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  1. Re:Colin Powell for President! on Colin Powell Resigns · · Score: 1

    Ya, but I reather Alen Keys, I have voted for him in the last 3 Primarys, the last one I had to write his name in but. I don't know of any other people I would like for Prez. Maybe Mrs Rice.

  2. boo on Hitchhikers Movie Update · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love HHGTTG and probably will go see it just for that, but it looks like Disney is tring to make it into a kids movie. Just look at Marvin. (Mod me down if you want) but it saddens me that Disney is making this movie. I fear that they might try to "clean" up the movie.

  3. Re:Extra $$ this Christmas? on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    That is a great idea, I think that the problem with sociaty today, is the question is asked, how much did you spend, not how much did you care.

    Some one could just go to any web site to get a gift citificate and be done with it, but how much did they care about it. Something like that cooking would be touching because of the time spent.

    And for those of you who would feal guilty about not spending alot of money, just do both -- but I think those that would feal guilty about not spending money have missed the point of Christmas (well I would say that is about 75% of the country)

    Plus one of the most touching thing you can tell your parents if they ask you what you want, (I said this last year, my mother was touched by it.) "it does not matter it not important"

  4. Re:Electoral voting. on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    Yes you are not voting for your candidate, but their electoral. The Electoral can vote how ever they want. Don't worry, the ones you vote for will 95% of the time vote for who they pledged to vote for. But lets say for the sake of argument, Bush does something completely massively illegal (found murdering Dick Channy (sp?) ) the electoral can all turn around and vote for who ever they want. So we could see Mike Peroutka (I use him just for the fun of it) as the president.

  5. Re:Kerry? pshaw! on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    Peroutka got alot of votes for being in an unknone third party he got 129,255
    Badnarik being a well known 3rd party got 396,000

    I would say not bad for being almost unheard of. that is about 1/3 of the libertirians.

  6. Re:What they oughtta do on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    I would say that that test is not very accurate, it did not ask enouph questions, yes I know that all political tests fail at some point. But the problem with this test, is it put me very close to the center.
    Economic 2.79
    Social .97
    But I know on the Social area I should be stronger an higher in the number and closer to the right. And I did not know I was that high in the economic, but that is assuming that that number is also correct.

  7. here is the direct link to the picture on Museum of the Future · · Score: 1

    https://www.davinciinstitute.com/new/admin/content /FCKeditor/uploads/Museum%20Concepts%203.jpg

    I wonder if they got permission to use it?

  8. Outpost on Museum of the Future · · Score: 1

    The last picture on the right side of the main page, is from the old game for windows 3.1 Outpost, I never did well on that game but interestin to see that picture again.

  9. Re:They been crawling like mad lately on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 1

    Possibly, but when I think of my site, it is only a vanity site. Your site does provide some real information that looks (well to me) like it is useful information. 8000 hits in one day, WOW. This month I have hit 300Mb of transfer and for me that is a lot, I am not counting last month when my web site got /.ed for a 8Mb file*, but I would say that that would be an statistical outlier for every web site.

    *for those of you that might be interested, it blow though 52 GB in one day.

  10. Re:They been crawling like mad lately on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 1

    all the links on Slashdot from my comments are to the same address, I would think that they would remember a history of what they crawled and when they see them again just though out the URL with out crawling and mark another link to that URL, but not follow it.

  11. Re:They been crawling like mad lately on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 1

    I have not seen Exabot but I have also seen
    Agent: RssReader/1.0.88.0 (http://www.rssreader.com) Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0
    Syndic8/1.0 (http://www.syndic8.com/)
    Agent: CoralWebPrx/0.1 (See http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/)
    Agent: SharpReader/0.9.5.1 (.NET CLR 1.1.4322.2032; WinNT 5.0.2195.0) not sure if this is a bot or a rss reader, I am tempted to think it is a rss reader becauase the next agent from the IP is Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

  12. They been crawling like mad lately on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can say that they been crawling like mad as of late, Google, Yahoo, and MSN. I say this because on my site I have had a lot of traffic from all three, and my site is not a popular, or even an important one but I seen a lot of traffic from them. Not just once a week or a few times a week but every day. There are big updates coming. I was not surprised to see the article about google doubling their index, I know something was coming from the way they are crawling unimportant/unpopular sites.

  13. Blogs and Google's index on Google Index Doubles · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they are going to take some actions based on blogs. It seems to be skewing the results a bit. Google bombing is still popular, I would think that google would do something to clean up the problem, and give less weight for a link from a blog to the text they use to define it.

    I have found that it is annoying sometimes I will be searching for something, and my own website is a hit, I admit I am not surprised, because I will put things in the blog that interest me and I will search for the same things.

  14. Re:Voter Verifiable Voting on How Would You Change U.S. Election Procedures? · · Score: 1

    On can still prove how one voted, but you are right it is harder to find out how some one voted. How could some one prove how they voted, a camra, camra phone. but at this time it not that common for that to happen so it not likely that people will get hurt rewarded for thier vote now.

  15. Re:"from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept." on Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    how about x2vnc or x2x, it will send the mouse and keyboard commands over the network. If you have a fast network connection between them (at lest 10Mb/s) you will be good, I do it at home all them time, and I also do it at work.

  16. Re:"from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept." on Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Sorry but no one ever said bluetooth would deliver power with out wires, now there would be something nice but it is only a pipe dream.

  17. Re:Triple the bandwidth with the same bottlenecks on Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    It will be nice when EDGE comes to the US. even if I could get 1/10 the speed of bluetooth's speed to the tower I would be going faster then my DSL.

  18. Re:"from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept." on Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth · · Score: 3, Informative

    It works that well when used correctly, when I am out and about with my cell phone, palm pilot, and the bluetooth head set, it works as stated. I can dial the cell phone with the palm pilot, talk on the head set and hang up with out ever touching the phone and there are no wires involved. Then I can hit the internet from my palm pilot via the cell phone with out any wire again.

    So Bluetooth when used correctly can elimintate wires. The only problem is people try to applie it as a solution for non-existant problems, like you don't really need a bluetooth keyboard and mouse on a home computer, it would be nice, but it not a problem to have wires there.

  19. Re:bluetooth bandwidth on Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    It is still good enough now. I use it with my cell phone for net access via my palm pilot. And with a Bluetooth head set it seams to work well and no one has ever complained of choppiness on it.

  20. Re:Err.... on Videoblog Revolution · · Score: 1

    That was TNG and later, I don't think TOS did video logs.

  21. Re:Need...more...bandwidth on Videoblog Revolution · · Score: 1

    at this point I have 1.3Gb hosting storage and 63Gb of transer a month, after I got /.'ed last month I had to jump the bandwidth.

  22. web software on Videoblog Revolution · · Score: 1

    What php program does he use to do the video bloging?

  23. ouch on 2004 IOCCC Winners Source Code Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would hate to have to be the one that either updates that code or has to read it. Some nice ASCII art in there, I am not brave enough to test to see if the programs do what they say they do. I went to the spoiler page so I could get the synopsis of them. That code would be a good Halloween costume it is just scary.

  24. Re:Wear a Name tag! on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    I never intendeded to buy more ink. But if I could get it that cheap I just might.

  25. Re:Oh really? on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    There are stores in the US that do that, I don't know if it is a law or if the stores do it as some gimic, but there are a few.