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  1. from what i've read/heard... on 99 Minute CDs? · · Score: 2
    ...these things are a myth. Sometimes you'll get 80 minutes out of them, but I've yet to meet anyone who's ever gotten the full 99, and the price premium for the things for what amounts to a crap shoot (will you get a couple extra minutes out of it or not?) is hardly worth it.

    - A.P.

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  2. secondly... on Naughty Words in Domains · · Score: 1
    Just to test my assumption, I just registered "go-fuck-yourself.org" at joker.com. I doubt I'll ever use it, but it's kinda cute, I guess.

    - A.P.

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  3. firstly... on Naughty Words in Domains · · Score: 3
    ...why the hell were you registering through NSI? Every single registrar out there is better than NSI, whose customer service is, seriously, the worst in the business.

    You'll have no trouble registering domain names with "dirty" words in them (including "fuck" and "shit") with other registrars, such as register.com and joker.com.

    - A.P.

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  4. errrrrr.... on Visor Add-Ons That Make It Wearable? · · Score: 1
    ...what's so difficult about taking the visor out of your shirt (or pants) pocket and looking at it when you need tidbits of information?

    - A.P.

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  5. Re:The real advantage.... on It's All About the Pentium (4) · · Score: 2
    Actually, the original Pentium Pro started at 133 MHz (which are rare), and the more common 166 MHz.

    - A.P.

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  6. Re:Please... there are rules on the Internet? on Will New TLDs' Restrictions Negate Their Aims? · · Score: 1
    Have a look at tupac.edu's whois sometime, too. I love their address. :)

    - A.P.

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  7. Re:Please... there are rules on the Internet? on Will New TLDs' Restrictions Negate Their Aims? · · Score: 4
    please.

    tell me visions.edu is a 4-year college.

    then tell me what courses I can enroll in at root.edu.

    Imaginal.edu looks a little suspicious too.

    insurancefactory.edu? A college that does nothing but sell insurance?

    people have mentioned california.edu before; it's just a portal site for every california college, but it isn't a school itself.

    schools.edu is registered too.

    discountproductmall.edu used to be.

    clue.edu doesn't give out degrees either.

    and that's just 23% of the .EDU root zone file. Do you need more examples?

    - A.P.


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  8. Please... there are rules on the Internet? on Will New TLDs' Restrictions Negate Their Aims? · · Score: 3
    I know plenty of people who have registered .EDU domains without being an accredited 4-year institution. Someone once told me that I'd have a hard time getting a .net domain without being an ISP. And, though I'm not a commercial entity (though credit card companies seem to think I am!), I had no problems getting a .com either.

    These rules will be adhered to about as strictly as all the others.

    - A.P.

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  9. I dismissed the company as a bunch of morons... on Cantametrix Plans To Track All MP3s On The Web · · Score: 2
    ...when, upon reading the article, I saw they used the "word" "monetized".

    Please. Anybody who thinks that's a word obviously has about 3 working brain cells (i.e. marketing.)

    - A.P.

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  10. I don't think so. on Cantametrix Plans To Track All MP3s On The Web · · Score: 2
    I want my lossy MP3s to become even lossier by running them through another codec. Right.

    - A.P.

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  11. so um... on Motion-Blurred Mouse Pointers? · · Score: 2
    you watch Hockey on FOX, don't you?

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  12. exactly... on PCI Card Lets You Watch HDTV (And Save To Disk) · · Score: 2
    I did the same with wmaker and xawtv with my little lame WinTV card. It just sits up in the corner out of the way most of the time, but if anything interesting happens to catch my attention, it's easier to divert my attention to another window on the same screen than it would be to turn or move to another part of the room to watch TV.

    - A.P.

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  13. not all of us are cheap. on PCI Card Lets You Watch HDTV (And Save To Disk) · · Score: 2
    I just dropped a ton of cash on a black rack cabinet and some new rackmount PCs, just because I didn't like the way the old beige boxes looked. The lone remaining PC is in a convenient part of my room, with a huge monitor on top of a decent desk with a comfortable chair.

    I bought a TV card for it and, much to my surprise, found myself watching TV so much on the PC that I got rid of the television set in the room. An HDTV card (and a rather affordable one, at that) would be great, if it'll eventually work in Linux.

    - A.P.

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  14. alternate sundays... on Statistics, Elections, Frustration · · Score: 2
    Here's my solution:

    Gore gets to be president on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

    Bush gets to be President on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

    On Saturday night, they engage in fisticuffs; the winner gets to be President on Sunday.

    - A.P.

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  15. Re:Slashdot IQ test (-1, Not That Funny) on Dinosaurs Never Held Heads High · · Score: 1
    5.The hyperintelligent, when bored, enjoy posting messages making offtopic meta-comments on intelligence, and could care less about the effect on their karma, which is capped anyway.

    That's couldn't care less. If you could care less, why, then, you would, wouldn't you?

    - A.P. (yes indeed, I'm bored.)

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  16. AIX... on Network And Automated OS Installation? · · Score: 2
    AIX's installer is known as "nim", and, if I'm not mistaken, it's possible to do an install on a machine in a separate subnet. Installs can actually be initiated from the nim server, too, so nobody actually needs to be at the machine(s) in order to start an install.

    - A.P.

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  17. hmm... on Dinosaurs Never Held Heads High · · Score: 1
    ...they probably held their heads upright, but scientists aren't sure. They're still researching it, but, if you keep visiting the website, chances are, you'll see something posted there about it sooner or later.

    - A.P.

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  18. does anyone read articles on slashdot anymore? on Two-Way Satellite Internet Is Here! · · Score: 2
    The article says this is a company competing with a Bill Gates-funded satellite broadband company, among others. Nowhere is there any mention of it being Gates-funded, much less Microsoft-owned!

    - A.P.

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  19. Re:Nada on What Is The Current State Of SDMI On The Market? · · Score: 2
    Actually, at least one player I know of has SDMI built in -- the Sony Memory Stick player. That doesn't mean it won't play normal MP3 files too (nobody would buy it if it didn't, let's be serious), but it's got the capability.

    - A.P.

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  20. "a great portion of the internet crashed..." on Election-Day's Effect on the Net · · Score: 3
    Wow, I bet the sysop was pissed.

    - A.P.

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  21. Re:Slashdot Hypocrisy: The Next Generation. on Is The PS2 Your Next DVD Player? · · Score: 2
    So, what you're saying is it's perfectly okay to like the things you like, but things that you don't agree with aren't correct groupthink.

    Sounds like Slashdot to me.

    - A.P.

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  22. no VCDs? Um, so what? on Is The PS2 Your Next DVD Player? · · Score: 2
    That's like complaining your Athlon 1200 can't play DOS 1.0 games.

    - A.P.

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  23. Um, is what they're doing really wrong? on Quova Inc. Completes Trace of 4 billion IP Addresses · · Score: 2
    Because guess what, I am going to rat. And I am not the only one.

    Assuming they didn't use RIPE, ARIN, or APNIC data to compile their database (and even assuming they did), what's the big deal? I don't even consider this an invasion of privacy, much less anything to worry about. Then again, slashdot users will bitch about just about anything (yet do absolutely nothing to "solve" the "problem".)

    - A.P.

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  24. case in point... on MS To Virginia Beach: Prove You Own Your Software · · Score: 2
    Company I work at, when I started working there, did all its documents in FrameMaker. Nobody seemed to have a problem with it; it was sufficiently powerful for the kind of stuff (hundred-page docs, tables, pictures, indexes, TOCs, etc) we were doing.

    Then, someone, somewhere, decided our documentation people should use Word.

    That decision lasted all of three weeks.

    We're back to FrameMaker. Word was just far, far too inadequate for our needs. And we're a *small* software company.

    - A.P.

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  25. must... resist... on XFree 4.0 Moves into Woody · · Score: 2
    the temptation to make really bad "woody" jokes is just way too much.

    (So, would this mean XFree4 is sporting a woody?)

    - A.P.

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