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  1. You mean America doesn't own the internet? on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who can I vote for that will give the US complete control over the internet?

  2. Conspiracy Theories Abound on John Doerr Disclaims Rumored GBrowser · · Score: 5, Informative

    While I cannot provide consipiracy theories or tinfoil hats, I can provide all URLs hosted under the same IP as google.com. Look at cashcarrier.net - maybe google wants to replace all US currency with 'Google Currency' or Gurrency!

    http://www.1aad.info http://www.Googlie.com
    http://www.466453.com http://www.Googlr.com
    http://www.Anatsociety.com http://www.Goolge.com
    http://www.Arnes.biz http://www.Gooogle.com
    http://www.Basystem.net http://www.Gppgle.com
    http://www.Beckers-erkelenz.com http://www.Gppglr.com
    http://www.Bootboortz.com http://www.Guugle.org
    http://www.Brucer.com http://www.Hakukone.com
    http://www.Cashcarrier.net http://www.Hakukone.net
    http://www.Cbfl.net http://www.Igoogle.com
    http://www.Cheapbits.net http://www.Jamesallen.org
    http://www.Clinilab.net http://www.Kedrowski.com
    http://www.Cmbio.com http://www.Kvanderson.com
    http://www.Davenorman.net http://www.Mendiboure.com
    http://www.Encouragementtogo.com http://www.Minzhu.org
    http://www.Europraca.net http://www.Mugenjyou.com
    http://www.Foofle.com http://www.Mydejanews.com
    http://www.Gewgle.com http://www.Nickel-tec.com
    http://www.Gewgol.com http://www.Ogogle.com
    http://www.Ggoogle.com http://www.Paracelsus.org
    http://www.Godsc.com http://www.Parallelstorm.net
    http://www.Gogle.com http://www.Partycat.us
    http://www.Gogole.com http://www.Pclaninformatica.com
    http://www.Googel.com http://www.Reinspiredinc.com
    http://www.Googil.com http://www.Scandiq.com
    http://www.Google.biz http://www.Securityf2.com
    http://www.Google.com http://www.Signacon.net
    http://www.Google.info http://www.Sinoweblog.com
    http://www.Google.net http://www.Smartp

  3. The difference on Coping with Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    An adict is someone that goes over to your house, steals your money and uses it to buy drugs. An adict with a problem is when that same person comes over to your house the next day to help you look for your money.

    So gaming isn't a problem if it's a hobby that does not impact normal activities. However if you're skipping school or scheduling your work meetings, family and friends around games then you've got a problem.

  4. I can sleep easier now... on Telecom Outages Now a State Secret · · Score: 1

    I would sooner believe the US invaded Iraq over innacurate reports of weapons of mass destruction than believe politics and money are behind removing telecom outage reports from the public.

  5. Paul Allen's SpaceShipOne on SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize · · Score: 1

    Paul Allen funded SpaceShipOne and Paul Allen made his billions off Microsoft. Microsoft is evil, therefore Paul Allen is evil and SpaceShipOne is evil. Right?

    On a side note, it was cool to watch the show on the Discover Channel and see a mac on Burt Rutan's desk.

  6. clusty already full of spam on New Clustering Search Engine to battle Google · · Score: 1

    Clusty is already full of spam, much like MSN and yahoo. Google still does the best job filtering spam websites and clusty/msn/yahoo seem to be far behind. Which is ok by me because this makes manipulating clusty and doing SEO much easier, :). Howver I do recognize Clusty is in beta. Go clusty.

  7. HAARP? on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    Is http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp related to ELF/VLF?

  8. Re:Gates due to his charity on Gates, Jobs, Torvalds: Who is Most Important? · · Score: 1

    Get some perspective by looking into other promenent companies such as Wallmart, Enron, Yukos and Falcone and you'll see that Gates isn't so bad. Hiding billions from the govt in taxes, descriminating based on race and gender, selling arms to small countries and stealing entire retirement funds. That's bad. Creating a monopoly for operating systems? The world has bigger problems.

  9. three people? on X Prize Launch At Mojave Spaceport [updated: success!] · · Score: 1

    What's happening so far as putting three people onboard SpaceShipOne? I believe the requirements for the prize dictate three people or their equivilant weight however it would be much more interesting to know actual people being used in this contest.

  10. Gates due to his charity on Gates, Jobs, Torvalds: Who is Most Important? · · Score: 1

    According to this site, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates has donated $7.3 billion dollars. I despise microsoft as much as the next slashdotter but seriously, the guy has given away $7 billion dollars to people in need of help. I wish Linus and Jobs were more successful than Gates however there are more important things than technology.

  11. glue guns in space on Da Vinci Project Postpones X-Prize Attempt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm glad they are delaying their attempt because the glue gun in this picture has me worried.

    DaVinci project and glue gun

  12. For what position? on Would You Hire A Hacker? · · Score: 1

    For a software engineer or technical operations position, sure. For a project manager position, no way.

  13. Who's really at fault? on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whoever approved this process of manually rebooting a machine should be at fault. The fact that it was a windows operating system, or a unix OS or a purple OS is irrelevant. The problem here is someone thought a valid solution was to reboot a machine once a month.

  14. qwerty keyboard a myth? on RIM's New Blackberry Ditches Thumboard · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at the pictures of the new blackberry and the qwerty keyboard looks like it uses 14 keys to represent chars A-Z. Is this misrepsentation by calling it a qwerty keyboard? Sure the keys are in order like a normal keyboard but without the individual keys, I think this blackberry loses its most signficant appealing feature, a keyboard.

  15. conference call excerpts on SCO's Finances, Legal Case Take Hits · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Alright, here are some brief summaries of conversations during the conference call. (I have too much free time but it's interesting to witness a train wreck).

    Caller asks SCO what they can do to protect their shareholders from what may be bad legal advice.
    Response is SCO obtained the best firm available for the best legal advice available.

    Caller asks would you seek a second opinion from a new firm like you would seek a second opinion from a medical doctor?
    Response is anyone with these questions likely has not read all material in front of the courts and they would be unable to generate a conclusion because the paperwork is confidential.

    Caller asks what would it take to buy SCO with the poison pill?
    The board would need to set a fair price.

    Caller asks how many people are employed by SCO.
    At the end of the quarter, SCO has 230 people.

    Caller asks since beginning on this legal crusade, how much has been paid for legal representation?
    Just over $15 million for all law firms for the prior 5 quarters.

    SCO currently has $43M in cash. Plans on paying $31M in fees - not sure if this is some baystar thing or legal fee.

    Can you summarize the responses from the court that have been positive?
    March 6th, Judge said SCO has shown good faith in its discovery process. Ordered IBM to deliver executives emails.
    April 19th, SCO received good information from IBM and has been working through that.
    Despite judge orders, IBM has not completely fulfilled the order to deliver the information request on March 6th.
    Novell case, motion filed to dismiss, motion was denied. A new motion to dismiss was issued and SCO looking forward to dealing with that.
    Autozone case, case was stayed but you get 90 days of discovery. SCO is currently going through that process.
    Character case that IBM is trying to do of SCO's legacy AT&T contracts is misguided.
    Additional hearing will be held on September 14th and 15th.

    Caller asks is SCO replacing cash payments to lawyers with sliding scale contingency payments?
    Yes. In a certain sense, the long term obligation depends on judgment and settlement amounts.

  16. back to basics after a flop on Kevin Smith set for Clerks sequel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Usually people will go back to a guaranteed success after a failure. Kevin Smith does Jersey Girl, comes out with Clerks 2. I'm not a big enough movie buff to comment on other examples but I'm sure they exist in movies such as Jurassic Park 3 and the Batman series. This type of thinking is bringing us such greats as the Star Wars prequals and Indiana Jones 4.

  17. Minimum Requirements on Dodgeball: Text Your Location To Friends · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, taking full advantage of dodgeball requires both friends (everquest doesn't count) and living in a big city.

  18. bad for marketing on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is comforting but not a perfect solution. I primarily used IE because most of my customers use IE and I want their same user experience. I tell developers to use IE for the same reason. Fortunately most online consumers not use lynx.

  19. Valid in California? on Seagate Says Ex-Employee Can't Work For Competitor · · Score: 1

    I have been told it is not possible to enforce a no-compete clause in California? Anyone with further information care to comment?

  20. improved tech school on Northface University - Computer Science in Half the Time? · · Score: 1

    This new program is better than going to Devri/University of Phoenix but worse than going to a 4 year college. A graduate of this new program will be able to code but may not be fit for management.

  21. Re:You saw it here first. on Google's Fraud Squad Battles Phantom Clicks · · Score: 1

    Moving from a CPC network (adsense, findwhat, overture) to CPA (linkshare, CJ, performics) is a technical challenge due to transaction processing.

    There are many reasons why google is not going to move to CPA, the largest one being tracking transaction states. A click is easy to manage, it exists or does not exist. Sales are more complex - they can be pending, accepted, extended, reversed, etc. If google were to move to CPA then they would need a system such that they know this click generated this sale, this sale is accepted, so this affiliate deserves a commission. Currently google looks at a click, gets a price for that click, then pays the Affiliate.

    Google would also need sales data from the Merchant, which Google does to some extent with their Conversion Tracking tool. A payment processing system would also need to be developed that's capable of handling complex accounting features.

  22. Re:How long is an eon? on Mars Had Surface Water for Eons · · Score: 1

    def. 1 : an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : AGE 2 a usually eon : a very large division of geologic time usually longer than an era b : a unit of geologic time equal to one billion years The definition of eon changes with the context of how it's used. In the case of this article I think an eon is an immeasurable length of time.

  23. Re:2600 on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1

    I read 2600 also but I can see it dieing in popularity. The latest cover had something about blue boxes - cool but not a new subject for the 21st century. The previous edition had an article on xbox hacking, blockbuster tricks and the 'hacker diet'. I think their popularity in the 90s killed off the creative, interesting writing.

  24. What is Firefly? on Official Firefly Movie Web Site Launched · · Score: 1

    Taken from imdb...

    The film centers around Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, "Serenity." He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family -- squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal. When Mal takes on two new passengers -- a young doctor and his unstable, telepathic sister -- he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from the coalition dominating the universe, who will stop at nothing to reclaim the girl. The crew that was once used to skimming the outskirts of the galaxy unnoticed find themselves caught between the unstoppable military force of the Universal Alliance and the horrific, cannibalistic fury of the Reavers, savages who roam the very edge of space. Hunted by vastly different enemies, they begin to discover that the greatest danger to them may be on board "Serenity" herself.

  25. quantitative vs qualitative on A New Google News Data Visualization, with Source · · Score: 1

    Sector maps are an efficient way to view mass amounts of quantitiative data but not for qualitative data such as news stories and articles. The perfect situation for sector maps are those where you have a large spreadsheet of historical data or data that changes over time. Stocks are a good example. Ticker symbols remain constant and each day there is a new volume of activity and %change. If MSFT does a large volume and decrease significantly over the previous day then I would expect a large dark red square. Apply this to news services, look at the nation and you will see an articles that looks like this:

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