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  1. Longer days? Mars time! on Alarm Clocks for Heavy Sleepers? · · Score: 1

    Work for NASA, maybe Mars time will be just right for you and you won't need an alarm!

  2. Re:upgrade on Buying Music from Other than iTunes? · · Score: 2, Informative

    And takes about 4x the resources

  3. Re:Hmmm.... on Viral GPL Misconceptions Elegantly Explained · · Score: 1

    So basically, you're saying that you can only contradict a lawyer if you are a lawyer or fraudulently pretending to be one? Ooh, she didn't claim she's something she's not! No credibility whatsoever!

  4. Subspace/Continuum on Games For Both Of Us? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.subspacehq.com/
    Free download, free play, tons of fun. Got my GF hooked.

  5. Re:How about respect? on Billy the Kid Faces The Law... Again · · Score: 1

    What about respecting the oil that came from countless dead animals and plants that we constantly dig up and put in our cars? (*insert electric / fuel cell vehicle comments here*)

  6. Re:Insane on Nokia's N-Gage Officially Launches · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, the N-Gage looks quite similar to a choco-taco. Coincidence?

  7. Re:Now the only question is... on Networking the Redwoods · · Score: 3, Funny

    If a networked tree falls in the woods, and nobody is pinging, does it still make a pong?

  8. Tomorrow's news flash on Sony First To Market With Blue-Laser DVD Recorder · · Score: 1

    "23 competiting companies have announced blue laser DVD recorders in response to Sony's recent announcement, all of which record in different formats. By the time a standard format is agreed upon, we expect to see X-Ray based DVDs."

  9. Re:(Another) Same Question... Different Country... on International Connectivity · · Score: 1

    While I've never been there myself, one guy I know in Canberra says broadband is a joke. Expect to be sucking it on down through dialup.

  10. F-Lock on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    Lately, MS has started (and Logitech is following) changing the F keys. Apparently, now, all the F keys have some sort of new default meaning to them (for example, new document, open, copy/paste, etc etc (I'm sure you can find a full list somewhere)). You want to use the standard F keys? There's an F-Lock button to use, similar to numlock. Probably shift will allow you to access the standard F functions, but I haven't tried one.

    I personally don't like the idea, but they seem to be holding on to the ball with both hands and running.

  11. Somebody just got duped by a fanboy on Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell (or not...updated) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is all pure speculation related to an upcoming "megaton" announcement Nintendo is supposed to make in the near future. The speculation ranges from this story to Nintendo buying Campcom and Sega. It's all been a contest to see who can get their page linked the most with the most outrageous story, and it looks like this site won.

    As for the actual announcement, please don't post any more news on it until you see it on nintendo.com

  12. Re:I read their site a little more closely... on Will Your CD Player Tell on You? · · Score: 2

    Either way, how many users will just hit "yes" without even thinking about it, as most do with other software?

  13. Re:The register needs to check its facts on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did you read what the [*] referenced?


    *Bootnote: In fact the task of talking into one's sleeve at a press conference only came 28 years after the Service was
    founded in 1865, to combat counterfeiting. Back then, there was no FBI, or equivalent federal agency, and the Presidential protection role was formalized in 1913.

  14. Re:Why was the show canceled? on Farscape Fans Produce Commercial · · Score: 1

    "It cost too much"

    You think they coulda figured that out before they decided to sign on for 2 more seasons, and in the end only delivering on one.

  15. I hope it goes off the air on Premature Rumors about Stargate Season 7? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not for the show's content itself, but so SciFi will lose such a large portion of their viewer base that they will realize (shortly before going under, should all go well) that canning good shows is not a good idea.

  16. Re:Yeah, wouldn't want to get that backwards... on One Step Closer to NWN for Linux · · Score: 0

    Maybe email the villagers and reading the slaughtered reboot?

  17. Best of both worlds on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 0

    ECE 291 (Assembly programming) @UIUC - Final consisted of one hour long multiple choice test (if you could call it a test, it was pathetically easy). Two hours consisted of a supervised lab period, about 20-30 students at a time, with a few small problems and all the tools a programmer would have (old notes, design specs, google, assembler to test for bugs, everything except your old code and talking to each other was allowed)

  18. Re:Progeny on What's A Good Starter Linux distro? · · Score: 1

    I personally never tried it, but in my friend's LUG, not one person who tried installing it got it actually running.

  19. Love my Debian too, but.... on What's A Good Starter Linux distro? · · Score: 1

    Debian is definately NOT a starter distro. I would personally go Mandrake, very clean install, can get into X with next to no work (which I'm sure is comforting to first timers). Mandrake is also more well-rounded on install features than RedHat is in my experience I would recommend Mandrake to ANYONE who is just starting out

  20. Re:Looks like it failed on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Looks like a failed link

  21. Re:Cry me a river on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 1

    But we aren't talking about FTP servers in the dorms. We're talking about web sites, the freedom to see what we want to see. Oh yeah, I'm spending too much time playing Quake. 1) Quake is ancient now. 2) That would explain a 3.8 GPA, wouldn't it? But now you're assuming that it's the parents' concern. I know 3 people here that were under 18 when they first got here, and all 3 were 18 within 3 months of their arrival. 18=adult=rights.

  22. Internet access fees on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Still, people seem to be missing the point. Colleges are NOT FREE. Internet access is NOT FREE. On top of tuition, I also pay a fee to get my T-1 in my dorm room. So quit saying it's their right because the state pays for everything. When the state pays for me to go to college, I'll quit bitching

  23. Re:I've returned my Representative! on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 1

    "She wouldn't make an intelligent bill if you put ten thousand volts through her"

  24. Bandwidth payment on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 1

    I've noticed people saying "The university and the state have a right to monitor the activity since it's their network." I attend the University of Illinois. I pay a tuition. My tuition is not paid for. I pay thousands of dollars a year for tuition. After those thousands of dollars, I pay an extra fee to have a T-1 connection in my dorm room. I pay for at least some of this myself, not the state.

  25. Re:She's right on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 2

    If it's so free, and it's all tax payer money, then why am I paying tuition? Why am I paying an extra fee on top of tuition to have this T-1 in my room? The taxpayers are not paying for my connection, I am. This is not high school. I am not paying $200 per semester to come here. I am paying several thousand dollars, so I have the right to see what I want on the connection I paid for. Bandwidth isn't cheap, I know, because I'm paying for it. A landlord has the right to make sure you are not violating the lease by trashing the apartment yes, but the landlord (as far as I know) does not have the right to change the definition of trashing during the duration of the lease. What if your landlord said one day "You can't use a TV because you might see something that I don't agree with?" Besides, downloading an extra 3 megs of MP3 is not trashing the connection. BTW, you know those date rape/emergency phones? EVERY COLLEGE CAMPUS HAS THOSE. I have been to four or five, including private colleges, and all have them. All I have ever heard of have them.