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  1. Re:Using encryption suggests criminality on Encrypt Filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES · · Score: 1
    In all seriousness, it's not about hiding criminal activity. ... The last thing I need is for some "law enforcement" entity to go grepping my emails and IM logs looking for something to pin on me.

    Not to mention some thief* rifling through my financial info.

    *) could be a thief with a warrant. Or who doesn't need one under some future law. Presence of a warrant does not insure that the individual law enforcement officer is honest.

  2. Re:Is it really so crazy? on Marvel and DC Enforce "Superhero" Trademark · · Score: 1

    While your grasp of german I cannot dispute, in English "Over" and "Super" both mean above. "Over" means above in the physical sense, and "Super" means above in the comparative sense, and is probably closer to the meaning Neitzsche intended.

    The "Übermensch" does not stand on a taller building than others; he stands above the petty squables of daily life, rather like an evil Daoist sage.

  3. Re:Sick of schools brainwashing lil kids with theo on Warmer Oceans linked to Stronger Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    Would it suprise you that I spell Colour colour too? And pronounce about about, not abaaawht.

  4. Re:BRAINDEAD on Warmer Oceans linked to Stronger Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    Oceans are really big. Q.E.D.

  5. Re:Sick of schools brainwashing lil kids with theo on Warmer Oceans linked to Stronger Hurricanes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know what stypraphone is, byut Styrofoam has little to do with global warming. The CFCs used to expand styrofoam until the mid-1980s deplete ozone in the stratosphere. This causes an increase in UV radiation at ground level, not global warming.

    Recycling reduces the energy consumed in industry. On one extreme, aluminum takes huge amounts of energy to smelt from ore, but relatively little to melt and re-cast. On the other, seperating, transporting, and recycling paper products takes slightly more energy than using new material, BUT reduces deforestation, thus preserving the CO2 absorbtion capabilities of the worlds forests.

    Global warming is a global phenomenon, and weather patterns are changing over the whole world. There may be some areas that have lower temperatures, but this does not disprove global warming, since the aggregate temperatures are still higher.

    I suggest you go back to school and get brainwashed with grammer, critical thinking, composition, the scientific method, the meaning of a scientific theory and hypothesis, but mostly critical thinking.

  6. Your water cooling system needs to be better too. on Self Contained Water Cooled Radeon X1900, Retail · · Score: 1

    Check out this picture. It looks like it just dumps the heat inside your case... great...

  7. Re:How about this on Recommended Reading List for PHP · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, I've been editing other people's non-OO PHP for a few months. It's been a while since I made classes. The code I've been editing has business logic and presentation badly mixed, and editing it involved wadeing through reams of nested tables.

  8. Re:How about this on Recommended Reading List for PHP · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How about compulsory reading of a C++ or Java OO book, even before you know what "var $myVar" is.
    I've used C, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Scheme, Prolog, Cobol, plPGSQL, x86 Assembler, VAX Assembler, 68hc11 Assembler, and TCL, and I don't know what language you'd use the statement "var $myVar" in.
  9. Re:An approach used on a site I recently built: on No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP · · Score: 1

    Yup, I do that. Thanks for pointing it out for others though.

  10. Re:Not just Linux and Mac with problems... on In2TV Goes Public · · Score: 1
    I wanna see B5 now damnit, how far off streaming torrents are we?

    Not quite streaming, but...

    If you use a client that can set priorities on individual files of a multi-file torrent, you can set the first episode enabled and the rest disabled, then the second when the first is done, and so on. Just don't try do download raw DVD rips of the entire 7 series' of Ranma. Your ISP will not like you.

  11. Re:reasons for missing mac/linux support? on In2TV Goes Public · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's because of the DRM. If you go to in2tv.aol.com and try to watch a show they explicitly tell you that, before you see the link to the .avi (will verify with wget when I get home).

  12. Upgrade? on In2TV Goes Public · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It tells me to "Upgrade" to WinXP ... sounds like a downgrade to me.

  13. Re:The basis: Where Credit Comes From on Torn-up Credit Card Apps Not So Safe · · Score: 1
  14. Re:An approach used on a site I recently built: on No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP · · Score: 1

    Never seen that term before, but it does help the search. Thanks.

  15. Yes. on Dungeons and Dragons Online Impressions · · Score: 1

    In D&D and even NWN a rogue can do quite well on their own. It's fun to take the sneaky-thinky way rather than the hacky-slashy way. Unfortunately in NWN you only get XP for killing, so you won't have the levels to overcome higher-level opponents if you do it this way. Tabletop RPGs are much better in that regard.

  16. Re:wut on No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP · · Score: 1
    As far as PHP goes, I couldn't care less... it's both slower and less flexible than Scheme. What a combo! (Of course, Perl is too... ;)

    It's also imperative, which makes it a lot easier for many people to use than a functional language like Scheme.

  17. An approach used on a site I recently built: on No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The way you've described it, your site still has to run a script for each request. Here's an approach I've used:

    Semi-static data (faq, articles, etc) is stored in xml files. Site templates are PHP. Scripts and styles are handled in external files.

    There's a directory /view/articles that has HTML versions of the articles; it is writeable by the webserver, but .htaccess rules to reject any requests but *.html . When a change is made to the site layout or newsbar, all the contents of /view/articles are deleted. If a change is made to just one article, only that article's html is deleted.

    On 404, the errorDocument is a php script which:

    1. Verifies presence of the article XML file (returns a real 404 page if not)
    2. Turns on Output buffering
    3. Generates the page using the template, news file, article XML, etc
    4. Saves the contents of the output buffer to /view/articles
    5. gzips the output buffer and saves that in /view/articles
    6. Sends the contents of the output buffer to the client.

    Thus the XML/XSLT stuff only happens when changes are made and apache can just send the file

    I'm working on adding customer-specfic elements to each page. This is via Javascript+Cookies+AJAX so it doesn't need each page to be regenerated for each user. The few pages that are customer-specific but have few static parts are just plain-old PHP that includes the site template file.

  18. Ummm... on No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP · · Score: 1

    It was probably the same library. libSablot is used by most of the languages that support XSLT on Linux/BSD.

  19. Re:The USB Y-cable is necessary... on Review of OWC Mercury On the Go Portable Disk · · Score: 1

    Also moot if you chose lower-powered drives.

  20. Laptop drives are nice on Review of OWC Mercury On the Go Portable Disk · · Score: 1

    We bought a case of them (+enclosures) to sell (populated with data) to our clients. They're a handy way to distribute data if you have to ship >8GB of it to your customer. Unfortunately the enclosures we bought came with a confusing Y-Cable, which we had to replace.

  21. Old News on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    That tactic has been used since the Boer war.

  22. Re:Why I'd rather not use PostgreSQL on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    I've been using PostgreSQL in various projects since 1998 and never experienced any of the things he mentioned.

  23. BC Medical Records on Judge May Force Google to Submit to Feds · · Score: 1

    That's why there was a controversy over the contracting out of medical billing in BC. Had a fertility test in BC in the last 2 years? A US defence contractor knows about it....

  24. I'm sorry on Via Launches New Line of Mini-ITX Boards · · Score: -1

    You seem to have confused this low power embedded application/appliance motherboard with a server motherboard. Perhaps you should consider an Opteron, Athlon64, or G5.

  25. Re:I am a photographer... on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Also, the exposure latitude of digital sensors sucks compared to Reala and Portra. And I get 14MPix from 35mm, with tonality close to digital from 100iso print film, and almost as good as digital from Portra 400. Resampling down to 6x8@300 I get tonality comperable to digital from Portra 400 and the lower contrast is more flatering for images of people.

    6x6 and 4x5 give tonality identical to digital with any film and you can enlarge much more while still seeing increasing detail. They're much more bothersome to scan though (no batch scan).