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  1. Re:Upgrading on Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1 · · Score: 1

    OSX already has Locomotive for that.

  2. Re:Javascript is insecure - AJAX is security hole on Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    And images expose you to things like the WMF exploit, so let's just go back to the 1980s of web design.

  3. Re:You guys don't get it... on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    Huh?

    Both already have aircraft carriers.

  4. Re:the French??? on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    This'd be their eleventh carrier. Their current carrier took part in UN missions in Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002, as well as missions in Kashmir in 2002.

    If I'm remembering correctly, they also used a carrier in the First Gulf War.

  5. Re:Less harsh? on US Plans Lunar Motel · · Score: 1

    Near vacuum is "less harsh" than thin C02?

    Wind, perhaps? Dust storms on Mars would be a nasty event for a colony, especially if it interferes with communications and solar power. Some of them last months, too.

  6. Re:Less challenges on the moon? on US Plans Lunar Motel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, if you build a Mars base on permafrost and it melts under your buildings, you're in a spot of trouble. I'm assuming that's the kind of thing they're worrying about.

  7. Re:This is news? on Jailed Spam King Caught Conspiring to Kill Witness · · Score: 1

    Torturers used to saw off heads of dissidents while Saddam Hussein watched, yet it is the US who is accused of torture. Not once in the twenty years did the left get pissed at Saddam's torture...

    Quite false. Any political debate on how Bush did or did not lead us into war on false pretenses inevitably gets the "omg here are quotes from liberals saying how evil Saddam was" list posted.

    The reason the US makes the news more is that it is unexpected. That Saddam was a nasty guy was not in dispute - the whole world knew of his abuses, the using of nerve gas on Iraqis, the draining of the southern marshes, the disappearing of countless people. Its not being in dispute led to its not being discussed, just as we don't get a shocked article on how the sun came up yesterday morning.

    It's extemely common for leftists to say it would have been better if Saddam were still there.

    It may be true. Brutal or not, he did keep Iraq stable with an iron fist. Now we've got a nasty hotspot that could become a nice democracy, a Iran-allied theocracy, or a civil war. One of these things would be great, but the other two could wind up being worse than Saddam in the long run.

    No one claims that Saddam would be better than a stable democracy. To pretend the left would prefer Saddam to a stable democracy is to construct a very funny looking straw man.

  8. Re:His spamming and this incident seem unrelated on Jailed Spam King Caught Conspiring to Kill Witness · · Score: 1

    Nor are dead babies, but that doesn't stop the jokes about them from being entertaining in the right context.

  9. Re:Awesome on First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The faster than light jump is planned and executed by the ship's computers, so it can let the dampeners know what's going to be happening. The effects of a jump are presumably also predictable.

    Weapons fire, on the other hand, isn't so predictable.

    That's how I'd explain it, at least.

  10. Re:fp on Suing Google Over Pagerank · · Score: 1
  11. Re:fp on Suing Google Over Pagerank · · Score: 1

    I believe they were using the term "private company" to indicate one not owned by the government.

  12. Re:Please !!!! on Judge Orders Deleted Emails Turned Over · · Score: 1

    Heck ... I can picture the defense getting a 80GB archive tape and being told that was all messages recieved. Yes, 99.999% of them are spam. Enjoy.

    So they set up a Gmail account and forward them all to it. Let Gmail's spam filter do all the work - it has already seen those spams, after all.

  13. Re:PHP, the web standard on Recommended Reading List for PHP · · Score: 1

    The code doesn't stand out from the HTML

    Isn't that why God invented syntax colouring?

  14. Re:Ah opera... on Opera 9.0 Fully Passes ACID2 Test · · Score: 1

    Well, considering valid XHTML is generally also valid HTML4, and considering Slashdot might one day decide to get with the times (perhaps in 2015), I'd say no.

  15. Re:Profit? on Google Goes to Mars · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine it's this sort of thing that help foster the "it's cool to work at Google" culture that helps gets them so many highly qualified applicants.

  16. Re:If only... on Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure collection agencies get called before the FBI for past-due bills.

  17. Re:My experience on Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."

    Which is an idiotic argument, because what's currently okay won't always be okay.

    Ask someone who signed up for the trendy, fashionable Communist Party in the 1920s how that act later went over in the 1950s, for example.

  18. Re:I didn't see much Apple hype... on CNET Accuses Apple of Over-Hyping Launch · · Score: 1

    That's like saying because that one really cool movie played at the movie theater, they won't have any bad ones.

  19. Re:I didn't see much Apple hype... on CNET Accuses Apple of Over-Hyping Launch · · Score: 1

    You're completely missing the point, which is that the C|Net article says "omg if it was a minor announcement why did they hold it in the same place they released the iPod?!?!?!"

    The point being that the iPod was, at the time, a fairly minor announcement. Only later on did it become considered a Big Deal.

  20. Re:Amateur Hour on Mac Mini and iPod Hi-Fi Over-Hyped? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    16.2 fps in doom 3 @ 640x480, nice.

    How many people do you know who bought a Mac mini for cutting edge gaming?

    Would you whine about your new Dodge Neon not doing very well in the NASCAR standings?

  21. Re:+++ATH on Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers · · Score: 1

    viscous = honey
    vicious = Hitler

    Major difference. ;p

  22. Re:Aren't these CDs mostly sent out to Republicans on Minnesota GOP's CD Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    So does claiming that Republicans are reactionary vocal bigots make you a bigot?

    "A bigot is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own."


    Not if you can read.

  23. Re:Question on Partial Victory for Perfect 10? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google Cache is legal - there's not much difference here. Seems pretty open-and-shut precedent in favor of Google.

  24. Re:Devil's Advocate on Partial Victory for Perfect 10? · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004344.php

    The court granted summary judgment in favor of Google on four independent bases:

    Serving a webpage from the Google Cache does not constitute direct infringement, because it results from automated, non-volitional activity by Google servers (Field did not allege infringement on the basis of the making of the initial copy by the Googlebot);

    Field's conduct (failure to set a "no archive" metatag; posting "allow all" robot.txt header) indicated that he impliedly licensed search engines to archive his web page;

    The Google Cache is a fair use; and

    The Google Cache qualifies for the DMCA's 512(b) caching "safe harbor" for online service providers.


    All of those would seem to equally apply to Google Images' thumbnails cache.

  25. Oh, honestly... on Partial Victory for Perfect 10? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://images.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

    To remove all the images on your site from our index, place the following robots.txt file in your server root:

    User-agent: Googlebot-Image
    Disallow: /