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Comment Re:The link to solve the problem (Score 1) 360

by kaens on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @09:01AM (#27658839) Attached to: BT Blocks Access To Pirate Bay

On 3G? Really?

While I don't like the blocks at all, I'm a bit confused as to who was downloading torrents on their phones anyhow. Everytime I've used a 3G network, it's been slow as all shit - torrents were out of the question, let alone TOR.

2009, Year of the Linux Delusion 696

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 18, 2008 @12:56PM from the feed-the-trolls dept.

gadgetopia writes "An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low-power ARM processors will be in netbooks which won't have enough power to run Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to 'web only' applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too." The article goes on to skewer the year of Linux thing that seems to show up on pretty much every tech news site throughout December and January as lazy editors round out their year with softball trolling stories and "Year End Lists." We should compile a year-end list about this :)

Comment Re:Regexp-based address validation (Score 1) 516

by kaens on Monday November 10, 2008 @10:53PM (#25715383) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks?

Well, the module will let you do that. The regexp will only work on addresses that have comments stripped out.

Of course, I don't think that I've ever seen a comment in an email address (I'm too young for that).

PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist 523

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 26, 2008 @01:01PM from the or-maybe-more-of-a-slant dept.

jeevesbond writes "PHP is finally getting support for namespaces. However, after a couple hours of conversation, the developers picked '\' as the separator, instead of the more popular '::'. Fredrik Holmström points out some problems with this approach. The criteria for selection were ease of typing and parsing, how hard it was to make a typo, IDE compatibility, and the number of characters."

Modern Methods For Sharing Innovation 91

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 26, 2008 @10:34AM from the let's-see-what-you've-got dept.

The New York Times is running a story about Johnny Chung Lee, a hardware hacker made famous for his projects which modified the Nintendo Wiimote to do things like positional head tracking and multi-touch display control. The article focuses on the suggestion that Lee's use of YouTube to demonstrate his innovations has done a better job of communicating his ideas than more traditional methods could. Quoting: "He might have published a paper that only a few dozen specialists would have read. A talk at a conference would have brought a slightly larger audience. In either case, it would have taken months for his ideas to reach others. Small wonder, then, that he maintains that posting to YouTube has been an essential part of his success as an inventor. 'Sharing an idea the right way is just as important as doing the work itself,' he says. 'If you create something but nobody knows, it's as if it never happened.'"

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