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  1. Re:No, really, you -shouldn't- have. on President Bush's Money For Space Cometh · · Score: 1
    Space technology will repay itself in technological advance. Always has.

    Always ... in science-fiction stories.

  2. Re:Odds Are Against It on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 1

    Nope. It's Track #1 "Eve of the War" from Jeff Waynes "War of the Worlds".

  3. Re:Odds Are Against It on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 1
    "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one -- but still they come.

    Yeah! I have goose bumps. Playing the CD ...

  4. Re:Dumb on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 1

    If you only want the most recent posts you can sort by date.

  5. Re:Intrigued? on Developing Applications With Objective Caml · · Score: 1

    I don't miss anything for Common Lisp. Have you checked the CL community lately?

  6. Am I an old fart?? on In Korea, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 1

    Or why do they send me so much Korean spam?

  7. By the way: Gmail is still beta on The Webmail Wars · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gmail is still not ready. It's in its beta phase of development. You can't subcribe to it.

  8. Re:Mirrors on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Or download with an eDonkey2000 client (e.g. eMule): Mozilla Firefox 1.0

  9. Re:Don't forget to check out the extensions: on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1
    Posted as plain text by mistake ;)

    No problem with Linkification. Nice extension for Firefox which converts plain text links into "real" links.

  10. Re:10 days, 10,000 names, $250,000 on NYT Firefox Campaign Raises $250,000 · · Score: 1

    Donors from over 80 countries? For an ad in a local newspaper?

  11. Re:Explaining that 45% on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1

    Does the US public really think Bush is from Texas?

  12. Re:Am I the only one . . . . on Firefox 0.10.1 Released, Fixes Security Hole · · Score: 1

    It's no 1.0 release yet. And after 0.9.x comes 0.10.x

  13. Re:eMule on Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey · · Score: 1
    What if it would have compatibility problems? I won't care as long as it's the most used program on the network.

    eMule v0.44b Statistics

    Client Software
    eMule: 7753 (94.1%)
    eD Hybrid: 15 (0.2%)
    eDonkey: 1 (0.0%)
    aMule: 23 (0.3%)
    MLdonkey: 76 (0.9%)
    Shareaza: 356 (4.3%)
    eM Compat: 8 (0.1%)
    Unknown: 4 (0.0%)

  14. Re:Oh no. btw, Kad is server-less on Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Free software, sounds, movies, texts, etc. can be found on http://content.emule-project.net/

  15. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics on Mozilla Usage Doubles in 9 Months · · Score: 1
    Then take a look at the statistics at Wikipedia (no, I don't provide a link).

    The English Wikipedia has had 13.34% Mozilla users in August 2004. The German Wikipedia 15.20%.

  16. When can I buy it? on 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Optical Storage · · Score: 1
    I mean: When can I REALLY buy it?

    Every now an then there's an article on Slashdot mentioning some über-cool storage media. But even years after that you can't find them in any store.

  17. Re:Goodbye Perl? on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1
    Any decent language has full PCRE support these days. Perls days as regular expression king are in the past.

    You're right. There are other implementations of regular expressions which are faster.

  18. Why not using Lisp instead? on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1
    The Roadsend compiler produces standalone, native executables, and supports the entire PHP language (but not all extensions). It uses Bigloo Scheme to do its job, a variant of Lisp, the language that Paul Graham writes about.

    OK, Lisp is cool enough to compile PHP5. Why not switching to Lisp and skip this part?

  19. Re:Spam And Viruses on University Capitulates, Switches Off Spam Filters · · Score: 1
    This is implemented by my ISP (Road Runner NYC). Emails containing viruses are replaced by a text message warning that a virus was sent to the email address.

    Yes. And they send a warning to the faked address in the worm e-mail, too! :-(

    And I can't reach them to send them a link to Anti-Virus Companies: Tenacious Spammers ...

  20. Re:The Great IE Lockout on Future for Web Standards Pondered · · Score: 1
    Now I'm down to the big decision: redirect IE users to a page that explains the problem and offers alternatives, or just throw a 500 when they show up. I have a sneaking suspicion the end result would be about the same.

    Or use XHTML and send it with Content-Type application/xhtml+xml

  21. Re:I thought... on Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?) · · Score: 1
    Thank god I'm not the only one that remembers this... where did you find this tidbit?

    I remember a special on tv where they explained the beginning of the show and showed "The Cage".

    I've visited Enterprise, U.S.S. to get all the names right. Who needs a good memory when there's cut & paste? :-)

  22. Re:I thought... on Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?) · · Score: 2, Informative
    Christopher Pike was the first captain of the Enterprise...

    First captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 was Captain Robert T. April.

  23. Re:Sorry, but who cares about IE? on Future for Web Standards Pondered · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Actually, the only people who do care about IE are the people who know enough not to use it. As TFA said, to the vast unwashed, Windows/IE is the internet. Think about it for a minute. You get a new computer with Windows pre-installed, click the desktop icon titled "Connect to The Internet" and after the little config dance, up comes IE, opening the MSN page.

    Maybe after the 10th web page with "Your browser doesn't support current standards!" they'll start to think about it.

    This was the way of the WWW in the last century. But this time it's not about fancy new proprietary features of one single browser. Now it's for a good cause.

  24. Sound like RealTimeBattle on PHP Contest: Revenge of the Apple Eating Robots · · Score: 1
    RealTimeBattle

    OK, this idea goes way back to CoreWars. PHP or Redcode? Hmm. Not so easy to decide ... :-)

  25. Sorry, but who cares about IE? on Future for Web Standards Pondered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are plenty of alternatives available. In the early days of the web nobody cared about primitive browsers. Let's do the same now.