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  1. Mocking--dancing? on A Beginner's Guide to the Dance Dance Phenomena · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, I think I'll stay on the mocking side of the fence. No amount of explaining or justifying is going to get me to budge from this lofty position.

  2. Re:Oh that's very responsible of you, SlashDot on Microsoft News Update · · Score: 2

    NetBIOS over TCP/IP is installed by default on Windows 2000 and WIndows XP

  3. A requested feature by little ol me on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 2

    A great feature that I would love to see is a shortcut to change different preferences. An example:

    99% of the time I want to only have images from the site loaded, and javascript disabled, and shockwave not there. However there are a few instances, such as hardware forums and sites I support with advertising, as well as the evil msnbc.com, that I would like some things back enabled, or preferences changed. A quick shortcut key to the rescue?

    please?

  4. Re:Mozilla has good karma. on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I love Moz, but I just don't understand Everyone's attraction to tabbed browsing. The interface for a tabbed setting is slightly erratic and doesn't follow other window managers, Linux or Windows. If I'm using Alt+Tab in WIndows I will have between 5-10 windows open, and I can quickly tell what I have available. Tabbed browsing interrupts this process and doesn't give me a clear picture of windows contained on a standard interface across all systems.

    Everything else I love about Moz, and I use it 9/10 pages. In fact I copy addresses from moz into IE for things like images, shockwave, and msnbc.com that I want to see, and that's about it.

  5. Re:Can I ask why? on Linux and Public Access Computing? · · Score: 2

    W2K has multi-lungual capability:
    http://www.cet.middlebury.edu/CETwebD ocs/resources /win2000Lang/win2000langInstall.html

    We use it here for Korean, Spanish, and Japanese and it works great.

  6. Re:It's about time this issue was resolved but... on Telcom Fraud: The Previous Generation · · Score: 2

    The carriers aren't under any obligation, whatsoever. In the business world, at the end of your contract, you can renew, go with a competitor, or negotiate new rates. This is no different. No company is obligated to save you money because you aren't smart enough to turn on the TV and see a different rate advertised, and age certainly isn't an excuse. I'd warrant saying if an elderly person can't manage to verify their phone bill is high, then they probably aren't competant enough to live alone or make financial decisions in the first place.

  7. Re:Bush "morally and ethically correct"? on WorldCom Fraud Doubles · · Score: 2

    Apparently people like you DO need a sarcasm tag. I always wondered why people used those for apparent obvious use of sarcasm. You are that reason.

  8. cherish my what? on FCC Mandates Digital Tuners · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Analog/Digital converter, cable boxes, Satellite Boxes, have you not been reading the articles you guys have been posting? This will be a $50-$200 purchase, in 4-5 years, at that, and no replacement on analog sets is required.

  9. Re:No books? on Iowa College Goes Paperless · · Score: 2

    Instead of a centralized library they have thousands of libraries available anytime, anywhere on campus. Need a book at 4 a.m. because your paper is due at 9 a.m.? Download it and you can get your references, just like that.

    Research has been beyond the scope of paper institutions for some time now. Glad to see them putting this tech to efficient, economic use.

    I can think of hundreds of more examples. Save money on full time staff, more money goes to professors, or pick your passion.

    Save space for the waste of books, build a amphitheatre.

    etc etc.

  10. Re:damn government on Feds to Require Digital Receivers In All New TVs? · · Score: 2

    $200 is far too much for consumers that use over the air reception right now. These are consumers that do not have cable (obviously) and do not have digital sets, and have no intention of replacing their sets for digital, nor buying another device, no matter the quality.

    I am one of those consumers. I have a TV mostly for DVD's, and watch the occational analog broadcast, but I would never pay for cable, or a $200 digital device, because I refuse to pay for commercials coming into my home.

    Make it $50 or less, and I'm there.

    Otherwise, screw it.

  11. Re:WRONG on Feds to Require Digital Receivers In All New TVs? · · Score: 2

    This is his point. He cannot continue to watch analog broadcast without an additional expense to him. While the cost is minimal ($99 or less by then) it's a pain.

    In reality let's see what happens after the standards are worked out. I estimate a digital standard will come out soon with DRM enabled. It'll be cracked well before 2006, and it'll go through revisions/issues before everything gets pushed back.

    The worst thing you can do is buy a converter box before the standard is in 50% of the lemming's homes.

  12. Re:OH gee on NYT Discovers the Panopticon · · Score: 2

    Read the article genius. People often don't have control of their name being put online, or they chatted once in a newsgroup and it now bites them in the ass because name=association with handle, for years, possibly. HIndsight is 20/20, in the meantime who's fault is that?

  13. Re:Great on OS X on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About · · Score: 2

    I am an exchange admin and it works much better on Outlook web access, both with certificate exchange, ease of use for end-users, and render speed (by about 3 times over a 768 upload link). We offer a link right on the front page for end-users...

    How ironic.

  14. Re:Isn't it ironic on Collateral Damage in the Spam War · · Score: 1

    Not at all. Please explain the significance and the scoring for the post.

  15. Re:Fax prank on Firm Pays 6.5 Million for Fax Spamming · · Score: 2

    except most fax machines have a limit to their memory capacity, so this will work for maybe 10-20 minutes, at best?

  16. Re:It IS getting out of hand on Firm Pays 6.5 Million for Fax Spamming · · Score: 1

    Same problem
    Different solution
    I stopped whining.
    Got a spamcop account
    Yes I paid money
    and zero spams since.
    zero.

  17. Re:Question on Klez: a closer look · · Score: 2, Informative

    That "great MS patch" does not block a significant variety of HTML and js born code. There have been about 7 exploits each on 2002 and 2000 that work on Outlook messages if html is enabled, regardless of that patch. They were just patched last month, in fact.

  18. Re:my favorite factoid on 2600 Drops DeCSS Appeal · · Score: 1

    wirednews.com still hosts the file, themselves, and many new organizations point to links of where to get the file.

    It's just rediculous.

  19. Re:changes in SCSI land ? on Serial ATA and AGP 8X motherboards · · Score: 1

    You are doing something wrong, then, perhaps change your drive from being on the same chain as the HDD? I have only a measly a 24X drive and it easily burns a full 700 MB CD in under 5 minutes, which is much less than the 8x.

  20. Re:Why don't we see 10K drives? on Serial ATA and AGP 8X motherboards · · Score: 1

    No there isn't. It's nowhere near being saturated even on ATA66, let alone ATA100. What you are probably seeing are refinements in the tech that show the speed increase, or data being contained on a single platter as the drive size increases, which gives better performance, as opposed to older, smaller drives.

  21. Re:25 of 29 biggest telecom companies will go bye- on WorldCom CFO Accused of $3.6 Billion Fraud · · Score: 2

    WHat?

    What demand?

    The dotcom bust is exactly because there is no demand for telecom services that 25 providers can last on. They are ALL bleeding money, and hard. They over-invested in an infrastructure that no longer is around. thousands of EXPENSIVE MILES of fiber lay dormant! Primary ISP's are feeling the heat when they should be rolling in it. SO, no, the money is not rolling in.

    ANd excite/@home died because it cost too much per subscriber install to recap the costs.

  22. Re:Worst movie error on Physics in the Movies · · Score: 2

    Obviously the gravitational fields were changed by the melting earth!

  23. Re:Just introducing new problems on Security Through Obsolescence · · Score: 2

    Windows 95 IS no longer supported by Microsoft.

    3rd parties will pick up the slack.

  24. Re:What about sneaker net? on Digital TV Still Indecisive · · Score: 1

    They would just mark the show, if educational, as "free to distribute."

  25. Re:The remedy on Latest IE Hole Lets Gopher Root You · · Score: 1, Insightful

    better yet just block port 70 on the firewall. Noone uses it anymore. This is one protocol that is deader than a doornail, and the solution takes a firewall admin probably less than a minute.