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  1. Re:But Mozilla still has some weaknesses on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 2

    Um. If I understand what you're saying, then you're looking for Multizilla, a tabbed browsing enhancement for Mozilla. You can open a folder full of links as multiple tabs in a Mozilla window with a single click, or set it up to open them on launch.

    Time to switch?

  2. Re:um.... on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 2

    Five syllables first,
    Then you move on to seven.
    Five more to end it.

  3. Re:'640K RAM is enough for anyone' on First Man To Mars? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, even if we assume that Bill is right on this one, and that he never claimed 640K would be enough, at least there's evidence for my personal favourite Bill Gates quote, as shown in this interview with Herman Hauser:

    Q: Do you lie awake at night worrying that you'll be first again , but that someone else will make the money?

    A: No [...] I often tell the story that Bill gates was trying to sell me MS-DOS in the early 80s and I had to say "Bill, we can't possibly take such a retrograde step, because our operating system really is an operating system and has many features that MS-DOS doesn't have. [...] schoolboy can type 'I am Johnny' into one of our computers and be logged on through the network to a local fileserver. They can use the same commands to get files down from the server that they've learned with a floppy disk." And Bill's answer to that was, "What's a network?"
  4. Re:This is great on Some Spammer Has a Crush on You · · Score: 2

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    All you have to is follow the steps listed and you could turn your pathetic mailing list into as much as 30,000 or 40,000 people desperate to be spammed. I know it sound incredible but it's simple mathematics if you follow the steps listed.

    Step 1.
    Send an e-mail with a valid e-mail address attached to each person on the list.

    1. XXX Teens! Animals! Wireless Networking! XXX
    madeupname5435843529843@hotmail.com

    2. Hey, just responding to your mail! fyt74
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    3. Great business opportunity!
    bruoigf3@scam.com

    4. Make $$$ FAST!
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    5. Viagra onling!
    <The Internet Chemist>

    Step 2.
    Now remove the top name from the list and add your name to the bottom of the list in the #5 position and move the other names up accordingly.

    Step 3.
    Post the article to at least 250 e-mail marketing companies. There are at least a million of these scum at any given time so try to post to as many of them as you can. Remember, the more you post to the bigger your potential return.

    Step 4.
    You are now an evil spammer yourself and should be seeing a huge list of victims within 7 to 14 days of your postings.

    REMEMBER--- Honesty is the best policy! You really don't need to cheat to make this investment work for you. Please play fair and you too can and will make some real money by fleecing the gullible.

  5. Re:Linux is the only option. on USA Today says "Linux waddles from obscurity" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What does the availability of MS Office have to do with the functionality of the OS? And yes, you can run MS Office through Wine, or you can use OpenOffice instead, which does a damn fine job of working with MS Office files IME.

    As for the installation issue, I installed Mandrake 8.2 and Windows 2000 (with SP1) on a machine as recently as last week. One went on without a hitch, automatically setting up suitable partitions, installing all required software, connecting to the internet and downloading security updates. The other threw a hissy fit because it didn't like the format of the drive it had just formatted itself and went into a vicious cycle of rebooting. No prizes for guessing which was which.

    I remember the days when Windows was easy to install and Linux wasn't. Those days are gone.

  6. Re:Java 3?? on 10 Reasons We Need Java 3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Java 2 (or 'The Java 2 Platform') is used to refer to all versions of Java since 1.2 - the idea being that the Java platform came of age at that point, having managed to absorb the major new features added in 1.1 and being ready for enterprise use. So JDK 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 are all still Java 2.

    Given how interesting that sort of numbering approach is already, I see no additional confusion springing from the idea that Sun could declare 'Java 3' starting from JDK 1.6 - anyone who's going to get confused by these things already is. ;)

  7. Re:Her goal? on Social Robot? · · Score: 3, Funny

    "What is your goal?"
    "Why does it make you feel that way that What is my goal?"

  8. What is intelligence? on Ask Dr. Richard Wallace, Artificial Intelligence Researcher · · Score: 2

    One of the biggest problems I've seen in 'popular' AI is the tendency of certain AI researchers (*cough*KevinWarwick*cough*) to see intelligence in their results no matter what happens - surely a result of not defining 'intelligence' in advance.

    So what is intelligence, and how do we know when we've created it artificially?

  9. Re:Can buy one online on Mandrake Hits Wal-Mart(.com) · · Score: 2
    Yes, apparently you can at Walmart.com
    ...provided you've already got a PC to go online with, of course. ;)
  10. Re:MSNBC are also running the story on Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites · · Score: 2

    Just took a quick look at the site, and perhaps those people who are squealing about this being like the Catholic church attempting to stifle Copernicus might like to do the same thing. :)

  11. Re:funny names on Microsoft Freon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Strange though it seems, surely this can be the only explanation for an OS called 'winCE'...

  12. Re:Pirating is NOT new on Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales · · Score: 2

    Perhaps you ought to read this...

  13. Re:Agreed on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 2
    I cannot say that I have this problem so much, though every time I have taken an exam which forced me to write code, we were allowed to cite a previously written function or whatever.

    Answer 1
    Refer to method public void passExam()

  14. Re:Did they fix the upgrade bug? on Moving towards Mozilla 1.0 · · Score: 2

    The bug in the users who didn't read the release notes, you mean? I understand they're working on it. ;)

  15. Re:This is bullshit on lowercase music · · Score: 4, Funny
    They were called 'experimental musicians', 'soundscapists' or 'musique concrete people'.

    They were called plenty of other, more colourful things as well. :)

  16. Re:That is the whole point... on Director Attacks MPAA Piracy Claims · · Score: 2
    If publishers have to license rights from the authors and artists, the creative rights remain where they belong, with the creative people.

    Perhaps. Though as Arthur C Clarke once might have said, "Any sufficiently draconian licensing agreement is indistinguishable from copyright assignment."

  17. Re:It's easy to prevent all this... on Director Attacks MPAA Piracy Claims · · Score: 2
    Oh, and if you create whatever it is while at work as part of that work, the copyright belongs to the employer.

    Are you sure about that? IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that isn't part of copyright law - rather it's something that's fairly standard in employment contracts.

  18. Re:It's easy to prevent all this... on Director Attacks MPAA Piracy Claims · · Score: 2

    And this helps how, exactly? Given that most copyright isn't actually assigned, but licensed (in the case of books and music, at least, AIUI...)

  19. Re:Broken promise ring on Face-Scanning Loses by a Nose in Palm Beach · · Score: 2

    Well duh. No system is going to be able to recognise you as a terrorist if you're not already known as one (unless you want to make offensive and largely useless generalisations about skin tone and close set eyes...)

    That doesn't stop face recognition from having potential in areas where some people *are* in the database, including not only terrorism but also missing persons, wanted (non-terrorism) criminals, football hooliganism etc.

  20. Re:No, it's 99.99% Read Cryptogram on Face-Scanning Loses by a Nose in Palm Beach · · Score: 2

    All well and good, but that assumes that if the software throws up a positive you will immediately be arrested, and possibly executed without trial by some sort of ED-209 lookalike.

    What a sensible system would do would be notify another system which is better at identifying faces - we call it a human being. Then they can check, and where appropriate take further steps. Which may or may not involve having you arrested and executed without trial.

    What it means is that instead of having to check ten million flyers, the security people have to check 1000, which is far more feasible. I'd argue that false positives are a lot less harmful than false negatives in such systems, provided positive is treated as "take a closer look" rather than "terminate with extreme prejudice"...

  21. Re:Mac OS X version... on Mozilla RC3 Released · · Score: 2

    I'm sure you already know this, but just to clarify the matter, Mozilla has tabbed browsing too.

  22. Re:Shaky start on a risky road... on FF XI Goes Live in Japan · · Score: 2

    Just to add to this, the latest daily charts from Japan show FFXI at number one, overcoming even the mighty sales monster that is World Soccer Winning Eleven 6...

  23. Re:Shaky start on a risky road... on FF XI Goes Live in Japan · · Score: 2

    I don't know what 'initial reports' you're reading, but most reports from gaming sites and from people in Japan are saying that the game (and the hardware that goes with it) is sold out pretty much everywhere. Exactly what the initial print run was I have no idea, but that can't be a bad result by anyone's standards...

  24. Re:MicroSofts downfall on PS2 Price May Fall, Gamecube Staying Put · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If the X-Box is responsible for one thing, it's being the catalyst for console prices to drop dramatically at a faster rate than previous generations.

    A good point, except for the fact that PS2 has probably gone longer without a price cut than any console in the last three generations. The E3 price cut was expected and probably wasn't driven by Microsoft - the exact timing, however, almost certainly was.

  25. Re:How nitpicky can they get? on Attack of the Clones Cut in UK · · Score: 5, Funny
    I wonder how many British children are exposed to professional wrestling? They'll see loads there.

    Maybe so. But perhaps it looks realistic in the film. :)