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  1. Check out JavaScript Shell... on goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can actually take something like JavaScript Shell and add JSON based query features to it. This would allow things like command line based search, news... etc and has the advantage of using JavaScript as command syntax. You can write JavaScript functions to access and manipulate JSON variables. (easier said than done, from someone whose done it )

  2. Regarding Standards Compliance on Mozilla Dev Team On Firefox's Success · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know whether Mozilla is more standards compliant than other browsers in the technical sense, but from a web developers standpoint it has lots of little things that other browsers don't have and some big things as well, such as XPCOM. It's web developers web browser, and I expect that with Firefox 4 release which will introduce JavaScript 2, it will be conclusively be the best browser out there and will perhaps regain a majority market share

  3. The privacy concerns are quite valid... on US Set to Use Spy Satellites on US Citizens · · Score: 1

    Anyone want to bet that these spy satellites will be used for purposes other than law enforcement?

  4. Internet Explorer on EU Regulators Open New Microsoft Investigations · · Score: 1

    The decision which allows Microsoft include Internet Explorer with Windows in the United States is clearly wrong and should be overturned.

  5. Re:Iranians not allowed.... on Google Summer of Code Extends to Highschoolers · · Score: 1

    from experience...

  6. Re:Guess it depends on what you call violence on U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    Murder is murder.

  7. Re:Afghans: US Bombs Kill 14 Road Workers on U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does this count as murder?

  8. Afghans: US Bombs Kill 14 Road Workers on U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i8dGftYb0s4XWdUMRdIVs3vh1CKAD8T6JUUO0 By AMIR SHAH - 6 hours ago KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S.-led coalition troops killed 14 road construction workers in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan after receiving faulty intelligence, Afghan officials said Wednesday. The coalition said it was looking into the incident in Nuristan province, but did not immediately comment. NATO's International Security Assistance Force said it has conducted airstrikes against Taliban fighters in the area, but did not say when.

  9. Iranians not allowed.... on Google Summer of Code Extends to Highschoolers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Organizations based in the countries Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma), with whom we are prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to participate. Mentoring organizations that are taking part in Google Summer of Code 2007 may add additional controls on which students may participate in the program under their auspices. Also if you look iranian, or have an iranian sounding name, you run the risk they will cancel your project.

  10. honestly... on U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat · · Score: 0, Troll

    No one cares what they do, or what they say, because they're all so fucking stupid... seriously, they are all dumb as fuck, and it's not going to change in the near future, so just ignore them.

  11. lol... morons on U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's exactly why everyone thinks they are fucking stupid, and ignore everything they do.

  12. Bering Land Bridge on Gene Study Supports Single Bering Strait Migration · · Score: 1

    The land bridge connecting Siberia to North America was still in existence 6000 years ago, and there was most likely migration into and out of the Siberian territory and North America between 12,000 years ago and 6,000 years ago.

  13. Nonsense on FCC Rules Open Source Code Is Less Secure · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's nothing inherently secure about closed source software or anything inherently secure about open source software. In fact, closed source software that is not secure when the source code is visible is not really secure at all.

  14. Philosophical ramblings on Quantum Physics Parts Ways With Reality · · Score: 1

    From what I have read, the inequality violations can not be used to communicate information faster than the speed of light. From a purely philosophical standpoint, without even getting into any math, reality by definition requires observers and for the most part people observe different things. When people exchange information, they have a more complete understanding of their collective experiences. It's nonsensical to speak of reality outside of that collective experience.

  15. Part of the problem... on Study Finds Cost Major Factor In Outsourcing Positions · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem with American IT competitiveness has to do with the pace at which the sector is developing. Much of what students learn in class is obsolete by the time they actually enter the work force which means that CS may not be the best major if that's what you want to do for a living. Mathematics with a minor in CS is probably the best way to go right now.

  16. Open Source? on The Rise of Open-Source Politics · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you mean anarchist libertarian politics which has been around for quite some time.

  17. Roswell on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    The question I want to know is why does the US government continue to mislead the public regarding the events which transpired at Roswell New Mexico in 1947? Both Bush and Kerry are members of Skull and Bones and they know everything about what happened there. I've also put this question up on my blog by the way.

  18. The Universe is Pretty Big on The Universe is Pretty Big · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not as big as your Mamma's ass

  19. Re:NYT doesn't know Guarana = Caffeine on 13 Energy Drinks In 3 Sessions · · Score: 1

    ADD medications are all like that. Ritalin isn't technically an amphetamine, but it works the same way. Adderall isamphetamine. And Strattera is a new one. I haven't tried it yet, but it's not stimulant so it's kind of like being slightly drunk 24/7. Just tell your doctor you're having trouble concentrating.

  20. Google : Microsoft :: Mircrosoft::IBM::Intel:IBM on Google's Software Principles · · Score: 1

    Google does not want to be *percieved* as the Microsoft of the Internet, but they are already doing things to hype their IPO by trying establish an image of a "company destined for sucess."

    It is inevitable that if they are sucessful, which is by no means guaranteed when you are competing with the Microsoft's Indian Empire, that people are going look back on the things Google does and find faults just like they did with the early Microsoft. Microsoft's behavior was actually very tame by the standards 1980s corporate America. Gates was the little guy then and he beat IBM through tactics now percieved as "conniving" in the post Worldcom/Enron era.

    Anyway the fact is that Google is a software company with just as much potential for failure as for success. And their software principles might not matter. Apple had great principles too, but the IBM clones now dominate the market.

  21. Not Exactly true on Crawford Lambasts Overly Technical Approach To Games · · Score: 1

    Western videogames maybe lacking in art, but games originating in Japan are almost pure art... Zelda, Final Fantasy, even Soul Calibur. These games are beautiful to play. ... And American games are more "American" (Starcraft, Halo, & Doom.) Graphics and violence can be pretty damned fun. To say games don't have an artistic bend is just silly. People have been calling Miyamoto an artistic genius since the N64 Zelda.

  22. Re:Magnetism has a frequency? on Realizing Near-Optical Magnetism · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can someone give a me layman's explanation of what (if anything) frequency means in the context of magnetism?

    Well you know how on an MRI the picture looks sort of fuzzy? Well now they can get it almost as sharp as if they were looking through an optical microscope. So that means they could resolve inside of the cells of your brain

  23. Slashdotters on Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Slashdotters are associated with being anti-Microsoft, but when some bs like this comes up, for the most part, we recognize it as bs.

    And this is the only way our criticisms of Microsoft's stagnant software ever gets taken seriously... I think they do listen to us sortof...

  24. Planetary Imperialism/Colonialism on Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    History tends to repeat itself...

    Should humanity establish a Mars colony, a Martian independence revolution is certain to come some centuries from now, preceded of course by fighting between nations for early control which may take the form of economic sanctions, electronic communication/infrastructure disruption which can be just as bad direct miltary conflict.

  25. Snake Eater ? on Metal Gear Solid - Behind The Scenes · · Score: 1

    ... Snake Eater ?!?

    um yeah... so whose the marketing genius that came up with that one?