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Can't a DC based Slashdotter pay a visit to the FCC and check it out? Is outbound port 25 blocked?
You misspelled "spammer."
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Yeah. And nobody will listen to it except other amateur radio enthusiasts. Meanwhile, thanks to the FCC, anyone who owns a newspaper in one town can now own a television station as well. The FCC's current leadership is making decisions which will lead to further media consolidation and stifle competition. I'm glad they're giving out wifi access, but I don't think it's consistent with the current administration's direction, and I certainly don't expect it to last. (Especially after some hacker uses the anonymous wifi entrance to alter the fcc.gov webpage...)
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At present, the FCC will not request personal identifying information prior to allowing access to the wireless network.An open network. At the FCC. They want as few people as possible on the public airwaves but they'll let anyone on their private network.
I just want to be able to view and copy/paste the ancient Greek texts available at perseus. It worked fine with "Athenian" font on OS 8.5.1 with Netscape 4.something on an old PPC, but on OS X getting the fonts to display usefully is a nightmare. Is anyone else doing this? The Unicode stuff has not helped. I just want to be able to easily cut and paste from Chimera to Word in the same font and have the greek words with accents. This shouldn't be so hard for a computer that displays Arabic and Chinese and Korean webpages flawlessly.
I don't get it either. I've been sitting in front of this Cray supercomputer trying to copy a 17M file from one hard drive to another and it's taking forever. BBEdit has slowed to a halt....
The 30Gb iPod is $500. So youy're saying roughly $275 -- more than you got for your 20GB model -- is "almost nothing." Not to mention that the older 20GB model probably cost you around $500.
And by the way I have the older 20GB model and I plan to keep it. We don't need no steenkin' on the fly playlists! Real men listen to all the songs on their iPod in alphabetical order without taking breaks!!
Actually, you won't have a choice about that anyway; in a few days you will receive a court order to remove it on behalf of both Hillary and the RIAA-signed band Death in Vegas.
I'm too lazy to find it, but my favorite first post was someone who posted to the topic "What would happen if 99% of computers on the internet were destroyed?" The first poster wrote "Easy... that's 99% fewer computers to beat me to the first post!" It was funny, on topic, and it was the first post. But it still got modded troll....
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They'll all be in PDF.
You misspelled "spammer."
Yeah. And nobody will listen to it except other amateur radio enthusiasts. Meanwhile, thanks to the FCC, anyone who owns a newspaper in one town can now own a television station as well. The FCC's current leadership is making decisions which will lead to further media consolidation and stifle competition. I'm glad they're giving out wifi access, but I don't think it's consistent with the current administration's direction, and I certainly don't expect it to last. (Especially after some hacker uses the anonymous wifi entrance to alter the fcc.gov webpage...)
At present, the FCC will not request personal identifying information prior to allowing access to the wireless network.An open network. At the FCC. They want as few people as possible on the public airwaves but they'll let anyone on their private network.
And you didn't marry her?
I just want to be able to view and copy/paste the ancient Greek texts available at perseus. It worked fine with "Athenian" font on OS 8.5.1 with Netscape 4.something on an old PPC, but on OS X getting the fonts to display usefully is a nightmare. Is anyone else doing this? The Unicode stuff has not helped. I just want to be able to easily cut and paste from Chimera to Word in the same font and have the greek words with accents. This shouldn't be so hard for a computer that displays Arabic and Chinese and Korean webpages flawlessly.
Why is it that I hear the parent post spoken out loud in the Comic Book Guy's voice?
Agreed; what the hell else will make sure people have enough time to post here?
Are you saying the Cray has an extra mouse button?
I don't get it either. I've been sitting in front of this Cray supercomputer trying to copy a 17M file from one hard drive to another and it's taking forever. BBEdit has slowed to a halt....
You will shortly be receiving a letter from Disney legal department concerning unauthorized use of their trademarks.
I guess he thought I didn't get my own joke.
These aren't the hot spandex pantsuits you're looking for.
You must mean this.
It's actually pieces of the Moon.
Yeah, Apple is really beleaguered. They're dying I tell you!
Just look at Pete Townsend.
Yeah bionic hearing is cool and all, but it sucks having to hear "doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" every time you try to listen to something.
- Steve Austin
The 30Gb iPod is $500. So youy're saying roughly $275 -- more than you got for your 20GB model -- is "almost nothing." Not to mention that the older 20GB model probably cost you around $500.
And by the way I have the older 20GB model and I plan to keep it. We don't need no steenkin' on the fly playlists! Real men listen to all the songs on their iPod in alphabetical order without taking breaks!!
You misspelled "beer."
Actually, you won't have a choice about that anyway; in a few days you will receive a court order to remove it on behalf of both Hillary and the RIAA-signed band Death in Vegas.
I'm too lazy to find it, but my favorite first post was someone who posted to the topic "What would happen if 99% of computers on the internet were destroyed?" The first poster wrote "Easy... that's 99% fewer computers to beat me to the first post!" It was funny, on topic, and it was the first post. But it still got modded troll....
Actually, the statistic measures a product's coolness based on the number of posts to Usenet about that product over a given period.
How many cubits is it?
D'oh!
Now excuse me while I eat my hat.