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  1. Re:Worked for me on Do-Not-Call List, Two Years Later · · Score: 1

    umm a few things 1 47cfr64.1200 is your friend Title 47: Telecommunication PART 64--MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO COMMON CARRIERS Subpart L--Restrictions on Telemarketing and Telephone Solicitation have it printed out next to your phone 2they due to the DNC list have to have some sort of correct CID info

  2. Re:Your Have to Pay Royalties? on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 1

    One of PJs sisters could probably give you a good rundown (the ones that are not covering the implosion of a certain company right now). But if you Google ||copyright "happy birthday" || the second link is http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp so yes you could get sued (by ASCAP ) if you sing "Happy Birthday" in public

  3. Re:Love what you do on Pay vs. Happiness · · Score: 1

    But yes, as an engineer, things are most frustrating when you're given some task to do but not provided the tools, the time, or just plain forbidden to do it well. You'd like the serenity to not let it affect you, but if you like your work, you've got emotional involvement in what you're working on. Management crippling your project also cripples your ability to feel good about your work. --- job happiness can be measured by 1 does the pay net to positive after you buy enough $stimulant to do your job 2 how much of your time is not in the "RedZone"

  4. Re:It's better not to be wrong so publically. on KOffice Developers Reply to Yates · · Score: 1

    besides if you use the rule of "for sufficiently small values of ported" if The Big 4 parts run at all (load - enter test data- save/print close reload....) you would have done a better job than most will release by DD/MM/CCYY projects. And anyway the point is USERS WILL HAVE A CHOICE OF PROGRAMS THAT USE THESE FORMATS AS NATIVE FORMATS so even if KOffice isn't done then OO.o can be used or ...

  5. Re:Like a stuck pig on KOffice Developers Reply to Yates · · Score: 1

    the big problem is Microsoft is playing a betting version of "Wack-A-Mole" the tables are 1 Windows Apps 2 Office 3 Windows itself each time they miss a mole they lose money and when those moles are worth Kilo and Mega bucks a pop this is bad for them. two ways to win 1 cheat 2 CHEAT

  6. Re:I run a spam operation. on Business At The Price Of Freedom · · Score: 1

    "Good" spam??? Talk to Hormel (for sufficiently small values of "good")

  7. Re:the defense of liberty on London Tube Dangerous for Technophiles? · · Score: 1

    Try this for size 1 Guy creates some sort of NBC weapon (most likely the B type)in tiny size 2 same guy buries payload in a TOY (and makes cases) 3 Guy sells toys to Shops 4 Waits for a scan to hit toy (xray or..) 5 Porfit !!!

  8. Re:Its not just computers. on Computer Jargon Too Difficult for Office Workers · · Score: 1

    Easy way to show the K >M > G >T progression Kilobyte =Box of stuff = move in Car Megabyte =Shelf Unit of stuff = move in Truck Gigabyte = Room of Stuff =move in Semi TeraByte = House of Stuff = move on Train tuck in the ~1000 multipler for each step and its sorted then you just tell your users that they need to keep stuff smaller than truck size

  9. Re:"Don't be evil" and other corporate nonsense on Is Yahoo Actively Supporting Adware? · · Score: 1

    Dow's motto is "We Bring Good Things to Life" Actually, that's GE's old motto, not Dow. -------- and GE during WWII made a (chain|gattlen) gun so NO Corp has clean hands.

  10. Re:Who profits from it? on FCC Approves Sprint-Nextel Merger · · Score: 1

    I still have a 4900 but hey 95% of america will be 5 minutes working or living from a place they can buy a Nextel Phone VERY SOON NOW

  11. Re:Will things get better? on FCC Approves Sprint-Nextel Merger · · Score: 1

    Do yourself a favour and login to your account @sprintpcs.com (phone number and account password) pull up the the "contact us" form and raise Hoe lee Ech ee Double Hockeysticks on this note. Or Pop into a RadioShack and have them get their Sprint Rep involved (you may want to burn $7 on doing a precash card so you have absolute proof that the payment was made) Final bit of advise if you get a bad accent/bad headset hang up and try again.

  12. Re:Of course they have a choice! on Annual Cost of Microsoft Monopoly: $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    ." That's no different from Pepsi saying to 7/11, "We'll give you this nice drinks fridge for free if you promise to only put pepsi products inside it." If 7/11 wants the fridge, they must abide by Pepsi's generous terms, or pass on the deal. That's business. And that IS a choice. ----- actually 1 Pepsi and coke do provide fridges (for their products) 2 the Microsoft/dell situation is like the Pepsi guy taking a marlinspike to a nonPepsi fridge when he drops off the pepsi fridge

  13. Re:Must be two major reasons, then. on Annual Cost of Microsoft Monopoly: $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    Just a hint if you look in the right place (and are doing a computer build(ish)) the correct price for a legit copy of XPsp2Home is $100.00 and it would be $140.00 for a legit copy of XPsp2Pro (small time OEM copies) and yes what you basically get is cardboard sleeve + CD + "magic sticker" but its a real disc

  14. Re:CAUTION!!! VOLTRON SPOILERS FOLLOW!!! on Voltron Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Pay for a book whent the set is not complete??? maybe if i had a kid that age. But yes the potter fanbase has read the book and now has a document detailing the six horcruxes (and current status as known) handy. I figured that Dumbledore wouldn't make it to the end of the book when he showed up with a blasted hand.

  15. Re:What about WiFi Chipset support? on Mandriva Linux 2006 Beta Underway · · Score: 1

    Umm I don't know why you seem to think that atmel chips require a kernel recompile i started 10.0 with a Linksys WUSB11 v 2.8 and it worked [more or less} I upgraded to 2005LE because it had better support (and it is setup for separate firmware not compiled in firmware) Now i will confess that the signal strenth meter is fiction but... it works

  16. Re:Justice... on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 1

    Some Folks walk the streets only be cause 1 normal folks don't want to do the time 2 Police/Gov folks don't want to do the paperwork And sometimes JUSTICE IS RETRIBUTION

  17. Re:It's amazing how many electrical problems on Space Shuttle Discovery to Launch July 26 · · Score: 1

    Or to put it an other way the dif between Not Good and "Greetings Mr Scott"

  18. Re:It is called harrasment on Do Not Call List Under Attack · · Score: 1

    And the flip side of this is Current Policy is A Phone Number is only to be asked for when it is REQUIRED for the sale. defined as 1 Contract involved (cell phone or check being used* or a repair ticket) 2 Product being Shipped 3 Returns Anything else they should not ask *oh btw a check is a "contract for payment"

  19. Re:The end of Social Justice? on FDA OKs Brain Pacemaker for Depression · · Score: 1

    speaking as a person in the "Land Where Camels(r) Are Born" I would say [bold]Need A Light???[/bold]

  20. Re:Linux users: Why bother? on Pay-Per-Click Speculation Market Soaring · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    okay feeding time in the troll pit (wheres your PPC farm link btw) Point A Invalid: 99% of the time you could just drop the distros .config file in place and then do the make deps && make bzImage&& make modules && make modules install shuffle if you wanted to do a full rebuild and most of that time all you need to do is run make on the directory. Point B Feature Not Bug: I would take any number of text files /command lines over regedit vodoo Point C : 25% of the time the answers are not clear using anything remotely this complicated (and 75% of the time folks need to shut up)

  21. Re:*Sigh* on Websurfing Damaging U.S. Productivity? · · Score: 1

    I think it all boils down to the good old "The bosses pretend to pay us so we pretend to work" Theory (hi Gary). As long as the targets get met and somebody doesn't go Sempter PSyco and shoot up the Office who cares?? (but don't let it go to the point where the biggest amount of traffic on the office net is Doom 3 8-))

  22. Re:Hopfully the guy was inocent. on Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket · · Score: 1

    I wonder what a {time date stamped} record of a track on a GPS would do in this kind of case?. Hey if you have the tech could it be used?? okay so the gps might put you 30 feet off but that would be 0.568% of a mile. Given that we would be talking about speeds of up to 65+~20...

  23. Re:Cue the jokes... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    Lets think about this on the subject of Sarah Dohhan getting the right kind of care/attention until age 18 (this assumes of course that she would be set afterwards) 1 Mother is still alive 2 Father was most likely ~rich 3 Insta-Fame "one of Scotties kids" 4 Mother and Father have brains 5 chances are every .edu with either heavy arts or heavy tech has a note to look her up later 6 The Trek fanbase 7 The Geek Community I think she will be just fine

  24. Re:What would be really badass... on Update on the Optimus Keyboard · · Score: 1

    all keys except [alt] [crtl] [shift] [capslock] + whatever else wouldn't work do to "issues"

  25. Re:Another Question Missing from the FAQ on Update on the Optimus Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Um I think you would be cool since RadioShack (without a space) would have no problems unless you tried to make AV equipment since 1 Its not really an actively sold name anymore 2 They are not that stupid now try and hit an active trademark and you will find out whne you get a letter with an return address like Corporate Offices Riverfront Campus World Headquarters 300 RadioShack Circle Fort Worth, TX 76102-1964