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  1. Designated email deliverer. on Spam Slows AT&T Email · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only reason that spam is a problem is because everyone has access to email you at your email address. It's the same problem with your phone. Anyone can punch in your number from their phone and dail you directly.

    Your P.O box, however, can only be given mail from the actual Post Office. (I'm making an open-relay analogy) Nobody can walk in from the street and legally place mail into your mailbox. Although using a Post Office type deliverer for mail won't filter any spam, it will keep messages that are sent from outside the "post office" deliverer.

    So, we need to decide that email doesn't work for private internet messages and come up with a different tool for getting personal messages online, otherwise we will continue to get spam.

  2. I wish they would hurry. on I STILL Want My HDTV · · Score: 2

    I don't want them to hurry for the sake of getting all the best quality show at too many lines to see. I'd like for them to make a switch and have my current set not work anymore. Maybe then I'd be able to stop watching T.V. Otherwise, I'll just use it as background noise, or for an excuse to drink beer and not talk to my roommate.

  3. Re:What good timing. on Class Action Lawsuit Says PayPal Restricted Funds · · Score: 2

    Yahoo! Pay direct is also a good alternative. They are FDIC insured also.

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    To learn more about the fee structure, please visit:

    https://paydirect.yahoo.com/fees

    If you are a high-volume user of Yahoo! PayDirect, you can qualify for a reduced rate of 2.2% of the transaction amount plus $.30 for each applicable transaction.

    To qualify for the Yahoo! PayDirect Preferred rate, your account must be in good standing (i.e., your account is not restricted and you have no unresolved chargebacks), and you must have received $2,000 or more in Yahoo! PayDirect payments in the previous 90 days.

    To learn more about our Yahoo! PayDirect Preferred rate, please visit:

    https://paydirect.yahoo.com/preferred

    When compared to other secure money-transfer products, Yahoo! PayDirect is clearly a simple and cost-effective solution. Plus PayDirect makes it easy for you, with a click of your mouse, to instantly send or receive money from a number of Yahoo! services including Auctions, Greetings, Mobile, and Points.

  4. Think about the children. on Violent Video Game Protection Act · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Christ almight. I sure hope that 4 lawyers from Georgia don't know what's best for our children.

    What part of "fiction" are the lawyers not understanding about video games? Is it because they look "real"? Maybe it'd be cheaper to put children into sound proof booths, feeding them cool tea and pudding to help protect them from all the evils in the world.

    Of course, video games are not the "only" cause of youth violence, there is NO single cause. The media seems to always look for a single "magic bullet" (e.g. bombing Afghanistan won't stop terrorism...no, duh!) But by taking an incrimental approach and trying to get a handle on the VARIOUS factors that encourage any behavior, including violence, you can have a positive effect on the problem.

    And since when are we concerned about the old USSR anyway(someone look at an old map first)?

  5. Re:Weird on WinXP Keygen Foils Product Activation · · Score: 2

    My point was that if you slam on your brakes on purpose, it's *you* that are responsible (although hard to prove in court). In the US, doing so is a criminal act of aggression. And know that you know CDRWIN will cause bad blocks to be written, purposly putting in a bad CD-Key would be just as wrong.

  6. Re:Weird on WinXP Keygen Foils Product Activation · · Score: 1

    I'd buy it mis-type the code and sue to prove a point

    Your point is akin to slamming on the brakes to piss off the tailgater behind you. He may be pissing you off, but you cannot purposly do something to hurt him, even sue.

  7. Re:Yah, will this be stable on Linux? on Java2 SDK v. 1.4 Released · · Score: 2

    Okay, okay, although it may have crashed, it's still secure. Probably more so now!

  8. Perfect place for that new digital camera. on Gifts for Valentine's Day, 2002? · · Score: 3, Funny

    A Nice musuem tour would be romantic enough, and still give me a place to make a short movie on the new DV camcorder that she can get me.

    I'm not going into details about the other movie I'll make that day, though.

  9. Can you Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? on Learning Autonomic Robots · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't even think the Discovery channel could get away with airing that kind of orgy.

  10. Legal Release Date on (Almost) Free Movies On-Line... Sorta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can somebody point me to the governing body that issues the legal release date? Or better yet, where do I have to apply to have my home videos protected from the Tawainese laws?

    Although it's nice that someone sticks it to the MPAA, how many channels would they need to go through to protect their wares. I don't like their bully tactics anymore than the rest of /., but they need a way to make a return on their investments just like you and me.

  11. We missed this? on Think And Click · · Score: 1
    ''locked-in'' patients ``operate external devices such as a robot arm, or a computer to surf the Internet,''

    Seriously, how is this quote not already on /. marked at +5 Funny?

  12. Re:The thing I don't get. on Libranet GNU/Linux 2.0 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I still use Corel 1.0 and 1.2 on both machines at home. It was the first Linux OS I tried, and I don't feel much like changing. The only time I wan't running Corel was when I made my own Linux from Scratch distro. Also, where can I get the download for all the Corel Office suites? Every since Xandros took over, I cannot get any of the cool stuff that came with the Corel Updater.

  13. Where's the DVD on FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now · · Score: 1
    I thought they were making this on a bootable DVD? Isn't that the point of having access to the company's DVD burner. Daily archives be damned, I wanna play with a new OS on a single disk!

    Oh well, I guess I'll just erase some Corel Linux CD-RW's.

    Someone tell me how to install this over a network, please.

  14. Donate to WINE on Wired Talks Wine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd really like to see this take off, and not just because my dad bought Corel stock. I went to find how to contribute to WINE, and they have this to say. If you haven't yet started the kernel hacking, then take up this project. Give them your time.

  15. Funny "story". on Mac Thief Caught Thanks To Applescript & Timbuktu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd like to think this is real, but it sounds more like Bridges was making it all up. Maybe it's because I can't stand Macs.

  16. Correlation? on I Want My MTV... PC? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just how much Silicon can one company push?

  17. CTF Rules on Preview of Unreal Tournament 2 · · Score: 0
    I can't wait to play CTF or Deathmatch between condom girl and Pennywise!!

    I hope they hold a naming competition too!

  18. ReGM birdies. on USPS Irradiation Damages Electronics · · Score: 1
    You need to check out Harvest of Fear which is a PBS documentary on GM foods. Personally, I cannot stand those Greenpeace protesters. They have set fire and destroyed more than Monstanto has, yet they still think they are doing right.

    I'd like to think that GM foods can be safe, but the doc shows a nice ad of a happy family underneath a birds nest promoting DDT(which is from the 50's) before they knew the real dangers.

    Getting back to the irradiation, this step was more for easing the general public opinions of anthrax letters. We all wanted to see action, and this was the best idea used. Now that we know that the side affects are worse than the prevention, it's time to scrap it and start over. Maybe we can genetically modify canaries to die whenever they detect anthrax spores(kinda a throwback to the coalminers)

  19. Re: AOL and the Mob on Judge Upholds FBI Keyboard Sniffing · · Score: 1
    (Scarfo used AOL dialup).

    The FBI should have just waited until he started up AIM and got him then...

  20. Re:killfile timothy! on Slashdot Code Update · · Score: 1

    I like to see when a new Jon Katz story arrives, then take great joy in not reading it.

  21. Laser Propulsion is cooler on Magnetic Space Launches · · Score: 1
    It's called the LightCraft and has a working kick butt laser propulsion system. Discovery Wings had a whole hour special on it caleld "World of Wonder", which was narrated by Michael Dorn.

    Anyway, they don't need more money, they just need to read more google groups

  22. Re:PCWORLD Link on 64-bit Computing: Looking Forward to 2002 · · Score: 2, Informative
    PCWorld did a review on Windows 64-bit OS. And they offer another write-up.

  23. Re:best distro for this on A Newbie's Guide To A Lo-Fat Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    I completely agree with Linux from Scratch. I just used this about 2 months ago, and it was the best site I've used to see how a functional, lean Linux Distro works. Best of all, it's *my* distro. I don't need Debian, RH, SUse or any other major vendor afterwards(but you need a working linux partition). I know what I have installed(mainly because I actually write it down on a notepad next to my computer) and therefore can find my own dependencies.

    Then again, I've found Corel Linux to be a great distro IMO.

  24. Re:Awww... on How to Build a Fast Air-Cooled Quiet PC · · Score: 1

    I'd use Jet engines for much better purposes.

  25. Shameless work plug. on Fast Track to a CS Degree? · · Score: 1
    I actually work at the University of Phoenix's Online Campus. If you're serious about getting a solid education, quickly you should come to us. We have 80,000 students and are the largest Online University. We are fully accredited. There are a few ways to apply:

    Call 1-800-366-9699 and ask to speak to an Enrollment Advisor or

    goto http://apply.phoenix.edu/online and click the NEW USERS CLICK HERE! link.

    It usually will take 2 years to finish a BSIT from scratch, and all classes are 5 weeks(24/7)

    I also am a student with them, and so far have not missed traditional ground classes.