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  1. ChangeOver on Researchers Scheming to Rebuild Internet From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Now if we can all just leave the planet for a while, while the people in charge can do the changeover...

  2. Paint.NET on 29 Vector Drawing Programs · · Score: 1

    Paint.NET is a very nice PhotoShop-like open source graphics program.

    Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems.

    http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archive/2004/09/03/ 225514.aspx

    http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Gr aphic-Editors/Paint-NET.shtml

  3. Bones on LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot · · Score: 1
    I don't have a malicious bone in my typing finger.

    Now my copy and paste mousing finger, that is a different story! :D

  4. New Grass on Extinct Wildflower Found In California · · Score: 1

    ... And they found some extinct grass on Catalina Island which is 26 miles off the coast of SoCal.
    California Dissanthelium

    If U ask me, I have been pulling these weeds out of my lawn for years.

    [Grass species long thought extinct found on Catalina
    OCRegister (subscription), CA - 5 hours ago ... Jenny McCune, an ecologist with the Catalina Island Conservancy, found the grass - California Dissanthelium - while doing research near the Airport-in-the ... ]

  5. Too Late! on Google AdSense Meta Refresh Hijacked · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Its already fixed.

  6. Half & Half on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    I am an engineer and my wife was a nurse. That explains why we had G, B, G, B (in order of appearance).

    Half of each.

  7. Next Step on Homemade EVDO/WiFi Mobile Access Point · · Score: 1

    The next step will be to get it running in the flying car and adding altitude data to a 3D google map.

  8. Hardware Status on Free/Open Source Software Hardware Requirements? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Make all registers readable! Write-only registers are a pain in the #$@#$%^!

  9. Virtual Worlds on Gaming With a Headmouse? · · Score: 1

    There is a disabled group that plays in the virtual world "There.com". You can sign up for a free trial or email help@there.com for more info.

  10. Outlaws on Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags · · Score: 5, Funny

    When RFID spoofers are outlawed, only outlaws will have RFID spoofers.

  11. Re:I always thought... on Running for Geeks · · Score: 1

    Me Too!!

  12. Kick-Back on The Trouble with MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    If you want a kick-back do as you want, when you please online game, try there.com. Sure it has some bugs, but I have been in there almost every nite since January. There is always something fun to do. :)

    scarr in there

  13. Windows Box on The Cost of Distributed Client Computing? · · Score: 1

    I have noticed by running SETI@Home, that any extra processing causes my windows box to crash just that much sooner :)

  14. TaxCut Problem on Intuit Apologizes to Turbo Tax Customers · · Score: 1

    I used TaxCut last year because I didn't like what intuit was doing. I imported my previous years TurboTax file and added new data. I got to one screen that complained about a date and crashed TaxCut. It would not reload my saved data.

    I called for help and they told me to start all over again - sheeesh!!!

    I had to edit the binary TaxCut file with vi and slowly change date numbers until I finally got it to load again.

  15. Re:Hope you already did your Christmas shopping... on Californians Can Get Free MS-Settlement PCs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The free PC requires to to pay for shipping & handling and we know that can sometimes be very expensive.

  16. enormous on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1
    "The attack makes an enormous amount of ssh connections and attempts various offsets until it finds one that works permitting root login."

    EVERYTHING COUNTS IN LARGE AMOUNTS!

  17. Damn Laws! on Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I read an article in the paper yesterday about a bankrobber that got his charge reduced from "Armed Robbery" to plain old Robbery because the teller accidentally saw his gun - he didn't mean to show it to her. She saw it when he lifted his shirt to stuff the money in his pants.

  18. Re:So how is this a game? on There.com's Virtual World & Economy · · Score: 1

    They have contests, comedy shows, etc. where you can win prizes. I played King-of-the-Hill with paintball guns and had a *Blast*

  19. Love It There on There.com's Virtual World & Economy · · Score: 1

    I have been in There since January and I really love it. I haven't spent any *real money* and I am already up about 50% in T$. I just started working as an escort for Daelis Entertainment and hope to make T$ at that.
    There is very addicting!

    scarr@prod.there.com

  20. Unicode Converter on CDT Releases New Report on Origins of Spam · · Score: 1

    I found a nice unicode converter so you can disguise your email address with "HTML numeric equivalent" like the article mentions http://www.mikezilla.com/exp0012.html

    add
    < A href="
    &#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#5 8; [your unicode email address] "> Send Me Email </A>
    to your web page

    &#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#5 8; <-- says mailto:

  21. Re:Last mile on 100mbps Fiber Service To Your Door · · Score: 1

    You can use CBQ to improve your uplink connection as described in this article http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.ultimate-tc. html

    Sure beats selling your soul!

  22. Re:This is awesome... on Alicebot Creator Dr. Richard Wallace Expounds · · Score: 1

    You snooze, you lose -- You shmooze, you win!