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  1. You mean www.distributed.net. SETI@Home came l8r on Gary Kasparov vs. The World · · Score: 0

    (NT)

  2. Netscape 4.07 is 16-bit? Linux can't play? BS Get on Gary Kasparov vs. The World · · Score: 1

    Plug in source!

  3. Get plug-in source X-based NS4.x isn't 16bit on X on Gary Kasparov vs. The World · · Score: 1

    How about having the plug-in shared as source?

    The page says my Netscape 4.07 is 16-bit.

  4. NC, metered computing EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEvil. on Pirates of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Ha! When everyone with a clue has the ability tocreate a blockbuster (albeit more depth) on a spare change budget I'll give the Net credit. Other than that it's people like wall, Torvalds, and the rest of the crew who should get the credit. The media says web = sports, stocks, and porn because that's all they ever do all day.

  5. Part II: Linus Torvalds Vs Andrew Tannenbaum on Pirates of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Minix vs Linux... and the winner is...

    Seriously they're both cool.

    Unless we have Gates kidnap Jobs and have it out with Linus.

  6. PS: Shit job = freedom of programming. Gates can't on Pirates of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    touch what a couple of hackers can build and that's hackers not crackers.

  7. I would rather be an earthworm in dirt than Gates on Pirates of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    It's the ultimate existentialist solution. As much as I have respect for spiritual seekers, (not churchgoing posers) if those were my only choices, fuck nirvana, I'd rather go through the whole cycle again than be Gates.

  8. Bah...wait till the neobabyboomers's kids start on Pirates of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    How many people will be seventy on the same day in 2069? How many will have a couple more to live?

    Yikes!

  9. Ach...Evil Unbridled Enthusiasm, scary... JA!!! on Pirates of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Now apply the same theory about pretending to be an intellectual to Columbine. No angry little jerk will ever spend a year planning before he blows someone away.

    Pure rationalism, pure emotionalism, and pure sensualism...--- The Unholy Trinity.

    Supergenious?

    And so Hitler^H^H^H^H^H^HGates (hades?) begets us monitors you shake your head at when the dialog box is abolished and the computer asks you loudly,"G-e-n-e-r-a-l P-r-o-t-e-c-t-i-o-n f-a-u-l-t 0-x-0-1-3-7 a-t 0-0-0-0-s-e-m-i-c-o-l-o-n-0-0-f-9 i-n v-o-i-c-e-d-o-t-v-x-d c-o-m-m-a O-K q-u-e-s-t-i-o-n m-a-r-k"

  10. Amiga 32-bit OS PC w/4096 colors $500 in 1987... on Pirates of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    What the fack are YOU talking about?

  11. SIGN the DAMN PETITION on House Might Mandate Net filtering in Libraries · · Score: 1

    www.e-thepeople.org

  12. Obviously a fucking expert on sports, stocks, porn on House Might Mandate Net filtering in Libraries · · Score: 1

    myth.

    Read a few BOOKS not prescribed by your gov't, church, parents, media, school boards, boss,

    God you people make sick!

  13. Oh my god, officer he said fuck you, fry his rear! on House Might Mandate Net filtering in Libraries · · Score: 1

    Fuck Orwell he didn't bother to let us know that the reason the unconscious never revolt is cuz they like it.

    Sorry, but in spite of weak fucks like you I my self am not afraid of crime, impoliteness, or accidental death if it grants me that I won't be a whiny ass purity, eficiency, morality, loyalty dependent NAZI addict like you.

    Fuck respect. Resperct is earned. Courtesy, which is what you really got, is just a sign that people don't give a fuck who you are, they just like to see you aliens. You're a fucking circus show.

  14. WE BARELY MADE IT in 1976 now we're losing the on House Might Mandate Net filtering in Libraries · · Score: 1

    same way

    We got what we're losing by secret conferences between the state senators exactly the way we're losing them. The secret conference is

    http://www.nccusl.org

    http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl ?/features/990531ucita.htm

    The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) began as a proposed change to the Uniform Commercial Code's Article 2, which dealt with the sale of
    goods.

    The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) are laws designed to make commerce uniform from state to state. These laws are written by the National Conference of
    Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), a group founded in the late 19th century during the states' rights movement and approved by the American Law
    Institute (ALI). The commissioners are attorneys, usually from small law firms, appointed and paid for by the states to represent them to the Conference.

    Once NCCUSL approves a bill, it is very likely to be passed by state governments.

    The ALI advises NCCUSL on creating amendments to the UCC. ALI is largely an honorary, academic organization of tenured law professors.

    ALI officials called NCCUSL's 2B draft "unbalanced" and declined to put it to a membership vote at their annual meeting earlier this month. NCCUSL decided then to
    make 2B a stand-alone bill, not part of the UCC. The proposed law then became known as UCITA. A current draft of UCITA was not available at press time.

    Sign the fucking pettion

    http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=16 4542

  15. IDIOT! What the fuck do you live in Eden... on House Might Mandate Net filtering in Libraries · · Score: 0

    Hello, tell me china isn't a totalitarian state, tell me Australian College professors aren't asked to refrain from using the word Pamela, go ahead talk to my 12 gauge!

    You know I hope they don't waste time and lock this whole country up.

    People like you are a bunch of illiterate couch potatoes.

  16. Public Library Fund www.infofund.org needed now! on House Might Mandate Net filtering in Libraries · · Score: 1

    I just have no leadership abilities, fuck grammar school and high school, you never learn how to beat the system

  17. Closet communist :) Check out Harrison Bergeron on Why size mattered for Einstein · · Score: 1

    by Vonnegut. Reminds me Home sweet Home earth in 1999

  18. Nothing tro worry about on When Open Source Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    If even a handful of developers and 100 or more users get their hands on source the thing cannot be taken back. Once it's started it's out of John Q. Protectionists hands.

    So go ahead write the license for the sake of the statement bnut you really have little to worry about. Once you start an internet party, it will always route around blockades.

  19. OK,ok,ok... on PBS Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    I'm not afraid of Barney, it's what he does that scares me when we talk about where kids are going. I myself have given up TV. I only watch socially.

    As for identifying which problems are important, that's precisely what I'm getting at. I really don't give a crap that Ben Stein knows what root turpentine is extracted from. Actually, I do care. It scares me that anyone would waste their time on such trivia.

    I have a stinking feeling that this world is going of the deep end, and that the answer is right under our noses. If only more parents got together and started www.edu.org and perhaps created a public fund from which to pay teachers. The fact is that besides the gyms and libraries buildings are obsolete.

    One note on commercial TV, I do have to agree with the sentiment that Buffy does represent high school, though I rarely watch since it's stuck in reruns. (Granted I wish to see a return to text adventures that have the depth and interactivity of novels.)

  20. last recent post under Flashes License - OK...but on PBS Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    OK...Fair enough

    I know the first thing people in this world need to do is learn to laugh. I was mentioning the fact that from my view of the show, it looked like a diversion to keep kids busy not an involved educational program.

    IANAP, but I can tell you Barney is no comparison to Sesame Street. At least if they watch that they won't end up like some people I know will swear to you if you ask for directions that you cannot get there from here.

    But even Sesame Street aside, they need to be in the loop with the world (without necessarily imitating) as soon as possible. Of course without scaring them to death. This is earth in 1999 not Eden or some other paradise.

    I'll concede that I'm somewhat paranoid when I hear officials talk of calculators for third graders. That's like the worst one of all the techno-future-got-to-keep-up babble. So maybe I lost it when I read B-a-r-n-e-y.






  21. Re:[Flashes license] - OK... on PBS Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    House call?

    All right, may be you're light years ahead of most parents. However I'm warning you as a guy who's shit scared of ever bringing a child into the world and for the child's sake I'm more scared of this than contracting some venereal disease.

    Myself I have a few things I definitely owe to my parents. They waited till their mid 30's before they had kids. Biggest favor they ever did us.
    Thanks to them I was programming computers when I was 8. They didn't give me a computer late in my teens so I could just do my homework. They had better foresight than that. I'm involved in international projects on the net thanks to them. I was never sent to summer camp, never to sunday school. They gave me everything.

    Most parents can't get past the hype and give their kids a solid outlook.

  22. Barney reinforces giggling like an idiot! on PBS Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Barney causes children to simply waste their brains giggling. A learning experience involves taking a 12 guage to the TV taking your child to a library and challenging it actively. Passive learning is impossible at this stage. Once the child has grown after continous support challenge and guidance passive learning will happen because the child already has a decent foundation. At that point there will be no more discoveries no more misteries simply the power to act, or not act, and self-respect and confidence. Happy giggling and passive training do not result in an education.

    Children need to play and try different solution to puzzles not be indoctrinnated by some Purple moron.

    How much do you want to bet on this?

  23. Please, may we see your parents' license. on PBS Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    You are under arrest for failure to read JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to your child, negligent TV babysitting known to be a danger to children, and pretty much everyday ordinary moron behaviour. Let's go now. It's over.

  24. Commercial TV doesn't touch anything but its own on PBS Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    effluvium. Ever see Dark City prime time when people are home? How about Brazil? And oh what was that, only Showtime has the balls to show Lolita?

    C'mon. Really, go drown in Dawson's Creek or dehydrate crying over 7th Heaven.

  25. Britain also has 300,000 cameras watchin you plus on PBS Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    face recognition. So guess what good luck with your HD/ID/Non-analog-TV's.

    Oh by the way digital editing is so much easier than analog. Have fun.