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  1. Re:Someone has to do it on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1

    Wow, though a few of those are overworked.

    Pay through your isp? come on.

  2. Re:More to it that this on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    Whats really weird is IE also calls itself mozilla for example IE 5.5 on Windows 2000 shows as.

    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

  3. Re:Netscape backed by firefox?? on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    Do you really think the next mozilla will be based on firefox?

  4. Re:OT on Firefox News Roundup · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just so you know the other guy is wrong! :)

    Mozilla/firefox etc guess sizes for columns that have images in them, these column sizes change once the image actually arrives. In certain cases it doesn't refresh and rerender once the images are downloaded.
    There is suppositivly a fix in the mozilla trunk, but it wasn't put in firefox 1.0 because it caused some pages that previously rendered fine to render badly. So fix is waiting on perfection.

  5. Re:Not just a glitch, it's failure on E-Voting Glitch Alters Election Outcome · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well it would be interesting to find out what the glitch was. If it was a communiction to the mainframe glitch where the votes wern't lost, just not sent, I could see that as reasonable, maybe. But if a machine "glitched" in its couting of the votes, which should have gotten serious rigor, thats unacceptable really.

  6. Re:Buy your Senator a TiVo on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    I realize your joking, but I do agree with this statement. Of course I NEVER buy any product based on TV commecials, so I'm except.

    And my kids, yes they do buy stuff based on TV commericals, but I consider it wrong to advertise to them, so they are except, or something like that :)

  7. Re:Nooo not SG-1 :( on Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis Renewed · · Score: 1

    The good thing about StarGate is that there are practicle infinate possible good plots. They really can continue to make good episodes, though I fear they might have lost some writers or something. The lost of Dean Anderson (Jack) as a major role definatly hurt the series, but its not something that can't be overcome.
    Maybe its about time they start wrapping up the war with the Guhl, make it a season, then start the next season with a new enemy once the Guhl are gone. Or something along those lines.

  8. Re:Is "just spamming" a crime? or involves crime? on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1

    You'll never understand this, though, so I'm wasting my time.

    I doubt you'll care what judges have said, either, but lets look at what courts have ruled.


    Ouch dude! :)

  9. Re:Is "just spamming" a crime? or involves crime? on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1

    No I mean if they meet the regulations them emailing you commercially is free speach, in the same way a commerical mailing in your mailbox is free speach. Not entirly free but they still have the right to speak it if its not fraudulant.

  10. Re:Take me with you on Downhillbattle.org Bounty For P2P Gaim Plug-in · · Score: 1

    If you actually followed the recent trials, you'd realize that the judges woulda thrown a trial against BitTorrent out easily. Either way, trying to stop BitTorrent would be like trying to sue FTP out of existance.

  11. Re:There's one spammer born every second, too on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1

    Actually this person was selling their own fraudulant product. So there was no client.

  12. Re:Depends on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1

    They generally specifically target ISP level filters, especially the one on AOL.

  13. Re:Is "just spamming" a crime? or involves crime? on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1

    Currently we have the CAN-SPAM act. It reqires providing a reply address, and following through on removal list. So yes, if they follow the spam regulations and don't commit fraud, you can't prosecute them. But on the other hand, if they do, you generally can easily filter them, as well as have yourself removed from the list. The legitimate spammers also generally get their mail list from things that you sign up for and choose to have your email address shared. So its a matter of getting what you asked for, and free speach on the side of the spammer.

  14. Re:Dupe! on U.S. Military To Create Its Own Internet · · Score: 1

    Yes, but when the civilians are being used as human shields by the enemy I really don't see any way around casualties. Yes, I guess we could take the idea that they are hostages, and sit around and negotiate and wait for their release. But thats what got us into this problem with falusia (spelling?) in the first place.

  15. Re:Non sequiteur... on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    But thats what bonds are, shares of the government. Either way I agree that federal spending is way outta hand, but I don't dept in itself an end all of everything, most economist agree that some federal dept is a good thing economically. Though we are way out of the range of "some".

  16. Re:Dupe! on U.S. Military To Create Its Own Internet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Incompetence? Ok I admit a lot of things are over budget, but please find us a military anywhere in the world that can accomplish half of what we can. Now I admit, we don't go throwing around the threat of nukes as much as some countries and that does leave us at a disadvantage.

  17. Re:Oh noes! on Marvel Sues City of Heroes Makers · · Score: 1

    Actually its a trademark suit. The trademark likeness of their characters. I'd be willing to bet that if Marvel went through the character creation wizard and figured out the attributes that make the likeness of their characters. CoH could filter it if requested. I bet they would even if asked. Simply put Marvel sees this game as a threat to their future game plans, and is suing without actually trying to fix the problem through cooperation, which is the exact remedy of the Napster case. Hopefully the judge will see that Marvel didn't make such request, and throw out this case.

  18. Re:CDS?!? on Half-Life 2 Release Date Broken · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, but I'd love to see the breakdown of people with good enough graphics cards to play this, and yet don't have a DVD player. Even better what was Doom3's excuse?

  19. Re:Oh noes! on Marvel Sues City of Heroes Makers · · Score: 1

    But Cyptic studios did request from marvel a list of trademarked named they can ban. And they did ban them. Yes this is similar to the Napster case. The decision in the Napster case was that you need to notify Napster of specific things you want blocked. Has Marvel tried this and been ignored I would understand. From what I've seen they have not, and thus don't meet the basic requirement of napster which is willfull contribution.

  20. Re:Non sequiteur... on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    Agreed on second part slightly. Though you do have to realize that sometimes congress has to appprove money that is seen as an investment. Research for example can have high cost now for later returns in savings. I wouldn't want to force congress to raise taxes when its not nessesary. Either way much of our deficite is actually from things like savings bonds which are a form of investment. You wouldn't accuse google of being horribly in the red because its spending IPO dollars would you?

  21. Re:Cobb's votes 10k down to 0 on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    I can't find it, but I swear I read about this. Some machine overcounted Cobb by a bunch of votes. This was later fixed.

  22. Re:What if Kerry won? on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's the problem with Kerry, he never can follow through on anything, always changing his mind.

    **in alternate universe*

    That's the problem with Kerry, never willing to accept the will of the people, the election doesn't need toour be dragged through the cts. :) its funny laugh.

  23. Re:Nationwide Recount on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I think calling the President a war criminal does count as flamebait in my book.

  24. Re:Non sequiteur... on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I've always thought a deadlocked congress was a good thing. When the president and congress are from different parties, only bills that get support from both sides get through. Either way the thought of Kerry running the military scares me, so nevermind :)

  25. Re:Non sequiteur... on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    Actually Ohio only had 7 counties without a paper trail. For the life of me I can't find a list of these counties. But looking at the county by county
    http://election.sos.state.oh.us/results/Ra ceDetail .aspx?race=PP
    most of the largest counties voted Kerry. It would be interesting to compare these 7 counties exit polls with actual votes. Probably nothing close to 100,000 votes difference though, but given the manual recount in the rest of the state, and then add the exit poll number estimates (I know they can't do this, but this is important to test the system) it would douptful to change the results, but interesting none the less.