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  1. The standards are broken. on Explorer Destroyer · · Score: 1

    They should support a more gradated implementation. and don't recognize that there are always going to be bugs. I doubt that any implementation is bug-free and thus correct, but where do you draw the line?

    Furthermore, the standards do nothing for end-user customizations, figuring the content provider rules over all.
    Is "legacy CSS" mode a standard? If IE isn't accepting XHTML DOCTYPE how can it be put into "legacy CSS" mode because of it. Not accepting the MIME type means showing a blank page.

  2. When is it necessary to coopt others? on Explorer Destroyer · · Score: 1

    Unless you can give a reasoned answer that question, you are just assuming that it isn't necessary to coopt others.

  3. Playing the winning guy, of course on Explorer Destroyer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jesus wasn't playing the nice guy when he cleared the moneychangers out of the Temple, although there are those who will argue that he wasn't exactly playing the winning guy when he died on the cross.

  4. Where did you go to school? on Stallman Selling Autographs · · Score: 1

    That was one of the best layouts of a case I've heard, and there's quite a bit of space between you and the next fellow. Or would you say that your education came from outside of institutionalized learning?

  5. Your sig on Gadgets for the Lazy · · Score: 1

    Cut a few lightning rod grounds and a lot more people will be hit by lightning.

  6. In a way... on Spam King to Sing For Feds? · · Score: 1

    Death is, after all, the ultimate annoyance, followed by theft.

  7. This is a community by community decision on On-line Communities - Ads or no Ads? · · Score: 1

    ...to be made by the community. Also, there's the question of which ads to show, who to allow to show ads, the quality of the ads, whether or not to have animation. Some ad has been triggering:

    Macromedia Flash Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation.
    The following local application on your computer or network:
    h
    is trying to communicate with this Internet-enabled location:
    img-cdn.mediaplex.com

    I get this on a number of sites, but it just came up on arstechnica.

  8. Wrong? on FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information · · Score: 1

    So, you're Mr. Perfect then? People do things wrong in their own and other's eyes all the time! Then there's being framed, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax, which includes being a convenient object to cast blame on.

  9. Visual Studio on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    All I know is that all the code examples out there are for older versions of Visual Studio and must be "converted" to work with the new, and then Visual Studio must be told what libraries the program uses.

  10. Bzzt. Wrong answer on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    http://freebasic.net/ is much easier to program in, and comes with lots of wizz-bangy libraries and examples to use them!

  11. Not even ranked by our grades... on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    At least not by our peers. Grades are kept secret so that we don't have self-esteem issues, at least that's the recent excuse. Meanwhile in Japan the grades get posted and the kids with the highest grades get kudos from their peers, and those with lower grades wish they could be like them. Meanwhile, back in the United States, those who devote their free time to athletics and are good at it get supported, and there's a mix of wishing to be like them and wishing that wasn't the reason they getting all the attention.

  12. Different area of sick... on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    That's a different area of sick than where I come from, but they're still sick. Prostitutes and drug dealers aren't a problem for people here, but their lack doesn't mean that society cares about you. This society is sick, and anyone who tells you to live up to society's standards is telling you to live up to sick standards. P.S. Rush Limbaugh, the heartthrob of those who tell us that the prostitutes and drug dealers are the main thing that's wrong with America has been arrested for prescription drug fraud.
    http://news.google.com/news?q=%22rush%20limbaugh yields http://www.newshounds.us/2006/04/28/rush_limbaugh_ arrested_and_liberal_blamed.php

  13. Re:Degrade of Education on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The No Child Left Behind Act should really be called the Let's Chain Everyone To The Lowest Performing Student Act. Anybody else want to have a shot at it?

  14. Bandwidth on Rockers Sue Sony Over Download Royalties · · Score: 1

    Bandwidth however has gotten to the point where I can think nothing of goig ahead and getting a streamed videos of any sort, and expect it now and in reasonable quality. Earlier today I followed two video links from replies on digg. That changes the importance of TV and radio had, even with the web being around before this amount of bandwidth was available. I seem to be getting 4Mb downstream.

  15. RIAA - Recasting the argument on Rockers Sue Sony Over Download Royalties · · Score: 1

    RIAA binds the recording companies into one group that has clout. The internet's role isn't that the recording companies won't get it, but that other people will, and in turn not needing the recording companies quite so much. That in turn, will make the RIAA smaller, and before you can have clout you have to be a certain size.

  16. He didn't say anything about a service on Advice for Building a Multi-Platform Lyrics Database? · · Score: 1

    He seems to be saying that everything will be on the person's computer. He doesn't say where the lyrics are coming from. Perhaps the user is to cut and paste them from online. I don't see how this will be much of an improvement on either Googling for lyrics, or using local search on text files on your hard drive.

    However, http://www.animelyrics.com/ is one database of lyrics that isn't getting sued, like most things anime.

  17. Re:Forget Voting, It's time for the general strike on Net Neutrality Voted Down in U.S. House Committee · · Score: 1

    A general strike affects everything, even more so than voting. It cuts across all sectors of commerce. The point is to fix our entire system of government and not just attempt to hire one person in the hopes that he'll slap band-aids on a leaking dike.

  18. No on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I don't have your taste buds. Neither New Coke, nor Coke II tasted like Pepsi. New Coke came out first, was pulled, then Coke II came out. I liked both of them, but I don't know how much they tasted like each other because I have to taste things right after each other to compare them.

    Whe I first read the Wii name in a syndication feed, I thought it was the name of a WiFi service Nintendo was providing. Then there's the similarity between Wii and Wee, making it seem like a more suitable name for a portable game system or something else of the like.

  19. The miracle of IP addresses. on Net Neutrality Voted Down in U.S. House Committee · · Score: 1

    The higher tiered content providers will register a set of source IP's they want to send the data to be accelerated from. They can even ask that only data being sent from a given set of ports from those IP addresses be accelerated.

  20. Forget Voting, It's time for the general strike! on Net Neutrality Voted Down in U.S. House Committee · · Score: 1

    It's time for the general strike. Thing is, it has to be coordinated so that there's a critical mass all at once or it won't work.

  21. How to accomplish that... on Net Neutrality Voted Down in U.S. House Committee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The thing is, without the neutrality bill, the telecom could slow down the traffic of that download or email to nearly zero before building extra capacity to handle both the priority and nonpriority services.

  22. The consequence of "news for nerds" on a non nerd: on What Do You Want on a News Website? · · Score: 1

    You see, it's "News for Nerds". If he is, in fact, not a nerd, then it wouldn't be news for him, and therefore he couldn't possibly get his news here now could he?

  23. Re:Absolutely not on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    First they identified everyone. Then they came for the first %1 of people with unsavory identification, but I was not of the first %1 so I did not speak up. Then they came for the next 1%, but I was not of the next %1, so I did not speak up. This repeated several times, until they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me.

  24. 20 less numbers to worry about on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    From my perspective it's 20 less numbers the government needs to worry about if they want to correlate people's data to determine whether the government sees them as a threat to said government.

  25. Re:"This will go down on your permanent record" on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    The fact that school administrators think that's a good line scares me.