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  1. Re:Does not fempute? on New Chili Is World's Hottest · · Score: 1

    You can handle the fruit without protective gear when the fruit are whole (not cut or damaged), but if the fruit are cut or damaged, or you are cooking with them, then you need protective gear - I hacked open one of my Naga Jolokia last year and had to wear gloves!

  2. Re:Really? on Despite Gates' Prediction, Spam Far From a Thing of the Past · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If those people would simply find a decent email provider, the spammers' market would dry up and spam might become a "thing of the past" once and for all. But for now there's no reason you can't switch to a decent email provider and forget about spam today.

    The only way for the spammers' market to dry up would be if THEY STOPPED GETTING REPLIES to the messages they send out now. They still get replies to some (single digit percent?) of the messages they send out, and that makes them money. So they keep fighting (successfully!) against the majority of the Internet population and sending out new spam messages and keep trying to defeat anti-spam measures.

    The spammers aren't the problem, the people who reply to spam are the problem.

  3. Re:AI on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new Botnet AI overlords!

  4. Re:Microsoft Project on Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps · · Score: 1

    Yes, GanttProject: http://ganttproject.biz/

    I've given it a whirl and while not quite as feature packed as MS Project, it can import and export to Project. If we didn't have an enterprise license for Project already, I would put forward this tool as the one to use for Project Management.

  5. OSS Alternative to Quicken Quickbooks? on Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps · · Score: 1

    On this topic, can anyone suggest a Linux alternative to Quickbooks? I need a Linux based application that can be accessed by multiple people and preferably import data from Quickbooks. (So GNUCash doesn't fit :( )

  6. What is the problem? on Secure File Storage Over Non-Trusted FTP? · · Score: 1

    What are you trying to achieve? It sounds like there is a problem there that you are trying to solve, but I'm sure there could be a better approach than sending encrypted files to an insecure FTP site.

  7. Never had a problem with my WRT54G on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    I've got a WRT54G v1.1 running DD-WRT v23 SP2 which stays up for months at a time, if we do have a power fluctuation, the router will happily restart and come back up. I have had problems in the past, but my router has been very happy for the last six months!

  8. What QUT does on Cornell Implementing Bandwidth Charges · · Score: 1

    We here at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland, AU provide a certain amount of bandwidth to students (I don't actually know how much.) The University covers the cost of this bandwidth (or incorporates it in the fee structure, I don't know) and if a student uses their allocation, they pay some money and they can pull down more traffic (I think the charge rate is about four to five cents per Mb?).
    I think that this results in a more than fair system for the students (I should know I was one at QUT).

  9. Getting charged for receiving calls?? on Telemarketers and Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    In Australia, mobile phone users don't get charged for receiving phone calls. I have a work and a personal phone, i've put my personal phone on a pay-as-you-go plan, with zero ongoing costs (i.e. no monthly charge). So if I make no outgoing calls on my personal phone, I incur no charges.

    I believe that the market penetration of mobile phones in Australia is one of the highest in the world on a per capita basis.

    Go Aussie.

  10. Re:Be Careful on Do-it-yourself UPS · · Score: 1

    Also in regard to GigsVTs post, imagine a graph with volts on the y-axis and amps on the x-axis.
    Draw line starting waaay up near the top of the y-axis, almost touching the y-axis. This line screams down the y-axis, tending away from the y-axis (on an angle of two or the degrees) and does a sharp turn right, near to the x-axis. The line then screams off up the x-axis, getting very close to the x-axis.
    Now, if you suffer a volts/amps hit above the line, you can kiss your ass goodbye. If you get a hit under the line, you will probably survive, barring heart/nerve problems.

    So. You can take high amps at low volts, or high volts at low amps, but not both at the same time.

    (On a side note, I once grounded a live mains wire with a screwdriver (totally unintentionally, of course) and wow! that was a bang and a flash. It vapourised a 5-cent-sized piece (we are in australia here) out of the case of the power supply which was nice thick 3.5mm ally.)