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  1. Re:lazy name selection on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Something like that....but not quite.

    Amazon.com is 10 characters long...or A plus 9 more.

    A5.com (A + length(mazon) + .com) may have been their first choice but it's already taken.

  2. Re:a9? What 9? on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Amazon.com => A9

    "A" plus 9 more characters.

    But then you go an add a .com to the end...I guess A5.com didn't sound cool enough or was already taken.

  3. freecache link on Xbox Emulator Plays Retail Game · · Score: 1

    Here's a freecache.org link to Turok.zip

  4. freecache link on Installing Linux on a Dead Badger · · Score: 1

    save these guys a little bandwidth if you can: get your badgering fools through freecache.org

  5. Re:Confuse "Shared Source" vs. "Open Source" on Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net · · Score: 1

    By releasing something under a true open source license, and calling it "Shared Source", they help to confuse the uninformed about exactly what Shared Source really is.

    Maybe they meant to say "shared source" but MS Word's AutoCorrect capitalized it to "Shared Source" automatically?

  6. FreeCache link on Thebroken Videos · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you don't want to install BitTorrent, just download from here, courtesy of the Internet Archive.

  7. Re:Not on Probable Meteor Strike in Saskatchewan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not so! A meteorite landed in my Auntie Edna's pool back in 1972!

    Are you sure it wasn't the neighbor kids throwing a rock over the fence?

  8. Re:Tonight on Fox... on Can Software Kill? · · Score: 1

    Your quote attributed to Washington appears to be incorrect. See this page for a more accurate attribution.

  9. actually... on Compensation for Bandwidth Costs is Extortion? · · Score: 1

    The actual number of visitors is something like 10,016,000, it's just that their counter doesn't support that many digits so it's rolled over a few times.

  10. Re:X Windows on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1

    Just look how "Lindows" Has had to change it's website to l---ws.com in several European countries

    Funny thing is, though, that a search for Lindows on search.msn.com brings up Lindows as the first result -- as a "Top Pick" no less!

  11. Re:Great article, but beware the majority. on Avi Rubin's Thoughts On e-Voting · · Score: 1

    Is that why the executive branch is growing in power at the expense of the Judicial and Legislative branches?

    Which judicial branch are you looking at? Apparently not the one that's taken to re-writing and redefining the laws that the legislative branch voted for, and the executive branch signed. Shouldn't the judicial branch be deciding whether or not someone has broken the law, instead of whether or not the law is right?

  12. Re:How to stop spam. on UUNet Is The Number 1 Spam Host · · Score: 1

    Step 4: Sell what is left of spammer to Hormel, makers of spam.

    Makers of Spam, not spam.

    And I suspect that thousands of Hawaiians would not take kindly to being involuntary cannibals. But then, I have had incorrect suspicions in the past.

  13. Re:Lightning -- No problem -- HOAX! on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 1

    There is no such material...at least google doesn't know anything about airplane anti-static shrinkwrap. Who are you going to trust, an anonymous aerospace engineer (or so he says), or Google?

  14. Re:Which will it be? on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 1

    Windows without all the unwanted crap would be Linux (or MacOS X or BSD).

    What??!?!!

  15. Hacker's cookbook on MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available · · Score: 1

    I keep trying to explain that hackers are resourceful and can still find vulnerabilities without source code and before it's known to the public, but they deem that to be 'near impossible' and far too time consuming.

    I think what we need to show these laypeople is a "Hackers Cookbook for Dummies" -- lay out some recipies for finding vulnerabilities. Show people that it's a simple matter of poking and prodding open ports in different ways to find buffer overflows and the like. Show them how easy (though probably tedious) it is for the hackers. Then see if their opinions change regarding security through obscurity.

  16. Re:Personal Photos on Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos · · Score: 1

    However, some states do have laws that regulate the use of a person's image, especially with regards to endorsing some product. So you can't take that picture and put it on Kerry-brand penis pumps in California, for example.

    True. Better make and market your Kerry-brand penis pumps somplace less well-regulated, like Russia.

  17. Doctored Photos commonplace? on Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos · · Score: 1

    Great. I guess that means this probably isn't a genuine photo of Osama bin Laden on the surface of Mars.

    And it's all digital photography there...so much for trying to get an original negative or print!

  18. Re:Low Tech Version on RSA Creating RFID Blocker Tag · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wired did an article on this: Is RFID Technology Easy to Foil?

  19. Not worst...but how do you sell it? on Brits Still Working on Stinky Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't call it the worst idea ever, but it does stink of bad business plan. How are you supposed to make money selling these things? Who's going to pay two hundred seventy dollars for the "convenience" of letting someone across the internet burn through the fragrance in a fifty dollar scent cartridge?

    What's the target market for this thing?

  20. Domain names only? on Imminent Mandrake Name Change? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Based on a reading of the article, maybe Mandrake is only going to have to transfer domain name(s). Like Mandrake.com, and not rename the company altogether. The article is kinda sparse on those kind of details.

  21. Re:Stuff on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try it yourself. apt-get and have fun.

    Hmm...lemme give that a try.

    C:\Documents and Settings\donutz>apt-get install w3m
    'apt-get' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

    Oh well no fun for me :p

  22. Whitehouse denies evolution! on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1


    Your[sic] dealing with a administration... who thinks creationism is a valid science rather then a religious doctering.

    And here is some incontrovertible proof to support your assertion. Right from whitehouse.org, no less!

  23. Re:Stuff on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is pretty readable with w3m.

    Well back up that assertion! Give us some screenshots ;)

  24. Re:Lie! on Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You could always buy Deliver Us from Evil : Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism through this link and help me earn a buck or two. Thanks!

  25. Re:Lie! on Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? · · Score: 1

    P.P.S. I'd sure like to figure out a way to make the word liberal lose its negative connotation...

    Probably best to give up on that thought, and find a new word to describe yourself. You've heard of Sean Hannity's new book, Deliver Us from Evil : Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, right? I think the negative connotation's here to stay.

    Maybe just stick with "whiney tree-hugger"? ;)