Journal Operation Mongoose's Journal: lkjlkjlkj
People choose, replied Hachamovitch (IE lead engineer). Hundreds of millions of people actively use Windows and they get to choose. Nothing in Windows as it ships keeps them from downloading other software that extends their browsing experience (e.g. the Google or Ebay toolbars) or changes it (e.g. an alternative browser).No they don't. Maybe I do, but I'm a computer expert.My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use. Most of our mothers probably don [cont]...
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360|(5,67,117,34%) Real Troll Talk | "A REPORTER GUESSED THIS OVER A MONTH AGO!"
A USA Today reporter guessed this title over a month ago! We can't believe it.Listen up, this is a true story!Last month we were reading this USA Today article at http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-06-14-aid s-benefit_x.htm [usatoday.com].We forgot we had read it, but just now we went back to the article and remembered the final few paragraphs of the reporter interviewing Lucas at a gay AIDS banquet:We caught George Lucas wandering around the grounds with his d [cont]...
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251|(5,20,125,13%) SIGALRM | "Re:A clear advantage"
it was years before it was addressed Not really. The bug history began immediately afterward and for quite some time it was moved between FIX and WONTFIX but received a lot of attention. Here are some of the comments from the bug report at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167475 : ------- Additional Comment #2 From Jesse Ruderman 2002-09-11 16:58 PDT [reply] -------It's not hard for a malicious site to get a visitor to click a link. Requiringa click [cont]...
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171|(3,34,62,18%) Real Troll Talk | "This is great because it's Google"
Nothing was greater than when Google bought out Delphi and took over the largest USENET archive of all-time.Google always does things the right way without ruining the user experience or their wallets.In Google We Trust...(P.S. I have three Gmail invites anyone up for one -- I already gave away 5 to friends/family?)
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162|(2,10,65,7%) death to hanzosan | "Interesting"
I'll probably get moderated down for this, but I don't really prefer either Gnome or KDE, however the fact that both exist and compete for resources is in my mind one of the main causes behind the failure of Linux on the desktop. Hopefully this will drive a nail into one of their coffins.
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161|(0,9,89,7%) bje2 | "Re:Old Ben said it best"
Except that in Ben's time people weren't flying airplanes into skyscrapers...
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152|(-1,20,74,6%) Squeezer | "whats the problem with the patriot act?"
i don't see what the problem is. there haven't been any cases of abuse. if you don't want to be spied upon, then don't do suspicious things. how has the patriot act directly affected you?
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128|(5,17,48,6%) circletimessquare | "i didn't like the demonization of fusion"
i liked the movie, but i did not like the demonization of fusion in spider man iiin a world of smog and wars fought over oil prices (pro-iraq war people: read why iraq invaded kuwait, anti-iraq war people: read why us invaded iraq) we do not need an ultra-pop movie demonizing one of the few technologies which could save us from the petroleum agein spider man ii, fusion can go chernobyl, this is a fallacyif something goes wrong with a fusion reaction, it just fizzles out, it can NE [cont]...
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125|(2,6,66,12%) Milo of Kroton | "Why Censor?"
Really, is only naked women or men. In Mozilla Firebird, I have setted it to Block images from goat.cx (not visit!) and if my kids pictures of naked people find, fine. I did as child. I run linux but don't need this. As friend said You Americans are so puritanical!
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121|(-1,9,49,26%) Anonymous Coward | "Obligatory"
But as both the company behind this TDA, Novinit, and myself are French, I decided to investigate You misspelled surrender.
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108|(5,8,50,26%) Real Troll Talk | "I don't believe the news anymore these days"
How can we TRUST the big bully corporations to tell us the truth?After F9/11, I just don't trust anyone with $ any more.
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93|(5,15,29,15%) Exmet Paff Daxx | "I remain: Unafraid, Undeterred."
Mod me down as troll, but I'm about to speak the truth. Ubiquitous surveillance? There are cameras covering every inch of the city I walk in. Massive government analysis? A huge database called MATRIX contains all my financial and medical records, searchable by federal agents. I have to give my SSN, despite the law, to every two-bit huckster who asks for it, to buy a house, a car, a plane ticket, you name it.And you know what? I don't care. Because I've made a choice to deal with this [cont]...
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93|(5,15,29,15%) Exmet Paff Daxx | "I remain: Unafraid, Undeterred."
Mod me down as troll, but I'm about to speak the truth. Ubiquitous surveillance? There are cameras covering every inch of the city I walk in. Massive government analysis? A huge database called MATRIX contains all my financial and medical records, searchable by federal agents. I have to give my SSN, despite the law, to every two-bit huckster who asks for it, to buy a house, a car, a plane ticket, you name it.And you know what? I don't care. Because I've made a choice to deal with this [cont]...
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53|(5,13,27,4%) Dozix007 | "You have to wonder..."
You have to wonder if Microsoft will be implimenting this new standard in IE. I have done some webdevelopment and have really noticed that they rarely impliment any of the standards in there browser. Not to mention that they are on the board that approves these standards
:P
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51|(2,4,28,12%) Viol8 | "Spaceship One isn't even a space ship"
Its an aircraft with a rocket motor attached. Real spaceships can't use wings to slow themselves down and manuouveaure because there is no air to do it in! I'm sorry if I sound churlish but this whole enterprise to me smacks more of someones ego than anything practical. When they've solved the problems of manourveuring in a vacuum , long duration human life support (an O2 cylinder doesn't really count) , proper re-entry from near orbital speeds (which are required for any useful f [cont]...
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48|(4,8,20,4%) 91degrees | "The DMCA explicitely permits reverse engineering"
I have no idea why people who haven't even read the legislation keep making comments that are plain incorrect. The only time reverse engineering is illegal under the DMCA is when it is used for making infringing copies.
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46|(1,6,21,9%) AvantLegion | "Die already!"
What's your problem, CS?It's way past time to die!BSD died nice and gracefully - why won't you go? Are you too good for your destiny?
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46|(-1,8,25,5%) The Pim | "tall tales"
In 1996, he developed a solar-powered pump powerful enough to lift water from wells up to 20 metres deep. His invention is widely used in his home province of Wardak and the neighbouring province of Logar as well.One atmosphere of pressure is about 10 meters of water. You can't pump water any higher than that. I smell exaggeration.
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44|(5,9,18,8%) ICA | "Re:No No No..."
Okay, first of all I am biased, because I work for Intermec (in wireless LANs, not RFID though).Disclaimer aside, you're exactly right, this is not meant to be a submarine patent. We have put a lot of time and money into R&D and want to protect that investment. However, we did not wait until it was late and adopted, and then create some rediculous premise for suing the pants off everybody.The strategy the company is trying to take is that of fair licensing to all who wish to [cont]...
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43|(-1,7,19,5%) Noose For A Neck | "Burt Rutan does not matter."
You know what really irritates me these days is the sheer pomposity of the name SpaceShip One. Hello? It's not a spaceship. It's an airplane. They did not even get close to entering orbit. They have done nothing to solve the re-entry problem. It's an (ugly-looking) airplane with a rocket strapped to the back that can't even take off on its own power.So why is Burt Rutan suddenly the go-to guy for all things space-related - what's he going to do, drop payloads off in the high atmos [cont]...
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41|(5,4,28,3%) AKAImBatman | "Work harder"
Personally, I download Open Source software. Warez and Crackz are great for teenagers, but I don't really have time or energy for this stuff. If an Open Source piece of software does the job, I'll use it. If only a commerical piece of software does the job, I'll buy it. Unfortuately for software makers, I'm buying less and less. Either the product has to be REALLY good, or it has to do something no other product does. e.g. My last few purchases were WMA Recorder, PalmBasket, and Budget [cont]...
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38|(5,7,20,7%) Anonymous Coward | "Slashdot LoTR FAQ"
For those not familiar with the story...Q: Is LoTR really based on Christian Mythology?A: Yes. Tolkien wanted to demonstrate that even the mentally and physically challenged were capable of success and that therefore we should love everyone, regardless of their defects.Q: So who represents the mentally and physically challenged?A: Well obviously the hobbits are the physically challenged ones here, but the central mentally challenged figure is Gandalf, responsible for the most horr [cont]...
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32|(-1,5,9,7%) Anonymous Coward | "I'm so lonely"
It's been almost two months since graduation, and I'm still living on campus, by myself, in a hundred twenty square foot single. I haven't left the building in more than three weeks. Perhaps the Chinese delivery place will wonder why I stopped calling. More likely, they won't even notice, and wouldn't care if they did. My so-called friends packed up and left without saying goodbye, and the only phone call I've answered since then was a wrong number; the other party hung up immedia [cont]...
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30|(5,8,13,6%) Sheetrock | "BOINC has issues..."
We've tried deploying BOINC before for distributed biologic research on our internal workstations to create an informal cluster of sorts, with dissatisfying results. While BOINC is considered the provolone cheese of the distributed computing industry, we found that it behaves in a somewhat inconsistent manner.For one thing, on most of the workstations BOINC would appear to work very quickly on the data only to crash out well before the computation was created. Indeed, sometimes it wo [cont]...
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25|(4,6,13,4%) Milo of Kroton | "It do Work here"
Government can't switch to Linux or even free software, people say. Well, such has done München (Munich you say) here in my country. I am professional involved with some of people who are with the project involved, and it is as they are accorded going smooth move, exlax as you Americans say.
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21|(3,6,11,1%) Dozix007 | "Many ways to get around GPL"
There are sadly many ways to get around GPL. One being the method they use by offering to ship the source only. This can be done in many different shapes to get around anything. You simply charge an irrate fee for packaging, documentation, or something of the sort. There are a few liscences that will not allow this, sadly they are not widely used.
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20|(0,6,11,1%) the_2nd_coming | "Re:P3 CPUs?"
umm, you have a Xeon system based off the P3, not a P3 duely since the P3 is incapable of duel proc setups.
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20|(5,1,6,1%) Sheetrock | "Proof that technology (not legislation) works."
Part of the secret to the success of the Internet is in allowing unfettered communication between endpoints. While I am to some degree concerned about the technical approach to solving the spam problem, because of the collateral consequences it may have, it does not raise the spectre of 1st Amendment violation that anti-spam legislation does.That Microsoft is taking part is to their credit. Finally the Internet at large is going to actually try to apply a solution to spam at the sour [cont]...
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16|(2,6,6,1%) Tim_F | "This can only be a good thing for open source"
What this basically means is that there will now be a major open source player. If Lindows is frugal with this money, or spends it on advertising and promotions that benefit both themselves and the open source community that they take their base distribution from, we could finally see the first real threat to Microsoft! And with money given to them by their main competitor?Didn't Alanis Morisette right a song about this?
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14|(2,5,6,3%) trifakir | "cDc and 2600"
Cool, all the old geeks. I shall admit that I've always been sympathetic to the cause of the good hackers who fight for freedom of speach and all these liberties, many of your ancestors had died for...But on the other side, I wonder where is now and for them the border of what is allowed and what is not. Is this hackers ethics they define something too murky or it is non-existing at all? How do we prevent the proceedings about the Distributed Password Cracking API from their confe [cont]...
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12|(0,3,7,0%) Alien Being | "Re:Silly article summary"
that is pirating everythingIf a software vendor allows their software to be pirated, then to hell with them. People don't pirate VALUABLE SOFTWARE. They pay for it, download it under a no charge license, or they wouldn't have bought it anyway.You get what you paid for and you get paid for what you give.
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10|(-1,4,4,1%) Anonymous Coward | "Re:Gmail invites"
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7|(2,3,3,0%) An Onerous Coward | "Re:Not to mention..."
Do you actually have evidence that a larger percentage of car-owning teens today had their cars bought by their parents? No. If you did, would you seriously ponder a counter-argument that said maybe teens today *need* cars more than a generation or two ago? No, of course not.You haven't demonstrated any sort of moral or ethical slide into the ol' Abyss of Anarchy. The Internet appeared, and a large number of people started using it to commit copyright violations that were imposs [cont]...
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7|(3,3,3,1%) domQ | "Re:Obligatory"
You misspelled surrender.Still laughing at this joke when you have had ample evidence in these columns that M. Chirac was right on this Iraq thing (arguably for the only time in his career but still)? When will both of our nations cease competing for being the most stupid on earth? Sheesh.P.S.: Roland Piquepaille is real, but don't trust me on that, use Google. Oh, and you misspelt misspelt by the way.
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6|(-1,2,3,0%) Doc Ruby | "prayer is free"
What do we need a space program for, when all true believers are going straight to heaven?
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5|(-1,2,3,1%) Seth Finklestein | "Re:This is funny but,"
Frankly, I've never felt compelled to follow your so-called laws. When Michael Sims took away my web site, he broke the law. I tried to call the cops, but they just laughed at me and refused to help. Cops, like jocks, are inherently prejudiced against their computer-literate superiors.After Michael Sims wronged me, I made it up by wronging his car with a coathanger and a can of tuna. Was it legal? Hell, no. Was it justified? Yes.
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2|(2,1,1,0%) Sepper | "Re:Hmm..."
<quote>I think I saw a webpage about that once...</quote>Must have been: _________< cowsay! > --------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||And I'm Sure it had super Cow powers.. Moo [cont]...
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0|(2,0,0,0%) ArsonSmith | "Re:User-Agent stats?"
I would bet that less than 10% of the Slashdot visitors acually post.
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