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  1. no Mickey-d's website either? on Burger King to offer Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Will they let you go to the McDonalds website?

  2. use M-x spook? on U.S. Using Key Escrow To Steal Secrets? · · Score: 1

    They must love that one.

    Also, I tend to shout hello at the satellites that are following me.

    Perhaps I'm just crazy though.

  3. Re:the coolest part (tradition) on Star Wars Hack @ MIT · · Score: 1

    I guess all the old hacks have just built up a tolerance. I think it's the ongoing tradition of (mostly) good taste in these matters displayed by the hack-ers.

  4. looked good in person on Star Wars Hack @ MIT · · Score: 1

    I saw it from inside the Prudential, and it was a nice view. It's been awhile since any really visible hacks have been brought to us Bostonians from our friends across the river.

  5. the Bad Thing in all this on Creative ports Glide · · Score: 2

    The Bad Thing is that Creative will only have it work with their boards (using some sort of internal serial check). So we can now have two vendors instead of one supporting Glide (now that 3dfx makes their own cards). I think that opening this up to other vendors' cards, while not necessarily attractive to the suits at Creative may gain them a lot of respect in the gaming community.

  6. Re:disabling mechanisms... on RIAA wants to assassinate MP3 · · Score: 1

    yeah, and just like you "can't" copy VHS tapes

  7. Prior art? on Whois information copyrighted · · Score: 3

    Call me naive, but...

    Hasn't whois been around a lot longer than Network Solutions' monopoly? Like back in the NSF days for instance. I find it hard to believe that such a thing would hold up.

  8. Re:1000 tamagotchis on Sony Announces Robotic Dog · · Score: 1

    It would probably whine a lot at you and die in like 2 hours.

  9. Too expensive... on Sony Announces Robotic Dog · · Score: 1

    They're going to be $2500 in the U.S. I could buy like 1000 tamagotchis for that at our local toy store.

  10. Sitting right next to it on Review:Perl in a Nutshell · · Score: 2

    I find that for looking something up FAST then the Camel Head is fine, but if I need all the gritty details there's still no substitute for the full Camel. They both have their purpose.

  11. revenge of the network computer on High-end Computer or Game Machine? · · Score: 3

    reports of the network computer's death have been greatly exaggerated. This looks like it will do email, possibly web surfing, and play games as well as or better than any pc. That sure seems to cover a good share of the PC buyers out there. They will just need some kind of printer support and a word processor and this could be a category buster. Maybe Larry Ellison wasn't so crazy after all?

  12. Alien Screen Saver on Courts and the META Tag · · Score: 1

    Al Gore is an alien, so he will naturally pick a screensaver depicting him and aliens. So get to work people and you're guaranteed to win!

  13. mediaOne on MS and AOL Interested in MediaOne · · Score: 2

    despite their cult-like slogan
    "this is the way", it's really the best option in the Greater Boston area (Mass.) since none of the other providers offer cable modems right now. Unless you count RCN, and the 2 or 3 customers that they've actually deigned to wire up. The providers in other locales (Cablevision in Boston, Time Warner on the north suburbs) will just laugh at you if you ask them about timeframe for internet access. So don't know MediaOne so fast. Unless AO-Hell buys them, then I'll agree with you.

  14. flames away (j/k) on AMD Demos 1Gigahertz cooled K7 · · Score: 1

    I'll disclaim that I'm not an ECE but the way I read their statement is that the actual transistors on the chip operate in a more electrically efficent manner at lower temps. As a result, when the higher clock speed sends more pulses into the chip, the more efficient transistors are able to cope where at a higher, less efficient temperature they would malfunction. In this way the chip core is "naturally faster" at lower speeds, since it can raise its theoretical top speed.

  15. It's a Two-Sided Sword on More Stories From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    I can't disagree with you there. I was alienated and abused by my peers through the 8th grade. Then one day, by some freak occurance, I hit 3 doubles in a ballgame in gym class and won the game. Soon after, a couple of people "reached out" to me and told me that if I were a little more sociable in general life and occasionally joked back life could and would become a lot easier. I never became popular, but life did lighten up. My high school circle consisted mostly of "converted" outcasts. We often competed in sporting competitions, sometimes making fools of ourselves, but the "jocks" saw that we were making an effort to be "human" in their world and they did some of the same. Maybe I'm just lucky.

  16. Kryotech on Extreme CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    Kryotech sells these, they currently sell K63-500 systems and Tom of Tom's Hardware used one of their kits to make a Celery-618

  17. condensation? on Extreme CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    with a bare case inside a fridge, I think you would probably have short-circuits due to condensing moisture?

  18. GEM Themes on GEM released under the GPL · · Score: 1

    I know there's a GEM theme out there for WindowBlinds, a Win32 theme manager.

  19. drunken yoda furby on Yoda Furby · · Score: 1

    perhaps some haxoring with the AI will reveal the true form of evil, the Drunken Yoda!

  20. SkyNet on Yoda Furby · · Score: 1

    SkyNet came online in August, 1997. We're already dead. We've been nuked.

  21. Home Despot on Stephenson Counter Rant · · Score: 1

    the home despot owns...of course they have it there, they even have the kitchen sink

  22. my bad on Stephenson Counter Rant · · Score: 1

    there is a link to it in the counter_rant, I was just too quick to post

  23. 404 not found on Stephenson Counter Rant · · Score: 0

    I get a 404 when trying to find/read the original doc _In the beginning..._, any mirrors?

  24. no JSP on Review:Java Servlet Programming · · Score: 2

    I found that JSP (Java Server Pages) when used in conjunction with Servlets often provided a good complement in cases where the HTML code is the bulk of the output and the code is just filling in a few places in the template. Some coverage of this would have been a service to the web development community. Plus, despite its bugs, JSP has ASP beat in that Java is 100x better for programming anything over 10 lines than VBScript.

  25. same here on Alta Vista Selling Top Matches · · Score: 1

    Yahoo! will "review your site more quickly" if you pay them for promotion. It's difficult to get listed these days without due to their backlog.