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  1. Re:Great. Whats next? on New Google Groups in Beta · · Score: 1

    Their translation tool is missing a few languages
    compared to babelfish.

  2. Re:whats the problem with the patriot act? on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1

    Perhaps what I meant was show their SS cards to the bank. There is a difference between providing them and showing the bank officials the card. Which is stupid as I could have printed out the cards on a printer anyway. They wanted the original cards.

  3. Re:whats the problem with the patriot act? on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: -1

    I am sorry, I was told by the bank that it was the
    patriot act that required it.

  4. Re:whats the problem with the patriot act? on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1

    QUOTEhow has the patriot act directly affected you?UNQUOTE

    Because of the patriot act I have to show my childrens Social Security cards to the bank and they photo copy them before I am open an account for them. I find that hateful. It is none of their damn business. They want to steal my children's identity.

  5. compare satellite radio in the USA on How Many TV Channels Will There Be In The Future? · · Score: 1

    If I look at the satellite radio offerings, I see many channels with the same content. I see no foreign language content, no foreign radio stations, nothing diverse. 50 R&B, 50 Rock, etc. Why would TV be any better? I see far greater content on the Internet. Perhaps on TV, there might be some Spanish language content but where is the Chinese? Where is the Hindi? I would pay for any satellite radio delivery that included a Mandarin broadcast station. Where are they for the USA? Nowhere. Welcome to the Hotel Hell California. Ad Nausium.

  6. huh? on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: 1

    QUOTE
    Even more terrifying, some of them were believed to have been fitted with aerosol warheads to spray smallpox virus over their U.S. targets
    UNQUOTE

    I fail to understand this. Hydrogen bombs, especially some of the city destroying bombs developed by the Soviet Union were very scary. Smallpox aerosol has a much smaller probability of causing death. Pardon the probable redundant nature of this post.

  7. Class B addresses move about on Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to work for a Fortune 500 company that
    claimed 2 class B address ranges. They moved
    them from ISP to ISP.

  8. Re:reason for smell on Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath? · · Score: 2, Funny

    failure of a slashdoter. Below is the link:

    here

  9. reason for smell on Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath? · · Score: 1


    here is a better picture of T-REX

  10. $12/hour for a kayak seems very expensive on War Kayaking · · Score: 1

    There is a canoe rental down the street from
    me that only charges 2 dollars per hour to
    canoe on a lake.

  11. should make a movie of on A Scanner Darkly Film Preview · · Score: 1

    _Barefoot in the Head_ by Brian Aldiss. That
    would make a good related movie.

  12. Re:Blimp, hardly a Zeppelin on Zeppelin Flies Again · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I found a pdf the had a short
    small description of them.

  13. Blimp, hardly a Zeppelin on Zeppelin Flies Again · · Score: 1

    This is just a fancy balloon. The Zeppelins
    were Dirigibles with a rigid body structure
    to hold the hydrogen cells. They were far
    more advanced than these.

  14. I want one of these here on Earth on NASA's Personal Satellite Assistants · · Score: 0, Troll

    But I want it^h^hher to look like Missy Elliot.

  15. Re:and.... on SCO Says No Way To a GPL Solaris, Moves Trial Back · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you are mistaken, Sun will be dead because of
    the PC. The PC can run Windows OR Linux. The
    PC is what kills Sun. Just as the PC killed the
    minicomputer.

    In my opinion anyway.

  16. reasons on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. Reasonably low cost
    2. Part of Open Source Movement
    3. More Stable then Windows
    4. Different from Windows
    5. More flexible then Windows
    6. Cutting edge software
    7. OpenMosix
    8. Faster than Windows
    9. Better Security then Windows
    10. More transparent More understandable
    11. Does not profit Bill Gates

  17. word games on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 1

    QUOTE
    For years, Linus is credited with being an inventor. AdTI argued the claim was false. Coincidently in a recent interview, Linus decided he was not the inventor of Linux commenting in a ZDNet story, "I'd agree that 'inventor' is not necessarily the right word...(9)"
    UNQUOTE

    Ken Brown by that above comment is a flaming
    a*hole. This is a pure word game on Brown's
    part.

  18. Re:This is not a computer.... on Was Zuse's Z3 the First Programmable Computer? · · Score: 1

    It does have a stored program. It is just
    stored on tape!

  19. Re:De Facto on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1

    Active Directory certainly CAN work with BIND.
    There are changes you have to make to your options
    section and zone files you have to manually add
    to BIND but it works fine.

  20. publicity is what they want on RIAA Sues Nearly 500 New Swappers · · Score: 1

    I am not sure why anyone would give in to them.
    If they sue someone who has no money, it can
    only cost them money - they won't get anything
    out of it. Were they to sue me and win, they
    would just have to jump behind all the other
    creditors trying to get my money.

  21. Re:10%? on Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs · · Score: 1

    yingli

  22. Re:This is not cryptography on New Quantum Cryptography Speed Record · · Score: 1

    It might be adjunctive to cryptography but this is
    not quantum computation or anything near Shor's
    algorithm. Saying this is cryptography is like saying
    putting guards near telegraph lines is cryptography.

  23. This is not cryptography on New Quantum Cryptography Speed Record · · Score: 1

    cryptography is the process of encrypting information. This is just
    like putting a wax seal in your message - you can tell if it is read. Not encryption.

  24. Does anyone know or remember ubasic? on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    QUOTE

    UBASIC is a BASIC-like environment which is suitable for number theoretic investigations. Version 8 of UBASIC has the high precision real and complex arithmetic (up to 2600 digits) of previous versions, but adds exact rational arithmetic and arithmetic of polynomials with complex, rational, or modulo p coefficients, as well as string handling and limited list handling capabilities. In addition UBASIC has context-sensitive on-line documentation (read ubhelp.doc for information). The file ubhelp.xxx that this uses is ASCII and can be printed for hard copy documentation.

    UNQUOTE

    UBASIC is still useful.

  25. Re:Six...Seven...Eight... on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1


    I never use a caculator on a computer. I much
    rather would pull out my TI 86 or something
    simpler.