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  1. Re:useful dir names on Microsoft's Search Engine Plans · · Score: 1

    GNU already is implementing this. The GNU Image finding tool.

  2. Re:Legal? on Kazaa Offices Raided · · Score: 1

    Porn is public domain. The distribution of porn will never be prosecuted publicly.

  3. Re:spamming != marketing on Spammer Profile: Scott Richter · · Score: 1
    Marketing can be good. I muted the Super Bowl and unmuted the commercials. I don't know who won or even who was playing, but I can tell you the best commercials:
    • The McDonnalds one with the hanburger wrapper in the drier
    • The Staples one with the office supplies maffia
    • The ?Car? one with all the kids having soap in their mouths
    What was your favorite?
  4. Re:Contact Info on Spammer Profile: Scott Richter · · Score: 1
    Is he was on the east coast, I would commit some act to his home, put up a website of public humility and post my e-mail address. Then after the flood, I would forward the address to him.

    I find you to be similarly obligated :-)

  5. Re:Opt in? on Spammer Profile: Scott Richter · · Score: 1

    Remember, those companies have 800 numbers. You can easily get them back in phone bills with a shell script the size of my thumb.

  6. Re:Right, that's his real name. on Author signs MyDoom virus · · Score: 1

    Note to the humor impared: this is a play on the movie The Princess Bride, noobs

  7. Re:Closed for openess open for business on Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and I know how to decrypt CSS, but that doesn't mean I can do it for free.

  8. Re:At the risk of seeming stupid... on MySQL Official GUI Interface · · Score: 1

    If they sold anything, I'd buy it. They don't have nice MySQL shirts for me to buy, but it would be good for them to have something for me to buy.

  9. Re:Why the brake need? on Toyota Offers Automatic Parallel Parking Option · · Score: 1

    In Japan is is illegal to manufacture a car that has fully automatic brakes. You can find the post on slashdot, but in the past -- when working on a proximity cruise control system -- manufactures selling in Japan could only slow down the car and then suggest that the driver stop when appropriate.

  10. What is Google? on Google Eyes New Email Service, Expansion · · Score: 1
    Google is a private company that lives and breathes algorithms. If anyone is going to be filtering my mail, let it be them. Hackers getting around hash-busters, and their lame deformed HTML tag insertion... can't compete with Google. Google already fights people trying to spam the port-80 internet (those fucking linkfarms!), and we're all thankful.

    If you're going to trust someone, trust Google. Don't trust a company that provides you with e-mail, and within a day you're getting Viagra ads, even though you never gave out your address!

    Obviously they are trying to compete with (preempt) Yahoo!'s new extension to mail headers. And if they think they can do, I think they'll be the ones to use the most open standards in the precess.

    Note: many of my opinions may change if Google is traded publicly, as fat-cats will never understand how a developer can rewrite perfectly good code because s/he can't sleep at night knowing s/he didn't implement the best algorithm.

  11. Re:Well how can they safeguard against this? on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    How does your pricetag.com make money?

  12. Re:Well how can they safeguard against this? on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How does the system handle quoting and paraphrasing, where credit is given? I'm can only guess it doesn't.

    That, and the fact that the fact that the English language only ~12 bits of entropy per word(1), it's very likely a birthday attack will be pulled against this database.

    (1) http://www.stanford.edu/~vjsriniv/project/entropy_ of_english_9.htm

  13. The reality on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Here's my philosophy:

    BSD is. Linux is. If you look at the fundamentalities, they are different. If you look at the practicalities, BSD users use GNU tools and Linux users use BSD tools. That they are seperate is good because we have choice. It's like competition in the workplace, because we're all on the same team. I run BSD's and Linux's including Gentoo which is right in the middle.

  14. Re:Solution: CD with DRM Software on Record Labels May Have to Pay Double Royalties · · Score: 1

    The person who pointed out the shift key on the keyboard?

  15. Re:Sadly Enough on Microsoft Extends Win98/SE Support · · Score: 1
    I don't know about that. Because of DRM and other features in newer products (Office for a start) they are only supporting the newer operating systems in recent versions of their software. They're getting tired of back-porting their technology on top of older OS'es.

    If you remember Win 95 and MSIE 5.5 (?), installing the Internet explorer made this operating system functionally equivalent to Windows 98. This likely requires a lot of code and time to do.

  16. Re:How to make uncopyable images? on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 1

    This is the same photo spray people use to aviod photographing of their licence plates

  17. Re:The GPL is headed for a showdown... on MPlayer Alleges KISS Technology Violating GPL · · Score: 1

    This is a clause that is comparable to the SEVERABILITY clause of all Microsoft EULA's and in other legal contexts.

  18. Re:This is NOT Simple on What You Get When You Buy a Spam CD · · Score: 1
    Excellent! Here is a variation:

    What if you make www.myblacklist.org redirect to magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:$SHA1
    (Where $SHA1 is the hash of the latest blacklist)

    And key.myblacklist.org redirect to magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:$HASH
    (Where $HASH is the hash of the public key)

  19. Re:Can someone please explain to me... on No More Leap Second? · · Score: 1
    Is there a documentation of these extra seconds added to time? and Would this in any way effect the processing of UNIX timestamps? if not why not

    thanks

  20. Re:epoch == start of time, not duration on 100 Years of Macintosh · · Score: 2, Insightful
    [Let us assume sorting is an important function of time, databases do it continuously]

    So, assuming you put that in little endian format (to be able to sort), prefix zeros (to be able to sort), and specify the offset in army time (not all timezones work that nice):

    2003 01 01 07 26 00 00 -800

    This only sorts easily (alphabetically) if comparing times from the same timezone. Otherwise, some different sorting algorithm is required.

    Additionally, this requires 27 bytes (versus 4), and...

    The times are not unique!

    Consider daylight savings time.

  21. Re:Accents on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1

    and what's more local than... local?

  22. PGP, noobs on Another Worm Targets Anti-Spam Sites · · Score: 1
    Clearly, the answer to this problem is:
    • Popular spam fighting group publishes PGP keys
    • Make big blacklists, sign them
    • P2P
    Furthermore,
    1. PGP becomes popular
    2. More people use it and understand it
    3. Goto step 1
    4. Companies require it
    5. Mail clients put a pretty icon next to signed emails
    6. Noobs are afraid to open mail without a pretty icon
    7. GG no re spammers
  23. ROFL on Nonexistent Windows OS Superior to Panther · · Score: 0

    ROFL

  24. Re:Keyboard on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    Same here: it's amazing that the mouse from my Plus/Performa/Quadra/Wallstreet/Pismo still works fine over the past 10 years... you know the one I'm talking about, with no round parts other than the ball.

  25. Re:Another thing - what triggers the calculator? on What's Wacky with Google? · · Score: 1
    google calc knows rods, but not hogsheads

    ex: search: rods per mile

    ex: search: hogs heads per liter

    I tried to do the 50 hpg and it didn't work...

    don't worry, i already sent feedback :-)