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  1. Release quality on Moving towards Mozilla 1.0 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Most of us know and love Mozilla, but like all browsers it has a few problems. Could one of the Mozilla developers give a short explination of what will be "special" about 1.0?

  2. Bugzilla.mozilla.org on Moving towards Mozilla 1.0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you feel a sudden urge to help now that the project is entering it's final stages, checkout bugzilla.mozilla.org. You can help troubleshoot other bugs by trying to replicate, and figure out if there are browser problems, or webpage problems. You have to be a member, but the form is short.

    Check out http://bugzilla.mozilla.org

  3. Failure? on Moving towards Mozilla 1.0 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yep, this just goes to show Mozilla is a failure, and a discrase to the open source community. Well, that's what we were saying a year ago :-) GO MOZILLA!

  4. Re:Spamming on NY AG Sues MonsterHut Over Marketing Spam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Spam on the computer, is generally bad because it's so cheap to send (virtually free). So we end up with tuns of spam. Also, because computer spam is so cheap, it's not at all targeted, for some reason, mail ads tend to be much more interesting.

    And, opting out is easy in your mailbox. Just write "Return to sender" on the unopened message, and put it back in your mailbox. The USPO will charge the sender to return it, and the sender will usually abruptly stop. If you want to get nasty, tape the letter to a brick first ;-)

  5. Muddy, yes. on Linux Vendors to Standardize on Single Distribution · · Score: 1

    While all these big corporations are messing around, a lot of us will still keep using Slackware, and Debian. Proof you don't have to be a big corporation to survive in the linux market.

  6. Really? on Intel Cuts Chip Prices by up to 53 Percent · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall some stuff about SSE2 that wasn't too plesant, like bad looking graphics, bad sounding audio... Of course, you could be talking about something else, but P4 already has the majority of the new market, and that's all that matters.

  7. the other view. on Mozilla 1.0 Release Parties · · Score: 1

    Well, MAYBE lets say I was a guy, which is easy because I am, and lets say the idea of the post was Parties are kinda dull without girls, and the ratio of girls will be low!

    Droves of Geek Girls?? Get a life! Girls' minds as a general rule are incompatible with machines, computers, and all the other stuff guys like. Girls will never be as geeky, of as many as guys, sorry, no linda torvalds.

    This is a sexist post, but then we're talking about sexes aren't we?

  8. Re:What's Ximian? on Ximian to Bundle StarOffice 6.0 · · Score: 1

    We're talking about distributions of GNOME, buddy, not who works where, or what code goes where. My point is the goal of redhat, and the goal of Ximian are different, so Redhat doesn't use Ximian.

  9. Re:What's Ximian? on Ximian to Bundle StarOffice 6.0 · · Score: 1

    Well, if you haven't heard about Ximian, you can't be much of a judge. Redhat doesn't do everything right, but Ximian isn't much good. Redhat should package their own gnome, and Ximian is more of a cutting edge, easy to use system. Redhat wants stable, slow and old (no offence).

  10. Re:How much more of this? on UK to get Public Wireless LAN · · Score: 1

    Well, there's still connectivity, but indirectly you're just getting the data from other users. It will probably lead to increased efficiency of the backbones, but maybe we wont need as many.

  11. How much more of this? on UK to get Public Wireless LAN · · Score: 1

    Until the internet radically changes? Eventually all of Europe and the United states will be wireless networks, and perhaps backbones wont seem as important? It makes me wonder if P2P will be come a necessity in other ways. Hang on tight guys, but it will be a while before a major wireless push hits the US.

  12. Re:Really? on Free Software at Risk Under Lemon law · · Score: 1

    That's not a software crash, at worst it's a kernel crash, and you wont loose any data from it (if you got magic sysrqd). Again, Sparc, SGI, and PPC's wouldn't be more stable if we had so many software problems.

  13. Re:Yes. stop using 4.79 on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    well, at least the javascript works, unlike konqueror :-P [/flamebait]

  14. Re:These disease is of course mindless idiocy..... on Technology: Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding · · Score: 1

    No, you're the one getting confused. "Christian" is used far too loosely and has since the middle ages. You can't really say Catholics and Christians are the same when you really study. When the Catholics took over France, they killed, stole from, and basically drove out the Heugenoughts. Many of these men (and women) were Christians, in fact most of them were.

    Muslims take over and kill people when they come to power, however when they don't think they can win, they just immigrate. The whole islamic doctrine is violent, a Islamic person who is not violent is not a true Muslim.

    Many Christians don't have guts now, some do. Remember, abortion doctors are killing people, and while I'm not about to shoot any of them, I don't pity them at all, anyone killing innocent children (no matter how young they are) has a hard heart.

    Islam encourages suicide bombers, with their silly idea that you'll get a better reward if you die in battle. I say it's silly, because you could be of a lot better use fighting, and not dieing.

  15. Re:T-Shirts on 2600 Appeal Rejected · · Score: 1

    I'll volunteer, just about anyone on /. would do better than the current judges. In this section of justice, it's more important to have a technical background than to have a legal one, much more.

  16. Yes. stop using 4.79 on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    Netscape 6.0 was almost 1 1/2 years ago. Netscape 7 will be much faster, much lighter, have many more features, and they probably fixed the java bug which just came up in RC1 again. Mozilla is going insane a little bit now, and I hope Netscape doesn't release 7.0 until moz 1.0 is out, that would be sad.

    You should stop using 4.7 though, it's way inferior to mozilla by now.

  17. Who owns the copywrite? on Can FAQs Be Copyrighted? · · Score: 1

    If I send you a FAQ, and you decide to include it, how can you copywrite it? Wouldn't that be taking away some of my (or whoever asks the faq) inellectual property? As a country we are taking more and more rights from companies, and giving them to big companies with tons of lawyers. Maybe we need to have a law against more than 5 lawyers per company :-) (it would break up M$ pretty quick ;-)

    I like Slashdot's policy of "Copywrite 2002, comments are property of their posters"

  18. Clap them in irons. on Pop-Under Ads Patented · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now they are responsible for stopping all the pop-under ads, not caused by them. The patent is flat-out stupid, but it might help us out, unless they decide to "license" it.

    Now's a good time to get bannerfilter. It runs as a squid redirector, so you wont have to give up your accellerated cache, like you would if you used junkbuster.

  19. Why not other areas? on Pittsburgh Launches Large, Free, Public WiFi Network · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I kind of wonder myself, and I'd really like it obviously. I'd like to see the figures this company is running on, of if it's funded by the city, and the $20/month doesn't pay for it. It's most likely however, that $20/month will have whoever is in charge with extra money, and the only reason companies aren't doing this all over the place is because they can get more money for cable or dsl. Wireless has tons of regulations, but it's a cakewalk compared to telephone.

  20. $500k net worth != $100k spare on Study Shows Large Space Tourism Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Approximatly 10% of the population (30 million) have a household net worth of $500k, but I'm sure that includes their house, cars, etc. My guess is that even people who outright own their houses don't have 100k spare cash. And hey, wouldn't it be more fun to go on a year vacation than go for a suborbital flight for a hour or so?

    I'd guess that the a lot of the 7% say they would do it if they had 100k, but if they really had it, they'd think of something more fun, or useful.

  21. No, it was still AFTER the bug. on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 1

    The exploit was created before the Fix. It just didn't take effect until after they released the fix. Therefore, it was totally Microsoft's fault.

    Patches in the real world aren't just fixing security exploits, they are fixing possible security exploits. Microsoft doesn't really care about security though, and that's why we have so many problems, but it's helping microsoft, so why complain??

  22. Re:Bad Price. on Apple Introduces Xserve Rackmount Servers · · Score: 1

    Maybe you don't know the difference between a brain and a hunk of unintelligent dead nerves. Mac still has not set any major uptime records with osx.

  23. T-Shirts on 2600 Appeal Rejected · · Score: 4, Informative

    ThinkGeek will sell you a decss t-shirt, and it's not tiny print either. I don't want to be trollish, but it's high time we got some competent judges, or at least another section of judges for tech cases.

  24. Re:How about... on Bringing Tech to Market: The Rules of Innovation · · Score: 1

    I never said the senstance you quoted. Nor do I agree with it, but I sure hope someone moderates down a untrue comment.

  25. How about... on Bringing Tech to Market: The Rules of Innovation · · Score: 1

    Rules of Marketing? The best quality product to market first IS the most innovative, but that doesn't mean it will sell.