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  1. Re:AJAX is no threat to desktops. on Will AJAX Threaten Windows Desktop? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is badly used AJAX. There are really nice uses for it, but it must integrate into traditional websites to make them better, not replace them entirely.
    You still have individual pages for whatever is needed, but, say, an interactive form application (like writing an sending email) is perfectly fitted for an AJAX page that will redirect you to your Inbox when you are done: you shouldn't be allowed to go back (using your browser's history functions) to that point where the page told you that "that e-mail addres does not have an "@" in it, try another one".
    That's why it is important to pick the right tool for the job. AJAX is no replacement for normal HTML pages, it is an extension that should be used carefully in order to enhance, and not destroy, your user's experience.

  2. Re:Russia + EU on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 1

    From your deep cynicizm about the state of US democracy I must assume you are from Europe. I find your nihilism to be not to be much of an alternative.

    Bzzt. Argentina it is, land of corrupt politicians, fat cows and maradona/tango/gaucho whatever cliché you prefer :D
    Still, I don't see where I claimed my country's political stance was better than US's. Argentina's involvement with global problems is nonexistant, as sadly, we have enough to take care around here.

    Your pacifism is hard to comprehend. Perhaps if your country were under a more immediate threat you would feel differently.

    Maybe, I find that hard to believe, but hey, Argentina has not that many enemies. Still, that doesn't make it right. It is not because killing in self defense is justifiable that somehow murder becomes nice. It is not because I feel compelled to do something - sentimentally, out of anger, or out of fear, desire of revenge - that it somehow becomes the right thing to do. Understandable, maybe. Right? No.

    My country's justice system applies only to its citizens, not to enemy nations that seek to harm it.

    Well, obviously that sucks. It is not justice unless it is the same for all. Did you ever notice that this lady has her eyes covered?
    Judging "others" (whatever that means for you, "attacking countries", the "axis of evil", black people, jews) differently than yourself is discrimination.
    When a killer murders, he can be *trying* to deliberately hurt you. He still gets (at least in theory, which is good enough for this era) a fair trial.

    For them Mr. Bush is judge, jury, and executioner!

    What can I say, "Heil Bush" maybe?

  3. Re:Ok all you web designers out there .... on Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, it's sad when all your "real worlding" makes you loose any hope that the world you live in has *something* in it besides dollars.

    Even if it is unrealistic, it's nice to at least think about it. It's not "decent" to ban idealistic thoughts, and it's not decent to insult those who post them either.

    High-schoolers have a lot that no amount of this real world we live in will give you.

  4. Re:Russia + EU on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When you are the world's most powerful nation, you can do 2 things. You can,
    a) become a pragmatist and keep your people happy, while staying out of everyone else's problems, only doing what's in your best interest

    or

    b) be a philosopher, try to do something in order to fix this fucked up world, by trying to *stop* wars (1), and putting some of that extra money where it can actually help anyone, maybe pull strings to get Sharon to french-kiss a Palestinian guy, whatever

    The thing is, you can't have both. It is because Bush is such a fucking hypocrite that everyone hates him, and that terrorists are striking your soil.

    The only thing an American president cares is to get reelected. He can't even care about anything else, even if he wanted, because your political system is so fucked up and monopolistic that his own partners would hang him if he did.

    And in order to get reelected, as your argument shows, Bush needs to do a). Of course, in order to keep the rest of the world happy, he should at least pretend to do b). The sad thing is, he sucks at this role-playing thing, and he makes your country look like shit in the process.

    And finally, really, international politics and religion have *nothing* to do. When you try to mix them, you get arabs hitting planes against buildings and hebrew helicopters firing missiles through windows. Religion is not rational. Therefore, never an argument based on religion will be valid.
    Religion gives every extremist the excuse for what he is doing (examples for this are obvious, think Talibans and muslim terrorists).

    (1): no war is a just war: unavoidable, maybe, "just", never. This is why you have a justice system in your beloved country, because fist fights are not "just".

  5. Re:Fix-patch in 5...4...3... on Apache Request Smuggling Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    Damn, where is this world going if I can't wven trust Google to provide support for my arguments without double checking??

  6. Re:Fix-patch in 5...4...3... on Apache Request Smuggling Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    You're welcome.

  7. Re:Fix-patch in 5...4...3... on Apache Request Smuggling Vulnerability Found · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hate to run your day you know, but that's why it's called Apache in the first place. It comes from the days where the Apache guys were heavily patching the NCSA webserver. Sorry :(

    Link

  8. Re:rotation problem on Cassini's Got Pictures And Data · · Score: 1

    I don't think so.
    An impact a million years ago would have slowed down Saturn's rotation a million years ago.
    For every change in speed or angular momentum there is an applied force somewhere. An impact that happened that long ago can't be directly responsible for something happening today.

  9. Re:Verifying the Theory on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 1

    If you state that science is just "observation", and "faith" has nothing to do with science, then your argument about "reading on philosophy of science" falls apart.
    "Scientific explanation" is not replacement for verification, nor verification proves a theory's validity.
    Anyway, for a nice, different approach to science, look up Feyerabend's work (or Alan Chalmers's for the bigger picture).

  10. Re:Garbage. on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    Ok, now that you pulled your badass "insults" and pwned me completely, think about it for a second.

    You *are* comparing the loading times of a Word processor and a raster processing software. You are implicitly saying that "gimp programs takes a lot of time to load, but word does not!".

    If you can't read your own words, that's bad. If you can't refrain yourself from insulting people when you fail to realize (or maybe just accept) you made a mistake, that's worse.

    You are the only one flaming here. Just because I don't agree with you that doesn't mean i am an OSS fan, let alone a fanatic.

  11. Re:Garbage. on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    You're right, it's amazing. You know what's worse? Doom III: it takes a whole minute to load in the same computer that will launch winmine.exe in half a second!!

    How useful is a comparison between a raster processing software and a word processor?

  12. Re:Amazing, two systems of justice... on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sure, they are teh 3vil!!
    For fuck's sake. To a palestinian, you are a foreign bastard who took his territory and gave it to the Jewish people, the same Jewish people he's in war and kills your people since you can remember. Of course they're shouting death.

    And you know what's wrong with them, besides war crimes and unbelievable suffering and pain? Lack of perspective. Peace can't be achieved because most can't see any further than this.

    So do you, as far as I can tell. Please, this people are not lunatics, no one is. They have been raised by a different culture, but it's not a bad one. Fanatics are just as bad there as in the US, except they don't have the FBI to kick their asses whenever they feel like it. They live in a society mandated by inertial hate they got from previous generations.

    To a palestinian, you are much more of a son of a bitch than he is to you. It's just that they gather on the streets to shout it instead of reelecting their badass president to "kick some ass" and having the senate give him unlimited military budget.

    Think about it. Pretty much everything happens for a reason.

  13. Re:Bad example. on Scientific Research That Could Have Been Avoided · · Score: 1

    When I said "no one knows crap about how nothing really works" I was talking about the fact that no observation can be considered a proof or a refutation, since they all rely on more or less important seconday thesis (eg: "if we put a clock on a plane it won't be damaged" and such).

    The route dependency of time is NOT well understood. Nothing is. There is a difference between "why the apple fell on Sir Isaac's head" and the more fundamental research on gravitons, which actually tries to get closer to the deeper question of "why does gravity exist".

    Physics (and every science except logic and mathematics) is, as a part of the current scientific paradigm, doomed to never understand and always predict. You can never be sure how something works.

    My statement was more philosophical that scientific. Einstein was a freaking genius, but he wasn't closer to real understanding than you or me. Well, actually maybe a bit, but he wasn't there either :)

  14. Think about this: on Zalman Showcase Massive P4 Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Is terrorism a casual product of entropy, or did anything cause it?

    For every guy like you that says "war is fine if they [in my personal view] they started it", there is at least another guy like me who would like to see problems solved instead of innocents being murdered because of lack of intelligence from Humanity as a whole. And for every 1000 guys like me there's at least fifty who think that "the US got what they deserved on 9/11", and some other guy who would have been involved in 9/11 if he had had the chance to do so.

    Sorry about the made up stats, but try to get the idea. No war will ever bring peace.

  15. Re:emacs or xemacs? on Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard · · Score: 1

    They're not "closed". They just don't match Stallman's definition of "fr4y & 0pen s0rz". You can get the source and patch it as you wish, it just has some additional restrictions for redistribution.

    Just clarifying, because "closed" can be misleading.

  16. Re:Bad example. on Scientific Research That Could Have Been Avoided · · Score: 1

    I don't know as much about GR to argue on this, but did Einstein really "prove" that time is only specific to a local system of reference? Isn't it just that because you're moving very fast, time *seems* to go slower? And again, nothing of this is proved, much like quantum mechanics, no one really knows crap about this. Actually, no one knows crap about how nothing really works. Einstein just proposed what seems to be a damn good model.

  17. Re:military research, again on Building the World's Most Powerful Laser · · Score: 1

    1) You're wrong. Read what i wrote again and find the logical mistake in your proposition.
    2) Heh, i guess you earned it now. Grow up dude.

    Have a nice day,

  18. Re:military research, again on Building the World's Most Powerful Laser · · Score: 1

    Ok, now give up that Arnold Schwarzenegger ideology and think about it. Is it really as funny as you thought it would be?
    The fact that US's military can kick everyone else's ass is really not that cool. As a matter of fact, it's one among many reasons that provide terrorists with motivation.
    Although tempted to say "grow up", i'll refrain myself from doing so, just so that I don't become a childish ass and someone else can actually read what i wrote instead of flaming me.

  19. Re:The many possibilities on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    CVD is also used to synthetize Carbon Nanotubes.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube

  20. Re:Mathematics Out of the Closet on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    ROFLMAO
    That's it, thanks for the laugh.

  21. Re:The problem isn't lack of comments on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 1
    Smalltalk looks really concise, but not clear at all to me (not being familiar with the language). PHP is as crappy as it gets, Java is a bit too verbose for me.
    Python:

    def sumResults(id,managerName):
    sum = 0
    results = Managers.getManager(managerName).getStorageMethod( ).getResultsById(id)
    for each in results:
    sum = sum + results
    return sum

  22. Re:At the same time, at Microsoft HQ... on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    ROFLMAO
    that's it

  23. Re:Has this stuff actually ever solved anything? on IBM Grid Near 50,000 machines - Slashdot Users #13 · · Score: 1

    The parent is wrong. MD5 was not "cracked" - someone managed to find a collision (to sets of data that produce the same MD5 hash). People seem to forget that for any [arbitrary length] -> [fixed length] conversion, collisions *must* exist.

    Anyway, it would be time now to start switching away from MD5 because the fact that a collision has been found (and with computer power growing exponentially over the years), a new, heavier and slower algorithm is needed to prevent your passwords from being cracked in 5 seconds in the next two years.

  24. Re:Remote Monitoring on A Diagnosis of Self-Healing Systems · · Score: 1

    Actually, decent RAID systems have hot spares installed. When a disk dies, the hot spare takes it's place - you just remove the dead drive in order for it to become a new hot spare, and not to get the array to it's original state.
    You can't just "not replace dead drives" unless you have like 400 SCSI controllers on your machine, therefore providing an insane amount of hot spares for future failures.

  25. Re:Why does nobody ever mention Typo3? on Two Books On Plone · · Score: 1

    PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (a la GNU's recursive acronym), but it was short for Personal Home Page in its first days.