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  1. http://www.mailwasher.net/ on Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap · · Score: 3, Informative
  2. Re:Get it while it's still free on Google Considers 'Speciality' Subscriptions · · Score: 1
    The original idea was to have TV without ads, but we all know what happened to that.


    Yep, we all got Replay or TiVo. :)


    You'll pay them money, but once they have your money, what is to stop them from increasing their bottom line by getting advertisers...

    HBO and friends don't feel the need to interrupt shows with advertising. Not yet anyway.

  3. Re:Compensation madness on The Immortal Cell · · Score: 1

    Does that mean you can destroy cancer cells (or at least slow them down) by surrounding them with fluid infused with high-density metabolic waste? Interesting...

  4. Re:A good way to fight UCITA? on Confidentiality on Virus Sent Docs? · · Score: 1
    no one would knowingly agree to have their computer ransacked by untrustworthy code

    I beg to differ...lots of people have agreed to install the Windows XP beta.

  5. Re:How much would even apply to the US? on More on the Hague Convention · · Score: 1
    Any lawyers out there?

    You think lawyers have time to read /.?

  6. Re:Too Many Important First Concepts for OO on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 1

    My old high school actually taught HyperCard in a "computer technology" class, concurrent with Pascal in the "computer science" class. (This was 92-96.) I thought it was valuable, getting the two different perspectives, plus it trained us to think in terms of hypermedia.

  7. It's simple... on The Next Generation of PVR has no Hard Drive · · Score: 5

    If there's no way to fast-forward through the ads, no one will buy it. They'll have to pry my Replay from my cold, dead fingers.

  8. Re:Counterpoint on TiVo Response to 2.0.1 Upgrade Issues · · Score: 1

    You don't have to post this in response to EVERY post that mentions setting the clock. That's just super-redundant.

  9. Re:What about new Customers on TiVo Response to 2.0.1 Upgrade Issues · · Score: 1
    Of course it might be worth it to wait and see if any other companies decide to start making TiVO like devices to sell as hardware only...

    You mean like ReplayTV? I got it for about $300 net from Mercata while ago, should be about $400 now. The service cost is included in the price.

  10. Re:Lifetime Subscription prices on TiVo Upgrade Isn't · · Score: 1

    Replay is now owned by SonicBlue (previously S3), so I don't think they'll be going anywhere anytime soon.

  11. Re:Recording one program while watching another? on TiVo Granted PVR Patents · · Score: 1
    I believe there are VCRs, made by Go-Video, that have two heads. I've never used one, but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to record one show while watching another one on a different tape (just put it in the 2nd slot).

    Actually, from their site, they say you can "Watch a video while recording from TV, Cable, or Satellite".

  12. I have an idea... on How I Completed The $5000 Compression Challenge · · Score: 1

    Just find the spot in pi that contains a string of numbers that can represent the file. It's gotta be in there somewhere.

  13. Re:Yeah, when will the networks notice? on Calling Out TiVo · · Score: 1
    I hope that soon somebody comes out with a Tivo-like device which skips all the program downloading crap and just gives us what we want: commercial skipping.

    You mean like the 30-second skip button on ReplayTV?

  14. Re:Yet he forgot... on The Opportunity of SOAP · · Score: 1
    I talked to Microsoft the other day about .NET for the company I work for...they couldn't tell me one advantage .NET had over an existing implementation of something like SQL server and a third-party XML data customization server.

    The pre-sales guy kept saying over and over again "you can get your information anytime, anywhere"...he eventually admitted that .NET has virtually no advantage for a company with any significant investment in infrastructure.

  15. SOAP on a ROPE on The Opportunity of SOAP · · Score: 3

    I think it's funny that Microsoft called one of their SOAP tools the Remote Object Proxy Engine. Someone over there must still have sense of humor.

  16. Re:corrosive media on Fox Moon Special Response · · Score: 1
    If you subscribe to cable, unsubscribe and let them know why

    That would work if Fox was actually a cable network. The best thing you can do is complain to the advertisers, or throw your TV out the window.

    Or, throw your TV at one of the advertisers.

  17. Redefining education on MS Wants To Outlaw Open Source: "Threatens" the "American Way" · · Score: 1
    "I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat."

    That's it, the policy makers haven't been "educated" on the facts. Perhaps MS lobbyists should "educate" the policy makers with more stadium-fuls of money.

  18. Cheap network storage? on Reverse-Engineering The Creative Nomad Jukebox · · Score: 1
    I wonder if this would let you hook up a USB->Ethernet adapter to get some cheap network storage from this thing, kinda like a less expensive version of the Snap servers.

    Hey, you could even get your company to buy you one as a business expense.

  19. The only problem is... on Security Through Obscurity - Spam Mimic · · Score: 3

    When you get a message encoded with Spam Mimic, you'll assume it's spam and delete it. Great idea though.

  20. This isn't really why web browsers suck... on W3C On How To Fix Browsers · · Score: 1
    It's more like a list of things browsers should have. And most browsers out there today do have a good majority of these features.

    Although target highlighting would be pretty cool, if more people used target anchors.

    -Jason