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  1. Re:fix? on Fingerprint Scanners Still Easy to Fool · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Won't work, for all the reasons specified. However, what about recording the body temperature as well as the fingerprint?

  2. Re:It must be good stuff, it was on the Billboard! on RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah, but you see, his was ding-ding-ding-dinga-ding-ding-tish. Its the hi hat sound at the end that makes it a totally different work, and not derivative at all, he says.

    I've seen the Behind the Music, too. Funny stuff.

  3. Re:Why the Army? on Army Contractor To Build A 1566 Xserve Cluster · · Score: 1

    Since it's the army, I'd assume its just gonna run PowerPoint really fast.

  4. Re:Identify only in Specific Cases on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    Except that US jurisprudence is based on case law. Declarations of facts are used as the basis for law.

  5. Re:Power PC? on Next-Gen Xbox To Lack Backwards Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    But us Mac users...Cha-ching!

  6. Re:MS & Google on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 1

    Its against the law to interferer with the mail service, because the postal service is a federal entity. Its not against the law to specifically to disrupt UPS or FedEX in the same way. Plenty of other ways to get you for that (trespassing, invasion of privacy, theft, so on and so forth), but not in the same way as for the USPS.

  7. Re:Pfft on N-Gage QD Review - No More Side-Talkin' · · Score: 4, Funny

    So would I , if I'd ever have actuallly seen somebody buy one.

  8. Re:Question 6 on Microsoft Sues Brazilian Official for Defamation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure there is. "The first one is free, then they're hooked." By pushing out desktop's and servers at low prices, it makes it hard to get away from them later.

  9. Re:Apple's iCal software on Best To-Do List Software? · · Score: 1

    Same here!

  10. Sweet Jebus... on 2.8TB in a Power Mac G5? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe you could, if they didn't go into the exact same space.

    Did the poster even look at the pictures? They'll let anybody post these days, won't they?

  11. Re:oh well on iTunes Europe Goes Live · · Score: 2, Funny

    Too bad some of us want music we've actually heard before.

  12. Re:journalists on Meet Joe Blog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Joe Public? Hell, I don't trust anybody's blog, being your standard paranoid Slashdot reader, and having a blog of my own.

    The reason the public trusts the standard news media, is that, in theory, its been verified. They have editors. It may have a slant (defined as any news I disagree with), but at least they have the premise of fact checking.

  13. Re:Hmmm... on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1

    It's a problem with Audio only chats...

  14. Re:Hmmm. on More on the Swedish Stealth Ship · · Score: 1

    About 8 years. But google could have told you that.

  15. Re:Hmmm. on More on the Swedish Stealth Ship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No chance they're running 2003. Its been out how long?

    MIlitary development testing takes so long, I'm vaguely surprised if its not running Windows for Workgroups.

    As an example, look how long it took to get the m-16 into production.

  16. Re:One thing on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 1

    Leftover Win95/98/ME FUD

    If somebody had to deal with 5 years worth of bad products by a company, why would you ever expect them to use products by them in the future?

  17. Re:Inept IT on You've Got Mail -- Tons Of It · · Score: 1

    Nine times out of ten, any IT tech who says something is "impossible" is just lazy and/or incompetent.

    Or doesn't have the budget.

  18. Re:Probably Running Exchange on You've Got Mail -- Tons Of It · · Score: 1

    Keeping their mail on their own PCs doesn't lend it self to decent IMAP usage, or to letting them have a webmail interface to the mail server. It'd only show new things.

  19. Re:Simple... on You've Got Mail -- Tons Of It · · Score: 1

    In a properly designed mail system, it would have spit the message back out at her, saying it was too big. It would also have violated email policy by sending out mass mailing to all staff without supervisor approval.

  20. Re:Why? on Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real Dollars · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that darn exercise thing...

  21. Re:Stickin' it to the man on Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Its the single biggest complaint I have about my 300D, actually. The body style I'm fine with (I'd rather have the lighter weight body), and those are really the only differences in the hardware.

  22. Re:Support local music. on The Way the Music Died · · Score: 1

    Couldn't agree more. Its just a shame their DJ's are annoying as hell. I mean, their afternoon/ drive home people? come on.

  23. Re:Italian law? on Italy Approves Jail for P2P Users · · Score: 1, Funny

    As punishment, or was that an advertisement?

  24. Re:which version on Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Released · · Score: 1

    but does it do RTL language support? Hebrew and Arabic, most notably??

  25. Re:Fast?!? on How Apple's Mail.app Junk Filter Works · · Score: 1

    So what if he's not picky? (this is actually very similar to a discussion we had at work yesterday) With drive prices being as low as we can, we realize we could easily split the data portion of our mailserver between 3 drives. With 160's going for a song, we could give our 130 users 3 gigs of mail storage with plenty of room for institutional growth. It does become a bit more of a backup issue, but really, there's less load having 160 users with 3 gigs of mail, vs 480 users with 1 gig.