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  1. Palm TungstenT (Re:Flash-card MP3 Player??) on Ogg Vorbis Portables On The Way · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Palm Tungsten T works great as an MP3 and Ogg player with either of the shareware programs Aeroplayer or Pocket Tunes installed. Aeroplayer is free for ogg use, but not free for MP3. Pocket Tunes is not free for either. In any case both are pretty cheap. The TT uses standard MMC and SD cards. Not to mention that the Tungsten T is an excellent Palm OS 5 PDA.

  2. DSL Competition? on FCC Abandons Linesharing, Kills DSL Competition · · Score: 1

    DSL Competition? Will it get me a monthly bill of less than $50? What? There is already DSL competition now? Huh.

  3. I work for NASA on The Demise of Model Rocketry? · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid I once shot a model rocket into the sky with, instead of a parachute, a ziplock bag filled with kerosene. Had it landed on a roof I would have likely ended up a terrorist. Fortunately it didn't. Anyway, my Mommy used supplies left over from the Gulf War to duct tape me to the fridge and I was pretty harmless from then on.

  4. Internet piracy of films will kill the industry on Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets Leaked · · Score: 1

    Just like it did to pornography

  5. Re:Jaguar and windows network browsing on "Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Directory · · Score: 1

    I have supplied a correct WINS server address and yet have the problem. I only see the local subnet. Also, it's highly doubtful that our network is improperly configured as it is configured by professionals (for what that's worth ;). Is your claim based on experience or on a technote? If there is a way to get this working fully, I'd like to know how....

  6. Jaguar and windows network browsing on "Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Directory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Jaguar's alleged Windows network integration is lacking to say the least. In my case it is that windows network browsing is limited to your subnet only, making it nearly useless. I.e. you don't see and can't get to (even nearly) everything when you browse. You CAN get to anything via typing in an appropriate smb URL in the "Connect To Server..." window, but obviously then you have to know the server is there.

    Mind you, I have little to no need to do any of this anyway so it isn't a big deal to me, but if they're going to advertise seamless windows network integration then it ought to be that. I want $1 back for that alleged feature.

  7. Wait until somebody investigates Slashdot scoring on Cheating at Seti@home · · Score: 1

    Bribes, free prostitutes, free booze, free drugs, free cheezy poofs - you name it. When it comes to getting a +1 Informative and the recognition associated with it some go the extra mile.

    Now, I've got to get to a party I'm throwing for Mr. Neal: Beer, naked chicks and a unicycle. Mod me up, please!

  8. Contratulations, you won my auction! Item #343223 on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear sadam33. Contratulations! You won my ebay auction for a genuine nuclear missile including certificate of authenticity. Item #343223. Send your money order and your address and I'll ship it out to you pronto. You asked about my feedback - it's true that I have no feedback yet, but this is simply because I had to make a new account: last week I tried to auction off my copy of Microsoft Office XP and ebay killed it and my account.

    Ollie

  9. Nothing: I had to do it for the bastards on What Software Do Cable Installers Place on Your PC? · · Score: 1

    Mind you, this was early on in the cable-modem game, but still. Moreover, we are talking about a Mac. It was easy and there wasn't any need for software to be installed, but they really didn't have a clue.

    Several years later I tried to get rid of both cable-modem and cable-tv because I was moving. I called to ask them to disconnect both. They said they'd do it. They didn't. They only disconnected the cable-tv. Moreover, I didn't receive a bill at my new house until 2 months had passed and they wanted me to pay for both of those months. I tried to fight it for a while but it was insane and eventually I gave in - I didn't have time to fight the good fight with a new house and a new baby to take care of. In summary: Comcast fucks over its best customers. Glad I'm on DSL now and sans cable TV.

  10. When did Porsche start designing boxes? on Porsche Designs a Laptop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rather, boxy things. Every porchse car is curvy, arguably even too curvy. This laptop is all sharp angles. It's a pizza box. I don't see "Porsche" in it at all, except perhaps in frequency of crashes.....

  11. Dear moderators on U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press · · Score: 4, Funny

    To even out things a bit, please mod down any posts originating from Finland, Iceland, Norway or the Netherlands. Thanks.

  12. Apple LCDs are Samsung under the hood on LCD Round-up · · Score: 3, Informative

    In 1999 Apple invested $100 million into Samsung and uses their LCDs for their own displays.

  13. Cool, but more useful would be computer-on-latex on 'Computer-On-Glass' Display · · Score: 1

    Can you say artificially intelligent condoms?

  14. Some other things to pray for on Small Webcasters get Powerful New Ally · · Score: 1

    1. A 128 kbps MP3 stream of WPCE
    2. A Jessie Helms toilet paper cover

  15. USNews article speculates and turns up nothing on Microsoft may Sanction the 'Switcher' PR-Rep · · Score: 1

    That article speculates that the "real" people aren't real. Considering that since that time nothing more (anything) has come up as a result of this initial report, you have to conclude that the only thing worthy of question is the article itself.

  16. DVD will save George Lucas on Star Wars Producer Says Box Office is Doomed · · Score: 1

    Special editions are really keen way to make a completely mediocre/bad film into cold hard cash. Throw in some cut scenes (it's left to the viewer to figure out why the rest of the movie wasn't cut as well), interviews with the "stars" telling us how great they and the movie are, maybe portions of the script if they're particularly vicious plus some "motion menus" and people will snap them up. Oh, don't leave out the cast and crew bios, especially of poor Mr. Lucas!

    Tell Mr. Lucas all he needs to do is make a Howard the Duck - Special Edition DVD and he'll be on easy street. In fact, why not cut to the chase and release Star Wars Episode III direct to DVD?

  17. I don't get it on The Nation of Macintosh? · · Score: 1

    Why did they need to make a fictional film? At the least it could have been "based on a true story". Just toss in some fruit carts and exploding cars and you've got a hit on your hands.

  18. I prefer vinyl on More on DVD-Audio and SACD · · Score: 1

    I have directly compared CD, SACD, DVD-A and LP. IMHO, LPs are, on the whole, shiny and black while the others are not.

  19. Microsoft Outlook Express ZappoTron Lab on Bugbear Windows Virus Making the Rounds · · Score: 1

    Microsoft announced a new approach for virus protection. They call it the Microsoft Outlook Express ZappoTron Lab. Here's how it works. Microsoft, in cohorts with Dell, send a team to your site to install a lab of 100 Windows sportin' Dell PCs connected via a fat pipe to the internet. On each PC is installed a copy of Outlook Express (of course) which is set to check email constantly. Like the people who create them, viruses always take the path of least resistance and as such viruses in the wild are uncontrollably drawn to the Microsoft Outlook Express ZappoTron Lab instead of to your real PCs. It's that simple. Note: Microsoft encourages you to install all Windows and Outlook Express updates, especially pay updates, since they inevitably prove to open up new, even more gaping holes that are just too tempting for viruses to ignore.

  20. Re:"Penultimate"? on Fortran 2000 Committee Draft · · Score: 1

    Why, "Hunt the Wumpus" of course.

  21. Once again I'm reminded of why I don't have cable on Napster: The Movie · · Score: 1

    I sincerely hope that no one puts a copy of this "movie" on gnutella.

  22. Penultimate FORTRAN program on Fortran 2000 Committee Draft · · Score: 1

    FORTRAN_TO_C.F

    Damn - now it has to be updated.

  23. Rollover minutes on T-Mobile Sidekick Reviewed · · Score: 1

    What is laughable about rollover minutes? That is the single best thing about prepaid AT&T service. I only pay $10 most 45 day periods (not even per month, per 45 days) and occasionally have to get a $25 card instead when I happen to run the minutes down. Mind you, I don't use my cell phone that much, by design. Point is that you can get yourself a lower priced plan if you don't use your phone a lot consistently every month. Minutes you don't use can be used when you do need them in some future month, or as in my case, when my v*lksw*g@n breaks down again.

    Mind you, I have not investigated the specifics of Cingular's rollover minutes - there may be limitations that aren't present in AT&T's prepaid plan.)

  24. Pornography and sexual perversion on The Future of Game Dev (Except in St. Louis) · · Score: 2, Funny

    On a related note, my research has shown that even years of daily pornography viewing does not result in abberant sexual behavior. I mean with others.

  25. Linux needs something much better on Bero Quits Red Hat Over Treatment of KDE · · Score: 1

    than KDE or GNOME. KDE and Gnome both have pretty faces at first glance, but within minutes of use prove to be slapped together messes. The solution isn't to consolidate the two, rather it's to throw both out and start over from scratch, this time with a game plan going in. Neither will ever pose a real threat to Windows and they are too far gone to turn around.