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Comment: Cookies next? How about TSA Body Scanners? (Score 1) 354

by acklenx (#38796245) Attached to: Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring

Really? He thinks about cookies next.
So a government agency looking at where my car goes is not allowed (protected). But nakid pictures of my junk is fair game? WTF?

Back on topic thought... the 4th amendment doesn't really restrict itself to government agencies. It is a right of the people - one that is explicitly not ceded to the government. Simply the the government isn't allowed to infringe on your privacy doesn't mean that it's not still yours.

In any event, cookies are a choice, and most people choose to share them for their own benefit.

Comment: Re:At the risk of my nerd card... (Score 1) 655

by acklenx (#35611798) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who?

and the movie version of "Starship Troopers" was much better than the book.

Didn't /. have a friends AND an Enemies option at one point. It's been years since I've even look, but this post motivated me to look for that Enemies button. All I see is how to friend someone... and I'm sorry elrous0, that aint happenin'.

Comment: Re:HTML *was* simple (Score 1) 298

by acklenx (#35032656) Attached to: The Abdication of the HTML Standard

tables were never okay to use tables for layout

But they were easy. Search for "3 column layout" and look at the infinite variety of wildly more, and more complicated solutions. Complexity depends of course on how closely you want to approximate a ridiculously trivial table layout that can have same size columns with or without background colors or images, fixed or fluid sized columns (or a mix!!), and whitespace, with a header pinned to the top and a footer at the bottom regardless of scroll height. Tables made it easy even cross browser without script of any sort. It's considerably trickier with just to meet some arbitrary standard that "tables shouldn't be used for layout". Tables were drop dead easy (until they started _removing_ table support from browsers).

Comment: Do we need that kind of precision (Score 0, Troll) 302

by acklenx (#33835470) Attached to: French ISP Refuses To Send Out Infringement Notices

10.000

Do we need that kind of precision? I could maybe understand 10.0 if you wanted to imply no half users (10.5). But what would constitute 10.001 anyway? Someone with a mole they wanted to remove? Or would they be 9.999 if they clipped their fingernails? In general I would think ISP's would only care about whole users. Just my American opinion.

Comment: Re:Solution (Score 1) 1140

by acklenx (#33816554) Attached to: Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels?
I have three side by side _all_ of them are vertical and I love it. At 1280x1024 (or 1024x1280) I'm at at the standard "max" web width and I have very little need for scrolling. Essentially the same for documents. What I don't like is my one monolithic monitor on my mac. The aspect ratio is "right" but it's not terribly useful.

Comment: Re:My guess? Users need to STFU (Score 1) 422

by acklenx (#33110484) Attached to: Is <em>StarCraft II</em> Killing Graphics Cards?
Plain vanilla iMac 10 months out of the box with the nVidia card. It crashes all the time with the recommended settings. It occasionally ( once every day or two ) crashes with all the video settings to Low or Off. No overclocking, apple ventilation and power. The real bummer is that the game runs great and looks phenomenal with the video settings cranked way up. It doesn't drop a bunch of frames like I would expect if I was over taxing the system, it just up and dies. That is the screen shows strange artifacts (snowy), and is frozen. Sometimes the mouse/cursor will jump wildly when I move it while the screen/system is otherwise frozen, but usually it is nowhere to be seen. The only solution is to hold the power button for 10 seconds (and crank the settings down). Did I over-mod or poorly configure my iMac?

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