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  1. Re:IPv6 Resources on IPv6 Ready For A Spin · · Score: 2

    Yes, but for all the places out there who currently have class A's they will be given a block of ipv6 addresses based on their ipv4 address, which means that instead of the class A having their usually 16 million addresses, they will probably not have trillions upon trillions of addresses, mainly for the sake of simplicity in the switch. Once this is switched over, the new ip addresses will be assigned in a totally different way, and won't be waisted. Plus its highly possible for those Class A's to give back a trillion or so addresses once things get cleared up.

  2. The mind on Second Coming of Technology · · Score: 2
    Elements stored in a mind do not have names and are not organized into folders; are retrieved not by name or folder but by contents.


    Yes, but I often forget where I put my memories, I don't want the computer forgetting how to get to slashdot, but then again, its nice to know that computers arn't shy about asking others for directions!!!

  3. Re:Ouch. on AOL Using Netscape to Spy? · · Score: 2

    No smart download is something that you download as a plugin for 4.x Its a very popular and advertised plugin as it allows you added ability to pause, and resume downloads, which you should be able to do anyways, but the regular download sucks. All this for the price of having to watch ads as you download :( (or atleast when you want to see the download progress.)

  4. Re:Moderators! on The Internet For Parrots · · Score: 2

    You look a 4 year old in the face and ask him whats four plus five. He/she will just look at you strange.. Teach that child well enough though and give him four blocks then later give him five blocks and ask him how many there were total. And you might get and answer.

  5. Re:Be careful... on Game Development in Mozilla · · Score: 3

    If you care to read your own link, they apparently added new Javascript functions, now its a matter of Mozilla adding these functions. And please note that these functions will only be accessable from localally stored javascript, making sure that happends is another story.

    Could a javascript program look itself up in cache, and call itself to be run again, this time having local priviledges?

  6. Re:Be careful... on Game Development in Mozilla · · Score: 2

    RTFA :) They state that they are planning this to be web based, and not a package you have to download. As there are layers of XUL you can access without being installed locally, and the layers that can be harmful have to be installed locally. Well to play pacman you don't need those other layers. :)

  7. Re:Who provides the cycles? (and other ranting) on Pervasive Computing: Microsoft, MIT And The Future · · Score: 2

    640K? No 64K should be enough for anyone, 640 is going way over the edge, what are you trying to run there, some kinda VR simulator.

  8. Great! But one problem on Publius · · Score: 2

    Great! But a problem I see is that in a dictatorship like the US (jk sort of). It seems highly likly that simply having the client for a program like this could be punishable. So there needs to be some kind of system for someone to be able to anonymously use the program in the first place, which seems rather impossible. Maby a distrubuted java signed app? :)

  9. Re:Hmmmm... on Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard · · Score: 2

    100 km up, I believe I saw somewhere that during the cold war the U.S. was testing to see how high someone could parachute from and 100km was about the max they reached. (though from 100km you tend VERY easily get into a spin that you can't get out of, I don't remember what they said they did to overcome it, I hope this guy reviews their work atleast :)

  10. Re:Seems possible on Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard · · Score: 2

    Well, yes but its not all that amazing. I mean their computer is about relative to my TI-80 And given enough time and motivation. I could probably program the same stuff into it. Hey I already have a program that bounces a ball with changable gravitation force that I can control into it (and no I didn't factor in friction so there :P)

  11. Re:a) How much? b) Anyone tried one w/ Linux? on Multiprocessor G3/G4 Boards · · Score: 2
    "If Al Gore 'invented' the Internet, I 'invented' the exponential."


    Of course Al Gore didn't invent the internet, but he did introduce the legislation that forced Universities to allow the public to tap into the network. Now expecting Al Gore to understand the difference, that is another matter.


    But I seriously doupt you helped the exponential gain popularity in any way.

  12. Something to think about. on ESR Invited To 'Advise' USPTO · · Score: 2
    I personally abhor the patent office and the way they run things. But I just wanted to give people something to think about before they say that we should simply abolish the ability to patent UI and software.

    Image that I spend the last 3 years developing a completly new paridigm in User Interface. I did market studies, and spend thousands and in User Test to see how effective my UI was. This UI though it fairly easy to code though and is elligant in its simplicity, and wins the world over as a breakthrough in design, and everyone wants to copy it.

    Now would you say I deserve atleast some protection say a year and a half to be able to profit from my idea.

    I think truly invovative software deserves protection. Not for nearly as long, and for only truly innovative thing. But to say we should completly destroy such system is to say my time spent on design was of no value.

    But 15 years (or whatever the going length of patents is right now.) Is simply rediculus.

  13. Re:ESR is the *best* man for the job on ESR Invited To 'Advise' USPTO · · Score: 1
    can you provide a URL???

  14. Re:!! on ESR Invited To 'Advise' USPTO · · Score: 1
    Well or course, and the people of Cuba don't always willingly give over their work to Castro, just so he can easily change the license for them :)

    Imagine what would happen if after everyone signed over their right to the fsf it becamse corrupt, reminds me of a few past governments :)

  15. Re:AOL is doing nothing new on AOL Class-Action Suit Over Pop-Up Ads · · Score: 2

    ^^^^---- Moderate this up!!

    Is the pay-per hour still done that way? Or now that you have the choice of unlimited rate or paying per hour, have they stopped such "free" services. Seems like having ad time not count towards your hours would totally invalidate this lawsuit. If nothing else, agreeing to turn such feature back on would be a possible way to avoid the lawsuit for AOL.

  16. Re:Let's put the actual links in, please on Pretty Poor Privacy · · Score: 2

    While searching for the actual actice I came across another one very simular with the same title.
    http://www.kcoyle.net/p3p.html

  17. Re:I agree 100%. on Hacking The Tivo · · Score: 2

    +1 Funny.

    But seriously, why does management constantly put focused-point suction engineers in charge of the HVAC!

  18. Re:read a little more closely on Court Orders Owner Of Peta.org To Give Up Domain · · Score: 2

    Umm hate to inform you but the rules of .org being nonprofit and .com being commercial and .net being network services went out the window a few years ago. While its convention there is no rules you have to follow for that.

  19. Re:Thank god on Jackson Sends Microsoft Case To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    I'm refering to the past, they used to make good cars.. :)

  20. Re:Space sugar on Scientists Discover Interstellar ... Sugar? · · Score: 2

    Try opening a book everyonce in a while -hmmm

  21. Re:Thank god on Jackson Sends Microsoft Case To Supreme Court · · Score: 3

    They may have, but it doesn't matter. As an earlier poster pointed out, both Standard Oil and Ma Bell created their industries. But that didn't excuse them from being broken up, and it didn't hurt the economy to break them up. Imagine if Ford motors had established itself as a monopoly in the creation of cars, in the 20s would you just assume that chrysler couldn't create good cars, and allow ford to continue to monolpolise the industry. Or would you have broken them up??

  22. Re:The problem... on Lessig On DMCA, Adobe, The US Constitution And Fair Use · · Score: 3
    STOP STOP, in the name of the law. The very existence of this thread defies the law of nature. Specifically Godwin's Law from the jargon file.

    Godwin's Law prov.

    [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.

  23. Re:Source code? on Mozilla M16 Released · · Score: 2

    s/an early tree build/an early M17 tree build/

    :)

  24. Re:Source code? on Mozilla M16 Released · · Score: 2

    Try either ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/m ozilla-source.tar.gz

    But this the latest drop, most likly to be the source from an early tree build (which is extremly unstable right now) If you want the last M16 tree build from what I see it appears to be ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2000-06- 14-08-M16/mozilla-source.tar.gz

    While this isn't exactly M16 (its what they had working at 8:00 am this morning, while it appears M16 was build sometime around 3 or 4 PM, so probably had a few very minor changes, trust me, while it seems mozilla progress is slow, the morning and the evening builds every day often can change significantly depending upon any bug fixes that might land throughout the day)

    BTW does anyone know where I can find some skins specifically made for M16 as the release doesn't contain extras.

  25. Re:Light mode on Programming the Perl DBI · · Score: 2

    Looks to be their new way of doing titles. Nice idea, but needs fixing :)