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  1. Cableone on PC World's ISP Service Rankings, as of June 2005 · · Score: 1

    Cableone in southwestern Missouri -- expensive ($50/month w/o cable TV), but not bad. Their basic consumer (1.5 Mbps down/200k up, dynamic IP) service has been reliable and they don't block any ports I've tried using. I can't rate their tech support because I've had no need of it so far. They have good spam and virus filtering for email, and their Usenet service (provided by Supernews) is also good.

  2. Re:Inaccurate Headline on Canada Introduces DMCA-Style Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Slashdot has a misleading, sensationalistic headline. Film at 11.

  3. Human nature on House Limits Patriot Act Rules on Library Records · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's the American system that went wrong, necessarily. There's a lot wrong with it, but I think plain old human nature played a larger role.

  4. Re:Woah! on Japan Striving For Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    If Americans care about the world, why did they re-elect Bush?

    The actions of a few are not the actions of all.

  5. Re:Next thing you know... on Google Launches Google Sitemaps · · Score: 1

    More like paranoid ranting. This was only modded up because of the current "Google is an evil coporation" slashthink.

  6. Wank wank wank on Time Picks Top 100 Films · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why should I care what someone thinks are their $NUMBER favorite $THING? This is filler for a slow news day.

  7. Re:how well does this actually work on Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox Available · · Score: 1

    On the other end of the scale, there once was (and for all I know may still be) a Yahoo phishing site hosted on AOL. In spite of several complaints from me, AOL never did anything about it.

  8. Re:Hearing music on my phone! on Tinfoil Hat House · · Score: 1

    This used to happen at my parents' house. I would sometimes hear police broadcasts, never very clearly, on the computer speakers even when they were off.

  9. Re:arthur c clarke had a vision on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    In the books, the cores of our gas giants are giant diamonds, created by the immense pressures. Free diamond orbiting the Sun came from Jupiter igniting into Lucifer.

  10. Re:What about FISA on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Do you want to mention WTF "FISA" is?

  11. Re:I don't want luxury on Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data · · Score: 1

    A Civic HX seems to be about what you want, though a radio is standard equipment and it's not hybrid. It gets almost as much fuel mileage as a hybrid.

  12. Re:But... on Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data · · Score: 1

    I got away with approx MSRP. I say got away because the dealership refused to negotiate their original price - there were two people behind me in line for this car.

    The day I was closing the deal, I was fortunate to get an email from the dealership's Internet sales manager offering to beat anybody's price by $500 on any car to help them meet their sales targets. So I went to autotrader.com and got quotes for all Civic Hybrids within 200 miles. One was at about MSRP for the CVT type.

    The result was that even after adding in a security system and door-edge guards, I still saved a hundred dollars over what the deal was originally negotiated for.

  13. Re:Cruise control helps a lot on Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data · · Score: 1

    I'm getting similar mileage on my Civic Hybrid with the CVT. I haven't used the cruise in town, but it seemed like it was less fuel efficient on the highway with it enabled.

  14. Re:Nothing he can do on Real ID: You Can Still Fight It · · Score: 1

    Do you have a citation for Bush not wanting this? It seems right up his alley, what with his signing the Patriot Act and all.

  15. Re:Another giant step backward... on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    It depends on what denominations are common in your area. The more liberal ones, like the Evangelical Lutheran Church (my former abode before I went Discordian agnostic), don't teach the Bible as literal truth. Conservative denominations like the Baptists do.

  16. Re:As a Canadian... on U.S. Rejects Canadian Rejection of DMCA · · Score: 1

    We thought the Europeans had the right idea back in their colonial days. :-(

  17. Re:Titan -- a wild and dangerous machine on Last Titan Launch from Florida · · Score: 1

    Why would you cool a computer with a conductive liquid?

  18. Re:The article isn't quite right.. on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 1

    They've been "Tiger Direct" since at least 1994.

  19. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN on Steve Ballmer Responds to Discrimination Issue · · Score: 1

    s/lefty/terrorist/ HTH HAND.

  20. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN on Steve Ballmer Responds to Discrimination Issue · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Point of order: You don't have to be a "lefty" to hate Bush and all he stands for.

  21. Re:I see "draconian" a lot in the comments on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 1

    Why do Slashdotters frequently misspell words they capitalize for emphasis? You see this all the time with e.g. "definitely".

    That's "deterrent", by the way.

  22. Re:What about the money?? on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 1

    Lift off and nuke DC from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  23. Re:I dunno about both. on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    Cute. What website did you copy that from?

  24. Grr! Bad use of quotes. on Recovering Domains from Negligent Registrars? · · Score: 1
    it really means "nothing"
    Quotes are not used to indicate emphasis. Use italics, or boldface, or even underlining if you must, but never ever quotes.

    Quotes are used to indicate that the thing being quoted is of dubious truth, to convey sarcasm, or to repeat exacly how a source phrased things, among other things.

  25. Traffic analysis on ISPs in Argentina Must Log Everything · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't stop traffic analysis.