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  1. Re:It's Like Water on Chicago Cancels Municipal Wi-Fi Plan · · Score: 1

    Back in the day, when a town was being settled, they would have a well. I think it still works this way in most rural parts of third world countries. You thirsty? Walk down to the well & pull up a bucket.

    I don't think you understand how water works.

    I live in a small town in Southern Maine. 5 minutes from Portsmouth, NH; 45 minutes from Boston or Portland, Maine. I don't consider my town a rural part of the third world, but my water supply works like you've stated. (with the exception that modern wells are not framed in stone, nor powered by a bucket and pully.)

    My town doesn't give me free Wi-Fi, nor does it offer (free or for-pay) water. If you move to my town, you hire a Water Well company who finds an underground aquifer on your land and installs a 60' - 200' well, pump, and filter system.

    I don't pay for water. I do pay for Internet access.

    In places like SF, where there's free Wi-Fi, it's the opposite. Homeowners pay for water, but not Internet.

  2. Re:Backgrounds of the PHP developers. on PHP 5.1.0 Released · · Score: 1
    You can, but don't do the following then complain about how sloppy PHP is. You're making a sloppy decision. PHP is just letting you do it:
    $GLOBALS['foo'] = 'bar';
    echo x();
     
    function x() {
      $out = 'foo is ';
      $out .= (isset($GLOBALS['foo'])) ? $GLOBAL['foo'] : 'not defined';
      return $out;
    }
  3. Re:Mod parent DOWN on Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper · · Score: 1

    It's actually much easier to create a dynamic prints with traditional film.

    Let's say, the normal development time for a particualar film is 7 minutes (in a light tight canister, sloshing around in 72 degree water and cemical developer).

    If you want brighter brights, "push" the film, by developing it if 8 or 9 minutes, the shadows stop developings (lightening) before the highlights. Conversely, if it's a very bright and contrasty day, stop developing a minute early, as to not "blow out" a sky, or retain detail in clouds.

    As a photographers, you can expose the negative so that the shadows are as dark as you want, then develop the film to bring the highlights as light as you want.

    If you want to take it another step, in the darkroom, you can EASILY dodge (block light from the enlarger) or burn the print.

    This can all be done with 1 negative, and a 60 watt light bulb, and to me, seems much easier than dorking around in photoshop with 10 exposures.

  4. Mothering Magazine on Working with ADHD? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a great article in the current issue of 'Mothering' magazine (Issue #118; May/June 2003).

    If focuses on dealing with ADHD through your diet. What foods and additives to avoid, etc... The article touches on the Feingold diet for ADHD

    Some other helpful articles about dealing with ADD through diet:

    ADHD & Diet: How Food Affects Mood
    Does ADHD Even Exist?: The Ritalin Sham

  5. Re:Editorial integrity on Slashdot Subscription Update · · Score: 1
    Your rant on spelling and grammer:
    • Run on sentence (third sentence, first paragraph
    • Poor spelling ("themself", "peception")
    • Missed punctuation ("And not to mention, it simply...")
    • Proper noun not capitalized ("slashdot")
    Keep complaining...
  6. Re:Subscriptions and Moderating on Slashdot Subscription Update · · Score: 1

    I am wondering if a subscription is required to moderate.

    I don't think that there's any connection - I do not subscribe, but did get moderation status this morning

  7. http://www.mklinux.apple.com/ on PPCLinux.Apple.Com · · Score: 2

    http://www.mklinux.apple.com/ has been around for 2 or 3 years. But LinuxPPC definately has more momentum right now than MKLinux, so I guess it's cool that Apple is supporting

  8. Re:Netcraft Intrusions on Latest Netcraft survey shows Apache increase · · Score: 1

    putting "something" in /etc/hosts would probably just be a waste of you time. Anyone can find this info from HTTP headers.

    $ telnet www.slashdot.org 80
    Trying 209.207.224.41...
    Connected to slashdot.org.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    HEAD / HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 15:42:46 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html

  9. Re:All this, and OS wars too! on Feature: Good vs. Evil on the World Wide Web · · Score: 1

    macintosh:
    AltaVista found 3,601,810 Web pages!!!!!