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  1. Re:State of Sony's PS3 on Wired Dissects Sony as PS3 Effort Falters · · Score: 1

    After checking bestbuy.ca and futureshop.ca I found 1 1080P HDTV and it was not 1000 bucks, it wasn't even close.. I've only seen a 1080p TV in a super high end audio/video store.

    One 1080p TV from Outpost.com (Fry's Electronics) for under $1000 right here.

    http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4860630?site=sr:S EARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

  2. Re:My daily naive question on Wired Dissects Sony as PS3 Effort Falters · · Score: 1

    We just learned that the PS2 is outselling the 360 in Germany some 27 to 1 each month, and the PS2 has outsold the 360 for almost every month in 2006 in the US.

    How many of those are replacements for ones that have died, and the people want to keep playing the games they own?

  3. Re:I feel your pain on Replacement for Jewel Cases? · · Score: 1

    Try looking at Sailing Clicker. It turns most cellphones and PDAs into a remote for the computer, using either Bluetooth or WiFi. I've been using it on my Mac Mini, and it works great.

  4. Re:that is ridiculous- e.g. Gnutella on RIAA Claims P2P Has Been Contained · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, They're the president of the US. /Mission Accomplished

  5. Re:FYI on Japan's Gaming History Now Safe · · Score: 1

    Do Japanese women divorce their lazy husbands at "Jerk Off"?

    No, that's where you go to buy used porn.

  6. Re:Radio Shack - You've Got Questions... on The Mythbusters Construct a Kit Bot · · Score: 1

    ...and cellphones.

  7. Re:Need to open a port in your firewall? on TiVo to Let Users Record Shows Via Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Nope, it sends the data to the servers at Tivo, then the next time your tivo connects to get info(I think it's every 4 hours if you have broadband), it'll get the message to record the show. So, no need to open another port on the firewall, but you do have to make sure to setup the recording well enough in advance to make sure your Tivo gets the message

  8. Re:apple need to bump up the entry level spec on New Apples Next Week · · Score: 1

    All other Mac's allow you to add a airport card when you come to need it, the Mac mini doesn't at all.

    There is a upgrade module that will put Bluetooth and Airport into the Mini, it has to be installed by an Apple tech though.

    Well, it should be installed by a tech, but it was a snap to install myself. The hardest part was getting the case back together.

  9. Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific on Send Email to Utah, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    Well, that's why there would be a trial. If they can prove they didn't pay the spammers, they'll be let off, and the law can come down hard on the ones who did pay the spammers. Also, I don't feel "unscrupulus independent affiliates" is a valid defense.

    It would be at least as effictive as the current anti-spam laws being passed.

  10. Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific on Send Email to Utah, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    The spammers might be living in China, but the people paying them to spam their products are right here in the US. Those people they should arrest, put on trial, convict, take all their profits, and then throw into a jail cell with Bubba.

    Do that enough times, and the spammers will run out of money to pay for their bandwidth. Problem solved.

  11. It's not /. on Consumers Prefer Movies At Home · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's Fark.com

    This exact same story was posted earlier today over there.

  12. Re:At least TFA isn't beating around the bush on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    And there would be a problem with this how? I'd rather have my goverment fighting on what to do rather than doing something that screws up everything.

  13. Re:BroadVoice has been excellent. on Using BroadVoice with Asterisk How-To · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've had problems where asterisk wouldn't register, and of course when that happens, I can't call them, unless I use a different provider, and hold times have been over an hour. And even after getting someone on the phone, they've not been helpful, and it's taken a long time to fix the problem. And we can't afford this since it's our office's main phone line.

    And I know it's not our ISP, we've got a 20Meg connection, with no problems with ping times, email, webpage loading, nor internet radio.

    So I don't have a problem with BV for home use, but never use it for your company.

  14. Re:Makes me think of this pic on Peeping Tom Worm That Uses Webcams · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Re:Sound off.. on Amazon Search Bar Will Track Your Browsing · · Score: 1

    (Ironically, since the Hebrew language has no vowels, so presumably this circumlocution wouldn't work in G-d's "own" language."
    No wonder why they always look constinated. They don't exercise their vowels.

  16. Re:Unworkable... on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1
    why not have them buy a $50 software package that takes care of that?

    There is no $50 software package to take care of that, the cheapest one I've found is around $1K a year. It is not cheap nor easy to keep track of every single tax district in the country, and all the changes that will happen, and having to file for each and every one you happen to make a sale in.

  17. Re:The RIAA won't win this because... on RIAA nominated for "Internet Villain of the Year" · · Score: 2, Funny

    2. It doesn't shoot its own henchmen to prove how evil it is

    No, they just convince their henchmen to shoot themselves...Generally up with drugs so they OD, but you catch my drift.

  18. Re:Spam Hunters on AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 1

    Extra bonus brownie points if the spam licenses are large bright orange tags attached to the ears.

    Add in radio transmitters so that the biologists can track their migration paths.

  19. Re:ISS? Should be USS... on NASA Consider "Demanning" Space Station · · Score: 2

    US Space Station would be USSS. On the USSS they could have a BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB.

    More like BYOO2.

  20. Re:The "More is Better" School of Statistics on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 1

    I just thought about this...How would they know what the "street value" of the drugs is, unless they're selling the drugs after seizing them?

  21. Re:Simple... on Raising Barriers to Entry into the Music Business · · Score: 1

    So what band are you in? Let's find out what music you play, or is it just more of that pop-rock-nucountry drivle that's pap-smeared all over the airwaves today? If it's worth listening to, I'll buy it. If not, well, either learn how to play, or get a job.

  22. Re:Quit trying to pollute our ecosystem on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    The only gain you get from MS stock is if you sell it for more than you paid for it. MS has never paid a dividend. There is no reason to own MS stock at all unless you want to try to have some say in the company by being a shareholder.

  23. Re:/.-ed on Dateline: Abuja; Nigeria Fights Email Scam · · Score: 1
    Well, if you tie up their bandwidth, and don't buy anything, *and* you use an ad blocker, their bandwidth bill is going to be huge, with no income to pay for it.



    Now, that my friend, is justice.

  24. Re:It's a strange world.... on Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website · · Score: 1

    Hey, didn't you know Yahoo uses Google for it's search engine?

    Better find something else.

  25. Re:Thanks, but no. on The Incredible Shrinking Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Here's the funny thing:

    The MacroVision is supposed to be off, unless the content provider payed money to the macrovision people to be able to turn that bit on to active the macrovision.