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  1. Re:So Many Questions About This Section on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Yes true, but it wouldn't be too difficult to put a Slashdot section in for hockey now would it?
    I mean you could have it about hockey technology - Laser guided pucks, Hi-tech blades, auto scoring, computer sims, hockey stick mods, safety gear, helmet comms with video streaming, virtual hockey, hockey in zero gravity.. it's endless!
    And that way, all of his friends would join too!

  2. Re:heh.. on Sub-$100 Laptops Have Finally Arrived · · Score: 1

    How Flash and Silverlight-free their browsing is!

    Sounds like Yoda.
    Now if you could put music to it, you may have a hit!

  3. Re:How can you tell if a box is zombied? on Zombie Network Explosion · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to check IE Addons (tools/Manage Addons) and disable Java. Check downloaded programs files in Windows. Delete all java installs there.
    Check Service startups - unrecognisable msconfig entries etc. Good luck.

  4. Re:How can you tell if a box is zombied? on Zombie Network Explosion · · Score: 1

    Malwarebytes is much better and gets rid of everything (not root kits though)!

  5. Re:Interesting. on Zombie Network Explosion · · Score: 1

    And that's why we sent possums to New Zealand because their flora and fauna weren't stuffed up at all!
    Makes sense doesn't it?

  6. Data Retention Policy on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Somehow what concerned me was what they actually did with the personal data they collect (privacy policy), and more specifically, how long that had to by law, keep the data as I think this varies from country to country. Are they bound by international standards or US standards?
    Also, in some countries you are also bound by law to destroy personal data after a certain amount of time. This is not obvious in their privacy policy either.

  7. Re:Wrong question. on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    You've never taken your craft seriously! Have you?

  8. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    Like this lady when I backed up her HD and restored it on a replacement.
    She complained that her 'Favorites' were missing.
    Well they weren't.
    'Favorites' to her was the MRU list!
    I had to go back to her old HD, use some weird FBI registry scanner to retrieve her old MRU and then 'reinstall' the MRU by visiting each site. There were only about 10 so I didn't mind doing that. :)

  9. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think it's ideal either. What google are really doing is every tab is a new instance of a browser
    Firefox managed to produce tabs within a single browser. Google is going the other way. Shades of old IE where every page was another browser.
    Why? Google's sandboxing technique calls for it. But is it that important to isolate each page from other pages like that? The whole thing will be a monsterous load on resources. Can you imagine what 10 'pages' running 10 instances of V8 java be like?
    Now I know why I'd need a 3GHZ quad core and 4GB of memory. And it's early days yet!

  10. Re:secret? on Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians · · Score: 1

    I have hear that Hans Delbrook was also a member.

  11. Ferrite Cores on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    A couple of ferrite core rings of the right size is geeky enough and easily replaced.

  12. Re:Good luck with that. on Rocket Racing League Flights With Armadillo Engine · · Score: 1

    I'd rather wait for the ESPN coverage... now that's 1 minute of show and 5 mins of self-promotion.
    What a pain in the neck!

  13. Re:Notifications on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    NOOOO!!!!!!
    Just use Jellybean Keychanger (google it)and all will be well!
    There is also an official MS kb about changing product keys and IDs.
    Load the latest updated XP home/pro and change it to a valid key. You can't swap a pro for a home key though or vice-versa.
    I do it when I refurbish formatted PCs with 'stickers' on them but no XP media.

  14. IVXCM on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 1

    Can I get that in Roman Numerals pls?

  15. Re:Adblockers = theft on IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker · · Score: 1

    You pay for every ad you see on the web. That's something no-one told you about.

  16. Re:Pfff on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    Excommunication was practiced in the middle ages.
    The conception and birth of Christ was indeed miraculous and is the beginning of the litany of Christ's life and teaching.
    I take your point however. The resurrection was a big thing, and the primary reason for why Christianity exists.

  17. Re:Pfff on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    Some of the Apocrypha were written hundreds of years after the events of the gospel, claiming to be written by someone else entirely.

    The difficulty there being that oral transmission recorded many years later, is by its very nature, subject to corruption.
    Also the quality of the gospels through comparisons and study has drawn attention. Possibly due to editing by the early church fathers, the gospels as we know them today may not be all that was known at the time.

  18. Re:Pfff on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    It's more about esoteric Christianity, based on the concept that there is a difference between 'religion (faith)' and 'church (dogma)'.
    The premise behind her Christian work(s) are that there has been a genuine loss of knowledge of Jesus, and a loss of the transmission of knowledge by Jesus due to the church as an organisation. That it has failed its core promise.
    Thus, to achieve some knowledge of Christ, the church, whom you represent as

    a bunch of holier-than-thou religious people who live in middle class suburbia

    - (and let's not belabor the point that these people are a reflection of what the church is), one must go beyond the 4 books and find the origins of Christianity. Faith is belief only, but may not necessarily teach you the knowledge that the esoteric Jesus wanted us to have through the line of succession.

    Christianity is about self-sacrifice, living as Christ lived, and loving as Christ loved.

    is the result of the esoteric work, but not the method. And it is the method that is missing.
    For example, the church should deliver the sacraments in toto. Today, all sacraments have been diluted to varying degrees. Some churches only provide watered down versions of baptism (pun intended), marriage and the Requiem. The contention is that there is more to this than meets the eye.

  19. Re:Well that's embarassing on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    I'd rather go with the Epic of Gilgamesh with a smattering of the Zend Avesta. That's pretty much the basis of western religion.

  20. Re:Pfff on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 0, Troll

    People don't believe in Jesus because of Mary's claim that God made her pregnant. People believe in Jesus because of claims about his miracles & resurrection.

    Really? Then how did the Son of God originate on Earth?
    Part of His holiness is how He came to the world.
    Are you saying that He was born of man and woman?
    That's the sin of heresy, and if you would of been born in the times of the Spanish Inquisition...... - you would of at least been excommunicated.

  21. Re:Pfff on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 1

    Now what you said is good, but there is more to it than meets the eye.
    For once I can say (without being a troll) - "Check my sig"

  22. Re:If sci fi movies are anything to go by.. on A Turning Point for Touch Screens, Says the NYT · · Score: 1

    Close. For most touch screen type of thing you really need a touch screen mouse as a tablet - like an overgrown synaptics pad, but with the intelligence of a touch screen.
    Move you fingers on the pad and watch the screen. That should be intuitive enough. Sort of thing you would use for media centres etc.

  23. Re:As fast as C code??? on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    Yup! I agree

    I think it would be interesting if you could provide pre-compiled Javascript files to browsers for execution -- give it the bytecode directly and allow it to skip the compile process. This would make Javascript much more like Java in that regard.

    You said it better. I was going to say that this should be a server job and not so reliant on browser engines. I can't see why servers can't compile or for that matter get your web authoring program to compile it directly before upload.

  24. Re:I knew magpies are quite "smart" on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    Delegate is aboriginal for 'Place with big hill' and is not English. Bombala is pine reforestation and production and the whole district is also hardwood forest milling.
    Mallacoota (I think that's how you spell it), is a coastal town near Cann River. Also aboriginal name.

  25. Re:I knew magpies are quite "smart" on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    A little. Did a gig in the pub one night. I know where the bus stop is, but haven't been around since 1986...