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  1. re hyperlink on Emergence · · Score: 2

    You can see who is visiting your site, unless they are using an anonymizer proxy, or other system to hide your headers. The HTTP-REFERRER header gives you exactly this information.

    Technically this is not true. The HTTP-REFERRER only shows you who sends people to your site by a link, not who links to it. Just because you can tell where someone came from doesn't change the structure of a link. The link its self is truly one way.

  2. Re:Schroedinger's Cat on Quantum Holography · · Score: 1

    Given that this theory is what? 40-50 years old. I would guess that the cat is dead, regardless of the isotope.

  3. Portability on Why Switch a Big Software Project to autoconf? · · Score: 1

    We(anon) switched to using GNU Autoconf about 2 years ago, there is nothing like it to make it easier to build on mulitple architectures. All the info you need to #ifdef your heart away is easily accessable.

  4. Just because something can make money. on Cable Co's Want More Control Over Your Network · · Score: 1

    For some reason in the past decade or so, there has been a real movement to convince the consumer that if something can make money it should. This basically throws fair use out the window and requires the consumer to keep spending more and more for less and less. It frightens me to think what the end result of this path would be.

  5. First hand experience. on Return to Castle Wolfenstein Ships · · Score: 1

    The Game rocks!!!! I bought it yesterday. The single player is better than average(good story, graphics and gameplay) but the multiplayer is the best out there. Combining the best parts of Team Fortress Classic(characterization and strategy) with Plot and Objectives. Plus smooth play, cool weapons and Huge maps!!!!!!!! Definatly worth the more than average new game price in my opinion.

  6. Re:The greatest invention of all. on Inventions of 2001 · · Score: 1

    Ahh yes, the girl next door. I have to agree.

  7. The greatest invention of all. on Inventions of 2001 · · Score: 1

    What about Ginger?!?

    Come to think of it.. what about ginger?

  8. Re:Paranoid? Or are they really out to get us? on Museum Of Broken Packets · · Score: 1

    I can understand the problems for a business, but why is it so bad for someone just to know the toplogy behind the average user's firewall?

  9. State Taxes. on Internet Tax Ban Extended · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This doesn't affect the ability of States to tax internet sales does it? I know Michigan keeps telling me I am required to pay taxes no matter where I buy from. Is this correct?

  10. Re:High School Question on Ask Bruce Campbell Anything... · · Score: 1

    Did you goto seaholm? I only ask because I did and never realized Bruce was from Birmingham.

  11. One of the powerful things about linux in business on Businesses Slow to Adopt Linux · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if it takes a long time for linux to gain a share. It isn't there to make money. Sure it matters to Red Hat etc... but if they don't change their business models to keep up with changes someone else will.

  12. Re:Government getting better techies on US Patent Office To Hire 500 New Examiners · · Score: 1

    In terms of techspertise (I think I just made that up!)

    Great! Patent it!!!
    It's not like they are going to reject it.

  13. Re:You blew his cover! on Bert Is Evil · · Score: 1

    They should have sent in Snuffalufagus(sp?). He's invisible.

  14. anyone know? on Acer Laptop W/Fingerprint Recognition System · · Score: 1

    What happens if something goes wrong with the
    finger print reader?

  15. Re:Dumb question? on Where is Largest Linux Desktop Install? · · Score: 1

    If you think it's a dumb question...

    Why are you answering it.

  16. relevant questions on Microsoft's Vision For Future Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    1) I wonder what a distributed blue screen looks like?

    2)Will we have to reboot the internet once a day or so?

  17. Re:Take these to dinners! on Mmm ... Purple Disease-Resistant Potatoes · · Score: 1

    I don't think these are really intended for 1st world markets. If you haven't eaten in a couple of days I bet the purple potato caserole would start
    looking pretty good.

  18. Not completely off topic(on quiet cdburner). on Which DVD-Recordable Drives? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I recently got a plextor 16x burner, man that thing is super fast and super quiet.

  19. Communal effort. on Open Source - Why Do We Do It? · · Score: 1

    Despite the rhetoric. Communal effort can have a good effect in a democratic capitolist society(before you flame I am not anti capitolist, quite the contrary). Supply and demand economics require a limited supply, in software great effort is spent making the appearance of limited supply... hence much of the stuff we 'love' about MS.

    The fact is software once written is extrodinarily cheap to copy. In a communal software enviornment everyone benifits. People who wish a better product have the right to make any product so, and they don't lose anything(as in a commodity) by giving it away. This of course will not work with cars or any other material item as there is an actual limit on supply.

    Just because something can make a profit doesn't mean it neccisarily should. Some unnamed companies say they are innovating but if they would let the open source community do their thing they could make something new and actually innovate and then EVERYONE would benefit.

    Why doesn't this happen? When you have a product that is making gobs of money why bother! Now the interesting thing is IMHO this is not the corporations fault. This is what the corporation is supposed to do, make money and provide jobs. It is the CONSUMER's responsibility to make sure they are not being abused by the corporation and the GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE's responsibility to provide the consumer with the channels to do so.

    So get off your chairs and make a stink!

  20. Re:.8 sec... SO? on Booting A PIII System In .8 Seconds · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point.
    In order to be able to claim %99.99999 uptime you
    would have to do your reboot in 3 seconds. It is
    possible to boot in 2.1 seconds in a high
    performance box with a tight kernel. If the person
    running the box is 'a silly fool still running ext2, then they probably don't care about the
    %99.99999 uptime.

  21. Re:Uh-huh on Microsoft Trial Sent Back To Lower Court · · Score: 1

    Well Stevie is quite a dancer. We love to see him boogie.

  22. Re: references. on McAfee Patents ASP Business Model · · Score: 1

    I think the number of "* for idiots" chapters
    in the references section of the pattent says so much.

  23. Playing the part of the young Chewbaca on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    The original clone. Dolly the sheep.

  24. Re: good luck trying to get through on Perv-y Material Heralds Move From Silicon · · Score: 3

    As the Reg reports, the journal Science contains the original article. Best of luck getting at it though.

    I suppose it is hard to get through with the wrong link:)

    Try this one instead(Reg required).

  25. RE: Tracking A Thief Via The Sircam Virus? on Tracking A Thief Via The Sircam Virus? · · Score: 3

    And if I do find him, do I send the cops, or just my 6-foot-4, 260-lb ex-eastern-block buddy Radek?"

    Given what I know from my own Eastern block friends.
    If you ever want to see your beer again... send the cops:)