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  1. Re:Coral link on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 1
    Oops! missing something there...

    http://www.mirrordot.org/

  2. Re:Coral link on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Also:

  3. Re:intel Trademarks on New Intel Trademark Filed · · Score: 1

    The Intel site now lists, among other copyrights, "i386" and "i486". The "i" trademark information I recall was from some time before the introduction of the 80386: it may have been on the notes inside the cover of "The 8086 Book".

  4. intel Trademarks on New Intel Trademark Filed · · Score: 1

    Does Intel still hold a trademark on lower case "i"? When I first saw that (maybe in the mid 80s), I didn't realize that much worse was to come in the whole trademark / patent / copyright area.

  5. This is not a religious issue on Human Animal Hybrid Created in Lab · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a purely political issue.

    Swarms of mice being churned out of the labs with tiny human brains will obviously be voting Republican in the next US election. If the GOP is not now sponsoring this type of research, it soon will be.

  6. Re:Grow a brain before typing! on Microsoft's Technical Glitches at CES Explained · · Score: 1

    Journalistic fairness demands that both sides be heard: those who claim that the BSOD actually occurred have as much right to represent their side of the debate as does the other side. Really, it's a n honored tradition in the American way of life.

    As further examples, think of Creation Science in the schools and the SwiftBoat Veterans ads in the recent campaign.

  7. Re:"State Run...." on CBC Opens ZeD.cbc.ca Code · · Score: 1

    Mod parent "Canadian"!

  8. Re:CBC -- BBC on CBC Opens ZeD.cbc.ca Code · · Score: 1
    Zed is one of the best things to happen on CBC, and CBC is one of the best things to happen to television in North America.

    And I think it's great that Zed is finally living up to its long-standing tag: "Open Source Television"

  9. Freenet / Chiaroscuro on Exeem "Successor" to Suprnova Announced · · Score: 1

    It's one of the very few real black and white issues, folks.

    You agree with censorship or you don't.

  10. Re:Not currently in the world on Tim Bray's Top Twenty Software People in the World · · Score: 1

    Yup, we don't need no booleans no more

  11. Re:It's sad on Tim Bray's Top Twenty Software People in the World · · Score: 1

    Pretty unlikely that Turing was left off simply because he was gay... Larry Wall doesn't appear on the list either--do you think there's something in his private life that counts against him here?

    Incidentally, credit should be given where credit is due: it was al-Khwarizmi (or his translator, Fibonacci) who "gave us the algorithm"...

  12. Re:The mammalian eye & the cephalopod eye... on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1
    information that was outright false, even one offered by an alledged PhD (anyone that claims raptorial birds are monochromats is nuts)

    ...would this be eyedesignbook.com's Curt Deckert (Ph.D., MBA, MSME; Certified Management Consultant)? Of eagles he says "One expects they would see less overall color than humans."

    I'm prepared to believe that he obtained his PhD without the benefit of any science courses at all.

  13. Re:Typo in article headline on What's Going On in Canada? · · Score: 1
    "...Complete Transcript..."? Aljazeera only released an excerpt, and we have no idea about what was cut. How much pressure were they subjected to, and how badly do they want to get back into Iraq?

    The portion released seems to contain a backhanded but solid endorsement for John Kerry. So one is immediately reminded of the responses reported by The Guardian to its Operation Clark County letter-writing campaign. Does Osama bin Laden read the newspapers, or does he merely depend on directions from his god? And now the editorial staff at LeMonde (obviously not reading English papers, probably also godless) have delivered the French kiss of death to Kerry's hopes.

    The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigade, in claiming responsibility for the Madrid train bombing, went for the other candidate:

    "A word for the foolish Bush. We are very keen that you do not lose in the forthcoming elections as we know very well that any big attack can bring down your government and this is what we do not want.

    "We cannot get anyone who is more foolish than you, who deals with matters with force instead of wisdom and diplomacy.

    "Your stupidity and religious extremism is what we want as our people will not awaken from their deep sleep except when there is an enemy.

    "Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish blasphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilisation.

    "Because of this we desire you [Bush] to be elected."

    But that was written way back in March, long before Operation Clark County, and by a group only loosly associated with bin Laden. I think that the more recent bin Laden effort is rather more cleverly designed.