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  1. Re:Self fulfilling prophecy on Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google · · Score: 1

    But how do you get to the home page?

  2. Re:Self fulfilling prophecy on Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google · · Score: 1

    If the browser doesn't have an address bar, how do go to the first site?

  3. Re:What makes us different? on Newt Gingrich Says Free Speech May Be Forfeit · · Score: 1

    the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimindation or coercion or instilling fearIt's funny how I read that line and thought you were referring to the current administration.

  4. Re:Let me answer your question with this statement on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    Wars have been fought, people have been killed, even recently in our country's history, to ensure that everybody would have the right to vote.

    While I don't discount this, and consider such people generally heroic, the fact that people have fought and died to ensure my right to vote is not reason enough to exercise that right. Many blacks died during the civil rights movement to fight for their right to use any public bathroom they want (for example), but it doesn't make me unpatriotic if I'm a black man who, by choice, never uses public bathrooms.

  5. Re:Leave it to Disney... on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer · · Score: 1

    Ack, that's a teaser. Never mind.

  6. Re:Leave it to Disney... on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Buy Her Music on Web-Only Album Wins Grammy · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to buy her album because I'm not interested in jazz. Not every economic decision is a political statement.

  8. Re:Stupid article on FBI on the Windows Source Code Theft · · Score: 2, Informative

    And he messed up the plurals again. It's source code now, but it "were public"...

    The writer's use of "were" is correct here. It is the past subjunctive form of "to be", used mostly in "if" clauses and to express hypotheticals.

    See The American Heritage(r) Book of English Usage for details.

  9. You can't learn XHTML without HTML on An XHTML Tutorial That Does Not Assume HTML? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I looked around for something like what you are looking for, and I found this. As I see it, the problem with your request is that XHTML is not a "language" in itself. XHTML is essentially an XML-ized form of HTML. When you are writing XHTML, you are still using HTML tags (aside from the XHTML DTDs and such); the difference is that you are following XHTML rules (i.e. all tags must be lowercase, they must be well-formed, you must close all tags, etc). That is why, I think, it is hard to find an XHTML tutorial that doesn't presuppose that you already know the essentials of HTML. My advice to you is that if you are going to teach XHTML from step 1, presupposing no HTML knowledge, the best way would be to teach HTML but require the students to follow XHTML's rules.

  10. Re:What do you expect. . . . on Major Problems With Safari · · Score: 1

    Are there any Mac users out there who think their data is *not* important? And let's be realistic, here -- how many of those users back up their data before installing beta software?
    I don't care how beta the software is. That is just ridiculous. It's not like some obscure bug that can't be planned for; this is option-clicking on a link.

  11. possibilities on A Name for My Major? · · Score: 1

    Physiobioinformatics
    Computational Botanophysics
    Botanical Compuphysics
    Physiocomputational Botany
    Botanophysical Computer Programming
    ?

  12. Re:This genetic algorithm doesn't have sex on Beyond Dvorak via Genetic Algorithm · · Score: 2

    QWERTY is Adam, and DVORAK is Eve. QWERTY came first, just like Adam.

  13. ibiblio? on Finding Mirrors for the evolt Browser Archive? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you considered ibiblio.org? This seems right up their alley. They have a public FTP archive that can handle a lot of traffic, and they mirror Linux distributions, among other things.

  14. Re:IrDA on Kernel 2.4.11 Released · · Score: 1

    Can you write to an NTFS partition yet?

  15. Re:News (un)Flash on Testdrive A Linux iPAQ · · Score: 2

    What you said is true, however I was able to see the ipaq "test drive" for 3 seconds before it was slashdotted, and in this case it appears to be more like a "ride in the passenger seat." It was just a webcam pointed to an ipaq that someone else was running (incidentally, they were playing Doom).

  16. Re:Oh yeah on Microsoft to Change OEM Licensing · · Score: 3

    From MS's press release:

    "Consumers will be able to use the Add-Remove Programs feature in Windows XP to remove end-user access to the Internet Explorer components of the operating system. Microsoft has always made it easy for consumers to delete the icons for Internet Explorer, but will now offer consumers this additional option in Windows XP."

    Adding IE to the Add-Remove Programs feature sort of infers that you would be able to uninstall the entire program, wouldn't it? Kind of shoots holes in their argument that IE is "essential" to the OS.

  17. Re:There already is one! on Banner Ads: Biggest Advertising Mistake Ever · · Score: 1

    There is a Linux version of WebWasher. I'm running it right now. I'd provide a link, but the website is not responding, for some reason.

  18. Re:Who wants to pay for sex on Yahoo! To Start Selling Porn · · Score: 1

    I agree. So gimme some of your pr0n for free.

  19. Re:Emily: you're looking in the wrong places. on What Linux Must Do To Survive... · · Score: 2

    It sounds like 1994 was the last time she installed linux. GOPHER?!

  20. Re:Bad trailer on Spielberg (And Kubrick)'s A.I. · · Score: 2

    Remember, this is not a trailer. It's a teaser. Teasers are supposed to leave the audience wondering about the movie and to pique their interest. There will be a full trailer in the near future, I'm sure.

  21. Re:That's awesome! on Online Hardware Swap-Meet · · Score: 3
    Does anyone know if it's ok to donate old software, or does this violate alla them EULA's?

    Well, probably, but if you can put the software on a disk, you could just say your giving away disks -- since they're technically hardware. I mean, anyone can make an honest mistake and forget that they still had some software on those disks, right? :-P

  22. Re:That is rather funny... on Slashdot Database Compromised! · · Score: 1

    I know because an admin said so.

  23. Re:That is rather funny... on Slashdot Database Compromised! · · Score: 2

    It would be, if they weren't lying. Apparently, /. admins never got any such email. So let's not pat these guys on the back just yet. They may have been benign, but we don't know just yet.

  24. Re:flash rant on AOL For Linux Leaks Out · · Score: 2
    Go to this page. The front page uses Flash (for mouseovers, basically), but the page about AOL for Linux uses html.

    Here are a couple direct links to download the AOL for Linux software, so you can bypass the web site altogether:

    I haven't attempted to install or even download this program, so if it's a virus or a hoax, don't blame me. ;-)

  25. Just imagine! on AOL For Linux Leaks Out · · Score: 2
    Wow.. Instead of cowing to Microsoft for everything, we can be using our Transmeta laptops with AOL running on top of Linux, using Netscape 6 to browse the web, and AIM (and possibly ICQ) for instant messaging!

    Sounds good, right? Well, what's the common denominator here? Except for Transmeta, it's all AOL. This could be just a shift from one behemoth (MS) to another (AOL). It's a shame that probably the only way to beat MS in the home-user market is with another potential monopoly.

    But at least now I will be able to get all the Time-Warner content I've been lusting after! ;-)