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  1. Re:How many small businesses don't start... on US Patent Trolling Costs $29 Billion a Year · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess I'm an idiot then... every time I think of turning an idea into a little bit of an extra revenue generator for myself my second thought is that somebody from the US will just sue me and it's not worth that.

  2. Re:Maybe, but more importantly... on Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? · · Score: 2

    I agree! Just let me know when you're done building all this stuff so I can start using it for free.

  3. Re:not looking? on Investigating Online Office Suites · · Score: 1

    Yes,

    An Excel attachment that was emailed to me just yesterday has these options:

    14K _View as HTML_ _Open as a Google spreadsheet_ _Download_

  4. Re:Firewalls? on Building a Bigger Search Engine · · Score: 1

    how does "Knowingly?" enter into it?

    You know... we have a lot of sensitive stuff on our company intranet. And there are *way* more staff than our network/computer systems admins can ever expect to handle.

    And some of them read slashdot.

    (of course, I mean the *users* not the *admins*) 8(

    I can't wait to see my salary floating around on some Looksmart results page.

  5. Try PerlApp on How Well Does Perl2exe Work for Large Applications? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use PerlApp from the Perl Dev Kit by Activestate. I'd highly recommend the whole suite, it's been well worth the money for me (make executables, make windows services, make ActiveX controls, generate .MSI install packages, a kickass debugger, and a couple other goodies)

    I also tried perl2exe, but found my money was better spent on the Activestate kit. With PerlApp I can bind data files and .DLLs in the .EXE to be extracted/used at runtime, not sure if that can be done with perl2exe (correct me if I'm wrong!)

    To whomever thinks I should just go ahead and install Perl/modules/script/associated files - you can come work for me for free, there are only slightly over 500 desktop stations to distribute my application to.

    --apsyrtes

  6. PYROTO! on Timeline of Online Gaming · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, a very important piece of online gaming history is missing from this - 1985 - Pyroto Mountain!

    This game had every BBS user in fits - the first addiction. Door games were interesting, but this was a BBS system rolled into an online game - one inextricable from the other. Luckily, it remains alive on the net - it just doesn't hold the same appeal without having to auto-dial until the BBS is free to take your daily turn.... ;)