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  1. Re:Or on Google.org to Spend an Initial $1.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    How is that ironic?

  2. Don't panic! on Simplified Disk Encryption Coming to GNOME · · Score: 1

    It's just an automounter and passphrase dialog that uses the DM-Crypt (plus LUKS, which is DM-Crypt, but keeps the DM-Crypt configuration in the device's first block rather than /etc)

  3. Re:There already are such factories on Google.org to Spend an Initial $1.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    So run it on a quota basis...

    50% for market sale in developed countries, 50% for distribution (or market sale with micro-loans available from local credit unions) in developing countries.

  4. Missed one... on Google.org to Spend an Initial $1.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    Hot composting latrines. The village well is no good if it gets contaminated by the neighbour's open sewer.

  5. Or on Google.org to Spend an Initial $1.1 Billion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Set up a factory in a third world country to build:

    Wheelbarrows
    Handcarts
    Bicycles
    Water pumps (well and irrigation)
    Ploughs
    Seed drills
    Hand tools
    Evaporative refrigeration Jars

    And better yet, also help set up a marketing/distribution co-op of just-above-subsistence farmers, and seed banks that also submit to some journal as "prior art" to prevent patents on indigenous varieties.

    And set up education programs for urban gardening in the developing world and low-income areas of the developed world.

  6. Re:What you talkin' about? on Microsoft Vista Info Leaked · · Score: 1

    No sense of humour.

  7. Re:Hey, its better than Linux on Microsoft Vista Info Leaked · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Sally has no choice but to pay for another copy of Windows,

    -- Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 8.2).

  8. Re:Old news on Microsoft Vista Info Leaked · · Score: 1

    Volume encryption is an enterprise feature? I thought it was just common sense (turned it on the first day I got my iBook).

  9. What you talkin' about? on Microsoft Vista Info Leaked · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's only 2 current versions of Linux: 2.6 and 2.4 . And you can run any software on top of those that you choose, no one will dictate your use.

  10. That's OK on Office Tools On The Web · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The companies that make them are the only people who think storing your data on someone else's server is a good idea.

  11. Re:Actually, not just unprofessional. on Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers · · Score: 1

    I didn't know about the rate change.

  12. Actually, not just unprofessional. on Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers · · Score: 1

    Abdala should re-take a course on contracts. They could sooo sue her ass for breach, writing or no. For an employment contract at least for the cost of the business cards, stationery, and computer.

    I assume that they both have their own councils, though, and I'm not a Lawyer, I'm not your Lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

  13. Re:Fake video morons. on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 1

    Wow... I wouldn't have got that from the subtitles... Like the part where it says they got to it before it was used against them. It's a non-fake video of a demining team at work.

  14. Here you go on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 1
  15. Similar setup... on How Does Your Personal Data Center Measure Up? · · Score: 1

    1 SMC "Barricade G", 1 Athlon XP 2200 with 2x80GB and 1x250GB drives (JBOD, but If I could afford 3 250's, it'd be raid-5) turned off when I'm not using it, 1 iBook, 1 film scanner, 1 flatbed scanner, 1 Monitor with 2 inputs, USB keyboard & trackball, USB switch.

  16. Re:Browser delivers apps poorly on DOM Scripting · · Score: 2, Insightful
    you must abstract everything into libraries because of browser differences

    Or just distribute a copy of FireFox with your product.

    If the customer isn't willing to install firefox, they're probably not going to install our 6GB of data either.

    scripted client-side code runs terribly slow

    It runs fast enough to serve as an index for our 100,000+ term searchable database. You just have to know how to structure the index files and let the Browser's XML DOM implementation do most of the work for you.

  17. Stack helper class. on DOM Scripting · · Score: 1

    This is why I have a stack helper class. For me it looks like:

    ds = new DOMStack( "containerdivname" );

    ds.push( "ul" );
    ds.setAtt( "type" , "square" );

    ds.push( "ul" );
    ds.pushA( "#link1" , "Page 1" );
    ds.popInto( ); ds.popInto( );

    ds.push( "ul" );
    ds.pushA( "#link2" , "Page 2" );
    ds.popInto( );
    ds.pushText( "(new!)" );
    ds.popInto( );

    ds.popInto( );

    Except that it's almost never hardcoded, or I'd just write it in HTML in the first place.

    (and I've chucked in a bunch of semantics-neutral whitespace to keep slashdot from inserting sematics-changing whitespace)

  18. Computers come without firewire? on Apple to 'Switch' to Windows? · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen a new computer without FireWire (or i.Link, or IEEE 1394) in about 4 years.

  19. Re:Audio in SVG? on Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements · · Score: 1

    SVG+SMIL does. As SMIL is the way you are supposed to do animations with SVG, it'll do.

  20. Re:MySQL AB makes its money on FUD on Oracle Bid to Acquire MySQL · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This is why I use Postgres and avoid the whole ugly thing.

    Oh? I use it because it's better.

  21. Re:Rotary on RX-8 Hydrogen RE a Dual Fuel Car · · Score: 1

    The rotax engines (914, for example) are closer in design to the old VW bug engines. 1.2L 4Cyl opposed-piston, single centre camshaft, 4 stroke, but water-cooled, fuel injected, electronic ignition, and turbocharged.

  22. Re:Wait a second... on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    Hence why I said non-geostationary.

  23. Wait a second... on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this rule out use of al non-geostationary equatorial orbits at any altitude less than or equal to the altitude of the anchor, since it would eventually collide with the tether?

    Of course I'm not sure what use a non-geostationary polar orbit is.

  24. Re:errrr.... on Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet · · Score: 1

    No, a mini (pdp-11)

  25. no .Net on What's the Best Way to Write a Business Plan? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    issues like .NET vs PHP vs Servlets, etc should be way in the back. it's an implementation issue. Your plan should concentrate much more on marketing and finance, unless you're doing something very unique.