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  1. $13.2M/mo on ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting · · Score: 1

    "If the ICANN board ratifies this position in June, those top three squatters will be getting a monthly bill for $2.2M."

    Shouldn't that be $13.2M/mo since they'd have to drop and repay the $0.20 ~6x a month.

  2. Obvious use on Open-Source 3D Printer Lets Users Make Anything · · Score: 4, Funny

    Figured I'd save people from typing the search in...
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=penis+3d+model&btnG=Google+Search

  3. Re:They do???? on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Mail order catalog services featuring computers and computer related products; and Retail store services featuring computers and computer related products. FIRST USE: 19871020. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19871020

    So... uh... does Apple's Tiger OS qualify as being related to a mail order catalog service and retail store services featuring computers and computer related products?

    That connection seems pretty vague to me.

  4. Feel and movement on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Several people I know simply remember the feel and movement their fingers make typing their password (after a few (hundred) times). I do at least.

  5. Re:Allofmp3 beats iTunes on Music Site AllofMP3 Under Investigation · · Score: 1


    Your point of the site not having any music you listen to is valid. I however actually listen to a lot of pop music, so it's selection is great for me. I'm paying for the acquisition not the legality. I've never thought that downloading music from their site might actually be legal.

    If you dig through google caches and find other old versions of their site (or maybe some of the links still exist) you can find pages where they have utilities to rip CDs that they are looking for and upload the wav data to them and they would credit your account for doing so.

    Once I found that, I seriously began to question the legitimacy of most of the music they had.

    In any case tho, everything I've downloaded has been of acceptable quality for the price I've paid.

    They have also been fairly well known for providing a refund for music downloaded which is mislabled or of poor quality. So, while it may waste some time thinking you're downloading some rare album to find out it's not what it says it was... you could at least get your money back fairly easily.

  6. Place to post media files for public viewing on Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP 3.0 · · Score: 1

    "I would but I don't have a place to post it"...

    www.my5minutes.com

  7. And if you're not a customer... my5minutes.com on Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service · · Score: 1

    :)

    www.my5minutes.com

    Technical Info:
    Hurricane Electric
    Hostmaster Hostmaster
    760 Mission Court
    Fremont, CA 94539
    US
    Phone: +1.5105804100
    Fax..: +1.5105804152
    Email: hostmaster@he.net

    They've been doing similar things to this a while... now they've just included it into a value added service for shared webhosting customers.

  8. Re:cowards hide anonymously on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    20 states. Big whoop. Last I checked the country as a whole had 50.

    The majority of the states would thus not have this asinine requirement?

  9. Re:Google a bit more likely to survive... on Rediff Joins The 1GB Webmail Club · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's exactly my point...

    Google can... but all these other people who are matching their webmail service because of Google's offering don't have the underlying financial resources/machine resources/network etc to really scale as well.

  10. Google a bit more likely to survive... on Rediff Joins The 1GB Webmail Club · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would estimate at this point Google's given out about half a million invites.

    Somehow I don't think smaller free mom and pop sites are going to beable to compete.

    Overall, I fail to see how GMail will ever be a profitable enterprise for Google.

    I just don't see how the ad revenue would ever surpass the bandwidth costs they incur.

  11. Re:Googled on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1

    I was suprised however to not find any of their spiffy acronyms or system names in the USPTO trademark registry.

  12. Googled on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Meanwhile, Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems (XADS), based in
    Anderson, Indiana, will be one of the first companies to market
    another type of wireless weapon. Instead of using fibres, the $9000
    Close Quarters Shock Rifle projects an ionised gas, or plasma,
    towards the target, producing a conducting channel. It will also
    interfere with electronic ignition systems and stop vehicles.

    "We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of
    a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep," claims XADS
    president Peter Bitar.

    Solid-state lasers

    The gun has been designed for the US Marine Corps to use for crowd
    control and security purposes and is due out in 2005. It is based
    on early, unwieldy technology and has a range of only three metres,
    but an operator can debilitate multiple targets by sweeping it
    across them for "as long as there is an input power source," says
    Bitar.

    XADS is also planning a more advanced weapon which it hopes will
    have a range of 100 metres or more. Instead of firing ionised gas,
    it will probably use a powerful laser to ionise the air itself. The
    idea has been around for decades, says LaVerne Schlie, a laser
    expert at the US Air Force Research Lab in Kirtland, New Mexico.
    It has only become practical with advances in high-power solid-state
    lasers.

    "Before, it took a laser about the size of two trucks," says Schlie.
    "Now we can do it with something that fits on a tabletop."

    The laser pulse must be very intense, but can be brief. So the
    makers of the weapons plan to use a UV laser to fire a 5-joule pulse
    lasting just 0.4 picoseconds - equating to a momentary power of
    more than 10 million megawatts.

    This intense pulse - which is said not to harm the eyes - ionises
    the air, producing long, thread-like filaments of glowing plasma
    that can be sustained by repeating the pulse every few milliseconds.
    This plasma channel is then used to deliver a shock to the victims
    similar to a Taser's 50,000-volt, 26-watt shock.

  13. Re:Stupid. on What 'Network Games' Could Have Looked Like · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    New Guy, The (2002) - Danielle
    Bring It On (2000) - Missy Pantone
    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - Sissy

    You'd have to have seen these to get what I was really getting at. They're by no means great cinematic quality... but they rate high on the bouncing boobies scale.

  14. Re:Stupid. on What 'Network Games' Could Have Looked Like · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Date of birth (location)
    30 December 1980 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Actress - filmography
    (2000s) (1990s)

    "Tru Calling" (2003) TV Series - Tru Davies
    Kiss, The (2003) - Megan
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (2003) (VG) (voice) - Faith
    Wrong Turn (2003/I) - Jessie Burlingame
    City by the Sea (2002) - Gina
    New Guy, The (2002) - Danielle
    Soul Survivors (2001) - Annabel
    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - Sissy
    Bring It On (2000) - Missy Pantone
    Switch (1999/II) - Nina Lector
    Race the Sun (1996) - Cindy Johnson
    Journey (1995) (TV) - Cat
    Bye Bye, Love (1995) - Emma Carlson
    Fishing with George (1994)
    True Lies (1994) - Dana Tasker
    This Boy's Life (1993) - Pearl
    That Night (1992) - Alice Bloom

    www.imdb.com is your friend.

  15. Re:Stupid. on What 'Network Games' Could Have Looked Like · · Score: 1

    There's a happy lil family scene with The Governator, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Eliza Dushku playing a game o ThumbWars in the movie True Lies.

    Eliza Dushku... enough said.

  16. Re:The myth of the Clear Channel monopoly on Clear Channel Buys Patent For Instant Live CDs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you just incredibly stupid, and/or do you work for the company?

    ---
    (Cut from various sources)

    The once small company has quickly grown to over 1200 stations, collecting approximately 20% of all radio advertising dollars and programming over 60% of all rock radio stations.

    Clear Channel's largest competitor, Infinity/CBS, owns roughly 180 stations.

    Within individual markets, such as Denver, Clear Channel controls every station broadcasting certain popular formats and their attendant desirable target audiences. In 2000, Clear Channel purchased SFX, Inc. (now renamed Clear Channel Entertainment), the largest concert promoter in the country.

    By threatening vulnerable artists and labels with reduced or off-hours air play on the only stations likely to air their songs, Clear Channel pressures artists, labels and concert venues into sweetheart deals with its promotions arm.

    Channel has directly retaliated against artists who spurn their services. In other cases Clear Channel is able to simply outbid local competitors and increase ticket prices for the consumers. In other instances in which local promoters are able to successfully outbid Clear Channel Entertainment for concerts, Clear Channel has refused to run advertisements for the shows or has aired them during undesirable time slots. This argument that Clear Channel is illegally tying its concert promotion business to its monopoly position in popular music radio underlies the Sherman Act proceeding currently underway in the District of Colorado, Nobody in Particular Presents v. Clear Channel Communications.

    ---

    In economics, a monopoly (from the Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service

    Monopolies are characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide (and a lack of viable substitute goods), as well as high barriers to entry for potential competitors in the market.

  17. Re:This just in: on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 5, Informative

    After clicking on 'Compose Mail,' just click on 'Attach a file.' At that point, you'll be able to browse the files on your computer and add your attachment. Once you've selected a file to attach, click the 'Open' button and that file will be added to your message. You will see the path of your file listed just below the subject field. If you'd like to get rid of the attachment, just click 'remove.' With Gmail, you can send and receive messages with a maximum total size of 10MB.

  18. Crackheads? on Sprint Routers Stolen; NYC Internet Outage Ensues · · Score: 2, Funny

    Crackheads? It's not like it's a sparkplug

  19. Re:There are three main problems with MS/Turbine g on Middle Earth MMORPG Announced · · Score: 1

    While i'll admit many of the problems you mentioned were definitely huge gamekillers in the Asheron's Call 1 world...

    MEO is based on the turbine 2 engine... like asheron's call 2.

    a) I'm unaware of any ability to duplicate items in the ac2 world.
    b) the xp chain system has been redone to avoid leveling a character entirely through vassal xp passup.
    c) There are very few useable worthwhile macro programs in ac2... and the entire economy/gold system has been redone auch that your point really doesnt apply to what MEO will likely have.

  20. Re:Springdale 865 Chipset on Canterwood Motherboards Refined · · Score: 1

    From a Feb 19th intel press release:

    "In addition to delivering high performance microprocessors, Intel will introduce two chipsets, codenamed Springdale and Canterwood, during the first half of the year. These new chipsets are designed to deliver a balanced platform with innovative features valued by home and office PC users. The Canterwood chipset will support Hyper-Threading Technology and have new features such as dual channel DDR400 memory support, a fast 800 MHz system bus, AGP8X and integrated Serial ATA/RAID. Canterwood-based platforms will enable the highest levels of performance for Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-based desktop PCs.

    The Springdale chipset is designed to deliver improved productivity, stability and reliability for corporations' desktop PCs. Features include Intel's next generation integrated graphics, soft RAID, a new architecture designed to increase Gigabit Ethernet networking performance, dual channel DDR400 memory and Intel Stable Driver Technology."

    Granted that doesnt say much different... :P

    I cant find existance of any 865 chipset boards out yet either... and nothing on intel's site...

  21. Re:Not just FSB performance on Canterwood Motherboards Refined · · Score: 1

    Nice page... nifty info...

    However,
    I would just remove that whole SiS R658 line from the printout. When It first came out I ran around trying to find when I'd beable to expect motherboard with them... 11 months later and still no motherboard manufacturer produces a retail board with them??? VaporHype.

  22. Re:Reproducible in 1 line. on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 1

    It should be stated tho that you would need to JUST use the 1 "input type crash" line putting anything else before it would just draw a blank textbox input field.

    So if you wanted to imbed it in the beginning of a useable webpage (to non exploitable browsers) you'd want to include the crash line before your body tag.

  23. Reproducible in 1 line. on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 1

    For the lazy you can reproduce the problem with just the one "input type something_invalid_here" line.

    The HTML and FORM tags are just a little more proper :P

  24. DDOS or normal /. effect ? :) on SCO Claims Kernel Contains UnixWare Code · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Unemployment! If only it were that hard... on Unemployed? How Long Until You Find That Next Job · · Score: 1

    A year (or two (I ferget)) California increased the ammount you get from unemployment insurance in your bi-weekly check.

    So many friends were estatic... The line was "I did such a good job doing nothing... their giving me a raise."

    What's sad is realizing that i'm working a 40+ hour week... doing a good job... and the previous co-worker who got laid off for NOT doing a good job... is now making ~$50/mo less then I am from unemployment insurance.