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  1. Re:Are people willing to pay for speed? on Bid On eBay To Speed Up Your Commute · · Score: 1
    That's it, I'm starting my drunk driving range :)

    -T

  2. Re:Pricefight on Declaring War on Mobile Phone Spam · · Score: 1
    I don't know about your service, but Sprint allows you send text messages via email to your phone.

    Quite usefull when attached to network monitoring tools...

    could be a nightmare if spammers get ahold of that email address (which can be your number@sprintpcs.com)

    -T

  3. Salsa sauce on Microsoft Patents Interactive Entertainment · · Score: 1

    You forgot my favorite.. "Salsa Sauce" or sauce sauce :)

  4. Re:stop terrorism paranoia on Internet Based Attacks in a Physical World · · Score: 1
    I believe that Hiroshima would fall under the umbrella of terrorism as would any military campaign directed specifically at civilians.

    check out this Book by Calib Carr.

    It lays out the clearest definition "terrorism" that I've read yet. -T

  5. Re:stop terrorism paranoia on Internet Based Attacks in a Physical World · · Score: 1
    Terrorism is *not* "the use of force or threat of force for political or social objectives".

    It is the use of force, or threat of force against a civilian population for political or social objectives.

  6. Did anyone actually *read* the essay? on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1
    Read the damn essay!!!

    The second half is amazing, and not nearly as knee jerk reactionary as the majority of the people that have posted.

  7. Re:Getting the broadband in the first place on Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor · · Score: 2, Interesting
    In the article, they were sharing a telco line (probably a full or fractional T1).

    I could see wireless ISPs spring up around this idea... Buy a couple of T1s then plug them into these wireless boxes instead of modems.

    -T

  8. hmmm clean up? on Priest Brews in Washing Machine · · Score: 1

    oh hell... first post.. what about ring around the collar...

  9. Re:spammers and drug cartels... on Another Millionaire Spammer Story · · Score: 1

    Actually up until very recently they did have the Direct Marketer's Association on their side...
    Not an insignificant lobby. -T

  10. Re:Does anyone know... on PPC Amigas Go On Sale · · Score: 1
    I was in my friendly neighborhood salvation army the other day, and found hundreds of VIC 20s in their basement for around $1.00 a peice.

    Started thinking that you could parallelize these babies through the RS232 port and have one hell of cluster for around $100...

    beats shooting them out of a cannon :)

    OH yeah!!

  11. Of course it will fail (I love it) on AdAge Predicts Tivo will Fail · · Score: 5, Funny
    Every time I think a product is really cool it fails, and if I think it sucks it ends up dominating the market...

    I loved my Amiga....

    hated AOL...

    I should hire out as a consultant :)

  12. Re:Who Actually USES These Patterns? on Design Patterns · · Score: 1
    The only one I see in regular use is the Model View Controller pattern.
    This is used pretty heavily (at least in the early phases of the project) by many larger java appserver based web projects.

    One of the problems that happens with real world projects, is scope creep. As the project outgrows the original requirements, programmers are more likely to hack outside of the architecture originally laid out.
    As a result many patterns that are laid out at the beginning of a project are poorly (or not at all) used by the end of the project.

  13. Re:Alot of this is pure crap on Yahoo Moving to PHP · · Score: 1
    Excellent, I'll have to check it out. What's the memory footprint like?

    Thank you. :)

  14. Re:Alot of this is pure crap on Yahoo Moving to PHP · · Score: 1

    You *can* use XML/XSLT with php, but without the ability to cache your parsed xml objects, perf can suffer greatly.

  15. Re:give away my rights? on Want Freedom? · · Score: 1
    Ok, perhaps I shouldn't have been so specific.

    I often forget that my immediate circle of friends and family are not even close to being representative of the rest of the country. Because of this I am often shocked and amazed by the behavior and beliefs of my fellow Americans.

    Anyway, take a look around. This country is full of slobbering mindless consumer bots. Just because most people in your immediate circle have their heads screwed on tight, doesn't change this fact.

  16. Re:Media on Want Freedom? · · Score: 1
    Asking the question is not illegal, but passing classified information to the press is *treason*.

    The press shouldn't be restrained, any government official found leaking classified information should be prosecuted.

  17. Re:give away my rights? on Want Freedom? · · Score: 1

    It's pretty easy to forget that your family and friends may not be representative of the country as a whole. How many folks in your sample are republicans, how many are evangelical, and how many of them don't have a college education? There are a shit load of ignorant, flag waving pissants in this country... I should know, I live in Texas :)

  18. Re:they should on Are You Being Served? Don't Open That Email! · · Score: 1

    Sure, but all you have to do is disable html emails, and you could edit a url to remove any identifying info (with the exception of IP and such that is passed along with an HTTP request) from it.

    It seems that as long as most email delivery confirmation systems require the receiver to be using (or have enabled) optional features in their email app, then email delivery of legal documents just won't work.

  19. Re:The Prep Job on BioWare Has Neverwinter Publisher · · Score: 1

    I believe there's a level cap on the single player game at around 10th level.

  20. Re:Face Recognition. on Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps it could even be used to help the credit card industry track down dead beat card holders and collect the debt...