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  1. Re:Not mutually exclusive on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Now that I'm in law school"...

    Maybe law is one of those special places where the dichotomy falls apart. To be completely honest, my experience (through high school, college, and even into my professional life) have been nearly the opposite of yours. I think the socially adept, athletic, outgoing yet book-smart intellectual individual is much more of the exception. I know 1 person that truly fits that description.

  2. Re:Reminds me... on What the DHS Knows About You · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out Virtual Account Numbers - I think Citibank offers these. They are one-time use, throw away credit card numbers. I use them for virtually all online purchase along with purchases from entities I don't trust. The US Government would definitely go into that category.

  3. Slashdot Drift? on Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's been interesting to track the Global Warming/Climate Change drift over the years on Slashdot. A couple years ago, it seemed prevailing opinion (measured by high moderation scores and # of comments) favored the "consensus" Anthropogenic Global Warming view of the scientific community.

    However, looking at the more recent global warming related threads, the posts moderated with 5's seem to be more and more in the "Open-minded but skeptical" camp regarding the "consensus" view.

    Is this due to a miscalibration in the sensors, or are we talking about a real opinion shift here?!?

  4. Correction on Search Engine For Coders to Launch · · Score: 1

    The article did not mention that Google was launching this search engine. And looking at Krugle's website, it looks suspiciously spam-a-licious.

  5. Slashdot Article Generator on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1

    article.replace("Java","LAMP").replace("LAMP","Rub y on Rails").replace("Ruby on Rails","AJAX")

    Why must everything be so black and white? I don't think we need to always set up debates where one language must be superior and win. Use the right tool for the right job and acknowledge the positive aspects of the other guy's tool.

  6. Re:Anyone seen it yet? on Behind the Scenes of Narnia's Special Effects · · Score: 1

    My wife and I saw it Friday night. I thought they did a wonderful job. I've read and cherished the Chronicles of Narnia since I was small, and have probably read (or been read) them a dozen times. I could not help comparing the movie to the Lord of the Rings. They did a Much better job of sticking to the book for this movie than the Lord of the Rings (remember the whole turning Faramir into a momentary villain debacle?) Obviously, the book is much smaller than even one of the LOTR, so they didn't need to make as many content cuts. The most glaring content addition was the river sequence which doesn't appear at all in the books, but that was the worst. I thought they did a good job of summarizing the longer parts of the book (dinner at the Beavers, trekking to the Stone Table). They even cleverly combined thematics from the book into a single scene so that, although the scene doesn't appear in the book, the themes that would have taken a long time to develop individually are all included. I won't give away details for those who haven't seen it yet. But, as a friend of Narnia, I was very pleased. I'm looking forward to future movies, although I can't help wondering if The Horse and His Boy will be carved to smithereens by the All-Inclusive folks at Disney.

  7. "Ajax".replace("Ajax","Flash") on Ajax Sucks Most of the Time · · Score: 1

    "breaking bookmarking, making the 'back' button useless, problems with printing, accessiblity and more"

    Remind anyone of Flash?

  8. Re:Scary on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uhh.. you completely missed the point of that passage. Let me quote: "When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you."

    This is a pride/humility issue, not an evangelism issue. How do you think Christianity spread to non-Jews in the 1st century? In the marketplaces and Mars Hills of the world.

    I'm not defending lunacy, just evangelism.

  9. Re:ldapsh on Deploying OpenLDAP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or for a graphical interface, try the ldapbrowser. http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap/

  10. Re:The Four Rules of Browsing the Net on Windows on IE Vulnerable to Cross-Browser Spyware Attack · · Score: 1

    > 4. No matter how hard you shake it, the last drop always rolls down your pant leg. Unless, of course, you wear briefs.