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  1. Jedi Knight on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I played one of the Jedi Knight PC games for a bunch of days in a row, hours and hours each day.

    Shortly after a gaming session I was sitting on the couch and the remote was out of reach I actually tried to do a Force pull to get it closer.

    I guess if there was anytime when such a thing would have worked it would be when I fully believed in what I was doing.

  2. V600 and Cingular on Verizon Crippled Bluetooth Features in Motorola V710 · · Score: 1

    I am glad I switched to Cingular and picked up a V600, I like it a lot.

  3. Router on The Cost of Computer Naivete · · Score: 1

    A $40 router would have prveneted most or all of this.

    I think the lesson is that all networks should have hardware firewalls or NAT/PAT devices that block all incoming requests by default and only allow them after careful consideration.

    No one should have a broadband connection without one.

  4. Re:Books on tape? Check your local library... on Interesting Tech-Related Online Talk Radio? · · Score: 1

    Audible.com is a very good source for "books on tape" make sure to use the monthly subscription the ala-cart prices are very high.

    I listen to them while I road bike.

  5. Re:Does this mean Graffiti will make a return? on Xerox Patent Ruled Invalid, palmOne Exonerated · · Score: 0

    I agree, I hate g2! I want a patch to put G1 on my T3

  6. Re:Actual Cost of a Virus / SCO on What's The Actual Cost of A Virus? · · Score: 1

    I have a problem with the "$25 per employee" in yoru math.

    You don't get to charge the $25 every time a virus comes out. If you want to say that it costs that much per year because of virus threats in general fine, it does not make sense to add that to the bottom line cost of every virus outbreak.

  7. full of it on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The dots are not to ruin compression, they are a pattern of dots about every 100 frames that given enough frames you can actually identify a certain print so that you know what theater allowed a pirate to copy the movie.

    This info came from a Kodak rep on the Film Tech website about a year ago.

  8. Re:Good move on AOL Bans Mail From DSL-Hosted Servers · · Score: 1

    No, find a hosting company that lets you relay mail through them.

    pair.com does this.

  9. Re:is 50mpg a lot? on Toyota to Move to All Hybrid Vehicles By 2012 · · Score: 1

    That's because of the dumb way the EPA rates car pollution.

    As a percentage of the exhaust gas volume.

    It would be better (i think) to evaluate the pollution emitted per mile driven.

    Wouldn't be able to breathe? How much fuel do you think Semi-trucks use?
    A hell of a lot more in a day then my Jetta TDI uses in a month.

  10. Assets? on BMG to Purchase Napster · · Score: 1

    1. What sort of assets would they have?
    2. Who cares, let dead horses stay dead.

  11. laser and servers on HP/Compaq Merger Apparently Approved · · Score: 1

    I hope this merger does not screw up the HP Laser line nor the Compaq server solutions.

    They both make crappy desktops that I wouldn't buy anyway. I doubt if a merged company will do any better. Just one less brand of machine for Circuit City and Best Buy to sell.

  12. Re:Palm on a motorcycle on Palm on a Bicycle · · Score: 1

    underground and GPS
    Not a very good combination.

  13. Re:They'll lose customers - I doubt it on Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs · · Score: 1

    I am betting they stay the same or gain customers.

    1. Lower prices for light users - may convince some Dial-up users to switch.
    2. What other choices do people have? When I was in Denver Area I could only get Cable Internet no DSL where I lived. I would have paid twice as much for the service.

    Seems like simple economics to me.
    Use more pay more.

  14. Re:My Theater Experience - Sound format on Review:Fellowship of the Ring · · Score: 1

    Only DTS data is off the film. COntained on a CDROM.
    SDDS is on each side of the film outside of the sprocket holes, Dolby Digital is between the sprocket holes on one or both sides, and DTS has time code between the Analog sound tracks and the sprocket, or the analog and the frame I can not remeber without looking.

  15. Re:More ways to mess with your neighbors on Linksys Incorporates HomePlug Networking · · Score: 1

    Share bandwidth - oh no another device for the cable company to bitch about. More ways to pirate bandwidth and share IPs, That damn NAT stuff.

    Also: Will people start plugging in their laptops to your outdoor outlets to see if they can get into your network? At least they can not just drive down the road with a laptop, airsnort and an external antenna.

  16. Convert the files on Rent Music Over the Net · · Score: 1

    Do they really thing think that they can keep people from figuring out a way to change the files into another format that they can not control? Even if you have to through a Digital to analog and back in the mix.

  17. Simulator Games on Good Games For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    If you need a break from FPS games.
    I just picked up Combat Simulator I, $17 i think, If I like it I'll get CS II. I aksed for Flight Sim 2002 Pro for Christmas.

    With those 3 and now that I can play Allegiance again, I think I will be happy for a little while.

    http://www.total-games.com/MyAllegiance/

  18. Bad idea on Wireless Freenets As The Parasitic Grid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So what happens when one of the parasites starts uploading child porn? Who do you think the FBI will arrest first?