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  1. Re:PHP needs more work on PHP In Action: Objects, Design, Agility · · Score: 1
    Hm, I dunno, I can achieve the same result with much cleaner code:

    <?php echo 'a'; ?>
    ;-)
  2. Re:Your post - Bollocks on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or, a closed fist could represent 6.

    Or, why stop at 12? Just use your ten fingers to represent a binary number. Make sure you order the bits properly! We'd certainly end up a more dexterous population...

  3. Re:Labels or Folders? on Free IMAP On Gmail · · Score: 1

    Tag it and archive it. Now click on the tag, and you see a list of emails. Isn't that exactly the same functionality you'd have if you'd "moved" it to a folder? The only difference between tags and folders is that folders have a built-in concept of hierarchy. If you added the ability to make one tag depend on another (i.e., adding the tag "Gaim-Devel" necessarily added the tag "Mailing-List"), then even that would no longer be an issue. As it stands, you can mostly emulate folder hierarchy using multiple tags that you apply manually (but if you use filters, it's hardly any extra work). Can you explain your displeasure with more than vague ad hominem attacks?

  4. Re:But it's CHINA! on Nintendo Cracks Down on Copying Devices · · Score: 1

    But wait, wasn't Nintendo already doing that themselves?
    (That's to say: when flicking your wrist is just emulating a button press, the game was probably not designed for the Wii.)

  5. Re:Interesting on Ubuntu Continues to Grab Market Share · · Score: 1

    I believe that you can fix this problem with udev, having it create a symbolic link to the correct USB device node, but naming the symbolic link something constant, like the name of the scanner (or something you define).

    Granted, this requires twiddling text files, so it goes along with previous arguments in this thread, but it should fix that problem, at least!

  6. Ok, wait a second... on The Dark Side of the PlayStation 3 Launch · · Score: 1

    Presumably, these business men handed the poor Chinese nationals enough money to buy the PS3, right? Why did they just not cut and run? Isn't the price of the PS3 more than 20,000 yen? I did read the TFA, but since no one else has mentioned this point, I feel that I must be missing something.

  7. Will submitting to Slashdot become illegal? on RIAA Approved mp3 Player Reviewed · · Score: 1

    It seems like a pretty common way of orchestrating DDoS attack on remote hosts! I'm turning in everyone who submits a story!

  8. Re:Soduku on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    I have done hundreds of Sudoku puzzles, and never ever had to make a guess. If you are using the trial and error method, then you are simply missing clues that the puzzle provides.

  9. Re:ATI Drivers on The State of Linux Graphics · · Score: 1

    Ok, now try to use [xk]compmgr.

  10. Re:Is Satan joining the computer revolution? on The End of the Bar Code · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Trace people using bluetooth MAC on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 1

    Is spoofing a MAC address for bluetooth any less trivial than it is for Ethernet?

  12. Re:Remote DSLAMs on DSL-Extender Brings Broadband 20km · · Score: 1

    I like to introduce you to something called "Perl"...

  13. Re:"pro temp", not "pro tem" on GTA Sex Game Leads to ESRB Fracas · · Score: 2, Informative
  14. Re:$60,000? Some1 needs to tell these guys about e on Dance Dance Revolution Exercise Study · · Score: 1

    Hey, you're forgetting... they've gotta fund some grad students, too.

  15. Re:A helpful holiday reminder... on Stable Linux Kernel 2.6.10 Released · · Score: 2

    So, maybe /dev/breathalyzer would be more appropriate?

  16. Re:Mixed feeling on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1

    You might be interested in the work done by Victoria Hale in creating OneWorldHealth It's kinda like open source medicine...

  17. Ay See Pee Aye on What OSS Programs are Still Needed? · · Score: 1

    ACPI support so that hibernation is reliable, and doesn't take 5 minutes, and so that suspend doesn't drain the battery as quickly as just leaving the laptop on! Without applying 597 patches...

  18. Re:Natural Bud Breeding on Coffee Bean Gene Mapped · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could genetically modify it so that hemp didn't produce the most god-awfully uncomfortable material on the planet!

  19. Re:Battery life question on Sony's "iPod killer" Fails to Draw Blood · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was dazzled by the Karma myself, but it seems that I've read review after review of the hard drive mysteriously crapping out just months into ownership. One review particularly bothered me -- someone was frequently using it while driving and/or jogging, and it started acting up. When he called Rio, they claimed that the device was not meant for "active use." Um, hello? Portable MP3 player? Of course... I guess that DOES make it a true geek's mp3 player ;-)

  20. Re:FCC: Government actually working right? on FCC Plans to Allow Wireless Networking on Unused TV Channels · · Score: 1

    There was an article about it posted here on slashdot, a few days ago.

  21. Re:Another 2K raytracer. on First Person Shooter - Under 100KBs of Code · · Score: 1

    You should post the code for this...

  22. You might also get struck by lightning.... on Internet Job Boards a Bunch of Hype? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If all you're doing is posting your resume on a job-hutning site, and then going and playing video games, you probably don't want a job that bad. There are a lot more job-hunters than there are jobs, and I don't think I want to leave my future in the hands of keyword matching techniques. ;-)

    I use job listing websites to harvest local company names. When it's time for me to job hunt, I'll actually go to the company's web site, and look at their most up-to-date job listings. Then, I'll make an ACTIVE effort to apply for jobs that are presented. If the company sounds particularly compelling, but doesn't have any openings listed, I'll contact them expressing interest anyway. Just because they don't have a particular job listed at this very moment doesn't mean you can't get it. They might realize, "Oh hey, we COULD use someone to do that."

    Of course, I'm a grad student right now, so what do I know, right?

    Really, at this point, this IS all guesswork on my part, but I like to think that I make sence *grin*. I'm interested in hearing about what other people have to say about the relation between job-hunting effort, and job-hunting success.

  23. Re:Self Service? on Kazaa Sues Record Labels · · Score: 1

    Actually, it seems that the RIAA didn't call copyright self-serving. He called Sharman's "newfound admiration" of copyright law self-serving.