User: AintTooProudToBeg

Here's a better idea

On: Speeding To Become Impossible In UK?

Instead of using GPS and an onboard database to limit speed, why not just have your car conveniently charge your credit card $200 when you exceed the speed limit? It could also watch for such infractions as illegal lane changes, broken taillights, etc.

Re:Not according to sega

On: Sega Confirms Death of Dreamcast

A Sega representative in San Francisco said plans for the device are "huge and long term."

Sega executives in Japan said they would continue developing Dreamcast.

1/23/2001

Not according to sega

On: Sega Confirms Death of Dreamcast

They denied that they were dumping Dreamcast a week ago:

http://yahoofin.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4575165.h tml?tag=pt.yahoofin.financefeed..ne

Re:Yes, actually, Taco, we do

On: Microsoft's DNS Down

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:support.micro soft.com/support/kb/articles/Q181/5/99.ASP+Q181599 &hl=en&lr=lang_en

2.4? Get out of town.

On: Ladies And Gentlemen, Linux 2.4

I've been running Linux 6.2 for months!

Thanks media!

On: Y2K Bugs: The Year In Review?

Normally I hate the media. But this particular hype earned me $50/hr installing Microsoft "y2k" patches for rich companies!

PS: Have any of you installed software in the past 12 months that has a seperate "y2k" patch (e.g. win98, coreldraw)? Did the program not work until you installed the path? That's what I thought.

Slashdot better watch out

On: Humorously Bad Web Hosting Policies

Don't want to be slapped with a $50,000 charge for this story which could be interpreted as a negative review!

That's pretty rare

On: Celestial Christmas Gift

An in 1997 we were treated to a rare September 2 eclipse.

Re:This cries out for one-time use credit card num

On: Caveat Emptor: Egghead.com Credit Records Nabbed

Huh?

I'm talking about the database at the American Express office, not the database of spent numbers at Joe's Ecommerce Site.

Re:This cries out for one-time use credit card num

On: Caveat Emptor: Egghead.com Credit Records Nabbed

Sounds good... now instead of securing ecommerce databases, we need to secure the American Express 'one time cc' database.

Re:IIS is known to have had many security flaws.

On: Caveat Emptor: Egghead.com Credit Records Nabbed

Apache is known to have zero security flaws.

You got it all wrong

On: The Floppy Awards

This is sad, not funny.

If you really like LEDs

On: Medical application for LEDs

then you need to visit the LED Museum

All I want to know is

On: 3Dfx No More -- NVidia Purchases Video Card Maker

With Julius X, Yahoo, 3dfx, announced, press release, [hk]doogie, and full scoop [here] getting hyperlinks, why didn't NVidia get one too?

Re:I'm fed up of this windbag

On: ESR: Microsoft Could Collapse In 6 Months (updated)

Imagine if MS spokesmen spent their time with unfouded attacks on Linux.

http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/Li nuxMyths.asp

Dirty little secret

On: Perl for System Administration

They don't mention that half of this book is written for Windows NT.

Re:2600?

On: Verizon Clogged With Tons Of Spam

every time you got a piece of spam you had to pay 32 cents for it?

Actually, $0.33, raising to $0.34 early next year.

LAME scene

On: Review: "Unbreakable"

Bruce in the train station bumping into random people, "seeing" the evil deeds they have done.

Lame.

I knew all along

On: Florida Election Votes Certified

I could have told you George Bush would win on Nov. 8 at 2am when CNN "called" it!

Hardware screen capture device

On: Hardware Based Screen Capture?

$54.99:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail /g lan ce/-/photo/B00004RFC6/qid=975270105/sr=1-4/105-034 4143-5370351

Thank god

On: Whistler MAY Refuse To Run All Unsigned Code UPDATED

I have been having a lot of problems lately with my non-microsoft-certified binaries!

Why upgrade?

On: It's Official: MS Office 10 Subscription Version

If Word's center and bold features haven't been improved that much, I see no reason to upgrade.

I will, however, keep my eye on the "Office Assistants" introduced in the new version...

Finally

On: NVidia Announces Mobile GeForce 2 Chip

Quake during psych lecture sounds good to me... now where was that crossover cable?

Okay, here goes

On: Say Goodbye To The Netpliance i-opener

Goodbye!

Don't forget the poor

On: eLection '04

Or will they use the technology they've grown up with?

Not all 14 year olds have grown up with computers.