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  1. Re:There's more than one reason to be compliant... on Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant? · · Score: 2, Funny
    I always run it through the W3C validator to make sure I didn't leave out a closing [sic]
    or some syntactical error somewhere.


    "Preview" is the Slashdot equivalent to the W3C validator.

    -Peter
  2. Re:Once again... on 360 Hacked To Play Backups · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not the risk. The problem is thousands of people, some of whom are more perverse thinkers than the engineers, will take it as a personal challenge.

    -Peter

  3. Re:Rachael Carson = Knew what she was talking bout on DDT or Malaria -- Which is Worse? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You don't address the Scientific question. This is the first thing I've heard contrary to the "fact" that DDT causes thin shells. If yours is the best defense to this accusation then it must be true.

    Or do you just mean to say that faking Scientific results is okay as long as your heart is in the right place?

    -Peter

  4. Re:My analogy on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the part where if you put the paprika in one step too soon it will kill everyone who eats it and put you out of business.

    Oh, and that it is often not obvious just when is too soon, so you have to find out experimentally.

    Why yes, yes I do work in QA.

    -Peter

  5. Re:Mandate to fight terror on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 1
    If you want to rail against someone for the loss of privacy, rail against the great silent majority in America who will not tolerate a repeat of 911.


    I agree with you as to the cause, but I don't think that excuses the behavior of the politicians (which are nominally human beings).

    If there was a groundswell of support for nuking France for being smug would that make it okay for the President to push the button?

    One of the qualities I look for in a politician is the willingness to reject power the electorate foists upon him.

    -Peter
  6. Re:Ending the tariff is a good start. on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1

    Allow me to revise.

    So long as we demand governments that treat us like children we will never advance to the next stage of social development.

    -Peter

  7. Re:Ending the tariff is a good start. on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1
    It's good to be realistic - but the most realistic point of view is that it's impossible to stop the cultivation of high-thc-content-hemp if you allow the cultivation of thc-free hemp.


    History indicates that it is impossible to stop the cultivation of high-thc-content hemp if you disallow the cultivation of thc-free hemp as well.

    I'm of the opinion that we are doomed as a people if we can't get out government out of the business of trying to protect us from ourselves. The governments job is to protect us from outsiders and each other.

    -Peter
  8. Re:Fruit juice and club soda on The Soda Situation - Succulent Drinks w/o the Sweets? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gin is grain alcohol flavored with juniper.

    -Peter

  9. Re:Active voice, active voice, active voice on Teaching Engineers to Write? · · Score: 0, Troll
    But avoid cliches like the plague.


    I guess you approve of irony.

    -Peter
  10. Re:Day Timer? on Carrying Your IT Equipment With You? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Adam! I didn't even notice it was you asking Slashdot.

    Have you considerd dumping the PDA? Move the digital functions to the PC and use a paper Day Planner?

    -Peter

  11. Day Timer? on Carrying Your IT Equipment With You? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know it's a minor point, but why on Earth do you need a Day-Timer if you have a PDA? Or, to look at it the other way around, why the hell do you have a PDA if you are already carrying a notebook PC and a Day-Timer?

    Also, Day-Timers suck. Get a Franklin. In fact, get a Franklin PDA and you're all set.

    -Peter

  12. Re:Driving force for bloodless surgery on Bloodless Surgery · · Score: 1

    Um.

    Main Entry: bloodless
    [. . .]
    4 : lacking in human feeling

    It's a Lawyer joke. You might need a humor transfusion.

    -Peter

  13. Re:Driving force for bloodless surgery on Bloodless Surgery · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why that is. Seems like it would be Lawyers driving it.

    -Peter

  14. Re:The obvious thing about Blu-Ray on HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray - Is It All in the Name? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Blue Laser?! Cheat Commandos to the rescue! Rock, rock-on! (Buy all our playsets and toys.)

    -Peter

  15. Re:Text on Microsoft PowerShell RC1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You might try re-reading my post when your sense of humor gets back from the shop.

    -Peter

  16. Text on Microsoft PowerShell RC1 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Contrary to cmd.exe and Unix/Linux shells it operates on objects, not text when passing data between scripts and executables.


    Why would you want to use an arbitrary, difficult to debug format like text when you could use .NET objects?!

    -Peter
  17. Re:Worst. Idea. Ever. on ThinkFree Online Review · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At this moment the site is down so they can implement some "exciting changes".

    I hope they're awesome, becuase I'm going to need to type up my resume BECAUE I CAN'T PRINT AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT NOW!

    -Peter

  18. Timely on Interactive Fiction Then and Now · · Score: 1

    What a timely article! Videlectrix just released Thy Dungeonman III today!

    -Peter

  19. Re:unfortunately on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 0, Troll

    RTFA. He did all the calculations while sitting in traffic.

    -Peter

    PS: I made that up.

  20. Re:CNN and College on The Future of IT in America? · · Score: 1

    I try not to be a nerd, but no one is a bigger geek than I am. I was a sysop on the school network for fuck's sake.

    One of my High School girlfriends later went into stripping and Internet porn. She was smoking hot, and I got to her first ;-)

    Don't feel like you have to live into the negative aspects of stereotypes.

    -Peter

  21. CNN and College on The Future of IT in America? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's laudable that you are concerned about college, but you have the rest of your life to worry about job security. On the other hand the days in which you may bang 17-year-olds are numbered. Get your priorities straight.

    -Peter

  22. Re:perfect paper envelope... NOT on Evolution of the Netflix Envelope · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can see elsewhere in the comments to this story that the floppy bit is there to PREVENT A POSTAL SERVICE SURCHARGE!

    Blame your boss.

    -Peter

  23. Re:Hmm..... on Evolution of the Netflix Envelope · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If we get caught, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison.

    -Peter

  24. Twelve Pages on eSATA External Storage Drive Reviewed · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Twelve pages? Are you freaking kidding me?

    Shouldn't part of the editors job be to determine if the link in the story goes to a web page that is intolerably bad?

    -Peter

  25. Re:What about Canada? on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 2, Informative

    That report states, "Canada's 2001 per capita carbon emissions of 5.0 metric tons (mt) were below the U.S. level of 5.5 mt/person".

    I'll be honest, I kind of want this to be true. But I make a sincere effort to not believe things just because I want to ;-)

    -Peter