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  1. Re:the name of the Great Programmer... on Finally, A Solution To The DMCA · · Score: 1

    Actually the physics was written in assembly, while mass was written in a high "object" oriented language, probably C++. Though I bet in the early days alot of it was faked with C.

  2. Re:Seperation of Church and State on Finally, A Solution To The DMCA · · Score: 1

    Ok first question, is "Satanist" don't worship "Satan." Then WHY THE FUCK do they call themselves SATANIST.

  3. Re: Astroturf on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, if you'd actually listened to the people who use mozilla, instead of just looking at the headlines, you would understand. For over a year, mozilla people have been crying. Try mozilla, its great you'll love it, because it was a really cool product that had alot of "potential". But, if you actually asked them, do you really think I should completly stop using 4.x and switch to mozilla. They said, no way, its still in development, its just really cool to see the progress it has made, and the cool features it had. Well things are finally finishing up, and it really is turning out to be better than 4.x, alot better. After waiting for almost 2 years now to switch to mozilla, I've finally made the switch to Netscape 6.1, almost a month ago, and havn't look back sense. I really would finally recommend it to the masses.

  4. Re:Freedom of Religion? on Finally, A Solution To The DMCA · · Score: 1

    I see no problem in an after school Wicca club, sadly many schools might, but thats what court rooms are for. (note that as it is school grounds certain religious practices such as animal sacrificed probably would not be allowed, but that type of activity should be done privatly anyways.)

  5. Re: Astroturf on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 1

    Seriously have you tried it, its like asking why wouldn't someone go back from IE5.5 to IE4.0. Its hard to answer, but simply obvious if you use it.

  6. Re:Remeber Windows 2000 on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 2

    Well first off all W2K is not a community project, so people only report bugs on serious issues that hinder there ability to work, they do not report bugs requesting features, or mentioning a misspelling, as asking that something works differently. That is done by user surveys and inhouse bug testing, of which many reports like that are made, but not publically posted because they are not officially "bugs". But Mozilla really doesn't care what you call as bugs and its all lumped into one. Call it a feature, or call it a bug itself, thats just the way this specific community works.

  7. Re:Freedom of Religion? on Finally, A Solution To The DMCA · · Score: 1

    Well there is plenty of case law that states that "congress" should be interpreted as "government."

    Times have changed, intent should not.

  8. Re: Astroturf on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 1

    Be honest, when was the last time you seriously tried mozilla. Actually for someone like you I'd recommend Netscape 6.1 Try it for a week, I'll bet you'll never go back, and will be begging for the next release.

  9. Re:Doubling bugs on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 1

    Your joking right? Of course you are, sorry for the inconvenience.

  10. Re:Remeber Windows 2000 on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 2

    Nobody said that the high number of bugs, in any way translated to high quality of code.
    But there is two factors to look at.
    1. The amount of serious bugs is low, this translates to a high quality product.
    2. There are many people using it, many of these people are developer types, who notice even the smallest bugs, most of which are simply small things that may have been overlooked, of which in a major product, there are millions of small things. As the code gets better, more people use it, as more people use it, more bugs get reported for small insignificant things. Eventually someday all these small insignificant bugs will be fixed, then people will still be reporting bugs, because they want some feature, or wish for the browser to act a certain way and it acts a different way. So they add this feature, or the option to make it work either way by an option in the preferences menu. These new features, will have bugs, or not work in the exact way that people want them too, and these will be reported as bugs.
    In no way does any of this implicate that mozilla or any other feature rich product is bad, simply that it is evolving.

  11. Re:I certainly hope so... on Microsoft Trial Sent Back To Lower Court · · Score: 1

    Are you calling my dog a liberal? I think he would be very offended. (BTW I really don't like the term liberal, as used to discribe people who were concered with indivudual freedom, now its the opposite. I believe Jefferson refered to himself as a liberal and I would never insult him like that.) But anyways, in modern context, my dog would be offended.

  12. Re:September 17th? on Linux Is 10 Today · · Score: 1

    Actually on August 25, Linus announced that he would make Linux (he didn't give it a name then obviously, but thats another story.). So this is a day early, and not entirly accurate :) Though possible that today he started some coding, as I'm sure he did alot of prelim trials before he made the announcement.

  13. Re:Ummm... on Human Markup Language · · Score: 1

    Hmm, being drunk and stoned, I would assume would almost mandate messing up the nesting of the tags, like half the websites out there do.
    You got them all right though. HMM

  14. Re:Won't Hold up! on MP3.com Sued for 'viral' Copyright Infringement? · · Score: 2

    Actually if you read the article the suit concerns songs in the locker program they did last year. But interestingly enough, that lawsuit was ended up being settled out of court, so there really isn't an official president saying that what mp3.com did was illigal.

  15. Re:Good luck to them. on MP3.com Sued for 'viral' Copyright Infringement? · · Score: 1

    I know this is flame bait, but you do realize that the "artist" had to allow mp3.com to post their music. So the MP3 creators in this instance are usually the artist themselves.

  16. Re:Interesting Implications on MIT And HP Announce Joint Quantum Computer Project · · Score: 2

    About the PI think, most combinations are most likly to be found at a numerically higher offset, than the number itself is, therefor making the total bigger ;(

  17. Re:I don't think it's really been established... on What is Happening with OpenGL? · · Score: 2

    HEHHE, slashdot adds random spaces to long words, to mess up the formating of spam graphics. Anyways, the proper way to do a link would be to actually code a link. :) It works. Link

  18. Re:You can't run IE plugins in NETSCAPE either on New IE Disables Netscape-style Plug-ins · · Score: 1

    Actually no, I was slightly off, all IE "plugins" are actually ActiveX controls. IE doesn't have its own plugin system. They are now doing away with all "plugin" support and only supporting ActiveX for such things.

  19. Re:You can't run IE plugins in NETSCAPE either on New IE Disables Netscape-style Plug-ins · · Score: 1

    Well NS plugin system is extremly simple, and easy to support. So if you want to create a plugin that can work in IE and NS you create it in the simple NS format.

  20. Re:*cough* on Constants Not Constant? · · Score: 1

    Your right, Egyptian did come before Hebrew, I must have been smoking crack

  21. Re:Reevaluation of constants.. on Constants Not Constant? · · Score: 2

    Yes, but its not the religious text that has the pattern, its the language itself. Basically the second word for line is better translated as circumference. So the hebrew word for circumference has a value of 111. The word for line is 106 (111/106)*3=3.14156. Multiply that by 3 and you get 3.141509 (yes that is different than the number I gave earlier, like I said, I was doing that from memory, quoting this from actually rereading the info.) And I was wrong Egpytian did come before Hebrew :(
    Anyways the Hebrew language is full of math, so this isn't something unusual or devine really. Watch the movie PI it gives some great examples, for instance the mathematical values for mother+father=child. And many other example that I can't remember.

  22. Re:Reevaluation of constants.. on Constants Not Constant? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually if you understand that the hebrew language is mathematical, you get a much better value of PI from the bible. I used to have the explanation memorized (I love arguing random crap like that), but I don't anymore, but basically each letter/word of the alphabit of the hebrew language has a mathematical meaning and the word "line" is used twice in the setence, but a different word is used the second time. If you take the (second word/first word)*3 you get 3.14156 or something like that, which is even closer than the egyptians reportably knew of pi.
    (figured I'd do a google search for this before I submitted this, came up with this)
    http://www.yfiles.com/pi.html

  23. Re:Freudian slip? on Netscape 6.1 · · Score: 2

    I meant to say nonessentials obviously opps :)

  24. Re:Freudian slip? on Netscape 6.1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, it uses alot of small .gifs for one thing, But you get a much better picture if you look at the individual packages (which can be downloaded seperatly, so you don't have to get the full 25MB)
    browser.xpi = 5.6MB = The main program
    jre13i.exe = 7.5MB = Java Runtime Engine
    mail.xpi = 1.4MB = Mail program (which isn't standalone btw)
    nsrp8.exe = 3.7MB Real Player for netscape
    winamp275.exe = 1.6 WinAmp
    And another 5MB of 16 smaller packages like PSM, Flash, and spellcheck, many of which are essential like aol's art extention, net2phone, and some plugin for helping identify HP printers.

  25. Re:Don't be a part of the problem on Fight Virus With Virus? · · Score: 1

    How far do you think the "using their machine" to tell them they have the virus goes? I mean does seeing if their website has an email address and emailing that person, is that using their machine to contact them. There are a whole degree of things that can be done, from my example to actually placing a thing on their desktop saying "YOU HAVE A VIRUS".