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  1. Great for elderly tourists on The Segway, Five Years Later · · Score: 1

    Here in Amsterdam there is apparently some company that rents them out to (mostly) elderly tourists. It seems pretty succesful.

  2. It doesn't have to be this way on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 1

    My domain is .org, the .net is an ISP, the .com is some comercial thing: as IT SHOULD BE.
    It can work, it's just some domain grabber who spoil everybody's fun...

  3. Have Sony/Toyota been bought out? on Sony/Toyota Developing Car With Emotions · · Score: 1

    By the Sirius Cybernetics Company?

    Or is it just me? :)

  4. Re:funky icons on IE 5.5 Tracking Default Bookmarks · · Score: 1
    just put a favicon.ico in the same directory as your index.html page..

    there is a restriction of 16x16 pixels or something, and I think it only works with IE...

  5. Re:How usefull will this really be? on 1-GHz Pentium III Due This Month · · Score: 1
    I understand how this can be useful in a business/technology environment running CAD or other calculation intensive programs, but really, I don't see a whole lot of use for this in the consumer market.

    Well, obviously, you'll need it to run Win2001: A Bloatware Odessy.
    I mean, how else would you expect to take advantage of Blinky the Annoying Paperclip's(tm) new AI system?

  6. If you were wondering... on The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences · · Score: 4

    ID Number: A034826
    Sequence: 0,1,1,2,4,9,20,48,115,286,719,1841,4755,12410,3255 8,85849,226980,601373,1594870,4232100,11 230771,29798539,79034638,209526631,555172356,14701 95001,3891131705,10292857772
    Name: n-node rooted trees of height at most 9.
    Links: Index entries for sequences related to rooted trees Transforms
    Formula: Take Euler transform of A034825 and shift right. (Christian G. Bower (bowerc@usa.net)).
    See also: See A001383 for details.
    Keywords: nonn
    Offset: 0
    Author(s): njas

  7. 33 hours? no way. on How many hours did you work this week? · · Score: 1

    It's wednesday now, i've still got 4 hours to go,
    and I've already worked 32...
    On the other hand, when deadlines aren't hanging over my head, I work only 30 hours/week,
    Seems like a good trade off...

  8. Re:Accurate on A Profile of Coders · · Score: 1
    I took a MBTI test a while back (when it was actually free on some site)

    It still is:

    http://keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/ne wkts.cgi

  9. Re:Yet another mirror on DVD CCA Applies for Restraining Order · · Score: 1
    And another:

    http://www.satl.com/~satlpop6/

  10. Re:Nice to see... on USPTO Takes Second Look at Y2K Windowing Patent · · Score: 1
    Is there anything that the retarded patent office wont patent???

    How about a patent for patenting patents? :)

  11. Some questions on U.S. May Kill Open Source Crypto Export Regs · · Score: 3
    1. Who hasn't got / can't get crypto anyway?
    As in: Other countries don't have these strange regulations, it would only take 1 copy in another country to make it available to everyone.
    Are there any Open Source crypto systems that exist, but are only available in the US?
    I don't think so...

    2. Are there any import restrictions for strong crypto?
    It would truly be weird if the rest of the world has strong crypto but the US hasn't, especially when it's OS and free to download...

    Chris

  12. There is no problem except irrational people on Dying Babies and The Myth of American Freedom · · Score: 1
    Let's say I have an extremely offensive opinion (and a plan that comes with it).

    [random example, not meant to offend]
    "People over 70 cost society more financially than they attribute financially"
    Solution: Kill all elderly people.
    This is obviously a pretty stupid idea, but, if I had true freedom of speech, I could propose this.

    Everyone could discuss this, think about it, and if everyone would agree it would be dropped pretty quickly.

    So why is there consorship anyway? Bad ideas will not live long at all.
    Gee, another Nazi, I discussed that years ago and found it a stupid idea. Next!

    All censorship promotes is extra (media) attention when someone has a bad idea (and that is, obviously, a bad idea :)

  13. How handicapped is `severely handicapped'? on Princeton Prof Advocates Euthanizing Handicapped Babies · · Score: 1
    Some random thoughts:

    1. Who could and who should decide when to end a childs life?

    I think the parents should decide, since their emotional investment is greatest. However, how could they do this? Extensive testing will not come up with something like "This child has a 68% chance of a `worthwhile' life" (nor should it). Would it be even possible?
    I think most handicapped people would definately say their life was worthwile, should they decide? In some committee perhaps?

    2. Might this actually happen someday, will we start 'giving involuntary euthanesia' to children who might become criminals or something else 'undesired' (aka killing them)?

    Just let them grow up, they'll probably be okay. After all, they can always ask for assisted suicide later.