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  1. Dunkirk is flemish on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 1

    Dunkirk never ever ever was German AFAIK. In the middle ages it was in the county of Flanders, which was a dependency op the french crown. The original name was Duinkerke (the church in the dunes), which was francised into Dunkerke.

  2. Re:Uneven article on The Age of Nvidia · · Score: 1

    fool me once shame on you
    fool me twice shame on you

  3. Just folkloric on Appeals Court Finds "Nuremberg Files" Site Unlawful · · Score: 1

    Alex Chiu is just a folkloric idiot who probably never took any science class. What's really incredible, is how people that can talk about randomized patterns and entropy, can claim seriously to have broken Shannon's.

  4. I should laugh, but I want to cry on Science a Mystery to U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    Two nights ago I rented the American Pie 2 DVD. In one of the first scene, Oz is studying for an exam. The title of the paragraph he is reading is "finding the equation to a line" with as illlustration a straight line. This is no on the tenth page, this is about in the middle of the book.

    Need i say more ?

  5. oh no ! on Vint Cerf: 'The Internet Is For Everyone' · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Net time JonKatz will want us to read his bullshit, he zill put it in a RFC...

  6. Re:Prior art on Slashback: IEEE, Liquid, Swings · · Score: 1

    dude, you and I are badly in need of getting a life

  7. Shannon on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 1

    And what about shannon's theorem ? aren't we supposed to sample at at least twice the highest system frequency to avoid aliasing ?

  8. Prior art on Slashback: IEEE, Liquid, Swings · · Score: 1

    There's prior art. In 1994 IIRC a plane was hijacked in Alger, flown to the Marseille airport (other side of the mediterranean sea). There a SWAT team entered the plane and killed the terrorists, but the latter's original target was to fly right into Paris.

    Also, the movie "Executive Decision" with Kurt Russell features a hijacked jumbo jet heading for DC.

  9. Re:Faster connections possible with same equipment on 64kbps @ 40,000 ft. · · Score: 1
    An airplane traveling at 50% of light speed in a straight line towards the broadcast satellite should be able to provide access speeds of up to 128 Kbps. Faster even, if you include the effects of time dilation.
    No way. The signal travels at the speed of light in vacuum (or in air to be precise). Whatever your speed is, things travelling at c look like they travel at c. In relativistic physics, the special case of Galileo transforms don't apply anymore, and you have to work with the more general Lorentz transforms, which leave the speed of light invariant. Now I am citing this by heart, IANAP (I am not a physicist), and I learnt this 5 years ago.
  10. Spyware on General Public Realizes KaZaa is Spyware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think I have discovered yet another effect of cydoor. As you know, cydoor is installed with kazaa. Once some months ago, I noticed that IE6 and or OE6 crashed when I tried to use the keyboard under unknown conditions. I decided to reinstall windows XP without further looking. Some reinstalls later, I found what was responsible for the crashes : they occured ONLY when kazaa was running, and yet more often when kazaa was not running minimized. One month ago, I found a dummy dll to replace cydoor's cd_clint.dll but only returning dummy values, without spying on me. Since then, not once did IE6 or OE6 crash ever again. To me it is obvious that cydoor is trying to keylog on me, and gets blocked by either windoze XP, either by zonealarm. Do you have more info on the matter ? Isn't this perfectly illegal ? (I do netbanking from that computer). Hasn't the boss of cydoor been involved in creditcard fraud ?

  11. Re:How to install software... on General Public Realizes KaZaa is Spyware · · Score: 1
    If the previously installed software still works, great! If not, uninstall it.
    Else install a replacement for the DLL Kazaa/Grokster require in order to accept to run. More info at http://www.project-insomnia.com/grokster.html
  12. too bad on Public CD Copying Machine in Australia · · Score: 1

    Too bad in Australia all contents is already banned to "protect children" : there's nothing left to burn.

  13. spyware on Distributed Computing Program Hidden in Kazaa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think I have discovered yet another effect of cydoor. As you know, cydoor is installed with kazaa. Once some months ago, I noticed that IE6 and or OE6 crashed when I tried to use the keyboard under unknown conditions. I decided to reinstall windows XP without further looking. Some reinstalls later, I found what was responsible for the crashes : they occured ONLY when kazaa was running, and yet more often when kazaa was not running minimized. One month ago, I found a dummy dll to replace cydoor's cd_clint.dll but only returning dummy values, without spying on me. Since then, not once did IE6 or OE6 crash ever again. To me it is obvious that cydoor is trying to keylog on me, and gets blocked by either windoze XP, either by zonealarm. Do you have more info on the matter ? Isn't this perfectly illegal ? (I do netbanking from that computer). Hasn't the boss of cydoor been involved in creditcard fraud ?

  14. brainfuck sex : an explanation on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    > : in
    < : out
    + : faster !
    - : slower !
    . : don't come yet
    , : I'm coming !
    [] : do this to me again !

  15. The mandatory swiss joke on Practical Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1
    Only those knowing the Swiss' reputation will get it, but here it's :
    Transmission rates of about 60 bits per seconds
    Well that's pretty fast for the swiss...
  16. Re:The real reason... on NASA Satellite Stranded · · Score: 1
    The commies didn't even invent it, it was napoleon
    In fact IIRC it was during the french revolution, early 1790s, and it would probably have occured anyway if the monarchy had survived.
  17. mainstream journalism on Spam Increases Make Things Tough For Companies · · Score: 1
    exerpt from the article
    the newsgroup community, at the time comprising more than 6,500 groups on topics ranging from C+ programming to medieval English literature.
    Although much of the "Big 8" newsgroup hierarchy--.rec or .comp--is filled with valuable material, purists believe groups such as .alt are spam cesspools.
  18. Double Standards on Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website · · Score: 1
    Like they say here in Belgium : On ne peut pas avoir le beurre ou l'argent du beurre (You can't both have the butter and the money for the butter).

    I think :
    • either they claim to be a religion, like they did successfully in the US because of the corruption^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnaivity of the government, and then all their works should be public domain, in exchange for which they don't pay taxes.
    • either they claim just to be a corporation which purpose is to suck money off movie stars and others, and then I have no problem with them enforcing their copyrights.
    But not both ! That's just le beurre et l'argent du beurre.
  19. The announcement on Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services · · Score: 1, Redundant

    On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 11:31, Yahoo! Mail wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
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    >
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    >
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    >
    > - Use Outlook, Eudora, or another POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! Mail.
    > - Automatically forward your Yahoo! Mail to another email account -- even another Yahoo! address!
    > - Send larger attachments, now up to 5MB instead of the free 1.5MB limit.
    > - Send email without the Yahoo! promotional text at the bottom.*
    >
    > Subscribe before April 24th and get the first year of service for just $19.99. That's 33% off the regular service fee of $29.99. Visit the following link to subscribe:
    > http://ordering.yahoo.com/or/ypm/splash?855&Pkgs=u s:ym:pop&.osig=zQwKT
    >
    > Remember, if you do not subscribe by April 24, 2002, you will no longer be able to access your Yahoo! Mail messages by POP or at another email address.
    >
    >
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    >
    > *Applies only to email sent through the Yahoo! SMTP servers.

  20. Re:Only 7 Years? on 7 Years of 3D Graphics · · Score: 1
    I still remember the "which is better, Silicon Graphics Reality Engine or Ferrari Testarossa?" threads in the USENET from the summer of 1992.
    I guess we all know what John Romero's opinion on the matter is...
  21. Copy-paste writeups will die ! on Knuth: All Questions Answered · · Score: 1

    You copypasted this from www.adequacy.org

  22. Would that affect *interesting* sites ? on Google Juice · · Score: -1

    Well I guess if I want to GET RICH QUICK or to SEE HOT BANANA VIRGINS, I will be redirected to irrelevant links, but I don't see how this could alter my ability to find accurately Pr. Dr Longbeard's paper about cockroaches' sex life. No risk for that to be spammed.

  23. Re:Both sides of the spectrum are full of crap. on The Widening Tech-Savvy Gap · · Score: 1
    Inevitably every customer I've dealt with has some "10 year old whiz kid" in the family who *thinks* he knows everything about computers. Occasionally this is the case, but more often my experience has been that for some perverse reason it has become *fashionable* to be a computer nerd, and so a lot of people who know how to mouse around in Windows call themselves experts for the supposed status it brings (I went to school in the 1980s and the opposite could not have been more true).
    What's wrong about doing this ? Do you want to deny me any hope to ever get laid ?
  24. If he's elected, expect the following on Rep. Bill Jones Thinks Spam is "Innovative" · · Score: 1

    this is not spam, this is a "innovative way to use the Internet", in concordance with bill passed by governor Bill Jones.

  25. Re:This is not right on Europe Continues Work on Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    especially if you browse at -1
    Oops, isn't that a form of censor ? You dirty European ! you're no better than the nazis you're trying to shut up.