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  1. Re:Cut the FUD. (I also own an 8200) on Dell Introduces Laptop With WUXGA · · Score: 1

    Mentioning that machine, My boss uses that machine and often uses it with an external monitor or projector frequently, but very very often it automatically turns off clone mode for no reason after a reboot. Do you know of anyway of leaving clone mode on permanently??

  2. Re:Uh... on Using Statistics to Cause Spammers Pain · · Score: 1

    Ok, here is how SMTP works, when I'm sending email to say me@comcast.net I can either connect to my smtp server and send the email, and that smtp server will in turn lookup comcast's smtp server and send the email to comcast smtp server at smtp.comcast.net and that server (will pass it around intenerally to the server that holds email, or generally for smaller networks it is the server that holds email).
    Or I can set my smtp server to smtp.comcast.net for just that message, and send an email to me@comcast.net Now I can't send any email through that smtp if I'm not sending it to a comcast email address (unless comcast is my isp).
    So basically comcasts smtp server accepts incoming mail from the world for its customers and accepts outgoing email from its customers for the world. An open relay of course it one that allows the world to send email to the world. So yes they would be contacting you to send spam through your server if they were sending the email to a customer of yours and you are an isp or email provider of some sort.

  3. Re:Electromagnetism on Why Does a Screen Re-Draw Make Noises? · · Score: 1

    I meant to say LCD, CRTs definatly give buzzes :)

  4. Re:Electromagnetism on Why Does a Screen Re-Draw Make Noises? · · Score: 1

    BTW I've found it often helps a lot to change the hertz of a monitor to get rid of most of the buzz. But I've NEVER heard a buzz from a CRT, thats just weird, you must have very sensitive ears.

  5. Re:Old news... on Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink · · Score: 1

    Actually yes, the above poster said it had nothing to do with mosaic, and it did, it was a play on its name. :)

  6. Re:Old news... on Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink · · Score: 1

    I'm gussing that because IE 4 was taken directly from mosaic, which while I can't confirm it may have been the roots of about:mozilla, instead of removing it they blued it out.. shrugs, just a guess.

  7. Re:Non-Biased reporting on Evolution in Action · · Score: 1

    Quick note: many of the creation clubbers to do believe in microevolution will admit that macroevolution is possible in plants and other lower forms. Hell Darwin practically proved macro evolution of plants. However he didn't prove macro evolution of animalia, and it still hasn't been proven.

  8. Re:Mail readers. on Microsoft Going After Hotmail Spammers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mozilla has a "Junk" button, it blacklist the spammer, creates a holistic statistic based on all spam blacklisted to help in guessing future spam and can automatically delete it. Now if someone will just hack in a bounce message.

  9. Re:Interference on Gravity Wave Detector Ready For Business · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, but gravity waves travel at light speed, seismic waves travel, at a much smaller known speed (about twice the speed of sound is it??) As long as you keep perfect time sync between the stations its easy to measuse how fast the wave traveled and tell which it was.

  10. Re:Okay on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 1

    Either way it has to be going fast right?

  11. Re:Okay on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 1

    Actually right at ground level the weight at the top and the weight of the cable are supposed to balance eachother out, so while it would be achored that achor wouldn't be absolutly nessesary, (though I'm sure they will design it so there is some pull up at the anchor point mainly as if it was perfectly balanced and weight you add (passengers) would pull the whole thing down.

  12. Re:2 strings walk into a bar on What is Your Best Tech Joke? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If a string is placed in memory without having a null terminator, when it is pulled from memory it will not know where to stop and pull old bits of informatiion, usually junk, from memory that come after the string. (This is easy to accidently do in C and can be done in C++ too, but must be done a bit more purposfully, in languages like java its impossible, that is what is refered to as protected memory)

  13. Re:thats microsoft.... on Atari 2600 Game Development · · Score: 1

    no the ists would be
    antidisestablishmentarionist same amount of letters. I don't think you can do an ismist.

    thats would be like talking about terrorismists

  14. Re:Shell whores. on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 1

    An IRC bot is a program that connects to irc and sometimes pretends to be a real person and sometimes not, but most importantly it keeps channels you create open, and gives you and others ops once you join. They can also do a host of other task, eggdrop is a specific bot, I personally don't know what all it can do but its pretty big from what I've heard.

  15. Re:don't beam ME up. on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 1

    You know what would really screw with theology. First make sure you and your copy are exact copies to the subatomic particle, then make sure every input is exactly the same. Every magnetic wave, ever gravitron, everything! What happends when the two copies do that exact same thing and continue acting as mirror images for an extended period of time, because we are just chemical reactions after all. Though choas theory states that its virtually impossible to ensure exact same imputs, what if it wasn't? And we proved that same inputs mean same outputs, what happends to all theories of free will?!! :)

  16. Re:I've been playing infinite games for years. on Infinite Games? · · Score: 1

    *ELITE* ?? Link?

  17. Re:don't beam ME up. on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 1

    What if through some weird quantum entanglement your consiousness actually controlled both bodies at the same time, and it wasn't a seperate consiousness, would then have any problem allowing your first to be destroyed? (assuming it was a painless tranfer to individual atoms, or energy)

  18. Expensive? on Intermixing Cable TV and Internet Service? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe its just me, but I'd be willing to bet it would be cheaper to create a wifi network than this. Expecially considering the code of a wifi card versus a cable modem on each persons computer.

  19. Re:SHENANIGANS! on The 1991 "X-Box" · · Score: 2

    Was the terms API and SDK in existance in 1991????

  20. Re:100% on How Much Does it Cost to Produce a Recording? · · Score: 1

    Wow, browsed at Anonymouus Coward, and I can't see sigs either. When did that happend? Anyways, if you create an account you should see sigs automatically if not there are plenty of options you can set in the preferences, it should be obvious.

  21. Re:Logical fallacy alert on UnitedLinux Pushes Into Telecom Market · · Score: 1

    Generally when people refer to the "Natural World" they exclude man made product. I think what your referring to is "Reality".
    On the other hand you could say that Snakie Cakes are a by product of human existance, and therefor are natural. Bees manufacture honey, so why is honey natural, but anything Humans manufacture considered not natural. Sounds bias to me.

  22. Re:You have to wonder... on News on TiVo, "God's Machine" · · Score: 2

    Thats not actually true. During the supreme court session congress was busy passing a bill to specifically legalize VCRs. It quickly became pointless though, I'm not sure if it ever became law or not.

  23. Re:nice timing on Mandrake Releases 9.1b1, New Packaging Model · · Score: 1

    You downloaded them in 1 day???

  24. Re:Great! on More 3D Printer News · · Score: 1

    BTW I wasn't arguing that all software should be free. I'm just saying that you can't assume physical items will be free as society has already shown us that virtual items arn't free either. And the very right to copy a physical item by an individual will be hotly contested. Not giving an opinion mearly stating that it won't be so simple.

  25. Re:Great! on More 3D Printer News · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what should happen in the real world is the question. If design an items, should I expect to be compensated by individuals who wish to create exact duplicates of my design. Even if my design took a lot of work.