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  1. Below the lexicon entry, you find: on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    Posted on April 12, 2001

    That entry has been active for almost two years. What took you so long, Mr. Lawyer? Could this long delay pose a hurdle to take the dictionary maintainer to court?

  2. Ahem. BS. on Ron Rivest Suggests Probability-Based Micropayments · · Score: 1

    Is this meant to be "product gambling"? Because the money still has to be collected from every consumer, unless you want to charge a whole lot of them $0 and a few $10 each. Credit card fees still have to be paid, in this case by Peppercoin, Inc.

    Don't even try to tell me that Peppercoin sets up accounts for you to keep transactions rare and juicy. PayPal was faster on the draw.

    MIT professor, huh? Well, can't wait to see what's next. Maybe a new, ultrasecure symmetric encryption?

  3. I daresay you ain't got a K6 on A Tale in the Desert · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you had a Linux running on a K6, your boredom would have lasted about 0.094 seconds. That's the time the linux launcher needs to bomb out, thank you very much.

    According to this thread, the thing has been compiled with i686 optimizations, and is therefore utterly useless for us older AMD users.

    I'm seriously disappointed. I was looking forward to this no killing type of game. Now I feel locked out again. Kemet is using the same client, so no luck there either.

    CURSE YOU, LORD BRITI... Err.. wait...

  4. Re:Two questions... on Going Cyberpunk · · Score: 1

    Yep and Yep.

    I'd be first in line to get me a direct neural interface to my Debian box, but I sure as hell won't test how literally the term BSOD has to be taken in this case.

  5. Go-Go-Go on File-sharing and AOL · · Score: 1

    Can't wait to see which corp gets a Darwin Award first.

    And if only for that would require a major blunder on behalf of said corp.

    (That sentence made more sense in my head... forgive my sleepy, european brain.)

  6. Cohn should know better on File-sharing and AOL · · Score: 1
    (The sort of people who care about how their ISP interprets obscure sections of the DMCA aren't likely to be on AOL in the first place.)

    Mod +5, Insightful

    Other than that, I don't like the prospect of RIAA guys getting everyones address faster than the DEA can too much, either.

    But saying that "This is a method by which an angry ex- husband can locate an ex-wife, or a process by which stalkers can locate people" - Ox feces. You'd have to have an IP address of your mark before that, and it's impossible to get that of a specific person without prior installation of spyware on the target comp.

    Which would of course render the whole shebang superfluous.

  7. Worlds 26 Greatest Probes on First Cosmological Results From MAP · · Score: 1

    In order of usefulness:

  8. Lost to a blunder? on Humans Hold Off the Machines... For Now · · Score: 1

    Looks like the Sergej Bubka tactic to me: Make it a draw to keep the suspense and rise the stakes.

  9. Three words on Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? · · Score: 1

    Pointy Haired Boss

    Or:

    Can't locate Common/Sense.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/managers /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .).
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

  10. Re:Bah! on 300 Episodes of the Simpsons · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting, as it features a Netscape Network toolbar on top.

    Viva la conspiracion!

  11. Uh Oh... on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 1

    A major manufacturer educating his customers about technologies which could be used to... dare I say it? Making backups!

    Run, O Dell, for thou hath invoked the Wrath of Valenti!

  12. How appropriate... on Jack Valenti's Views On The Digital Age · · Score: 1

    The paper of an elite uni, which requires registration for viewing even the tiniest bit of information and blatantly states that information about the viewer will be collected at various places throughout the site and stored for further processing, conducts an interview with the CEO of Horned and Winged Inc(orporated|arnate) [tm].

    Looks like that "interview" - powered by Questionnaire - was given with a clearly defined target audience in mind, and it ain't the intellectual elite.

  13. New SETI team on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1

    There exists a new SETI@home team.

    In memoriam the crew of the Columbia.

    That is all.

  14. Re:Why not use a balloon? on World's Largest Airborne Telescope Delivered · · Score: 1

    The main advantage of an aircraft mounted telescope is that, well, it comes back to earth in one piece. Repairs and upgrades can be made between missions, something which is REALLY expensive with a satellite telescope. See Hubble.

    Someone care to give numbers comparing the actual cost of plane vs. satellite telescopes? I'm lost there.

  15. Larry Niven: 1 - Nostradamus: 0 on Tan With Implants Instead Of Sun · · Score: 1

    At last: Tannin secretion pills.

    Nr. 37 on the You know you've been reading too much by Larry Niven when... list is now obsolete.