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  1. Re:I've gotta agree. I might just leave Eudora on Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ? · · Score: 1

    That is the exact reason that I pay for FastMail, as opposed to using my ISP's e-mail service. Well, my old ISP (Cablevision). I think Verizon supports IMAP.

  2. Re:Seriously? on Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ? · · Score: 1

    In most shells, suspend.

  3. Re:Why the bias? on Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish I had mod points. The summary even calls Google arrogant. Whether or not you feel that that is the case, this is not the editorial page, this is supposed to be interesting news items.

    And no, I'm not new here.

  4. Re:Make that three. on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux · · Score: 1

    No, I don't. The reason for the comment was probably "I wish I could run HP-UX at home" (though why one would want that -- whatever). Since they do have Itanium desktops, isn't this exactly what is being discussed?

  5. Re:Make that three. on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't Itanium an Intel chip?

  6. Re:Ground Breaking! on Wireless Devices Could Foil Hijack Attempts · · Score: 1

    Which I'm sure anyone with sense would agree that that is a LOT of the problem.

  7. Re:Ground Breaking! on Wireless Devices Could Foil Hijack Attempts · · Score: 1

    My dad easily got a wine corkscrew on. He forgot it was in there, and said to himself "oh shit, they're gonna take that away. Darn." Once he told them what it was, they said "OK, cool, move along." I dunno about you, but it seems to me that's a little more dangerous than a nail clipper.

  8. Re:Ground Breaking! on Wireless Devices Could Foil Hijack Attempts · · Score: 1

    They already have very strong bar locks that were required after Sept. 11 by the FAA.

  9. Re:This is a classic example on Is AOL The Key to Microsoft 'Killing' Google? · · Score: 1

    My grandmother seems to be doing just fine with her mom-and-pop ISP, and she made that choice on her own.

    I don't think everyone (thankfully) suffers from the same. AOL really has no business charging $24.95 for dialup and annoying bloatware.

  10. Re:Jersey on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 1

    To clarify -- UMDNJ. I was apparently a little bit misinformed about our relationship. Come to find that our animal facility is a model of security and care, and something like this could never happen here.

  11. Re:Jersey on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 1

    I doubt you've spent much time in Newark though, especially the area where this happened. No danger whatsoever, 'cept maybe from larger rats. I know plenty of people from Jersey who keep going ooh and ahh when I say I live and work in Newark -- they don't know what they're talking about.

  12. Re:Have they checked the obvious? on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is also some uncertainty about whether or not they actually existed. The experiment called for 24 mice and one of each type (3 groups) is missing. Either they changed the plan and used 21, or someone took three. There's no paper trail, apparently, so no one is really certain.

  13. Re:Jersey on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 1

    I -work- at the institution in question. We can't seem to stay out of the news lately.

  14. Re:Global Impact on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you're an elitist with a computer.

  15. Re:Global Impact on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's not true, however. Michael Moore did a spot about it on TV Nation. Black drivers wouldn't pick up the black guy either, even though he was an actor or something like that and the white guy was a convicted felon. I've heard that other places too -- there's a lot of discrimination against black people BY black people (police, etc.). IT's societal.

    Stop watching FOX news. ;)

  16. Re:Global Impact on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1

    It's not true, however. Michael Moore did a spot about it on TV Nation. Black drivers wouldn't pick up the black guy either, even though he was an actor or something like that and the white guy was a convicted felon. I've heard that other places too -- there's a lot of discrimination against black people BY black people (police, etc.)

  17. Re:Global Impact on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 1

    That was what I was thinking. What are the odds that changing water temperatures wouldn't have some other catastrophic effect. Remember what happened in Day After Tomorrow? It was just a movie, but there was some scientific basis for that.

  18. Re:This is perfect for... on Adult Swim To Offer Streaming Video Option · · Score: 1

    No way for them to tell that I can think of. I'd doubt it.

  19. Re:Big Nets pay attention on Adult Swim To Offer Streaming Video Option · · Score: 1

    XM still does have some commercials on some stations... one of the comedy ones springs to mind. My dad was bitching about it, but I'd never noticed 'cuz the ones I listen do don't have them.

  20. Re:the end is neigh... on The End of PalmOS? · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is didn't PalmSource and PalmOne become Palm again just recently? How can they sell a part of a complete company?

  21. Windows uses a corner. on Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age · · Score: 1

    Windows does use one of the corners at least. If you go to the bottom left and click (well, if that's where your start menu is), it will click the start button (even though it's really a few pixels off).

  22. Re:Guise? on Lockheed Martin Hardware to Protect NYC Transit · · Score: 1

    Please. Genocide? Which side by far outmatches the other in terms of power and number.

  23. Reminds me of Mac System 7 on Lucene in Action · · Score: 1

    When I was in HS, the preferred way on a Mac to find the telnet application to go run pine was using Find. It was almost always quicker than finding out what folder it was in on the machine, as they were surprisingly nonstandard installs.

  24. Re:Damn you Google! on Google's Turn To Be The Villain · · Score: 1

    Get an account -- the limit is 2 mins.

  25. Re:Guise? on Lockheed Martin Hardware to Protect NYC Transit · · Score: 1

    Yeah, man, because I attended a fundamentalist Islamic school and regularly pow-wow with terrorists. How would I know? My point is that HE would not know either. I would be EXTREMELY surprised if I'm wrong, and I'm sure so would you.