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  1. Re:"Sorcerer's Stone" vs. "Philosopher's Stone" on Review: Harry Potter · · Score: 1

    Philosopher's Stone is the substance that the medieval alchemists sought to create. The substance would turn base metals into gold.

  2. Re:Why 'Sorcerer's Stone' and not Philosopher's st on Review: Harry Potter · · Score: 1

    Do the English think that Americans are too stupid to understand what a Philosopher is ?

    No, it's because the English think that Americans are too stupid to understand what the Philosopher's Stone is.

    Hint ... it isn't a stone that happens to be owned by a philosopher.

  3. Re:Censorship - He Who Must Not Be Named on Review: Harry Potter · · Score: 1

    The truth, according to the video, is that "children as young as kindergarten are being introduced to human sacrifice, the sucking of blood from dead animals and possession by spirit beings."

    Hell Yeah!! Thank god there is nothing like this in the Bible.

  4. Why not Terry Gilliam? on Review: Harry Potter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because Terry Gilliam has imagination and originality.

    The publisher and/or the studio wanted the film of the book to be a word-for-word replica.

  5. Exchange on Where are the iCalendar Servers? · · Score: 1

    MS Exchange supports icalendar.

    Did you even try searching for "icalendar server" on google?

  6. iplanet on Where are the iCalendar Servers? · · Score: 1

    http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml? cid=64478

  7. Quake 3 on BC Scraps Mandatory Video Game Ratings · · Score: 1

    Was Quake3 released in black and white only in Canada. No wonder they're miserable.

  8. Re:Here's my letter to the DOJ: on How the DOJ/MS Settlement was Reached · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is Windows 95, not Windows 98 that is having support ended in Dec 2001.

    Windows Desktop Product Lifecycle Guidelines

    This is the fast moving consumer/SOHO desktop market. Is it reasonable to expect any company to support software that is 6 years old?

    At the s/w company I work for the software is aimed at a similar market and support is dropped after 2 subsequent versions are released; this works out at about 3 years. Are you going to set the DOJ onto us as well?

  9. Re:How taxes really work. on Internet Tax Ban Extended · · Score: 1


    And why don't non-Americans who live in the USA and pay (a lot) of taxes get a vote?

  10. Error 0 on C with Safety - Cyclone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Compiling...
    test.c
    C:\stuff\test.c(3) : 'int main(void) {' : Error 0. Program is in C. This section of code could cause problems.

  11. Re:Overestimating Firewalls. on Web Services - More Secure or Less? · · Score: 1

    "ANYTHING can run on port 80"

    Well, no. Anything can come in on port 80, but you've got a single process listening. Filter ports at the firewall, filter services etc. in the server.

    unless you have absolute control over all machines behind the firewall

    Isn't that the point of firewalls ... you trust everything inside and distrust everything outside.

  12. Re:Amazing... on Virtual Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I do when my nuts are tight.

  13. Re:Amazing... on Virtual Keyboard · · Score: 1

    You could get one of those small voice activated digital recorders. Then you wouldn't have to take your hands off of your spanner.

  14. Re:it's not being payed out... on (Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found · · Score: 1


    Of course there may or may not be an infinite number of Mersenne primes. So I sit corrected.

  15. Re:it's not being payed out... on (Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found · · Score: 1

    "if one exists. "

    There are an infinite number of primes therefore one exists with at least 10 million digits.

  16. Re:Smallest? on (Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found · · Score: 1

    The smallest prime is therefore -1

    Its absolute value is less than 2.
    It has two factors, 1 and itself.

  17. Decss? on (Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found · · Score: 1


    What do you get if you save the prime as something.zip and unzip it?

    Something juicy?

  18. Re:Hey! That was *my* idea! on Convert Movies From R to PG13 to PG On The Fly · · Score: 1

    ... Memento that shows the movie in the correct order

    That would be such boring film. And probably less understandable than the original.

  19. Re:Seems interesting on The Difference Engine · · Score: 1

    It's cheaper at amazon

  20. Re:It works fine! on Convert Movies From R to PG13 to PG On The Fly · · Score: 1

    A clockwork orange is a short biography of Beethoven.

    Pulp Fiction is a short exposè of the fast food industry.

  21. Fight on Convert Movies From R to PG13 to PG On The Fly · · Score: 2, Funny


    This is good - the copyright control freaks and the "think of the children" advocates can fight it out in the corner while we get on with our lives with "real" DVD players and films.

  22. Re:Why still running on BIND? on Securing DNS From The Roots Up · · Score: 1



    "Or better question, why hasn't someone written a better alternative"

    djbdns

  23. Carrying the satelite? on Monster European Environmental Satellite · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "[the satelite] was ferried to its launch pad in Kourou by a Russian Antonov and two Boeing 707 freighters. "

    Using a strand of creeper held under the dorsal guiding feathers?

  24. Re:Protection on Light Emitting Pictures On Standard Inkjet Printer · · Score: 2

    According to altavista it says "tsardanik". I hope children aren't reading /.

  25. No surprise. on Slashback: HETE, HP, Regression · · Score: 2, Informative


    Of course critical sections are fast - that's what they were designed to be. The tradeoff is that they can't be used for IPC, so the comparision in the article is misleading .