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  1. Re:effect != affect on Courts Overturn FCC - Return of the Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    There's a difference, but the real question is was the proper one used.

  2. Re:No competition? Wrong. on Courts Overturn FCC - Return of the Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    Unless you have kids. My son decided to start talking on the phone more and watching minutes got old real fast.

  3. Re:Enough about the Baby Bells already on Courts Overturn FCC - Return of the Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    Just had to give crappy Qwest its props.

  4. Re:Piffle on MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available · · Score: 1

    I found the issue I was thinking of, it wasn't a buffer issue but still an RPC issue.

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defaul t. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-010.asp /quote
    Microsoft has provided patches with this bulletin to correct this vulnerability for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Although Windows NT 4.0 is affected by this vulnerability, Microsoft is unable to provide a patch for this vulnerability for Windows NT 4.0. The architectural limitations of Windows NT 4.0 do not support the changes that would be required to remove this vulnerability. Windows NT 4.0 users are strongly encouraged to employ the workaround discussed in the FAQ below, which is to protect the NT 4.0 system with a firewall that blocks Port 135.

  5. Re:Piffle on MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I'm not mistaken NT4 has an RPC buffer flaw that cannot be patched and will not be patched. Not the only secure MS OS.

  6. Re:Spammers aren't the only ones on In (Sort Of) Defense of Spammers · · Score: 0

    Do you not get junkmail in your real mailbox on a daily basis. I do and that's not free for those mailers.

  7. Re:From what I gather... on What's The Fastest Growing Linux Distro? · · Score: 1, Funny

    FreeBSD is the best linux distro!

  8. Re:Definitely... on What's The Fastest Growing Linux Distro? · · Score: 0

    Tempted to make a remark about bad math.....

  9. Re:Hard To Believe on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 0

    Computers care for more than ONES and ZEROES in the same regard that I care for more than A-Z Those ones and zeroes only mean something when they are put together into words that mean something, just like the alphabet.

    And not all computer languages are the same at the ONES and ZEROES level. There are improvements to make there as well.

  10. Re:buyers of last-gen AGP cards? on ATI PCI-Express Devices Revealed · · Score: 0

    I think it hurts AGP-motherboard owners than AGP-card owners

    Wouldn't it be logically to say that AGP-card owners are AGP-Motherboard owners so the groups are hurt the same since they are the same group.

    Also AGP-Motherboard owners that don't have AGP-cards probably aren't getting the current high end now so the new standard doesn't effect them much.

  11. Re:Why... on Build Your Own PVR · · Score: 0

    Why do you think he paid for Windows for this?

  12. Re:Dell on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 0

    Well I once ordered a replacement CPU fan from dell and got a faceplate to a completely different PC. I guess Bob put the wrong part number into the order system.

  13. Re:Fair use? on More Info on Phantom Game Console · · Score: 0

    But isn't there no state income tax in Tenn?

  14. Re:just a theory... on Laptops Outsell Desktops in Retail Stores · · Score: 0

    what does ease of Desktop upgrade have to do with software requiring upgrades?

    How does that get insightful when it doesn't make sense?

  15. Re:Yessiree! on Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind · · Score: 0

    They wont be buying them either..

    Since they couldn't possibly have data to save.

  16. Re:How much to concede to please everyone? on Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind · · Score: 1, Funny

    Except now -- present tense

    you had -- past tense

    That's my guess

  17. Re:It's always the cheapskates who complain. on Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers · · Score: 0

    At 100/full duplex it should be connected directly to a switched port and therefor no collosions as there is nothing to collide with.

  18. Re:Future looks bright on iTunes Music Store sells 275,000 Tracks in 18 Hours · · Score: 0

    On a related note have you ever gone to a 24 hr supermarket at 3 in the morning and when you're ready to leave you can't find a cashier. Happened a few times while I was at college. After looking around for 5 minutes I'd just grab a bag and leave. It was usually just a magazine or something.

  19. Re:Exactly on Are Rebates Scandalous? · · Score: 0

    You call it WorstBuy yet the manager seemed to do what was right. Seems like a good store to me.

  20. Re:Rebates are another scam on Are Rebates Scandalous? · · Score: 0

    I got a rebate for my cable modem from circuit city if I signed up for cable service through circuit city. I didn't even have to mail anything. The circuit city guy said they took care of it. I was kindof sceptical but a couple months later we got the checks. I wish all rebates were that easy but they're not.

    I do a lot of rebates. Only had problems with one, but got the money after a few calls. It was for 120 bucks so it was worth the calls.

  21. Re:Here and now! Not later! on Are Rebates Scandalous? · · Score: 0

    It's not the dollar amount but the feeling that's being compared. Who gets excited about the $10 beauty contest in Monopoly? It's almost a disappointment.

    And I thought it was $20, but since it's been so long odds are that you're right and not me.

  22. Re:Life before the PVR on TiVo Home Media Rollout · · Score: 0

    So instead worry about the web server security on the Tivo site. Someone hacks one site and wipes out all the scheduled recordings for all Tivos.

  23. Re:Luxury on Office 2003 Beta 2 Screen Shots · · Score: 0

    I got the popup but not the site, argh

  24. Uck on The Next Level of X-Box Modding · · Score: 0

    A cool Xbox mod would be awesome. The xXx on the top is nice with the green light in the dark. But during the day that thing is ugly. Would have been sweet if he picked a cooler case to start with.

    If I were to ever mod an XBox with a standard electronics case, I think I'd get a Sony case. That would just be funny I think, plus it would match all the other Sony stuff on the shelves. My GC and XBox just look out of place right now.

  25. Re:Great... now fix the documentation on Gentoo Linux Reloaded · · Score: 1

    Same thing happened to me....haven't tried to install it again yet.