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  1. Do they have exclusive rights to use their content on Microsoft Encarta Adopting Wikiesque Process · · Score: 1

    you grant Microsoft permission to use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Submission. ... along with others to download their database and do the same thing? Or do you give only Microsoft the right for the material if added? I mean, that's a pretty important thing with Wikipedia...

  2. Re:the big deal is on Hoary Hedgehog Ubuntu 5.04 Released · · Score: 1

    it's an open (as opposed to several commercial debian derivatives) debian-based distro that isn't 3 years out of date.

    You mean like MEPIS, also very high on Distrowatch and overtaking e.g. SUSE, and now at 4th place?
    I also have to say it's a bit strange...

  3. Good, I've always wondered about this thing... on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 1

    What is sex?
    sexual activity: activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"

    But that of course doesn't tell me much!!
    Speak to a geek, don't speak greek!

    What is sexual intercourse?
    The erect penis of the male entering the vagina of the female.

    Thanks, Google! So it's sort of a merge of two organs? Like a organic puzzle? Ahh, I knew it could be something like that! Cool... Nature sure is clever for not being designed by Linus!

    (actually, those questions are indeed answered like this)

  4. Re:How about from two? on Yahoo! Search Providing Support to Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    While Yahoo! and Google may be competitors, the two of them often do collaborate, with Yahoo! even using Google to do their searches.

    Yes, it seems to be a mutual collaboration too, I recall Yahoo! took the DomainKey initiative, and Gmail soon followed, so it's not limited to searches.

  5. The next step in this circus... on CherryOS Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    Would be if PearPC was actually secretly developed by ...dun dun dun... SCO!

    That would make a lot of brains to explode here. :-)

  6. Re:Ummm... on CherryOS Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, PearPC is already open source... ... which is why CherryOS has to be that as well, according to the GPL.

    Why do people think they can slap a different name on something and sell it, when it's already free?

    Because it's in a nice package with a better GUI?

    Instantly more appealing to regular users interested in OS X on PC's, and not just geeks browsing open source sites and manually downloading things.

  7. Re:SP2 drove me to Open Source on Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Uh, so why did SP2 make you switch?

    A security center to help improve OS security?

    Well, then a secure OS like Linux must be wrong for you!

  8. Re:Line Films on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 1

    So many here love to mock the line goers, but how many of those people have been to a Linux, gaming or hacker convention?

    Does only waiting in line for a convention, but in the wrong building, and then leaving count? :-)

  9. Re:Hey, wait a minute on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cool!

    Good to know that they have created a Star Wars Episode III Queue Ranking Organization using time accumulation to determine the rank, and aren't geeky at all! :-S

  10. OK, then going to the moon sounds risky... on Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors · · Score: 1

    ... so let's go to Mars!

    NASA recently found undeniable evidence that there's plenty of water on Mars too!

    And for some reason, Slashdot, in all its April Fool craze, missed to post that one! Grrr!

  11. Re:Big surprise... feh on CherryOS On Hold · · Score: 1

    I bet it's more along the lines of "We got caught with our pants down, again... quick, let's change more identifiable code slightly to evade them!"

    Unfortunately for them, it's too late now if they've already violated the license. It would be particularly apparent they did this if they changed sepcific obvious bits in their code now. However, at the same time we see a disadvantage with open source code; no one was easily able to sue them. I read about the donations taken, yes, but since then everything went silent. I hope they'll be able to do something though.

  12. Re:Proxomitron on Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    A very useful windows freeware(non-OSS) ... or Privoxy which is F/OSS and hence multiplatform. 300 KB Windows binary instead of a 1.3 MB one as well. I usually don't care too much about general software sizes, but for something running in the background all the time since I start my computer, I care a bit more about it.

  13. Re:For those to lazy to read the blog on Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, I think he actually meant popupsdie, the recent one from Mozilla that this article is about. I think the difference between FlashBlock and that one is that FlashBlock requires you to either actively maintain whitelists or take actions to display flash at all, while popupsdie just silently blocks popups opened by plugins, and doesn't impact other Flash behavior. So there's a difference there. Probably for a reason too, otherwise they'd just recommended the already existing FlashBlock for everyone.

    Also, popupsdie isn't really much of an extension; you can do what it does by adding/changing two settings in about:config.

    From MozillaZine:
    The value of privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins is changed to 2, meaning that plugins are not allowed to open new windows, and the value of dom.popup_allowed_events is changed to an empty string, which stops all Web page events (such as clicks and form submissions) from launching popups. This means that some user-initiated popups (the type you generally want) may now be blocked. There are also reports that the extension breaks the ability to open blocked popups from the yellow bar or popup blocker Status Bar icon. You can still whitelist sites that you wish to allow to use popups.

  14. Long term solution? on Preview of Intel's Dual-Core Extreme Edition · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Excuse me if this sounds unusually stupid at Slashdot, but they will in other words release 3.2 GHz dual core models initially? Won't they then have developed a new technology just to hit problematic clock frequency spoken of at ~4 GHz almost immediately? I was always thinking of something like two 1.6 GHz cores possibly with some tricks to achieve similar speeds as a current 3.2 GHz P4... Am I missing something here or is this just an unusually short term solution?

  15. With pi calculated with so many decimals... on Gigapixel Tapestries & Gigadecimal Pi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has any numerical analysis been done to its decimals to find any particularly mathematically or esthetically "interesting" sequences? Anyone know any links to websites for that? The "monkeys banging on a typewriter" thing. :-)

    I mean, with an enormous amount of decimals calculated, you'd think there was some pretty cool sequences in there?

  16. Re:Is this Longhorn? on Windows XP X64 Goes Gold · · Score: 4, Informative

    I thought longhorn was XP + 64-bit.

    I don't know where all misinformation about Longhorn being aimed for 64-bit processors come from. I keep seeing it everywhere on forums.

    Longhorn will be released just like Windows XP; in 32- and 64-bit editions.

  17. *sigh* I wish this was true... on Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM · · Score: 1

    What both World Wind and Keyhole lack is exactly global high resolution data. :-/

    It's the main weakness in both softwares.

  18. Re:Mod me down but.. on Britannica Takes Over the Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure they'll post three articles about the Google space increase later to compensate. ;-)

  19. Re:Beware this 'Tiger' release! on Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Well, I could do the same calculation with "Espectr0"...
    Did you check the link?

  20. Re:We're looking at the wrong browser... on The History of Mozilla Firefox · · Score: 1

    I get the joke, but here's a link:
    The History of Internet Explorer

  21. Re:We should probably have some more TLDs? on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 1

    I think .name can be useful for all those personal pages, but of course it's among the least used ones of today... :-P I think it's really the domain e.g. all those blogs eating up .com and .org domains could use. Just because you started a personal blog doesn't mean it's commercial or a non-profit organization. .name is exactly there for this reason. Personal pages.

    However, don't ask me what .biz and .info is for... Informal sites is usually either commercial (.com), non-profit (.org), or personal (.name) anyway... And .biz) seem just to be to expand the .com namespace a bit, but of course that idea sucked. .aero and .museum is also mysteries to me. Why exactly those?

    Anyway, it's unfortunate that TLD's aren't far more regulated...

  22. Re:broken link, here is the correct one on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    Why is that post modded Informative?
    It became the exact bug as before. :-)

  23. Re:Worst Submission Ever on Longest Chemical Name: 64,060 letters · · Score: 1

    Stop whining and ask to get hired by the ones you call morons already... ;-)

  24. WHERE are kids tough it's OK to kill people again? on Senator Clinton Slams GTA · · Score: 1

    This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place.

    No, because you run a very high risk getting killed by the cops if you do this. Why does an action in a computer game, regardless of consequences, show it's "OK" to do something. With that opinion, Clinton should go ahead and ban all computer games with violence in them.

  25. Re:Buy games?? on Gamer Behavior Categorized · · Score: 1

    Hmm... The Pirate Bay sometimes run ads. You may wish to check that out.