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  1. Re:Ya-who? on Google Vs. Yahoo: When We Last Met... · · Score: 1

    And, of course, in Mozilla there are also options... one is to set your search engine prefs for Google and use the search button at the end of the location bar. Another, and my personal favorite, is to bookmark http://www.google.com/search?q=%s and then go into the properties of that bookmark (using the Manage Bookmarks menu item, then Properties) and give it the keyword of "gg" (you could use g, but I'm used to gg :). You can then type "gg item of intrest" to search for "item of intrest". For more information on that mentod, see http://www.google.com/mozilla/google-search.html.

    For those who use Mozilla but are frustrated by the fact that the Google Toolbar only works on IE, you can check out the Mozilla version which is not produced or officially suported by Google, but does function. See http://googlebar.mozdev.org/.

  2. Re:Released on April Fools... on Duke Nukem 3D Source Released to GPL · · Score: 1
    * 2003-04-01 18:42:54 New bit in IPv4 headers (developers,security) (rejected)

    If it makes you feel any better, they rejected my stupid joke. If you're curious, the text was something like:

    Slashdot, a geek news site, is running a story about a new bit in the IPv4 header (see RFC 3514) to track the security of a packet.
  3. Re:Is it just one file? on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    OK, thanks. Unfortunately, my Internet connection at home died sometime last night in the middle of my download so I haven't got it yet :(

    But at least BitTorrent will be able to continue the download when it comes back up instead of just loosing it all :)

  4. Is it just one file? on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I just downloaded BitTorrent (RHN is downloading really slow, ATM) and it appears to be just one big file. Does this file contain the ISO images in it, or will I not be able to burn this to CD once it's done?

  5. Re:Will ISPs exercise more restrictove TOS now? on Ask Prof. Felten About DMCA's Effects · · Score: 1

    I suppose it really does depend on the ISP, but I've been talking online with many people and they all state that their broadband ISP's allow multiple connection via NAT. This prompted me to see if mine did too, and sure enough, they do. In fact, they'll even sell you the kit to do it and provide support.

  6. Re:Just one question on Ask Prof. Felten About DMCA's Effects · · Score: 1

    Big corporations have always been trying to control the evolution of new technology. For example, in 1984 Universal Studios tried to get the VCR banned. I think the real question is: are laws such as the DMCA aiding large corporations in controlling technological advancements or are they largely ignored?

  7. Re:But the sanctity of the home on Michigan First With A Law That Could Outlaw VPNs · · Score: 1

    IANAL nor a civilian police officer, but I am an MP and have taken some Criminal Justice courses.

    While it's true that the police can't barge into your home w/out a search warrant (with an exeption for "hot pursuit"), there is a thing called "plain view." Anything that can be seen from a place where an officer is legally at can be used both in court and as probably cause to get a search warrent. This means an officer can sit on the side of the road and use binoculars to look into the window where you left the curtains open. There are, of course, many other scenarios where this clause applies, but that's the jist of it.

  8. Re:Buying a 5500 on Review of the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 · · Score: 1

    I just talked to them again and they told me that it will be an Item of the Day on April 5 and that's why it doesn't work on the website. I got the impression that the price would be reduced and shipping would also be cheaper on that day. Unfortunately, I won't be anywhere near a computer/phone on April 5.

  9. Re:Buying a 5500 on Review of the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 · · Score: 1

    Talk about a catch-22... the coupon number listed at dealcoupon.com is for the web site only, but the item number can only be ordered on the telephone. What coupon number did you use to get your 15% off?

  10. Re:money money money on Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean bring a laptop (running linux, of course) to social events isn't a turn-on?
    </sarcasm>

  11. WARNING: Bad Mental Pictures :) on Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance · · Score: 1

    That's probably the reason a GNU/StripClub would never work. Can you imagine a bunch of hackers contributing to the show?

  12. Re:Impressive on Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does it to graphing/categorization similar to Quicken? Even though it's disappointing to see all those graphs that show my networth to be somewhere below the line of 0, it's something I've come to like.

    Also, does it work with Discover Card and/or Citibank?

    Does it have a Palm/Pocket PC/Handheld Linux component?

    Last but not least, does it syncronize with any kind of webbased application?

  13. Re:money money money on Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance · · Score: 1

    hmmm... wonder what my excuse is... I don't have a girlfriend or money :(

    I'm clinging to "poor college student" which gives me hope that someday it will get better.

  14. Re:money money money on Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance · · Score: 1

    /me loads Quicken, sees lots of red numbers

    Guess that means the answer for me is 'no'

  15. Re:RTFM on Bug Reporting Etiquette · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've found that many "newbies" find installation errors as a lot of developers don't install all that often. There are also the cases of discrepensices between the FM and the way it actually works... after all, most developers don't read the docs very often so if the doc person is too busy to notice a change when it happens it may get missed entirely.

  16. Re:*Must* be able to store illegal files on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1
    here in the US, possession of child porn is a crime, and a host could theoretically be prosecuted even if the content was unknown to the host.

    Being an average slashdot user, I'm no legal expert, but there's a clause in the DMCA (section 512) that excuses service providers from prosecution under copyright law for information they transmit or store on the behalf of other users. There are requirements for having policies in place to terminate those users from the system and such, but I would hope that either a similar clause would appear in laws pertaining to pornography in an environment such as freenet or that this one would be useful.

  17. Re:The problem isn't speed. on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    I got in trouble for that in English class... I wrote "I believe" in one of my persuasive papers. The instructor pointed out to me how unnecessary that phrase was; I wrote it, so of course I believe it.

  18. Re:Mens rea on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    I believe that mens rea is generally used for "high crimes." Take, for instance, the difference between murder and manslaughter: it is intent. As mentioned in other replies to this posts, there are many laws like manslaughter that do not require the proof of intent.

  19. Re:Pricing themselves out of the market? on Red Hat Announces Enterprise Linux · · Score: 1

    I personally think the $60/yr/machine is a bit pricey... I'd like to have both my machines on one account (instead of having to create a new e-mail address for the second) but $120/yr seems a little steep. If it was $60/yr for 1-5 machines I'd jump in a heartbeat. I'd still only need to download the ISO once so the bandwidth there wouldn't be any more... and I really wouldn't be using any more bandwidth it'd just be on a different machine.

  20. Re:IT's called a standard on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 1
    s/script/strict/

    Doh, I hate it when I make a silly typo like that... of course had it been in an actualy perl script the intrepter would have told me it couldn't find the "script" module in @inc :)

  21. Re:IT's called a standard on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 1

    Ya, he's pretty sure that he's talking about Perl which contains the use script; directive.

  22. Re:Here here... on Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self? · · Score: 1

    I know I would... if only I could remember my affiliate ID :).

  23. Re:My advice to my 12-yr-old self? on Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self? · · Score: 1
    so it's rather impossible to test this theory without a time machine... ;)

    But if you prove yourself right you can't tell the rest of us due to a lack of communication for this particualar branch. I suppose you might be able to tell one form of me, but would that be the me that's me or the me that's not? And is it even possible for there to be a me that's not me?

    It's official; my head hurts.

  24. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Microsoft Blasted For Lax Security · · Score: 1

    Or it could simply be people who have publically stated they automatically mod down any posts that have a subject of "MOD PARENT UP".

    Not everything is a conspiracy.

  25. Stats don't support conclusions... on Microsoft Blasted For Lax Security · · Score: 1

    The link you provided, http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/index-200106.html, doesn't seem to support your conclusion that "...IIS *IS* the most popular web server." The graph half-way down the page states that windows runs 49.2% of computers running public Internet web sites (which is not 50% and not a majority). But it doesn't say anything about what web server is being used. Apache runs on windows in addition to *nix; however, IIS only runs on windows. Therefore, the statement "...IIS *IS* the most popular web server" is plain and simple a false statement, supported neither by the facts you link to nor any conclusions that can be legitamitly drawn from these facts.