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  1. I don't understand....how this works... on Senator Goes After 'Brazen' OnStar Privacy Shift · · Score: 1

    Doesn't OnStar use the cellular network to communicate information back to the "mother-ship"?

    I find it hard to believe GM is actually footing the bill for all of these cars when the end-user isn't paying the on-star fee.

    Can anyone explain how this is working?

  2. I'm now sick on Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife · · Score: 1

    Ok... after watching both of them, I'm now completely sick. Who was that camera person? The first rule of good videographing is that the person forgets they are watching a video.... this broke all those rules... I was kept having to refocus on the image as it swung all over the place... and it said nothing about the products... ick.

  3. Re:Yelow on Blue, look at the old monitor designs on Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? · · Score: 1

    Is that what you intended to say? The way I read that you said that Bright-on-Dark (e.g. white text on dark background) means your eye has to re-focus more often. Is that really a good thing? Or did I mis-understand?

  4. Re:one-button mouse world on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less · · Score: 1

    I haven't set this.. and I am still able to do a click and hold left mouse button.

  5. Re:Now if only... on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are still left with 10,000 partitions on the HDD.. some in FAT32.. some FAT16 and one or two NTFS... ugh. First thing I do with a Dell is format and make one partition.

  6. Re:Sick and tired on MS Requiring More Expensive Vista if Running Mac · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can you not use TurboTax? It works just fine on a Mac.

  7. Re:Hmmm... on Vonage Loses VoIP Case With Verizon · · Score: 1

    And some VoIP companies, like the one I work for, offer even cheaper plans like $9.95 for all you can eat local calling.

  8. Re:Only Intel? on Dell's Intel Bias Caused By Under the Table Cash? · · Score: 1

    How about an Apple?

  9. Re:Seriously? on Microsoft Admits Vista Has "High Impact Issues" · · Score: 1

    I can confirm it. We tried it at work today. It's WAY broken.

  10. Doesn't work on Month of Apple Bugs - First Bug Unveiled · · Score: 2, Informative

    I tried the exploit.. doesn't work on my macbook.

  11. Re:Wireless Cellular Camera on How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? · · Score: 1

    Interesting.. what model? Is it hacked.. or is that how it works normally?

  12. Re:Lost e-mail? WHAT THE HECK? on EarthLink Is Losing a Lot of Email · · Score: 1

    Correction... LOOSE should be LOSE.. D'oh!

  13. Re:Lost e-mail? WHAT THE HECK? on EarthLink Is Losing a Lot of Email · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually we handle close to 50,000 e-mails per minute.... I happen to work for a largeish ISP in Pennsylvania :)

  14. Lost e-mail? WHAT THE HECK? on EarthLink Is Losing a Lot of Email · · Score: 5, Insightful

    E-mail should never be lost! We had an issue where I work with e-mail BACKING UP for a few months while we implimented new mail servers... but no mail was ever lost.. it either got bounced back (not usually) or would arrive several hours after it was sent. To actually LOOSE e-mail indicates that Earthlink is ACCEPTING the mail and then DUMPING it!!!! When our servers were overloaded, we just rejected the connection, until the mail server could handle more mail.. and then we accepted it.

  15. Re:Voting with one's dollars is not always effecti on EarthLink Establishes Their Own "Site Finder" · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is news to you.. but Earthlink owns VERY little of their dial-up infrastructure.. instead they lease from Qwest/UUNet/etc. There are many MANY other ISPs (like the one I work for) that have the same amount or more dial-up numbers nationwide then Earthlink does.

  16. Doesn't Make Sence on Stolen Cell Phone Shares Thieves' Photos? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If his cell bill and service were canceled (i.e. he notified the carrier about the stolen phone) then how did it send the pictures.. eh eh?

  17. Radio Station use on Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory? · · Score: 1

    This is the most rediculous thing I've ever heard! Who makes a sound mandatory? Are they TRYING to lose customers? If the sound does become mandatory... you can say goodbye to Vista being used for any radio station or on-air use where protocol is to silence ALL system sounds.

  18. Re:libpam-cracklib on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 1

    Why? That prevents un-authorized use of the company machine.

  19. Re:C:\P[tab]\M[tab]\P[tab] on Linux/Mac/Windows File Name Friction · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that works great until you have
    c:\winnt\system32\drivers\dns
    or some such directory (drivers) that has both dns.exe and a directory dns
    UGH. I typed drivers\dns NOT drivers\dns.exe !

  20. Re:i'm confused on Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers · · Score: 1

    Actually,
    I think glass prevents the UV rays from sun from affecting your skin, so you would bake, but you wouldn't burn.

    Consequently, I think the biggest problem of being trapped in the elevator would be lack of water/heat, and then of course, depending on how long you are trapped, going to the bathroom. No way am I going to the bathroom in an elevator where 100s of people can see me from the road, but I might consider doing it in a little closed in box!

  21. How about looking at the websites? on Identifying and Avoiding Dishonest Hosting Providers? · · Score: 1

    Well.. the first thing that comes to my mind is LOOK AT THE WEBSITE! All of these websites scream 'FRAUD' to me.

  22. AHH HA! on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 1

    I thought we had sent out spam.. this explains the problem. Seriously, I got a bunch of these bounces from users this morning, and couldn't figure it out.. nothing looked odd in the mailserver logs.

  23. Re:IE versions on New Phishing Flaw in Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    Not possible. AU does not work until you have upgraded to version 6.0+ and on XP you have to validate your windows XP install.

  24. Re:IE versions on New Phishing Flaw in Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    I hope that was a joke, because if you didn't upgrade to IE 6.0+ you have no updates installed on your box!

  25. Re:Ahhh 3com on IBM and 3Com Plan First Internet Telephony Suite · · Score: 1

    To get analog phone lines into the system for termination/origination.