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  1. What is the sound of one knee jerking? on MSN Messenger Kickbans Third-Party IM Clients · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ok maybe a few thousand knees.

    Seriously they announced this a while back as a PROTOCOL upgrade, they are locking out all older protocol versions, including I would assume ancient versions of their own messenger.

    Update your software people.

  2. Re:I think this is a grand idea -- for minors on Is That Cell Phone Tower Watching Me? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Children that are raised knowing they are essentially lojacked will become adults that don't understand the idea of privacy.

  3. Re:The List on U.S. Lists Web Sites as Terrorist Organizations · · Score: 1

    Was that the Peoples front of Judea or the Popular Peoples Front?

    splitters.

  4. Re:great, where's the G5 version? on Turn Your New Opteron Into A One-Game Console · · Score: 1

    Maybe it has to do with the fact that you can actually get the Opteron/Athlon64 hardware. I'd be willing to bet that x86-64 machines already vastly outnumber G5 macs.

  5. Re:how long till they sue .museum? on VeriSign Sued Over SiteFinder Service · · Score: 1

    Following your .museum link one finds that this specialized domain though it does have a wildcard is being handled at least in a reasonably fair and straightforward manner. They appear to be trying to run .museum for the benefit of both museums and people who are looking for information on museums. Verisign is trying to run .com and .net for the benefit of verisign.

    Do you truly not see the difference, or are you being intentionally obtuse?

  6. Doesn't this amount on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    to them using their near monopoly status in the domain registrar market to try and gain a strong foothold in the search engine business?

  7. Re:..and cue.. on Using GPS To Prevent Train Crashes In India · · Score: 1

    Oh my god, TheDraw! I'd forgotten about that one.

  8. Re:The problem is that on Universal Music To Cut CD Prices · · Score: 1

    I guess my point is that most 'recording artists' while they certainly deserve to be compensated for their work, should not expect to coast along.

    I have heard it often said that the bulk of the money made by musicians is from touring and merchandising. I think that this is the way it should be, and if I were a musician I would look more to making sure I wasn't being hosed over by the labels and promoters for the concert proceeds.

    Or you could just come out and call your fans thieves and sue everyone.

  9. The problem is that on Universal Music To Cut CD Prices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    too many musicians think that they are artists. The reality is that the vast majority of popular music is performed by those that would be more aptly called artisans than artists. Picasso was an artist, the guy down the street painting lettering and cartoons on a billboard is an artisan.

  10. Great idea, on AMTP as an Alternative to SMTP · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the spammers would have their own community in no time.

  11. Google should on Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint · · Score: 1

    respond to these dmca requests by also removing and and all links to the company making the requests. Sharman networks makes this request, they, their products and their site then cease to exist in the google database as well.

  12. RAID is little more on Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years? · · Score: 1

    than a placebo when used as a backup. If you are concerned about your data you need to keep a copy elsewhere, not on a RAID array.

  13. Re:Worms are bad, but... on Worm vs. Worm Battle Slows Networks · · Score: 1

    If I was writing a 'patch worm' I would also have it enable automatic updates and maybe turn on the WinXP firewall. That way the machine might stay out of the next round of worm traffic in 2 or 3 months.

  14. Being a good implementation on Samba 3.0.0RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    of a specification or protocol does not mean it has to be full of buffer overflows just because the "real" version is.

  15. Why does this leave me on Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo · · Score: 1

    thinking about the movie 'Tank Girl'?

  16. Oh yeah, email will be dead in 5 years. on Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    And dont forget the flying cars.

  17. Oh come now, on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1

    if this person ends up in prison they'll be much more popular with NO teeth.

  18. Re:I wouldn't count on it on U.S. Postal Service To Develop 'Intelligent Mail' · · Score: 1

    I've had the same experience with the USPS. My guess is that it is caused by two factors.

    1. The USPS is not really held accountable for their performance.

    2. They likely handle a much larger volume of mail and packages than any oe the private carrier, and at an overall lower price point. Their goal is cheap delivery not fast delivery.

  19. Re:Executable compressors on Windows 95 in 4.47MB · · Score: 1


    Heh

    I just got rid of my old 1200, still have an a500, a1000 and an a600 lying in a closet collecting dust.

  20. Executable compressors on Windows 95 in 4.47MB · · Score: 2, Informative

    used to be very popular on the Amiga, as were ramdisks. I remember back before I had a hark disk having a single compressed boot floppy that would copyitself into the RAD:, which was a recoverable and bootable ramdisk. the system startup scripts would check to see if the boot volume was RAD: or a floppy and take the appropriate action. After the initial load system reboots were very fast. This also made life with only a single or if you were lucky dual floppy drives very much easier.

  21. But my mouse on New Microsoft Mouse Scrolls Both Ways · · Score: 1

    scrolls to eleven!

    Thats one higher than ten!

  22. I thought on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    that the code that SCO is caliming rights to had to do with certain multi cpu and smp features. Even if they rightfully owned this code, would these code snippes even be present in a kernel compiled for an embedded device? This whole 'send us money now or we will sue you' thing seems to me nothing more than a troll free money.

  23. Well imagine that on Sun Microsystems, SuSE Link Up To Sell Linux · · Score: 1

    a corporation acting in the interests of profit. Isn't this what they are supposed to be doing?

    Now what I really want to know is how this fits in with the whole SCO debacle and the special golden child status that Sun apparently has with SCO.

  24. Re:Why is this scary? More information is a good! on DNA Extraction From Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    >Besides, I thought they already had our DNA from
    >pennies? ;)

    Would those be ass pennies by chance?

  25. I've heard it said on Is Louder Better? · · Score: 1

    though I do not know if it is true, that certain things are done to recordings sometimes to make them sound better over the FM radio band, and limit the difference from listening on a song on the radio as opposed to at home via a cd player.