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  1. Re:Paying on 1st Real Internet-Option Election in North America · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would be easy to catch that...
    Caller ID.
    Just have them call an 800 number and the reciever would know the number. Number gives you addresses that give you head counts. If to many votes from one location and PIN's do not match the addresses. You are found.

    Internet may cause a bigger issue, because of reuse of IP's. But software that IDs the NIC's MAC would help stem that problem too.

  2. Re:How about normal CDs? on CD-R Lifespan - Is It The Label? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would could should...

    Take four drives and record CD-R in a RAID 5 manner?

    This way if you loose 1 CD, the other 3 will recover.

    But then again using RAID will de-bug your software.

  3. Re:Big Blue vs. The Banna Republic Phone Company on IBM To Run VoIP On Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try the Phillipeans... VoIP is illegal.

    Won't IBM have fun installing it there.

  4. Proof the IP6 is dead!! on IBM To Run VoIP On Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    With this method you only have to dail up to 12 digits to get another phone!! Not our normal 10.

    So IP6 will never happen!!!

    You try to dail let alone a girl's number of:
    ab:df:00:23:d4:e5:wh:yi:am:st:il:lt:yp:in:gt: hi:s.

  5. Re:yeah, that was my first thought. on LinuxAnt's DriverLoader Loads Centrino Drivers · · Score: 1

    That was the first thought about 5 years ago when we at a linux meeting were talking about this idea.

    We canned it for 2 reasons...

    1) Hardware vendors will not write drivers for Linux because use the windows one!

    2) NDIS API was copyrighten by M$. Did it get released?

  6. Re:Big Bang? on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 1

    Prove the difference.

    If all was one point (including vacumn) then there was no distance, if no distance, then no wear for the wave to travel, no where for way to travel, how do you get a compression wave ie sound.

    Now you can say the point vibrated at 50 hz or an thing else... but no wave, so not sound.

  7. Re:Something wrong in the article? on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 1

    So how long did it take sound to travel 18 million light years?

    And is that billion English or American. IF english then it Trillion Trillion!!! That is allow more 0's.

    I have a data compression alogrythm that stores every thing into 1 bit. Decompression routine is instantous via a "Big Bang"

  8. Re:Big Bang? on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 1

    So all the matter was in one point, the rest was vacumn.... So the listener at 1 light year would hear nothing?

  9. Sound? on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 1

    Sound is what brain calls the netural signal that was picked up by a audio reciever that is listening in medium, normally air. The wave in air moves around 700 mph, in other mediums faster or slower.

    1) Who was listening?
    2) What was the medium at say 1 light year from "bang"?
    3) Did the listener get killed because the light pulse got there first? Hence never hear the sound, so what sound?
    4) Do bear use the woods as W.C.s?

  10. Re:"Failed Subliminal Programming" on High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory · · Score: 0, Troll

    So how soon before Coke buy Ad space, as in the 50's movie theaters?

    No, I do not hear voices, but the flashing words say buy...buy...buy...

  11. ZIP2 was the best!! on Best Online Mapping Site? · · Score: 1

    Then it sold, off and the others have been less than the best.

  12. ITRON belief on What Is The Most Popular OS in the World? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it believe in the USER?

    And now there is eTRON is coming... Looks like he has been incorporated in the MCP!

  13. Re:Freedom *of* religion. on Supreme Court Will Hear Pledge of Allegiance Case · · Score: 1

    You check Jewism then, I went to temple a couple of times for freinds' children's name givings (to me the same as a baptism)

    Very nice food service after words (and that is normal! not just because of the event). And having kids cry or play during the service, they do not mind. Actually, thank them for showing life. A very includisive attitude.

  14. Re:Are you sure its the same Dan Lyons? on The FSF, Linux's Hit Men · · Score: 1

    Ask him it ok to steal his story and hand it out like my own, AND GET PAID FOR IT.

    It must be, since his belief that Cisco has that right... again.

  15. Re:Old 400 on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    I still have customers on them. Though many moved to the AS/400-236 & -436 models. But still running the S/36 code.

    That machine and OS and code was just damn stable.

  16. Re:Catch-22 on Longhorn in 2006 · · Score: 1

    Do not forget - the lock in on upgrades lasted only 3 years from a year ago. So by the end of 2005, MS will want more money for the system you already apided for.

  17. Re:Old 400 on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    5363 - S/36 before your AS/400

    2x 105 Meg hard drives
    2M RAM

    Used to handle 75 interactive users for a hotel system I built.

  18. Re:Slashdot on Microsoft Apologist Apologizes for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    No, what he said was bad. He shows no knowledge in area. It would have gone a long way to his credibility, if just said step by step how to. Basicly he can't without making it a non-monoculture.

  19. Re:Look at it from both sides... on McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But that same stupid user is already using MS, that does it for them.

    So back to the base question: "Why?"

    Answer more money into the Versign pockets.

  20. Re:butterfly? on The Smart Sensor Web · · Score: 0

    That is right!
    That damn Bufferfly is terrorist, based on the Patriot Act.

  21. Re:bah on MS Psychologist on How We Read · · Score: 1

    I have reading and writing problems for years. Missing sentences, missing words, wrong sequences of words, wrong word spellings, even right words from time to time.

    But in end the end, most all can clearly get the meaning of what I write. It is a function of filtering and feed back.

    How many thime have you read something that had words in it you did not know? And were able to desern meening from the shrounding text.

    Yeah, there are speed penalities in trying to read it. But it is there.

    Now about MS having Physcolists... Who else do you thing lays out the screen and menus? I am serious, meet one about a year before Win98 roll out. Total us all how you could connect to foriegn machine and see the settings on your machine and fix them. This was a major plus... Then I asked "Remote machine is Thailand and my support is in US. So I will see all settings mapped into English?" Answer was "No, why would want to do that?"

  22. Re:I doubt that they will match the Matrix. on Fanimatrix - The Matrix Re-done By Fans · · Score: 1

    B5 rules!!!

  23. Re:And what about mail-order? on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    The reason is most do not get a simple change...

    The point of consumption is at the point of sale.

    Texas (same letters as Taxes) does this already. It is the business location that defines the tax rate, not the buyers locations.

    So then the states that do not have taxes setup this way will keep businesses... wait maybe they do.

  24. Re:Out of business on Hotel Being Sued for Using the Dewey Decimal System · · Score: 1

    Great the sell a datbase. This hotel is not database.

    About trademarks... OCLC does not even show on their website a TM with any of DDC. They do not even protect their trademark on their site.

    This is the most I have found: "Since the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system was created some 130 years ago, it's easy to assume that the Dewey name is in the public domain. However, it never has been, and since 1988, OCLC Online Computer Library Center has held the trademark on the Dewey name."

    So the best they can claim is "Dewey"?

    The Hotel wins.

  25. Re:Its inevitable... on RFID Hell · · Score: 2, Funny

    First tag all who believe that tags are good, then note when they meet.

    If more than 2 meet, then is a conspiracy to tag the rest, so we got them!