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  1. Re:DURL is redunadant on DURL, a Search Tool for del.icio.us · · Score: 1

    this is how i set up my bookmarklet:

    javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/url &u rl='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)

    it works.

  2. Re:WiFi at Defcon? on The Dark Side Of DefCon's Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    I checked the source, it spoofs MAC address.

  3. Re:Wow! on Introducing Linux to Joe Average · · Score: 1

    'local alternative' works a little differently, here in Portland. I daresay that things with those words on it outcirculate the more traditional products, so obsessed this city is with local and with alternative.
    Portland's meta-alternative paper is going to have the budget/performance/quality that you were expecting.

  4. Re:Still don't have a cell phone... on Cell Phone Is The Most Hated Invention · · Score: 1

    hey, whoa, i don't like this line of reasoning.

    I'M MALE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CHANGE A TIRE ...when i got a flat tire

    my wife came and changed it.

  5. Re:Why has this taken so long? on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 1

    then maybe you should look at the screenshot for this main article-- the mails are sorted by date, with graphical cues to highlight the threadings. it actually looks like it captures the interlaced nature of the conversations pretty well.

  6. Re:Distributed Computing OR my time is NOT free on Distributed Computing "Advances" · · Score: 1

    hey, that's right! electricity turns into heat energy at the same rate, no matter what it did in the meantime. so for every watt of power your computer uses, that's one less watt of power your heater needs to crank out. (assuming you have it on a thermostat, and that the computer isn't hot enough to heat the room above its ideal temperature, and that air flow in your home is good enough that the heat from the computer affects the whole house)

  7. Re:Child Pornography on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    actually, on rare occations parents have been arrested, here in the united states, who've taken photographs of their children in the bath, naked on the beach or running around in the garden who were by that definition child pronographers.

    it's true, i saw it on television.

  8. well, that's great and everything... but... on Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack · · Score: 3, Informative

    notice the most recent update to the site is almost
    a year
    stale

    and despite how nice the screenshots look, there's no animation. chess boards are more exciting

    wouldn't it be nice if when the message "The gnome drinks a bubbly potion" appears, you actually saw him do it?

    but nethack code isn't designed for that as it stands.
    even the sounds effects are a kludge
    (it just watches the text output for "You hear a X")

    and as far as I know, no one's working on this,
    at all.

  9. new standard on W3C's New XHTML 2.0 Draft A Mistake? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    welll
    maybe we shouldn't try to fix HTML.
    perhaps it's just time to
    screw all backward compatability
    and make a
    small
    simple
    modular
    markup language
    from scratch
    with a well defined way to do scripts and other dynamic things from the beginning

  10. Re:Adult Swim? on Spirited Away Wins Award; Cowboy Bebop Opening Soon · · Score: 1

    er, actually, no, not sure

    how would i tell?

  11. Re:Adult Swim? on Spirited Away Wins Award; Cowboy Bebop Opening Soon · · Score: 1

    usually i prefer subs too

    but the ones on the DVD are so poorly translated
    when compared to high-quality dubbing
    i just couldnt put up with it

  12. Sonar on Network Aware Screensavers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this may take a little time with a copiler to make run with windows, but Xscreensaver has a SONAR screensaver

    part of a screenshot / description of entire package

    there's not much to it, but it can render network ping times of other computers as if they were boats on the sonar display.
    simple but cute

  13. Re:Coolness on The Importance of Being Debian · · Score: 1

    I admit the Debian installation can be a bit hairy-- particularly disk partitioning and hardware installation
    but once you get a hang of the system, it has one distinct advantage-- it always works
    you always get to choose what to do next-- unlike, say, Mandrake, which is entirely automated, if something breaks, you don't have to give up.

    in addition, there is a new modular installer in the works, that can serve the needs for 1. Pretty Graphics 2. hardware detection 3. automated installs 4. anything else imaginable.
    expect to see it in the next couple years...

  14. New Country on Why Doesn't Sci-Fi Hit the Bestseller Lists? · · Score: 1

    I remember 1993... suddenly country was cool and every radio station within range dropped their Pop/Rock to play it. Country as people are down hear, there just weren't enough ears to go around.
    The fad ended, the stations didn't notice
    1997 a few go back to what's now called "Top 40"
    but no one remembers to listen.

  15. how much of that $19.98 do the artists get? on The Culture of CD Burning · · Score: 1

    how much of that $19.98 per CD do the artists get?

    it's my understanding that it's much less than 25 cents

  16. Interface issues Re:Falcon's Eye on Nethack 3.4.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Falcon's eye has some problems... there are some concepts that work fine with keyboard/ascii that just dont translate to a mouse driven game. For example; casting spells takes a directional parameter; instread of just clicking in the general direction you want to shoot, you have to click the arrow for that direction that pops up in a dialog box.

    Worse, the keyboard doesnt behave like ASCII or tile nethack, which is offencive to habitual players.

  17. Email Vulnerability on Open Relays, Free Speech, and Virus Propagation · · Score: 1

    Email has an inherent security flaw that we would never accept in any other standard... we essentially give everyone in the world write access to our Inbox.
    We need to make a new standard, that makes it impossible for someone to send you a message without some sort of cryptographic authentication. Perhaps with third party servers that can authenticate "yes, this is a real person", plus any automated service that you gave a PGP signed certificate.
    Forever and ever, world without Spam. Amen.

  18. Desktop Manufacturing on Open-Source Processors · · Score: 1

    Wired magazine, January 2001 raves desktop manufacturing by 2005.

  19. I have Dvorty on On Using X w/o the Rodent · · Score: 1
    I have one. You give up your scroll lock LED for a "Dvorak Lock" one that cannot be touched by software, with the Dvorak lock button taking the corner of the keypad-- shrinking the plus key in half.

    All the keys have two letters on them, which is extremely confusing at first, and no one else can just sit down and use the keyboard without being really boggled.

    really there isnt much advantage to this over just rearraging the keys on your qwerty board and changing the software.

  20. They mispronounced Linus as well on Linux on Jeopardy · · Score: 2

    Yep. Linus doesn't use the American pronunciation of his name. The show did, though.

  21. those who dont fear it.. on Forum:Blair Witch Project · · Score: 1

    i was scared out of my mind
    but a few people i was with
    had to ask
    "What was that thing she found?"
    "what's with the rocks?"
    "what was the thing about the tree?"
    "Why did so&so disappear first?"
    "what was going on in the last scene?"

    sigh. they werent scared because they didnt get it.

    jesse