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  1. Re:damned faintly praising? on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1

    So the naive, 'better' solution would have been to generate a random key for each browser and then sort on that. Random and repeatable within the run and doesn't have any dodgy side-effects.

  2. Re: Will the Serial Console Ever Die? on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    PATA/IDE... whatever, its the same difference.

    Yes, but they aren't normally floppy connectors.

    And no, most optical drives out there are now SATA. Got a new computer a couples months ago, and it has a SATA optical. Goto newegg... the SATA drives outnumber PATA almost 3-1.

    And that has nothing to do with units 'out there.' That's new gear. Take a tour in the trenches and you'll still see a lot of machines with IDE optical drives.

  3. Re: Will the Serial Console Ever Die? on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    Good point, I forgot the LS-120, and yeah, I use a USB drive if I ever need to read floppies. Mine is a combo floppy/memory card reader.

  4. Re:That medical examiner's name? on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 3, Funny

    He ran out of people to autopsy and went into the production end of the business.

  5. Re:That's nothing! on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 2, Funny

    That explains the headaches and munchies.

  6. Re:Eventually, Chuck Norris put a stop to it on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 1

    He was Charles in a past life.

  7. Re:Just to put things into perspective... on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 1

    it kills more than 10000 people annually, taking into account only alcohol-related road accidents.

    That's assuming those extra deaths didn't happen at the same time as poisoning. If we're going to use fuzzy numbers, let's look at alcohol producers and distributors at that time. Why don't we limit it to the Chicago area. The Capone organisation had real occupational health and safety issues that should be counted.

  8. Re:It took me a while to get this... on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait till you learn about DLC

  9. Re:robustness of connection on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    USB connections slip free if someone trips over the cable, RS-232 rips the port out of the box if the screws were tightened properly. Argument goes both ways.

  10. Re:Web Interface on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    Web interfaces are all well and good unless you're having to configure IP on the device. Fallback to DHCP is good, unless you have a device that somebody's configured wrong and needs to be corrected.

  11. Re: Will the Serial Console Ever Die? on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    I've never seen an IDE floppy. There are still IDE optical drives around and a lot of surplus IDE hard drives, but floppies were always their own special interface. Hint: vendors now refer to IDE as PATA.

  12. Re:Serial Ports.. on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    "the serial port is rapidly disappearing from new laptops" in full, and yes, they've been gone from most laptops for years now. We have to salvage old gear if we need to talk to a serial port. USB -> Serial mostly works, but not always.

  13. Re:What's with the stupid hat? on AIDS-Like Virus New Threat To Koala · · Score: 1

    Nah, Sir Les Patterson.

  14. Re:What's with the stupid hat? on AIDS-Like Virus New Threat To Koala · · Score: 1

    You know Akubra is a brand and not a type of hat. Some of them go well with suits.

  15. Re:His department also self-censors their email. on Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self · · Score: 1

    You're assuming he has an actual plan. Maybe he's using:

    1. Filter
    2. ?
    3. Profit / Donors
  16. Why? on AIDS-Like Virus New Threat To Koala · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is it always the Koalas with STDs? First it was chlamydia, now it's this thing. I blame the tourists.

  17. Re:His department also self-censors their email. on Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, the Whirlpool thread said that they use a CMS that doesn't support server side scripting. Not as funny as I first thought.

  18. Re:Puppet on Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And in English, LCD is Lowest Common Denominator. Fits.

  19. Re:His department also self-censors their email. on Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Cool, my first First Post. Now for something relevant, the JavaScript uses an static array of terms. They then skip the entry if it's the bad phrase, 'ISP Filtering.' Can anyone think of a better way?

  20. His department also self-censors their email. on Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Their media releases trip our spam filters. I can't remember the exact rules, but they were the dodgy mail server kind.

  21. Re:Unclear point on Aussie Film Industry Appeals ISP Copyright Case · · Score: 4, Informative

    They were asked by an industry group to police piracy. They told them it was a job for the Police and happily forwarded the complaints to the cops, who turned around and said something like 'why don't we go after rapists and murderers first.' The industry group then got its knickers in a twist and sued them.

  22. Re:Digital Economy? on Aussie Film Industry Appeals ISP Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the time when Star Trek:TNG was shipped over on bootleg VHS tapes. Took Channel 9 about three or four years to bring it here. Then they buried it in the maybe, maybe not graveyard shift.

  23. Re:Expect no less on AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers · · Score: 1

    It's not in the summary. There's a long running tradition of foreigners, often Americans, confusing the two. Like many jokes, you need the background to get it. Having been told I spoke good English for an Australian more than once, I found it quite funny.

  24. Re:What if the site is using SSL? on AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers · · Score: 1

    They'll just blacklist the whole site, more likely the domain name.

  25. Re:democracy in action on AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was 2% of one state. They elected an idiot fundie into a balance-of-terror Senate seat. He wanted filtering in exchange for voting with them.