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HELP with Bad Cookies.I have the Lavasoft Ad-aware software. I tells me that I have these two cookies (named below) that allow people to find out things about my computer and me.I have set my E:\temps folder as where I put my internet explorer temporary files. I tried editing these files and removing everthing and writing in the word JUNK and then making them read-only files. Well, the cookies came back with a [2] instead of the [1].I get doubleclick from the SF Rain Radar and fastclick from the DRUDGE Report. At least I have found out where they are...

Poll Problems Reported In Central Florida Ballots Being Put In Box To Be Hand-Counted In Gotha Posted: 7:59 a.m. EST November 5, 2002 Updated: 8:34 a.m. EST November 5, 2002 ORLANDO, Fla. -- Poll problems have been reported at two polling locations in Central Florida Tuesday, according to Local 6 News. Local 6 News reported that the scanners were not working at the Gotha Precinct 101 in Orange County, Fla. Voters were putting their ballots in a box to be hand-counted, according to the report. The scanners also are not working at the Port St. John precinct #159 in Brevard...

On any regular day I will go to Drudge then come to FreeRepublic, I've been doing this for years now. Lately, when I move from one to the other I get a full screen pop-up taking me to a site called WWW.SpyOnYou.com. It always seems to occur after I click on my link to FR while on Drudge or vice versa. I've searched for cookies and sure enough I find one - then I delete it - then later the popup occurs again - and the cookie is back. Any ideas on how to skip this part of my internet...

I've been having a terrible time getting into this website. Anyone else having the same problem?

On the afternoon of July 17, a self-proclaimed expert in biochemistry composed an e-mail message to Saddam Hussein. The message, sent from an MSN Hotmail account on a computer in China, recommended the use of methyl bromide, an agricultural pesticide, as an effective chemical weapon against the U.S. Army. "For weapon use, have function: no color, no smell, will let person dead in a few second," wrote the e-mail's author, who provided the phone number and address of a distributor in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from which the toxic chemical could be purchased "in cylinder or in can." The chilling electronic...

“However, these small radio stations are often just people with an Internet connection, a computer and a bunch of CDs or pirated MP3s who would rather steal from the rightful copyright owner than adhere to the agreements of civilized society. The four years worth of back royalty payments from webcasters were due on Sunday October 20, 2002 but that was postponed by organizations representing the artists including the Recording Industry Association of America (the RIAA is normally considered the villain in these discussions) and Republican Senator Jesse Helms (who is normally always considered the villain to liberals/leftists) has postponed voting...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. Reuters Photo The company hopes to have products available by 2005 using the advanced circuitry, perhaps even a "display card" that could store data and be carried around for use with various gadgets from games machines to mobile phones to car navigation systems. "This could be something the size of a business card, perhaps with a wireless function and touch-screen input," Mikio Katayama, head of Sharp's mobile display...

“EDS also found that the Navy’s computers were often purchased by different departments at the political whim of the department heads (Think: 'I’m a rear admiral, so I should have better computers than some captain.') Some PCs used by clerks were clunky old all-in-one Macs from 1984 while other clerks were using new Intel Pentium 4 systems with CD burners and 21” flat panel monitors.”

Hey, I was reading an article on al-Qaeda in Time (itself a reasonably interesting read), and I noticed something kind of spooky: the letters "CIA" are capitalized throughout the article!!! Totally freaked me out, makes me wonder if al-Qaedas are hacking articles and sending messages through them! Check it out yourself: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,366218,00.html?cnn=yes

When asked about a train schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits. When you are counting objects, you go "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D...". When you dream in 256 palettes of 256 colors. When your spouse says "If you don't turn off that damn machine and come to bed, then I am going to divorce you!" and you chastise her/him for omitting the "else" clause. You try to sleep, and think sleep (8 * 3600); /* sleep for 8 hours / When you are reading a book and look for the scroll bar to get to the next page. When after...

From a 1999 email... At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry to the car industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road,...

When I try to look at a foreign news website, I get this box that says download either uniscribe of arabic text display. What will it do if I download those?

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 September 27 Accretion Disk Simulation Credit: Michael Owen, John Blondin (North Carolina State Univ.) Explanation: Don't be fooled by the familiar symmetry. The graceful spiral structure seen in this computer visualization does not portray winding spiral arms in a distant galaxy of stars. Instead, the graphic shows spiral shock waves in a three dimensional simulation of an accretion disk -- material swirling onto a compact central object...

Online 'Smiley Face' :-) Turns 20 Thu Sep 19,12:58 AM ET By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was 20 years ago today that Scott Fahlman taught the 'Net how to smile. The IBM researcher has devoted his professional life to artificial intelligence, the practice of teaching computers how to think like humans. Fahlman is known for his work with neural networks -- a computer technique designed to mimic the human brain -- and helping develop Common Lisp, a computer language that uses symbols instead of numbers, but the bearded scientist is perhaps best known for a flash of inspiration...

Typically software makers like Microsoft provide a simple means of uninstalling software--particularly software such as Media Player 9 Series that has yet to be officially released. The Redmond, Wash.-based company released the public beta version last week amid much fanfare in Hollywood. Windows Me and XP users must rely on a feature called "System Restore" to roll back their Windows installation to a time before they installed Media Player 9 Series if the want to uninstall it. The clunky alternative doesn't really remove all Windows Media Player 9 Series files and could potentially wipe out other system changes. David Caulton,...

...I have a question....we're changing my email address - will I also have to give up my FR name and sign-up date? How do I go about changing all this on FR - but hopefully, keep my name/date ...searched and couldn't find an answer, altho I'm sure there is a solution. Sorry to be so stupid about all this, but I'm in a panic since I thought about it.

<p>Mind control: Do companies own the thoughts of their employees? According to one Texas judge, Alcatel, the French manufacturer of telecom equipment, does.</p> <p>In a case tied up in the Texas court system for five and a half years, Judge Curt B. Henderson of the Collin County, Texas, District Court found that Alcatel owned a former employee's software idea that had never been written on paper.</p>

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 July 30 A Star Cluster in Motion Credit: Adam Block (NOAO) Explanation: Star clusters are a swarm of complex motions. The stars that compose globular clusters and many open clusters all orbit the cluster center, occasionally interacting, gravitationally, with a close-passing star. The orbits of stars around the cluster are typically not as circular as the orbits of planets in our solar system. Cluster stars frequently fall...

Reading an interview with Neil Trevett from 3D Labs, in Maximum PC (August 2002). He is talking about the technology of the new 3D Labs graphics proccessors and its uses, when this question comes up: MPC: What about in a 2D application? Will virtual memory Make your desktop faster? NT: Yes, it'll definitly make your desktop faster, particularly as we go to the new generation of Windows. Longhorn [the code-name for Microsoft's proposed 3D operating system] proposes a really intractable problem when you think about it. If you have a high-resolution screen that's double-buffered, you can absorb 64 megabytes of...

The monopoly of foreign office software over Chinese market will be broken, as domestic software developers have jointed hands to start a project of "Chinese version" office software. The Beijing IT Industry Promotion Center announced on Thursday that two programs named "Yangfan" and "Qihang" (both means to "set sail") were kicked off, aiming at working out an operation system equivalent to Win 98 within a year. The Center said that 18 companies and universities joined the programs and its first desktop operation system "Yangfan 1.0" had been gradually put into use in offices of government departments. As reported, in...