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  1. Re:"dynamic" search engine on AltaVista Can't Keep Up · · Score: 1

    you can add a 404 url into the "add my page to your search engine" box and they tend to go away real quick with both Altavista and Google. I wish they would add a link to the result page to have it rechecked.

  2. Re:Untrue on AltaVista Can't Keep Up · · Score: 1

    But the Path: line isn't there.

  3. Re:Evidence of demand, benefits for customer on Microsoft Sets Tolls for .Net Developers · · Score: 1

    2/29/69 is nice for sites that require you to enter a birthday. Another useful one is 2/29/00.

  4. how about a usage counter? on Slashdot Updates · · Score: 2

    For any user thats logged in, add up teh size of the data sent and keep a running total for each user.

  5. Re:The "conservation" alternative on Slashdot Updates · · Score: 1

    Data cost about $2/gig and how many 200kb pages do you look at a week?

  6. Too late to make a stand... on DMCA Forces Cox To Censor Changelog? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Alan Cox knows he's going to get busted if he ever goes to the US again so maybe its best he just doens't go there.

    The real problem is what happens when the US goes to him. With the way Blair seems to be tring hard to be the 51st governer it may not be long till hiding in the UK won't save Cox either.

    So what happens with Oz when the UK becomes a state? Will the Queen still be the head of state or will the chain of command be much different? I wonder how King George the 3rd feels about all of the this and if there is much rolling in his grave.

    (as I quickly try to find my asbestos undies)

  7. Re:Datacenter on Security Issues with Windows 2000 Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    Its locked down all right. Just like the cisco call manager. The week before I had to make a decision between their IP phones and everyone elses, code red hit. I had a script that would pull back web pages from machines that tried to infect my home box. I was hit by at least three different cisco call managers. Now I have a system from someone else that isn't running windows.

  8. Re:WEll... on X-Plane Flight Simulator For Linux · · Score: 1

    lucky you, I havn't gottne Flight gear to compile this year. Something about needing 40+ libraries and the newest ones won't work so you have to dig up old ones.

    I've given up on flight gear. All I want is a sim that I can set the cloud to 100% and do some instrument approaches. If I want a nice view, I'll go get in a real cessna.

  9. Re:Late Linux ports of games is a losing business on X-Plane Flight Simulator For Linux · · Score: 1

    His business model used to work a bit differently. If you wanted his program, you paid. If you wanted a game, he didn't want your money.

  10. Re:More details on X-Plane Flight Simulator For Linux · · Score: 1


    This isn't a game, its a flight simulator.

  11. Re:Ummm. . . someone is confused? on DoJ Supports Dismissal of Felten v. RIAA Case · · Score: 1

    So does that mean if someone else was to threaten to sue Felten then this case would have not been dropped (for at least the stated reasons)?

  12. Re:The battle was lost a long time ago on W3C Considers Royalty-Bound Patents In Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Netscape ignoring W3C had little to do with their loss of market share. Their attitude of add more features before we get the bugs out is what killed netscape. I figure AOL will spin off netscape sometime in the next 6 months and then it will just dot bomb into nothingness. As a company it never made any money selling anything other than its own stock so its been doomed for a long time.

  13. Re:Then let us make the IETF the arbiters of the W on W3C Considers Royalty-Bound Patents In Web Standards · · Score: 1

    I think its a bit late to start ignoring W3C. From what I can tell, they formed for the purpose of their own little control game and they never had that control.

  14. Re:I have a completely different problem.. on Online Retailer Fraud? · · Score: 1

    Those rules only apply in situations where someone ships you stuff and then demands payment. If you order something and the company made a mistake, you are legaly required to return it at their expense.

  15. Re:Reduced schedule? on Negotiating a Pay Cut? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most compaines have rules that say if you don't work 40 hrs/wk your not full time and you don't get the extra benifits. Will taking the 4 day workweek mean you don't get insurance or vacation time?

  16. Re:Drinkable? (tangent) on Consumer Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    The Saudi goverment already does this...

    They used to take water out of a mountin stream in Colorado and distil it. They would then mix them into the distilled water they get from boiling ocean water.

    Dehydraded water anyone?

  17. Re:Stockades all around on Nimda To Strike Again · · Score: 1

    The world has decided that blame doesn't go very deep. Thats why M$ is blameless for Nimba just like the CIA is blameless for al Qaeda and the tabacco compaines are blameless for second hand smoke deaths.

  18. Re:One question on IP Theft in the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    He also released his IP to the public domain as soon as he published it. Its still not right to remove his name from the source though.

  19. Re:Somebody has to say it, but... on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    So what would you do if there was a life sentence for walking on the grass and you were paid to mow it? Thats more like what were talking about here. Having stack breaking tools is now likly to be illegal soon, so how can I test new code to make sure its not going to have its stack smashed?

  20. Re:Growing marijuana on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    He may own stock in private prison compaines. When Texas was beating up Missouri convicts, he didn't seem too concerned and the news then had brought up a conflict of interest. The "war on drugs" in missouri didn't go well either. After tring to wipe out all the stuff growing along the banks of the rivers (its natural enviroment), someone found out that all the highway patrols' efforts simply removed the old stuff that was selected because it made good rope (for other wars) and was replaced with some high potency stuff that leaked out of a university research lab.

  21. Re:Somebody has to say it, but... on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    You don't know much about how the US courts have been handing down punishment lately have you? There is a big book that judges use and it offers ranges. If life is the max, 20 yrs may be the minium. But what do you expect for a police state with 5%+ of its current population in jail or on parole.

  22. Re:offtopic, but brewing in my head. on Structural Damage to the Financial District · · Score: 1

    In the past the US had not provied any evidence of bin Ladens attack to any other country. So far they aren't sharing any of the new evidence either. I'm wondering if its not all a smoke screen to screw over the Taliban while they try to track down the other trouble makers.

    I'm also wondering what will happen if bin Laden goes back to Saudi Arabia. He may have the backing there to stop all oil exports.

  23. Re: on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    The high areas Afghanistan go up to 24,500 ft. Thats too high for lots of things to work properly. Training at altidude occasionally is much different than living there. The high mountains of Afghanistan are part of the the same range as K2. I don't think the Taliban have much control in the high mountins so they may not even be a military target.

  24. Re:Comment about Poster Comment on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 2

    It 10 years latter and there are 30,000 vets with serious medical problems. The number of the deaths was much lower than expected early in the war but thouse figures were based on an incorrect makeup of the Iraqi army which turned out to have millions of people that weren't willing to fight.

  25. Re:Oh, puh-lease... on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    So they had the choice of using normal low precision cheap stuff or three of the most expensive weapons on the planet. The rumors indicate that the Chinese spys were expirmenting on how to shoot down US spy planes. The embassy has all the signs of a message just like when three other bombs were dropped on the leaders house and one of them blew up his bed but left the reset of the building standing.