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  1. Re:Thought Question by Gordonjcp · · Score: 1 · on UK's RIAA Goes After Google Using the US DMCA

    Not much, for me. I've already switched to www.altavista.net for the bulk of my web searches. Google is too spammy. If you search for information on electronic components - say, the datasheet for an IC - pretty much all the results are sites in the Far East offering to sell "ALL PART BEST PRICE CALL FOR DETAIL!!!!"

  2. This is just a directive .. by RedLaggedTeut · · Score: 1 · on Europe To Adopt Strict Internet Copyright Law
    This means it will take some time before lawmakers in every country will pass a law that implemements the directive, and in some countries maybe even in a sensible way.

    The whole directive as drafted can be easily turned against itself (completely legally).
    Unfortunately, it would not be cool if I revealed this before the laws get passed. Contact me by email if you want to know.

  3. Hemp != Marijuana by Kozz · · Score: 1 · on Just Say No To Reading About Drugs

    These two things are NOT the same. They are from the same family of plants, but they are NOT the same. Marijuana plants are typically very bushy & leafy, whereas hemp plants are primarily a main fibrous stalk, with very little leaves. Hemp is/was grown for the fibers in the stalk and NOT the leaves. If you want, try smoking some leaves from a hemp plant, and all you're likely to get is a headache.

    I hate it when people mistakenly equate the two in the effort to justify legalization of marijuana when they're really talking about the many uses of hemp. True hemp advocates know this, but the marijuana advocates rarely know the difference. Don't agree with me? Read this or this or this or do your own search on the phrase "hemp is not marijuana".


    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

  4. Reinventing the wheel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on A Universal Networking Language for the Internet?

    Who needs UNL when we have babelfish? ;)

    -Dave

  5. Have your cake and eat it too by Gleef · · Score: 2 · on Feature: Good vs. Evil on the World Wide Web

    I got the following from Altavista:

    +cake: 735,420 Web pages.
    +cake +"eat it": 57,155 Web pages.

    So about 13% of the cake sites have their cake and eat it too!

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  6. Didn't mean to be anonymous. by nemo. · · Score: 1 · on Review:The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace

    I'm having trouble with my account, but I posted the previous comment. nemo.