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  1. Re:Only out of politeness... on JibJab Wins - 'This Land' is Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Given that "Gangsta's Paradise" was based (*heavily*) on Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise", why would Coolio need to be consulted?

  2. Re:Hmm... on Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice · · Score: 1

    So only programmers should be allowed to blog? I hope that you don't use any other software other than that you wrote yourself. God forbid that you use something written by another programmer. Those are your own DNS and Mail programs, written by yourself, aren't they? Running on your own operating system? And that thing you call CVS probably is your own system with nothing to do with version control.

    Do you seriously believe that everyone should write their own software, or did you just want to show off a little?

  3. Re:This is too easy on New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers · · Score: 1

    What makes you think the hosting website will care?

    As somebody who reads their site without viewing their ads, you cost them money. Why would they want you as a reader?

  4. Re:why on New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers · · Score: 1

    This is only true for affiliate-style programs (Commission Junction, Google Ads etc). It's certainly not true for the major deals with mainstream publishers (ie, anyone large enough to have dedicated ad sales people). Most deals are of an agreed cost for an agreed schedule of deliveries (and may even be of a fixed cost without any guarantees of performance at all, even of impressions, particularly for fixed-position non-rotated advertisements).

    Clickthrough ratios and customer conversions are obviously taken into account when agreeing a price (and deciding whether to renew/advertise in the first place) but are rarely if ever a factor in the costs of the deal.

    As for those kinds of scams - well, that's why agencies tend to refuse to advertise with anyone not running one of the standard ad delivery solutions (Doubleclick, Ad Tech, Open Adstream).

  5. Re:Hard To Believe on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    Heh, that's actually not far off. It's not a Wiccan saying at all, it's from Alisteir Crowley, some time at the beginning of the twentieth century.

  6. Re:Nouveau rich vs. real rich on RFID Tags For The Rich · · Score: 1
    Bill Gates and Warren Bruffet wear horable clothing.

    Hmm, the typo makes it hard to see what you're saying, but I think I get it.

    Yes, they do both pimp out suits....

  7. Other reports state 3.22 *billion* dollars on Mario Monti Fines Microsoft 100 Million? · · Score: 5, Informative
    In The Scotsman:
    MICROSOFT is working around the clock to find a way of avoiding a fine of up to $3.22bn that the European Commission is about to levy.
    Anonymous sources, though....
  8. Re:Here's my challenge... on Mastering Regular Expressions · · Score: 1

    Are you reading the files in line by line? If so, you won't be able to do multiline matches unless you join the lines together into a multi-line variable.