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  1. No 'Killer App' on Whereables? · · Score: 1

    Show me the killer app for a wearable, hell, show me 'a' worthwhile application that won't require millions in R&D.

  2. Re:It sounds like they are all the same on Corporate Email Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    It was 3.5 to 5, but then the reviewer cut out Outlook.
    Then it was 3.5 to 4.75, but then the reviewer cut out Evolution.

  3. Re:free speech on Computer-Edited Photos Lead To Child-Porn Locale · · Score: 1

    "You aren't harming anyone by copy a picture off the net."

    Think about this some more will you...if these things would be legal to view, some capitalist would find a way to profit from it, and the market demand would go up.

    What you advocated, means that people could sell videos of rapes they (or associates) committed. Maybe not even directly, but as a "membership", or in "ad views".

  4. Re:Why? Profit! on List of Polish Spies Leaked On The Internet · · Score: 1

    19 steps on Slashdot!?!, if I'm too lazy to read the article, I'm not slogging through a 19 step program...

  5. Doesn't impinge rights + helps protect children... on Computer-Edited Photos Lead To Child-Porn Locale · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a great use of technology by government, and I'm suprised many people are commenting against it.

    Law enforcement isn't editing people *into* pictures, they are removing the victims so that the public can help determine where the crime took place.

    They see the child in the arcade, edit it so the public sees just the arcade. Someone recognizes it, and then they know exactly where to go next. A very elegant solution when public places are shown in the picture set.

    If this makes criminals more wary about taking pictures...well...good. If all they can take is sick pictures against a vanilla background, well I think that would cause less people to be interested in them...so good.

  6. Zope/Plone on CMS for High School Newspaper Website? · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.plone.org Easy to install, easy to use, easy on the eyes. Tons of 'products' that install into and provide additional functionality.

  7. already known on Ancient DNA Helps Solve the Legend of Giant Eagles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Note that the article isn't about them finding out such birds existed, but just that it was a relative of a smaller bird. LOTR reference + Science article = Front Page?

  8. windows xp vpn server on Low Cost VPN Solutions? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems you are trying to connect to a windows machine, and you are using windows clients. Since we can assume it's not Server 2000/2003 (otherwise why would you be asking...) the following link shows how to set up a VPN server on windows xp.

    http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_se rver.htm

    Might not be the coolest way...but it's simple & low cost, using the hardware/software you have already.

  9. Democrats got to dispute two counts... on Democrat Certified Winner in WA Governor Race · · Score: 1

    So it seems fair that the republicans dispute two of their own....

  10. Why ban these people at all? on Valve Bans Another 30,000 Steam Users · · Score: 1

    Why ban these people for trying to hack the account...why not simply remove the ability for them to do so? Seriously, actions like these, where they take a hard edge and undoubtedly affect the innocent, are not elegant ways to handle the problem. These people wanted to play, and they may have had other games that they legimitately purchased that they've lost access to. I've not played HL2 or used Steam...but given their propensity to ban accounts (even for the no-cd crack earlier), I'm not impressed with their customer service.

  11. Wow... on Ben Browder Joining Stargate SG-1 Cast · · Score: 1

    I didn't think they could do anything to make me love the series, but here it is...*not missing an episode now*.

  12. Re:Nothing, but.... on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 1

    It does make sense for the missle to hit a residential area than a government installation (say a military base or pentagon) which diminishes the ability to retaliate or defend against further attacks.

  13. Re:Another Linux victory on New Patches Let iMac G5 Boot Linux · · Score: 1

    This is just releasing support for a new chipset, hardly even a 'symbolic victory'.

  14. Re:Another Linux victory on New Patches Let iMac G5 Boot Linux · · Score: 1, Informative

    Symbolic victory? Linux runs on the all other Mac hardware, it just needed kernel tweaks to run on this. Hardly a real victory.

  15. Re:Who cares if its XML? on Why OpenOffice.org? Open Document Formats · · Score: 1

    You spent 3 weeks converting a word document to XHTML? Even if it was absolutely huge, I don't see how you can end up spending that much time unless you were manually tweaking the same things, page by page. How did you go about doing it?

  16. curved focus shapes on Microsoft Patents Keyboard Browser Navigation · · Score: 1

    This was pointed out before, but see, this is for CURVED focus shapes, polygons, and the like. Yeah, I think it's brilliant too...

  17. Re:is it just me on Java Specification Request on Community Currencies · · Score: 1

    If you bothered to: a) Read the article or b) Read his comment you'd realize he he said the JSR ITSELF linked to a slashdot comment, under its example applications heading.

  18. online submissions, events on Municipal Online Services Wishlist? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A well crafted portal website for city events, linked news articles relating to happenings, construction notices (why are they tearing such and such street up for example), sex offender registry. A small forum with q&a. People submit questions and city officials answer them. Also, you'll want online feedback forms. Make it easy for people to suggest new ideas, report malfunctions (traffic light, street lights, potholes). Keep track of these things, and possibly publish them for everyone to see (people like transparency in government) Polls could be popular too, but only pick ones that residents would be curious to know the popular opinion on. Like, "Best Park in City", "Best Public Park for Children", "Best Library for Children's Groups", etc.. Just my thoughts...I'd love a resource like that for my city.

  19. Oracle W/UIX Front End on Replacing FileMaker with Free Software? · · Score: 1

    My company was in the same boat, but coming from Access. Oracle can be really affordable, and if you are coming from Filemaker, you are already used to paying license costs. UIX in JDeveloper makes drag and drop, full featured database forms & applications pretty easy once the initial curve is done. We've found it as fast as Access to develop in. You can deploy to Tomcat on whatever machine you want, and pay only for a JDeveloper license. You could even use Mysql (supported) or Postgresql (a few gotchas) as your backend, this is what we did for a few test applications. We moved to Oracle Standard Edition One, which is 5k per processor, for up to 2 processors. Since the java web frontend caches all the tables and queries, you hardly hit the database backend at all, so it can support a LOT more users.

  20. Re:PDF forms would seem to be a perfect fit. on Formats for Electronic Forms? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, because everything proprietary "sucks". Regardless, it's an open format, it's ubiquitous, and it fills a need you obviously don't understand.