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  1. Re:News flash! on Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers · · Score: 1

    Wrong! I have a 1.2GHz PIII-M. And Now I'm glad I didn't wait for the first P4-M.

  2. Re:The question is then on Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers · · Score: 1

    Surely SimCity will love the 8GB of RAM. The current incarnation of SimCity (SimCity 4) eats loads of RAM. It even makes my 512MB box swap, and it has probably never swapped before in its life.

  3. Re:Too little too late on VeriSign Shutting Down Site Finder · · Score: 1

    .cx has a wildcard also.

  4. Re:It's not JUST P2P programs! on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 1

    It should be as simple as blocking whatever address/subnet they're running Icarus off of.

  5. Re:Sun did themselves in on Merrill Lynch Rips Sun · · Score: 1

    And let's not forget that SCO is dying, and trying to take UNIX (AIX, IRIX) and UNIX-like stuff (Linux) down with them.

  6. 2 options on What to Do When Your ISP Steals Your Domain? · · Score: 1

    I'd say it depends on their terms at the time you were with them. If they're violating it, it's a simple breach of contract. If they keep the rights to the name in the ToS, it's more involved. I'm no lawyer, but I see 2 ways out then:
    - the ICANN/WIPO route
    - register the trademark and sue for trademark infringement in a US court*
    *this might work even if it's not registered, but I'm not positive. I say definitely consult a lawyer on this one!

  7. Nightlight on What Goofy USB Devices Have You Found? · · Score: 1

    I used to have a USB nightlight.

  8. Re:Also good for otaku on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    Of course they will likely expand it beyond the initial area, and certainly they'll do BCC. The place sits empty so much (except for Otakon), they need a new feature like wireless to attract business.

  9. Re:World Trade Center? on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    Though it'll probably reach my place in Canton (about a mile east of the harbor, just past Fell's Point) if I put a Pringles can on the roof. Then I could set up some kind of repeater, and beam it up your way, though the FCC might not be too happy about that.

  10. Re:Travel Advisory on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    Even Fell's Point is becoming ungodly expensive, by the way. And the parking there is just as bad.

  11. Re:Also good for otaku on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    The Convention Center is about a city block west of the harbor. Since it is also a big tourist spot, it would probably make perfect sense if they included the Convention Center in on this as well, although mmaybe not initially.

  12. Re:I use VI! on What is a Good Free MUD Client? · · Score: 1

    Though I wonder if anyone actually used Emacs to connect.

  13. Re:Out of business on Hotel Being Sued for Using the Dewey Decimal System · · Score: 1

    Sigh. Nobody owns "the idea of classifying books by subject hierarchically."

    Such would fall under patent law, and even if Mr. Dewey had patented it in the 1870's, it would have long since expired. And because of the obvious prior are, nobody can patent it now. Yay!

  14. Re:Expensive processor vs. inexpensive processors on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    Or just keep half a dozen spare boxes on the side. If something goes bad, swap out the whole box, and fix it whenever.

  15. Re:First Test on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    They actually have 2 seperate networks: a 20GB/s Infiniband network which will basically act as a huge system bus, and a more normal gigabit network for management and normal IP traffic. It was buried in the PowerPoint presentation (I wonder why...).

  16. Re:space.. on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    The plastic looks like it's there to cover and protect the machines while construction goes on around them (with it pulled up when the pictures were taken so we can see inside). If they wanted something permanent, they'd put doors on the racks.

  17. Re:Their new tactic on Can RIAA Lawsuits be Blocked by Routers? · · Score: 1

    I say we send Domo-kun after the **AA.

  18. Re:Project Orion anyone??? on Armageddon... in 2014. Almost. · · Score: 1

    I say we instead dust off the Saturn V.

  19. Re:Hooray for dongles. on Using Spyware to Report Pirates? · · Score: 1

    That's Norton. I myself have been using the same version of McAfee (4.5.1) for about 2 years, without any pressure to subscribe to get additional DAT updates. In fact, my laptop (Gateway) came with Norton. One of the first things I did when I got it was to uninstall Norton and instal McAfee, and it's been virus-free ever since.

  20. Re:What did they do? on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 1

    Honeypot?

  21. Re:Next Week.. on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 2, Interesting
    When Microsoft knows something like this is going to happen they pull in there secret weapon, big-gun software to handle the load ... According to Netcraft, and the certificate from https://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, MS has moved Windows Update to Akamai. This pushes the DoS on someone else, and obviously protects MS's internal network.
  22. Re:Words to live by... on Buying a New TV? · · Score: 2, Informative
    ..."can't go wrong with a Sony".
    Sony is a **AA member. So show your support for DRM by buying their stuff
  23. Re:Small world on How to Tell if the RIAA Wants You · · Score: 1

    At last check, America included almost all of the Western hemisphere, except maybe for the Carribbean islands.

  24. Re:Of course on RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents · · Score: 1

    Only in a criminal case. Civil suits are a whole other ball game entirely.

  25. Re:All your fancy freedom rhetoric aside on BitTorrent Community Running For Cover? · · Score: 1
    If pr0n is copyrighted, how come they don't put copy protection on the tapes/DVDs? :P

    They do. That's what all the fuss about DeCSS was about. A friend of mine even has a DVD with a Macrovision splash screen in the beginning. "Quality protection", it said. Ha.