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  1. Re:This might have some ramifications..... on Yahoo Will Use Google Instead Of Inktomi · · Score: 1

    I use HotMail, yet I almost never use Yahoo. Yahoo is nothing more than another capitalist institution, feeding off of others for it's sustinence.
    I will not pay money so that my site is at the top of a search of Yahoo. I have something that the people of Yahoo don't - morals.

  2. Who cares? on Yahoo Will Use Google Instead Of Inktomi · · Score: 1

    So Yahoo! has an index. It's of dubious quality, and it seems that you have to bribe them to get into the index.
    I'll stick to AltaVista, TYVM.

  3. Re:Hello, welcome to the dark ages... on Could This Be The End Of The Internet? · · Score: 1

    i guess you don't understand what i said. the us gov't has "two" parties, by which i mean one party. its just that not many people notice this. whoever's in the white house doesnt matter anymore.

  4. Hello, welcome to the dark ages... on Could This Be The End Of The Internet? · · Score: 1

    I think the subject line says it all. How stupid are you people? As long as the fascists rule by pretending to be democrats, this sort of thing will always happen. Note that these days, in many "civilized" countries, whoever runs the country doesn't matter. Nothing but a puppet for the industry associations and the monopolies. If this sort of thing continues, soon we will be treated as nothing but property of the businesses we work for.
    It's time to rise up and fight. Unless you're stupid shits that don't care about being slaves to the system.

  5. not the first time bad naming's happened... on Kenwood Tries To Improve MP3 Sound · · Score: 1

    mega drive. fortunately released here as the genesis.
    mark3. released with another silly name, master system, here.
    super nes & playstation 2. you'd think nintendo and sony would have been more creative naming these.
    nintendo 64 / n64. another dud in the names dept.
    shitweed. original name for the rose. then they found out that it smelled nice.

    haveanicedayorburninhellitsyourchoice

  6. They use a ruler... (= on Is That An OC-768 In Your Pocket? · · Score: 1

    They must have used some computers with terabyte hard drives. raid...

  7. Hahahaha! Silly, stupid MS... on Microsoft Announces .net · · Score: 1

    But more laffs at the unwashed masses that let MS be one of the top businesses. It's stupid having such a backtracking, backwards, and blind corporation leading the computer software industry. If people actually used their brains, MS would have either died out or started creating virtually bug free and actually useful working software a long time ago.

  8. Potbellied elephants come to mind... on Human Genome Mapping Completion TBA · · Score: 1

    Little potbellied elephants, or how about giant pigs? Or both... Create potbellied elephants for pets, and giant pigs for food. I'm sure the inventor of the giant pig will get an award for solving the world hunger problem.
    And here's another interesting idea - put to use the info gathered by the HGP and Celera, and work on modifying our genes to make us smarter, stronger, and more productive.

  9. Re:Interstellar brewery on Scientists Discover Interstellar ... Sugar? · · Score: 1

    Interesting theory. I'm sure those scientists up there in space would be able to prove it, if they sobered up... (=

  10. Re:What about water cooling? on 24/7 Running PCs = Fire Risk? · · Score: 1

    Freon sounds good. It's just that I work in a very dusty environment (a basement under some renovations) and every few days, the fans get clogged up. Switching to freon or other liquids would be uber good for my box. Hate having to clean those damn fan motors. And the only vacuum I have is a shop vac (i.e. can't give my computer a good dusting, only shifting it around on t.p.)

  11. Re:We merkins know of cricket on Douglas Adams Answers (Finally) · · Score: 1

    I'll take australopithecines over H. sapiens sapiens anyday. I've had it up to my ears with our barbaric and backwards society. So much for civilization.

    "It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."

    - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Chapter 23, Paragraph 1

  12. What about water cooling? on 24/7 Running PCs = Fire Risk? · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to do that with home computers? Or do we have to go back ten years to Cray supercomputers and big blue iron for that?

  13. Funny words. And the sci-fi spoofs... on Douglas Adams Answers (Finally) · · Score: 1

    That's why Americans love it. I'm sure they don't understand the first five letter word that comes their way (well most of them), which explains why they love to use certain four letter words... {=
    I don't know much about cricket, or the ashes, but I do agree it makes an interesting game. Of course, many Americans don't even know what cricket is, and they invariably think of the insect first - even if they know of the game.
    Why I know this? I'm not an American. It's all hearsay and conjecture. I will admit it.

  14. Filters should have... on Censorware Filters Cause College To Change Name · · Score: 1
    • A way of allowing access to a site on the filter's blacklist, and
    • The blacklist open to the public, so that people can see what sites are and aren't blocked off. And it should be searchable by url, page titles, keywords and description <meta> tags, and words in the pages.
    Of course, with evil faceless corporations that care only about money, do you think we will ever see this?
    People wonder why I hate the system so much. Things like this are just part of the reason.
    Say NO to capitalism.
  15. Now to apply this sort of thing to people... on Genetically Engineered "Smart" Mice · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we find a smart gene in humans, we'll be able to break the crap music stranglehold and see Britney Spears and Christina Agulara and all those other idiots for what they are - idiots.
    Actually, in my not so humble opinion, what we need to encourage is intellect, wisdom, speed, strength, and agility. I have no qualms with playing with our genes to turn humans from the backwards animals we are now into a race of superintellegent muscle-covered speed demons. By selective breeding, horse trainers and breeders are able to make faster and stronger horses, and I'm sure that we can do the same thing. But by figuring out how to do this with our genes, the process can be speeded up considerably.

  16. Re:How about a server-to-server protocol? on AOL To Open AIM Protocol? · · Score: 1

    Of course, we will never see any two IM networks linked together. It's as if each corporation is a medieval kingdom, constantly at war with all of the other kingdoms in the area. Of course, this may be a weakness we can exploit!
    I think that we should just throw together our own IM network, have everything all open, but play like AOL did, and not allow AIM and MSNM (and possibly others) in our own IM network. That'll show them...

  17. Hrm... Good points made... General reply on Linkguard To Cure Broken Links? · · Score: 1

    It seems that I am in the wrong. But does anyone know how to get FrontPage extensions working with Apache 1.3.12 on Windows 98? That's why the LIST existed in this idea, and the actual purpose behind this.

  18. Re:URIs don't change: people change them on Linkguard To Cure Broken Links? · · Score: 1

    How about a brand new protocol for locating documents on httpds? If a page has a link to http://foo.bar.org/baz.html then the client checks loc://foo.bar.org for the actual location of baz.html! The client tells the location server:
    WHERE /baz.html

    If baz.html is in the same place (foo.bar.org/baz.html) the location server will return:
    100 /baz.html

    If it's been moved to elsewhere on the server (say, /baz/1.html) the location server will say,
    101 /baz/1.html

    If it's moved to another server (this time foo.baz.org/bar.html) then the location server returns:
    102 http://foo.baz.org/bar.html

    And if it's been removed for good, then:
    103 KILLED

    If the file never existed, then the location server will say:
    200 DOESNT EXIST

    If the server encounters a problem then it should return:
    300 SERVER ERROR
    Or something else, if it knows what it did wrong.

    Maybe, also, there should be another client command, SEARCH, to find any/all occurances of a file name, like:
    SEARCH bar.html

    To this the server might reply:
    400 SEARCH BEGINS
    401 /bar.html
    401 /foo/bar.html
    401 /baz/bar.html
    402 SEARCH ENDS

    And a directory list, too... Client says:
    LIST /

    And the server says:
    405 LIST BEGINS
    406 /index.html
    406 /style.css
    406 /cgi-bin/
    406 /products.html
    406 /downloads/
    406 /people.html
    406 /bar.html
    406 /baz.html
    406 /links.html
    406 /menu.html
    407 LIST ENDS

    I have begun to write this all up. Anyone who wants to help, visit my web site, find my e-mail address, and tell me you wish to help with this protocol.

  19. You sure about that? on Microsoft Office On OSX, *BSD, *nix? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Mozilla, but IE5 works right.
    And then, under Nutscrape Constipator, my site is unreadable because it just doesn't know what to do with my stylesheets. Don't believe me? Check out blaklight.tekscode.com with IE5 and NS. Tell me which looks better.

  20. Re:IE5 and OE already exist for Unix on Microsoft Office On OSX, *BSD, *nix? · · Score: 1

    Years? Can't be years. IE5 hasn't been around for years. And anyways, that's IE5, not IE5.5, you mention. The article says IE5.5, right?
    Anyways, in my opinion, any version of IE newer than 3 is better than any or all versions of Netscape. Not to start wars or anything, but Microsoft has a browser that does more, faster, and better. And anyways, at least IE knows how to deal with CSS, as opposed to Netscape...

  21. Faster you move, harder it is to catch you. on Plasma Propulsion Could Cut Time To Mars in Half · · Score: 1

    Plasma is faster. An ICBM using plasma propulsion will go little over twice the speed of the conventional ICBM. The plasma rocket will be able to avoid any anti-missiles, while the regular rocket won't.
    But then again, build a better mousetrap...

  22. Gastrointestinal applications... or just armpits! on NASA's E-Nose: It Smells, But It's Improving · · Score: 1

    Who knows what else this could be used for! The possiblities are endless. Just don't let something like this get in the hands of elementary school kids... Imagine the hell they'd raise in the classrooms!

  23. Jihad. on Shadowrunning In The Corporate Republic · · Score: 1

    jihad n. A religious or quasi-religious war where the victims of such a war are forced to convert or die.

    This is what is going on. The corporations have their own little jihad going on and those who don't become pawns and slaves to them are metaphorically killed by being declared crazy, or a heretic, or as a violent person.

    They want to label us violent anarchists? I think the time has come to show them they don't know how far we can go. Although it is wrong, it is time that we kill the major sites, destroy equipment destined for the powers that be, and force our way into the capitals of the world. It's the only way to stop the immoral animals who rule over us. We should start our own jihad.


    Read About Me

  24. Always have majority ownership... on id Software Announces Development Of Doom III · · Score: 1

    If you can't, then you will just have to find some guys in the Mafia to help solve your problems. I can already hear the thick Italian accents... {=


    When the pack animals stampede, it's time to soak the ground with blood to save the world. We fight, we die, we break our cursed bonds.

  25. Re:The artists see almost none of this anyway. on Napster Hurts Album Sales? · · Score: 1

    Revolution is always fun and it gets the blood flowing, in quite a few ways... Make me your leader, and such associations as the RIAA will be declared illegal and shut down, with force, if neccessary.
    Currently I am working on a paper on my political theories about constricting the rights and freedoms of businesses while giving more freedom to the people. Of course, TV jockeys won't like this very much, as the current corruptive media shall be broken up (no networks, each station and paper on it's own) until such time as the media sees how the restrictions on businesses benefit the people.
    Long live the revolution. Death to the corporate empires.


    When the pack animals stampede, it's time to soak the ground with blood to save the world. We fight, we die, we break our cursed bonds.