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  1. Re:thepoint.com is perfect for this on "World's Cheapest Laptop" Available in Bulk Only · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've got a site where you can enter your credit card number too. Or you can just email them to me. Please include the exp. date and that special little three digit number on the back. Oh, and if it's a debit card, I'll need your pin code to for this to work. For fastest delivery please include your checking account number.

    BTW: I think I know your mom from school. What's her maiden name?

  2. Re:Blame the FCC / ATSC for requiring Mpeg2 only on Lack of Bandwidth Oversight Damages HDTV Quality · · Score: 1

    There are still a few legacy DirecTV MPEG-2 STBs out there. I'm replacing older HD systems at a rate of about 1 a week. These are systems with the old 3 LNB dishes (101, 110 and 119 KU sats.)

    Note: I work for DirecTV as a I&R tech.

  3. Re:Blame the FCC / ATSC for requiring Mpeg2 only on Lack of Bandwidth Oversight Damages HDTV Quality · · Score: 1

    Almost all of DirecTV HDTV programming is via MPEG-4.

  4. Re:I completely agree on Lack of Bandwidth Oversight Damages HDTV Quality · · Score: 1

    The new DirecTV-11 bird for HDTV signals will be online soon (Aug or Sep). see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirecTV-11

  5. Re:HD channels w/ no HD programming on Lack of Bandwidth Oversight Damages HDTV Quality · · Score: 1

    That's because the content provider isn't giving DirecTV HD content. You're living in a transition period, just like the transition from black and white TV to Color TV. At least most of the content on the Science Channel is HD now.

  6. Re:Memory wiper? on Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference · · Score: 1

    ...it has to be a hardware based solution.

    Spray epoxy. ("This is glue ... strong stuff." -Elwood Blues)

  7. Re:Splashtop on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 1

    So that's why I keep my DECwriter III around! [image]

  8. Re:I had a dream... on Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System · · Score: 1

    Max White?

  9. Re:If you don't write software at home... on How To Show Code Samples? · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, just ask for their slashdot user id,

    Where do I apply?

  10. Re:Need reliable and cheap robots on IRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot Review · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=10153

      Robots may have future in apple orchards

  11. Re:Need reliable and cheap robots on IRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot Review · · Score: 1

    You racist... if I only had the mod points! You sound like a yakamaniac.

  12. Wonderful! on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we can use vastly superior ROT13 encryption instead of that lame WEP stuff.

  13. Re:Retirement Gift on Gates' Last Day At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    No.

  14. paper-tape, Kansas, CNC on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 1
    Some ways:
    • Modify an old paper-tape punch machine to punch a spool of plastic, store in landfill.
    • Record it as a .wav on a CD using Kansas City format at 300 baud. Play that to an African Grey parrot (with lots of CRC) and get it to sing it back in 30 years.
    • Buy/rent a CNC machine and microinscribe each frame on the engine block of a classic car.
    • Transfer it via modem to a payphone in Syria and request a FOIA of the call in 20 years.
    • Make a 128 bit hash of the data and put it in a top-40 song, in 20 years we'll have the algorithms to reconstruct the original.
  15. Re:ELM on User Not Found, Email Drops Silently · · Score: 1

    Because Pine is not Elm.

  16. Re:Copyright? on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 1

    No really, this is small market TV. They would kill to get notice like this. I just hope that this may lead to more coverage of science by the station. They are sitting with the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and the Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in their backyard. But most anyone with a clue that grew-up there, left. I did.

  17. Re:Copyright? on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 1

    I went to school with the only decent IP lawyer in the area. If he gives KVEW grief then I have some goods on him.

  18. Re:Washington rain... on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 1

    That was about Connell, WA http://www.cityofconnell.com/

  19. Re:The rovers were bad! on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was a joke son.. pulling your leg. Maybe this will work for you: "he he, he said probe."

  20. Re:Rain in WA on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 1

    Don't you remember about 2:15pm to 4:35pm today when the sun broke through? But that was North of the inversion zone.

  21. Re:Washington rain... on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 2, Funny

    With a population of just over 3,190, this vibrant, progressive community offers a quality of life that is rare today. I don't think they know what the common usage of the word progressive is. Isn't that part of the 4th district of Rep. Richard "Doc" Hastings? I thought that my mom was the only progressive in the dryside, and she lives in Yakima, the Palm Beach of Washington. Hell hole? Just because the nearest towns are Sulphur, Curry, Mesa and Cactus.

  22. Re:Rain in WA on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 1

    It's still considered Eastern Washington since it is on the east side of the Cascade Mountain range. But most just call it the dryside. But you are correct, it is indeed a key city of the Great Inland Empire of the Columbia Basin and beats the shit out of Quincy and Ritzville. Othello has it's charms though; but maybe that's because my first GF was from there.

  23. Re:Rain in WA on NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA · · Score: 1

    The first time I've seen sun in two weeks, here in Puget Sound. I remember working on the 10base2 Lantastic network at your sister station KAPP in Yakima. I also worked as an engineer at KOTY (when that call was in the Tri-Cities back in the very early 80s.)

  24. Re:Tracking information on Shopping Centers Track Customers Via Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    One more reason for a ham license and using the 2m phone patch :)

    73 de w7com

  25. Re:And what exactly will this provide? on A Baseball Hat That Reads Your Mind · · Score: 1
    What science fiction have you been reading?

    He hasn't been reading, just watching. All the really good scifi is still "locked" in books so as not to stress his mind.