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  1. Re:hardware review sites are practically scams on Hardware Bytes · · Score: 1

    They might be reviewing the items that their sponsers (you know, the people that have banners) give them.

  2. Re:Alienware on Portable, High Performance, Computing Options? · · Score: 1

    Alianware is also pretty good about upgrades, all you have to pay for is the parts (no labor) and they will replace parts, even give you a new chassis if you don't like the colour

  3. Re:2.2 is obsolete! on Linux Kernel 2.2.23 Released · · Score: 1

    err what exactly is an M: drive?

  4. And that tells me? on Reading Between the Lines of Nazca · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They believe that the area was then desert and that the drawings were all about water."

    OK.. they may be about water but the main question here is how could they be planned out so perfectly. You could make a light grid and work with that, but even then over those kind of distances it would be far from that they look like now. Any other theories?
    By the way, is there anyone who hasn't seen this exactly same topic on TLC over the past few years? Just my $.2

  5. New Everquest? on Living with Darth Vader · · Score: 1

    I don't think there will ever be a "new Everquest", but a whole new genre of internet "community" type games. The newest of which includes this and The Sims Online.

  6. Re:Hmmm on Embedding Data Signals In White Noise · · Score: 1

    No No No..

    Does the company's technology work on the dog whistle principle, using sound waves that are below the threshold of human hearing? No. If it did, you couldn't send the signals over standard audio speakers.

    is what the article says. This does not mean that dogs cannot hear it, all its saying is that the signal is not just in a range to high for the ear. As you said, the ear filters out most of the noise but im sure there are cases when high pitches sounds will be used.

  7. Re:If these laptops are at college... on IBM's "Pixie Dust" Drives Improved · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AIM? I happen to be in a highschool were students have laptops, and are connected to the internet via 802.11b. I'm also an "assistant admin" (whatever you want to call it) and from the amount of bandwidth that is being sucked up, and from what i see in class, most people are downloading mp3s. Anime or video of any sort isn't so much of a problem because someone can't download that in one sitting.

  8. Re:Isn't this old news? on Laser Shoots Down Artillery Shell In Flight · · Score: 1

    So let me get this straight..

    The US gets to have any weapons they please

    If any other nation has dangerous weapons we need to get bigger guns.

    Does anyone see a cycle. Im not saying that we should give all our weapons away, there are nations out that that would exploit this.

    I don't want the country in which i live to be bombed but im sure the people of Iraq wouldn't want their homes bombed either.

  9. Re:Isn't this old news? on Laser Shoots Down Artillery Shell In Flight · · Score: 1

    I believe you are thinking of Star Wars (not the movie, the defense project)

    Actually that project was in the 80s, but was never deployed. Hopefully this one will follow the same path.

  10. What about Office Space? on Examples of Programming Gone Wrong? · · Score: 2, Funny

    A period in the wrong place and they steal to much money?? Who can leave that off their list?

  11. Wear out on Tweaked Genes Can Double Worm's Lifespan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would think that the main problem with pushing the lifespan of any animal would be that certain organs begin to fail first, organs like the heart or liver.

  12. Re:KDE/Gnome on RandR Support on XFree86 4.3 · · Score: 1

    And KDE seems to be the first desktop environment to add support for the RandR extension."

    This could not be done with a program (to my knowledge) and must be coded into the environment.

  13. Next? on Security as a Profit Center? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whats next? The patch that stops Windows from crashing so much?

  14. The order is key on Ergonomic Arrangement for Computers and Books? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What works for me is taking some time and sitting outside/on my couch and reading the book im working on. After you understand everything you won't have to look back so much, but when you have to have the book (code examples) put the keyboard in the center of the desk, and the book behind it, and make sure you sit high. Unless you look at the keyboard when you are typing you won't have to move your head very far.

  15. Re:Here is an idea.... on Mandrake 9.0 (Dolphin) Is Available [updated] · · Score: 1

    The reason you probably didn't learn much in those might be because. A) You started out in them. and B) You didn't get outside of X much. I've used a few flavors of linux (Slack, Red Hat, SuSE, Debian) and really didn't notice much difference in how beginners can learn. Just because an OS has a simple install and boots into X doesn't mean people can't learn from it. Also, please don't push your flavor upon others.

  16. Come on. on Federal Cyberspace Policy Draft Released · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't any draft conserning the Internet have been influenced by the people that created it and maintain it? Hackers (white hats ofcourse), Admins, Colleges, and who else have you. Ofcouse we all know thats never going to happen. Hopefully it doesn't get to the point were every nation or union has their own rules and starts extradighting people for something they did online.

  17. One of our members is a church go'in man.. on Paying for LUG Meeting Space? · · Score: 1

    One of the members of my lug (www.salug.org) goes to church and we get to use many of the side buildings of the chuch complex. Most of the rooms we've used were fairly large and fairly comfortable. We did not have an internet connection though. But hey, its free!

  18. Depends on [Why] Smart People Believe Weird Things · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most "smart" people i know ( and i include myself :P ) aren't religious at all yet believe in extraterrestrials and other unexplained things. The reason for this in my case is, that there is proof that we didn't come from Adam and Eve, and that jesus could not heal the blind/walk on water/ect. Maybe we just believe everything unless we can prove it wrong?

  19. Unlist? on Big Brother's Pizza Delivery · · Score: 1

    Is there some way you could unlist yourself. Since you can unlist yourself from the Telephone book and other non-gov lists I'm guessing they have have no legal right to list you after you ask to be unlisted?

  20. School on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    I don't have a floppy drive, but i have needed it at time. Everytime there is a project, or assignment due have some time to work on it at home and in school, and we are supposed to use floppy disks for the transport (i just ftp it). But i have gotten points taken off b/c i didn't have a backup!

  21. 3 monitor on Games that Support Dual-Head Setups? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Quake III, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Flight Sim 2k2, Global Ops, and Vendetta all have tripple monitor support (so im guessing two will work as well. And the following games will ship with tripple monitor support, Unreal Tournament 2003, F1 2002, Star Wars Galaxies, Mobile Forces, Realm Wars, Combat flight sim,and Gore

  22. Re:some selected answers: on Tech-Interview Riddles · · Score: 1

    The 2 comdoms and three ladies.. The man wears two the first time, then for the second he takes off the top one, and for the last he flips the one from the first time inside out, and becomes a very lucky man.

    How do you make a little program that checks for palendromes... (there is a smart and dumb way to do this). Smart way, get rid of spaces, OR values (of first to last, second to second last, ect) and then compare them.

  23. Re:Watch the terminology on 802.1X Security Overview · · Score: 1

    but wouldn't they use a lowercase x? 802.11a b g ect and not A B G. But i could be wrong

  24. Who.. How? on 2,600-year-old Mayan Chocolate Found · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually only the kings and nobles drank chocolate, (mixed with water).. but the beans were common bartering items.

  25. doh' on Bell Dethroned as Telephone Inventor · · Score: 1

    First off the first person to ever make a phone, and call it the "telephone" was a German school teacher in the 1800s... also remember the story of how Bell and another man got to the patent office only an hour apart?