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  1. Battery life is much better using BT than 802.11 on Bluetooth Gets a Speed Boost · · Score: 1

    I use bluetooth to connect my pda to the internet both via my laptop when it's nearbye and online as well as to my cell phone nearly everywhere. I use bluetooth headsets to connect to my laptop for Skype and Googletalk when I'm not using it for my cell phone.

    If I connected my pda to the internet using 802.11b it would drain a full battery in 20 minutes. Using bluetooth I can go for an hour and a half.

    It's like one of the posters above said, 802.11 and Bluetooth are for different uses. If I'm connecting to something nearby as a way to eliminate a cord it's great. If I need a longer distance and higher speed (at least until there are new devices with the faster standard) I connect via 802.11.

    You wouldn't want to wear a headset that had a battery big enough to let you talk via 802.11 for 8 hours.

  2. You took the words out of my mouth on President Bush's Money For Space Cometh · · Score: 1

    People show a limitless capacity for believing only facts that support what they want to believe.

    Whether it's, "I can quit anytime I want", "He wouldn't hit me again, I shouldn't have talked back that time" or "I better vote for GW Bush or the Democrats will let the terrorists win and he believes in GAWD ALMIGHTY".

  3. Link to Streaming audio of the program on NPR on Putting the TV Broadcast Spectrum to Better Use? · · Score: 1

    NPR offers real and windows audio streams of this June 3rd, 2003 program.

    http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?w fI d=1285880

  4. Re:Good interview on Piers Anthony Unbound · · Score: 1

    My first thought was that he responded to one of the many many letters he must get, and this paticular person was in jail.

    I rather doubt he was corrosponding because the person was a pedophile, but rather a person he was writing to happened to be a pedophile.

    Just my impression anyway. There's no telling just based on the wording he gave.

  5. Re:And how's that working for ya? on Latest IE Hole Lets Gopher Root You · · Score: 1

    Why would they do that when the study said exactly what they paid for it to say?

  6. Re:3rd party confidential list. on Spammer Sues List Broker · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine that the unreputible companies just use thier database to build thier own list full of verified email addresses.

  7. Re:First question... on Baldur's Gate 2 Gold · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend ICEWIND DALE. It's made by the same people, but has more dungeon crawls that Baldur's gate. They did a nice job with the quests too. They did better compression, getting it down to two CDs also.

  8. Re:Removing server scripting in Outlook 97 on New Virus Can Strike Via HTML E-Mail · · Score: 1
    You can remove server scripting in Outlook 97 by going to the tools menu and selecting options, then picking the General tab.

    Under the general tab hit the Add-In Manager and uncheck the selection for Server scripting, the remove button should then ungrey, allowing deinstallation of server scripting.

    I sure as hell don't see a need for scripts to be running in my email, some porn spammer will use it to pop up adverts on me. Rift