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  1. Re:Lighthouse on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects? · · Score: 1

    I've been a user (through work and also for personal projects) for about 5 years now - they do bring in improvements. It's got its deficiencies, like any system, but it's pretty good overall.

  2. Lighthouse on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects? · · Score: 4, Informative

    They have a free plan - http://lighthouseapp.com/

  3. Re:Just buy new hardware! (NOT) on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Won't Support Some 64-bit Macs With Older GPUs · · Score: 1

    3 or 4 nights a week for about 45 minutes each time, after the wife and kids go to sleep. So it still sees pretty regular use.

  4. Re:Just buy new hardware! (NOT) on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Won't Support Some 64-bit Macs With Older GPUs · · Score: 2

    My Xbox 360 is 6 years old and I have no problems running 2012 games.

  5. Re:Visual Studio is decent, nothing more on Microsoft Releases ASP.NET MVC Under the Apache License · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let me get this straight - you don't like PHP but you code with Ruby? You and I definitely disagree on the definition of "abomination".

  6. Re:I call bullshit on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 2

    Your situation might be different, but I figured out you just let them sleep. They'll come around on the eating. It's easy to get caught up in the science and numbers and forget they're critters, not machines.

    This is true in my experience for older children, but, for the first month or two of life, you really do need to make sure they're getting milk every 3-4 hours. But now that our kids are 5 and 2, if they don't eat, it's their choice (especially the five year-old).

  7. Well... on Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets · · Score: 1

    His career is sure going into the crapper.

  8. Unconscionability on The Web's Worst Privacy Policy · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's obviously a joke, but, that said, courts will not necessarily enforce contracts that are so one-sided as to be entirely unconscionable or ludicrous. I'm pretty sure this fits the definition...

  9. Re:Not a big deal on Dreamhost FTP/Shell Password Database Breached · · Score: 1

    Where? I've been a DH customer for 5 years and I've never been able to recover a password, only reset it. You can see the password when you first set it (i.e. it just confirms that you've chosen XYZ as your password), but after that you can only reset it, which would lead to the conclusion that it's hashed.

  10. Re:Wow. They did dare! on Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music · · Score: 2

    Wow, they took down websites... good for them. Last time I checked, none of those organizations actually rely on those websites. Take down the DoJ site with a childish attack? Sure, go for it. But it's not like that will actually affect the day-to-day operations of the department itself.

  11. Re:So... on Do E-Readers Spell the Demise Of Traditional Schooling? · · Score: 1

    Your post made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that!

  12. Re:the cake is a lie on Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? · · Score: 1

    Of course Cake will further push the horrible backwards "your controllers should do all the work and your models are just a thin table wrapper" idiocy

    Actually, Cake advocates the opposite - "skinny" controllers and "fat" models. But hey, don't let the facts get in your way.

  13. Re:the cake is a lie on Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? · · Score: 2

    Funny, I suggest the OP do the opposite. I, along with a lot of other "senior developers" that I know, use Cake for many projects. I'd love to see all of this "awkward black magic and bad practice" stuff, though.

  14. Re:Sounds Like Cake is the way to go on Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? · · Score: 2

    NO - Li3 is NOT the next version of Cake. It is a COMPLETELY different projection written by COMPLETELY different people. It forked away from Cake a long time ago. Please stop spreading misinformation.

  15. It's more like... on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have walled gardens killed everyone's ability to come up with new metaphors for closed systems?

  16. Fallacy on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    no browser wars, no open Web standards, no Mozilla, no Firefox.

    That's a pretty slippery slope. Obviously there probably would have been no Mozilla or Firefox, but who's to say that another browser wouldn't have emerged to start a war, or push open web standards? This is why "what if" scenarios are inherently stupid and pointless: they force you to suppose that nothing else will have changed, but that's not true. Likely another browser would have emerged to fill the void and encourage competition.

  17. Re:I can't speak for UK law, but here in the US on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    The mall cop could ask you to leave, and have you arrested for trespassing if you don't, but he sure as hell couldn't confiscate your camera without a serious lawsuit. If a mall security guard tried tho take my camera, I'd tell him to fuck himself. I am a lawyer (but not your lawyer), so just let them try to place their damned dirty ape hands on me!

    Indeed. I am a lawyer too (but not your lawyer!), though in Canada. And up here, while this sort of thing varies from province to province, shopping malls are generally regarded as public spaces, which means that you can't be removed without a good reason. So if you're just standing around, doing something within the confines of the law (e.g. taking a picture), and a mall cop wants to throw you out, you can (attempt to) nail the mall owner for a Charter violation.

  18. My advice... on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... get over yourself. Your data is not that important. Nobody cares.

  19. Re:Pointing at someone else's problems... on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    ... except Slashdot didn't write this article.

  20. Re:Real gamers use desktops on Razer Announces Dedicated Gaming Laptop · · Score: 1

    Gamers never leave the basement. Friends? What are those? God, you really don't understand the demographic, do you?

    Have you ever heard of a LAN party?

  21. Re:Real gamers use desktops on Razer Announces Dedicated Gaming Laptop · · Score: 1

    That's all I have to say. Show me a laptop that will let me run video cards in 3 or 4 way SLI. Oh, and my water cooled screaming 4 monitor system costs less than your shitty laptop. About half as much.

    OK, now pack up your gaming rig and take it to your friend's house for your LAN party. I'll pack up my laptop, and we'll see who gets there first and with less hassle.

  22. groan on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What a bunch of self-absorbed attention whores.

  23. Chip? on Evaluating the Capabilities of Chip-Sized Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who immediately thought of a flying potato chip?

  24. Re:very sad /. on Car Window Touchscreens · · Score: 2

    Huh. She didn't tell me about it until last night.

  25. Uhh... yeah, right. on LulzSec Calls For PayPal Boycott, Spokesman Arrested · · Score: 0

    And why should anyone listen to what a hacking group has to say about PayPal? I'll consider closing my account after LulzSec writes me a cheque to cover the revenue that I'd lose from my online business.