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  1. Re:Header Length? on Gmail Begins Signing Email with DomainKeys · · Score: 1
    If headers that increase the size of every message by 10% reduce the amount of spam being sent 'round by even 1% I think that's a net gain.

    And, yes, I know that this may have no effect on spam, I'm just comparing bandwidth wasters.

  2. Re:Thanks for bringing back slashback on Slashback: Pong, Economics, Stability · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just a shame about the anti-Kerry propaganda.

  3. Re:the economist letter about Kerry on Slashback: Pong, Economics, Stability · · Score: 1
    Gee, what gave it away, this bit?
    "It is no secret that John Kerry wants America's foreign policy to be more like that of Germany and France. But perhaps even more disturbing..."
    Sloppy linking at its sloppiest.
  4. Re:List of this groups backers. MAJOR GOP SUPPORTE on Disenfranchised In Nevada · · Score: 1
    It looks like the Bush memos were forged by the Republicans in order to muddy the fact that Bush is a deserter. The Democrats don't even eject people wearing Pro-Republican T-shirts, they aren't ejecting catholics. Troops are not getting armour they need to survive, but Bush promises to help only if he's re-elected (rather than doing it now).

    Clinton lied about an affair. Bush/Cheney constantly lie about everything. They're getting caught in lie after lie and the media controlled by their friends does nothing. Clinton's final State of the Union address was 51 weeks before the end of his term, not a few days before the election. It's not the same! Republicans keep saying that all the bad stuff Bush does is the same as something Kerry or Clinton might have done. It's not, it's several orders of magnitude worse, every damn time.

  5. Re:List of this groups backers. MAJOR GOP SUPPORTE on Disenfranchised In Nevada · · Score: 1, Informative
    You mean, apart from throwing out Democrat voter registrations, turning presidential speaches into 50 minutes of free party-political mud slinging, going to war on false pretences (including rigging CIA reports), routinely lying about pretty much everything ("I haven't met you before today"), using media control to air prime-time anti-Kerry, baselessm, propaganda just days before the election, hanging the troops in Iraq out to dry while the election battle is fought, using code in speeches to tell far right supporters that you'll overturn "Roe v. Wade" in a way that the majority of the contry won't understand, cuttin taxes for the rich under the guise of cutting taxes for everyone -- then saying you don't bother taxing the rich because they'll only get out of it anyway, lying about the economy, lying about the job market, requiring people to sign an oath of allegence before entering a GOP conference, using the threat of terror to distract from pretty much any problem that arrises. Need I go on?

    Clinton got a blow job in the White House and was pursued mercilessly for well over a year. Bush is sending US kids to die for some filthy oil war and nobody cares. It's not 50/50, I can assure you of that.

  6. Re:List of this groups backers. MAJOR GOP SUPPORTE on Disenfranchised In Nevada · · Score: 1

    In the current environment, if you cover everything that's dodgy in US politics, you're going to be running "anti-GOP" stuff at least three times more often than "anti-Democrat" stuff. I'd say it's more like 10:1.

  7. Re:Potentially Catastrophic Eruption Imminent? on Mt. St. Helens Magma Reaches Surface · · Score: 1

    A good trick is to give "Funny" a bonus -2.

  8. Re:Mt. St helens history on Mt. St. Helens Magma Reaches Surface · · Score: 1

    It's a little MUSH.

  9. Re:Why? on Saitek Maestro Travel Chess Computer Review · · Score: 1

    I think perhaps the GBA version of ChessMaster is a better investment, unless this dedicated peice of hardware is a much better opponent.

  10. Re:Skype on What VoIP Is Actually Good For · · Score: 1

    I tried Skype, but the quality of the audio was below usable levels. A friend uses it for cheap calls to the US and/or Canada, but it looks like there's no point in me bothering about it at least until my home and work Internet connections are upgraded.

  11. Random lawsuits + music with the suck at 11 = 0 on South Korean Music Retailers Dying · · Score: 1

    The main reason that I don't pirate music is not that it's illegal or that it's the subject of rigged legal action, but because "popular" music is crap. Same with movies. I was offered a free viewing of Catwoman and I refused based on the artistic quality of the movie, not because of the legallity or otherwise of the offer. I'm surprised that music stores aren't failing at this rate all over the world.

  12. Doesn't work on Can My Desktop Make It in the Big Leagues? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By the time you've bought a desktop with all the high performance, high reliability options you'd need for a server, you've bought a server.

  13. Re:Is this viewed as progress? on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 1
    He's got a mouth, doesn't he? Feet? Hands? A car? A phone? An organized party backing him? Well, get out there and talk yourself up as best you can. Shake hands, kiss babies, hold rallies, etc.
    ...raise your profile by going on TV, perhaps explaining your difference from other candidates using some sort of debate format...
  14. Re:Tightwads ought to know on Printers - Are In-Cartridge Printheads Better? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I agree. Printing photos at home is a mug's game. If you absolutely must have your photos on display and you don't want to have them printed at a lab, try getting hold of an old laptop and doing a digital picture frame conversion.

  15. Laptops are all about the screens on Rehabilitating Damaged Laptops · · Score: 1

    For me, any spare/obsolete laptop still in one piece and able to boot Win98SE gets turned into an extra screen using Maxivista. If it's damaged but still able to boot something and has a working screen, it will be turned into a digital picture frame. If the screen doesn't work, there's nothing that makes it better than all the other spare computers I already have.

  16. Re:Very Cool on Red vs Blue Meets The Sims · · Score: 1

    Your comment tipped the balance, I just ordered the DVDs. Thanks.

  17. Re:Ugh on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 1
    Home DSL/Cable connections are de-facto excluded here.
    University connections aren't.
  18. Re:Ugh on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "attachments in sizes up to 500 MByte."
    Anyone with an archive of, say, video files on around 24 DVDs (or a dozen DL DVDs) and access to a nice fast link could fill 100Gig in an afternoon.
  19. Re:System on 3DMark05 System Benchmarker Released · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, 2200+, 1Gig RAM, gForce4 ti 4600 128MB. I wonder if it will work on my PC? Can't wait to test this on the nForce4 SLI monster I'm planning.

  20. Re:Can they SEE the records? on California Bans Paperless Voting -- For 2006 · · Score: 1

    Your last comment is interesting as in Australia you're crossed off an electoral roll and no information about order is retained.

  21. Can they SEE the records? on California Bans Paperless Voting -- For 2006 · · Score: 1

    If you can't see what the black box printed on a hidden roll of paper, how do you know it's what you voted for?

  22. Re:Right.. on The Battle for Iraq's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Do Think Geek actually have the products made, or do they just sell other people's products? It's the difference between Nike and a supermarket.

  23. Re:Right.. on The Battle for Iraq's Cell Phones · · Score: 1
    Then stop supporting /. whos parent company supports outsourcing to China with no regard to the labor status of those working in the oursourced factories. If you support /. you are indirectly supporting slave labor.
    Really?
  24. Re:Right.. on The Battle for Iraq's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Crap. Now I have to find a new email client. I really liked Eudora too.

  25. Re:'an outdated French standard,' on The Battle for Iraq's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    There needs to be a "-1 Wrong".