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  1. It begins today... on McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights · · Score: 1

    > The only possibly important part will be the court hearings and we have awhile before those.

    I believe the Utah courtroom hearings begin today. Now it begins to get really interesting....

  2. Re:Birds Eye View on Spammer Hangout's Membership Roster Left Exposed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, he lives in the Hunt Club apartment complex. I know because I used to live there, too. The house with the pool is the clubhouse, not his apartment - although he lives right around the corner from it. I wonder what would happen with repeated calls to the apt complex business office about wild 3:00am parties coming from 113....

    Oh, not that I'd ever do such a thing....

  3. Enforcing the 1-hour rule on McDonalds to go Wireless? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm going out on a limb here, but I'd like to know how McD's plans to enforce the 1-hour rule. Set the DHCP lease time for 1 hour? Since the average McDonald's employee may/may not be knowledgeable in renewing leases, I'd imagine an app would need to be written to automate the process.

    Or maybe I've got it all wrong. Could someone briefly elaborate?

  4. PIR transition details on .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL · · Score: 4, Informative

    The transition details can be found on the Public Interest Registry's Homepage. In short, they'll close the registry at 14:00 UTC tomorrow, transfer to Afilias's systems, and reopen the registrations on Sunday at 23:00 UTC.

  5. Re:Why this news is important. on Water on Mars - Clues to Life? · · Score: 1, Interesting
    If water was free flowing on the surface of Mars only 10 million years ago than the possibility of finding evidence of life on Mars increases immensely

    I didn't get the impression that water was free flowing 10 million years ago. The last paragraph makes mention of an ice dam close to the surface, with the built up pressure exploding it outward to create the mesas. That, to me, indicates a surface too cold for water to cut any channels (maybe an ice flow, though -- just a thought). There's an older, interesting article (Nov 2001) that talks about this sort of thing, and refers to the meteriorite found with fossilized bacteria from Mars. Maybe it came from one of these geyser blowouts?

  6. Keep those fingers crossed on HP Selling Systems With Linux · · Score: 0

    It is really nice to see a hardware vendor allowing a choice in the type of operating system a user can have. Hopefully (and keep those fingers crossed) this is just the beginning, and will eventually extend to the retail market HP's (Pavillion series).

    Let's hope it fares better with HP than with Dell.

    I've been running Mandrake on my HP Vectra VLi8 with no problems (although it has a VIA chipset) for quite a while now. I actually get things done!

  7. Re:Someone must do something! on Warming and Slowing the World · · Score: 2, Funny

    The initial velocity would speed up the core (short-term), but the sheer amount of exhaust would contribute to the greenhouse effect, thereby slowing down the core (long-term).

    One caveaut: My diesel-powered Yugo would only help slow down the initial velocity, and it alone could contribute to the greenhouse effect in a major way....

  8. Re:CIA has thier own museum. on CIA & KGB Gadgets On Display · · Score: 1, Funny

    Interesting. Although I have to wonder how much longer it will be available before the Bush Administration reclassifies it as top-secret.

  9. For Old Times' Sake on Judge Says Microsoft Must Give States Windows Code · · Score: 1

    Punch the code to paper tape and leave it lying on the floor at Rickeys Hyatt House... and watch what happens....

  10. Re:Something is wrong. on Not A Graceful Recovery For HP Customers · · Score: 1

    XP may come on one CD, but there are a whole slew of third-party add-ons that HP will drop down to your PC if you do a factory-fresh reinstall. Software like AOL, MSN, maybe McAfee AV (or some other AV solution), a scaled-down version of a burner program, etc., would come on a second CD.

    I can only see two CD's though, not twelve. And I certainly don't see them packaging an XP Service Pack CD with the bundle!

  11. Re:Won't affect corporate customers much on Not A Graceful Recovery For HP Customers · · Score: 1

    At the same time, though, if a large corporation simply asks HP to supply one or two copies of the media for their support personnel, I'd bet HP would be happy to comply -- provided they're an HP shop.

    It would go a long way in developing those ghost images, since you'd probably want to be able to get rid of any factory-specific settings/utilities that you may not want the end-user to have (such as a non-standard virus scanning utility). Or, *cringe* Solitaire.