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  1. Cookies on EU May Outlaw Cookies · · Score: 1

    Considering that anyone in their right mind can completely reject cookies (even in IE) this seems like a bad decision. If I want to turn cookies off I'll turn them off. Maybe I want cookies turned on. Get off my back big brother...

  2. Re:How about Usenet? on Google Considers 'Speciality' Subscriptions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NOOoooooooo!! No pre-95 stuff. It's bad enough that whenever I search for something with 'linux' or 'RedHat' I end up with non-useful info regarding RedHat 4.0 or some old garbage that doesn't apply anymore. I guess if I was searching for dog grooming threads it might be just as well, but who the hell does that?

  3. Not a new market on Google Considers 'Speciality' Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    This really isn't a new market. It sounds like they'd be trying to take people out of the existing 'free service' and make them pay some fees to get a slightly different service. All in all it's the same service, you search for something and you find it. I don't see much of a market for making people pay for something they can get for free. Now, if they dumbed down their free service so you couldn't find anything maybe people would be willing to pay a little premium in order to achieve their goal...

  4. To be released... on Army Funds Game Development · · Score: 1

    ...exclusively on the Xbox. Doh! Does Microsoft have to own everything???

  5. Re:Not the problem... on The Hypermedia Hazard · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... Interesting point, maybe that's where the CAMELS came from!

  6. Not the problem... on The Hypermedia Hazard · · Score: 1

    The problem is that people take little bits of information and don't filter it through their common sense. There's always going to be misinformation anywhere you look (just watch CNN).

  7. Good router solutions on CERT Finds Routers Increasingly Being Cracked · · Score: 1

    This is an awesome linux-based router solution that I've setup for clients in the past. Just like most OSS, whenever there's a vulnerability, they fix it fast, and you don't have to pay for a CCNE.

    Astaro Security Linux

  8. Here come the games... on DirectFB: A New Linux Graphics Standard? · · Score: 1

    If this can get the attention of some mainstream games then I think most of the geeks out there will pretty much not need winders any more. I've still got 98, the only reason is for the games... I'm looking forward to a bright, non-dualbooting future with this one (hopefully)!

  9. Re:Be careful on Odyssey Arriving at Mars Tonight · · Score: 1

    Send a probe with a note attached asking if we can send a probe, or maybe just a little picture of tux so they'll know we come in peace and want to work togeter!

  10. Holy... on FBI Wants to Tap The Net · · Score: 1

    ...developing a new surveillance architecture that would concentrate Internet traffic in several key locations where all packets, not just e-mail, could be wiretapped.

    Are they talking about routing all communications through their little tools??? I don't suppose this would cause a bottleneck or anything...

  11. eBay on Technology and Society · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of these laptops will end up on eBay, or just sitting in someone's closet...

  12. The best solution... on Security Issues with Windows 2000 Datacenter? · · Score: 0

    ...is when RedHat|Debian|Slackware comes out with their new RedHat|Debian|Slackware 2000 Datacenter Server!

  13. Great KVM on Tom's Hardware KVM Roundup · · Score: 1, Informative

    4 port IOGEAR MiniView (Not the same MiniView in Tom's review) $106.95 with cables.

    I've had this for over a year and I've never had a single problem with it. We struggle with the OmniView and others at work all the time, my Linux boxen always lose mice, or experience pointer wig-outs on the others, but never on the Iogear. It also has the best monitor quality I've seen so far.

    Just my 2 cents...

  14. forgot to add... on More Domain Disputes Labeled 'Reverse-Hijacking' · · Score: 0

    ...they charge $24 a year just for an email address and $54 a year just for a subdomain of firstname.lastname.com

  15. Re:What about NamePlanet? on More Domain Disputes Labeled 'Reverse-Hijacking' · · Score: 0

    Yeah, NetIdentity does this too. I tried to register my name, but they'd sucked it up along with a few thousand other names first. One could argue that it's legitimate business, and that they provide a service to people not knowing how to do this for themselves, but I think it's crap, and they have no right to register someone's name without having a claim to that name.

  16. What about fines? on More Domain Disputes Labeled 'Reverse-Hijacking' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There should be some sort of fines involved here. These companies will keep trying this garbage unless they're punished in some way.

  17. Macromedia on Macromedia Sues Adobe, Claims Photoshop Infringes Patent · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Photoshop is better software, therefore I say they win...

  18. False alarms on Desktop Biodetectors · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I can see it now... There's this really stinky guy here at work and the dang little device would just keep warning us to get away from him... I'm not sure if that would help or hurt productivity... Maybe we can put it in the hall and it'll warn us when he's coming around the corner!

  19. AMD did it... on VIA to Create Pentium 4 'Clone' · · Score: 0

    Why would it cause legal trouble, isn't this basically what AMD did?

  20. Re:Say WHAT? on SkyOS Now Runs Linux Binaries Natively · · Score: 0

    Remember the old phraze... "Assumption is the mother of all f**ck ups." You owe them an apology!

  21. What's the point... on SkyOS Now Runs Linux Binaries Natively · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why design a new OS if the whole goal is to run another OS's binaries. I hate to say it, but all these little projects like Sky and others will never have enough software developed for them to actually make them profitable. They're wasting their time, make the OS better and make applications for your OS before emulating everyone else's OS.

  22. Re:The problem with Reputation... on What Can You Do When Defrauded on eBay? · · Score: 0

    1 negative feedback should count the same as 10 positives... then it would add up real quick.

  23. Commercialize... on Goldin to Retire from NASA · · Score: 0

    NASA could be really profitable. If I were the next director I'd increase profits through the roof, then I'd have the funding to do everything else at the same time, instead of pursuing one thing or another.

    I might even be able to afford one of those new optical motherboards!!

    Once you have the budget in place everything else will also fall into place...

  24. hehe on Digital Camera Wristwatch · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I can see the teenagers now... Schools had to ban pagers, now they're going to have to ban watches too, either that or ban the girls wearing skirts (which is bad for everybody). I'm gonna get one and rig it with a remote control, so I can drop it on the floor at the mall so I can fund my website!!

  25. Re:Dear Gaia . . . on RIAA Wants Right To Hack · · Score: 0

    This is utterly typical behavior of someone who's convinced themselves they're "right".

    This is the same extremism that took down the WTC. Will the RIAA ever crash a plane into my office building to stop my WinMX (works well with WINE) from sharing files? I wouldn't be too surprised...

    On a side note, here's a quote from the WinMX site I just noticed while checking my link: WinMX respects your privacy and doesn't contain spyware.