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  1. Re:So does Scrappleface... on NYTimes Reports on Firefox · · Score: 1

    Mmmm. Scrapple. Not surprised that the domain owner is in Pennsylvania.

  2. Re:Progress? on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is truly evil. Everyone make noise about this so we can get date range searches back!

  3. FireFox not what it used to be on Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0? · · Score: 1

    Not exactly the same problems but FireFox has been a major disappoint lately. It's getting slower to load, it freezes all instances when using "Download link as" or when pulling up a .pdf file. Clicking on the window while it's busy can lead to a crash. FireFox 1.0 is no longer lean and mean. It's becoming slow and unstable.

  4. What's the Problem? on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I want to play as much as anyone, but we've all known for some time that the release date is the 16th. They aren't doing anything wrong.

  5. Re:Wager? on Soldiers Call for Engineering Tech Support · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tech support: Tech support line -- Falluja office. Can I help you?

    Solider: Um... never mind.

  6. Re:Wiki is Confusing on Are we Headed for a Wiki World? · · Score: 1

    With the A link it's obvious to me what will be displayed and where it will lead to. And I'd guess that's true for many others as well. Wiki markup is nowhere near as widespread as HTML.

  7. Wiki is Confusing on Are we Headed for a Wiki World? · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm a complete idiot but I find Wiki markup to be confusing and inconsistent. Wouldn't it be easier to use a limited set of HTML tags instead?

  8. But Doom already looks like Alien on Doom Movie in Production For Aug 2005 Release · · Score: 1

    Doom already looks a lot like an Alien movie. Hopefully they'll do more than make another "get from point A to point B while killing monsters" movie.

  9. OMFG! on Half Life 2 Goes Gold · · Score: -1, Redundant

    OMFG!

  10. Last Year on Affordable Modern Graphics Cards · · Score: 3, Funny

    Last year's technology of the future today!

  11. Re:WWW must be maturing on Intel Predicts Death Of WWW · · Score: 1

    Yes, the programming groups are active and relevant for example. The various health groups are helpful as well. Search groups.google.com and you'll find tons of interesting reading. It's especially useful for finding solutions to technical problems or for finding comments on a product before you buy it.

  12. WWW must be maturing on Intel Predicts Death Of WWW · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The end of Usenet/NNTP has been predicted many times as well. It's a stage that every successful protocol eventually reaches. Our baby is growing up!

  13. Obligatory question on Simulating the Whole Universe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does the simulation include simulated scientists simulating the universe?

  14. Been around for a while on The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This has been around for a while or is it differnet?
    http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6b3b/

  15. Re:This is what a normal person just read above. on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this mean there's a way around the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

  16. CS 2 not the same as CS: Source? on A Look at the CounterStrike Source Beta · · Score: 1

    This isn't the same as Counter-Strike 2 is it? I thought they were just porting some of their older games to the new engine and also doing total rewrites of TFC and CS.

  17. Re:A shareware assembler used this trick. on Hydan: Steganography in Executables · · Score: 1

    It was a86/a386 and it appears to still be around. http://eji.com/a86/

  18. Re:Information Theory on Hydan: Steganography in Executables · · Score: 1

    It probably takes advantage of a redundant bit in some 8086 opcodes. See this comment

  19. How it can be done on Hydan: Steganography in Executables · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The site is slashdotted so I don't know if this is how it works, but...

    Some 8086 opcodes contain a bit that reverses the operation. For examble, with the bit set in the instruction "mov bx,cx", bx would be copied to cx instead of cx to bx. By switching the registers AND setting the bit, you effectively reverse the operation twice, creating different machine code that does exactly the same thing.

    The A86 assembler used this bit to create a fingerprint that would make it easier to detect non-paying users.

  20. AFL-CIO Not IT Friendly on Microsoft Outsourcing High-Level Work · · Score: 1

    The AFL-CIO might oppose outsourcing but they are perfectly happy to flood the domestic market with cheap labor through immigration. http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/immigration/n s01072004.cfm

  21. Re:Maybe it's needed, but who will develop it? on Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200 Years · · Score: 1

    Also bridges, dams and sewers need lots of maintenance. Even streets need maintenance. The street in front of my house has been repaired repeatedly, repaved once within the last 10 years, had its lines repainted many times and is cleaned twice a week.

  22. Keyboards on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    It would be REALLY nice if I could find a decent keyboard without all the multimedia/internet/whizbang buttons above the function keys.

  23. Re:Of course, in the Soviet Pac Man game... on Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed · · Score: 4, Funny

    The pac man collects all the dots while the 4 ghosts wander aimlessly, pretending to work. Then when the board is cleared, they take pac man's dots and divide them equally... except for the highest ranking ghost who gets a larger share because he is more equal than the others.

  24. East German fun on Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Proving once again if there's one thing you can say about East Germans it's that they really knew how to have fun.

  25. Use example.com on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 2, Informative

    example.com was reserved by the IETF so that dummy email addresses could be used in examples. See www.example.com/