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  1. Re:What the first frame means. on Search for Terrestrial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    I've beem working on the second frame, there's a few errors there too, like 1-2=1, 2^0=2, 2^1=4 and 2^2=8

    I'll post the translation of frame 2 when i finish it.

  2. Re:This is really disturbing.. on Search for Terrestrial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    bah, ascii art of the goatse.cx guy.

  3. What the first frame means. on Search for Terrestrial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'm looking at that, and here's what I see in it.

    a. first frame

    1. first off, there is the sequance oooxxxxxoxo which is binary for either 1797, 250, 760 or 1287, depending on binary notation, this doesn't mean anything to me.

    2. Basic counting. A number of boxes, a symbol, a binary expression of the number where most signifigant digit is first, x = 1 and o = 0 then the symbol again, then a symbol wich appears to represent the value.

    3. when you get to 10, there's the number symbol, the 1 symbol and a 0 symbol. 11 is number symbol, 1 symbol, 1 symbol and so on, skiping a few. at 20 we have number symbol, 2 symbol, 0 symbol.

    next is a bunch of value symbols. what i can make out is 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83,87

    primes, other then 15, person making this must've messed up.

    then ooooxxxxoxo binary for 122

    this frame is clearly teaching aliens how we count.

  4. Re:Careful There on Educating Youngsters About Piracy · · Score: 1

    If that $20 shareware program didn't have a keygen for it, yeah, sure, I'd pay for it, and if I had the money I probaly would pay for it. However, for somthing like MS office of photoshop or any other $300+ program, if I couldn't get a warez'd copy I'd do without, because it's not worth that price to me. If I were say a graphics artist, and was going to be using photoshop a lot to make money I'd feel guilty about not paying for it. People won't pay much more for things then they feel they're worth, and if software is reasonably priced, people are more likey to buy it then copy it.

  5. Re:Send the spam to the spammers on What to Do When Company Breaks Privacy Agreement? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Use doamin names that resolve to 127.0.0.1, like porn.org or warez.slashdot.org

  6. Re:Responsible and Generous on Quake 2 Source Code Released Under The GPL · · Score: 1

    GPL is in some ways better then public domain. Publishers aren't too hot for it, but it's great for the users. They can tweak it, make totaly new games that borrow code, etc, all of which will also be avaible for free. GPL is 'By users, for users'

  7. Re:The problem is.. on Linux On the Desktop: 0.24 Percent? · · Score: 1

    Well, I wasn't really compareing to software on cd, I was talking about downloaded programs. And what about all the confusing dialoges with text input?

    Anyway, you're right, however autorun is a bad idea. How does autoruning a recursive delete command sound to you?

    Anyway for software on CD, you can just;

    1. click cd drive icon on desktop
    2. click installer
    3. follow the prompts

  8. Re:The problem is.. on Linux On the Desktop: 0.24 Percent? · · Score: 1

    RPM installs are usualy easier then windows software installs. Like this;

    1. Search rpmfind for program.
    2. Click link to program.
    3. Click open.
    4. Enter root password.
    5. Click next and OK a few times.

  9. Re:The problem is.. on Linux On the Desktop: 0.24 Percent? · · Score: 1

    Know why star office sucks? Tries to be too much like MS word. It does the job fine tho.

  10. Re:Offtopic on Linux On the Desktop: 0.24 Percent? · · Score: 1

    I personaly would mind ads a lot less if they were smaller and better targeted. http request headers would be great for this. I could say I'm looking to purchase an inexpensive webcam that works under linux, and be saved the trouble of having to search the web and compare prices and whatnot, because advertisers will target thier ads to that intrest, or another I've listed.

    I'd also like this for tv, not getting ads for female hygine products, viagra, kiddy toys and whatnot, but instead nifty geek toys would make me more inclined to watch tv.

  11. What about lieing User Agents? on Linux On the Desktop: 0.24 Percent? · · Score: 1

    Often times sites will harras you for not having a sheep browser, so many people have thier user agent strings lie, so adding annother .05% to that figure would be reasonable.

  12. I get 60/month on Crazy Stats on Spam · · Score: 1

    In my 4 accounts, my 2 hotmail accounts almost always get the same spam, and my other 2 get 1/month max. The hotmail spam all comes from the same guy i think, and despite reporting all of it (i use ricochet to auto-trace it) is still get spam almost every day. I also have a deticated spam account. attoparsecs@hotmail.com is rigged to automaticly trace the headers of incoming mail and send off reports of spam. Please use this address in usenet posts.

  13. Re:Those bastards hacked the linux kernel too! on al Qaeda Hacks XP? · · Score: 1
    BUT,

    % grep -ir 'o.*s.*a.*m.*a.*i.*s.*g.*a.*y' /usr/src/linux | wc -l 704

  14. Re:Windows 2000 on al Qaeda Hacks XP? · · Score: 1

    bleh, I can count the times my linux lappy has crashed in one finger. And this is in a year of heavy use.

    I need to take off my shoes to count the times windows ME has frozen without warning in the last day.

  15. Re:not as easy as you might think on al Qaeda Hacks XP? · · Score: 1

    it was actualy "!seineew era sremmargorp epacsteN" hidden in some random DLL

  16. Re:Now that this particular cat is out of the bag. on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1

    Time to put on your asbestos underware kiddies! ;)

  17. Re:Now that this particular cat is out of the bag. on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1

    works on mirc too.

  18. Re:I would have agreed a week ago on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1

    Why not just have a really scaled-back HTML renderer that ignores tags that you choose to ignore?

    The Proxomitron can cause that behavior, all you have to do is add a filter to replace <foo> tags with ;lt;!----->. I belive it runs under linux with wine.

  19. Re:Thats not the point. on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1

    Sometimes programmers are hired to develop in-house software that will never be sold.

  20. Re:Warez. on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1

    I've seen the same thing with roms. People collect compleat sets for systems, but never play the games.

  21. Re:One theory on World Map of Lightning Activity · · Score: 1

    What about the middle of africa?

  22. Re:I've never heard that question on Making Linux Look Harder Than It Is · · Score: 1

    I think you mean IRQ instead of IRC. Look in windows to see what the hardware settings for your modem are, write them down along with the model of your modem. Post this information to a linux help newsgroup with a request for step by step instructions, and you should be helped. Also download modem howtos from linuxdoc.org and linuxnewbie.org to consult whilst trying to get the thing working.

  23. Re:Better than you credit on Making Linux Look Harder Than It Is · · Score: 1

    The copy of gimp i have does CMYK seperations.

  24. Re:I guess... on DMCA 2, Freedom 0 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    All the charities represneted were given at least $10,000. Win isn't quite the word but the EFF did get $10,000

  25. Re:Thumbdrive on How Reliable are USB Memory Keys? · · Score: 1

    But do they work under linux?