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  1. 503 Service Unavailable on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: -1

    Running a few searches left me underwhelmed with the content of the results (hitting the next-page button on a search with a listed 62,200,000 results â" for "seattle" â" got me the unexpected error message "We didn't find any results for 'seattle.'"), but pleased with the actual layout of the results when it worked, so I hope the kinks are worked out.

    Well, it seems like they have replaced 503-page with "we didn't find any results for ...", because when you hit the back-button and try again, you can actually get next set with the results.

    One other thing I've noticed was that their data is a bit outdated. We moved our site almost 2 years ago, but Cuil (ugly name IMHO) only points to old pages. And one of the results came with a completely unrelated image.

    I wish them all the best, but they still have a long way to go.

  2. Re:Encrypt It on Reasonable Expectation of Privacy From Web Hosts? · · Score: -1

    Not if he has the encryption/decryption part (including the keys) somewhere else, preferably on his own server.

  3. Re:Torrent on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: -1

    1. Buy a PC
    2. Download Windows XP through your favorite Torrent site
    3. Install Windows XP
    4. Enjoy...

    And about 4 minutes later on the other "end" of the Internet...

    5. ???
    6. Profit

  4. Re:News? on Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 Released · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't know either, wasn't trolling, just answering the parent and expressing my honest opinion.

    Anyhow, I've got to agree with you, documentation is not only a poop, but practically doesn't exist. You've got to use the forums. But when it comes to configuration... I don't know, may not be as smooth as on Mandriva, but was straightforward... at least for me.

  5. Re:News? on Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 Released · · Score: 0

    No need to get defensive ;) I wasn't saying it was better, just named another distro with all the features the parent was so excited about.

    I've used Mandrake for a couple of years before and then the first Mandriva, so I know you've got some superb configuration utilities. The only reason why I switch to Debian was the packaging system, and I just loved apt-get. And today I'm pretty happy with Xubuntu.

  6. Re:News? on Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ubuntu?

  7. Re:If you're going to live in the US ... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 0

    Russian is rarely spoken outside of Kaliningrad and Karlovy Vary, but is widely understood (though rarely very welcome.)

    I didn't know they spoke Klingon in Moscow ;)

  8. MAFIAA? on Best Way To Get Back a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 0

    You could always ask RIAA/MPAA to help you ;)

  9. Re:PHB on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 0

    I would go with the compact cassettes and a note saying: "We only use ZX Spectrums here" ;) Oh the memories...

  10. Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature on Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook · · Score: 0

    I think it would be more correct to say because email should not be a website.

  11. Re:People don't learn from history on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 0, Interesting

    you must live in an alternate reality where the republican party stands for saner government and a balanced budget. what's the price of gas over there? 15,34 NOK/liter, that's about $2.97 a liter or $11.24 a gallon... and climbing.
  12. Re:Who will have the better Linux driver support? on The Future According To nVidia · · Score: -1, Redundant

    (...) not to mention, how can a first post be redundant? You must be new here.
  13. Re:captchas are obsolete on Google's Audio CAPTCHA Falls To Automated Attack · · Score: 0
    Quote from Asirra's FAQ:

    Is it accessible? Aisrra is not meant to be an alternative to all HIPs, only visual HIPs. Accessible websites, such as Microsoft's Hotmail signup page, typically have both a visual and audio HIP. Asirra is only meant as an alternative to the warped letters, but is orthogonal to accessible alternatives such as Hotmail's audio version of dictated digits. Do I need to say anything else?!
  14. Re:captchas are obsolete on Google's Audio CAPTCHA Falls To Automated Attack · · Score: 0

    do something else. show me a picture of an object and ask me (in a multiple-choice test?) what it is...a tree, a car, a house, a flower, whatever.

    and for the sight-impaired, how about a read description or definition of something? "this thing is the entrance to a house or a room" => door
    Unfortunately, this doesn't work because you'll only have a limited set of objects, so it shall be relatively easy to collect all of the items.
  15. Re:So obsessed with memory? on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 0

    or one like IE 7 which is more polished than both Firefox and Opera.

    IE7?! Are you kidding me? You can "polish" Firefox as much as you want.

  16. Re:"more tightly integrated" on Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition · · Score: 0

    Nothing strange about it. He is most definitely using Firefox 2, and due to its caching system and a lot of badly written plugins it leaks memory, a lot of it. I don't really want to repeat myself, but the platform on which Firefox 3 is built on has been significantly changed and therefore it has a smaller memory footprint.

  17. Re:"more tightly integrated" on Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition · · Score: 0

    Doesn't Firefox already use up enough memory? Currently Firefox is running on my computer using up nearly 800MB of RAM. I have 3 tabs open and none of them are doing anything intense. I'm glad my computer has 2 gigs of RAM but I bought that for Photoshop not Firefox...

    Mozilla developers have made a lot of significant changes to the platform on which Firefox 3 is built on, many of those aiming to reduce the browser's memory footprint.

  18. Re:What about activation servers? on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 0

    It's just beyond me why the parent was moderated funny. Insightful, interesting sure, but funny?? That said I don't think turning off the activation servers would matter that much. You can always call Microsoft and get a special activation key, and secondly, I don't think they're going to update wga, so it's probably going to be hacked sooner or later. And besides, 2014 is definitely going to be a year of Gnu/Linux.

  19. Re:Night Watchman? on Road Coloring Problem Solved · · Score: 0

    Avraham Trakhtman is not a typical Russian name and calling his a Russian wouldn't be entirely true. Unless you think there're only Russians who lives in Russia. His is a Russian-Israeli or Israeli-Russian (depending on where yo are). This means that he was a Israeli in Russia and now he is a Russian in Israel. Yes, it is confusing and also somehow funny, bus sadly it's true.

  20. Re:What's more troubling... on Family Guy Spins off Cleveland · · Score: 0

    What's more troubling is that I actually want to do Lois. Am I alone in this?

    Hey! Whatever makes you happy *cough*, but I'm crossing my fingers for my roommate.

  21. Where's Our Terabit Ethernet? on Where's Our Terabit Ethernet? · · Score: 0
  22. Re:Stupid on Optimus Keyboard Starts Shipping · · Score: -1

    Who fricking watches the keys while typing or gaming?!

    I don't think my granny would really appreciate Das Keyboard, especially with my dvorak mapping.

  23. Re:not much really on How to Convince Non-IT Friends that Privacy Matters? · · Score: -1

    Actually you have to be as near as 20-30 cm, otherwise it just wouldn't conduct.

  24. Re:The nuclear option on How to Convince Non-IT Friends that Privacy Matters? · · Score: 0, Funny

    I'd rather say it's insightfully funny ;)

  25. Re:Balanced view. on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 0

    Evidence? You just know this, just like when "you drive by an accident, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you're the only one who can really help."