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  1. Re:Locking in on Web Site "Lock-In" · · Score: 1

    Wal-Mart makes it difficult to find what you're looking for, pay for what you're looking for, and find you're way out, but everyone keeps coming back for the price.

  2. maybe we should help... on Microsoft's 'Freedom to Innovate' Brochure · · Score: 1

    ...undermine the FIN by all /. users creating accounts and doing our part to contribute to their efforts

  3. Mrs. Heller on Who's Afraid Of C++? · · Score: 1

    full-fledged novice user, capable of little more than e-mail and word processing, and turned her into a decent programmer while reviewing this book. (She became Mrs. Heller shortly after that.)

    If you don't learn C++, at least maybe you'll fall in love with the author;-)

  4. Re:There's a reason they're called GPS receivers.. on Identification By Typing · · Score: 1

    Ahh, thanks. I didn't know they were only receivers. I'd only heard of them as Global Positioning SYSTEMS. I still think most people would gladly welcome a device that does broadcast where they are as long as it was marketed as a "toy". Also, I once heard of a hiker that was climbing Everest and using GPS to report his health status(blood pressure, temp, etc.) Any idea what that was all about if they're only receivers?

  5. Not interested in retinal scanners on Identification By Typing · · Score: 1

    While I think retinal scanning is an interesting idea, I don't want to be that identifyable(sp?).
    If ten years ago, the US govt. asked the public to carry something that uniquely identified them and let them know where we are at all times, like GPS, we would've screamed NO! But now, we beg for it and would even pay big bucks to have it before our neighbors.

  6. Conflict of Interest!!! on The Battlefield Earth Contest · · Score: 1

    It helped to fund CANT, the Cult Awareness Network
    designed to help those in trouble with cults.

  7. Re:Why all Internet access should be taxed on EU Web Tax Proposed · · Score: 1

    Deleware does, however, recoup some of the lost sales tax with the state income tax. I think it may be the highest in the nation.

  8. use tax on EU Web Tax Proposed · · Score: 1

    Some states have a use tax. In those states, you're supposed to pay taxes on anything you buy out of state and "use" in your state whether you buy it online or not. No sig yet;-(