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  1. Re:Character named variables in asemmbly? on ATI Drivers Geared For Quake 3? · · Score: 2

    Yes randy, but the data segment is unaffected:) If you want to compare the name of a file to "uake3" then you need to *store* "uake3" in your datasegment so you have something to compare it against.

  2. A paralell question on ATI Drivers Geared For Quake 3? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When intel optimizes adobes plugins at the expense of amd processors -- so they can use it as a benchmark -- thats ok as well?

  3. Re:Am I the only one who doesn't get this? on Slashback: Retail, Preparedness, Games · · Score: 2
    There must be *some* reason. I think in 97 or 98 I was at a bob dole rally (my g/f drug me), and the secret service checked everyone who was close to bob dole -- demonstrate cell phones, examine pagers, and they made me show them my pilot 1000 ... curiously they'd never seen one before but they were satisfied to look at the program manager.

    Curiously, I attended a sunny bono and was close enuf to spit on him and no one cared :)

    (These anticdotes shouldn't be considered an endorsement of republicanism)

  4. Re:Wow on Disney's Anti-File Swapping Cartoon · · Score: 2
    This is the first time I've seen the airing of a piece of blatant, unapologetic propaganda directed at children since the World War 2 era.

    Haven't been to church latley have ya ?

  5. Re:Where'd I put that again on Quarter-sized CD's? · · Score: 4, Funny

    hmm ... next time my boss asks for something on a cd cuz he's too stupid to burn one himself; I *really can* shove it up his ass.

  6. Re:Actually... (Completely OT) on New Cube controller · · Score: 1

    The mac was toast and so were the monitors... apparently the monitors had been left on for 2-3 years with no computer attatched (before I got there)... the working macs are in a stack in my cubicle :) (whoevers reading this: no you can't have them so don't ask:)

  7. Re:Actually... (Completely OT) on New Cube controller · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've had a similar experience :)

    I work as a sysadmin, and one of my guilty pleasures is tossing out old equiptment :) We have a raised loading dock, and adjacent to the loading dock is our (not raised) steel garbage bins ...

    It was a particularaly (sp?) good day because I got to toss out some old macs (I don't really care for them) on the docket was an old quadra 990 (IIRC) and 2 of those *REALLY* old B/W 20+ inch monitors ... so ya gotta imagine Im close to 6' tall, and the trashcans are 3' below my feet, so I topple a monitor from my cart down into the empty trash bin and it makes a fantastic noise but dosen't break! So I pickup the second monitor, raise it above my head, and throw it down into the bin, it makes a terrible noise, still, tube is intact ... by this time im uber pissed so I grab the quadra (and its not a dinky one either, its one of those early 90's dealies with the thick aluminum cases) and I throw it as hard as I can at the two monitors! ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! they still didn't break :)

    By this time, everyone in the parking lot is staring at me :) People have come out of their upstairs offices all to see what the 3 loud bangs were ... defeated, so I pack up my cart and head inside :)

  8. Re:You already have the answer on Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ok, so, buy 5 dishes and a load balancer. that should be what, 250 - 500$ a month ? your school probably spends more on toilet paper

  9. You already have the answer on Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Microwave. Our local school district has microwave on the top of every school (of course we live in a valley and theres only 1 elevator in the entire town. So line of sight isn't too difficult). Althought I personally have no experience with the stuff :)

    BTW, whats wrong with two way dish ?

  10. Re:I thought this was supposed to happen years ago on Anthrax To Kill Snail Mail · · Score: 3, Interesting
    its a silly supposition that people will stop sending mail ... and this is why:

    You don't *choose* what medium communications *TO* you take. If I get a CC bill in the mail, I mail a check. If I get a phonecall, I return the call. if I get an email I send an email. You can only choose the medium of conversations you initiate :) So the only way sending e-mail instead of snail mail is going to reduce your risk of getting anthrax is if you are the person mailing antrax to people :)

    The only thing that could help would be for potential victims (companies apparently) to declare they only will accept email.

  11. Re:Big push for services.... on McNealy Calls for National ID Card Too · · Score: 2
    Sun - We're the ID behind NationalID.

    You were close, but not quite there --

    Sun - We're the IP behind the National ID.

  12. Re:Osama bin Bert ... a message on Bert Is Evil · · Score: 3, Informative

    assuming the photos aren't faked -- these could be pre-arranged messages to his field aggents. Bert could mean "do plan X". There are reports of pics of osama with jack daniels to, that could be plan Y ...

  13. And end to grade school pollock jokes ... on Extreme Recycling - Cardboard Buildings · · Score: 4, Funny

    playground whispers of ...screen door on a submarine ... solar powered flashlight ... parachute that opens on impact ... all replaced by

    "Did you hear the one about the brits who made a cardboard school ?"

  14. Re:The President on Ask A Tech-Savvy Lobbyist About The Politics Of Computing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can answer this, "for sale".

  15. Re:shew! on IBM DeskStar 75GXP Hard Drive Failures? · · Score: 2

    ya thought you'd try screwing him for once? :)

  16. Re:Wasteful on Black Death's Genome Cracked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ummm, I care. They find squirrels carrying the disease all the time in southern california.

  17. Re:EULA for MediaPlayer on Music Industry Forcing WMA standard? · · Score: 2
    updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer

    hmmm ... disable ... ability to ... use ... software on your computer.

    Sounds like normal operating procedure for MS products :)

  18. Re:Linux moving in front on HP Lays Off Unix/IA-64 gurus · · Score: 2

    Long term predictions in computers are silly :) anyone who makes long term predictions dosen't know what they're talking about ...

  19. Re:Well run, good people, a business model that wo on PayPal Announces Intent To IPO · · Score: 1
    Its from a SNL skit long ago ... I'll refer you to a previous explination :)

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21918&cid=23 48 916

  20. Re:Well run, good people, a business model that wo on PayPal Announces Intent To IPO · · Score: 2

    The post office can't take back the payment AFTER you've recieved it. Thats what paypal did in this case.

  21. Re:Well run, good people, a business model that wo on PayPal Announces Intent To IPO · · Score: 2

    It is paypals problem if you're defrauded -- they claim to be a safe and secure way to transfer money. Even if you want to argue that they aren't in the business of making sure TRADES go ok, someone clearly has found out how to defraud the monetary transfer itself. IMHO paypal was ripped off in the previous scenario, not my friend ... however-- paypal sidestepped the monetary damage itself by commiting fraud on one of their customers. Paypal is a joke :)

  22. Re:Well run, good people, a business model that wo on PayPal Announces Intent To IPO · · Score: 5, Informative
    Wrong wrong and WRONG! Many of my friends have been ripped off by paypal. Paypal is a security disaster, and when you are ripped off, they won't be interested in helping you.

    http://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/paypal.htm l

    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/02/23/pay _p al/

    Paypal victim site: http://chips.dyndns.org/~xcomvic/

    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,26 05 840,00.html

    etc etc etc ... One scam goes like this : The victim sells an item, are paid via paypal -- they ship the item, once the scam artists has recieved it, they can force the CC company to reverse the charge because theres no signature ... Paypal is debited the money, and paypal *TAKES THE MONEY FROM YOUR BANK ACCOUNT* without your authorization. A buddy off mine lost 350$ AND his DX7 keyboard this way ... fuck that

  23. Re:Technical disagreement on Study Finds Low Use Of Steganography On Internet · · Score: 1

    These are interesting ideas -- I agree with you completley except on the meaning of the word constant" :)

  24. Re:Isn't that the point? on Study Finds Low Use Of Steganography On Internet · · Score: 2

    Really theres nothing to stenography ... atleast in images ... you just choose the ratio of normal bits to replaced ones ... The pattern of where the bits are hidden has to be a constant because the reciever has to be able to find them to :) I submit that "good steganography" is simply a high ratio of normal to replaced bits :) And good stenography CAN'T be proven to exist because its indistinguishable from gaussian noise in the image.

  25. Re:The nerve of these geeks... on FiveFingerDiscount.com? · · Score: 2

    Californias even worse ... I work for the University of California Riverside ... For some fucking reason my job as sysadmin falls under the rules and regs for "clerical" help ... One day we worked 17 hours to get a proposal out the door (which has *shit* to do with my job anyways) ... I went to see payroll the next day to ask if I was elidgeable for time and a half or something ... The payroll lady looked up the rules and all I was elidgeable for was COMP TIME! on a 17 hour day! She showed me how to fudge the time slip so I'd atleast get my regular hourly wages ...