placing style attributes on elements. This is exactly what you do with CSS and HTML. If you aren't familiar with this pair of technologies, I suggest you learn. It makes life easier.

  8. Re:Mirror in case it's slashdotted on Linus Comments on SCO v IBM · · Score: 1

    I assume you have never heard of fair use? or are you from a country without a vague "understand" of normal IP.

  9. You're the boss on Securing Your Internal Network from Windows? · · Score: 1

    Unless someone has castrated you, why don't you decide on a policy and do it instead of letting your users tell you how to run your network. If the bottom of the food chain always decided how things happen, do you think anything would ever get done?

  10. Oh great on IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer · · Score: 1
    the article says it can help search for oil. Way to go! Let's ignore the problems we could solve that would help humanity, and help the Bush family get richer.

    Guess we know who butters IBM's bread.