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  1. Re:Bad for Who? on Pennsylvania Refuses to Disclose Banned Website List · · Score: 1

    Tis true, but on the other hand people can mistakenly surf to a domain name they think is good and end up at a horrible site. I think it's a little different than Fedex because Fedex has a one to one relationship. A sends B a package. Visitor C never sees that package.

    Little Timmy surfing around doesn't want to mistakenly see little Sarah on some illegal site.

  2. What about.. on FreeBSD 4.8 Released · · Score: 0

    gnome2 and kde3? Does it support those... didn't see it in the release notes. Would use it as a workstation if it did.

  3. Re:Wasabi Systems? on Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems · · Score: 1, Funny

    And thus, when we see this article the first thing that pops into my mind is Waaaaaasaaaabi.

  4. Re:Easy answer on Complex Language Support for PDA's? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, are we to assume that all PDAs in the world come in English? Wouldn't Sony put Japanese in their CLIE at the get go?

  5. Re:High risk for spam on Post-crash Salary Survey · · Score: 1

    Why not just have the information posted on their website at the end?

    Or are we to believe that they will tally the results and plot your information against the averages and such? Even if they had something fancy like that, I would still just go for seeing the end-results minus the bells and whistles.

  6. Flash on AMD and Fujitsu Spin Off Static Memory Giant · · Score: 1

    Hey, will they be the leaders in the future of Flash?

    The new company, which will include all of both companies' flash memory operations, will be headed by Bertrand Cambou, who was recently promoted to senior vice president at AMD, the newspaper said, adding that the company would have one combined sales force.

    Hey just think, if they got Sony in there memory sticks would be everywhere!

  7. Re:Steve Forbes on Acadia Streaming Patent Contested · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You ever see that SNL skit with "Teve Torbes"? That was great...

  8. Re:Simple.... on Jon Johansen To Be Retried On Piracy Charges · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why don't ya just set the evil bit for any content decoded by DeCSS.

    Oops, redundant post!

  9. Re:umm... check the clock, folks on Community Networking Made Easy · · Score: 1

    Moreover, we're running out of funny jokes. I haven't seen a moderation over 2 for anything other than funny in over a day!

  10. Getting rid of fossil fuels? on From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil · · Score: 1

    APRIL FOOLS! AHAHAHAHA!

  11. No really... on Gnomemeeting Closes the Source · · Score: 1

    I'd buy it! Heck, I'll throw a little money towards any quality linux project if it means good interoperability with other widely used apps.

  12. Re:A million monkeys... on New Whitespace-Only Programming Language · · Score: 1

    You should submit this as the next news story for today!

  13. Money to be made... on Flash Memory And Its future · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Billions of dollars ride on the challenge. Industry estimates forecast that flash revenue will hit $13 billion this year, up from $7.7 billion in 2002, according to Jim Handy, a memory services executive with Semico Research. By 2007, flash memory is expected to be a $43 billion industry.

    Despite the limitations of Flash memory that the article states, it appears that there will still be room for a lot of money in this industry. Given the current amount of products with flash memory, I doubt we'll see a big shift to a new technology. I'm guessing it'll be more like DVD-Rs. CDrs are still good, but in a few years I'm sure we'll all be burning on DVDs.

  14. Interesting... on Last-Mile Fiber Optic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always wondered why urban comunities didn't have all the wiring and fiber available to the residents. Large apartment buildings next to eachother would probably find it cheaper to have one large connection into the complexes and hire a network technican, than to have separate service providers (DSL, cable, etc) for each resident..

  15. Outcome on Martin Michlmayr Wins DPL · · Score: 4, Informative

    The winner of the election is Martin Michlmayr.

    I would like to thank Moshe Zadka, Branden Robinson and Bdale Garbee for their service to the project, for standing for the post of project leader, and for offering the developers a strong and viable group of candidates.

    Total unique votes cast: 488, which is 58.60409% of all possible votes.

    Pairwise elections won-lost-tied: Moshe Zadka 1-3-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 428

    Bdale Garbee 3-1-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 228

    Branden Robinson 2-2-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 238

    Martin Michlmayr 4-0-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 226

    None Of The Above 0-4-0 votes against in worst defeat/closest victory: 449



    1 beats 5: 228 202 = 26
    2 beats 1: 428 34 = 394
    2 beats 3: 238 221 = 17
    2 beats 5: 449 29 = 420
    3 beats 1: 385 66 = 319
    3 beats 5: 405 65 = 340
    4 beats 1: 397 38 = 359
    4 beats 2: 228 224 = 4
    4 beats 3: 237 226 = 11
    4 beats 5: 424 39 = 385

  16. Re:And, if you want it right now... on Introduction to PHP5 · · Score: 1

    How would an apache segfault be any different?

  17. Re:Did somebody say warez? on Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you'll have to pay a license fee to point that out.

  18. Re:No one can tell you what the Nexus is on Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC · · Score: 1

    No no no, the nexus is happiness - if happiness was like a blanket that you could roll yourself up into. Time has no meaning in the nexus and you can do whatever you want.

  19. Re:Nexus?! on Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC · · Score: 1

    The nexus is separate from all time and space, it's like happiness, if happiness were a blanket and you could roll yourself up into it.

    At least that's what Soren wanted in Generations. Or *cough* at least that's what I've heard from people who've watched the movie. *tip toe*..

  20. Re:The fees! on Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If anything, I think the fees would drive more people to develop their software on free platforms.

    If you sell a hardware platform with your application, then the cost of the operating system is in your cost of goods and services for producing your app. I think this is one of the major arguments of Linux + Java. Though my disclaimer is that I'm not a product manager ;)

  21. Phasing in... on Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC · · Score: 1

    starting in 2005? What are they going to be demoing exactly other than initial prototypes with some possible smoke and mirrors.

    Didn't they bring out the 2003 server because of the longhorn delay?

  22. Re:Not suprising.... on Dell Takes the Low Road Regarding Ink Cartridges · · Score: 3, Informative

    We might remember the the first story on Lexmark too.

  23. Not suprising.... on Dell Takes the Low Road Regarding Ink Cartridges · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If Lexmark does it on their own, would Dell's version be any different?

  24. Re:How much on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 1

    Great googily moogily, were they running IIS on NT4?

  25. How much on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 1

    is NT really used these days? I remember some of our management applications (browser based) had to be NT tested a year or two ago.

    These days it's all Windows 2000 and XP, and people are considering dropping the 2000 support sometime in the near future.