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  1. What about the CURRENT version of Safari? on Safari Security Hole Allows Cookie Theft · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Does this affect the CURRENT version of Safari, v=1.1.1? I don't think so since I tried the http://alive.znep.com/~marcs/security/mozillacooki e/demo.html, link and it didn't send anything back.

  2. the best part on Microsoft Introduces Competition For Google News · · Score: 1, Funny

    The best part of that page was the poll: "Have you tried online dating?" That was the previous poll on Slashdot wasn't it?

  3. Uninstall log on MacGimp Reviewed, Available For Easy Download · · Score: 0

    Looking for an installation log so I can un-installation MacGimp. Nothing on the website. Does anyone know of one?

  4. Re:Not one reason to go with Apple then on PC World: Apple G5 Gets Trounced By Athlon 64 · · Score: 0

    _You_ shouldn't.

  5. Re:WTF!! on Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version · · Score: 1

    Well, if you don't want the ads then purchase the distribution. The ads are only for the download version. Or, use Debian.

  6. Re:Geez, you people could at least read the headli on Facial Recognition Fails in Boston, Too · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a "false negative" be a "positive"?

  7. Re:Is Mars really red? on Close Mars Means Close-Up Pictures · · Score: 1

    Glad I could cheer you up. Obviously I am aware that Mars has a red/orange/rust/whatever color to it. However, when viewing it and it appears white (apparently for the rod/cones reasons explained elsewhere), I was hoping for an explanation.

  8. Re:Is Mars really red? on Close Mars Means Close-Up Pictures · · Score: 1

    I believe you.

  9. Re:Is Mars really red? on Close Mars Means Close-Up Pictures · · Score: 1

    It really wasn't red. I should have asked about it then, but I didn't want to look like a moron. The others that went with me saw the same thing: white Mars. I thought maybe it was a filter on the telescope, but it couldn't have been on three different scopes.

    Very weird.

  10. Is Mars really red? on Close Mars Means Close-Up Pictures · · Score: 1

    I went down to look at Mars last Saturday night with the local astronomy group. But instead of seeing the Red Planet, it was the White Planet. Not even a smidge of red to it. Three separate telescopes all showed Mars white. What's up with that?

  11. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA on RIAA/MPAA vs. xMule Author, EarthStation 5 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, you would be thrown in the Gulag for 5 years by the State.

  12. Re:Nothing to do with deregulation on Deregulation and Niagara Mohawk - Is There a Story? · · Score: 1

    You are correct in that the power companies buy and sell electricity to various markets as demand varies. However, the problem in California was not that the California power companies were limited in the price they could charge due to deregulation. The problem was that they DID NOT PAY their bills to the Nevada power companies that sold them the power needed to meet the demands in California.

    They did not pay the bills so to keep their "bottom line" looking good. They HAD the money to pay their bills, they just didn't pay them. So, the other power companies shut them off and wouldn't sell them any more. This created the artificial power crisis in California.

  13. Re:The rats are abandoning the sinking ship! on Linus Moves To OSDL, Will Work On Kernel Full-Time · · Score: 1

    I appreciate the humor here, but really, perhaps Transmeta is looking to limit any liability issues here? Or perhaps Linus needs to time to fully audit the kernel to make sure the SCO claims are truly baseless?

  14. Re:but then ... on (Short-, Medium-, Long)wave Radio Meets Digital Stereo · · Score: 1

    I listen to mine all the time.

  15. *BSDs are clear on Today's SCO News · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry, the all the BSDs have already been down this path before and re-wrote any code that was in question. Next...

  16. Daredevil on New Trailer for The Hulk · · Score: 1

    I thought Daredevil was a fine movie. It was more of a film noire that comic book movie; with a more complicated character. But some prefer car chases, special effects and gratuitous sex to character development and plot. To each his own.

  17. Re:47 hours to go... on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh yes, and don't forget the AMERICAN SUPPLY HOUSE, the American Type Culture Collection of Manassas, Va., who sold Iraq the biological agents that may or may not currently exist in their arsenal, with US GOVERNMENT APPROVAL, as reported in the March 16 NYT.

    Sorry to cloud this issue with facts. So, what exactly was sold to Iraq by this US FIRM? Well, bacillus anthracis (causes anthrax), clostridium perfringens, clostridium botulinum, brucella abortus, clostridium tetani, bacillus megaterium, bacillus subtilis, bacillus cereus, brucella melitensis, franciscella tularensis, corynebacterium diptheria, and bacillus licheniformis.

    There's more than enough blame to go around here, without gang banging the French. Let's just leave that to dubya.

  18. Re:At first glance... on Apple to Launch Music Service? · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me that you need to find more interesting musicians to listen to.

  19. Re:Enough revisionist history on OSS Officially On Microsoft's Financial Radar Screen · · Score: 1

    Not sure when you started using Netscape, but I was installing 1.0 on a floppy and paying, what, $40? for them. Something like that. Netscape started giving them away in response to IE. Sorry for insisting on the facts.

  20. Payback's a bitch on OSS Officially On Microsoft's Financial Radar Screen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now they have a taste of what they did to Netscape by giving away IE. What goes around comes around.

  21. Dvorak- the second reason I killed my subscription on Dvorak: Linux too much like Windows · · Score: 1

    The first reason is because PC magazine is absolutely windows-centric. That said, the main reason is because of Dvorak idiotic columns. I don't know why anyone would pay the least attention to his nonsensical articles.

  22. Re:This is great on TheOpenCD Launches First Edition · · Score: 1

    People should focus on GNU/Linux when they are talking about "free software", and "who-cares" when they are talking about "open-source" software.

    There are fundamental differences in the licensing between "free software" and "open source" software.

  23. Re:gah on Why The Dinosaurs Won't Die · · Score: 1

    Maybe the guy should write an teaser with a lot more content. Based on what I read, I wouldn't pay $0.02 for it.

  24. Re:Of course it was irresponsible on Controversy Surrounds Huge IE Hole · · Score: 1

    Well, symbolic logic is certainly not needed, nor is your argument an example of any use of symbolic logic.

    Your counter argument uses the same logical form as the previous example, so if *that* argument was invalid, then *your* argument is invalid.

    To clarify things for readers who have not taken a logic (philosophy logic) course, symbolic logic, indeed, any intro logic course, describes a techinique for determining the validity or invalidity of an argument based on the *form* of the argument. The form of the argument is valid or invalid.

    Now, you can certainly have a valid argument and still disagree as to whether or not the premises of the argument are reasonable or not. That is the case here. The argument is *identical*, but the premises are different.

    This has nothing whatsoever to do with logic, symbolic or otherwise. So, please, if you disagree with the argument, fine. But please, don't "muddy the water" with illogical logic.

  25. Re:Naturally.. on Apple Gives Laptops Speed Bumps · · Score: 1

    heh. A former boss (stereo nut) once told me, "Just wait till you see the new units coming out a week after you die..."