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  1. Re:Bizarre sequences of random numbers on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the eventual wearing down of the balls when they colide with each other. You would have to start with fresh balls each time with the exact same molecular arrangement.

  2. Re:webcrawler? on Robots for Air Force Protection · · Score: 1

    Basicly the robot sucks the wall. I would haveto immagine that it would be tough on the batteries though.

  3. Re:Yea right, I'm sure on Insurance Claims to be Tested by Lie Detector · · Score: 1

    Contrails? I've got the nice mental image of a hawk with jet engines mounted under it's wings. I think you ment "entrails".

    Very funny stuff though :)

  4. Re:POPFile is more than just a spam tool on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 2, Informative

    I agree, I just discovered POPFile last week when it was shown on BBSpot. I use an exchange plugin called Outcast that allows POPFile to work over exchange also. I have several buckets setup to help sort incomming email into the correct folder for different projects and it works fantasticly. I've only been training it for about 3 days and it already sorts with almost perfect accuracy.

    POPFile, and Outcast rock.

  5. Re:E-mail? on Lindows Webstation · · Score: 1

    It's got a network card. think remote fileshares, NFS, Samba.

  6. Re:My Stats on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 1

    Windows XP crashes the the past 2 weeks, Zero.

  7. Re:5% seems a bit low... on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 1

    asked another way. how many people know how to turn off the error reporting and jsut leave it on? I'm betting the majority of windows users leave the error reporting on,a dn report thier errors.

  8. Re:Very sad on AOL Lays Off 50 Netscape Coders · · Score: 1

    yeah... that's going to go over well with my mom.

  9. Re:Some Images are Instantly Familiar on Giant "Inkjet Printer" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh, I thought it was Elvis at first glance.

  10. Re:"Memory"? on Tom's Hardware Looks At WinFS · · Score: 1
    "Am I the only one really annoyed at this guys use of "memory" for disk space?"
    This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I actually had a pretty loud fight with my sister's byfriend once when he tried to tell me that memory and hard drive space were the same thing. I ended up telling him to get back to me when he manages to get a memory stick to fit into the IDE port.

  11. Re:For lots of files... on Tom's Hardware Looks At WinFS · · Score: 1

    I've got a 600mb version of one of those in my abble IIgs back at home. I believe the maximium voulme size of a ProDOS partition was 20MB if you wanted to be able to read it from a standard ProDOS 8 boot disk. when it was running the actual gsOS System 6 it could see larger partitions. I remember my desktop being otally filled with drive because I programmed in ProDOS 8 almost extensivly. it was a major PITA.

  12. Re:An even more likely cause of the "speed" readin on Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction · · Score: 1
    "But a human will never make the same mistake 50,000 times in a row in under 2.5 seconds wiping out an entire database."
    You have obviously never met some of the people in my company. There is one in particular that's done it twice.
  13. Re:College Student's "life savings"? on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 1

    Well, judging from my comment, I *DID* RTFA, just not very well.

  14. Re:College Student's "life savings"? on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: -1

    nevermind, i am stupid, feel free to mock me.

  15. Re:College Student's "life savings"? on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the story says he has been a music fan for over 40 years. I don't know if "trust fund brat" covers old people :)

  16. Re:called a quest... on Geocaching Crackdown? · · Score: 1
    "maybe someone could make it a bit more interesting than "here, plug these coordinates in, and follow the map" throw in a couple of way points, some clues, riddles, hints and all that...now that would be worthwhile...
    "
    This already exists in geocaching. It's called a "multi-cache", It basicly starts out as a normal hunt, but when You find the cache it contain coords, or a riddle, or a puzzle, that will lead to the next poain, and so one. I've done some multi-caches that had 8 parts that required some actual research in libraries, and several days to solve. Those are my favorite kind.
  17. Re:Legal rights to own a radar detector & MP3' on The MPAA's Lobbying-Fu is Stronger Than Yours · · Score: 1

    1) If you are going faster then the little rectangular white signs with black letters on them you are breaking the law.

    2) The goverment is made up of the people. If they people own the road, the goverment owns the road. The radar beam is not searching your car, it is bouncing off the outside of it.

    3) You can get emergency alert devices that do not have radar detectors built in.

  18. Re:Well if VA and other states can do this ... the on The MPAA's Lobbying-Fu is Stronger Than Yours · · Score: 1
    "Virginia and a few other states I know of ban radar detectors. To me, that is an invasion of privacy. A radar detector isn't necessarily used to "break the law" but everyone is guilty of exceeding the speed limit on a daily basis- same as a download of an MP3 isn't ALWAYS breaking the law and lots of people do it on a daily basis."

    I've tried, but I can't think of one ligitimate use for a radar detector other then trying to avoid a speeding ticket. I mean, sure, you could use it to see if your microwave is leaking, but I doubt you have a microwave in your car.
  19. Re:HA! That's nothing.... on Land Speed Record Broken: 0-6,400 in Six Seconds · · Score: 1

    ohh, so your one of those happy people on the other side of the wall laughing at everyone on my side? :)

  20. Re:HA! That's nothing.... on Land Speed Record Broken: 0-6,400 in Six Seconds · · Score: 1
    " glorious 270 with 6 lanes and no traffic opens up..."
    What, what part of 270 is this? I drive it every day from Frederick to Rockville, and I can say with confidance that there is nothing glorious about 270 at rush hour... And I even get off before the really bad stuff starts at Shady Grove Rd.
  21. Re:Something doesn't make sense on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry is Law · · Score: 1
    "Telemarketers say the registry will devastate their business."


    First thing that came to my mind was to tell them to call someone who cares.
  22. Re:Anecdotally, HTTP is more reliable on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    I agree. Whenever I try to download the latest Linux ISO from a huge list of mirrors I almost always have problems with the FTP server. But the HTTP server usually works, and gives me a better transfer rate then the occasional FTP server that I do find that works.

  23. Re:Virtual Boy on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 1

    I owned one, still have it in a box too. I always thought it was a pretty cool little system. I never developed a headache from it, but I always got cramps because of the odd position you had to be sitting in to use it. I'm tall, so sitting it on a table didn't work too well. I would usually end up on the floor on my stomach trying to play, but that just made my arms fall asleep. Ahhh, the good old days :)

  24. Re:Pretty easy fix on World's Most Annoying IE Toolbar · · Score: 1

    heh, if you are going to insult someone you should at least face them, and not hide behind anonymity. I will agree, our devolopment model isn't perfect, but it makes for some very functional web pages that are only used inside the LAN. If we were developing external web sites we wouldn't dream of using our current practices.

  25. Re:Pretty easy fix on World's Most Annoying IE Toolbar · · Score: 1

    The issue is that the function we used were not Tricks when they were first written, they were fully documented in MSDN. Then one day a security vulnerability is found in something and microsoft changes the implementation of the function called to make it safer, but in doing so breaks existing code.