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  1. Re:Overthinking this a little on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1

    Damn you! I tried hitting alt+home and it took me to the top of the page thereby causing me to lose my place! Is that a new trick like "Type alt+f4 if you love the backstreet boys!!!!"? :p

  2. Re:Search for "search engine" on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just clicked on your link. They must have noticed that google was listed fourth because it isn't even listed on the first page anymore. The only mention of google I saw is for "searches.com".

    On another note, I find it quite funny that AltaVista is listed number one in google for search engine.

  3. Re:SCO Success? on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Never fear! DaimlerChrysler has revenue about 30 times what you said. They claimed almost $170bn on their last yearly report. That should be big enough for him.

  4. Re:Suing SCO licensees? on SCO Postpones Lawsuit, Now Threatening Two · · Score: 1

    According to Netcraft, The Vatican runs Tru64 Unix.

  5. Re:UUNet the Home of Spam on UUNet Is The Number 1 Spam Host · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Speaking of online spam-only type accounts, have you received a bunch of email lately with no subject and no body? It seems weird to me. Is that some group testing out open relays or something? My Yahoo account had about 20 of those from the last 5 days, and they weren't flagged as spam.

  6. woops was Re:and the next headline is... on SCO Identifies EV1Servers as Linux Licensee · · Score: 1
    I mean to say...This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Frameset!

    Apparently I looked up the wrong 2advanced the first time. The other guy said flash and I remembered hearing about 2advanced.com and having the page after the entrance show up blank because it expected flash.

  7. Re:and the next headline is... on SCO Identifies EV1Servers as Linux Licensee · · Score: 1
    Fatal Error: No DOCTYPE specified!

    I'm not sure what to say when "one of the top webdesign firms in the world" can't even make the front page on their website standards compliant.

  8. Re:From the FAQ on XFree86 4.4 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think that what you're referring to is the Apache 2.0 license that had a clause about patents that some said conflicted with the GNU GPL but that the Apache Group said did not. I'm not sure, but I think the Apache 2.0 license has been revised further to make it more clear that it is GNU GPL compatible.

  9. Re:Japan on U.S. is World Leader in Spam · · Score: 1

    Let's have a round of applause for...TRON!!

  10. Re:An idea for curbing spam? on U.S. is World Leader in Spam · · Score: 1

    They still know where it came from and where it went. Guilt by association seems to be all the rage these days.

  11. Re:Heh on NASA Open Source License Still Up For Discussion · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean you didn't realize you were on SlashDot before you read that?!

  12. Re:Conspiracy Theory on Keyless Entries Fail In Las Vegas On Friday · · Score: 1

    There was a Tom Clancy book from the Net Force series where the nefarious evil-doers had figured out a combination of frequencies that they could send out with HAARP type equipment that would cause humans to become very angry and begin riots. It was tested by the resident mad scientists on people in China first, then he moved to people in the US. They immediately began to run around causing rampant carnage. Fun stuff!

  13. Re:Reverse Phone Lookups on Favorite Hidden Google Features? · · Score: 1

    I wonder how often this is updated. I've had my phone number since about Dec. 2002, but it lists someone else at that number.

  14. Re:Complete the return FOR them? on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 1

    Arithmetic isn't math! You said I suck at math, but you don't even know what it is! ;)

  15. Re:Email? What about phone?! on Candidate Ads, Coming Soon To An Inbox Near You · · Score: 1

    well??

    Is it better than a kick in the pants or not?

  16. Re:Bullet Physics on Comic Book Physics · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a Lois and Clark episode, Superman said that he had a small field of invincibility around him that protected his clothing or anything else within its range. I believe that was in response to Lois asking why his suit could be damaged in the closet, but it was never damaged when he was wearing it.

  17. Re:Heroin laws not unconstitutional on US Congress Committee Talking About Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The point is that the constitution specifically says that anything not listed in the constitution is reserved as a right for the people of the US.

  18. Re:There is no Constitutional right to privacy on US Congress Committee Talking About Privacy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Most of the laws on the books, including any that prevent your possession of heroin, are indeed unquestionably unconstitutional. It's just that certain people, the ones that have the badges and blinking lights and stuff, don't care that everything they do with respect to enforcing unconstitutional laws is a felony because they are the ones that would have to do something about it.

  19. Re:litigous bastards? on Novell Quotes AT&T on Derivative Works · · Score: 1

    Since KDE 3.2 already finished compiling on two of my machines (haven't upgraded this one yet), does that make me less of a Mad Zealot?

  20. Re:Old-fashioned way: on Curse Your Way to Live Support · · Score: 1

    There are actually systems that end their spiel about options with: "and if you are dialing from a rotary phone, please hang up and call back with a touch-tone phone."

  21. Re:Isn't there anything we can do? on Verisign Considers Restarting Sitefinder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    why doesn't everyone just start domain arbitration proceedings for all of the matched domains that are very similar to the ones they already have? Since Verisign will basically typo-squat all domains in existance, there should be quite a few domains that could be sued over.

  22. Re:And microsoft does this anyway to all windows u on Verisign Considers Restarting Sitefinder · · Score: 1

    I think that you can change which search engine you would like to use in IE with "Tweak UI." It's been a while since I've run Windows, so I'm not entirely sure, but that seems to be right.

  23. Re:Warranties? on IC Failures Linked to Resin Series? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm sure that you've noticed, for hard drives at least, that many manufacturers have scaled back warranty support from 3 years to 1 year.

  24. Don't you mean... on From Silicon To Microprocessors · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sometimes, when a CPU and a CPU socket meet in the middle of a back alley...

  25. -march instead of -mcpu on GNU GCC Vs Sun's Compiler on a SPARC · · Score: 1

    would it have improved the scores for gcc any if he had used the march flag instead of the mcpu flag? It seems to me that it might have made at least a little bit of difference.