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  1. Re:How I fixed it on File Extensions And Monopolies · · Score: 1

    To do this without regediting, just put a shortcut in the Send To folder. Then you can just use the "Send To" option to send it to whatever app you want.

    I always stick a shortcut to notepad in Send To whenever I have to work on a Windows machine.

  2. Re:The better solution... on File Extensions And Monopolies · · Score: 1

    The answer is smarter applications, which save the users this work.

    Really... I bet these smarter applications could get a little light bulb next to their head when they "thought" of something that could save you work!

    We could even give these smarter applications little personalities, like say, a paper clip, or a cat.

    That's a great idea!

  3. Rick Boucher on Ask A Tech-Savvy Lobbyist About The Politics Of Computing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have you spoken with Rick Boucher? Is he really as tech savvy as he comes across as, or is he playing us? Does he really care about protecting rights online?

  4. Re:Good and Bad on Cyberspace a Separate Place? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Free speach exists by default, so to speak. If there are no laws otherwise and no one enforcing censorship etc., then there is free speech.

    The opposite is also true. If you have no laws PROTECTING speech, then there is no free speech.

    Your speech would only be as free as the speed with which you can draw your sidearm.

  5. Re:Mine are pretty good on IBM DeskStar 75GXP Hard Drive Failures? · · Score: 2

    Fastest ide drive of all time with hardly no heat for the performance.

    With huge spin up power requirements. Just try putting 10 of those in a system, not going to happen.

  6. Re:Aerobraking and probe intelligence... on The Art of Aerobraking · · Score: 1

    The problem with this approach is the time lag between Earth and wherever they are (which is measured in light-minutes).
    Light-minutes and light-years measure distance, not time.


    I'm sure he knows that. If you are 10 light-minutes away from me, it will take 10 minutes for your radio signal to get to me, since radio waves propagate around the speed of light.

  7. Re:Copyright does not squash other independant wor on Copyright Claimed on Telephone Tones · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. Phone listings are not subject to copyright. The presentation/ads/other stuff in the phone book might be, but the listings are not.

  8. Re:Do not call lists on FTC Abandons Call for Stronger Privacy Laws · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So why do we even need the list? Just make bulk email/phone solicitation over "personal communications media" illegal.

    Thats what I used to think, but look at it from the other side.

    I own a business, is it illegal to call people that have bought from me before to see if they are interested in a new deal I got for them? Technically it's an unsolicited call.

    What about email... is single opt-in solicited? Double opt-in? What about email forgeries? Could I be liable if someone forges a subscription request?

    It's a complex matter, think about it for a while.

  9. Re:EULA Question on Slashback: Safety, Transmissions, Breakage · · Score: 2

    Yeah but when they say "Don't break this seal unless you agree with the enclosed EULA", the one you can't read without breaking the seal.... I REALLY don't think that would stand up in court.

  10. Re:ATI All In Wonder on TiVo Infringes On Pause Patent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Subsystem comprising the combination of a semiconductor RAM memory and a disk memory operated under the control of a microprocessor such..."
    Since the All-in-Wonder does not use disk memory, I doubt they could be targetted by this patent.


    Now, I don't know for sure, but I believe that the ATI method does use "a combination of semiconductor RAM and disk memory".

    THe length of time you can pause it is limited by the hard disk you tell it to use... so I know it is writing out to disk, and i'm sure that it is buffering it in RAM before writing it, so I think it's exactly what the patent says.

  11. Re:They can't have invented this.... on TiVo Infringes On Pause Patent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah it's a normal FIFO buffer. Have you ever read the patent database over at IBM? There are so many hundreds of patents that overlap each other it's not funny.

  12. ATI All In Wonder on TiVo Infringes On Pause Patent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does this mean that ATI is also infringing on the patent since their All In Wonder cards come with software that allows you to pause live TV?

  13. Re:Will this cause the US to lose its economic lea on Industry Divided Over SSSCA · · Score: 1

    Haven't your maggots (er, politicians) got bigger things on their plate too?

    Apparently not. And people keep voting for Republicans and Democrats, as if they are going to be better than the last ones.

  14. Re:Do the examples support the question? on Is A "Well-Rounded" Education a Good One? · · Score: 1

    But I'd lay more of the blame at Harvard's Gates.

    Nice! :)

  15. Re:I prefer the freedom to choose on Is A "Well-Rounded" Education a Good One? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is different. Most of the people in my freshman english class couldn't put together a coherent page of ideas.

  16. Re:Message in a tube on British Colleges Selling Screen Saver Ad Space · · Score: 1

    You can turn the viewscreen down, but you can never turn it off.

    I love big brother.

  17. I had a class like that on British Colleges Selling Screen Saver Ad Space · · Score: 2

    At Virginia Tech, a required management course. It was sponsered by Virgin records.

    I dropped the class after a whole lecture was devoted to a recently signed local band playing a set and some useless career advisor wasting my time telling me about internships.

    College is more and more just becoming a scam for the suckers still willing to pay for it.

  18. Re:Simple system: YES MOD PARENT UP.. :) on Slashdot in Politics? · · Score: 1

    Sounds good to me, but how do we determine what orgs get put on the list of choices?

  19. Re:List of contacts on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    Quite Right you are, but the judicial comittee has a chance to kill the bill outright, if it makes it to the floor it will just get a lame voice vote where everyone will yell Aye really loud and that will be that. Our best chance is to stop this while it is still in comittee.

    Besides, if you, or whoever that was, thought it important, they should have at least posted it logged in so it would be at 1 rather than 0... we all know the moderators don't browse correctly to be able to see anonymous posts 95% of the time.

  20. Re:List of contacts on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    Sorry to reply to myself, but here is some more info.

    This bill is going to go up for modifications TOMMOROW MORNING, WITHOUT PUBLIC INPUT... just a short discussion on civil liberties implications...

    YOU MUST ACT NOW...

  21. List of contacts on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 5, Informative


    Judiciary Committee List
    Name, party, state, phone, fax, e-mail.

    James Sensenbrenner, Chair, R-WI, (202) 225-5101,(202) 225-3190,sensen09@mail.house.gov
    Henry Hyde, R-IL, (202) 225-4561, (202) 225-1166.
    John Conyers Jr., D-MI, (202) 225-5126, (202) 225-0072,john.conyers@mail.house.gov
    George Gekas, R-PA, (202) 225-4315, (202) 225-8440, askgeorge@mail.house.gov
    Barney Frank, D-MA, (202) 225-5931, (202) 225-0182
    Howard Coble, R-NC, (202) 225-3065, (202) 225-8611, howard.coble@mail.house.gov
    Howard Berman, D-CA, (202) 225-4695, (202) 225-3196,Howard.Berman@mail.house.gov
    Lamar Smith, R-TX, (202) 225-4236, (202) 225-8628
    Rick Boucher, D-VA, (202) 225-3861, (202) 225-0442,ninthnet@mail.house.gov
    Elton Gallegly, R-CA, (202) 225-5811, (202) 225-1100
    Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, (202) 225-5635, (202) 225-6923, jerrold.nadler@mail.house.gov
    Bob Goodlatte, R-VA, (202) 225-5431, (202) 225-9681,talk2bob@mail.house.gov
    Bobby Scott, D-VA, (202) 225-8351, (202) 225-8354
    Steve Chabot, R-OH, (202) 225-2216, (202) 225-3012
    Mel Watt, D-NC, (202) 225-1510, (202) 225-1512, nc12.public@mail.house.gov
    Bob Barr, R-GA, (202) 225-2931, (202) 225-2944, barr.ga@mail.house.gov
    Zoe Lofgren, D-CA, (202) 225-3072, (202) 225-3336, zoe@lofgren.house.gov
    William Jenkins, R-TN, (202) 225-6356, (202) 225-5714
    Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX, (202) 225-3816, (202)225-3317, tx18@lee.house.gov
    Christopher Cannon, R-UT, (202) 225-7751, (202)225-5629, cannon.ut03@mail.house.gov
    Maxine Waters, D-CA, (202) 225-2201, (202) 225-7854
    Lindsey Graham, R-SC, (202) 225-5301, (202) 225-3216
    Marty Meehan, D-MA, (202) 225-3411, (202) 226-0771, martin.meehan@mail.house.gov
    Spencer Bachus, R-AL, (202) 225-4921, (202) 225-2082
    William Delahunt, D-MA, (202) 225-3111, (202)225-5658, william.delahunt@mail.house.gov
    John Hostettler, R-IA, (202) 225-4636, (202)225-3284, john.hostettler@mail.house.gov
    Robert Wexler, D-FL, (202) 225-3001, (202) 225-5974
    Mark Green, R-WI, (202) 225-5665, (202) 225-5729, mark.green@mail.house.gov
    Tammy Baldwin, D-W, (202) 225-2906, (202) 225-6942, tammy.baldwin@mail.house.gov
    Ric Keller, R-FL, (202) 225-2176, (202) 225-0999
    Anthony David Weiner, D-NY, (202) 225-6616, (202)226-7253
    Darrell Issa, R-CA, (202) 225-3906, (202) 225-3303
    Adam Schiff, D-CA, (202) 225-4176, (202) 225-5828
    Melissa Hart, R-PA, (202) 225-2565, (202) 226-2274, melissa.hart@mail.house.gov
    Jeff Flake, R-AZ, (202) 225-2635, (202) 226-4386

  22. Re:Tools are not really an issue on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 1

    The issue is that a one time key requires a secure channel to communicate what that key is to the other party. I.E. you would have to have some safe way of telling me which CD to XOR with. Public Key encryption is better in that it requires no secure channels, only that I go download your public key, and you go download mine.

  23. Re:Developers - stop bashing and start coding on Microsoft's Vision For Future Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    . And when we do start to get something remotely like it they go and stick a 'g' or 'k' in front of everything binding users to an 'environment'

    Nobody's bound to anything. If you run linux, next time try just starting X, not with the startx script, just X... you know the halftone screen with the X shaped mouse. Then start a window manager... manually. Now, you aren't running any "environment". Feel free to right click on the screen to get a menu to start up your favorite apps, whether they have a "g" or "k" or whatnot, it doesn't matter. You don't have to run ANY environment if you don't want to. Heck you don't really "need" the window manager, if you don't mind not being able to move things around the screen very easily.

  24. Re:the purge effort (longish?) on Shutting Down Worm-Infected Broadband Users · · Score: 2

    I agree... For example the phone company has a clause that is quite public that they WILL remove you from their network if you connect something to their phone line that messes it up or degrades it for other users.

    This isn't unprecedented, it been common practice for over 20 years.

  25. Re:4.4 ghz marketing soundin phrase on 2.2 GHz Xeon · · Score: 1

    Using those terms a T1 is about 3Mbit then.

    His point is, no one adds both sides of a full duplex connection together (except cisco marketing departments). You don't say you have a 56+33.6K modem (90.6K modem)