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  1. Re:A friendly suggestion on Jazilla Milestone 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I think the former is their position -- that all browsers conform to all w3 standards. Mostly it's about designers wanting pages to look the same for every client.

    But above web standards is the belief that content should be accessible to everyone. So a lite browser that displays content seems to be in keeping with the ethos of accessibility.

  2. Re:A friendly suggestion on Jazilla Milestone 1 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Webstandards probably account for most of geckos 'bloat'. I'm not going to evangelize but there's no getting around the fact that they are important.

  3. Re:Fix the installers first on Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View · · Score: 1

    .6 loads your .5 profile automagically. the only thing i have to do now is reinstall extensions and re-add searchplugins. i didn't even delete my c:\phoenix directory since .6's directory is 'mozillafirebird'. easy as eating pancakes.

  4. Re:Nanotech and DRM on Nanotechnology: Lessig, Sherman and Drexler Speak · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the MPA (Materials Producers of America) will be suing college kids for $98 googolplex US because they downloaded Porsches in 20xx? That's progress, baby!

  5. Re:I found their trick on Online Newspapers Turning a Profit · · Score: 2, Informative

    user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "popup");
    user_pref("capability.policy.popup.site s", "http://www.nytimes.com http://nytimes.com");
    user_pref("capability.polic y.popup.Window.open", "noAccess");
    user_pref("capability.policy.popup.i mages.onLoad", "noAccess");
    user_pref("capability.policy.popup.H TMLImageElement.onLoad", "noAccess");

    Maybe...? (Without the spaces)

  6. Templating on Build Your Own Database-Driven Website · · Score: 1

    Try XSLT.

    It's powerful, has it's own php extension (instead of php classes like smarty and patTemplate -- although, come to think of it, the extension is just a Sablotron API so meh), and it's a W3C standard. On the downside, you need to configure your environment, which can be a problem depending on your hosting solution. You'll also have to learn XSL and work with XML but the semantic web is the future so get used to it.

  7. Re:Not just a PHP problem on PHP MySQL Website Programming · · Score: 1
    Low commentation (for godsakes, use # and throw in at least a few words every now and then

    Offtopic, but, FYI, use of perl/shell style comments is discouraged by PEAR. I think if PEAR standards were more visible, we'd see less freakish code. Although, why they choose to use Allman over 1tbs is beyond me (-:

  8. Re:"My Fake Job" article... (off topic, google ?) on EDS Silent On New CEO's IT Consulting Past · · Score: 1

    No, I just searched alt.punk for "hilarious article" and found part 2.

  9. Re:"My Fake Job" article... on EDS Silent On New CEO's IT Consulting Past · · Score: 1
  10. Re:What college is this? on Cheating Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    Well, it's certainly possible through a combination of tourament wins and sponsorship but he wouldn't be earning it online. Unless, of course, he was playing solitaire.

  11. Re:We can't stop with blue! on Plasmon Exhibits Working Blue Laser DVD Drive · · Score: 2, Funny

    SPECTRUM is green!

    *bump, ba-bump, ba-bum*

  12. Re:But just like Oakland, CA... on There.com's Virtual World & Economy · · Score: 1

    There's no there, there.
    -- Mona Lisa Overdrive, Gibson

  13. Re:Maybe it'll help, but I doubt it on Web Site Sues Annoying Pest Troll · · Score: 1

    2. Well, for a start you can prevent people from registering with a hotmail/yahoo/etc. Email address (while making it clear that their privacy is maintained). Don't want to give your primary email? Fine, please drive thru. Obviously, may deter 'legitimate' users from registering.

    3. Or people avoiding ip bans using anonymous proxies..But then you ban anonymous proxies too.

    4. Not possible on a large site. E.g. would never work on slashdot/kur05hin.

    Problem is, even if you are 100% successful in banning said troll, that's not always the end of the story. If they can't annoy you by posting they may try to hack or DDoS your site which is worse than simple trolling. If you don't host your own site then you have to rely on your hosts security (provided you've secured your forum) and, if the DDoS effects other customers, they might decide it's in their interests not to host someone who's going to draw such attacks.

  14. Re:The Transparent Society on U.S. Proposes Centralized Internet Surveillance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You might enjoy Arthur C's take on this (Light of other days).

  15. Re:Strike one against Mozilla. on HotBot Returns · · Score: 1

    http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

    Not that I use that myself, just the equivalent in Phoenix. Actually, one of the reasons I like Phoenix better is because you can easily add whatever engine you want to the bar. See http://mycroft.mozdev.org

  16. Re:Modern theme on Phoenix 0.5 Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    Thanks for clearing that up :)

  17. Modern theme on Phoenix 0.5 Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    For some reason I can't use the Modern theme in phoenix. Both modern and classic change to orbitz (which I dislike). I've settled on breeze for the time being but is it possible to get modern to work?

  18. Re:AI = my biggest complaint with the games indust on IEEE Spectrum Surveys Current Games' AI Technology · · Score: 2, Informative

    Supposedly both D3 and Q4 will be shifting the focus back to single-player (great news for narrowband nerds like myself). But then again neither will mark a vast improvement in AI.

    id's focus is on graphics and physics (game engines) not providing strong heuristic bots (resource intensive entities) :(

  19. Dyslexia and rhetoric.. on Actual Costs for the Space Station · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gets you modded up. Okay.

  20. National debt. on Actual Costs for the Space Station · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could have decreased it considerably. Or built a huge shrubbery...Nee.

  21. Re:The Matrix? on Equilibrium · · Score: 0

    Ancient Western philosophy is what he said :P

    Solipsism dates back to Descartes. It's just subjectivism and relativism taken to the extreme - and those have been around since the begining of epistemology.

    But I liked the matrix anyway :)

  22. Ook! on DHTML Bug Found in Mozilla 1.2 · · Score: 0

    "Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled." Mozilla even blocks the /. effect!

  23. Re:I'd like to see if this is *really* possible! on Another Millionaire Spammer Story · · Score: 0

    I was just about to reply with the same thing. You'd need some sort of spyware installed to accomplish this. Packaged with what, I don't know.

  24. CD players... on SGI NUMAflex Linux System On Display @ SC2002 · · Score: -1

    That's what our SGI's were used for at the last shop :d

  25. Re:haiku on Reverse Engineering Win32 Trojans on Linux · · Score: 0

    Beautiful :)