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  1. Re:Of course on Ammonia Could Indicate Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    Yes I do know that. For some reason they started over with episode 1 on Tuesday night. So now that we are so OT that we can't even see the damned topic. I have to ask. Left or Right?

  2. Re:SciFi's Battlestar Galactica on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    netflix does not have it so I'm guessing no.

  3. Re:Of course on Ammonia Could Indicate Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    You only know that cause it was on last night. gawd I'm pathetic. :)

  4. Of course on Ammonia Could Indicate Life On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    the Wong's have all those herds. Of course they have methane and ammonia. Duh.

  5. Re:Why not an Open initiative? on AOL-Yahoo-MSN Messaging Unified... in the Workplace Only · · Score: 1

    I don't know about where you work but here when somebody starts they sign an agreement that says that the network in general and Internet access in particular are for work purposes only and that we (meaning the networks dept) have full rights to monitor and record everything they do. This is pretty normal.

  6. Re:Move on to free sources for the same informatio on Searching for The New York Times · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So run a browser with decen cookie management. End of story. Heres a hint get the fuck over yourself.

  7. Re:This just in.. on DHS Says Cellular Outage Reporting is Terrorist Blueprint · · Score: 1

    What you meant was "long ago became"

  8. Re:Dave Lettermans Top 10 on Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? · · Score: 1

    Really it is good advice less is *much* better than more.

  9. Re:I Find The Self Help Books Useful on Matrix Decision Making · · Score: 1

    Granted the following is based off of one data point.

    But the only person I know who is into Carnegie's stuff. Has the book it would seem has even been to classes and shit. Is a complete and total asshole.

  10. Re:I thought thats what ebay was for. on Office Depot Wants to Recycle Your Old Computer · · Score: 1

    What do you want for the Zaurus?

  11. Re:Alright Mozilla on PC Magazine Reviews Firefox, Opera · · Score: 1

    I think the word you are searching for here is "facts" they both start with a f hope this helps. :)

  12. Re:Hmm. on Spammers Start Abusing Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    This is a few years old but it is a great article. I'm just a few years too old to really be in the crowd that uses SMS a lot but when I go into a campus hangout it amazes me how fast the kids these days can type on their phones. It would take me an hour to type this. The only thing I really use it for is to have a firewall drop me a line when certain things happen.

    http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0,6903 ,4 66391,00.html

  13. Re:Hmm. on Spammers Start Abusing Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Two points.

    The above is an excerpt it becomes clear when you read the whole thing that your cell phone company can call you because you have a business relationship with them. I'm willing to bet that the call from Mr. Robot does not cost you minutes. In the law intent is often just as important as the actual wording. Otherwise most judges could be replaced with a small Perl script and a decent database.

    To continue that point the main reason I don't think this applies to SMS spam is because in many cases the person getting it is not charged for it. I know that is true on my t mobile plan. Other plans may differ but I think that is a big loophole in intent.

  14. Re:Ok, thats great on How To Make Friends on the Telephone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Damn straight. I'm up for shooting kids wanting to sell me candy bars in the head for knocking on my door. But anyone I like, respect, and would like to see happy (my personal working definition of friend) is more than welcome to knock on my door anytime of the day or night. Hell most of them have the code to my garage door and are welcome to walk in. So yea I'm as misanthropic as anybody but friends are friends and they should *not* be afraid to contact friends in any way they need to.

  15. Re:What is anamorphic widescreen? on Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings · · Score: 1

    I might be wrong as I have not checked out the latest extended versions. I know the first ones where not. Maybe its time to take a look at them again. What you are describing would be anamorphic. Anyway like I said the link explains it better.

  16. Re:What is anamorphic widescreen? on Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings · · Score: 1

    The long answer is here.

    http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphi c/

    Letterbox shows up on a normal TV well like letterbox a good 4 to 6 inches of black on the top and bottom. It is physically masked onto the disk. With Anamorphic it adjusts automatically for the TV. These would be the discs you've seen that only have a inch or two of black on the bottom and top. This is a achieved by the data adjusting itself for the type of TV it is being shown on, thus anamoprhic. The point is that I think 16:9 TVs will be common in not too many years and when they are widescreen DVDs will be useless. The article explains it better than I can but that is the basic idea.

  17. Re:I would not use MemoryStick on Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No Hard Drive? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hate to admit cause it makes me look like a dork but I've installed Debian off of my CoolPix. :)

  18. Re:Technology in hospitals on Robots in Hospitals · · Score: 1

    I really would like to know. Does she have some reason to feel this way? All those things sound like good ideas to me but maybe there is something I don't know.

  19. Re:I'm really curious... on Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings · · Score: 1

    I will wait till they put a decent version of the DVD out. All the versions thus far have been letterbox and not anamorphic widescreen.

  20. Re:Looks very usefull at first glance on NIST Issues Windows XP Security Guide · · Score: 1

    Some of us have day jobs *and* a sense of humor.

    Here is a hint from me to you. The phrase "or maybe I'm just a freak" generally indicates an attempt at a joke.

  21. Re:Looks very usefull at first glance on NIST Issues Windows XP Security Guide · · Score: 2, Informative

    But of course the first thing you did was to run nmap and Nessus against your shiny new XP box and then search on the ports that they found.

    Or maybe I'm just a freak.....

    But yea info and lots of it in one place is a *very* good thing. But it sounded like the grandparent knew it was there did not like it and had done nothing and was all out of ideas.

    Or like I said maybe I'm just a freak...

  22. Re:Eeeeek... on Professor Creates His Own Cisco Manual · · Score: 1

    The thing about it is that really good Cisco doc is hard to come by. I think a lot of people like myself are hoping that this will be good. I never intend to take the test but I'm just grabbing it cause I hope it will be good doc.

  23. Re:Maybe They're Testing the Waters... on MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is where you are wrong. I work network support for a software company. We have plenty of clients who would love to go to Linux for limited purpose machines (basically boxes that need a OS and a browser) but because we mad the choice to hire code monkeys who code to the MS specs that they get with their MS tools and that means that even though the app in question runs on a Linux application server that it is IE only on the front end ( Don't ask me how they pulled that off) and that means that our clients are locked into MS on the desktop. (Our main app is mission critical and would cost them millions to switch, the thin client interface thing is just part of the story) So anyway while they don't sell IE it would be wrong to assume that they don't make money off of it.

  24. Re:too bad it doesnt do MP3 on New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player · · Score: 1

    And oddly enough sometime next week I'm buying an ipod cause it is the only player that I can find that does AAC/mp4 and since I've started using itunes that is what most of my music is in. So on a related note does anyone know of any other players that support AAC/mp4?

  25. Re:Hoax?!? on Forward This Article And Get Paid $203.15 · · Score: 1

    I would but I'm too busy getting my money from a very nice Swiss banker.