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Google accepts the sum but only gives 9 sig figs in the answer. Oh well.

OCT refers to Octal.

So... ta da!

(are AdWords regionalised?)

Google US (which goes to a country-specific Google if available) brings up four ads; the first three are to buy the Tom Clancy novel online and the last is for the Wall Street Journal.

Google UK gives two sex toy-related links.

So yes.

Quite. Some references for you, mister gazbo:

The Hacker's Dictionary (original)
usenet post about Eric Raymond's interference with the Jargon File
another one ..
and another

Quite. Some references for you, mister gazbo:

The Hacker's Dictionary (original)
usenet post about Eric Raymond's interference with the Jargon File
another one ..
and another

Quite. Some references for you, mister gazbo:

The Hacker's Dictionary (original)
usenet post about Eric Raymond's interference with the Jargon File
another one ..
and another

Most of the "Buy it" links point to http://www.qksrv.net which takes you eventually to this page.

Lo and behold.... Google

google might help

This isn't about stealing, troll. It's about the right to use goods you bought, paid for and own, in such a manner as you think fit.

I really thought I had stumbled onto a piece of horror sci-fi when I saw the full extent what the DMCA was about to criminalise. If I own a DVD, IMHO I have paid for the right to watch the content on that DVD. All means to the same end are equally valid - nobody {except the irreversible laws of Nature; and she's reckoned to be a deity precisely because it doesn't do mortals any good arguing with her} can dictate to me how I may watch that DVD. Only in a fascist police state would it be considered "theft" to use software received as a gift with the blessing of the author, to watch a paid-for DVD, on equipment you already own. The only thing you haven't done is paid money to some DVD player manufacturer, but as you haven't made any use of their goods or services, you don't owe them anything. That would be like a consortium of bra manufacturers calling Charlie Dimmock a thief!

And, of course, it's totally unenforceable - unless you actually spend more money on enforcing a stupid law than you would have lost through it getting broken in the first place. But you do get to blame it on "criminals", even although it was only your law that made them criminals in the first place.

And then, of course, you have to remember that it could be the thin end of the wedge. How long till the Bakery Products Association of America start busting bread machine users?

In Russia we are not allowed to use the terms sub-merging or submission.

Samir Gupta is a notorious troll.
Check the usenet archive for more information

there is really no such thing as "speaker bracelet" or "candle truck".

GoogleWhacking is a "game" (for want of a better word) where you take two random words and try to get one, and only one result on Googe.

Ahh, but Altavista didnt know the meaning of Life.

comp.robotics.misc has a few useful posts.

this post's author could be someone to ask?

I suggest you try the following web search: Bush and State Budget, which comes up with hundreds of links about articles where Bush' policies have had a negative impact on the financial situation of the budgets of the individual states.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:geODEmYjHpM J:blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20+&hl=en&ie =UTF-8

Obviously (for anyone that can conver from metric to english units)

Umm.. this is nitpicking I know, but an English pint is about 0.568 litres. (20 fl Oz. for some weird reason), and a gallon is 8 of these.

He was talking about how his vehicle was safer for his family. I mentioned the Child Killers that he had fitted, and he never spoke to me again after that. However, with that kind of attitude, I don't miss him.

BOllox - John Logie Baird invented television, though it relied on a mechanical contraption for projecting a picture. Philo Farnsworth invented the cathode ray tube, which managed to put a picture on a screen without the moving parts; but not until there was actually anything to display using one.

Then someone had the idea of, instead of charging people for the privilege of watching TV and using the money raised to pay for high-quality programmes that would at once inform, educate and entertain, letting people watch telly for free but showing advertisements during the breaks between programmes, and using the advertising money to pay for programmes that ultimately would do little more than fill in the breaks between adverts. IMHO that was the disinvention of television.

Google this.
... the origin is Kent Brockman in the Simpsons episode [Deep Space Homer].

its a typo

Google Cache of /.'d opening page Links work.

Try looking here for starters, or just Google :-)

I think you mean the case of Tony Martin. Whilst I don't know enough about the case to make an informed comment, I gather that the issues are disparity in sentences (due to guilty vs not guilty pleas) and the attempts to sue. Speaking as a UKian, I'm in two minds on this whole affair. On the one hand I'm a firm believer in 'a man's home is his castle'. On the other hand, I would be concerned if you could get away with shooting an unarmed intruder in the back...

Just did a wee (translation - little) bit of digging on Google and found the following cached page. (I searched for Nerdahoy)

It also appears that these are the gentlemen who made the sites, Lamespy and Crappynews. Which I have never heard of but do sound very parody orientated.

If you do same search on www.google.co.uk you get same DMCA notice of missing results. Thanks a lot USA for exporting your laws here... in return do I get to vote for one of these "congresspeople" now?

The first result from google.co.uk seems to be valid.

Goatse, conese and Bathtubgirl. Persuading people to visit random websites has got to have been a dot com pastime. Just look ot the number of people this search brings up.

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thumbnail images and the (pretty lame) webpage

thumbnail images and the (pretty lame) webpage

Wasn't there an antidote to Code Red that worked that way? Code Blue rings a bell... [searches Internet] Actually it was Code Green.

Lastest new reports:

Three failed transmission lines in northern Ohio are the likely cause of North America's largest power blackout, investigators said Thursday
Google news for additional stories

(How about a Your Cow Online Section? )

Admit it, you just did a Google image search for "toy story penguin", didn't you?

It starts this Tuesday at London's Olympia, and in previous years is said to be the largest pub in the world in terms of selection of beer, and IIRC, number of customers :)

See you there :-)

ok, so maybe the robot is pretty cool - but the rest...

...has been working to replace the remote controls lying around the home with one device, such as a cellphone or a personal digital assistant. Eventually, he said, appliances could be equipped with technology to receive the commands.
your mean the philips pronto and X10?

...is working on a glove that could translate sign language into digitized letters...
you mean this?

Those included a rebuilt task bar that could sort onscreen files, and a program that acted like a magnifying glass for Web sites. A program called Fabric would allow a user to drag windows to the side of the computer screen, where they would turn into small icons.
what? an onscreen magnifying glass?
and dockable applications? er OSX?

Go to Google UK and enter keywords "weapons of mass destruction" and hit "I'm feeling lucky"

I have no idea, but searching for the name of the PDF (rupashibangla) on Google gives some hints. "More Progress on the Bangla Opentype font issue...."

I think he's refering to the fact that by default www.google.com presents its interface in English, while www.google.de presents its interface in German and www.google.it presents its interface in Italian.

www.google.co.uk is another English interface, but unlike www.google.com it offers a mode to search only UK sites. It's likely presumed that English-speaking users use their own localized Google site rather than the USA site for better performance.

Google Search for linux:
Results 1 - 10 of about 57,500,000.

MSN Search for linux:
Results 1-15 of about 53


With that little content I don't think MSN is gonna atract the geek population for a while. When I set computers up for people or "fix the internet" I set their homepage to Google. They all apreciate it and are usually very impressed that I can change the internet like that!

So to start with, cut the crap. No junk food, no fizzy pop, no processed sugar. Eat fresh fruit and vegetables, you know, real food. Make sure you get your recommended five helpings a day of those. Buy organic if possible. Oh, I'm afraid you'll have to ditch the coffee too, switch to herbal tea, or fresh fruit juice or just plain old water. Well that's for starters, do some googling (see below) to find more specifics for what other changes in your diet can help.

There's been some research done in the UK on diet in children. One study (sorry couldn't find a link) found a dramatic difference after only two weeks of changing their school lunch from junk to proper food. This was so successful that a number of schools are now making this a permanent change. As an aside on this, a teacher friend of mine says it's well known by teachers in general that school children are more difficult to handle after lunch, ie after their shots of junk food and sugar!

Now, having said all that, this may still not help, but it is certainly worth a try. If you can, get your family to change their diet in the same way. This will make it easier for you, and you'll all be healthier for it.

Good luck!

BTW, if you want to try googling for "adhd diet", go to google.co.uk first, and select 'pages from the UK'. Ritalin is not quite so common there as in the USA, and there've been some studies on diet, so you get useful hits more quickly (I know, I tried it).

Does that mean google has to go too? After all you can always use that to search for mp3's

It seems to me that anything that trawls for information is now illegal in the RIAAs eyes. I suppose the only way that this will end is if they try to sue someone who can afford to fight in them courts and make it so tht future such actions can't occur. Looks like the RIAA is speciffically targeting people who they know wont be able to afford to fight them in court but who can give them a few grand. Thus preserving their right to threaten college students who cave in and settle out of court.

As currently the pagerank of google is screwed up (Google News UK has a page rank of 0) it is very dangerous to have it basically established as the standard on the one hand but completely unreliable on the other hand.

And one link to a penalized website can get you penalized. (and you only know that the page is penalized by installing the google toolbar, which brings a whole new set of privacy concerns with it).

After the 'phone, it's keyboard, PDA, sync cable, GPS, and penknife, no, there's no room in my pockets for an IM device.

One of the first game designers to make the move to computer game design was Sandy Petersen. He had worked at Chaosium on Call of Cthulhu and teh Glorantha game world, and had a lot of experience running and designing both roleplaying and board games. He really knew what makes a good game, and saw that the IT industry was mainly producing fairly predictable platform games. So he teamed up with some fairly obscure game programmers calling themselves Id, and helped create Doom. After Quake he went to Ensemble Studios.

Even if he wasn't one of the first to make the move, I remember doing an article or interview in the late 80's lamenting the poor state of computer game design.

Think yourselves lucky your president doesn't own most of your commercial media.

Um, so that's a Troll is it?

So did the UK not develop Prestel then?

And was it not launched in the 1970's?

And did I not used to work for Prestel?

I'm sorry you seem to have been outsmarted by a search engine.

I belive the phrase that's apt is something about you being replaceble with a very small shell script...