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  1. Re:Just great on Trojan Horse Caused A Siberian Explosion · · Score: 1

    I'd say there are probably a few people still alive from the early 1900s, and it was still going on then. Exact dates escape me (My AP US History class has been over for a full week now, my brain's already cleaned itself out) but I'm pretty sure there was a lot of nasty stuff going on well into the 20th century.

  2. Re:Let me get this straight.... on Trojan Horse Caused A Siberian Explosion · · Score: 1

    From dictionary.com:

    terrorism
    n.

    The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

    Terrorism doesn't have to be by a rogue group, it can be by anyone who just wants to instill fear. (Hence the root of the word...) OTOH, this wasn't terrorism, since the main objectives were to stop the pipeline being built and force a thorough review of all the technology the Soviets had taken from us, slowing them down tremendously.
  3. Re:They can't be serious... on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1

    School computer. Most things the blocks on are easy to get around (heck, I even have an ad-blocking hosts file on this particular computer) but the registry and the command prompt are the two things I haven't. And I don't really feel confident hex-editing the registry...

  4. Re:They can't be serious... on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1

    No, I hadn't. All I could find when I looked (a long time ago) was CuteFTP and WS_FTP, and CuteFTP had a trial expiration. I also have the restriction of being on a school computer, so installers "don't work" (a lot of them do, as long as they don't have to modify the registry like the GTK installer does :-( ). So I'll look at filezilla (and hope I can use it); thanks for the recommendation. :-)

  5. Re:They can't be serious... on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1

    Well, they could do what IE is considering, which is block all user:pass@site, which destroys a lot of functionality for those who don't have any way to get a real FTP client on their computer so they have to use IE (like at school...)

    Thank god for Firebird and WS_FTP in my network drive this year.

  6. Re:Give it a shot.. on "DVD-Jon" Demands Compensation · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean the DeCSS shirts at Copyleft? Thinkgeek doesn't have any :-(

  7. Re:I don't get it on EU's Mind 'made up' on Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I can't imagine middle schoolers using linux.... faaar too stupid.

    What, you expect them to be root? A normal middle schooler (heck, even a normal high schooler) doesn't know more than word processing and internet browsing. That's not any harder with Mozilla and OpenOffice than it is with IE and Word.

  8. Re:Full motion video streams? on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1

    300k. And at the blazing 2k/s that a lot of people I know get, 20 minutes is off by less than one order of magnitude and therefore not all that big an exaggeration.

  9. Re:just turn off the flash on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1

    Hmm... you mean like setting dom.disable_window_* to false in Mozilla?

    For reference, * includes

    • move_resize
    • open_feature.
      • close
      • directories
      • location
      • menubar
      • minimizable
      • personalbar
      • resizable
      • scrollbars
      • status
      • titlebar
      • toolbar
    • status_change
    • flip (no clue what this is)

    I think move_resize is the one you want, though chances are you'll want open_feature.close and open_feature.resizable (and... well, all of them) too.

  10. Re:Sounds Tempting! on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 1

    Probably because Powerpoint Makes You Dumb. By sleeping through the classes, you're saving your brain cells.