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  1. Re:me@me.com on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    i have so many me@me.com's or meeeeee@meeeeeee.com depending on who has been there before me ;)

  2. Re:Price of SMS Stinks. on 80,012 Text Messages In One Month · · Score: 1

    Our postal service will physically send a letter to anywhere in Australia for 40c

    I don't know how long it's been since you've posted a letter, but stamps are no longer 40c. They went to 45c a long time ago, and have been at 50c for 12months.

  3. Re:Both are "ProSumer" cameas really... on Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D · · Score: 1

    yep, i was wrong. :D

  4. Re:Both are "ProSumer" cameas really... on Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The $500 you save in hacking the camera still won't get you a better camera. Apart from physical appearences, the 10D has a much larger CCD receiver- It has a multiplication factor of 1.4 (IIRC) for 35mm SLR lenses as opposed to 1.6 in the 300D.

  5. Re:Here's another question... on Anti-piracy Vigilantes Tracking P2P Users · · Score: 1

    Let me ask you something, if you went to install something, say what you thought was the google search bar for your browser, and instead found out it was giving out information

    Er, that's exactly what is *does*

  6. ..Australian money on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 1

    Australian money shrinks in the microwaves.

    Unsure whther it's because it's different to the other money or because our microwaves are Southern Hemisphere microwaves.

    Ah ok, here are the pictures

  7. VisionDTV HD on HDTV On Your PC - ATi's HDTV Wonder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..got one of these the other day, looks sweet on my dual 19" LCD's :D

  8. Crumpler on Recommendations For A Good Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1

    Seriously.. anything in their padded rangeby these guys is just amazing. I got onje for my mac laptop, and also use the thign to a) carry home a week's worth of shopping b) a overnight / 2 nights travel bag..

    thwy're great, and if you get the 'busy man' ranges they are deceptively small, but carry huge amounts of things, safely.

  9. Re:Digital Rebel Camera on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 1

    They are, but at the moment the only lens that's the EF-S lens (afaik) is the one that comes with the 300D.

    No issue if you love you zoom, but when say a your EF 14mm f/2.8L USM (RRP $4,999.00)turns into a EF 24mm f/2.8 which could have been had for EF 24mm f/2.8 RRP $859.00, you can see the annoyance factor.

  10. Re:Wishlist on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 1

    yeah that wasn't my issues.. i was just wondering why you;'d cover zoom ranges twice

  11. Re:Digital Rebel Camera on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 1

    yep, and it's also got the very nasty 1.6x multiplication factor that they never tell you about.

    That will cost you so much more in the long run

  12. Re:Wishlist on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 1

    if you don't mind me saying, that's acrayz range of lenses..

    why are you covering everything twice?

    if I were you, i'd ask for a 1DS

  13. Canon 300V on Best 35mm SLR Camera for Beginners? · · Score: 1

    Easily the best starting camera. Pretty cheap to start off with, and they've got great Xmas specials on too.

    It's powerful enough to shoot *great* snaps.. and simple enough for everyone to use, and you've got the fantastic range of EF lenses to upgrade to...

    Snaps taken on this very model ->

    Snap One

    Snap Two

  14. hardly matters.. on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    it hardly matters because by the time the slashdot crowd have managed to replicate the internet will be beamed from huge holographic towers to the back of our heads or something

  15. Re:All jokes aside on Man Arrested in Australia Over Nigerian E-mail Scam · · Score: 1

    These scams target greed. Generally, intelligent, logical people *are* safe from them, because you can go through some logical steps.

    1] Any unaddressed email is spam
    2] Why would I have been singled out, as a nobody, to receive $1,000,000 US?
    3] Why would i, this nobody suddenly be contacted and addressed anonymously, be offered money and an investment of simply stupid amounts?
    4] Why is this suddenly very complicated and convaluted.

    Unfortunate what happened to your friend, but you did mention that sanity had been blown away in a cloud of green. I know of 2 lawyers in my city who have gone for these scams. They simply target greed.

  16. Cracking or Hacking? on Get Paid To Crack? · · Score: 1

    I thought cracking was reverse engineering, not hacking..

  17. It's time to Step Away From The Computer when.. on Half Life 2 Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1

    Important: Just to be clear, it's ok to talk about the leak and the possible implications, however we'll nuke you and your family if you even make the most slight clever hint of where to download it or even screenshots of it.

  18. ..photo on Anniversary of the First Computer Bug · · Score: 1

    here
    Looks like the first registered case of illiterate 'geek scrawl', too.

  19. woops on Spammer Hangout's Membership Roster Left Exposed · · Score: 1

    ..from the membership join page-
    We are very glad that you decided to join THE BULK CLUB! You are minutes away from INSTANT ACCESS to everything our club has to offer! Please fill out the following required information so that we can create your club account!

    Please Note: Let us reassure you that none of this information will be shared with anyone outside of our company. Members or No Members, your contact information will remain solely in our hands.

  20. Nothing So Wrong on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 1

    These 'autotuners' arn't anything new at all, and there's nothing so 'evil' about them.

    Essentially, if you're not a good signer, this thing doesn't make you sing. What It generally does is slightly swing you up if you're flat or swing you down a few semitones if you're singing sharp - which are problems that generally happens when you're singing somewhere with less than desirable accoustics - ie, concerts.

    Also bear in mind that when creating studio albums, artists have the luxury of multiple takes.

    After all - would you want to go to a concert and have the singer going flat every so often?

  21. ..is it any surprise? on Pew Study: File Traders Don't Care About Copyright · · Score: 1

    If you ask a selection of criminals whether they have a problem, the answer will be, in about 2/3 of cases, they won't have a problem.

    i'm not trying to troll, i'm just failing to see the surprise here

  22. Re:First masturbation, now this! on Wearing a Tie May Cause Blindness! · · Score: 1

    yeah, and according to that other article, we're going to have a superrace of men that are blind but will never die of prostate cancer..

  23. h'm on Wearing a Tie May Cause Blindness! · · Score: 1

    Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set!

    What, is this a geek effort to crush ANY chances of getting laid?

  24. Re:Almost pre-ordered it... on Savage to Support Linux · · Score: 1

    yeah im a beta tester, on a gforce4, 1200mhza, 500mb ram, runs very nicely in 800x600... and it'll only get better!
    dont know if they still have the deal where if u preorder u get the beta access too..

    but go for it!!

  25. Re:Sounds Like BS on Savage to Support Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, I know the lead programmer, and you have to coax him with many illicit substances items and things that will cause him to forget before he's prepared to use windows as his desktop machine. It's coded natively and properly, and runs just as if not more smoothly on linux as it does on windows :)