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  1. ads at top of results - bad on MSN Search Roundup · · Score: 1

    Google (non-evil) only puts ads on the right but MSN search also has them at the top of the results. Very misleading.

  2. a farm of Windows boxes on MSN Search Roundup · · Score: 1

    As we all know Google uses a farm of Linux boxes.
    MSN can't do that. The NY Times says they built their own hardware for it. A Windows farm! - yuck.

  3. One step at a time on Combined Gasoline/Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens · · Score: 1

    Step one: Hydrogen buring cars don't polute. Next step: make the hydrogen in a green way. Or is it better to just do nothing.

  4. Re:Greylisting worked for my company on Beat Spam Using Hashcash · · Score: 1

    Maybe the graylisting need to be configurable.
    If you can see its a Lotus server then your SMTP
    server can too and not delay that traffic.

  5. I'll miss his singing on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Today Ashcroft on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1

    Who is going to eventually pay of that huge debt...
    to be long sighted. Yup, the middle classs tax payers.

  7. buffer overflow protection? on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How can McAfee have a simple checkbox that turns on
    buffer overflow protection:
    http://vil.nai.com/vil/images/vse80i- bo-config.gif

    I mean if my program has a buffer and I want
    to overflow it have can they stop it. The screenshot mentions APIs so make it just knows about the Win32 APIs.

  8. Just SEVEN?! on Bluetooth Plans to Triple Bandwidth · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Talk about aiming low: "signals to seven other users". Of course, as soon was there is a hardcoded limit people will want to exceed it. Why not make it 7 million?! Then you can "podcast". Learn from "640K ought to be enough"

  9. Just use the poor on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are tons of unemployed people. They can't find any other work so many are forced to enlist. They are probably a lot cheaper than robots. Having a pool of poor people to draw on is terrific for the "war president".

  10. Re:China will be the next big innovator on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now the US has declared itself as a purtianical Christian country where you are free as long as you aren't gay, etc. I think the US can now excel unhindered in the Christian sciences. Such has mining the bible for info on the age of the earth.
    I say: look out world here comes the *new* USA.

  11. Diversify!!!! on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    The answer isn't one thing (like nuclear) but many things. We should not have all our eggs in one basket (oil). We should be pursuing many alternatives. You know them: wind, solar, nuclear, tidal, etc. They should all be funded and give a good chance.

    Yes, politics is part of it. Bush and team have no imagination.

  12. Closed (source) government on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 1

    Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy

    The government needs thousand of eyeballs watching what its doing.

  13. Just now!!! on Virtual Stuntmen Ready for Hollywood · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I assumed many "stunts" were done my CG!
    How about the burning Terminator emerging from
    the fire in Terminator 2?

  14. Linux fork on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cristian Widnows has CreateProcess() but scientific Linux's processes always evolve from other processes with fork().

  15. They need about:about on KDE: Breaking the Network Barrier · · Score: 1

    Mozilla has the about:about pseudo protocol
    that gives you a list of all the other protocols.
    Since KDE has so many (the article said 75) they need an easy why to get list.

  16. Re:maybe the TCO is lower on Latest Ballmergram Bashes Linux TCO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think:

    simple == good security

    So I like the classic Unix security scheme on Linux.
    Windows has no equivalent. It's tricky, you can't see what's happening at a glance.

  17. LinuxBIOS on TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want a more sensible Linux-specific
    BIOS there's the LinuxBIOS.
    It looks like its only for clusters but I'd
    like to get it from my next Linux box.

  18. Department of big brother on American Passports to Have RFID Chips · · Score: 2
    Schneier wrote:

    The administration wants surreptitious access themselves. It wants to be able to identify people in crowds. It wants to surreptitiously pick out the Americans, and pick out the foreigners.

    Annoying.
  19. Re:No way to clear index? on Google Desktop Search Under Fire · · Score: 1

    I think if you ask it to stop indexing something that its cleared. Try asking it to exclude c:\mypron then do a search for something in there - you won't find it.

  20. Re:That's orange county. on Computer Problems Already Affecting Florida Voters · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its worth lieing in the election so they can lie when in office.

  21. Re:IM market too crowded on Could IM Be The Next Step For Google? · · Score: 1

    > I can't possibly imagie them trying to
    > take over a large portion of the IM market.
    > It's already quite crowded as it is
    > (AIM, MSN, Y!, ICQ, Jabber, etc.)

    I'd say your imagination is quite limited then.
    ("640K ought to be enough...")

    And they don't need to make a new protocol.
    They can just use Jabber.

  22. GPLware on DSPAM v3.2 Released · · Score: 1

    The paper uses the term "GPLware". I haven't seen that befofe. I might use it. Of course, we remember "freeware", "shareware", etc.

  23. Re:Codeless Development on The Extinction of the Programming Species · · Score: 1

    I supposed the "applications" produced in these Codeless Development Environment (CDE) will have some uses. But just look at the zillions of areas where programs are used. And more all the time. I don't see hand writing programs going away very soon.

    Other jobs will be replaced by our works sooner. For example: good bye real estate agents, travel agents, etc.

  24. FOUR processes on Google Desktop Search Functions As Spyware · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It runs as *four* processes on my box:

    C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe
    C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktopIndex.exe
    C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktopCrawl.exe
    C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktopOE.exe

    Seems like more than enough.
    I am finished indexing.

  25. Re:Programming versus Software Engineering on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That doesn't make sense. At one point people said: sure let the bluecollar jobs go overseas but the brain jobs will (of course) stay here. But why? People in other countries have brians? What so special about USA brains.