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  1. Re:browse with lynx on Adapting Existing Federal Web Sites For The Disabled? · · Score: 1

    Though my primary browser is Communicator 4.76, I use lynx too quite regularly. I have my own personal Web site and try to make sure that everything shows up right in any browser. Government "guidelines" on "access" for the "disabled", though, typically are intrusive and inappropriate in the extreme. It is neither necessary nor proper for the federal government to force private businesses to build wheelchair ramps. Is building them a good thing? Usually, yes. But it's not the government's place to mandate such things.

  2. A possible plan on Adapting Existing Federal Web Sites For The Disabled? · · Score: 3

    While I think that the federal government is really going way overboard on "disability compliance", etc. etc., there is one way that this burden might be reduced. If all of the pages on a site are formatted the same, you could use a Perl script to automate a lot of the changes. If you're using stylesheets, even better; a simple addition of extra media types will make many pages instantly "handicapped accessible."

  3. Linus' opinion on RedHat "Fisher" 7.1 Beta Out Now · · Score: 1

    Is RH7.1 still under interdict from Linus?

  4. Re:SuSE service is seriously lacking on SuSE, Czech Localization, And An Odd Licensing Twist · · Score: 1

    Mm-hmm. LI. That means your entire boot partition isn't below 1023 cylinders, right? (This *is* an IDE drive, so the idiot-limit applies.) Try creating a "/boot" partition of about 128MB or so at the very front of your primary drive and see if the problem goes away.

  5. Can we say "Mission to Mars"? on Reflections on Challenger · · Score: 1

    The article also talks about how detailed and precise NASA engineers are now

    They're so detailed that they are capable of using both customary units and metric units simultaneously! Let's just hope they don't get them confused (again)!

  6. Re:What do you expect? on Largest ISP In Philippines: The Catholic Church · · Score: 1

    So in the end the Church has created an artificial reality of their choosing - it appears to be 'real' to Philippinos

    Obviously, the Church acknowledges the existence of "those sites".

    Why shouldn't the Church have every right to free speech, even in the form of censoring "bad" Internet sites? If you don't like it, do go somewhere else! (And, BTW, it's Filipinos.)

    I for one dont look forward to a future where people are MORE lobotomized by religion than they are now...
    Im an atheist and I hold equal contempt for all religion.


    <flame>Mm-hmm. Atheism is a claim that God does not exist, correct? Then wouldn't that mean that you know everything that exists--inside or outside of this universe--make you omniscient and, therefore, a god?</flame>

  7. Re:Gee, the Church censoring? What a suprise. on Largest ISP In Philippines: The Catholic Church · · Score: 1

    December 25th is obviously ruled out as Christ's actual birthdate by the simple fact that shepherds were sleeping in the fields. December 25th, though probably selected to divert attention from pagan holidays, just might have been the actual day the Magi came to visit the baby Jesus... take a look at this.

  8. Re:Very typical. on Largest ISP In Philippines: The Catholic Church · · Score: 1

    many people die much more horrible deaths

    The Romans used crucifixion as a method of torture and perfected it over centuries (for this reason, citizens were never crucified). From the flogging that tore open the back and often fractured vertebrae and exposed the tender nerves to rubbing contact with the rough wood to the forcing the victim to carry the heavy cross to his place of execution to the nerve-severing nails through the wrists to the slow suffocation as the victim could no longer make the necessary movements (scraping against the woon) to breathe, crucifixion was (and still is, by the way, for many Christians in places such as Sudan) the most painful death imaginable.

  9. Re:Its not all *that* bad, surely! on Largest ISP In Philippines: The Catholic Church · · Score: 1

    While militant "conversion" may have been a large part of the Christian church's past (and possibly even its current state), Christianity hardly supports forced conversions--if anything, the Bible has a pacifistic outlook. ...and BTW, the Nazarenes didn't like Jesus at all...

  10. Re:It might surprise you on Largest ISP In Philippines: The Catholic Church · · Score: 1

    Free speech, huh? If you're such a crusader for free-speech rights, how come you're badmouthing the Catholic church for exercising *its* free speech rights? If these people don't want to have their Internet access filtered, they should go somewhere else--nobody's shoving the Church's access down their throats.

  11. NiMH batteries on Nomad Portable Jukebox MP3 Player Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Nickel-metal hydride batteries are great because they last so much longer than nickel-cadmium. They also have one other major benefit: Contrary to this article, they have no "memory problem" (which requires you to completely discharge them at periodic intervals to keep from losing capacity). After a couple of full discharges at the beginning, a partial charge on them does them no harm at all.

  12. Re:Reverse engineer the thing on Alternatives To .DOC As Standard WP Format? · · Score: 1

    There's a reason companies fiddle with file formats every release (and it's not to add features...)

  13. Copy "protection"? on Copy Protection Galore · · Score: 1

    Write the self-appointed standards body and communicate your viewpoint about the latest utterly asinine development! ncits@itic.org

  14. Re:Curious on CDDB Joins The Bad Patent Club · · Score: 1

    CDDB does claim some sort of ownership for the contents of their database: "Any information obtained through CDDB may only be aggregated on the client machine, and must not be shared." I'm not quite sure on what grounds they do this (I've submitted several disc tracklists, and I never saw any mention of any agreement that might give them ownership of that information...