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  1. Re:You opt out? on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 3

    Eh, getting rid of spam is easy.

    1) Buy your own domain. People crapflood *@hotmail, *@aol, *@yahoo, etc etc just to find addresses by what doesn't bounce. Cracking dictionaries work wonders at guessing usernames.

    (I have *never* gotten spam on the domain I use for my personal email, after about a year and a half.)

    2) Don't use it for frivolous things. Big companies are usually smart enough not to spam you, you should be able to order from amazon or whatever without too much trouble.

    3) Let your friends know that if they sign you up for mailing lists you are going to beat them down with a sock full of nickels.

    How people expect spammers to not find their yahoo mail account is beyond me...

  2. Re:man, this just happened to me too on Disney and Anime Plagiarism? · · Score: 2

    Its easy to get these things mixed up. It was Damon, not Afflec, who was in WWII. He was in the other theatre of operations though, over in france.

  3. Re:Rob Zombie on crappy stereos on Insanely Audiophile · · Score: 2
    Snoopy vs the Red Baron sounds riduculous on anything that isn't tinny, to cite my favorite example. Rest in peace, buddy.

  4. Re:Alternate theory to why the city disappeared on City Beneath The Sea · · Score: 2
    Continental drift is an unlikely culprit, but the ice ages have done a very similar thing (although they are unlikely to be the factor here). Most of the likely relics of the original inhabitants of the Americans... pre-indians, or whatever they could be called, are on the former coast, off in the pacific ocean. The same process that made the land bridge between siberia and alaska also gave us a few extra miles of coast, all the way down.

  5. Re:Great.. on IBM To Make CPU For Sony's PS3 · · Score: 3

    I still don't understand what the hell 'virtual music' could be, but the commercials for the ps9 made it sound incredible. Now where's my soma...

  6. heh on IBM To Make CPU For Sony's PS3 · · Score: 3

    Well, I guess thats one way to crush the gamecube/xbox. With the marketting involved, just the very mention of 'ps3' is enough to make people shiver.
    Why buy xbox vapor, when you can buy ps3 vapor?

  7. Re:Great work! on RC5-64 Project Teeters At The Halfway Mark · · Score: 2

    Well, thats the idea isn't it? Every one of these distributed computing projects is really a trojan, picking away at old russian stuff and pretending its something else. How long before the NSA *openly* starts a distributed computing project, I wonder...

  8. Re:Ugh on Dr. Who To Come Back To The BBC · · Score: 1
    Compare it to... an article on here that says '38 new hitchhiker books found in Adams' attic', but the one it links to saying 'hhgttg to be rebroadcast by the beeb at 11'.

  9. Ugh on Dr. Who To Come Back To The BBC · · Score: 3
    Nothing to really get excited about, just internet audio. Had me thinking that there would be new episodes with the brief description here...

    I guess the audio only will save us from realizing how old the Doctor and Ace have become as of lately.

  10. Re:Some more points on Thomson's Vision: Smart Cards For Everything · · Score: 2
    I wish I could pay DIRECTLY to some of the bands I enjoy most - but the option isn't available to me.

    Most bands are easy enough to reach, at least fanclub wise. Send cash, send often. Or, to a lesser extent, buy a tshirt, see a concert (even though these are split up too, they probably get a bigger share than from the cd sales...)

    "The option isn't available to me" is so typical of America these days. Piss.

  11. Re:duh... on OSX/Win2K Deathmatch · · Score: 1

    Microsoft 0wns:
    Hormel
    Tonka
    Newsweek
    The body of Jim Morrison and the lease to his grave in france
    Washington State
    The Boy Scouts of America
    Nabisco
    Mobil
    Samsonite
    Christy's, of London
    ...

  12. Awesome on City Beneath The Sea · · Score: 1

    Why isn't the really interesting stuff ever on the front page, anyway?

  13. Re:Why on Mozilla 0.9.1 Out · · Score: 1

    Some mega corporations would rather be a *trust* than a *monopoly*. Besides, it is probably relatively inexpensive to keep the attention of open-source developers, and spin off whatever you want from them.

  14. almost worthless on The Lamps Are The Network · · Score: 2

    Wireless applications already exist, that wouldn't be crippled by line-of-light problems. If someone really wanted to provide the disabled a service, they shouldn't make it depend on having the recieving device exposed, or pointed at a light source...

  15. Re:some would say on Iridium Offers Data service - IRC From Anywhere! · · Score: 1

    Shrug. I neither endorse nor decry it. Never trust a true believer, but the apathetic will usually be pretty straightforward.

  16. Re:some would say on Iridium Offers Data service - IRC From Anywhere! · · Score: 1

    abandongames.com has it. Not that I endorse that sort of thing.

  17. Re:Dwarves on Iridium Offers Data service - IRC From Anywhere! · · Score: 1

    Only dwarves have a low enough ratio of work/body weight to survive for extended periods in space, as they must in order to service the satellites. They are also of quite hearty stock, and respond to claustrophic conditions much better than humans tend to.

    Elves, on the other hand, should all be killed.

  18. Re:Gordon Freeman to sue NASA! on NASA Wants To Invade Mars With Glowing JellyPlants · · Score: 2

    Bah, the end of half-life sucked (the entire Xen, etc, episode). The Darkstar mod, on the other hand... that ending was good :)

  19. Re:Ghost writer on Just For Fun · · Score: 2

    I loved how the multimedia extravaganza was in a proprietary format...

  20. Re:Good Thing.... on Payola: Another Brick in the Wall · · Score: 2

    There was actually an all-music, no-talk whatsoever (excusing the occaisonal required call letters) in this area too, for a while. It mysteriously acquired Bob & Tom and a bunch of loud, annoying dj's at some point, with narry an explanation...

  21. Re:my listening habits on Payola: Another Brick in the Wall · · Score: 2

    The great thing is, this doesn't bother the radio station at all. Its all about percieved popularity, they don't have anything like the Neilsons to actually figure out how many people listen to them, at least in this area.

  22. Re:Link on Tiny Little Computer · · Score: 2

    Err, isn't 'ano' simply 'year'? Obviously, therefore, a *year* of anus. Some people.

  23. Re:Way too much time on your hands.... on Surfing With Your Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    Is anyone doing small things like this on.. larger platforms? If I could get a full web browser than ran in 64K of memory, I'd love to run it on my pentium, etc etc...

  24. It won't last... on ccTLDs Revolt Against ICANN · · Score: 1

    ... unless these rebels blow up ICANN's Death Star!

  25. Hah on Ask Internet Icon Alex Chiu · · Score: 2

    Thats what you get when you promise silly things, isn't it. Internet Icon he may be, but this is no church of bob...