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  1. Not Good on How Good is Gmail's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    Gmail has only caught about 5 of the 30 spams I've gotten so far. Although I haven't seen any false positives yet.

  2. Re:No lib.exe on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    In case you didn't notice, they didn't include a lot of stuff that's neccessary for building Windows apps: the Windows headers, the .lib files for linking with Windows stuff, a resource compiler, nmake, etc. You have to download some more stuff (for free as well) to get this stuff. That would be the Platform SDK.

  3. Niue is not the smallest independent state... on Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow · · Score: 1

    ... in the world as the article says. First of all, it is not an independent state. It is a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand. This relationship is similar to that between Puerto Rico and the United States. Secondly, a number of real independent nations are smaller than it such as the Holy See, Monaco, San Marino, Nauru, Tuvalu (home of the .tv TLD), Liechtenstein, and the Marshall Islands.

  4. nooooo! on Danish Study Recommends Open Standards for EU · · Score: 1, Insightful

    either that of OpenOffice or a new one developed by the EU
    Just what we need: another XML document format. As if we didn't already have enough.

  5. "is anybody still running old DOS programs" on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    I run Commander Keen

  6. It may be non evil... on Magnatune - a Non-Evil Record Label? · · Score: 4, Funny

    but it still sucks unless its got good music.

  7. Long Life... on Google Turns 5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lets hope that they can live to be a googol (10^100)

  8. Is Ogg Vorbis finally gaining industry acceptance? on Rio Announces Networked Ogg Vorbis Player · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The answer to this question is irrelevant. The real question is "Is Ogg Vorbis gaining consumer acceptance?" It doesn't matter if the music industry thinks Ogg Vorbis is good, as long as consumers aren't using it. And the answer to the question is a definite no. How many people talk about ogg sharing, the same way they talk about mp3 sharing? How many casual music downloaders have heard of Ogg Vorbis, let alone know what it is? As long as these numbers are low, products for playing ogg files will fail, and the industries acceptance of Ogg Vorbis won't matter, until consumers play ogg's instead of mp3's, and know that they are using ogg's.

  9. Like shoes? on A Geek's Tour Of North America? · · Score: 1

    Visit The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. What could be more nerdy than a entire museum about one of the most mundane aspects of life: shoes.

  10. Re:What's up with this: on Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View · · Score: 1

    As long as you don't use autocomplete by clicking on one of the previously enter results, you will not get a crash. Also, the number of autocomplete crashes has significantly decreased since 0.5. Since the first fix for autocomplete crashing was checked in about a month ago, most Firebird users, including myself, have not experienced any crashes with autocomplete, but they have not disappeared completely, so it was neccessary to include the bug in the release notes.

  11. Re:Web panels? on Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View · · Score: 3, Informative

    Web Panels is/was a half implemented feature thats function was to allow customizeable sidebars in Firebird, similar to Mozilla's sidebar. It was never fully implemented and was supposed to be removed from 0.6, but obviously it wasn't fully removed.

  12. How long before McDonalds takes advantage of this? on Run Your Car on Grease · · Score: 1

    Did you know every time you buy diesel fuel for your car you are supporting terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda with oil money? A new scientific developement allows you to use grease instead of diesel to power your car. You may have already seen this at low-grade food establishments such as Jack-in-the-Box. But why settle for low-grade grease? Fuel your car direct from the grease master: McDonalds!
    McDonalds: Smiles starting at just $.50 per gallon.

  13. Re:Assumptions on Patent Office Shows Record Backlog · · Score: 1

    I don't think that the plastic bag out of my local grocery store should be patented, but it is. I wouldn't think that much innovation was required to make a simple plastic bag used across the country.

  14. Re:Excuse me... on Mixing the Unmixable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well now that i read the link i no what a surfactant is. and i'm 15. so, here i am.

  15. headline on Swiss Tax Office distributes Mozilla and OpenOffice · · Score: 5, Funny

    The headline of the babelfish translation: " OpenOffice and Mozilla distributes Swiss revenue office " They forgot to say In Soviet Russia.

  16. Re:For which platforms? on Swiss Tax Office distributes Mozilla and OpenOffice · · Score: 5, Informative

    according to the babelfish translation: "OpenOffice.org 1,0,1 in French for Windows and Linux as well as the Webbrowser Mozilla 1,2,1 in French for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X."

  17. fp on Warcraft III Expansion · · Score: -1, Redundant

    fp

  18. more code than any of us guessed on Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly · · Score: 1

    he really did 10111110011011100000 lines of code in 18 months. thats 561728333945061111 lines of code per day.

  19. no speed increase on Modding A Paper Shredder · · Score: 1

    the speed was not increased from 12 to 37 pages. the number of books shred before overheat was increased from 12 to 37

  20. Re:Very Gutsy Move on InterTrust Says It Owns DRM, Sues Microsoft · · Score: 1

    they dont want to shut down 85% or their product line, just get a lot of money from 85% of M$'s product line.