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  1. Re:Travel as light as you possibly can on Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? · · Score: 1

    I had a 2GB and a 1GB SD card, taking 7 MegaPixel photos all the time. When I started to get panicky over space, I found an internet cafe and for 1/2 hour rental managed to burn everything off to a DVD (from the USB card reader I carry) so I could start all over again. There's a PC in a 5th floor Shinjuku internet joint with my pics on it cos I forgot to delete them - good job there's nothing, er, incriminating.

  2. Re:Palm (software only) GPS on Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a genuine-looking street sign I saw in Barcelona a couple of years ago, hand pointing downwards with the inscription "Usted esta aqui".

  3. Re:Travel as light as you possibly can on Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? · · Score: 1

    You don't want to see the Seven Swans Pagagoda and not remember what it was called later on

    What worked for me visiting countless temples, shrines in Japan was to take a pic of the sign on the way in. Usually you get an entry ticket or some blurb when you pay, so take a pic of these too, then you can toss the blurb on the way out.
  4. Re:Ya, I'm not so sure... on Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower · · Score: 1

    It's the 'roids. They build up the neck muscles so much that blood has a hard time reaching the brain.

  5. My mum personally witnesses the ill effects on Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Immigration Policies · · Score: 1

    And on a daily basis too. She bought a computer with Vista on it.

  6. Great! Maybe they can work on the Theft Act next. on South Korea Drafting Ethical Code for Robotic Age · · Score: 1

    to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa


    Then they can prevent theft, also.
  7. The less Hollywood claptrap the better on U.S. Senators Pressure Canada on Canadian DMCA · · Score: 1

    As far as I am concerned. Especially those movies where the physics is really bad.

    Do you think that Canadians can reduce the number of Hollywood movies being shown by pirating them more?

    I say Go Canada Go!

  8. Re:Or maybe there is some truth in the belief? on Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well, try this one for size...

    Just as science can "prove" that a shape made up of straight lines and 4 corners of 90 degrees is a square and not a triangle, and circles don't have corners...

    It is possible to attribute qualities to a deity figure that simply cannot co-exist. Attributes such as "all-powerful" and "all-knowing" are two such attributes. If a deity is "all-knowing", meaning that they are said to know everything that has happened, is happening and will happen, then such a deity themselves do not have any choice as to what they are able to do - because they already know what it is that they will do. Therefore they cannot be "all-powerful" enough to exercise free will.

    Just a thought, that's all.

  9. Look up ARP cache poisoning on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    I did, and found this page. Very interesting in a scary sort of way.

  10. Re:IP Addresses - trying to clarify something on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    I'll begin by saying I'm not trying to argue here (it's too late on a Saturday evening for that), just clarify for my own sake:

    You say "The NAT will have two IP addresses" - but what precisely is "The NAT". I don't think a NATted packet will have two IP addresses in the header. The one and only IP Address in the header is rewritten by the NATing router with the public IP Address of the NATing router on the outbound journey and the reverse happens on the return journey.

    The packet received from a NATing router by an IP Address on the Wide Area Network (say the "web") will contain some information, in the header I believe, about which host inside the Local Area Network originated the packet, but not enough to actually identify the IP Address. This information is returned and used by the NATing router via an Address Translation Table to be able to forward the returned packet on to the originating host.

    It should be possible therefore by analysing packets from a computer, to determine if it is or is not providing NAT for a Local Area Network, shouldn't it?

    If this is possible, it doesn't seem to have been done in this case, as the reliance seems to be on recording the IP Address only, which isn't necessarily the "end of the line".

  11. Re:Sounds Dubious on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail? · · Score: 1

    From the uidaho.edu link:

    Can I change the appearance of VandalMail Live?
    Windows Live Mail is extremely customizable. Not only are there several color themes, but students will be able to change the layout of reading panes.

    Oh the choice! Several color themes no less...

  12. Re:Nothing really unusual about it on Microsoft Vista, IE7 Banned By U.S. DOT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who is this pete? And why doesn't he like curved driver side mirrors?

  13. This is Poetic Justice on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 2, Funny

    or Irony or whatever.

    If you need the equivalent of a Cray to run Vista, then it's going to be very efficient at Brute Forcing the keys.

    I like it.

  14. If they'll explode on Sanyo Blamed in Lenovo Battery Recall · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does that mean that the airport security screeners will be checking battery serial numbers?

    OK, no-one make a move or I'll throw my battery at the pilot's cabin door!!!

  15. Man, you're just like sheep on Laptops with Big RAM? · · Score: 2, Funny

    if all that you want is Big RAM.

  16. Re:Software patents on Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux · · Score: 1

    The trouble is, algorithms aren't invented. They are discovered, like universal truths.

  17. IBM is not a good place to work. on IBM Sued for Firing Alleged Internet Addict · · Score: 3, Funny

    Much better is where the boss sends you the porn via email so you don't go having to look for it, and also pays your green fees when it's time to go playing golf.

    If you dont have either of the above, consider seeking alternative employment.

  18. I don't get it on New Microsoft Dirty Tricks Revealed · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it hurt Microsoft's case to _not_ have the email backups? I mean Burst could claim anything they want to in an email purporting to come from Microsoft, and if MS didn't have the "original" then they couldn't dispute it.

    Ergo, Burst has them by the short and curlies. You should keep copies of email specifically so that you can refer back to them in the event of a dispute.

  19. This strikes me as odd on Canadian ISPs Send Thousands of Copyright Notices · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So will Rogers, for example, be sending letters to themselves for stuff that's hosted on their own Usenet servers?

  20. A little less American culture would be good on US Group Wants Canada Blacklisted Over Piracy · · Score: 1

    I heard a story once that when Canada was formed, it had access to American Know-How, French Culture and British Politics but somehow ended up with British Know-How, American Culture and French Politics.

    A little less of American Culture (specifically the car chases and gunfights) would IMHO be something of a good thing. We'll have to put up with our quota of the other two for now though...

  21. Re:Only 2 week on Windows Vista: the Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    No silly, the manual is for all those pirated copies...

  22. The original 'Wall' for me at least on Have You Hit a Gaming Wall? · · Score: 1

    Was killing the dragon in Adventure/Colossal Cave.

    Man, I must have played that thing on and off for months until someone told me how to kill it.

    What, with your bare hands?

  23. Re:Good luck - SSL? on ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House · · Score: 1

    Sorry, forgot to put use the tags...

  24. Re:Good luck - SSL? on ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously, you use SSL?

    You must have something to hide.

  25. Re:Becuase People don't know what they want! on Why Software is Hard · · Score: 1

    I don't see why this is modded funny. I guess it's because you can't mod it "sad" which what it really is.

    Parent has hit the nail on the head because I run up against the situation all the time where people want me to build something, but they can't define what it is they want - the attitude is "go ahead and build something, and we'll tell you how it doesn't come up to our expectations of what we thought we were going to get".