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  1. Re:High Frequencies on Using Your Computer to Repel Pests · · Score: 2

    Unfortunatly sleeping with a pig might increase the chance of influenza...

  2. Re:It shouldn't have anything to do with the Gub'n on Feds to Require Digital Receivers In All New TVs? · · Score: 2

    Without regulation the competitor to your cell phone company could block the signal.

    Sucks to be you.

    It is entirly unfortunate that it is necessary to restrict Radio frequencies. It isn't how ever some evil plot.

  3. Re:This is only the first step.. on Feds to Require Digital Receivers In All New TVs? · · Score: 2

    So, whats your saying is, your wife decided you spend too much time sitting in your chair, drinking beer and watching sports...

    Atleast, thats how I intepret "we"

  4. Re:The LAW says- on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The funniest part about that is it's actually usefull.

    You can boot from a CDROM and install the mscdex files to a DOS system and reboot and access the CDROM normally...

  5. Re:Re:Hmm on Escher and Elliptic Curves · · Score: 2

    It's quite possible a percentage of the population can intuitivly apply some mathamtical concepts without indepth analysis.

    On the other hand, we try to beat that out of them as students in elementry school.

  6. Stallman does it again... on Slashback: Assembly, Avoidance, Civility · · Score: 1, Troll

    He gets to re-write history whenever someone express' their understanding of what he said.

    And always it is to make himself look better. Why? Because he comes across like an ass.

    It isn't htat he is an ass. He just presents himself as one.

  7. Re:Just what science didn't need... on Boeing Joins In Anti-Gravity Search · · Score: 2

    The serious problem is, while no lab has produced results to match the original experiment, many labs have produced what they have refered to as 'interesting results'. Something which they should NOT be getting.

    Thats the problem with backlash, most of the labs researching it have to be quiet or they may lose funding, or credibility.

  8. Re:Who doesn't have talent? on DJs Spinning Those Hard Drives · · Score: 2

    WHat I find truely funny about it all is that 90% of audiophiles seem to be male.

    And study, after study has shown that women have better hearing.

  9. Re:This is completely unworkable (IANAL) on MPAA Requests Immunity to Commit Cyber-Crimes · · Score: 2

    Bonus, if you believe your computer has crashed and it might have been caused by the MPAA just send the AG a note... they'll have to look into it.

    Was it the video driver, or the MPAA?

  10. Re:Controlling the information age on Gates Tries to Explain .Net · · Score: 2

    Exactly. I bought a cell phone so I could contact other people whenever and wherever I was. Not the other way around.

    Sure, if I'm walking through a mall and receive a call I'll answer it. If I don't want to speak to the person (Caller ID) I just tell it to stop ringing and they get voicemail.

    I turn it off when I go in a theater and turn it on when I come out. The phone beeps if someone left me a message while it was off, etc. (damn vibrate option is usefull, but the leatheret case absorbs the vibration...)

    I own it, it doesn't own me.

    I believe everyone who complains about cell phones, etc should try using one with Caller ID, Voicemail and the knowledge on how to use them. (Distinctive rings per Number is nice too. But not required.).

  11. Ego Surf on NYT Discovers the Panopticon · · Score: 2

    Go, have fun, Ego Surf on google for half an hour. It is an eye opening experience.

  12. Re:prisoner's dilemma on HP: Rival Printers Mean No More HPs Through Dell · · Score: 2

    2 days worth of HP printer sales? Thats a hell of a lot of printers.

    I would bet thats at the high end of the scale with the majority of companies being less than a single afternoons worth.

  13. Re:It wasnt just mod chips.. on Chip a Playstation, Go to Jail · · Score: 2

    quite possibly he couldn't have been charged with that, if he had not been selling it to Pirate video games. Which he obviously did since he sold the games...

  14. Re:Copyright on collection, not on recipes on The Open Source Cookbook? · · Score: 2

    You don't have to abide by it at all. On an individual basis you cannot copyright recipes. Period. they are not covered by copyright law.

    Now, as a whole the collection and editorial comments are copyrightable.

    So, no worries.

  15. Re:Long-term semiconductor electronics reliability on Pioneer 10 Still Running After 30 years · · Score: 2

    I find people commenting on the long-term viability of current components funny.

    Most of these people have burned out a motherboard, or componenets, etc by doing stuff like OVERCLOCKING. While those in the industries intending to have something last for a period of time know better. (And quite often underclock).

    I've never had electronic hardware fail under normal use. Only under abuse. (Harddrives excluded, in 15 years I've lost one to hardware failure).

  16. Re:Shouldn't be hard at all on Reversing a Checksum Algorithm? · · Score: 2

    Good software NEVER used that function as it was next to useless.

    ah, but those were the days, defining what io port and irq a serialport was on to every application that used it...

  17. Re:Blame ICANNada on Molson Slapped in Domain Hijacking Attempt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The easy part of this, both the individual and the company are Canadian. This puts full jurisdiction on the Canadian courts.

    The other thing is that the courts basicly stepped forward and said that something resembling a trademark ISNT necessarily a trademark and ICANN shouldn't treat it as such.

    "Canadian" is NOT a trademark of Molsens. "Molsen Canadian" is.

  18. Re:Wow, a /. book review... on I'm Just Here for the Food · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can't cook and I'm not very inclined. (Food doesn't generally interest me...)

    But I've seen this guys show and it's great. Thinking about it, I'm not actually suprised this guy gets mentioned on slashdot.

    What I like about his show, he breaks down what he's doing in easy steps, tells you explicitly what to watch out for. Tells you how to fix problems which occur from over, or under cooking, etc [and how to tell without slaughtering the food]. It isn't as simple/stupid as: cook for 10 minutes or until done.

    And, his show is entertaining.

  19. Re:Congrats ATI (sarcasm) on ATI R300 and R250V · · Score: 2

    Absolutly agreed.

    I've never seen GOOD drivers from ATI. I've had drivers that worked, but always made me nervous. I've had nothing but grief with them if pushed in any way. (And no, I don't mean by overclocking them!)

    I replaced my ATI card with an nVidia, and you know what, NO crashing issues I can blame on the video card since. None. Zero. Zilch.

    ATI has to get their drivers in order. I don't care if their video cards are 3 times faster than anyone elses, if it isn't stable its useless.

  20. Re:Neverwinter Nights on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games? · · Score: 2

    www.neverwinternights.com points to the same place. neither were working when I posted the link earlier. Works fine now. (could have been a dns problem local to my isp...)

  21. Re:Sigh.... on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games? · · Score: 2

    1.2 is irrelevent as far as the game itself goes, I understand, based on a post by BioWare that it only modified the toolset. (As such it didn't have to go through the same quality control tests as the next full patch, for good or bad). 1.2 was just to fix the module corruption bug in the toolset.

    As far as bugs go I'm actually impressed with NwN. Sure, it has its bugs and quirks, but NONE of them seem fatal and it has been quite stable for me, even when abused. (I have crashed it with a bad script or two, but they were REALLY bad..)

    I noticed it doesn't do Path finding very well. But that isn't the end of the world.

    On the other hand, if your unlucky enough to be using an ATI card, well lets just say I feel sorry for you.

  22. Neverwinter Nights on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games? · · Score: 4, Informative
    (website looks down at the moment, but...)Neverwinter Nights

    Contains an 3-D RPG Engine with toolset to create your own campaigns. Supports it's own C/C++ like scripting language, and includes a good integrated environment for developing maps, Non-Player Characters, and source code changed.

    So go get creative...

  23. Palm OS licensing issue perhaps? on Handspring Hides Flash ROM in Handspring Treo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Whats the chance they license Palm-OS on a reduced rate because it isn't 'upgradable'?

  24. Re:I have mixed feelings... on AT&T Concerned About H2K2 · · Score: 2

    Actually, I thought this was hilarious. Because it IMPLIES AT&T thinks it is acceptable to not follow the procedures the rest of the year.

  25. Re:Huge medicine possibility on Build Your Own Virus · · Score: 2

    Just a slight reminder... Jurassic Park is -FICTION-. They could have had the Dinosaurs build nuclear weapons if it helped the plot a long..