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According to their press release:

If the proposed name change is approved, the company intends to change its Nasdaq trading symbol. Shareholders will vote on the proposal at the company's annual meeting on Dec. 5.

For however long Excite remains in existence: news.excite.com. And, while it doesn't search news sites, dailynews.yahoo.com has enough feeds that it's usually pretty good, too.

at one point, webcrawler was a good search engine. There was also Yahoo and excite and altavista and all of them together, dogpile (and more, of course). Popularity has skipped from one to the next (though yahoo has been more portal than search engine, with lists and reviewed sites and such, news and stocks and groups and maps...) And one search engine to rule them. that would be google, right? google seems to be a sort of ending place, which could say something about innovation on the web. Or it could just mean that what is popular is also a Very Good Thing.

I would take Stephen Hawking's advice and work on a Star Trek style "warp drive" so that we can colonize space before the human race is wiped out.

http://news.excite.com/news/r/011016/09/odd-hawkin g-dc

How does 100 miles in less than 4 hours by a slightly out of shape 36 year old sound? I recently did a 100 mile ride on my recumbent in under 4 hours. And I'm not in that good of a shape, and my bike is not one of the faster recumbent models (its more of a comfort bike than a speed demon). I have been riding regular bikes since the 1960's, and after trying out recumbents for the first time last year, I'm now fully addicted. Weather permitting, I commute between home and work on my 'bent. 17 miles each way, in New York City traffic.

Odd that Slashdot, a VA-owned website, will report on Red Hat's losses, but somehow neglect to inform their readers that VA Linux Systems stock has finally slipped into penny-stock territory as of yesterday, closing at a whopping $0.95/shr.

But wait..that would mean that VA is fair and impartial when it comes to informing the Linux community..hmm.

This poll from excite shows that most people are not willing to give up any freedoms to combat terrorism (save freedom of travel which is more of a convenience than a freedom.)

That being said, I'm sure after reading an objective article on this backdoor idea most people will disagree with the it.

This excite poll is asking what people would be willing to give up for protection of terrorism..
56% would not be willing to give up ANY freedoms, while 18% would be willing to give up freedom of travel (which means taveling will be more difficult due to security precautions.)

Apparently 74% of 4000+ people who voted would not be willing to give up any real freedoms (like speech and privacy) for the sake of safety.

Maybe you have better sources, but I don't see how you can say the American people will just hand over their freedoms.

Excite.com has a poll about what freedoms people would compromise to be free from attacks like this. Travel, Speech, Privacy, None, All or Not Sure. Only 54% said "None". 9% said "All". It is to be expected that people are scared and jumpy right now, but I hope these poll numbers change for the better over the next couple of weeks.

There's slightly more information available (also confirming this) at Excite news.

The Justice Department is expected to have a certain degree of independence from the administration, and rightfully so.

The Excite article that I read even explicitly mentions that GWB has gone out of his way to not influence the issue. That may not be true, but it's misleading, irresponsible, and extremely biased journalism to report otherwise.

http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010904/19/news-isra el-bombing

Here's an article relating to your post.

The best birthday present I can think to give the Linux community on its 10th birthday is the news that Slashdot casually forgot to mention that trading on VA Linux Systems' stock was halted yesterday during market trading. The quicker this company falls off the radar, the quicker the Linux community can go back to being the way it was before VA came along. Cooperative, fair, and fun, instead of competitive, corrupt, and stressful.

With that in mind, its easy to say that Linux has a bright future ahead. Here's to another 10.. :)

Study: US Science booksrife with errors!
Popular textbooks used by 85% of US Middle-School kids, contain gross mistakes
Could be reason US students so dumb in science!

Officials Ban 8-Year-Old's Science Fair ExperimentProject
Suggested That Kids Prefer White Barbie Doll To Black Barbie Doll
Father Claims Her Freedom Of Expression Was Violated

BRITISH TO TEACH 4 YEAR OLDS HOMOSEXUALITY / ANAL SEX
teachers "not to try to promote any type of family or home life as the norm"

University of Florida: BLACK ENROLLMENT DROPS 50% WITHOUT RACE-PREFERENCES
They just can't cut-it without special treatment!

TEACHER ARRESTED FORASSAULTING and ENDANGERING STUDENTS
Tied children up; tied shoes around necks!

HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXPOSED IN GRADES FRAUD
Professor exposes intentional "Grade Inflation"
Harvard Grads not nearly as smart as once thought?

Cuba offers free Medical School toUS Students
. . . as long as they pledge allegiance to Communism

Vanguard News Network

Go to Excite and what do you see? "My News". "My Weather". "My Horoscope". "My Chat Events". "Change Excite Colors" (Wow, even Yahoo doesn't have that!). Will anybody miss that stuff?

There's always someone in orbit now -- ISS is permanently manned. There's also a shuttle in space, delivering a new space station crew among other things. Presumably they're doing OK -- they had a space walk yesterday, according to Excite's news feed.

I suggest reading the article located here which contains the more believable numbers

the industry says album sales in South Korea totaled $315 million in 2000, up from $292 million the previous year. .

With a wingspan of 247 feet - wider than a Boeing 747 - Helios is 6 feet high and weighs 1,850 pounds, which allows it to take off at just 30 mph. It flies on the edge of Earth's atmosphere, 100,000 feet high. Helios' 14 electric motors run on solar power generated by 65,000 solar cells by day, and on fuel cells energized by solar power by night. Helios' "brain" is an Apple Computer Macintosh computer that would guide it back to Earth when necessary.
Helios will be able to stay in the air for six months or longer because of its fuel cells and a limited number of moving parts. At an anticipated cost of $10 million each, it will be far cheaper than conventional communications satellites, which cost about $200 million each, backers say.
Helios will soon develop into a platform of choice for fixed broadband, next-generation wireless, narrowband and direct broadcast applications. He said Helios can supply data rates of 1.5 megabits per second to 125 Mbps for a single user. The 30-millisecond latency of Helios-centered communications is comparable to that of fiber optics.

On tenews th otherday I spotted a normal rocket taking off (titan? arianne? - The sound wasoff). Why cant his be launched on one of these?

Hmm... Was is this recent launch? (http://news.excite.com/news/r/010807/09/science-s pace-ariane-dc)

Might not be your best bet for getting a something safely into orbit. =)

Anyone who suggests that 60 lines isn't enough doesn't really understand quite whats happening here. Everyone is trying to make it sound like they already have cured everything, but FedGov is stopping them from injecting them into everyone to cure their runny noses.

AT&T is not terribly consistent in stating their policies across all their documents, the Acceptable Use Policy says:

Examples of prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, running servers for mail, http, ftp, irc, and dhcp, and multi-user interactive forums.

I sorta read that the same way, unfortunately it is contradicted by the AUP which says:

Examples of prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, running servers for mail, http, ftp, irc, and dhcp, and multi-user interactive forums.

Also, you'll find a Q&A that says:

AT&T Broadband does not allow servers to be connected to the cable modem. This means that no computer in a personal network can be used as a server.

They also say in their AUP that they don't spy on their customers and don't go out of their way to catch people. Essentially, if you're running a server that is *not* causing bandwidth problems for your neighbors, they won't come after you.

The AP story can be found here.

Your wish is granted! FTC is investigating the Musicnet/Pressplay Douoploly as you read this.

The labels are starting to ask Why are we paying this Rosen woman a 1.1 million dollar salary? First the EU Investigation in June, this Boucher/Cannon bill, and now a FTC investigation. Not to mention that the FTC Finding of Price Fixing, or the 28 states lawsuit over the price fixing

They (mainly BMG in Germany) tried it in Europe already in 2000. I still have Ministry's CD that won't play on CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs but plays perfectly on an ordinary stereo CD player.

I just read an article on somewhere.excite.com that says "For infected computers, turning the machine off and then on gets rid of the worm but does not provide immunity from future infection".

There's so much hype about the "National security concerns" over this virus, and how it may "melt down the internet" (cough cough, BS)... Well duhh... How about organizing a group of potential worm feeders and shutting them all down @ once? Obviously this is not the best solution, but I don't see any sites recommending this as a group-effort.

Actually if the "1337" government people are trying really hard to get common folks to get the patch so that the virus won't spread more, and if they can't do it, this is at least a humble shot that they can give at stopping the spraed.

Heh, I hope it's not like "info" on irc.linux.com.

MonkeyMan has joined
<MonkeyMan> Hey guys, what's up?
<info> up (Replacement program for uptime.), section Console/System, is GPL. Stable: 0.3, Development: none. http://freshmeat.net/redir/homepage/903122657/
<Guy> Ah, I see you met info
<MonkeyMan> what is it?
<info> [it] Information Technology - An international term for an information system, which consists of one or more automated information systems (AISs) or computer systems and communications systems.
<Guy> info: shut up
*info runs away in fear
<MonkeyMan> You're no fun
<info> info is no fun: http://music.excite.com/album/327756

And this:

Apparently, Excite "checks these queries for objectionable material before displaying them." It seems content filtering has some way to go :)

And this:

Apparently, Excite "checks these queries for objectionable material before displaying them." It seems content filtering has some way to go :)

When I was on this story earlier today:

http://news.excite.com/news/r/010702/17/entertainm ent-crime-poundstone-dc I got a really annoying DHTML ad for Jurassic Park that scrolled with the page. It appears to be random, so you may not get it.

I agree with the other person that posted about "escalation". These sites need revenue, and they will get as annoying as they need to. They have to keep their companies alive. In the words of Dilbert, they will sell our organs for money if they thought they could get away with it.

- Twid

Some search engines, like excite do track what people click on, though I don't know if they make this information public. It certainly makes sense to record this info so that sites that get clicked on a lot for a particular search term can be moved up and those that are clicked on less often can be moved down.

Don't forget...

• The Monkey Man
• Sasquatch
• Yeti
• Aligators in Central Park

Some of the Slashdot discussion speculated that RedHat might be interested in buying Be. Others noted legal difficulties in opening the BeOS source, but the company recently registered some thought provoking domain names, so they may be planning to try it anyway.

A very interesting comment noted that BeOS and Linux complement each other nicely, with BeOS a great desktop system for end users while Linux works best as a server. It's a good point. We may be expecting a lot of an OS to make it do well on everything from high end mainframes & servers to desktop PCs & handheld PDAs & even small embedded controllers. While it's impressive that Linux can do all this, maybe allowing complementary systems to have complementary roles might be a better idea.

As the head of RedHat (chief hat wearer? ;), what do you think of such speculation? Do you think that Linux could stand to gain by using BeOS technology? Would it be worthwhile to purchase Be &/or get involved in opening their software? If Sony's BeIA driven eVilla internet appliance catches on, having a stake in that contract could be very lucrative, but of course that's a gamble at this point.

Or do you feel that, as much as things may seem superficially similar, that there is too much dissonance between the Linux & BeOS worlds to make a merger worthwhile? Do you disagree that having separate systems for desktop & server could be a good idea? If you feel that there should be "one OS to rule them all," could (indeed, should)Linux take a lesson from Be about how to make a really good, easy, slick desktop frontend for the existing excellent but arcane back end that Linux provides?

In short, should these two be wedded and can such a marriage work?

Hey! Not everything on /. is plagierized. Take a look at what you might call Anti-Plagierism, where the article says BeOS is "going down the toilet", while the linked Excite article says nothing of the sort.

• travel.excite's synopsis on Churchill
• Images from Churchill, including the lights.

Right, now I'm worried.

This slight seed mixing is exactly what they found in Italy.

AP story
Reuters story


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Right, now I'm worried.

This slight seed mixing is exactly what they found in Italy.

AP story
Reuters story


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If it won't play on your computer, put it it your CD player and hook up the speaker (or headphone) to your computer and grab it then burn it. (Or just burn it.)

-I will never be reduced to grabbing music from the air.
(I got it right that time)


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I first saw such ads in Acrophobia 3 years ago, and since then, I've seen them in assorted other games. (The game was designed with certain intermissions. In the finals of each game, the top two contestants play while the others wait, then the others vote on their plays while they wait. During both of these waits, the waiting players get an ad that takes up the whole window. There are also periodically ads between rounds. When I first played Acrophobia, these were full-screen ads with sound that were the closest thing to a TV commercial I'd ever seen, and quite possibly still are -- only possibly surpassed by the embedded commercials in some RealVideo clips.) Some of the games at Boxerjam do this, as do some of the games at Excite games.

I personally believe we are foolish not to go after this technology. After all, most of what we do with gasoline is burn hydrogen, and then spit out what doesn't burn as dangerous byproducts(of course, CO2 isn't a pollutant, and catsup is a vegatable, if you follow a certain way of thinking). Besides, as I'm sure many previous posts mention, it's just about as dangerous to use gasoline as it is to use hydrogen in terms of unexpected combustion. As any welder will tell you, a fuel gas cannot burn until it's mixed with oxygen. A far more salient concern would be explosive decompression of the fuel container under heat or a good hard knock, but, although I can't remember who it was, there was a company recently experimenting with using a metallic matrix for hydrogen fuel storate, with the idea that even if the tank were cut in two, the gas as it escapes rapidly cools (as gases do) and would freeze over the opening, thereby sealing it. I dunno, but the BMW engineers don't seem the least bit concerned, as they say the liquid H just dissapates, which you may or may not choose to believe. Besides, I see natural gas-powered vehicles all over the place today, and where's the outcry? And what's the difference between powering a vehicle with natural gas or powering a vehicle with hydrogen? The natural gas is, of course, supplied by the oil companies, where just about anyone with the gumption can produce hydrogen with nothing but electricity and water! Which may explain the somewhat hysterical opinions circulated against hydrogen-powered vehicles.

As far as the autopump thingy goes, didn't the nozzle on that thing look sort of like the torture machine Darth Vader used on Princess Leah in Star Wars? Around here, we probably wouldn't use one, though, as it would put people out of work.

Pluto's not a Real Planet (tm) anyway.

Sean

I think America should stop and think once in a while about what might happen instead of how to make as much $ in the shortest possible time. The intersting thing about this whole problem is that is moot already, by making Napster(gnapster,hotline,blah) illeagal it just sends the problem underground.

There's now an Excite story confirming that Sega Japan is abandoning Dreamcast.

Dreamcast was built around Windows CE, so I say "Good riddance". Now all we have to do is kill off Xbox.

I'm sorry, but have you checked out N2H2's stock price lately? It doesn't suprise me that this company would do this. I go to a school that chose this solution based on the idea that companies like Lucas Arts uses it. I've had nothing but problems since it got up, and I am often requesting unblocks of sites that aren't objectionable (not to mention flaming them when the block sites like Travelocity). If I want people to know where I go on the internet, I turn cookies on. If I really don't want them knowing where I go, I use another proxy.

We have been having problems getting our mail to @home. They are blocking port 25 access from our mail server. We do not know why. Here is @home's commentcomment on the matter.

Hah!

We followed this procedure and at least one of our subscribers did with very positive effect.

1. First, telephone the standard support number at 888-824-8166. Be prepared with your name, address, subscriber id (this is your @home email address) and your personal security code. Also be prepared to wait a while because they are often pretty busy. Your wait can be up to one hour and will probably be more than 30 minutes. When a technician answers, tell them this:

   "I am a subscriber to @home and I am unable to receive email that is being sent to from [vendorname]. I want to receive my email. The vendor advises me that they have notified @home about this, but that @home is asking their subscribers to get individual trouble tickets for this problem."

   If you want to get the email that is waiting for you, do not give up until they give you a trouble ticket number (this is your official confirmation that they know about the problem. If you don't get a trouble ticket number, your problem has not been logged. If you have enough trouble tickets, you can ask @home for a refund on your service for the month.)

   If you can do an IP trace on your mail (like if you are a sysadmin) and prove that the mail is being bounced, so much the better. If you are a regular user, you will need to have at least one of your bounce messages and a copy of the message header. Make sure you speak with their level 2 support and send them everything they ask for. If you don't know how to retrieve a message heaader, they can tell you. Don't give up until you are positive they have your documentation and you have the ticket number.

2. You can also use the @home chat room. Select the option for customer support. Note that they are very unwilling to give out trouble ticket numbers during chat and probably won't do anything. But you can save the chat session and it may be useful in subsequent correspondence.
   
   And some of it is amusing also. It is left as an exercise for the reader to find out why...

3. If this fails and you don't start getting your email, the @home escalation department is at 888-824-8296. Don't call them until you have a ticket number. Be emphatic and explain the problem. Spend as much time as you like with them. Occasionally the people at this level are effective.

4. If THIS fails and you STILL don't get your email, The AT&T Executive Appeals group is at (800-800-2824). You will need your ticket number to talk with these folks also and you will need to be patient to wade through their system. This is a useful exercise because they do formally log these and report them.

5. If you STILL don't get your mail, you can complain to executive management for @home. Daniel Somers, (720-875-5500) is the head of the AT&T broadband services division. He is in Colorado, the Mountain time zone. His phone is answered by a human and his executive assistant is named Jennifer. Ask for her. She seems to be one of the few effective and accessible individuals in the entire organization.

6. And finally, there is David Dorman, 908-221-3901 , the president of AT&T and Michael Armstrong, 212-387-5400, CEO of AT&T. Note that this is in New York City, so they are in the Eastern time zone. Their secretary / phone answering people are very polite. Some of them are also helpful. Mr. Dorman's executive assistant is Marie Miller. She is a pretty effective individual. When you call, explain that you are a customer who is having a service problem, that you need help. Be courteous, but explicit. And don't give up.

7. Once this problem has been resolved, write Michael Armstrong, David Dorman and Daniel Somers, personally and individually (by FEDEX - personal and confidential, to insure that the letters are received and that it is possible to tell who signed for them.) Praise those who have help and letting the chips fall where they may for those employees of theirs' who have hindered the solution. Provide detail, be literate and polite.

   It may also be useful to contact George Bell, Chairman and CEO of Excite@Home (the @home service provider to AT&T, Comcast, and all other XXX@home subscribers) and make sure Mr. Bell is aware of all the roadblocks thrown at you in resolving this problem, the Excite@Home employees who would not help you, and (if appropriate) the ineptness of their first level of technical support, as well as your praise for those employees who have helped solve the problem.

   Good luck, be patient, stay calm and have fun!

You might find this article of interest.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

In the ZDNET article about these restrictions was this absolutely hilarious paragraph:

However, Iraq already has figured out how to get around the restrictions. Followers of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein reportedly bought 1,400 PlayStation 2 units last year with the intent of developing a military system with the chips they contain. The gaming machines aren't subject to the same export rules as computers.

I'd think they're more interested in unlocking Kasumi's costumes than flying some ramshackle Emotion-engine missiles around.

I definetly think the representative from Gigalaw has a valid point but I must give credit to the people at iCopyright.com credit for coming up with the idea. Why not give credit where credit is due, they do have big companies like The Indianapolis Star as clients.

But then again, I've always been The jealous type.