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  1. Re:Quick. Clean. on Google Finance Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    It's clean because it doesn't do anything...there's a few lines of text and...not much else....
    Try signing in and clicking on the Portfolio link in the upper right. It allows you to enter what stocks you own, how many shares, and what price you bought them at. It then tracks the return on your investment. Even if you don't own stocks, you could use this for easy virtual trading to try your hand at the market.
  2. Re:Article link on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 1
    or Surt?
    Or glimmy?
  3. Re:Nothing 'bout the net, dude... on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 5, Funny
    Would you hire a guy named "Kluttz"?
    Would you hire a 27 year-old who has a MySpace account?
  4. Re:Open-Source? on US Government Seeks Open-Source Translation · · Score: 1
    I fail to see how the term 'open-source' is applicable to a translation.
    You could make the argument that the source of the translation is open, as it wasn't performed by a government entity or some other unknown translation service.
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  5. Re:Classification? on US Government Seeks Open-Source Translation · · Score: 2, Informative
    What if it turns out that the document is talking about something that the US finds it needs to classify?
    From the article:
    US intelligence officials say nearly all the documents released have been given at least a cursory reading by Arabic experts. Beth Marple, Negroponte's deputy press secretary, said amateur translators won't find any major surprises, such as proof Hussein hid stockpiles of chemical weapons.

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  6. Good, but... on US Government Seeks Open-Source Translation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it's a great idea, but how many people will have to translate a document with similar results before it can be trusted?

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  7. Success... on Netroots Politics · · Score: 4, Informative

    Didn't all 17 or 18 of the political candidates that Kos openly endorsed lose? I'm not sure what in this kind of track record would qualify Markos to write a book on the subject...

  8. Re:uh huh on Penn and Teller's Long Lost Game · · Score: 3, Funny
    If nothing else, it sounds like a great game for people who enjoy incredibly repetitive things.
    Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.

    Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.

    Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.

    Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.

    Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.

    Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.
  9. Re:Argh, Matey! on 360 Hackers Claim Full Read/Write Ability · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Are there really any examples of "homebrew" games for modern systems?
    I don't know if this counts, but there is the newly available "Mario Adventure," which was produced by an individual who hacked the SMB3 game engine to produce an entirely new 2-D Mario adventure. I played it on my Dreamcast last night, and it is a great deal of fun.

  10. Re:This is called a "joke?" on White House Cease & Desists to The Onion · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Onion advertises and sells goods through its website and hardcopy version, which is indeed "commercial."

    Moreover, if the US Code states that the seal "is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures or products in any way that suggests presidential support or endorsement," then that pretty much paves the way for the White House to decide where the seal can be used.

    Looks like the Onion is out of luck. (And out of humor too, starting about a year and a half ago, IMHO.)

  11. Re:stored procs and triggers, finally on MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That code will only end up defining $_POST["key"] and $_GET["key"] for each POST and GET argument. More likely, you meant:


    foreach ($_POST as $key => $value){
        $_POST[$key]= preg_replace('/(\'|")/', '', $value);
    }
    foreach ($_GET as $key => $value){
        $_GET[$key]= preg_replace('/(\'|")/', '', $value);
    }

    and correct me if I'm wrong, but does the above just remove all single and double quotes from all GET and POST vars? Some people may need those characters... Why not just use stripslashes (if you have magic quoting on) and mysql_escape_string?

    foreach ($_GET as $key => $val) $_GET[$key] = stripslashes($val);

    $query = "UPDATE ... SET `field`='".mysql_escape_string($_GET["foo"])."' WHERE ... ";

  12. Re:PHP can do allot on PHP Succeeding Where Java Has Failed · · Score: 5, Informative
    I'm very impressed with how far PHP (Personal Home Page) has gone.
    PHP hasn't stood for Personal Home Page for a long time. It stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor."
  13. Re:mistake in the article on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 1

    Actually, I realized right after I submitted the comment that it should be 40% under 15 and 20% ages 15-19, since it is 20% *under* 20. Oh well.

  14. Re:mistake in the article on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article writers have made a mistake in addition. 60% of the population is below 20, and 40% is under 15, that makes 100% of the population under 21


        40% under 15
    + 20% ages 16 - 20
    ==================
    = 60% under 20

  15. Re:Bittorrent / P2P download links on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you use Azureus could you post the Magnet URI address for the dht: network?

    Is this what you need? magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DD3CA4757LNNLEMGSQIN5JMPK23B62 NB

  16. Re:Blank tabs rule on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 1

    This would be #1 on my wishlist for Firefox fixes as well.

  17. Re:Don't get it!! on Smartphone Suggestions for Text SSH Use? · · Score: 1

    I'll bet he wishes it was only 14/7.

  18. Insanely great on Solaris DTrace To Be Ported to FreeBSD · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    insanely great
    You know, I've read a lot of software reviews, but I don't think I've ever seen the "insanely" used as an adverb before...
  19. Re:Hold on... on The Milky Way is Not a Spiral? · · Score: 1

    Pfff! I've got a 20 year old dictionary that still uses the obsolete spelling "obselete," from the root "obsoletus."

  20. Re:i remember seeing somethign like this once on A Programmatically Accessible Email Archive? · · Score: 1
    Just have a script on your mailserver to link a script to write the email (breaking down into the various fields) and attachment to a relational database.
    I wrote a set of PHP scripts a couple months ago that will do exactly this. If anyone's interested, e-mail me for a zip of the files: cfinke at gmail.com
  21. Re:Interesting... on Remember When Elephants Had Tusks? · · Score: 2, Informative

    On CNN the other day, I heard this referred to as "survival of the fittest," which was one of the dumbest things I had heard in weeks. The anchor implied that because tuskless elephants used to be 5% of the elephant population and now they're 8%, this means that more elephants are being born with the tuskless gene, which could be completely false. If I have 100 elephants, 5 of them tuskless, and I kill 37 of the tusked elephants, 8% of the elephants are now tuskless - Darwin it ain't.

  22. Re:Hmm on How the Batsuit Works · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are you, some kind of Batman expert? He's got buttloads of superpowers. Like... samurai sword powers, wall-climbing powers, and this sweet arm blade...

  23. Re:Why stick with warehouses anyway? on Games With Crates Get No Twinkie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The reason you've probably never seen a good/complete apartment map is because of the limitations of the rendering engine. I've just about finished what I think is a great (and greatly detailed) map of my apartment building, but I can't get it to compile because there's too much detail/too many polygons (MAX_MAP_MODELS and MAX_MAP_CLIPNODES, for anyone else who does HL/CS mapping). I've gone as far as deleting all of the furniture/irregularly shaped objects in the map, but just having 3 floors of 30 empty 2-room apartments is too much for the compiler. Oh, and there aren't any crates in my map.

    (Off-topic: If anyone has some hints on how to easily fix these errors, I'd love to hear it.)

  24. Re:Creative journalism on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    For anyone who doesn't know how to slipstream a service pack, here is Paul Thurrott's slipstreaming tutorial.

  25. Re:Just a coincidence on Revenge of the Sith Easter Eggs · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, mod parent -10 Troll. In the linked article, Tom Ridge doesn't admit that they raised the terror alert level to boost Bush's ratings; he only said that he disagreed several times when the level was raised - nothing in the entire article about Bush's poll ratings. The grandparent poster is grasping at straws to support his skewed world view.