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  1. Re:Google shipping a googol CDs? on Google Acquires 5% of AOL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next AOL CD I get- I'm cutting it into 20 pieces, and sending one piece to google.

    "Do no evil" my ass. At least email spam I can just delete. Those CDs are landfill.

  2. Re:This is insulting. on Superman 'Too Big' for the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's all just because men always want to see female sexuality, but women are squeamish about seeing male sexuality.

    More likely it's the men who decide what's 'distracting' and are squeamish, or perhaps scared of their own arousal.

    It's also an American thing. I understand the U.S. version of "Eye's Wide Shut" cut frontal nudity of Tom, but not equivalent shots of Nicole.

  3. Only useful on downhills on Ramp Creates Power As Cars Pass · · Score: 1

    If you put the ramp on descents where people would be hitting the breaks anyway, then you could convert energy that would be otherwise wasted. Anything else is, as everyone is saying, dumb.

  4. Re:omigod, I'm a woman over 40 coding web server a on Where Do All of the Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I'll also be waiting for google to use their 5% stake to stop AOL from spamming me with useless CDs.

  5. Re:omigod, I'm a woman over 40 coding web server a on Where Do All of the Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that not having anyone in a particular job description over 40 is inviting an age descrimination suit.

  6. Re:Why buy the book when you can own the bookshelf on A Programmer's Bookshelf · · Score: 1

    I'm a fan of the ACM http://www.acm.org/ which gives you both a books24x7 membership, and a Safari books membership http://safari.oreilly.com/. All for under $100/year, less if you are a student.

  7. Re:Turing tests on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 1

    Ironic, considering how brilliant he was, and how he was treated by incredibly stupid people. IMO, one of the great injustices of history.

  8. Re:Is this a good thing? on India Hits Back in 'Bio-Piracy' Battle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article isn't talking about research based on Indian plants, it's talking about patenting existing cures that use Indian plants. Nobody is inventing anything new. They're taking things that people have been doing for thousands of years, and claiming them as new discoveries of their own.

  9. Re:That's good on India Hits Back in 'Bio-Piracy' Battle · · Score: 1

    As much as I agree with you A world where you can infringe on a patent merely by being born? is overreaching. I think genetic patents are bad, but you don't infringe them by simply having the patented gene. The patent is on a process involving knowledge of what the gene does, not simply having the gene in your dna.

  10. Re:Turing tests on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Turing test is turning out not to be a test of artificial intelligence, but of human stupidity.

  11. The problem isn't Windows on Online Scammers Go Spear-Phishing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Phishing isn't a technology problem. If your computer has a virus, the bad guys can get your critical data without tricking it out of you. Phishing will always exist due to human nature.

    Case in point: http://www.schneier.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/474/

    in which a bank manager was convinced to leave 5 million under the door to a bathroom stall in a bar in Paris.

  12. Many extensions don't work on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    Meaning you may well want to hold off until there is an official release, or until extension writers get a chance to catch up.

  13. Re:What the hell IS thanksgiving? on Behind The Curtain On T-Day · · Score: 1

    In Canada it's on the USA's Columbus day. It's not nearly the big deal it is in the US. Family, sure, but none of this flying accross the country and taking the day after off as well.

  14. Re:Woah on Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court · · Score: 3, Informative
  15. Sports Telecast Copyrights on End User License Gems · · Score: 1

    Doesn't MLB (Major League Baseball) claim that you can't even describe a game without permission?
    That's what I thought I heard when I was trying to find something other than baseball on TV.
    Kinda hard since I only have one channel...

    So much for the office water cooler talk.

  16. Re:THEY DID THIS WITH MY HELP. on Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked · · Score: 1

    I guess that car I donated to the ACLU might come back to haunt me.

  17. Re:How do you do a character literal? on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 1

    "the fact that a program can emulate a Turing machine is not absolute proof that it is well suited to editing files"

    No, but it is evidence of the lunacy of anyone who takes the vi vs. emacs war seriously :-)

  18. Re:How do you do a character literal? on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 1

    THANK YOU! I don't know who modded me 'funny', and maybe I should be embarassed for having to ask, but you made my month!

    And to keep this on topic, I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned that there is no editor more powerful than vi(m). The proof is that vi can be used to emulate a turing machine.

    http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/jfh/personal_other/ amusements/hitz.html/

  19. How do you do a character literal? on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok, some vim guru on here must know, what's the windows vim equivelent of vi's ^V? In vim, it does a frickin' paste! So how do I search for, say ^M? Or enter a macro which includes inserts I need to esc from? Not being able to find that anywhere in the help is the one thing I hate about vim.

  20. Re:Knight's reward on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    He should think long term. Look at one piece, and then choose the second, so he'll know which number was the maximum. That will give him a better chance of choosing his next reward.

    This was, after all, only his first reward.

  21. Re:In other words on Blackboard and WebCT merge · · Score: 1

    People have gotten older versions (1.4) to work with MS SQL. Someone is working on Oracle, and a couple of us are/were working on getting moodle 1.5 to work with MS SQL.

    I don't know if the scale problem is the DB, or the moodle code- but you're not tied to MySQL.

  22. Re:Short term course of antibiotics on Nobel Prize Awarded for Stomach Ulcer Discovery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are several that they can use, but it was only two weeks with one antibiotic for my wife. It was a strong antibiotic to be sure, and in some rare cases you have to do a second treatement, but normally one works. They also give prevacid or something similar at the same time, but that's just for the symptoms.

  23. Re:And the biggest Irony... on Another Victim Countersues RIAA Under RICO Act · · Score: 1

    Something doens't have to be published to be copyrighted. It only has to exist in a duruable medium.

  24. Re:nine-digit IPs on Another Victim Countersues RIAA Under RICO Act · · Score: 1

    And I count 3 dots which are required for that address to make sense (even thought it's not a valid IP address). If you want to express an IP address as only digits, then 255255255255 doesn't work. It's 4294967295 (2^33 - 1)

    Basically, I'm saying that all the people who are nit-picking the "nine digit IPA" statement in the court paper can be further nit-picked. I think we all know what IP addresses are.

  25. Re:And the biggest Irony... on Another Victim Countersues RIAA Under RICO Act · · Score: 1

    Again, actual files they copied. Looking at the name of a file is not copyright infringement, nor is a directory structure copyrightable unless it is used as a poetic device or something.

    Sure, if they copied everything off her machine, that would be copyright infringement. But just copying files from her machine is not copyright infringement per se. Despicable and illegal, yet, but not a violation of USC 17 if they only copied files which they had the copyright to.

    How do they know that before they actually copy the file? They don't.