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  1. Re:Outside USA on Google Launches SMS Search Service · · Score: 2, Informative
    Try http://www.google.com/, or if you've only got an older phone: wap.google.com.

    SMS is so 1990s for the rest of the world, I guess that's why this in North America only, where its still a gee-whiz thing. I've been using google from my phone for at least 4 years now. A few kB of GPRS is far cheaper than a couple of SMS messages too.

  2. Re:How will this affect US based companies? on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    OPEC trades exclusively in US dollars.

  3. Re:And? on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    The best reference is this Army Report. Its pretty vague about numbers, though there are some photos that show about a dozen Iraqis around the statue. But it does confirm that the statue toppling was the (spontaneous, not pre-planned as Indymedia paint it) idea of a US colonel who spotted the propaganda potential of the small crowd that were following the convoy combined with the journalists who were staying in hotels around the square.

  4. Re:nothing in archive.org either... on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1
    Dick Cheney

    For some reason, I read that URL as fatcheck.com.

  5. How will this affect US based companies? on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This should serve as a warning to all people and companies outside the US. If you do business with US companies, you will be held to US laws, without the protection of the US consitution, since that only applies to Americans on American soil.

    The sooner OPEC switches to the Euro and isolation of the US world bully begins, the better IMHO.

  6. Re:Clarification Please on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If there's a job that needs doing that carries a high risk of blowing their cover, they should have given that job to uniformed officers. Undoing their incompetence through the court system is not going to work. The photos are out there now, and whoever stands to benefit from seeing them will get their hands on them somehow, whether they're posted on Indymedia or not.

  7. Re:Never attempt to turn off the ignition. on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Put some air in your tyres. No car's steering should need power assistance at highway speeds, and even around town it might take some effort, but its not unmanageable.

  8. Re:Cheap shot ... on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    I had the misfortune to hire a Citreon in Italy recently. The tow truck driver that took me back to get it exchanged when it refused to start said that in recent years Citreon had overtaken Fiat as his number one source of business.

  9. Re:Oh my God on Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Informative

    These patents (1993-1995) would seem to cover COM (1993) and CORBA (first drafts 1989), but why has the lawsuit been taken against Java, and why the hell did Sun's lawyers not pull CORBA out and show the judge that Kodak's patents were worthless? Even Java itself had been spec'ed out by 1991, two years before Kodak had their fit of "inventiveness", so no matter how broadly you interpret them, there is no way they should have won this.

  10. Re:A "Pets:" Section? on Review: Juvenile Felis Catus · · Score: 1

    Next comes the "Pet Dupe" section. And in case you're wondering, I'm not talking about Dolly the Sheep.

  11. Re:mod parent down on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1
    When 15 users run emacs on a UNIX system, it and all the libs it needs are only in memory once. When 15 users run JVMs your load goes through the roof and the system starts thrashing.

    Excuse me for my ignorance here, but what is special about Emacs, which is essentially a Lisp Virtual Machine, that makes it so different to a Java Virtual Machine in this respect?

  12. Re:Translation of Translation on Sony Japan to Abolish Copy Controlled CDs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I read it more as: We suddenly realized that another part of the company sold ATRAC/MP3 players, so whichever way we play it we win, and this way we get to look good as well.

  13. Re:digital cameras with wifi are cool on Canon's new 16.7MP Digital SLR, with WiFi · · Score: 1
    If all cameras had this (or any sort of net connection, even via GPRS)

    13.6Mpx at GPRS speeds? Hell even 2Mpx is going to take forever (and cost a fortune) to transfer at that speed. There is a reason the specs for this beast say 802.11a/g, and not b.

  14. Re:It won't lure anyone from Office on Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard? · · Score: 1
    It has become standard practice in recent years for business documents (e.g. proposals, invoices, etc.) to be passed around as MS Word documents.

    In my company, nothing goes outside of the company in .doc format. The standard practice here is to export to PDF for the following reasons:

    1. does not contain information that we chose to delete from a previous draft revision
    2. does not contain personal details of people that have worked on the document
    3. can be read on any platform with freely available software
    4. requires detailed knowledge or specialized software that most people don't have to alter it
    5. allows employees the choice of what software they use to create documents
  15. Re:Two ways this can go on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 2
    The direction they are rigging it should not be a consideration.

    But when the CEO of the company supplying many of the closed source machines used for voting is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.", then its pretty obvious which direction the rigging is going.

  16. Re:A few methodology problems on Programming Language Popularity Survey · · Score: 1
    firmware for example. A lot of these are tilted to C, Cobol, and Fortran. Nobody writes firmware in Java.

    Yes they do, Sun released a chip with a native Java instruction set in 2000 or so. Noone writes firmware in Cobol or Fortran.

  17. Re:... Not getting the point... on Programming Language Popularity Survey · · Score: 1
    Why isn't XYZ in the list?! There are lots of programming languages out there. In a recent gig, I was programming Erlang, and liked it a lot. But to give some sort of cutoff, I chose the Overture dollars/click data, which isn't present for lots of "minor" languages.

    C++ is a minor language?

    Face it, your "survey" is lousy, and you can't handle the criticism, which on Slashdot was going to be inevitable no matter how good your survey was.

  18. Re:Jackson vs. Lucas on LoTR RoTK Extended Edition Specs Released · · Score: 1
    The difference is the handling of the whole thing. Lucas created a story with the original theatrical releases of the Star Wars trilogy - he wasn't using a story that'd been around in one form or another more > 50 years.

    Granted, neither "The Hero with a thousand faces" nor "Hidden Fortress" had been around for > 50 years when Lucas wrote the screenplay for Star Wars, but they had been around > 35 and > 25 years respectively, and neither was written by Lucas.

  19. Re:Here's Reuters... on US Judge Strikes Down Bootleg Law · · Score: 1, Funny

    Great. The guy has a rant about using non-US sources for US stories, and you go and rub it in his face even harder.

  20. Re:National Review agrees on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1
    Physical addiction is actually a deprecated term;

    You can't deprecate something just because you were wrong about it.

  21. Re:National Review agrees on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1
    Both coke (white powder) and coke (black liquid) are generally considered physically addictive.

    Cocaine is not generally considered physically addictive, though caffeine is mildly so (certainly not on a par with nicotine and opiates). There is no ambiguity here, physical addiction is a specific medical condition, distinct from psychological dependancy which can occur with anything, though is more common with certain substances like cocaine, sugar and gambling.

  22. Re:National Review agrees on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1
    I think that my rule on decriminalization is "if it is not physically addictive, legalize it"...but not coke, heroin, or *cough* tobacco.

    Coke is not physically addictive.

  23. Re:It is not Googles responsibility on Optimizing News Sites For Google News · · Score: 1
    No, the article shows that Google News *does* use popular blogs in its results; in fact that's the whole point of the story: that searching for "John Kerry" on Google News presents you with an inordinate number of anti-Kerry rants on conservative blogs, rather than the "mainstream" news results that you get when searching for "George Bush".

    I just tried it, and if anything it is the other way around. In fact the number 1 hit for "George Bush" is a blog posting entitled "Why Vote FOR John Kerry and AGAINST George Bush", the same blog entry is near the bottom of the first page of the "John Kerry" results.

    But news is constantly in flux, so maybe there was more real George Bush news when the article's author checked.

  24. Re:So... on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 4, Funny
    Didn't you see big brother UK?

    I think I'd rather be a chronic internet addict than sat in front of the box watching crap reality TV shows all the time.

  25. Re:read what Dennis Ritchie says... on Source Code for CTSS released · · Score: 1
    Unix is the direct ancestor of Linux.

    Do you work for SCO or something?