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  1. Re:This will work great! (for about a week) on TeleZapper - A Way to Avoid Telemarketers? · · Score: 2

    *TELEMARKETER or something, and the number that just called you would be added to a blacklist - when enough people blacklisted the number, that number would be prevented from making outgoing calls for a set period of time.

    Uhhh, Telemarketing is LEGAL. Unlike spam, these are (quasi) legitimate companies. You can't just block their phone access for telemarketing.

  2. Re:Adam, this wont work and here's why: on TeleZapper - A Way to Avoid Telemarketers? · · Score: 2

    You mean exchanges, the YYY in (XXX) YYY-ZZZZ

  3. Re:This feature is built into the WIN XP license on RIAA Wants Right To Hack · · Score: 2

    And every time you type an invalid URL in IE it contacts a microsoft controlled site, and feeds it the typoed URL.

    This is apparently sold off as a fallback to find a site you can't quite spell, but the implications are large.

  4. Not really on RIAA Wants Right To Hack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The RIAA just wants to be exempt from the new cyberterrorism regulations in the anti-terrorism bills.

    They are afraid what they do all the time will be classified as cyberterrorism.

    So really, even the RIAA is afraid of these new cyberterrorism regulations, and is trying to get their own loopholes put in.

  5. Re:generally, you're thinking of "meme" on Senate Trashes Civil Liberties; House to Vote Today · · Score: 2

    Correct you are. Thanks.

  6. Re:Crap? on Five Years of KDE · · Score: 1

    Multibillion you mean.

  7. Re:Earth = Round on Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 1

    At sea, it's 15 miles... 3 miles is a very conservative estimate. It does depend on terrain though, and how high you are above average terrain, HAAT.

  8. Re:How biased can /. get? on Senate Trashes Civil Liberties; House to Vote Today · · Score: 1

    Just remember what america really stands for. Fly the flag you believe in. Not their flag, not what America has become, but what you know it can be. Fly your flag for your America, and work to restore the rights of the people in a free society.

  9. Re:The lone cowboy... on Senate Trashes Civil Liberties; House to Vote Today · · Score: 1

    brass tacks

    I know someone read that thing about the rotary engine earlier today. :)

    I wonder if there is a name for that? I mean when you start using an odd expression after hearing someone use it.

  10. Re:The lone cowboy... on Senate Trashes Civil Liberties; House to Vote Today · · Score: 1

    Then why do people keep voting for reps that run commercials talking about how tough they are going to be on drugs and crime?

  11. Re:This was the way the system was designed. on Is Your Elected Official Really Listening? · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, my point was about Hollings, not Helms. I just mistakenly threw him in there.

  12. Re:This was the way the system was designed. on Is Your Elected Official Really Listening? · · Score: 2

    My bad.

  13. Re:Who knows.. on Hydrogen-based Rotary Engine? · · Score: 1

    Helium is a very expensive and in demand resource. When I buy helium for my aerial photography experiments, it costs about $50 for a fill on my tank, and it isn't that large a tank, it's about 4 feet tall and 8 inches in diameter.

  14. Re:This was the way the system was designed. on Is Your Elected Official Really Listening? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if they knew what it really involved, he wouldn't be elected again.

    Instead, all the normal voter will know about the SSSCA is when Hollings runs his campaign ads he can say "he worked to protect the rights of performers and artists"

    So get out there, you are in the state, it's up to you guys to quit voting for people like Hollings and Helms, and convince all the other SC people to stop it also! :)

  15. Re:How? on DoJ Supports Dismissal of Felten v. RIAA Case · · Score: 1

    Err. Commonwealth of VA v. GigsVT

  16. Re:How? on DoJ Supports Dismissal of Felten v. RIAA Case · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think the argument was that his civil rights were violated by the RIAA because of the threat to sue, that is, his 1st amendment rights to free speech. This is a civil case, not to be confused with a criminal case, which it would have been had he been prosecuted under the DMCA.

    It's easy to tell a civil case from a criminal case, because in a criminal case, the plantiff will always be a government body. (e.g. GigsVT v. State of VA).

  17. Re:No, not really on DoJ Supports Dismissal of Felten v. RIAA Case · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's called the SSSCA, and you owe it to society to go to EFF.org and educate yourself about it. It's not like you described, but it's just as bad.

  18. Re:This is good on GOVNET In the Works · · Score: 2

    Circulates my money to government contractor's pockets.

    Money I could have spent stimulating the REAL economy, not one propped up by government.

  19. Re:Nobody uses that feature on Kernel 2.4.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting a conspiracy?

  20. Re:Why MySQL ? on Major Changes To MySQL Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    How about deleting columns? Such a hassle in postgres.

  21. Re:Patents, anyone? on Scientists Double Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity · · Score: 2

    Good post. I agree with you, and naturally disagree with the "we must share all advances for the good of the people" attitude. Communism isn't counter-culture, anti-establishment, nor is it cool. It just plain sucks.

    Good post for you too. It is one thing when people choose to share things for the advancement of all people, like GPL and public domain and such, but it is a different thing when you don't believe in property rights at all.

  22. Re:Dark fiber on Scientists Double Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity · · Score: 2

    What I don't understand is that the demand is out there... at least among the people I talk to either on IRC or in person, everyone who is on POTS dial up is not there by choice. Maybe if they would have spent less time on the backbone and more time on the last mile, they wouldn't be insolvent.

  23. Re:AOL has one good feature on The America Online Protocol Revealed · · Score: 1

    Years ago internet access was $20/month and that gave you one email account. Meanwhile, AOL gave allowed you to create many accounts

    Years ago AOL was $3.50 an hour. Your argument holds no water.

  24. Re:better motherboards on New Optical DSPs With Tera-ops Performance · · Score: 2

    We already have standards to make it up to 4x faster, 64 bit PCI, and 66Mhz PCI. They are forward and backward compatible, and there are cards that use them today.

    So just start demanding that your motherboard maker start giving you 64 bit pci and you will be set.

  25. Re:VC++ dialog boxes... on File Extensions And Monopolies · · Score: 1

    Their project files have checksums that preclude you editing them by hand (the IDE bitches)

    You got a link for this? I find it really hard to believe, considering you don't HAVE to use the IDE at all.