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  1. Re:Naming of OOXML a really dirty trick by MS on Australia Mandates Microsoft's Office Open XML · · Score: 1

    Or the time I was trying to flip a \ding{51} in LaTeX. That was an interesting search.

    (LaTeX is the most interesting language to search for, which is why I use the book so much at work)

  2. Re:Tomcat is as rock solid as it gets on Tomcat 7 Finalized · · Score: 1

    What you should do is have a background worker thread, with the user making requests that the background processes, so that the interface and the heavy report creation is done in different threads/processes. Then send the user immedately to a page where they can check the status, and download the result when it is done. Since you are talking more than a minute, a browser waiting isn't a good way to do this.

    (Basically, this would be like BeOS worked, with the interface in a separate thread from the application itself.)

  3. Re:And that's why US law is different. on Breaching an AUP a Crime In Western Australia · · Score: 0

    This is a work-related system, so possibly they have a signed contract between the employee and the police, which would be dealt with in the same way in the US.

    Contracts that aren't signed are one thing, but if both parties have signed it, then it is a "Breach of contract", and definitely a crime in the US.

  4. Re:I do not think that word means what you think i on Smartphone As Your Most Dangerous Possession · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't own a car? That is probably the "most dangerous" class of item that people own.

  5. Re:I don't normally say this, but... on Wikipedia Meets $16M Budget Goal · · Score: 1

    Except that Google Adwords has requirements about the content, which is why Wikipedia doesn't do that: they don't want to be restricted to what the advertiser wants.

    (For example, Google might consider the "Bikini Waxing" article to be porn)

  6. Re:I saw the headline... on South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet · · Score: 1

    Or South Korea was flinging Electric Buses at North Korea...

  7. Re:From the article.... on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 1

    Unless you are trying to do anything that involves subqueries. Hopefully they fixed it, but subqueries couldn't be used in views, and would often be executed slower than running the queries separately and typing the answers from one query into another.

    Also taking the silent data truncation errors, MySQL isn't exactly a highly reliable database.

  8. Re:Ask a friend on AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Not just that, but you need another computer that isn't a "64-bit Windows" computer running AVG 2011 with automatic updates.

  9. Re:First Post on Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, Customs tried to erase all of your data on that drive? (If the drive was in a file system that they didn't recognize, like EXT3 or such, then writing files would destroy data)

    Actually, why would customs mount the drive in a way that it could be modified at all? It seems like if they can modify it, anything they found would be tainted.

  10. Re:Not too surprising... on Video Games Found To Enhance Visual Attention · · Score: 1

    Wow, first time seeing that clip, and I got exactly 15 passes, and noticed the gorilla when she was in the middle of the screen.

    It was interesting how I was able to make the people in black simply disappear from view since they weren't relevant to the goal.

  11. Re:Careful with those quotation marks on Sophos Researcher Suggests Password 'Free' to Spur Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 1

    And the 'Free' in the title as well.

  12. Re:Laptops = contraception? on Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles? · · Score: 1

    Also, the XO-1 has the CPU and such behind the screen. The lower part is just the keyboard and battery, and the battery doesn't get warm.

  13. As much as you would get for stealing? on Considering a Fair Penalty For Illegal File-sharing · · Score: 1

    Based on the MPAA marketing that piracy is theft, then the punishment should obviously be what it is for stealing a copy of that item.

  14. Re:How serious is this really? on Microsoft To Release Emergency Fix For ASP.NET Bug · · Score: 1

    If the ASP.Net application is using ASP.Net 3.5 SP1 or above, the attacker could use this encryption vulnerability to request the contents of an arbitrary file within the ASP.Net application.

    Breaking the encryption is one thing, that is just !!!! GAH !!!

    Does that mean that a client that is authorized with a key to decrypt the encryption has access to "an arbitrary file within the ASP.Net application"?

    This would then seem like 2 very different issues: the oracle helping break the encryption, and the "request a file" issue.

  15. Re:Forward thinkers on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    Some stores have disabled the quantity button for non-managers.

  16. Emacs Dreams on Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time · · Score: 1

    During college, when I was doing everything in Emacs (Even the writing class, that was LaTeX in Emacs), I had some Emacs Dreams.

    It is really disturbing to be dreaming about syntax highlighting, and a bunch of glowing characters against a black background.

    (I have never had a VI dream, so I guess that shows where my allegiance lies)

  17. As Compared to Japan... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Japan, I have traveled to every station on the Nagoya Subway, taking pictures. (3rd or 4th largest city in Japan, about 80 stations.)

    I stood out, being a giant white guy, carrying what is to American police an "Evil, Terrorist-style" DSLR, with a 10-20mm lens on it.

    Not a single security guard or police officer even tried to talk to me. (Actually, the only time in Japan security guards have talked to me is when I was taking pictures in a mall that had "No Photography" signs posted at all entrances)

    Why are DSLRs so "Evil", when small point and shoots are just fine? Sure the picture quality might be better, but you don't need Ansel Adams quality to plan something.

  18. Re:Could be useful as well as interesting on Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day · · Score: 1

    More likely the devs would just ignore it.

    Taking the ISO 8601 date issue in OO.org (Where the edit format for dates in a cell is in ...some.. format that isn't what the cell is set to, and no ability to globally set the date format to ISO 8601), and the subquery bug in MySQL (where the outer query was run as a sequence scan against a subquery, with queries taking longer than it would to do by hand) as examples.

    Both weren't fixed for several years, with the MySQL bug only being fixed in the latest version, and not in the earlier versions.
    The OO.org bug is ... still open after 6 years.

    And these are large packages with tons of users, corporate backing with bugs that seriously affect usability.

  19. google-analytics.com ? on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I saw my browser waiting on google-analytics.com quite often before I started using No-Script.

    Why do sites put up with an AD server/analytics service that slows down a site by a large amount?

  20. Re:For printing use PDF via LaTeX on Best Browser For Using Complex Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    Yes, escaping is indeed fun.

    Which is why I used a library: <%= l @string_of_punctuation_goodness %> escapes things just like h() does for HTML.

  21. For printing use PDF via LaTeX on Best Browser For Using Complex Web Applications? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I also develop for Ruby on Rails, and we have to support IE 6-8. (Of course the developers all use Firefox for Firebug)
    For printing, I switched to using LaTeX, and returning the PDFs.

    HTML just doesn't give you the kind of control that you need on a piece of paper.(Try having custom page headers/footers, for example) I ran into the bug in firefox where it would skip rows of a table going over a page boundry, and then there was other issues with it dropping images on other pages.

    Plus, LaTeX just looks better. HTML is great if you don't know what it is going to be displayed on, but when you do know what kind of paper it is going to be displayed on, HTML isn't the best choice.

    (Specifically, I used the rTeX plugin, with pdflatex)

  22. Re:Average, Anonymous Coward on Can Transistors Be Made To Work When They're Off? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Driving with my foot off the gas works really well on I-70 East towards Denver, you can stay at 70MPH for a while there. Or in flat terrain, coasting along at 700rpm in second gear sometimes works well.

    Which made me think about this, and is really probably where this research would have effects: transistors on the edge of a high-potential region, so that even if the transistors are "off", there is more flowing through them than others in the middle of an "off" block.

  23. Re:Of all the bizare complaints about modern eletr on Your Computer Or iPad Could Be Disrupting Sleep · · Score: 1

    intensity remains constant at any distance

    Wow, where did you get your display that apparently shines lasers into your eyes?

    (Lasers are the exception to the inverse squares law, it doesn't matter otherwise whether it is reflected or light generated by pixie dust.)

  24. Re:Questionable ethics on Dirty Duty On the Front Lines of IT · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, Word '97 is the same as Word 2007?

    XP is the same as Vista?

    How about instead of teaching how to use a single version of an OS or software suite, they teach kids how to use a word processor, and more general stuff about using a computer?

  25. Re:Unforeseen consequences on Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor · · Score: 0

    The explosion gets contained?