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  1. if you do unethical stemcell research on 2003 Edge.org World Question · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    YOU ARE A TERRORIST

    Seriously though, human genome research through other means is a biggy.

    I'd put it just above computer science with the procedes(source code) going to the public. We(OSS developers) are far ahead of a multi-billion dollar corporation in terms of development; I'd like to see what results we could achieve without those pesky day jobs.

  2. We wrote the manual! on Using Bacterial DNA For Data Storage · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you people watch the outer limits?

    I'll probably write this code in sometime in the future. Human cloning is stealing and I will sue your ass for infringement.

  3. forget extrans on Prentice Hall To Publish Open Content Licensed Books · · Score: 2

    <s pan class="ft0">foo</span></nobr></div>

  4. I can modify this for what I want on Prentice Hall To Publish Open Content Licensed Books · · Score: 2

    or at the very least remove all the foo formatting crap. None of that is necessary or essential to the document!

    Thx for the link, I'll check into it when I get the time.

  5. why do I suspect on Prentice Hall To Publish Open Content Licensed Books · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that when it finally comes out, months after the book, it will be in a clunky format such as pdf rather than something like sgml that we can convert to linked html or plain text as we desire.

    cat ebook.txt | grep explorer | grep bug | less to get all the paragraphs relating to the latest explorer bug.

    For an ebook format, I want something parsable and convertabl; pdf meets neither requirement.

  6. speaks poorly of the client on Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes · · Score: 2

    If it won't follow the standard. If I make an http client that sends "TEG index.html HTTP/0.9" instead of "GET index.html HTTP/0.9" can I bitch when IIS and Apache don't support it?

    As a summer job I had to make a Java applet that would let the user design a sign, preview it, then order it by sending an email through a M$ outlook ESMTP server. I won't go into the specifics, but I will say that it violated several parts of the ESMTP spec. It was lenient in some areas and strictly adhering to its mistake in other areas.

    I won't go into how IIS had to be reinstalled weekly or how M$'s VM was too horridly incompliant with Swing(needed for advanced font crap) for compatibility to be a possibility without writing my own windowing toolkit!

    Consider this a rant if you wish, but please realize that I dealt with too much bullshit from that monopoly to keep my mouth shut and stay in their crooked little line.

  7. MSIE is to blame! on Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes · · Score: 1, Informative

    It is forcing persistant connections rather than requesting them the HTTP/1.1 way! This means that these servers are stuck with tons of open Sockets causing it to refuse new ones!

    I demand an Apache workaround by tomorrow! (j/k, apache is unnaffected and takes longer to load in MSIE because of its COMPLIANCE TO A STANDARD that M$ is trying to bend to their own will).

    Will benchmarking authors be blackmailed/bribed into making their software use this while testing MSIE and MSIIS?

    btw, faster connections don't mean squat if your server takes ittself down monthly!

  8. no, I meant on BBC To Ditch "Tomorrow's World" · · Score: 2

    120x120 at 8bit color. Don't you people think!?

  9. quite a budget!? on BBC To Ditch "Tomorrow's World" · · Score: 2

    You mean a plastic dinosaur spinning!?

    "Bill! Bill! Bill! (It's alive!"

  10. do you get techtv? on BBC To Ditch "Tomorrow's World" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While its future shows may suck, "Big Thinkers" will make you think. I would actually PAY for this on dvd (unencoded of course!)

    I'm not sure whether or it's shown in Britain, but you should look into it.

  11. Sauron commands you on Data Mining Briefly Explained · · Score: 3, Funny

    to murder all Harry Potter fans!

  12. I don't believe on Data Mining Briefly Explained · · Score: 2

    that any true Christian could do this anymore than I believe a true Jew or a true Muslim could have done it.,

    mod parent up

  13. The data gnomes are stealing my data! on Data Mining Briefly Explained · · Score: 2

    Why doesn't anyone else see them!?

  14. profiteering? on Data Mining Briefly Explained · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Today, however, companies that excel in connecting the data dots are finding a lifeline in a customer whose IT ineptitude is matched only by its means: the U.S. government, which will spend $53 billion on information technology this year. The Federal Government's inability to share and analyze information became clear in the months after the 9/11 attacks.

    While I want argue against the governments inability to do anything but waste money, I do think that these "anti-terrorism" dealies are going too far. We know that they are spending $53 billion on information technology. When they spend it on a hammer or a toilet seat I know that something is getting done, but "information technology" makes me suspicious.

    Granted my opinion is largely a result of window flags selling in excess of twenty dollars and not hearing the results of such spending. In fact, I haven't heard of a single terrorist act averted since 9/11. It couldn't hurt to inform us when the spending pays off; could it?

    Is this information actually getting results, or is it just profiteering of the corporations that we so love to slander and libel?

  15. you people didn't realize on The Plastic Fractal Magnet · · Score: 1

    that my post was sarcastic!?

  16. Plastic storage? on The Plastic Fractal Magnet · · Score: 1

    as fragile as a dvd, as corruptable as a floppy disk, and as portable as a hard disk? Honestly, why would I want to use this? Will I be able to afford its super-high density? Hard disks haven't evolved in more than a decade for a reason!

  17. so he just on Cell Phones and Broadband 'Net Win in S. Korea · · Score: 2

    made the decision to spend our money on the internet?

  18. try replacing the internal hard disk on Extending the Capacity of Creative Nomad IIc MP3 Players? · · Score: 1

    use fdisk to make a similar partition table on your new disk

    It probably has one or two partitions at the beginning before where the music is stored. Just use dd to copy those over to the new disk.

    If you are very unlucky the firmware may know the serial number or size of the old disk. Try grepping the images you ripped for such values along with the md5 checksum of various things.

    No offense: if you use winshit this is gonna take a LOT more work.

  19. he didn't invent it, he just funded it on Cell Phones and Broadband 'Net Win in S. Korea · · Score: 2

    Get your facts straight and/or stop plagurizing SNL skits!

  20. in non-soviet koria... on Cell Phones and Broadband 'Net Win in S. Korea · · Score: 1, Funny

    oh.

  21. thanks for the tip on Turing Tests to Stop Spam · · Score: 2

    I just apt-getted it and I'm trying it out now. mailfilter works well, but it has to be added to each users cron scripts (blech!)

  22. conspiracy? on Cell Phones and Broadband 'Net Win in S. Korea · · Score: 1

    Could the north koreans have faked this by wardriving along the border?

  23. I run a small server with a few user accounts. on Turing Tests to Stop Spam · · Score: 2

    And I recently noticed that spam, while smaller in quantitiy, are much larger than normal (non-html image bloated crap).

    First, I would like to know if there is a server-side daemon I could run that goes through all user accounts and weeds out spam (without knowing their passwords.)

    Second, I would like to know if I have any legal recourse against unsolicited email hogging my bandwidth. Could I stockpile a years worth and send the spammers a bill for the used bandwidth?

  24. Why don't we teach them to on Help Wire Remote Laos Villages · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hack PayPal instead?

    Actually, I think that the internet has an amazing ability to educate the natives and cause them to leave for Europe or America leaving their own countries with less of a workforce. If we are to help them we need to find a more permanent solution instead of a shiny one that looks good on paper.

  25. "substandard"!? on 17-inch flat-Panel iMac Dead · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'll ignore the processor flaimbait.

    iat of M$.

    DD, Disk Utility, tcsh, and such have no included equivalent in winshit.