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  1. Re:Money talks on Bruce Perens on UserLinux and Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I am using ubuntu for a mythtv box and it works fine and does a lot more besides, I had no problem, i'm not sure why you did.

  2. Re:intervention? on New "Dark" Freenet Available for Testing · · Score: 1

    Don't forget FTP and HTTP. And blank media.

  3. Re:Java's so 90's! on Interview With the Father of Java · · Score: 1

    There's a problem when you have to write more lines of XML code than source code.


    And when you find yourself having to debug XML because your application doesn't work. I am unconvinced about having wiring in XML instead of code.
  4. Re:Rationalization on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1

    here are books that say aliens were behind JFK's assassination.


    I thought you were liked believing ridiculous fairy tales that you read in books, now you seem against them :-)
  5. Re:Rationalization on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You reduce your chance of getting prostate problems by ejeculating regularly, so do it for your health.
    http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3942
    Its not good to keep stuff in, you need to regularly clear out those pipes, 5 times a week or more is good.

    Or do you abstain for religious reasons in which case why trot out a series of repeated non religious sounding reasons.

  6. Re:New Labour != far-left on UK Government Passes ID Card Bill · · Score: 1

    New Labour under Tony Blair have gone so right-wing they're no longer recognisable as the same party.

    Tony is so right wing that the Conservatives actually vote in favour of most of his policies. Labour is now full of cronies who are so desperate to keep their seats that they will ignore the things he is doing to this country (and the things he did to iraq). The public will continue to vote for him since he gives a large number of them "tax credits" (its amazing that you can get someone to vote for you by taxing them and then giving £40 of it back each month) - isn't that the kind of policy conservatives/republicans have?
  7. Re:Nice one. on Iran Cracks Down on Bloggers · · Score: 1
    The main blogger they mention does not live in iran and is not a muslim, for any given country you will find people who don't want to live there and will happily complain about it. I don't say this invalidates his point but theres not much point adopting one if they aren't actually in iran.

    This is a funny quote from his blog from a few years ago :-)


    April 28, 2003
    Wired, ignorant or just lazy

    I really wonder why Wired News totally seems to ignore the non-English language blogosphere. Are they ignorant or just lazy?

    Don't get me wrong I think irans leadership *is* rotten and yes I also think many of our countries are too (in different and less obviously savage ways). I think these also show that Democracy is a stupid dogma.
  8. Re:Don't bash the church-goers on Evidence of the Missing Link Found? · · Score: 1

    Christians do not believe in aliens.
    Those who believe that Jesus Christ is an alien are cultists.

    And who are you to decide which random fantasies people who decide to call themselves Christians believe in? Believing Jesus was an alien is no stranger than most other things Christians believe and has as much evidence too :-)
  9. Re:hold on hold on hold on on Al-Qaeda Hacker Caught · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, let me get this straight, if you're a propagandist for a terrorist group, you're a terrorist?

    Yay. I wonder where this slippery slope ends up?


    He was arrested in the UK. IIRC it is now illegal to even say anything that could even be construed as "glorifying" terrorism, we are already slipping down that slope. You can now be imprisoned for 3 months without even being charged with anything.

    What a country.
  10. Re:Please don't ruin tabbed browsing... on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that finds clicking the mousewheel to be a stupid way of middle clicking... It's hard to push these buttons without having the scroll wheel/joystick move

    Either you have a crap mouse or a neurological problem.
  11. Re:Why? on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    Yeah that really fucks me off too, in fact I have pretty much given up on using extensions (except web developer toolbar at work) and themes because I got annoyed with backwards compatibility being broken.
    On the other hand FF now has enough features as standard that I don't really feel the *need* for extensions.

  12. Re:Anyone else Railed-out? on Exploring Active Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So I've done most of the site in PHP instead... just start each page with sanity checking, authorization, the SQL the page needs

    TBH It just sounds like you don't know what you are doing.
  13. Re:Wouldn't that be ironic. on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The recently uncovered Saddam tapes (while far from a smoking gun),

    Let me guess, these will be as accurate as Colin powells presentation of satellite photos at the UN and all the other fake evidence that was used to support the attack on iraq.

    They did such a good job of hiding these non-existant WMDs that they got totally trounced and saddam hid in a hole rather than actually use them to fight back. Now that is world class hiding!

    You have to wonder, since these WMDs (that can be spotted by satellite if you believe the bush administration and his followers) are SO well hidden why didnt saddam hide himself and his family there.
  14. Re:If you replace enough files... on OSx86 Cracked Again · · Score: 1

    I can't lay down the bucks for a Mercedes either. Doesn't mean I'm going to go steal one.

    If you could make an exact duplicate of a Mercedes to drive would you? Duplication != stealing.
  15. Re:8 Days to patch on Microsoft to Patch WMF Exploit Early · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it were Firefox, you'd be praising them for releasing a patch so fast. And you'd be downloading 16 megabytes just to patch one little obscure feature

    Why would you download Firefox three times?
  16. Re:GPG/PGP: Thunderbird and Enigmail on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 1

    I think herbivore should be built into thunderbird (and all mail clients, but thunderbird is open source so in theory its more likely )

    http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/cryptog raphy/apps/mail/herbrip/intro.html

  17. Re:Welcome to 1984! on Britain to log all vehicle movement · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they will use this as another revenue earner like speed cameras. Car passes camera X at a certain time, then camera Y. They know the distance between them and your number plate and so can ticket you.

    This cant stop "terrorists", they can go and buy a car for £1000 from any used car dealer whenever they like, or OMG they could get a bus or train.

  18. Re:Mod_python has easier syntax on Ruby on Rails 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't remember the meaning of english being totally changed by adding a tab or a couple of spaces in. Looking at ruby it has quite similar syntax to python but without the liability of worrying about whitespace totally ruining your program.

  19. Re:Commercial equivalent is...? on Ruby on Rails 1.0 Released · · Score: 0

    mod_ruby is apparently a very limited way of embedding ruby code inside a web page, a la mod_php and the PHP language.

    As opposed to PHP which normally can't be "embedded in a web page"? You have totally misunderstood the meaning of mod_* .
  20. Re:Isn't it time to bury Perl? on Pro Perl Debugging · · Score: 1

    I mean, the language is bloated, cryptic, unwieldy and rather slow

    flamebait I know, but have any of you seen the amount of crud that Java projects accumulate these days, unless you know the syntax for the XML files and inheritance hierarchy for all the different MVC/ORM/IOC etc frameworks that get used you are in for a whole load of headaches. If you *dont* use them then you are in for a headache from having to write reams of tiresome code that would just a few short lines in a language such as perl.

  21. Re:Perl's place in todays world? on The Perl Foundation Gets New Leadership · · Score: 1

    it would have been SO EASY to define a flag or a pragma noting that all of the declarations in a file were implicitly of "my" variables

    Erm.. thats the default, of course then you have effectively global variables which is a bad thing.

    every Perl variable name has a piece of line noise attached to it that 90% of the time clarifies nothing.

    Erm... $variable is a scalar @variable is an array and %variable is a hash. That clarifies nothing to you?
    Are you really a perl programmer, you sound like a VB coder who never uses Option Explicit.
  22. Re:I can't believe it on Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or does compiling XML "into code" sound like a really bad idea. Or are you just making shit up?

  23. Re:I think you miss the point on MySQL 5.0 Candidate Released · · Score: 1

    A real database user that needed to hold a value of 300 would not use a column type that has a range of 0 to 255 or -127 to 127, since they would have read the

    Thank fuck we are all perfect and dont make mistakes. Listen, once your data is dirty you are fucked - you can't fix that data.
  24. Re:Just goes to show... on U.S. Army To Ramp Up Anthrax Purchasing · · Score: 1

    However they are allowed to live there as long as they behave.

    how magnanimous, as long as they "behave" you will kindly let them live on their own land?
      BTW has anyone read the US policy on NUCLEAR pre-emptive attacks recently? They are getting ready to use themselves and have used them in the past. How are they any better than the countries that they are making out to be the bad guys.
    The sooner the other middle eastern countries get nukes the safer they will be both from the US and from the people occupying and opressing palestine.
  25. Re:MythTV on TiVo OS Update Adds Content Protection · · Score: 1

      1) it doesn't need to run an X11 display itself.

    apart from to WATCH TV on maybe?