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  1. Re: archaic on Web 2.0 Distracts from Good Design · · Score: 1

    Thanks for mentioning Homesite, that was a great suite. I was very sad to see it swallowed up into DW and then languish - they never integrated it or advanced it thereafter, to my knowledge. Just another case of the big eating the small for self protection. Quality suffered that day.

  2. Re:PHP reminds me of IIS4 on PHP Security Expert Resigns · · Score: 1

    ...you mean the SANS, who have a site, powered by, er, php?

    http://www.sans.org/index.php

    And as to structurally similar to ASP? Put down the pipe...
    ASP isn't even a language. First link from google:
    http://www.webwizguide.info/asp/tutorials/what_is_ asp.asp

  3. Re:First time? on Banner Ad on Myspace Serves Adware to 1 Million · · Score: 1

    If you talking about content, about copyright or slander or something similar that comes about as a result of what users put up on their pages, then yes, there is an argument for them. But in terms of the web resources that come with the pages they serve, no. No way. That can be 100% screened, and should be.

  4. web 2.0 source code on Web 2.0 As A New Wave of Innovation? · · Score: 1

    // web 2.0 by stridebird

    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        alltheyhype = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        alltheyhype = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    } // are we going to upversion the web everytime we get a handy new browser object?

  5. Re: Sucesses? on ISS Loses Orbit-Boosting Options · · Score: 1
    Forget CEV - just go back to BDRs (Big Dumb Rockets) and screw all this people in space crap. Look at the great stuff from Hubble and Mars that's far cheaper than any shuttle or space station missions. (Yeah, yeah, hubble was launched by the shuttle...).

    Hubble: yeah ok nice idea but superceded now by adaptive optics on earth based observatories. Very cool correction of the initial fault in the mirror of course.

    Mars robotic missions...the way forward. And the web really helps selling the mission to joe public. It is awesome to look at the pictures and contemplate the data that's coming back.

    More robotic missions, and rather than sending antiseptic vehicles, we should load them up with a choice set of microbes and see if we can kick-start life in other places. We owe this to life itself, and it's a much more intelligent form of space travel. Don't send humans, send simple, tough life-forms and see what comes back a million or a 100 million years hence. From our planet a cloud of spores, little spaceships loaded of virii and bacteria, should burst forth travelling out on trajectories to collide with other heavenly bodies, just to see what grows there.

  6. Re:Wow on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 1
    wonder how this dinosaur fits into the standard archeological time-scale, age judged by the rocks around it etc

    "The Snorre reserves lie in the fluvial sands of the Lunde formation from the late Triassic period and the Statfjord formation is early Jurassic."
    http://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/snorre /

    Triassic: 248 - 213 million years ago
    Jurassic: 213 - 145 million years ago
    http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/geo_time_scale. html

    Dinosaurs first appeared in the Triassic and diversified greatly in the Jurassic. So yes, it fits. Nothing suprising here...

  7. Re:Parallels with Easter Island on Rewriting Environmental Science · · Score: 1
    I have no background in anthropology, but I do remember something about how general health declining when hunter-gatherers initially became farmers.

    Nor do I...but I have read "guns, germs and steel" by jared diamond, and I would highly recommend it.

    Anyway, another major change of the shift to farming is the appearance of many more diseases lethal to humans, due to the farmers living in close proximity to their animals. Many common diseases originated in domesticated animals and jumped over to humans.

  8. Re:The right tool? on Apple Publishes Ruby On Rails Tutorial · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, when you have finished comparing the comparative merits of RoR against the other options and find yourself carried along with the fresh-faced apple-shaped enthousiasm that it's riding on, go check up on your hosting. RoR is so ready for the maintime that it runs on, ooh, er, well your Mac basically.

    Unless you have good control over the hosting environment, you can't deploy it.

    Where is the apache dynamic module for this? And don't say it's FastCGI. It has to become as readily available as PHP in the hosting environment before it moves into the main stream.

    I could be wrong. Just seems to be something they gloss over when they are talking it up.

  9. Re:Illegal? on Spam King Busted by Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I did the math(s) and got 0.04167 email per user...

  10. Re:Scientists have what???? on Slowly Pulling Facts from Black Holes · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. Observations can never prove a theory. All observations - ALL observations - include uncertainty and the best that can be shown is a good fit of the observational data to the theories predictions. And trying to calculate the EXACT uncertainty unfortunately produces another measure of uncertainty. Mathematical proofs can be derived to prove a means of calculating the degree of "fit" of observational data but that still doesn't get around the uncertainty problems encountered when handling any observational data.

  11. shurely shome mishtake? on Glass Shapes Can Make Us Drink Too Much · · Score: 1
    So, as New Year's Eve is coming, remember to use only tall glasses for your party!!!

    /tall/short/

    ....shurely? hic. mc2u!

  12. Re:Australia now has DMCA on MySQL Beats Commercial Databases in Labs Test · · Score: 1
    The disc is useful only as a toy until you enter into this second contract.

    Even that's doubtful...

    "how to make a toy from a DVD" - zero hits.

  13. Re:The Beeb on BBC Opens TV Archive to Remixers · · Score: 2, Funny
    And how much leaks out of the faraday cage of a case that most pcs are in?

    It leaks out the same way the broadcast signal came in, my anonymous friend.

    Of course, you can box your antenna in a faraday cage too, that'll work...but your reception may not be so crisp. Read some more of the www.tvlicensing.biz site you quoted to learn about that.

  14. Re:Not really. on Lord British on Personal Spaceflight · · Score: 1
    it's not an astronomical number either.

    You're right. It's more a sub-orbital number.

  15. Re:Word from Chicken Little on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1
    Yeah, thanks for your notepad calculations. The grand parent is way off route with his initial assumptions. It isn't the release of energy from burning carbon fuels that causes the planet to warm. It's the release of carbon gases to the atmosphere from combustion that cause the heating effect. As you point out, the change in atmospheric composition then affects the total energy balance of the planet, storing more energy in the atmosphere and hence warming the surface.

    Incidentally, I'd imagine your figures of energy input to the earth by the sun to be on the low side...what comes after zetta?

  16. Re:A Real Question on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1
    If the Feds come looking for somebody based on IP they're coming to you and not to his home address. You know what I mean?

    Well i don't know about feds, but here in the UK (and IANAL) I don't think that would be enough to hang you. They would have to find evidence on one of my computers to convict me: it would be too easy to construct a defence on the basis of having a unsecure WLAN (not actually a crime) and claiming it was unauthorised access. Without material evidence on my hard drive, i doubt they could convict. I surely HOPE that's the case!

  17. Re:In other news: on UK Companies Love IT Workers, Love Not Returned · · Score: 0

    And (allegedly) 90% of people respond that they are "above average". It's the other 10% I (sometimes) worry about...

  18. Re:It won't be too long before that problem goes a on Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper · · Score: 1
    an image format which only has 256 different levels...

    ...is called GIF. TIFF, JPG and other formats commonly used for digital photography represent pixels as byte values for _each_ of R, G and B - ie 256x256x256 possible values (actually GIF does to, but is restricted to only using up to 256 colours in its colour table).

    And yes, this is a sampling of the output signal from the CCDs. So the camera could probably deliver higher resolution pixel values if the A/D convertor and file format supported it.

    And your comment regarding 'cropping' is non-sensible so I ignored it.

  19. Re:Noise cancelling headphones on Wi-Fi Coming on U.S. Domestic Flights · · Score: 1

    You have a building A/C? That's not very anonymous...

  20. Re:duh on Europe Home to Majority of Zombies · · Score: 1
    I don't think port 25 should be open for a single IP address on the planet.

    OK, let me think about that. Block port 25 on basically every network interface on the planet. So now I can't access SMTP anywhere on the planet...so now I can't send email anymore.

    That alone would eliminate 90% of SPAM out there,

    Heh, I'd like to know what you think will happen to the other 10% of spam 'out there'? I think you 'eliminated' that too, huh?

  21. Re:Bummer... on Megafauna Extinction Due to Climate · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Most other megafauna met the bow and arrow/spear wielding humans, and the contact tended to be fatal.

    That's one of the problems with the human caused extinction theory in australia. The dating of stone arrow-heads doesn't tie up with the extinction period.

    "There is not a single stone-spearpoint in Australia until, at the very earliest, about 15,000 years ago - long after anyone thinks the megafauna went extinct," said co-author Dr Stephen Wroe, from the University of Sydney.

    From the bbc news story

  22. Re:Unauthorized access? on Government Use of WiFi Not Secure · · Score: 2, Informative

    That doesn't get you in. Not quite.

    Once you have swapped your MAC address to match another on the network, what happens next? How does the conflict resolve between two machines with the same MAC address? Not nicely...

    To be stealthy you need to observe MAC addresses, then identify when a machine has disconnected from the network. Then you can walk up and take it's place at the table and eat its porridge - until it comes back. Then there's conflict again.

  23. Re:changes on Nokia Releases Perl for Series 60 Phones · · Score: 1
    maybe the killer app IS the 10 megapizel [sic] camera?

    OK maybe not: the killer apps will more likely take advantage of the marriage of the two devices, building on top of them. And perl may well have a new niche as the thinking geeks glue, customising the functionality of the camera phone and creating a quick'n'dirty testing ground for new software ideas. Although, if that's so, perl is going to need GD or some other module with extensive graphics support built in too.

  24. Re:Why computers are complicated on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1
    An elevator has only six possible states: going up, going down, or stopped, multiplied by doors open or doors closed.

    More, I would wager...several more. How about "going down too fast" for one?

    And where I live in Brixton: "freshly urinated" too.

  25. Re:How queer... on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 1

    It's not a distance thing. It's a TIME thing. Fact is, there are many areas you could live in London that would have a longer commute to get to the center.