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  1. Re:Ajax is a flash in the pan on Microsoft Releases Atlas · · Score: 1

    Been using AJAX for close to 3 years in the form of a href="http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/main.htm">JSRS which is basicly AJAX without the xml, it uses CSV. Before that have used iframes, and java applets to perform the same capability.
    It is not meant to totally replace front in clients but as a suppliment to current HTML form. There I have never had problems with the items you mentioned. Debugging is no worse then standard Javascript, no major network problems, since it does not do much more then pass messages between the client and server the code is only as bad as your javascript.

  2. Re:A Chicken in Every Pot on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    Lack of any planning & evacuation was his fault, lack of rebuilding is still his fault.

    Planning and evacuation in the event is not the role of the federal government in the United States of America. The US federal governement will provide support and personnel when allowed by the governor of the state and will take over a post emergency leadership position only if allowed by the governor. If not given permission they will (FEMA) act as the directing source for all federal material and personnel. So if the governor says they items x,y and z and a certain location and FEMA has thoses resources available under thier control they will direct them to that location.
    In addition they are sometimes be given control over non-state and non-federal resources that have been donated to the emergency area. Then if thoses resources and personnel have been approved by the governor they are used as needed.

    Also rebuilding is not a responsibility of the federal government. They will provide funding and personnel as requested and when laws are created that provide funding and supplies. In addition they will provide loans and temporary housing but it is requirement of the local and state governments to find places to put the temporary housing and to clear the route to the place they will be put.

    It was kind of funny that during all the time with Katerina when people kept on repeating that it was federal governments responsibility for hurricanes and eathquakes the local disaster office in LA kept on tring to get as much air time as possible to keep repeating it was not and they ,the city of LA, was prepared for the emergency and tring to show off they had set up in preparation.

  3. Re:more than 30000 civilians died in iraq on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    And if you really cared about that you would not ignore the number of people killed by saddam between the invation of Kuwait and when we was finally removed from power. According to various human watch groups it came to 70 and 125 per day.

  4. Re:Not really... on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    Your getting your facts mixed up. Check out http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html they have a better time table over the stuff you are forgetting.

  5. Re:Of course he's concerned with the *perception*. on Judge May Force Google to Submit to Feds · · Score: 1

    Abdullah al-Muhajir formerly known as Jose Padilla is being help under the Authorization for Use of Military Force(AUMF). He has no dealings with the US PATRIOT ACT.

  6. Re:Of course he's concerned with the *perception*. on Judge May Force Google to Submit to Feds · · Score: 1
    You should read the whole thing it contains statements such as
    The Attorney General shall place an alien detained under paragraph (1) in removal proceedings, or shall charge the alien with a criminal offense, not later than 7 days after the commencement of such detention. If the requirement of the preceding sentence is not satisfied, the Attorney General shall release the alien.

    and
    Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 6 months thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit a report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, with respect to the reporting period,
    followed by a list of things.

    Far from the hey are illegally seized and detained indefinitely without charge or warrant and without legal council. A time period is given, with a few allow allowable extension(not indefiniely).
    Remember that this portion of the US PATRIOT ACT is an change to 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq. which go into greater details about giving a lawer to the person being help and all of that is in effect. So none of this held without legal council
    The US PATRIOT ACT just changed it so a person being help cannot inform any people they are working with that the police know about them and are about to arrest them.
  7. Re:Know What You Are Talking About on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    The militia is works very well in Switzerland -- as does the free trade idea. Switzerland is "liberal" in the classical liberal way ("libertarian"). Even Hitler stayed out of Switzerland
    Switzerland militia plaid a small role in keeping out Hitler but not that much. It was small, under equiped, and had old technology. The natzi did have plans to attack switzerland and switzerland's military was no more a concern then any other country. However coupled with a its terrain it would of required a decent amount of military. There was a propogandy film the natzi used that went something like "We kill take over switzerland on the way back."
    What helpped it where a few things such as 1) It kept up pre-war trading with the natzies, 2) it allowed banking to continue at pre-war conditions, and 3) what was probably the most important it allowed near unrestricted trains between italy and germany.
    The trains were important for a multitude of reason and while in Switzerland you are using kilometers of bridges. It is not unreasonable to expect that as soon as the first german troops did a full scale attack into switzerland that thoses bridges would of been blown. That would go set back any plans hitler had by years are other routes would of been needed and all transportation between the two countries would of at a useless level.

  8. Re:Of course he's concerned with the *perception*. on Judge May Force Google to Submit to Feds · · Score: 1

    1) There are no warrants under it.
    And what section is this??
    You are probably confusing this with PATRIOT ACT II which never got anywhere, it did allow some no warrants activities under very special circumstances.
    Where some people get confused is with Section 212 which allowed communications providers to provide information at thier own discresion to police in the event of an emergency. It removed a law that forbide communications providers from providing information and allow the communications providers the right to do so if they thought the reason given by the police was an emergency.
    2) You do not hear of people going to jail. They are illegally seized and detained indefinitely without charge or warrant and without legal council.
    Again under what part of the US PATRIOT Act is this?

  9. Re:iPod NanoBots on Nanotech and the Blind · · Score: 1

    After injecting the hamsters with a solution containing nanoparticles, the nerves re-grew and sight returned
    This is pretty advanced. So why did Jordy have to wear that stupid visor?

    IIRC it was because something unique about him prevented the surgery from working. They mentioned that in one show.
    The real question is why was the air filter he wore so big? From other parts of the show we already saw smaller cameras,power sources and processing units. So a device could of been able to be made that would fit into a more conventional glasses which were being used by other characters in the show.

  10. Re:Origin of 'rook' on 1001 Islamic Inventions · · Score: 1

    In europe you do have the rook being shaped as a movable war machine, depending on the source as either a boat or a chariot.
    Where you start to see it take the shape of the castle is that over time the pieces took shapes that were more recognizable to the then modern player. Since chariots were not in use it graduly changed to a siege tower.

  11. Re:Stupid Terrorists. on Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down · · Score: 1

    Osama Bin Laden original and current goal was for him to take over what is currently saudi arabia(based on Saudi Arabia history not unreasonable), then egypt and then to restore the area former ruled by the Caliphate to under this control.
    US is considered a major problem because we help keep the current saudi rulers in power.
    Israel only came up in rare messages(pre-2002 it was around 5 times total in all public speechs he had made). However after the US attacked Afganistan he started to bring it up alot more, and with the purpose of getting the arabs mad at the US and rallying the troops. It also has the benifit of being able to claim softer targets such as the hotel in Africa where a bunch of Israelies where killed, along with a bunch of other nations. Except it in the concept of taking over all of the Middle East Israel was never a bin Laden original goal.

  12. Re:Foreboding signs on TiVo to Drop Lifetime Service Plan · · Score: 1

    Don't really see it that way, I see it more that they looked at the model for cell phones and figured to go that way. They have been loosing money and need to increase rates or make more sales and they are hoping for both with this. With the lower buy in costs and that is a major factor from more widespread use it is the way to go.

    As for cost say you purchased a Tivo with lifetime and use it for 3 years, then upgrade to a hopfully newer model vs the new model.
    Current cost: $216 for unit, $299 for lifetime, total cost :$514
    New cost: $16.95 for 36 months: $610.20 and that does not factor in that you don't pay all the money upfront and the interest you could earn.

  13. Re:Star Trek: Galaxies on SOE Partners with Perpetual Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Not a good example.
    The Turbine engine was the main product Turbine was selling. AC was work they had originally done but for funding they sold to Microsoft. After release Turbine won a contract to continue work on AC.
    AC2 was the same way Microsoft owned the IP of the AC world, they then contracted out to Turbine to use the new Turbine Engine to make a new game with the specifications they requested.

  14. Re:War on porn on Justice Dept. Rejects Google's Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    That "The Spirit of Justice" thing was funny, if only it had been true. It is a great example of government waste.
    During the 90s the curtains were used and were being rented per event for around 25% of the purchase price. When ashcroft was put in control someone decided they should be purchased.

  15. Re:Worst Piece of Jargon on The Best of Web 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Stupid yes, but frankly I love it.
    Reason, work requires a year appraisal every year on what we plan to do out of work to keep up our skills and new jargon helps. I just take last years items and switch SOA to Web 2.0 and I am done.

  16. Re:Nuclear Waste? on New Nuclear Power Plants in the next 5 years · · Score: 1

    Huh????
    Look into the Texas-Maine-Vermont Compact, it was an plan to put low level radioactive materials in west Texas. It was considered a George W. Bush project.
    It was even used during the election as an example why Bush was bad for the environment.

  17. Re:WHY??? on New Nuclear Power Plants in the next 5 years · · Score: 1

    One word: Environmentalists.
    In France and other parts of the world environmentalists consider nuclear power plants a good idea, not in the US. There they fight every proposal that comes along.

  18. Re:I thought... on Yahoo! Bans "Allah" in Screen Names · · Score: 1

    It is more modern rule and even then not that widespread.
    Here is a so-so article with links to others which explain so of the background.

  19. Re:Deceptive headline on Domestic Spying Records Ordered Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, No, this conversation is about spying on US citizens.
    Has that actually been proven yet?
    The order he signed with the approval of high ranking democrates and republicans allowed the use of the NSA against US citizen but has that yet to be shown that it happened? All the examples I have heard about is where it was used against people talking to known terrorists or with known terrorist supplied phone numbers. Have they shown that some of thoses talking where actually citizens?

    BTW NSA without special orders does not have the right to listen to US Citizens, US Corporations or immigrants in the US with legal permanent residency status.
    From action taken place during the mid to late 90s we known that they do capture US citizens in thier conversations. When that happens they are suppose to blacken out or drop the name of the unless the names and indentifing information is needed to under the "context of the information".

  20. Re:Deceptive headline on Domestic Spying Records Ordered Released · · Score: 1

    S.J.RES.23

    States that this Act is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of the War Powers Resolution.

  21. Re:Born Again = Post Facto on Domestic Spying Records Ordered Released · · Score: 1

    It was extremly funny this weekend and last watching all the Democrats on talk shows saying that foreign powers should not have access to ports then being told that a foreign power already is doing it, and the only thing different in that respect is that one forgein company purchased another forgien company.
    You would of gotten a bunch of Republicians on it to but with the Democrats racing off to get themselves on the talk shows they were the ones that got blasted with it.

  22. Re:What about gambling in MMORPGs? on The Looming Battle Over Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    Most MMORPGs have language that says they prevent the sale of in game items for real world money or items so they are safe on this. Otherwise you could make the case the killing an in game MOB is gamling since there is a chance that some sellable loot is found.
    Sony had to deal with this since they have a server where they provide the means to buy and sell using real world money. What they did was to not allow thoses servers to have in game gambling.
    Second Life does have large places where you can gamble, you can even do sports betting, but so far seem to be safe since they are not providing the gambling themselves(it is the customers) and they are relativly small.

  23. Talk about a misleading submitted post on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 2, Informative

    The main bulk of the article is about a recent speech where the director of law enforcement policy talked about how companies should be careful about how they implement copy protection and how it should not damage or surprise users in how it works.
    In there is a small paragraph mentioning that DHS and a talk with Sony that what they did "was not a useful thing", which becomes the main thing.
    The thing thing that should of been focused on was the message from DHS that companies should not defeat the security measures that people have in place on thier computers.

  24. Re:its not that hard on Maryland Governor Wants Voting Paper Trail · · Score: 1

    And which is the official ballot?
    What happens if I pocket the paper and walk-out with out without depositing it?
    What happens if a machine crashes and it looses all votes?
    Besides you are forgetting most of the people here are worried that an evil corporation will get in and modify the code so that that a few extra votes gets put into a different canidates column. The two parts, one human readable and the other computer readable does not guarentee to them that they couldn't be different.

  25. Re:Why is anyone against paper trails? on Maryland Governor Wants Voting Paper Trail · · Score: 1

    The reason I am against them in most description is because they give you nothing in return for a few a feeling that everything is good, and do nothing to increase reliability.
    You get two types of machines in these talks: 1) A machine you vote and then get a receipt showing your vote which you pocket, machine keeps official ballot, 2) a machine that you vote and then it prints out your ballet which you deposit and that ballot is the official record.
    With type 1 what do you gain with the printout? The receipt has no value? Same with ATM try bring an ATM receipt into your bank and use that as proof of anything, if it did not get recorded in the machine it did not happen.
    Type 2 is nothing more then a far more complicated punch ballot. If we puthad problems with people empting the trash holders of the chads do you really trust them to load and clear paper jams? Also why the extra expense, the paper punch card system works excellent in most cases, why just add in a computer? It solves some problems with possible dimpled chads but introduces alot more. It is the same reason you don't see alot of thoses level ballot booths, the cost alot and were prone to breaking down.