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  1. Re:Reducing waste on Intel To Make A Greener Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    There are computer recycling centers. They are the same city and county recycling centers that you will send all your other recyclables to. How much easier can it get?

  2. Re:Late To Market on HDTV On Your PC - ATi's HDTV Wonder · · Score: 1

    I wish you hadn't posted this as AC so I could ask you mroe questions if you've got that card. I myself went and spent twice as much for a Hauppauge HDTV tuner card that I ended up returning (horrid technical support, buggy software, and it didn't tune my digital cable). So, can you CONFIRM that this will tune digital cable?

  3. Re:Lobbying.... a polite word for taming the beast on Cybersecurity Firms Form Industry Association · · Score: 1
    What's the old saying.... the squeaky wheel get's the grease?
    Or, taking a slightly more pessimistic view of it is the Chinese proverb: "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down."
  4. Re:You have to wonder on Memory Deal Bolsters Xbox 2 HD Removal Rumors · · Score: 1

    Well, we've still got Live-CD distros like Knoppix, so I don't see them being able to stop it all by any stretch of the imagination. :)

  5. Re:Not so fast on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 1

    It'll cut down on the number of worms 'till someone finds an exploit in the AV and then, well, pandemonium.

  6. Re:Alternative approach on Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer · · Score: 1

    Well, they had been drinking... and after having lost 550GBP I imagine that they would be drinking pretty hard!

  7. Re:Assembly on Tickets For The World's Biggest Computer Party · · Score: 1

    0.61 of DOSBox has GUS support just in case you don't feel like scavenging around the back room for old parts. ;)

  8. Re:Not just browsers... on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking · · Score: 1

    Curious... why did you go with Kerio instead of ZoneAlarm? I use ZoneAlarm Pro personally and people here seem to give it a bad rap... I've never figured out why, other than the fact that after a while vsmon starts sucking cpu for no reason...

  9. Re:blowmesmartandbigger.com? on Microsoft to sue Mike Rowe for Copyrights · · Score: 1

    S. Martin Bigger. 'nuff said.

  10. Re:Lakh? on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    You mean, aside from the fact that 1.5 x 100,000 is 150,000, not 1,500,000? Nothing, I suppose.

  11. Re:For those who are too lazy to search... on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    The more important question is, why would they use such an obscure (to us) unit of measurement in an article for us?

  12. Re:Video on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    OK, maybe someone can figure this out for me. Why whenever I go to a RealMedia stream does RealOne Player say that it can't find a decoder for type "cook."?

  13. Re:Perhaps... on More Linux Predictions for 2004 · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that guy has perpetually drunk and high on some highly illicit drug for years, and it isn't open sourced yet...

  14. Re:Grammar police on Dell Throws In For The +R/+RW Standard · · Score: 1

    Oh, well. It's a fucking terrible article anyway. I just felt like saying something useful for once.

  15. Neither will win. on Dell Throws In For The +R/+RW Standard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just like there were two CD-R and CD-RW "standards" that were argued over, a third standard emerged to replace them both. I imagine this is probably what is going to happen here.
    Funny how history repeats itself like that.

  16. for Digital Cable on Dish Network DVR-921 HD DVR Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Still looking for one for Digital Cable. Any ideas on THAT?

  17. Dropping Balls on Superball! · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, the kids at Western Washington University are finally going through puberty? Good for them.

    (No disrespect intended, just couldn't pass up the opportunity to make an amusingly dirty comment.)

  18. Re:Capsules anyone? on House Asks NASA to Postpone Space Plane · · Score: 1

    Um, massive waste? Like, the reason that we started reusing the shuttles in the first place?

  19. Re:555 on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 1

    3456 D IN DISPUTE

    3456, as you may know, spells FILM. (Moviefone.)

  20. NOT so bad? on Group Asks Gov't to Crack Down on Product Placement · · Score: 1

    If increasing the amount of product placements can reduce the interruptions (read: commercials) during television programmes, I'm all for it. Of course, that's probably not how it's going to work, but it would be nice.

  21. Re:Today is the 27th sep on Fanimatrix - The Matrix Re-done By Fans · · Score: 1

    TORRENT shares:

    medium quality mpeg (140M)
    low quality divx (73M)
    high quality divx (135M)

    Share and enjoy.

  22. Parallel ATA? on New Nano-ITX 12cm Motherboards · · Score: 1

    So they got rid of all the legacy stuff...but still they have PATA instead of SATA...why?!

  23. "But you can still go to ... blackboxvoting.com" on Diebold Audit Released, BlackBoxVoting.Org Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Well, you could... until it got slashdotted. (oopsie.)

  24. BBC Clipart on New Microsoft Worm Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    Anyone else notice that the computer in the clipart that the BBC used is an old Apple computer? "Um, oops?"

  25. Re:Complaint submitted - the text(error-corrected) on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This complaint is regarding Verisign's recent decision to claim all non-registered .COM and .NET domain names for itself. It has done this by inserting a wildcard into the DNS registers, meaning an IP of 64.94.110.11 is returned for any domain name that has not yet been registered. That page is an advertisement for VeriSign's domain registration services. This is unfair competition with existing registrars - there is no means for myself, for example, to gain a similar foothold without actually purchasing each and every currently unregistered .COM/.NET name. It is also a technical breach of trust - the Internet is not merely the Web, and unknown domains should return errors rather than constantly try to contact VeriSign's advertising servers. Non-Web-based applications (FTP clients, etc.), will now incorrectly log that they have contacted the host you asked for when in fact they should have returned an error 'hostname unknown' because the site does not exist. The same will occur with any ICMP TRACEROUTE or PING tools-- these will not behave in a manner expected. I would be grateful if you could investigate this matter. Yours, Ian McCall