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  1. Re:this is not whitelist. on AOL Tests Sender Permitted From / E-mail Caller ID · · Score: 2, Informative

    Set the From: field as the user account that you use to dial in to your ISP, and set Reply-To: as your third party email address. That's how it was originally intended any way.

  2. Re:So just what IS the composition of Mars? on Spirit Rover Communications Error · · Score: 1

    Um. Pretty much zero. Elements don't work that way.

  3. Re:There is an important upside to the system on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    Same reason I dropped out of school and started making the same money as my classmates, but three years earlier. They weren't teaching, it was just make-work. I can do make-work for money. I will gladly pay you if you want to teach me something I need to learn. I don't, however, need to learn how to waste time and be ineffective. That education is free in just about any corporation.

  4. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    You're a subscriber with karma. You're probably here every night. :)

  5. Re:Jackass on Solar Powered Jacket Charges Your Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Your reading comprehension needs work too. The newsletter was onsolicited commercial email (if you read closer, you may note that I said I had no reason to believe it came from your company). I reported it and all links, as per procedure. If you had read your email and responded to the notification from your ISP as per their policy that you agreed to (which I read in detail), you would have realized that it's your responsibility to respond to their inquiries within three days on these types of issues. You seem to have ignored it. At your response, the ISP probably would have dismissed the issue immediately - they may have asked me for my input, and I would have of course said that I didn't think you were involved. If you had met your contractual obligations, this would be a non-issue. Instead you choose to blame me and threaten me with lawyers.

    In short, it is my opinion that you are incapable of meeting your responsibilities, holding to your end of contractual agreements, and taking responsibility for the consequences of (in)actions.

  6. Re:I had a SCOTTeVEST ... on Solar Powered Jacket Charges Your Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Star wars geek. But I guess the light saber will bulk you too.

  7. Jackass on Solar Powered Jacket Charges Your Gadgets · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not buying crap from this guy. I'd never heard of him until I got a spam listing one of his products (in all fairness, I have no reason to believe that this original spam was in any way affiliated with him). Apparently an image was linked from his web site, so when I reported it, his ISP got on the LART list. (this part is my conjecture) He ignored the request for info from his ISP, and as per their policy that he agreed to, they disabled his site. He didn't find out for a couple more days and then got really pissed at me (end my conjecture). So he emailed me and threatened to sue me for things like trying to destroy his business, taking his name (his last name is my first name), and some kind of trade infringement since we have the same name and we have businesses that work with portable computers. I told him where to stick it and to learn to be responsible for his web site and customers, he said I'd hear from his lawyer. A few months later I got a not-quite-spam from his company. (more conjecture follows) Either his ISP didn't think it was spam, they ignored the LART, or he learned to actually check up on his web site.

    Either way I make sure to tell people not to do business with this loser.

  8. nocat on a wrt54g on Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? · · Score: 1

    My initial response is to say to use nocat auth on a wrt54g with ipchains modified to block TCP 25 outbound and nocat hacked so the owner can set a daily password if they desire.

  9. Re:I guess we know who to blame for deforestation on Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits? · · Score: 1

    So demand a standard format. Support proprietary crap and you get what you pay for.

  10. Re:I guess we know who to blame for deforestation on Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits? · · Score: 1

    I used to work in a medical research library. I am intimately familiar with the sides of the war there. What it comes down to is that the older researchers and doctors want to do things the way they always have, and the younger ones are open to new ideas. Some of them are pretty excited about the last system I was working on, tablets that sense when you go in a patient's room and automatically show their chart (there's a lot more behind it, but that's the killer app).

  11. Re:I guess we know who to blame for deforestation on Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can't really annotate, underline or highlight text easily on the screen. Paper is much easier to handle and distribute to others when I need to.

    Eh, yes you can. I do it all the time. And then give it to others.

  12. Re:Separation on Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you're basically saying that *ix is better because it does less. You're dumping your angst and blame on the wrong culprit.

  13. Re:Separation on Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide · · Score: 2, Informative

    Instead of interoperating with published standards, they try to interoperate with Microsoft legacy methodologies (e.g., everything must bee visual basic scriptable.) This is a terrible source of security worm-holes. I wish they would reorganize their visual basic scripting fanatics to Antarctica.
    It's called automation. It's not visual basic, it's WSH (which encompasses vbscript, but not visual basic). You would do well to learn about something before you decide to hate it.

  14. Re:Physics on New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series? · · Score: 1

    Um, I seem to remember several bits of dialog (in BG) about getting "bullets" and such. It looked like the capital ship relied on a hail of small kinetic kill projectiles as point defense. The fighters also appeared to use something like a vulcan canon (shoots a helluva lotta lead and hope a couple of rounds hit something).

  15. Re:ATT is not playing nice. on What Has Number Portability Done For You? · · Score: 1

    Free Phone Every Year: One free or discounted phone after mail-in rebate per account available twelve months after qualified activation or acceptance of any free or discounted phone. Phone selection is determined by AT&T Wireless and is subject to change. In order to receive each free or discounted phone after mail-in rebate, a customer must agree to and execute a new two-year agreement and remain on or switch to a qualified plan. Qualified plans are determined by AT&T Wireless and may change at any time. Customers may need to switch plans each year in order to receive program benefits. Program may be terminated at any time.
    How is this any different from the way it works for new customers?

  16. Re:What? on What Has Number Portability Done For You? · · Score: 1

    The explosion superheats anything in a close area, past the flashpoint of just about anything. Most oxygen could be consumed by burning dust in the air, if nothing else.

  17. Re:worrys about tablets on Cheap Linux Tablets, And (Maybe) An Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    Funny, everyone I've talked to about tablets refuses to consider those. They seem to see them as crappy tablets combined with crappy laptops at twice the price. I was looking at them too, and I would not consider one of these "convertable" models. Motion, for example, makes far better tablets (at least by the specs) than the others, and the lack of bulk and moving parts is a definate winner for me.

  18. Re:Gimme the PDFs please on Web 'Rules' Changing? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They should be able to. If it's not exactly a standard, it's 100% standards-based. And if they can't, you can easily write a plugin or app to do it.

  19. Re:Gimme the PDFs please on Web 'Rules' Changing? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes they do. It's called MHT. IE does it. If you ask them, they'll claim it's "microsoft html format", but it actually stands for "MIME HTML" (all the pages, images, etc, are encoded as MIME and embedded in a plaintext file).

  20. Dead site, doesn't look slashdotted on Comparing Wireless Internet Services · · Score: 1

    I'd be a lot less uninclined to use their service if the web site worked. I'm sticking with t-mobile as my choice for the switch.

  21. Re:why Trillian when you have gaim ? on Microsoft Messenger Architect On The Future Of IM · · Score: 1

    Trillian has been very responsive to the community for a long time

    HAHAHAHAHHAA

    I've had bug reports in for locked dialogs and missing shortcut/default/cancel keys on them since somewhere around 0.60. The trillian "developers" are a joke.

  22. STD? on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sound transmitted disease? I could see this being the plot for a cheap cyberthriller.

  23. One phrase: on Utah Cities To Provide High-Speed Net Access · · Score: 3, Insightful

    About damn time.

    Well, it's a good idea in some ways, but isn't there major potential for DOS attacks? I mean against the local network, can't you monopolize pretty much all the bandwidth of the neighborhood fiber? I guess you can get into QOS metering and stuff, but that's a hassle.

    This is really cool though in that it goes back to what the internet really is - peer to peer at its lowest level. Everyone is a client, everyone is a server, everyone has a public IP. No more of this corporate-shoved consumerism dreck. Very cool

  24. Re:Wow, Sony's Memory Stick is still behind on 802.11b Memory Stick for CLIE · · Score: 1

    I'm 90% sure it could be done, you'd just have to add extra power.

  25. Re:Wow, Sony's Memory Stick is still behind on 802.11b Memory Stick for CLIE · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's also built on existing standards. SD is pretty open, but all by itself. Memorystick is propriety garbage. What I like about CF is that you can trace it directly through PC-card, IDE, and ISA - all you need are pinout converters. For example, you can plug a CF card into an IDE socket with just a dumb pin converter. Same thing for PC cards (of course, the average IDE controller only recognizes ATA mass storage, but oh well). The only problem is that it's soon going to be too slow to keep up well.