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  1. Should put it at TWO minutes to midnight on Doomsday Clock Remains at Five Minutes to Midnight · · Score: 1

    Then we can all sing "Two minutes to miiiidnight, the hands that threaten doooom..." \m/

  2. How many? on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 1

    One, two, three - crunch! Three licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop! Wait. Wrong question, never mind.

  3. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Dave's world, where an opinion can be wrong!

  4. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I was going for incredulous, but apparently missed the mark. I found it to be quite the stretch to say that a person should stay in their home their entire life if they don't get immunized.

  5. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    How is it a public safety issue?!? If the public is vaccinated against _whatever_, then how is the person not vaccinated against _whatever_ putting the public in danger? The public is already vaccinated, so they can't get it, right? Because you imply that if you get the vaccination, you are not going to get _whatever_. The only ones that have anything to fear from non-vaccinated people are other non-vaccinated people. That is the risk they are taking by not getting vaccinated. I'm not even against vaccinations. But that line of crap you spouted is just ridiculous.

  6. Re:...and if you look closely... He's Native. on Leaked Assassin's Creed 3 Screenshots Show American Revolution · · Score: 1

    snip

    Messer Ezio's great-grandson here is *not* an English colonist. He most likely speaks an eastern dialect of one of the Algonquin peoples and languages. ...and I for one can't wait to play this.

    From Milwaukee?

    Actually, it's pronounced Millie-wah-kay; which is Algonquin for "The good land."

  7. Re:Article is Clueless -- Reviews are Jokes on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    Apparently you didn't RTFA. The first sentance of the summary even states "The first time I came across fake reviews on Amazon, it was hilarious" - the point of TFA is that the reviews of real items can be bogus/gamed. From TFA: "Again, I don’t actually care about the fake posts. I find them hugely entertaining to read. What bothers me is apparently how easy it is to create reviews on products that doesn’t exist by people that either don’t exist or have never bought them." So RTFA, joker.

  8. Re:-1 False Assumption on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1
    Might want to check for any disclaimer on that Michigan handbook. The one you get at Oregon DMV, that EVERYONE studies, states on page i:

    "This manual condenses and paraphrases selected language in the Oregon Revised Statues. It also provides safety advise not included in the law. This manual is not a proper legal authority to cite and should not be replied upon in a court of law. Traffic regulations in cities, towns, counties, and federal territories may go beyond state laws, as long as they do not conflict with state law."

    So yeah, I don't quote anything from that book (except to my teenagers that will have to pass the crazy sh!t they ask on the permit and driver's license written tests).

    YMMV

  9. Re:Le Shocque! on Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder · · Score: 1

    Google a giant company, not your BFF.

    That's ok, I already have Facebook as my BFF.

    And Michael Moore is my Big Fat Fu--, wait; what does BFF stand for again?

  10. Railroaded! on Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney · · Score: 1

    Sounds like that app developer is getting railroaded!

  11. Continue to collect paychecks a la Fight Club on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 1

    For some reason, reading this discussion evoked that scene from Fight Club where Edward Norton's character beats himself up in his managers office...but that's just me.

  12. Re:Best queue jumping story on How To Cut In Line and Not Get Caught · · Score: 1

    Brilliant! If only one could do that with their vehicle when some cork soaker tries pulling that on the road.

  13. How can a fly's eye lens be news?!? on Fly Eyes for Spying Cameras · · Score: 1

    I'm not into photography but semiconductor photolithography equipment (at least the steppers I worked on that utilized G-line and I-line Hg arc lamps as a light source) used fly's eye lenses. I started working on them 14 years ago and I know they were not brand new then.

    Nikon was the manufacturer of the steppers I worked on.

    I would think fly's eye lenses would have made it into all sorts of other imaging equipment by now. Did it just take this long for someone to figure out that it would help in other fields of imaging?

  14. I am Joe's Raging Bile Duct on Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up · · Score: 1

    The first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club.

    The second rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club.

    ;~}

  15. Re:Does it still garble .NET pages? on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    ASP.NET is a server-side technology, so a web browser cannot "support" it at all.

    Yeah. Actually, I did not type "support." I typed "handle" - which is what you talked to, handling the broken HTML that was served to the client.

    Oh, and I hear ya loud and clear about the proper way to fix it...

    Regards,

    -A_J

  16. Re:Does it still garble .NET pages? on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    4 errors:

    1. ... there is no attribute "MS_POSITIONING"

    Probably explains the garbled page layout, eh?

    2. ... there is no attribute "NAME"

    This is inside a form tag.

    3. ... character "?" not allowed in attribute specification list

    Looks like a fat finger trying to close a br tag. Der, Timmy, Timmy.

    4. ... required attribute "TYPE" not specified

    In reference to my apparently sloppy script tag.

    Thanks for the tip! I'll clean those things up. I remember the colors and borders not displaying as expected but I see no validation errors for those. Looks like I need to investigate that further...

    It's nice getting responses that aren't trolls. Read 'em too often on here, thus I had the flame suit on early.

    Cheers,

    -A_J

  17. Re:Does it still garble .NET pages? on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Good points!

    The site I mentioned is for a club to which I belong and I have to decide how much time to spend on it. It's a small user base that we hope to grow, and they might not be turned off by using IE.

    The browser market is slowly changing (again), but the for meantime...

    Regards,

    -A_J

  18. Does it still garble .NET pages? on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been using Firefox for a couple of months now. Used Netscape for years - yeah, I actually bought a shrink-wrapped version of Netscape, that included one year of free upgrades. Woo hoo! I use IE only for sites that I have to.

    That said, I puked the other day when I surfed to my new ASP.NET hosted site and Firefox couldn't handle it! The layout was screwed up, the label colors and borders were wrong, etc.

    Being a developer, I understand the need to handle different clients. But do I have to create a dumbed-down version of the site for Firefox users (myself being one of them)?

    Does 1.0 handle ASP.NET better that previous versions?

    -A_J

    (Flame on, Slashdotters. I expect nothing less. And let me preempt the "learn php" or "learn XYZ" posts: I'd love to have the time to learn every language, platform, or whatever, that is out there - but I can't. I'm not an uber-geek (OMG, I used uber-, that is so last century) and cannot, no will not, spend all of my free time in front of a computer.)

  19. Look beyond the first level on What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask About Offshoring? · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it has been posted yet (don't have hours to read the full thread) but has anyone done a comprehensive study beyond what I call the "first level?" The "first level" being the person holding the job, whether on shore or off.

    I am talking about the wages that the employee spends around their community. It's not simply a case of the Jones' not being able to keep up with the Smiths because the Jones' job went off shore (or the Vijaypayee's not being able to keep up with the Balasubramanian's because the Vijaypayee's job never came on shore).

    It's the Anderson's gas station not seeing the business it used to; it's the local restaurants not seeing the business they used to; it's the housing market dropping; it's the tax base being lower.

    Once those wages go offshore, they pretty much stay offshore. And it affects more than just the first level.

  20. Re:What? on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1

    Hey, maybe your robot could take care of the thief. Your girl robot.

  21. Re:In contrast to the bashing on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: 1

    I agree that it is good from a branding standpoint. They are even going about it on the cheap: Give someone $100 for a brand image that might one day be as recognizable as the Nike Swoosh (hey, it could happen), and NetBSD will be really pleased with themselves. I mean, companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on branding... Regards, 'Joe