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  1. Windows/Microsoft Update alternatives on Windows Genuine Advantage Makes Few Friends · · Score: 1

    Brian Livingston's Windows Secrets has waded into the WGA mess with a fairly straightforward suggestion: Dump Windows Update. Along with that, he points to Microsoft's WGA unistall information in the KB article 92914. Note the KB article refers to the "pilot" version of WGA, so Things May Change.

  2. Windows/Microsoft Update alternatives on Windows Genuine Advantage Makes Few Friends · · Score: 1

    Brian Livingston's Windows Secrets has waded into the WGA mess with a fairly straightforward suggestion: Dump Windows Update.

  3. eh, sorry, linked to the premium content on Policing Porn Isn't Part of The Job · · Score: 1

    Sorry kids, I linked to the paid subscription content and not the ad-supported content. My mistake. Should be, as noted by polite poster above: http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/02/10/ask thepilot173/index_np.html

  4. Another case of security over-reaching on Policing Porn Isn't Part of The Job · · Score: 1

    Salon's http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/02/10/ask thepilot173/index.html> Ask the Pilot writes of a parallel experience while taking photos at an airport, with security personnel not being quite sure of the law. . . .

  5. maybe he's been reading too much J.G. Ballard on Forecasting Doomsday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://tinyurl.com/dlxjm/The Wind from Nowhere
    http://tinyurl.com/9jtf3/The Drought
    (or for counterpoint)
    http://tinyurl.com/7pnh3/The Drowned World
    http://tinyurl.com/akd8o/The Crystal World

  6. Re:Turkey guts on Utilizing Bio-fuel Beyond Experimental Use · · Score: 1

    http://tinyurl.com/9ckft/>This recent article about RES and the odor problems from processing turkey offal may be of interest to the Montrealers living close by the new plant.
    I'll admit to ignorance of French Canadian environmental laws, however. I trust this Canadian plant will have used the experience of the RES plant in Missouri to avoid some of the problems.

  7. Re:squid pic OT on Giant Squid Caught on Film · · Score: 1

    And the banner ad that appears on msnbc with the squid image asks:
    "I thought the redness, bumps and genital irritation were from shaving. But now I'm not so sure...."

    hentai fans know the truth...

  8. recycle dead media on Homeless Wires? · · Score: 1

    at http://www.greendisk.com/Greendisk. $5.95 for up to 20 pounds plus shipping in the U.S. (Try "media mail" from the USPS for discounted rates.)

  9. Re:Use sans-serif, don't hardcode fonts on Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Like I said, too much wine will mkae ouy tipe funy.

  10. Re:Use sans-serif, don't hardcode fonts on Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry folks, closing backslash crept in by mistake. Too much wine drinking while reading slash.
    http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/d ev_fonts/vera.html

  11. Re:Use sans-serif, don't hardcode fonts on Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability · · Score: 1
  12. Re:No one will ever break my password! on MS Employee Calls for No More Passwords · · Score: 1

    You've got it.

    I translate the passphrase into Spanish or Italian. Do some alphabetic to numeric translation.
    How many dictionary attacks use a non-English dictionary?

  13. Re:The answer is simple :P on How Can I Trust Firefox? · · Score: 1

    and "s" (sans quotes) gets you McDonalds and possibly the stock ticker for Sears

  14. Re:Not true. on Mathematics and Sex · · Score: 1

    practice, practice, practice. Most baseball bonus babies bat at .333. Take the inverse and they whiff 2/3 of the pitches.

    If you only make 1/3 of the people you make a pitch to, I'd say you would be doing just fine....

    Make enough pitches and the tied tongue gets under control, the sweat becomes manageable and the shaking fingers become less shaky.

    the rejection doesn't go away. But given enough times at bat, I'll hit .333. So think of getting enough rejections to get closer to the home run, to finally mix metaphors waaaay too much.

  15. alien overlords again on Did Kerry Use a Cheat Sheet? · · Score: 1

    I couldn't help but flash onto Robert Heinlein's Puppet Masters, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345 330145/qid=1097298460/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-394259 4-9503219?v=glance&s=books/ where the alien overlords jump onto your back, mesh with your spinal cord and take over your brain.
    Actually, Heinlein called them "slugs from outer space" and they were from one of Saturn's moons. But you could always tell when someone was taken over by that tell-tale bulge on their back....

  16. water conservation by any other name on A Smart Lawn Sprinkler System? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mark Gibbs at Network World ran a http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/071904gear head.html/couple of articles about networking the garden. X-10 came up, as well as some other interesting technical problems. He points to a couple of sources for software, mostly closed source. And xeriscaping http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22xeriscape%2 2/ may give you a few ideas about designing for a water-restricted future.

  17. chemistry for the cook on Cooking for Engineers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of Cooking" is 704 pages of microbiology, chemistry, history and how-tos. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684 843285/qid=1094868483/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-447084 1-5835037?v=glance&s=books Great read, lots of science and if you cook, makes some mysteries of the kitchen less mysterious.

  18. speakeasy offers a program to share the access on 80% of WiFi Networks are still Insecure, Kismet Author Says · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and then bills the people who connect, with you acting as admin. Not free WiFi, but takes the idea of providing an open access point and make it managed. http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/netshare.pdf/PDF for light overview http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/learnmore/ HTML version with some additional detail http://support.speakeasy.net/cgi-bin/support.cfg/p hp/enduser/std_adp.php?&p_refno=030512-000240#admi n/ FAQ

  19. Re:Multiple links on Second Post-Apple Newton Life? · · Score: 1

    XLink, http://www.w3.org/XML/Linking/ one of the XML languages, was to have supported multiple links. Work has finished and now seems to be oriented and folded into XPointer.

  20. I've always wanted on First Person Shooter - Under 100KBs of Code · · Score: 1

    a FPS using my name.

    Yes, yes, I know, krieger in Deutsch means warrior.

  21. Re:HP LasterJet II on Laser Printing Without the Hassles? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can fix that error 50 problem yourself. Check out the HP repair kits at:
    http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/kka3.html
    $ 69.95 gets the printer back in business.
    And as you said, the HPs of that vintage were built like tanks and last seemingly forever.

  22. Re:Still using OS/2 and have used it in the past on OS/2 Going, Going... Gone · · Score: 1

    The Italian Railways System was using it on their self-service ticketing kiosks. That was case at least a year ago.

  23. Re:a late troll tuesday entry on New Mad Max Film · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tastes ugly for a reason. Durian looks like a green spiked football, can weigh up to 35 pounds and smells like a backed up sewer when cracked open. Tastes like a cross between strawberry ice cream with a lot of garlic.
    The native people of Indonesia and Malaysia would go to war over who controlled the largest trees.
    Also reputed to be an aphrodisiac. The saying in Malaysia when the durian start to ripen and fall is:
    "when the durian falls, the sarongs go up".

    I think the candy maker is trying to cash in....
    more here