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  1. If it ain't broke... on Microsoft's "Immortal Computing" Project · · Score: 1

    I think I'd be correct in saying that most demonstrable long-lived storage medium is vellum. It doesn't take long to think of the most demonstrable short-lived medium... Actually I think that the British laws are still recorded on vellum. They've been doing it for hundreds of years. Computers are just a fad.

  2. New Overlords on Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia, movie watermarks you.

  3. Rootkit detects you on Six Rootkit Detectors To Protect Your PC · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, Rootkit detects You!

  4. Re:Actually... on Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Versus President Putin · · Score: 1

    This happened in Uganda very recently. President Museveni changed the constitution to get another term in office. He was overturning a law that he himself made years ago.

  5. Overlords on DARPA Funds Remote Control Sharks · · Score: 3, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new robotic shark overlords.

  6. Re:an IM client on a TRS-80 on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 1

    Those were the days... oh to be young again

  7. Re:FFS shut up already on Does Portable Music Have to be Compressed? · · Score: 1

    If you can't hear the difference that magnetic leveitation makes to speakers, you clearly don't know what you're talking about. Real audiophiles mount their speakers on aerogel. It only costs a few thousand dollars per speaker. But after you've spent 5 million on the excavation, 5 thousand on sheilding the whole thing and 5 hundred on the sandbags, it's a small sacrifice to make for ultimate sound quality.

  8. Re:Some thoughts on Clinton Prosecutor Now Targeting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    No citation, but I've never heard good things about the CIA factbook's accuracy myself...

  9. Re:an IM client on a TRS-80 on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 1

    When I was about 10 I linked up to Acorn BBC Micros through the 'user port' (8 bit parallel) and did a similar thing. Although the cable was only a foot long... I was quite pleased with that at the time.

  10. Re:48 days, 41 windows on How Many Windows? · · Score: 1

    Me too, and that's why expose isn't just a gimmick. I do have an external monitor though.... I know that Novell have a similar thing in the pipes (I don't know if that's public yet) but apart from that I've yet to see a similarly useful system.

  11. Re:Is it on OpenOffice.org Newspaper Ad Mockup Released · · Score: 1

    Hm. Given what you yanks are doing round the world that might not be the _best_ strategy.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4717974.stm

    more to the point, if they didn't mean that ad to be the final version, why even bother creating a place-holder graphic at all?

  12. Re:Ruby on Rails on What's the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails? · · Score: 1

    Hm. What kind of student? How old are ye? You've got the wrong idea. RoR is a
      *ahem* scripting framework for writing web-applications. The bit that does the 'thinking' on the server. You're still putting HTML in the View files, the .rhtml file extension just tells the server to interpret the <% bits. You can still develop your code in Dreamweaver and Photoshop (if you choose).

    Incidentally, I think that the whole native separation of View and Controller alone brings RoR about 200% above PHP in terms of dev speed. Even if it ain't unique to RoR, it's probably one of the most accessible frameworks (to the masses) to pit against PHP in the more casual arena.