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  1. Re:Default to HTTP? on Firefox Extension HTTPS Everywhere Does What It Sounds Like · · Score: 1

    Heh. I posted that before I had signed out of google.ca, it appears to work. The sign-in process for iGoogle (at least with google.ca) redirects to https and back to http once you're logged in though. Meh.

  2. Re:Default to HTTP? on Firefox Extension HTTPS Everywhere Does What It Sounds Like · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Linked Data #1 on Berners-Lee Pushes Linked Data In MIT Course · · Score: 1

    I [OPINION].

  4. Re:Yes the summary sucks ... on Washington's IT Guy · · Score: 1

    True, I've only skimmed the article so far, but the following quote alone makes me want to get to know this guy!

    If you look at the [chief information officer] and [chief technology officer] of the United States sitting there with a Dell computer and a 15-inch monitor, you think to yourself, "Why in the hell does our CIO not have, like, three 30-inch monitors?"

  5. Re:Good on NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon · · Score: 1

    I'd claim that ATK should continue to get contracts (provided they succeed) after Challenger. Yes people lost their lives, but the best way to learn is through mistakes. Giving it to a different company risks the same mistake being made again.

  6. Re:So... it is really due to CPU's? Re:Wrong tag on Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS · · Score: 1

    Geez guys. There's more finger pointing in here than a meeting between BP, Transocean, and Haliburton.

    Yeah. Stop pointing the finger, people!

    It's not a flaw in any of the technologies used, it's a flaw in how they were used together. The programmers who wrote the scripts didn't properly validate incoming data. That's all there is too it.

    Yes, aspects of SQL probably didn't help, but quite honestly, it was a programming decision to use SQL in the first place.

    Either way, fix it!

    Um.. wait. Now you've done it too. :P

  7. Re:Slashdot is NOT helping here... on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    1 billion people don't know who he is.

  8. Oooh!! I can't wait! on Lord of the Rings Online To Go Free-To-Play · · Score: 1

    As a reasonably-long-time Premium-level player of Dungeons & Dragons Online I can safely say that I'm a big fan of this payment model and I will be checking out LOTRO when it becomes available as Free-To-Play! I checked out some of the videos and it looks damned good! :D

    It's a great payment model, it puts the power back into the hands of the player where it belongs, I don't feel like my money is being extorted from me if I don't "get my money's worth" by not playing excessively for a month, and that, with quality content keeps me coming back for more!

  9. Re:Still waiting for... on Blizzard vs. Glider Battle Resumes Next Week · · Score: 1

    I can't speak for Dwarf Fortress or other commercial games, but how can Nethack possibly be profitable when there is no commercial spirit behind it? It's maintained by folks who indeed, treat the game as what it should be, art.

  10. Re:VPython on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    Depends on how old you are, but Logowriter?

  11. Re:You're serious.... on For Automated Testing, Better Alternatives To DOS Batch Files? · · Score: 1

    I've been programming to any degree you're free to interpret for over 18 years and I'm 28. Sometimes when you just want to bang out something simple, it's common to revert to that which is best ingrained (like the stuff you used when you first started) it's only natural. You do it and you aren't even aware of it, everyone does. Belittling those that are at least intelligent enough to ask the question he asks only makes you look worst, anon.

  12. Re:E.G. Last Night on Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams · · Score: 1

    Note to Riddler: Next time, imagine a naked female mechanic magically fixing your truck instantaneously. Invite her back to your place and order a pizza, whereby the pizza-delivery girl shows up at your door step....

  13. Re:Nothing to do with video games on Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams · · Score: 1

    Given the opportunity, I like to take advantage of my dreams.

    You know that show where all the main characters have assorted super powers? The name escapes me, but that chinese dude can stop time and basically be anywhere he wants in the blink of an eye, even doing stuff while time is stopped. I like to take that to the very naughty extreme.. All those women in the streets and nobody to stop you from taking a peek or copping a feel. Hell, even running around heavily trafficked streets completely in the buff just for the hell of it! Can't do that anywhere else and get away with it. :)

  14. Re:3000BC called... on New iConji Language For the Symbol-Minded Texter · · Score: 1

    Easy. It has become so natural to people, that they forget that everything has context and emphasis.
    Which would you prefer?

    Coffee back at "her" place, or "coffee" back at her place?

    Or the classic:
    I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse.
    or
    I helped my uncle jack off a horse.

  15. Re:Not only free as in beer! on Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    making the source code of selected program samples and other modules available online

    Woohoo, they're providing tutorial code.

  16. Common sense. on Why Overheard Cell Phone Chats Are Annoying · · Score: 1

    It took SCIENTISTS to explain common-fucking-sense? I'm glad it wasn't my tax dollars that paid for that study.

  17. Re: Anonymous Coward. on Foldit Player May Have Created a Useful Protein · · Score: 1

    As narrated by William Shatner?

  18. Re:A little perspective from the UK on In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition · · Score: 1

    all that his views are relatively unknown.

    Isn't this a good trait for a Justice Minister? Mind you, I know nothing of the guy.

  19. What about quad core laptop processors? on AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, where are those damned quad core laptop processors AMD promised? I've been waiting freaking AGES to buy a laptop with one.

  20. Re:Natural final destination? on Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Uhh.. Wrong thread?

  21. Re:First Post on Ultrasound As a Male Contraceptive · · Score: 1

    Blue balls of death

  22. Re:Throw em a bone on TV Networks Don't Want DMCA Protection For YouTube · · Score: 1

    Pocket change. Add three zeros to the billing rate.

  23. Re:Well, duh. This is news? on "Serious Games" Industry Gains Traction · · Score: 1

    +1 Agr<blood stains />

  24. Natural final destination? on Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control · · Score: 1
    What interests me is this part.

    on its way to an earth-sun Lagrange point, the natural final destination of a geostationary satellite without maneuvering power.

    what does it mean?

  25. How fitting. on Gamer Wins $1M For Pitching Virtual "Perfect Game" · · Score: 1

    "We're very happy to give the money away," said Jason Argent, vice president of marketing for 2K Sports. "This was something innovative we dreamed up and we were really able to make some noise in the marketplace."