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  1. S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll take this story with a grain of salt :)

  2. Re:SAT analogy on Web Standards Solutions · · Score: 1

    CSS can be used with HTML 4, you know. The only advantages XHTML currently has are stricter validation and easier parsing.

  3. Re:Tip for auto-validating PHP generated XHTML on Web Standards Solutions · · Score: 1

    But you're not sending HTML, you're sending XHTML. Sending XHTML as text/html is just a hack to make it work in old browsers. It doesn't matter if they prefer text/html because you don't have a text/html document.

  4. Re:Friggin' lasers attached to their heads! on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that tell you that it was intentional? How would somebody accidentally aim at a cockpit long enough to cause eye damage?

  5. False Positives on Dogs Sniff Out Bladder Cancer From Urine · · Score: 2, Interesting
    s a group, the 6 dogs used in the test correctly flagged the positive sample 22 times out of 54, for a success rate of 41 per cent. By chance alone, the expected success rate would be 14 per cent
    So how many false positives were there?
  6. Re:They already do... on Big Demand for Digital Music Players · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wish I could do this is 50px font -

    CDs are digital!

    Seriously, how did that get modded up? A CD player is not a digital music player? That's just plain incorrect.

  7. Re:Color screen but doesn't play videos? wow... on iRiver H320 (Almost) Hits The Market · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yes it does

    in addition to the usual file formats (mp3, .wmv, .asf, .wav)

  8. Re:Faliure. on Ask Jeeves Looks to Outshine Google · · Score: 1

    My first experience was terrible. I clicked on a result and it was opened in a frame. That immediately ruled it out of my list of potential Google successors.

    Vivisimo and Teoma are looking good so far but why is it that none of them can use basic web standards properly?

  9. Re:Why don't they sell it on CDs/DVDs? on Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A DVD would be obsolete the second it was created. It goes against the whole idea of Wikipedia.

  10. Re:Google is evil. on Another Google Recruiting Technique · · Score: 1

    It could be three bits, or anything if the order isn't alphabetic in the number<->letter conversion.

  11. Re:Good Start on Gnomoradio: Creative Commons Music Sharing · · Score: 1

    The only thing it needs now is good music.

    Recommended: Drop Trio, Kenji Williams (ABA STRUCTURE), Shiva in Exile.

  12. Re:Firefox & Safari on New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name · · Score: 1

    Somehow when we talk about Mozilla/Firefox features that IE doesn't have it's never unnecessary.

    Maybe because it is necessary? The only feature I can think of in Firefox that shouldn't be there is LiveMarks. IE is horribly under-featured which is what you get when you use a three year old browser.

    How is it bloat? It doesn't slow down your browsing in anyway and it is completely transparent. It doesn't add new toolbars or buttons it just adds useful functionality to an existing widget. It's not going to get in the way unless you want to see an error message when you mistype URLs.

  13. Re:You mean... on New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's awesome. I never even knew about that feature.

  14. Hooray on Quake2 Engine In Java · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now you can have the eye candy of Quake 2 with the speed of Doom 3!

  15. I use Opera you insensitove clod on Exploring Firefox Extensions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you haven't made the switch to Mozilla Firefox it may be because you aren't aware of the great benefits Firefox has over IE

    Or because you use Opera, Safari, Mozilla, Konqueror, Camino or OmniWeb. IE and Firefox are not the only two browsers out there.

  16. Re:Their site Validates. on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 1

    Because compatibility with IE is their top priority. XHTML which brings no new features only works in IE because it is backwards compatible. IE does not fully support XHTML (notably the application/xhtml+xml content-type).

  17. Re:Common misconception on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1

    Actually ASP can output any kind of file - text or binary.

  18. Re:Studying on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 1

    why should I remeber PI to 8 decimial places when I can look it up quicker?

    3.14159265358979323846. That was quicker than Googling

  19. Books vs Website on SF Author Robert J. Sawyer Looks at 2014 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    His books may be about the future but his website looks like it was designed 5 years in the past./p.

  20. Advertising Shortcomings on XP Starter Edition Examined · · Score: 1

    Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run concurrently. According to Microsoft, this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.

    Hilarious, this reminded me of the GameCube, the world's only dedicated (i.e. it doesn't play DVDs) games console.

  21. Re:One more user .. on WAP is Dead, Long Live WAP · · Score: 2, Informative

    If your phone can run Opera (Nokia Series 60, SE P800, P900) then it can read pretty much any version of HTML or XHTML.

    The disadvantage is that it will download huge images then resize them to fit. That makes it expensive when you're paying for GPRS by the KiloByte. Fortunately if you make a mobile stylesheet you can use CSS3 to selectively replace images with their alt text using img#myimage {content: attr(alt)}

  22. Feedback on MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I didn't buy their request for user feedback. I'm sure they know exactly what is wrong with their browser. They're not stupid, just evil.

    It doesn't matter whether they add tabbed browsing, RSS feed integration or any other interface improvements as long as they support XHTML1.1/CSS2 and the recommended modules of CSS3. If users want features they can easily switch to Opera but as a web developer I have no choice but to make my pages work in IE. So until IE fades out of common usage or it is updated to support current standards, the development of the web be halted and we'll be stuck with 1990s web technology.

  23. Re:Slashdot poll on Windows XP SP2 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'm not seeing the irony there.

  24. Re:Go back to green on Windows XP SP2 Goes Gold · · Score: 2

    I may be the only one but I really like this new colour scheme, except for the gradients on the headings. For reading comments I think it looks really good, seriously.

  25. Re:Perhaps they were busy on Microsoft has Delayed SP2, Again · · Score: 1

    stealing the code from the iPhoto 4.0.2 update.

    To use in what, Microsoft Paint?