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  1. Re:Hrm... Perfect 10? on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 1

    Porn webmasters are often completely clueless. It's mindnumbingly easy to download their entire archives with a single line of curl.

    Back when I ran the original fusker site, I used to get threats of lawsuits, but usually it was enough to reply with instructions on how to set up apache to use referer checking.

  2. Re:Runtime Revolution? on Alternative Development Systems for the Mac · · Score: 1

    I have. I just recently found out that it can read my HyperCard stacks from '90-'96, so I've been getting a kick out of loading up all the crazy games and animations I made. HyperCard was really amazing like that. I have platform games, a scumm clone, shoot-em-ups, etc etc. And I made some of these things as a 9 year old! Talk about user-friendly.

  3. Re:Why do this? on New Atomic Clock 1000 Times More Accurate · · Score: 2
    I don't mean to be offensive, but is there any real point to this?
    "This could lead quite soon to a new definition of the second, and in a while to improved resolution in GPS successor systems. More interestingly, there are theories that some of the universe's fundamental dimensionless constants may have changed by a parts in a million over the last 10 billion years or so. These clocks are so accurate that they should be able to detect these changes over a year or two."
  4. Re:And in other Congressional news... on Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack, Senate Told · · Score: 1

    Wow, that is seriously the best FP I have ever read. I wish I had mod points. Kudos!

  5. Re:Oh great, on Space Elevator Prototype Climbs MIT Building · · Score: 2, Funny

    So,

    Space Elevator Tether Point = 1.04179382 MiMITGBs (Mebi MIT Green Building).

    I'd say that's close enough. Wait, what's that coming flaming out of the sky? ARRRrrghhhh

  6. Re:Dirty Tricks on Disney to Make Toy Story 3 Without Pixar · · Score: 1

    Well, DreamWorks was co-founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg who used to work for Disney. I don't think it's likely that he will give up his employees without a fight.

    Try googling for "Katz vs. Mouse"

  7. Re:My Favourite on Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I misinterpreted the meaning of research paper when writing the original post. I don't know exactly what you call them, but we get assigned a problem, and we have to find the solution ourselves, through research. For instance, in the path finding assignment we did the first year, we could in theory choose any algorithm as well as make up our own. That said, most people just used Dijkstra's.

  8. Re:My Favourite on Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    My point was similar to the one your sibling rxmd made, that it might be more acceptable to use wikipedia as a reference in a cpu architecture class than in a class on the Israel/Palestine conflict.

  9. Re:My Favourite on Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I cite it often in research papers, by linking to timestamped articles to prevent accidentally linking to a vandalized article.

    I study computer science at the university level, by the by.

  10. Re:Speaking as a person who possesses a lot of mus on The Music Man · · Score: 1

    He mentions that he retags stuff that's not properly tagged.

  11. Re:Don't. on When Is A Good Time To Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    That's nothing. I'm using a Yosemite G3/350. Six years old in a couple of months.

  12. Re:Radical on Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah. Thanks for the heads-up. Didn't Apple hire the BeOS filesystem guys?

  13. Re:Radical on Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight · · Score: 4, Informative

    As mentioned, I think it's the plugin architecture that makes it special. That makes it possible to search for anything that you can imagine. For example, you could write plugins for your logfiles, movie subtitles, internet cache, etc. It's basically your imagination that sets the limit.

    To my knowledge, other metadata-based search systems have not had a similar degree of extensibility. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

  14. Re:Please ? on Siblings Guilty of Spam Felony, Partner Acquitted · · Score: 1

    It's the same in Denmark. We can sign up for "no unsolicited mail," "no phone sales," and "no polls/surveys." It works rather well.

  15. Re:"PC does not need to be the authorized machine" on How to Get Music Off Your iPod · · Score: 1

    You can connect an iPod to a couple (I believe three) machines running iTunes and actually have it show up in the side-panel. This requires authorization. No authorization is required to just connect it and recharge it or access the drive as a normal drive (and thereby gain access to the iPod_Control directory as is described in countless posts).

  16. Re:Crafty buggers on Massive Online ID Fraud Ring Busted · · Score: 1

    "Dubbed Operation Firewall, the Secret Service identified (a group of people who stole over 1.7 million credit card numbers) as well as (a passport-forging facility in Bulgaria)"

    It would be easier to read with commas, I'll give you that, but I'm not sure it's actually incorrect.

  17. Re:Way to shoot yourself in the foot on Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use · · Score: 1

    Your argument doesn't hold. They're arguably getting more publicity over this lawsuit than they ever got from that "favorite games" listing. If you call any publicity good publicity, that's not shooting oneself in the foot, on the contrary.

  18. Re:So can I also...? on Project Gutenberg Threatened Over PG Australia · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a place like Sealand, and their hosting company HavenCo, where only three things are illegal: child pornography, spam, and hacking.

  19. Re:Stupid stupid stupid. on Project Gutenberg Threatened Over PG Australia · · Score: 3, Informative

    I got access denied right now, from Denmark.

  20. Re:I might be interested... on The Sims 2 For Mac · · Score: 1

    I completed my copy of MI3 with ScummVM (www.scummvm.org). It only had a couple of graphics glitches all of which I could live with.

  21. Re:No commercial sampling for a few. on Wired Releases Creative Commons Sampling CD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's probably because their songs contain samples from other songs that their license does not allow them to let other people sample.

  22. Re:Yeah, but it's nothing that new really... on Google Launches SMS Search Service · · Score: 1

    Also in the more SMS-savvy countries in Europe, there are several services for finding train/bus-times, looking up phone numbers, finding food, taxis, basically everything you can think of. They usually cost a lot, though.

  23. Re:PPC Xbox? on Mac OS X Running On Xbox · · Score: -1, Redundant

    According to the article, they use PearPC.

  24. Re:Thin end of the wedge on Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is possible to do this, at least in a corporate environment that uses common installs or images. This method is for 8.0, but I'm sure it's possible ith other versions too.

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0 \W ord\Default Save]
    "Name"="Default Format"
    "Value"="SEE BELOW"

    Where it says SEE BELOW, insert one of the following (or google for other options, there are many):
    (nothing) (default, Word 8.0)
    HTML
    Text (ascii encoded text)
    Unicode (text format with unicode encoding)
    rtf

    We did this while transitioning to WordPerfect (with the code WrdPrfctWin) when I worked at an unnamed government institution in Denmark.

  25. Re:Risks and Rewards on The Space Elevator - Public or Private? · · Score: 1

    I would assume that it would fall slowly, maybe acxellerating (fuck spelling? i cant do it right now). If not fixed before the speed of falling becomes a problem, it should be easy to fix, but if it's too late it'll probably be really hard. Dangerous hard. Sorry, drunk,