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  1. Re:Problems with Ajax the article didn't mention on Ajax Sucks Most of the Time · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. There is no reason to assume that the use of Ajax will break the MVC model, unless you implement it badly. The difference is that the page is making the HTTP request instead of the browser, but it is still just a request. Data is being passed to the server, the server processes, and data is passed back to the client. All of the controller and model code still reside on the server, Ajax doesn't make you implement such logic in the page.

    Single query and single response? I fail to understand your point. Ajax doesn't support multiple simultaneous queries, nor does it support multiple simultaneous responses. It is still one request, one response. Its just a different type of request than POST/GET.

  2. Re:Great code quality on Initializing all Java classes at Start-Up · · Score: 1

    A good IDE, like Eclipse, will visually show you any unused code. No need to run another tool.

  3. Occam's Razor on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    These "educators" need to understand the principle of Occam's Razor. How you can propose that something as fantastically complex as the Universe requires something EVEN MORE fantastic (God) to explain it?

  4. "They threw everything they had at us." on Taking on an Online Extortionist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Including, apparently, a good slashdotting.

  5. I, Cringely on Vonage's CEO Says VoIP Blocking Is 'Censorship' · · Score: 2, Informative

    VoIP packet blocking/tagging is the subject of Cringely's latest column .

  6. Re:Personally, I would go one step further. on Game with God · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Most gammers are relativlee intellegent ..."

    I take it then that you are not a gamer?

  7. Re:My Local BestBuy on Office Depot Wants to Recycle Your Old Computer · · Score: 1

    At the Baxter, MN Best Buy they charged $10 to take your old monitor.

    "For two days only, the Best Buy store in Baxter, Minn., will serve as a Plug Into e-Cycling site for unwanted electronic items on Fri., May 21 and Sat., May 22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Most items will be accepted for recycling at no charge. However, due to recycling costs, there will be a $10 fee for each computer monitor and television 27 inches or smaller, as well as a $20 fee for TVs larger than 27 inches or console TVs."

  8. Re:An idea from my childhood... on RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 1

    Actually, the courts did put restrictions on the details of the settlement. If you had read the article, you would have encountered this paragraph:

    "Part of the settlement the recording industry made with states' attorneys general was that the giveaway CDs couldn't be junk, Larson said. Titles had to be on a Billboard chart for at least 26 weeks and had to peak in the top half of the chart."

    Unfortunately, it appears that a lot of crap meets those requirements.

  9. The funny thing is ... on Omniscience Protocol · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... that as absurd as the requirements of this RFC are, they would have to actually be implemented for DRM to be non-hackable.

  10. Get a pager on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I have a number of servers and custom applications configured to notify me by text message, in the event of a problem.
    If this is your only work-related concern, then have your company get you a pager. It will work just as well. In my sysadmin days, 15+ years ago, I had my servers set up to auto-page me when problems arose. The side-perk of this system was that I could cron a page trigger to go off during meetings I didn't want to sit through. "Uh oh, server's down. Better go."

  11. 11 parts of rambling, inchoate thoughts on On Videogame Journalism · · Score: 4, Funny

    It takes

    11 parts

    because of all the

    space between the

    one line

    paragraphs.

  12. The Guardian not safe for browsing with IE on The Death of A Universe · · Score: 1

    I clicked on the Guardian article link and proceeded to pick up some nasty trojan software (2nd Thought, Gator, Virtual Bouncer, and more) that IE (6.0, latest patches) allowed to be installed without a prompt. I would highly recommend avoiding this site, lest you find yourself in registry hell.

  13. Re:Before you say it... on Nmap Featured in The Matrix Reloaded · · Score: 1

    Since Agent Smith is a machine, I would interpret his reference to "the peak of your civilization" as the time at which humans "gave birth to AI".

  14. Screenshots on Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL · · Score: 5, Informative

    The perl script seems to overworked/nonfunctional, but you can view a slideshow of screenshots at: http://www.soulride.com/products/screenshots/scree nshot01.html.

  15. Re:No Big Deal, Right? on AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft Soy Beans... is PEOPLE!!

  16. Re:For your INfo on First Human Clone Born? · · Score: 1

    Don't take stories like that so literally; they were all written by human beings.

    This is only a recent interpretation of the Bible, which has lately become popular as a way to explain its factual inconsistencies. For many hundreds of years the Bible was instead considered "the Word of God" and beyond reproach. This is, presumably, what a previous poster referred to as "the Wisdom of the Ages".

  17. Deja vu on New Stem Cell Source - Your Bone Marrow · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was an article in the Mpls Star Tribune 2 weeks ago about the University of Minnesota licensing the rights to technology for creating stem cells from human bone marrow to a biotech firm called Athersys. The U of M researchers published a paper about this procedure in the July 4th issue of Nature. Here is a link to an article (not abstract) [nature.com].

  18. Source code on UCSD Students Tracking Their Friends' Locations · · Score: 2, Informative

    The "ActiveCampus Locator" software for Jornadas and other platforms can be found at http://activecampus.ucsd.edu/locator.html.

    There is even Linux source code there for "ActiveCampus-locator.cc", which has the description "Gets the access point list seen by the wireless card and sends it to the ActiveCampus server so it can geolocate for the user."