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  1. AJAX for Lazy on COWS Ajax - Ajax Evolved · · Score: 1

    If you really want too know what it is all about check http://cows-ajax.sourceforge.net/. From that domain, "Instead of each site owner making their own tools, now a single author can make and distribute a cool tool or service that is easily installed on countless sites with the simple addition of one or two lines of code." It's really for lazy webmasters who want ajax gadgets and gizmos with as little actual ajax as possible. This is done by linking to an external site. You still have to learn the COWS API, but come on. If I wanted to do something with my site, I'd learn how and do it myself. That way I would not be requiring an outside server. I'm sure that's why XmlHttpRequest has the same origin limitation on it. It would force you to create your own applications with your own data. It would force a webmaster to learn.

  2. Face to face meetings on Information Security and Ignorant Management? · · Score: 1

    Bring them all into a big room and explain to them the utter importance of security. Explain the benefits face to face. Also explain the pitfalls of not being locked down. People respond better with face to face meetings than without them. Whenever I need something done, I talk directly to who can do it face to face. If the partnership does not have the time, or if they just do not care, then I'd look into other employment opportunities. I wouldn't want to work somewhere that is "too busy" to pay attention to security. But, that's just me and my opinion.

  3. So basically on FBI Data Mining Students' Financial Aid Records · · Score: 1

    Basically, the government is looking for alleged terrorists who committed loan fraud so that the government legitimately nab them. Then the government will interrogate them about the terrorism stuff that the alleged terrorists are involved in. Since tons of loans are done to college students using the FAFSA process, there is an easily accessable (to the government) database that they can use. As a law-abiding student, I really have no qualms with this unless the government decides to start going after law-abiding students.

  4. IDEA!! on Duke in Trouble? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since it'll never be completely done, open source Duke Nukem Forever. That way it can forever be in beta AND people can use it. Unless of course it's unusable at all now. Hopefully it's beyond that.

  5. Why? on Redmond Yawning at Apple-Google Alliance? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would anyone compare AOL-Netscape to Google-Apple? Aol and Netscape were both failing before they joined. Google and Apple are both doing very well and aren't exactly the same type of merge/join the AOL and Netcape. If memory serves me right AOL bought Netscape. Neither Apple nor Google is buying the other. It's just the CEO of one company serving on the board of another. It happens all the time with businesses.

  6. No one linked to the website in question?!? on Universal to Offer Music for Free · · Score: 1

    I will. According to SpiralFrog.com, the service is due out in December 2006. The site doesn't have much info on whether DRM is used or not or much info at all.

  7. Old news on Google Launches Trends · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to this Press Release, Google released Trends on May 10, 2006 along with Google Co-op, Google Desktop 4, and Google Notebook. It appears that the guy who wrote the article just happened to come across Google Trends, put his own website words into it, and IMO he doesn't understand how it works.

  8. Re:Format? on Downloadable Movies from Amazon? · · Score: 1

    On this page, there is a link to an amazon page. On that page, there is a link to "download the unbox video player", so I do believe the format will be somewhat proprietary. Amazon may take that page down, but I still saw what I saw.

  9. Why don't they... on Beyond DirectX 10 - A glance at DirectX 10.1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not call it DirectX 10, and release it with Vista? Heck, by the time Vista is released, it may be DirectX 11.

  10. Wow on Robot Balances on a Single Spherical Wheel · · Score: 1

    A dupe within the summary. Two of the links point the exact same press release. Anyway, I'd like to see a humanoid robot balance on a ball while trying to fix a problem with windows. Some people cannot do either.

  11. OT:My sig on Who Benefits from Spam, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    Yea, no need to analyze too much. The casts are there because witty and odd doesn't implicitly make a funny. Of course the casts need to be defined...

  12. Spammers benefit on Who Benefits from Spam, Anyway? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    By doing this
    1. Send mass, annoyingly misspelled emails
    2. Wait as stupid people wanting (insert lame thing here) open and click on them
    3. ??????
    4. Profit

  13. Yes!! on Endgame- Google Maps RTS (beta) · · Score: 1

    Risk for nerds!! Awesome! Oh wait.....

  14. Central Server vs. P2P on Interview with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IMHO, The central server stucture is the way to go. The entity that owns the central server(s) can concentrate security on those server(s) and thus provide verification that you download what you wanted. You can also track payments and such easier with a central server structure. With P2P, you never know what you are going to get until you run the file, and it's harder to track for liscensing purposes and the like. P2P has been shown to be faster in some applications, but with people getting faster and faster connections to the internet, the speed advantage is going to be less in the future.

  15. Other dropouts... on Dell Reflects on 25 Years of PCs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who did well include Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I think it's strange how 20-30 years ago, college dropouts could do so well. Now, it's almost expected to have a Bachelor's degree or even a Master's for some occupations.

  16. Gasp! on Vista Hacking Challenge Answered · · Score: 1

    Everyone who thought Vista was not going to be hacked raise your hand. Yea, that's what I thought.

  17. Re:A prediction... on Patent Reform Act Proposes Sweeping Changes · · Score: 1

    Why pay people to research whether it's been done before? I know! So that the proper person gets the exclusive right to sell his/her invention. The "first to file" method gets rid of that by taking away the expensive proof of "first to invent" making it cheaper, easier, and faster for the goverment to roll out patents. I'm all for cheap, easy, and fast, but not when it comes to this.

  18. Small clarification on Google Reveals Payment Deal with AP · · Score: 5, Informative

    The AP-Google deal is for a future news product not the current news content that is used in the current Google product. A reuters article explains. From the Reuters article, "'It's a licensing agreement that lets us use original AP content in new ways than we have used in the past for Google News,' Google spokeswoman Sonya Boralv said."

  19. The networks could try on YouTube Revives Failed Sitcom Pilot · · Score: 1

    True. I've been using a dusty VCR to record and watch the shows I like. Then I watch the good ones when there's nothing but crap on. It seems the major TV networks aren't realizing how many people time-shift the shows. Now it's harder to find good shows because of the million channels of crap. Then the networks bury the good shows after a year or two so you've gotta scour the guide for them. The internet has allowed me to find quality shows that I otherwise would have missed.

    Maybe less crap would be produced if the networks implement a model where people watch what they want when they want. Maybe the answer is TV on demand, or maybe an a la carte method, where you pay for what you watch, or maybe it's iTunes/BitTorrent, I don't know.

    It's time the TV networks step it up.

  20. Poems set to music on Music Industry Looking for Lyrics Payoff · · Score: 1

    Lyrics are basically poems set to music. I've seen a bunch of poems from various poets online for free. The question I have is: Why are those poems free while the lyrics are going to be not as free?

  21. Interesting on Google PageRank Suit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    I went to kinderstart.com and you can select google's search engine from their list. If kinderstart really thought google was that bad. I would think they'd remove google from the list.

  22. Re:Technical details? on Adware Spreads Through Myspace · · Score: 1

    I looked at the photo on the article and I recognize the DRM acquisition box as from an asf encoded media stream. I've seen a similar box and it pops up and will usually ask to install a malicious ad program, then the user (read dumb person) clicks through like with other programs. And viola. Adware/spyware party on said dummy's computer.

  23. Re:Do it the old fashioned way on School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Keep dealers' numbers on a peice of paper in your pocket. The school can't search there. And erase the frequently dialed numbers from the phone. Or just call the dealers from home. Easy. The school will probably get frustrated and try a different tactic.

  24. Someone has to ask... on The Software Internet Database · · Score: 1

    Will Microsoft allow there software on it?