Comment Paramaterize SQL? (Score 1) 156
My god, it's 2013 and where talking about SQL injection? If your not parameterizing your sql, your doing it wrong.
Comment Does it still use Nouveau? (Score 1) 129
So can you boot this version with a newish nvidia card? Cause last time I checked, it used nouveau as default, which fails massively for any newer nvidia cards. All I get it a screen with white blocks. Why linux distros insist on using an alpha video card driver to boot the system for the first time is beyond me.
Doesn't it make sense to use a generic one that will work with everything and then let the person choose to install the alpha one (or propitiatory one)?
Comment Re:Good riddance indeed (Score 1) 911
Since when is supporting gay marriage and stem cell research "ultra-right wing conservative"? last I checked the Koch brothers seemed to line up more with Ron Paul in ideology, then Rush Limbaugh...David H Koch was a libertarian back in the 80's (just like Ron Paul)...
Comment So that's what Churchhill did... (Score 1) 142
with the Spitfires from Demons Run...
Submission + - Firefox: In With The New, Out With The Compatibility (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "Mozilla's 'endless parade' of Firefox updates adds no visible benefit to users but breaks common functions, as numerous add-ons, including the popular open source TinyMCE editor, continually suffer compatibility issues, thanks to Firefox's newly adopted auto-update cycle, writes InfoWorld's Galen Gruman. 'Firefox is a Web browser, and by its very nature the Web is a heterogeneous, uncontrolled collection of resources. Expecting every website that uses TinyMCE to update it whenever an incremental rev comes out is silly and unrealistic, and certainly not just because Mozilla decided compatibility in its parade of new Firefox releases was everyone else's problem. The Web must handle such variablility — especially the browsers used to access it.'"
Comment Re:Mayans (Score 1) 142
I thought the timer was perpetually stuck at 5:02 PM on the 22 April, 2011?
Comment Re:Um, the Constitution says "nay" (Score 1) 705
um...if the constitution explicitly allows Congress to regulate inter-state congress. Durbin is a US Senator, and the US Senate is part of Congress...
Super Mario Bros. 3 Level Design Lessons 95
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Significant Bits about how the early level design in Super Mario Bros. 3 gradually introduced players to the game without needing something as blatant and obtrusive as a tutorial:
"Super Mario Bros. 3 contains many obvious design lessons that are also present in other games, e.g., the gradual layering of complexity that allows players to master a specific mechanic. What surprised me during my playthrough, though, was how some of these lessons were completely optional. The game doesn't have any forced hand-holding, and it isn't afraid of the player simply exploring it at his own pace (even if it means circumventing chunks of the experience)."
Comment Re:Surgical implantation of explosives. (Score 1) 342
um...could one not build bluetooth into the bomb and then have a bluetooth enabled cell phone (or iTouch) act as the detonator? What is the TSA going to do then? Ban all cellphones from a flight?
Comment Re:Russian Game: Assistance but Not Participation (Score 4, Insightful) 175
Because everybody knows it is really Vladmir Putin who runs Russia, and is Prime Minister to get around the consecutive term limits, and will run again for the Presidency, and win after Medvedev's term is up...
Comment Re:Wait what? (Score 5, Funny) 799
and then the next thing you know it will be mandatory to buy bike insurance, just like car insurance! Don't tell the Tea Party!
Comment Re:Yes...this will end well (Score 1) 759
Comment Re:User Account Control (Score 2, Interesting) 287
Chrome has it's exe in APPDATA, that is how they get around UAC.
Comment Re:Bans (Score 1) 677
A petition will not do a damn thing. You're going to have to threaten to kill people if your demands are not met.
Comment Re:Great step forward (Score 1) 252
and if they did recover it, they would find a message written in old high gallifreyan on the black box translated as "Hello, Sweetie"
