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  1. Gas stations? on South Pole to Get Highway · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wonder if they'll have the signs on the highway that say "Last chance for gas - next station 1000km away"

    And..how about the poor soul that has to actually WORK at that station!

  2. Re:Name on First Human Clone Born? · · Score: 1

    Yup.

  3. Name on First Human Clone Born? · · Score: 1

    Apparently the clones' name is Eve. Nice choice. Wouldn't Dawn be more appropriate? As in Dawn of a new era? Not Eve - as in your cult is in its' eve because you think you've cloned a human, but really you're just looking for popularity. I wonder what "the complex" looks like up there? Branch Dividian? ....smoke grenade incoming...

  4. Examples, Please! on Ask an Expert About Web Site Accessibility · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can you give us examples of good, easy to use, lots of information websites as well as bad, clunky, slow ones?

    My first HTML experiences were to see what others did, and use that on my page (with modifications to the data a bit etc..). I don't see why this should be any different. Let the builders build off of sites which are proven to be good.

    I'm looking at this from a corportate angle, not so much a "Bob's Homepage" pagetype.

    Oh, please don't use crazy terms like XML, Java, DHTML etc, just point me to the sites!! :)

    What sites do you like and why?

  5. Re:Its Deja Vu all over again on Star Wars Producer Says Box Office is Doomed · · Score: 1

    What about TV (Color) + DVD + home food + your couch all in one place. The combination of these things has finally caught up to them.

    Either they make movies cheaper/better, or risk losing box office profits to DVDs.

    Personally, I wait for the DVD to come out, then wait a little more until its 8.99 at Walmart..then buy it. Screw em, I'm NOT paying $9 at the box office..sorry, they priced themselves out of my life. I shouldn't have to pay for it, literally...and because this is America, I don't have to..yipee.

  6. Cool.. on U.S. Developing 100-Kilowatt Laser for Strike Fighters · · Score: 1
    I think I saw the documentary which describes how they made this fantastic weapon!!

    Now all we need is a big Jiffy-Pop.

  7. Re:yummy .. on 16,000 CWRU Computers Getting Gigabit Ethernet · · Score: 1
    100mbps = 12.5 megaBytes / second (give some for overhead 20 bytes IP 20 bytes TCP and 8 bytes ethernet).

    A hardrive can do ~35 megabytes a second. That is equal to 280 megabits per second...well over the 100mbps limit.

    Remember, 8 bits to a byte, and network speeds are measured in bits per second and hard drive rates and files are measured in bytes per second (or just bytes).

  8. So... on 16,000 CWRU Computers Getting Gigabit Ethernet · · Score: 1
    What are they running now before this upgrade? 100mbps? 10mbps?

    27 million is a lotta moola to pay for "lets just see what they actually use it for."

  9. Packet Scheduler on Traffic Shaping on DSL? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Instead of sarcastic comments about "run linux" "format c:" blah blah, check out this kbase entry from MS regarding the packet scheduler. It might be useful to you.

  10. Wow Competition! on Nintendo Drops GameCube Price to $150 · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS might just be totally confused! "You mean we have to lower our prices to sell stuff?"

  11. Trials on Fiber-to-the-Home Internet, TV, Phone in One Box · · Score: 1
    There are currently some trials going on for this product:

    Palo Alto: http://www.cpau.com/fth/

    Somewhere in Virginia: http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/r elease.vtml?id=69074

    Theres always good info on this sort of technology here:

    http://www.convergedigest.com/DSL/ftth.asp

  12. Hey! on Road Runner Doesn't Do XP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yo! How about Road Runner paying their employees more than $5.50/hr! Then they might be motivated enough to learn the XP OS themselves so that when Xmas hits and all those new XP boxes get sold, a customer can actually use Road Runner instead of possibly looking at alternatives (dsl?).

    Sheesh, you're only as good as your customer support.

    Now, there may be some hidden agenda behind not officially supporting XP, but why bother? Just let the calls trickle in, work it normally...let the call engineer learn as he goes - assuming you don't have monkies at the support center, you'll be ok, and you may pick up a couple of extra customers to boot!!

    No wonder these people are bankrupt.

  13. Re:TFTP = 3 hops ? on Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage · · Score: 1

    TFTP uses UDP which is unreliable. The more hops you have the more likely it is the packet will be dropped or lost. I've done tftp's across 10 hops with no problems..and across 3 hops that were extremely busy where it would never work. TFTP is retarded anyway..every router/switch/whatever should use an ftp client to load software.

  14. Re:Solar eclipse over the web on Total Solar Eclipse · · Score: 1

    Its the added music man..I mean, we're looking for quality here!! ;) I bet your mountain thingie doesn't come with music.

  15. Blah! on Total Solar Eclipse · · Score: 1

    If they turned that gawd awful music off they could probably get more people connected to their video stream! I mean..bongos..they are an instrument..but no one said you had to play them the whole song!

  16. So... on Telstra Says Freedom (Plan) Has Its Limits · · Score: 1

    So, if I ping someones host all month without them knowing it, and somehow my ping traffic adds up to more than 3gig, they have to pay for that? Thats pretty cool...NOT. How can they stop this sort of behavior?

  17. Heh..pickles? on MPAA vs. 2600 Transcript · · Score: 5

    "You paid your $25 for "Schindler's List," you took it home, you're color blind. You want to use DeCSS to download it and change the pickles from blue to green so you can see it better." Are there pickles in Schlinders list?? :) Good point even if he was referring to pickels, or pixels.