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  1. Re:Great on Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released, Supports ODF Out of the Box · · Score: 5, Funny

    .odfx

  2. Re:How could they miss Seamonkey? on 9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features · · Score: 1

    Blogs have replaced 'personal home pages' (PHP anybody???)

    Just so no one gets confused, PHP the language has NOTHING to do with 'personal home pages', whatever those are.

  3. Minor? on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Minor injury... sure.
    But minor casualty????

  4. Re:All of them. on Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? · · Score: 1

    Great example. I had a genetics class, a chemistry series, a biology series, etc. They were NOT a single class. To me that makes the difference. My school operated on 10 week quarters, and trying to throw genetics, chemistry and physiology in a single class is not a smart idea.

  5. Re:All of them. on Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That explains why so many kids drop out of CS. I was greatly interested in the subject, but if my CS101 class had tried to throw all that at me and expect me to really grok it all in a single class, I would have been looking for a different major/school.

  6. Mass mailing on Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly, the solution is to mass mail all students at the university for support.

  7. Re:iPhone 2 Is A Dud Because on IPhone 2.0 Jailbroke · · Score: 1

    Meebo does have an option to auto log in to remove one of your concerns. How it pops up incoming messages over the screen is far superior to AIMs handling of them as well.

  8. Re:Solve the address book tower of babel on Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something? My Gmail account has an address book, which I recently exported to two different formats.

  9. Amateurs on Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections · · Score: 1

    No "amateurs" tag???

  10. Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    Close:

    Windows, applications, games, misc/tmp, porn, and p2p

  11. Re:Go Competition on Netbeans 6 Dual-Licensed Under GPLv2, CDDL · · Score: 1, Informative

    2) You can do [esc]:300 to jump to line 300
    Actually, I believe [esc]:x will jump ahead x lines from the current, however still very useful.
  12. Re:Sure on PHP5 Vs. CakePHP Vs. RubyOnRails? · · Score: 0

    In February 2006 but no longer.

  13. Re:In other words... on PHP5 Vs. CakePHP Vs. RubyOnRails? · · Score: 0

    In my experience, the key to scaling RoR application is adequate power. Trying to deploy something on a shared host like many beginners would like to do (and is easy in PHP) results in extremely high page load times. If you have a dedicated DB server, speeds increase tenfold. The current best-practice scaling method now (I believe) is the mongrel_rails cluster. I have 2 sites running with 5 servers each and they run well. I could not have said the same a year ago, however, so its important to realize everything about Ruby on Rails is changing and that what you heard a year ago may or most likely may not apply today.

  14. Re:In other words... on PHP5 Vs. CakePHP Vs. RubyOnRails? · · Score: 0

    IAARoRP and I was amazed how difficult it was on both shared environments (in my experience Dreamhost, and they even support it!) as well as private servers to just get your app up and running the first time. Sure, once you figure out how to do it on a system once, you can repeat it many times, but it took hours of my time and my hosts time to set up a rather basic RoR app using a mongrel_rails cluster. Once up, however, speed is good and I go back to loving Ruby on Rails. I feel this is just a problem of immaturity. The available servers for RoR have increased dramatically over just the last year. If you ever are using RoR and have any problems, its almost certain the nice guys over at #rubyonrails on freenode.net can help you out/fix your problem.

  15. Re:Not "evil" on Google Mulling Video Ads In Search Results · · Score: 0

    Also, you left out the part of that proof that you have to assume God would WANT to stop evil if it did exist.

  16. Re:Not surprising on TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA · · Score: 0

    But should the cost of that discovery be on the side of the prosecution, or should the accused (presumed innocent of course) have to change their business model to accommodate for it?

  17. Re:Here's a few more - readable this time... on The Downsides of Software as Service · · Score: 0

    FYI, if you wanted to try it out, the site requires IE6.

  18. Re:Not surprising on TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA · · Score: 0

    ...but Post-Its ARE permanent storage, so the analogy does not fit. It's more like trying to subpoena the log of what you typed into your calculator when you were doing the accounting math.

    The main difference being Post-Its are something you can easily bring it to court, and throwing them away is the same as throwing any other paper document away, where logs from a calculator are either non-existent or very cumbersome to get, such as RAM logs.

    But what do I know, IANAL.

  19. I have one-- NO GAIM SUPPORT on Smart Mouse with E-Mail and IM Alerts · · Score: 0

    I have one of these and its a great mouse but buyer beware there is no GAIM support for the IM notifications. When you get an email in Outlook the blue button starts to light up and pulse breifly before going solid and it turns out looking classy and non obtrusive. I love the mouse!

  20. Re:Mapping applications? on Riya Eases Pain of Digital Image Management · · Score: 0
  21. Re:I understand the first two... on California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM · · Score: 0

    As a stupidly fast teenage driver, I agree with this. Cars that either arent paying enough attention to get out of the way and those that dont get out of the way are the ones truly causing problems. It has been proven that while speed may cause more deaths, it is the differential of speed caused by slower drivers causing us real issues.

  22. Re:Deaf people? on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 0

    You cannot be serious. Wouldnt a vibrating chair or ANY OF A MILLION THINGS UNDER $13,000 do the trick just as well as obviously the sound isnt a factor.

  23. Social engineering on Identity Theft-What Can Really be Done w/o a SSN? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems to me that SSN would be of moot importance if you have everything else. Especially for lower age victims where "Im sorry sir, i dont know my social security number" might be a valid answer..

  24. Don't we already use this? on Banks to Use 2-factor Authentication by End of 2006 · · Score: 0

    Maybe i am way off but isnt this already in place? To use an ATM i need:

    -Something i have (My ATM card)
    -Something i know (My PIN)

    Am i living in the future or what is the deal with this?

  25. All the while... on Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the while, DVD Jon sits in his laboratory funded only with chips and soda. Score: DVD Jon: 2 MPAA: 0