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  1. Re:wrong name of the movie on New International Serenity Trailer Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It looks like the same movie, unless you take into consideration factors like characters, plot, setting, actors, set design, art design, wardrobe, etc.

    So yeah, they're both space fantasy, have lighting, and were filmed on photochemical film.

    Yeah, and a conetticut yankee in king arthur's court and gone with the wind are basically the same movie too.

  2. Re:Great. on Firefox 1.1 Scrapped · · Score: 1

    the Latest Nightly is not an official release.

  3. Re:And Windows never breaks, right? on Microsoft Continues Anti-OSS Strategy · · Score: 1

    Sometimes there are good admins but bad management who won't fork out for non-production machines.

  4. Re:Great. on Firefox 1.1 Scrapped · · Score: 1

    I was really looking forward to any release with SVG compiled in and enabled, and not taking huge amounts of CPU to render.

    As it is now, to get SVG you have to manually configure it in and compile yourself (or add USE="mozsvg" on gentoo), and manually add a key svg.enabled=true in about:config.

  5. Re:why is this news? on 100Mbps Home Internet Service Next Year in Finland · · Score: 2, Funny

    We're pinin' for the fjords?

  6. Re:Personalized Login System on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 1

    You have only telnet services running on your network? Or do you crack all your CIFS, HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP etc clients and servers to do this?

    Most networks have a variety of protocols running on them, any of which could be an attack vector or used by an attacker once they've compromized your site.

  7. Re:Donation on Gates On Future of CS Education · · Score: 1

    And also teaches students to use .net rather than java or Qt.

  8. Re:My doctor on Meet Web Hypochondriacs · · Score: 1

    The particluar treatment whose proponent I was paraphrasing is not visualization, and makes these claims.

    Also, "visualization" should almost always have the same efficacy as the placebo effect, as that's what the placebo effect is.

  9. Re:My doctor on Meet Web Hypochondriacs · · Score: 1

    With the corollary that the patients must be able to weed out the BS for themselves, and trust the DM when he tells the patient that what the websites tell them is BS. No amount of "releasing inner light and thought-energy throughout the body" will cure strained muscles or cerebral palsy.

  10. correction on Multiple-Target Hyperlinks for the Masses · · Score: 1

    div.multilink {
    height: 1em;
    overflow: hidden;
    }

  11. Re:Better done in Markup on Multiple-Target Hyperlinks for the Masses · · Score: 1

    <style>
    div.multilink {
    height: 1em;
    }

    div.multilink:hover {
    height: auto;
    }

    div.multilink:first-child {
    text-decoration: underline;
    }

    div.multilink a {
    display: block;
    }
    </style>
    <div class="multilink">Example.com
    <a href="http://www.example.com">direct link to example.com site</a>
    <a href="http://www.example.com.nyud.net:8090">Corali zed example.com link</a>
    </div>

    ???

  12. Re:2 things on Best Setup for Mapping in Undeveloped Countries? · · Score: 1

    Another thing...

    Most countries don't look too kindly on foreigners with computers, GPS recievers, compasses, maps, binoculars, and cameras.

  13. Re:Next time I'm arrested... on 3D Face Cameras · · Score: 1

    if true (assignment) then
    true (comparison)
    end

    ???

  14. Re:Maybe it's just me on 3D Face Cameras · · Score: 1

    I thought it was odd that they claim to be acquiring faces, not images of faces. Sounds like they want to go back to buying scalps.

  15. Re:Maybe for servers... on Linux and Windows Security Neck and Neck · · Score: 1

    2001, and it was my own damn fault.

  16. Re:I think linux actually has an edge... on Linux and Windows Security Neck and Neck · · Score: 1
    ... and apparently windows cannot be tuned in a granularly sufficient manner to give us what we need to do on the box. ...

    Yes, it can. Doing so requires the SA to find every object you need to touch to do whatever you need to do and change it's ACL to allow you to do what you need to do. Doing so on *NIX simply requires configureing SU, and possibly adding you to the wheel and/or sudoers group.

  17. Re:Great Idea on U.N. To Govern Internet? · · Score: 1
    No.
    The UN general assembly is made up of representatives from the governments of member states.
    Very few member states want to give up their sovereignty. So the principle of member-state soverignty is fundamental to the UN.

    If you want to know who in the world doesn't want other countries to have sovereignty, look at who is pushing for
    • Regional Trade Deals that put commercial interests ahead of state soveriegnty over environmental, labour, intellectual property, safety, and monetary issues.
    • "Harmonization" of immigration security checks.
    • Debt relief plans that require "economic restructuring".
    • "Regime Change" in countries that are not cooperating with them 100%.
    • etc.
  18. Re:Illegal Purposes on Google Maps for Boingo -- And Any Page · · Score: 1

    Depends on Jurisdiction. In Canada it's a criminal act; in other places it's probably a civil tort.

    (Std disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. If you need legal advice, get a lawyer.)

  19. Re:Force people to think on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    (same AC) Incedentally, I went into my AP Physics test and derived everything I needed to know about electromagnetic energy and rotational motion from what I knew about linear motion and the units I was given. I had forgotten I'd even signed up for the course and never been to class or read the book.

  20. Re:Three cheers! on BBC Open Source launched · · Score: 1
    What inspired the British Broadcasting Corporation to suddenly leap into the software programming foray?

    They needed the software. Noone else was making it the way they wanted.

    Same reason so many people got involved in the Apache project. Actually a lot of Open-Source projects come about this way.

  21. Re:creating atmosphere on Dungeon Master's Guide II · · Score: 1
    "So, are you going to turn that doorknob with your right hand, or your left had?"

    Do this and my players would never get around to opening the door.

  22. Re:D&D on Dungeon Master's Guide II · · Score: 1

    Have you read the second paragraph of this review even?

    I have the DMG II, and I agree that it's not like that at all. It's about how to make good stories, characters, and settings, not rules-correct dungeon crawls.

  23. Re:English garden or tightly maintained lawn? on Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL? · · Score: 1

    I've never had problems like that, but I have had programs that mysteriously won't compile for days on end.

  24. FUD on Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    1. LGPL has different conditions for "works based on the library" and "derived works".

    That's exactly why the LGPL exists.

    2. LGPL states that using material from the header file of LGPL library makes the binaries produced a "derived work" which is more strict than "works based on the library".

    You shouldn't be copying from the headers anyways. You should be #include-ing them.

    3. LGPL states that "works based on the library" may be distributed under your own terms BUT ONLY IF your own terms permit modifications and reverse-engineering by end-users.

    It's really not that big of a deal to make most programs dynamically linked... it's standard industry practice.

    That the user can replace some libraries is actually a good thing... for example, the SDL shipped with Neverwinter Nights does not work with some recent versions of nvidia-glx, but newer versions of SDL do, so I just replaced the SDL in NWN with a symlink to my more recent SDL library. If I couldn't do this, I wouldn't be able to run the program, and I wouldn't have bought the expansion packs.

  25. not for quite a while on IBM Officially Unveils Dual-core PowerPC Chips · · Score: 1

    iBook is apple's low-end portable. Maybe in the PowerBook, though.