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  1. Re:Wait a sec ... on California Considers Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1

    The state of exceeding what is normal or sufficient.

  2. Re:slow? on Transgaming to Support Half Life 2 Under Linux · · Score: 1

    Wouln't it be fair to say, WINE... Emulates the Win32 API? *ducks*

  3. Re:Poetry time! on Supermarket Loyalty Cards Vs National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Firstly you dispose of the classical rules of rhyme.

    Blunkett's an arsehole.

    It's not poetic, but it's true :)

  4. Re:What's the point? on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    Hunting is about... bull sh*t.

    It's about men drinking beer with there mates.

  5. Re:Wait a sec ... on California Considers Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1

    If that is true, then poluting to excess should be illegal.

    The US is still so very willing to gamble on it's future against an enemy it can't defeat in the name of short term gain. How do they justify it, 'It'll hurt profits', 'It'll cost money', 'It's not the american way'.

    If this gamble doesn't go the way america wants, we could all be in for a rather uguly future.

  6. Best thing Netscape could do on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    Throw up on there netscape download page a huge fancy bit with the netscape and firefox logos and have a huge 'The new name for Netscape is Firefox' and have a link to the firefox page, along with some official statement that the netscape company endorses firefox as it's browser of choice etc.

  7. Re:SlimBrowser on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    Designing sites with IE is fine, but only IE is just fundamentally stupid, at least ensure your company creates pages which work with a few browsers.

    You'll probably notice this when the first bos of your client gets a mac to sit on his desktop and finds that there company website tells him to install IE 6.

  8. Re:Republicans take back your party! on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    Got to meat the targets of 150% of the US population in jail by 2030... or is that just the way things are heading?

  9. Re:Wouldn't this... on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    Nope, but it might mean it's illegal to block popup adverts :/

  10. Re:I experienced some problems with Fedora Core 3 on Fedora Core 3: Worth The Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    JAVA: I don't like to have gcj installed instead of a real JVM.

    3rd parties arn't by default allowed to distribute Sun's Java, hence they don't, though I do wish debian came with an auto-downloader for it in the contrib section, hey ho.

  11. Re:Firefox vs. IE, missing features... on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My use for tabbed browsing tends to be to allow greater flexibility in browsing, I can read though an article or page, and fire off every link I'm interested into a seperate tab, then once I'm finished with the original page browse each of the tabs.

    Often I have mutiple windows open full of tabs, each one focusing on a diferent genere of my work, say one for slashdot, it's various topics and 1/2 written replies, one with some research I'm doing and the various aspects of that.

    And of-course tabs for 'Open in Tabs' option at the bottom of a link-bar pulldown menu, ahh all the web cartoons loading as soon as I start the days uhh work :)

  12. it's drawback is it's only benifit on Beat Spam Using Hashcash · · Score: 1

    It stops people from sending emails to large numbers of people, hence it stops spam.

    It stops people from sending emails to large numbers of people, hence it cripples mailing lists, solicited commercial emails and newsletters.

    Lets go back to SPF + List of spamming domains to save our pain and ignore the chaff.

  13. Re:Perpetual backups on Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes · · Score: 1

    Have your data on the two new hardiscs and the 5 yearold ones and the 10 year old ones, new hardiscs might both fail, where as you only really have wear-out to worry about on the older hardiscs, which shouln't really wear out to much if you store them.

    But yes the critical thing is to make new copies of the data every time you get a new HD so the data is duplicated over all your storage new and old.

  14. Re:The browser wars are back. on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Does anyone make a KHTML based browser for windows? Would be damn useful for checking websites in development.

  15. The browser wars are back. on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or at least I hope so, even if IE fights back a tiny ammount we'll see a huge lot of improvements in the web generally, IE is so often the 'lowest common denominator' when it comes to designing for the web.

    But for usability and speed of use I'd go with Firefox any day.

  16. Re:I can vouch for this on Google Image Index Just Not Updated · · Score: 1

    Although we know the real reason, googles nice posting of the letters informing them not to allow X, Y and Z search results might not be possible if they were filed under the paitriot act :/

  17. We can all die from toxic air and global warming.. on U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But at least we'll have jobs until we fall down choking from fumes and heat.

  18. My advice... on J2SE 5.0 Source Code Bundles Now Available · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stay very well clear of it:

    "agreeing to this license (e.g. by downloading source covered by the SCSL) will make it impossible for you to contribute to free software clean-room implementations."

    I'm certanly not going to touch it, the pre-compiled stuff will do fine.

  19. Re:Heard this one the other day... on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 1

    At a guess youve got a dodgy distribution of linux on there, my linux server hasn't crashed. Sure I've had to shut it down to clean the case, and replace parts that have worn out, reboot it to upgrade the kernel and power outages have taken it out.

    But it's rock solid.

  20. Re:Biodegradeable Data? on New Blu-ray Disc to be Made of Corn · · Score: 1

    I'd be more worried about puting a blu-ray disc made of corn into my lovely expensive blu-ray reader (asuming I ever buy one), and it deciding to bio-degrade while spinning at 500rpm... messy.

  21. Re:Statistics on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1

    The only people in english 'prisons' without trial are asylum seekers, they are free to return to there own countary but want to stay here, and they are deemed a significant danger to the populace.

    You can't have evidence against them, and you can't let them out on the public because of the significant threat, so there's nothing a trial could do, they just sit there waiting for there asylum application to be denied or accepted, while politicans twiddle there thumbs unsure what to do.

    Or at least that's how I understand it. America the patriot act doesn't deny american citizens the right to trail, it just means that the trial is allowed to be totally closed, with no one even allowed to know it's happened, which is pretty dodgy as it stands.

    Outside of america, the american goverment has never shown it's high moral code alas, which just gives more fuel to the reteroric of the terrorists.

  22. Re:I See Prior art. on Amazon Sued Over Recommendation Patent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Which is totally false, and my opinion of law should be that every single digital thing has a real world law which already exists to cover the problem.

    I'm still not totally sure why we need new laws to make copyright protection systems illegal to bypass, or to make the sale of machines which have the soul purpose of copyright infringement illegal.

    After all if you write something and sign it at the bottom, if someone modifies that signature, it's fraud, and selling something to someone knowing there going to commit a crime with it is conspiricy to commit that crime.

    Why did they need a new law?

    Why do they press for new laws, is it impossible to simply relate modern practicaces to those which have been going on for hundreds of years, or do they want a clean slate, no case history so they can fight the same battles all over again?

  23. Re:Biodiesel on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    Biodiesel isn't as efficient as puting wind turbines above DC to catch all the hot-air politicians make.

  24. Re:Get 'm where it hurts on Several Publishers Sued for Infringing 3D Patent · · Score: 1

    SCO Went after IBM, doesn't sound like going after the small fry, but the SCO were talking copyright infringement not patent infringment, and there's a whole world of diference there.

    You can violate patents even if you were locked in a room and have no contact with society for 20 years.

  25. Re:The 68000 had async operation with /dtack pin on Philips, ARM Collaborate On Asynchronous CPU · · Score: 1

    It's diferent because it's not just a memory interface, it's every logic block in the processor.