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  1. Mechanical Turk on Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading? · · Score: 1

    This is a perfect project for Amazon's Mechanical Turk -- http://mturk.com/

  2. Re:Why PHP rather than Perl? on PHP and MySQL Web Development · · Score: 1
    IF the *.hw file is simply text you really shouldn't use include, but rather the file command.

    For example, use
    $html = implode ('', file ("$_GET[teahcer].hw"));
    echo $html;

    Include evalutates the file for PHP commands, so you could get some unintended results.

    Also, from PHP's website: Note: As of PHP 4.3.0 you can use file_get_contents() to return the contents of a file as a string.

    At least you didn't use include "$_GET[teahcer]";!!

  3. Re:Interested on Appropriate Punishment For Crackers? · · Score: 1
    Well, that's what you should aim for, I suppose (no pun intended).

    There's an old saying in Texas: Two witnesses is one too many in a self-defense lawsuit.

  4. Re:Interested on Appropriate Punishment For Crackers? · · Score: 1

    The law in Texas is that you can shoot someone for burglary at night. That is, if someone is running down the street with your TV during the day, you cannot do a thing. However, if they are running down the street with your TV at night you can shoot them yes, in the back if you wish.

    You will be "no billed", which means that you will not be charged with a crime. However, the criminal can sue you in civil court if he wishes (stranger things can and have occured)!

    As my CHL instructor put it, "How much is a good TV? $300. How much is a good lawyer? $300 an hour."

  5. Re:Interested on TiVo to support HDTV by "Year-End" · · Score: 1

    You don't have to pay monthly there is a $250 "lifetime" (for the life of the TiVo) subscription. This is a great option if you want to avoid the monthly bills (and you break even after only two years).

    For DirecTiVo, as pointed out, you only need one subscription (for the first receiver). The second (and third and so on) receiver is only $4.99 a month, which is DirecTVs charge for an additional "mirrored" receiver anyway (even if it is not a TiVo). [Separate standalone boxes still require a subscription]

    The DirecTiVos are the best deal, IMHO, because they do not have the MPEG encoders (they record the DirecTV signal directly). So, they are much cheater about $99 instead of $399. Plus, it always records at the highest quality. Standalone boxes have 4 different qualities and the basic (which the hours are rated at -- i.e. 60-hour TiVo) is unwatchable IMHO.

  6. Re:Excellent! on Driver's Licenses to Become National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Where in the Constitution does it say that the government can limit your travel?

  7. Re:overpowered machines? on How To Create a Linux Network for Peanuts · · Score: 1
    i had tried it here on a pIII 550, "zippy" was as far from the truth as possible.

    Other things (such as RAM) probably have a bigger effect on W2K than just the processor.

    I was running Win98 on a PIII-500, 256MB and 2 16MB video cards (dual-monitor) and when I installed W2K there was a noticable speed increase!! (I'm sure that it would have been even faster if I had done a clean install, but I didn't have enough time)

    On my video editing station with Dual PIII-1GHz and 512MB RAM it is even faster :)