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  1. Re:..The good and the bad on The Google Effect And Domain Name Speculation · · Score: 1

    yeah, but site:.co.uk is nothing but the querystring from the radio button. try a search first w/o the button checked and then with the button checked.

  2. Re:..The good and the bad on The Google Effect And Domain Name Speculation · · Score: 1

    you mean searching for "bicycle shops site:.co.uk +price" ?

  3. I want a story cache on Looking At Turing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Warning: Too many connections in /home/sites/site53/users/systool/stbwebsite/inc/da tabase.inc on line 17 Secret code error number 83: localhost, bfadmin.

    or shorter /.'ed

  4. As a german citizen on Germany Wants To Put Time Limits On Porn · · Score: 5, Informative

    I read this piece of "NEWS" (ix.de reported this item last week(Use the fish)), and promplty filled my nose with coffee.

    To clarify: the main reason for this so called "Sendezeitbegrenzung" from 11 pm to 6am is the childrens protection act. ( Will somebody please think about the children :-)). It seems some of our politicians haven't greeped the fact that Germany isn't the navel of the world anymore.

    In essence this new Law the "Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (JMStV)," proposes to extend the youth protection laws allready in place for Radio and TV to the Internet. ( Think FCC for Internet for the North-Americans on /.). So this will be another try, to censor content or to restrict the access to information on the internet. But we all know, how effectfull the earlier tries have been.

    I'm sure everybody knews how resourcefull 6-18 year olds can be at getting the po^H^Hinformation one wants.

  5. Re:A useful services?! on Path of Least Surveillance · · Score: 1

    In Germany its called GEZ, the Gebühreneinzugszentrale.

    You have to proof, that you don't own a radio or else you're fined ca. 10 /month. If you own even one TV-Set you'll have to pay 16 /month.

    Since you have to register your residence in the Einwohnermeldeamt, which shares its database with the GEZ, you'll receive a letter from the GEZ ca. 2 weeks after taking up residence.

    If you don't pay the yearly Gebühr of 200 you can be fined for up to 2000. There are even TV-Spots on German TV with the Slogan:"Haben Sie schon GEZahlt?"(Have YOU payed your GEZ-fines ?). This is all only for maintaining the so called "Grundversorgung" of public broadcasting. I'll leave the quality of the programs to the viewers imagination ...

  6. Re:Leahy Sold out! on Anti-Terrorism Law Passed · · Score: 1

    I expected to find the spanish inquisition somewhere in this article, but this is purely brillian.t

    Mod +5 funny.

  7. Re:will the last geek... on RIAA Wants Right To Hack · · Score: 1

    So why not the netherlands, but the beer lacks in contrast towrds the german, but 2002 there will be 1 currency for all of europe, so hop 50 km across the border to buy the beer.

  8. Availabity of this product on New Joystick Style Ergo Mouse · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why isn't it available yet, CmdrTaco? Don't you read your own linked pages ? there it says:

    Compatible with PC's, Macintosh, and iMac computers with USB ports. PC's- operate using WIN 95, 98 and NT4.0. Win 2000 available 4th quarter 2000. Macintosh/iMac/iBook-operate using Apple O/S 8.1 or higher with USB upgrades. Plug and play only, no software.

    So it should be available for more than 9 months. Also look for the Where to buy button at the bottom of the page.

  9. Re:The really eerie thing is... on Attacks On US Continued Reports · · Score: 1

    You mean: 11.09.2001 (sorry, european dateformat)

    But: 11+9+2+1= 23


    People on slashdot should be illuminated by this coincidence :-(

  10. Re:The Watchmen on Big Brother Won't Watch Judges · · Score: 1

    An old Roman saying:



    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?


    @moderators


    yeah i know im redundant :-)


  11. Re:Great on Big Brother Won't Watch Judges · · Score: 0, Redundant

    @moderators

    This is redundant since the famous roman saying:

    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
  12. Re:3500 volts for a human to feel a shock? on A Hidden Threat To Handhelds · · Score: 1

    The resistance depends on AC vs. DC, and also the frequency in case of AC (usually 50 Hz in Germany).

    If I'm correct, the frequency was changed to 60 Hz some years ago.

  13. Re: Indians on Scientists Discover Another 'Extinct' Tree · · Score: 1

    AFAIR the horse was extinct on the northamerican continent when Columbus landed in the Caribic.

  14. Re:Values on Harm From The Hague · · Score: 1

    Isn*t it : "Consume!"

  15. Re:Come on already! on Making Joysticks Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Actually, i build one ca. 16 years ago.

    I needed a second Joystick-button for a game on the c64. AEK the buttons on a c64 where mapped against the spacebar for port 1 and some wierd Ctrl-sequence for port 2. You played this game with JP2 and the spacebar was used as secondary fire.

    So i build a device from a pacifier, an pushbutton and some wire to put in my mouth

    Voila a tongue-motion sensing device! My score rocketed :-)

  16. Re:There is use for a table in zero-gravity ? on Home Improvement · · Score: 1

    Remember to use the Preview button. and now say it 3 times ...

    1
    2
    3

    ahh. 3tims
  17. There is use for a table in zero-gravity ? on Home Improvement · · Score: 5

    OK, since they have a table on the ISS, how does the stuff stay on the table?

    Here on the bottom of the gravity-well, 9.81m/s make sure the cup stays on the table if i put it there. But which force works up in the ISS?

  18. Re:So what is the zeta function ? on Neal Stephenson on Zeta Functions · · Score: 1

    n^0 is 1 for all n AFAIK.

    So the first term will be 1.

  19. Re:GPS Accuracy on Code for Running GPS Satellites Stolen · · Score: 1

    So you survive this blast and then ? AFAIR a small thermo-nuclear device detotantion has a fallout area of aprox. 20 km. so you survive the blast and then you have to hike trough 20 km radioactive waste. GOOD LUCK if you want to have offspring :-)

  20. I needed a Name for a pilot on The Etymology Of NickNames? · · Score: 1

    Back in the good old days(1985) i was sitting at my c64 and played F15-Strike Eagle. I had to enter a Nickname for my Pilot. Since i've seen "Dr. Strangelove" the night before, i named myself after the pilot who rides the bomb at the end of the film : Major T. J. "King" Kong.
    Ever since my name on any system where it is allowed is Kong.

  21. Nethack, Angband and Zangband on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Four · · Score: 1

    Ok, i play games since the dawn of time, i.e. Fort Apocalypse on C64, i was 14 and played it till 6 in the dawn for a week. Then there was Bards Tales, Pirates, Paradroid etc.

    Then i entered the world of Unix, and there it was nethack. In my college there was a room with 24 Terminals. One night at 2 AM 23 students played nethack and the mainframe crashed. Luckyliy root was in the room (He lost an Lvl 24 human mage :-)).

    I started to dream in ASCII, so i aquit nethack. But there was another vice, angband or at first it was called moria...

    I got older but Diablo got me hooked again. So I tried to get some even harder Stuff: Zangband. And one day i will get a WINNER ...

  22. ... a bit late for X-mas on What Do You Think Of The Delux DVD? · · Score: 1

    after falling for the troll-like link to the Homepage, i read the productdescription and found:
    Availability:
    12.01.00
    so it wont be under the christmastree.
    why even consider it........

  23. Re:BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!!! on Hong Kong Smart Identity Cards In 2003 · · Score: 1

    Remembers me of a german proverb (ca. 1944)