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  1. Re:Wrong on Analysis of Spam, and a Proposed Solution · · Score: 1

    No, but if they link everything out or post a single remotely located picture in the message, those words come through without getting seen by the filter, and only the conversational words get analyzed.

  2. Re:Hosted at Yahoo? on Privacy Complaint Against Google's GMail Service · · Score: 1

    I agree-- when you ask a telemarketer to delete your name from its lists, they get up to like 60 days to do it. So it takes google a while to delete information from its servers; who cares? They tag it for deletion in the mean time, and you're perfectly safe.

  3. Re:How can they do this? on Privacy Complaint Against Google's GMail Service · · Score: 1

    Don't own a CPU
    Don't own a BIOS
    Don't use web-based mail services

  4. Re:Glad they waited! on Scifi Channel to Make Ringworld Miniseries · · Score: 1

    That'd be awesome!

  5. Re:Lies on New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM · · Score: 1

    Soon to be two, supposedly, since HPQ will be licensing technology from apple and dolby for their own player/service.

  6. Re:Privacy isn't such a huge concern on Speculating About Gmail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    try 'yourname@gmail.com'

    in order to get yourname at google, you have to work there (which I have made it a life's goal to do!)

  7. Re:disk space is cheap. on Speculating About Gmail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    of course they do. it's a war for your eyes. they make money by your searches and dispatching you to different sites. They will likewise make money off ads shown while you browse your e-mail. if ms introduces a comparable search engine like they suggest they will, google will suffer heavily since people will be much more able to use hotmail and ms search when they're well integrated. by offering e-mail, google will be able to keep you from ever needing to use an ms (or yahoo!) service.

  8. Re:My favorite version of the Nigerian style scam on NY Holds Spam Scam Contest · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I've just submitted this as an entry to the contest ;)

  9. Re:quote on Simpsons Actors on Strike · · Score: 1

    Don't ignore the risk premium associated with producing/keeping any show in existence. Though it's my opinion that fox is worse than others, all networks expect a significant percentage of their shows to fail and lose money on a net basis, so they need to make extra returns from their successful shows in order to normalize returns and make their cost of capital.

    Also, you have to ask if its the actors who have built the franchise to that value or if they're disposable. I'm guessing that the show wouldn't do as well without them, but you can never tell and IF you're trying to work this out mathematically you should include some expected premium there, too. Hell, MST3K did better than ever after it lost trace beaulieau.

  10. I call bullshit on Why PHBs Fear Linux · · Score: 1

    This makes NO sense. They're looking at today's textbooks and telling you that these books are the reason that your boss doesn't understand linux? That's complete bull. And they're IT textbooks; only IT/Infrastructure MBAs will read their way through these systems books.

    I'm a business undergrad and I work regularly with finance MBAs (as I am in a financial management program that includes 4 of us and 12 of them), and the only thing they think about linux is that it's to be invested in and doesn't run our specialized investment software.

    Sorry, but you have to go somewhere besides current textbooks to determine why your older PHBs don't understand linux.

  11. Re:sending e-mail on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    yeah man, they're totaly fascists about weird things like that. My last name is Phelps and it's a "restricted word" everywhere on hotmail, I believe because it has the word "help" in it. No problem, they just don't get my pageload advertising revenue, that's all.

  12. right on IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level · · Score: 3, Funny

    April fools!! We fucked your server!

  13. Re:Oh, no! They've brainwashed him! on Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down? · · Score: 1

    no, but it should be!

  14. Re:Oh, no! They've brainwashed him! on Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down? · · Score: 1

    No, you're right; I didn't mean to imply that there's a law that says "channels of distribution define legal product domains" or anything. But, it is illegal to circumvent copyright restrictions, and so if a local player is required to play the content, it's illegal to circumvent the restrictions on the player to play different-regioned content.

  15. Re:Real reasons for mod chips on Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ha, ironically enough if they included the increase in rentals as part of the equation they'd end up using it as 'evidence' that more people are modding and copyring instead of buying.

  16. Re:What about drug paraphenalia? on Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down? · · Score: 1

    Er, right on then. Jolly good. Now I'm confused as to why it's all so readily available in stores. I guess the act's only 1999; maybe I'm just thinking historically?

  17. Re:Don't forget region protection on Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down? · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's not (technically, though I wish it was) a legitimate reason. If a company wants to localize the distribution of their content, it's illegal for you to circumvent it.

  18. Re:What about drug paraphenalia? on Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's bullshit. Find the law. Maybe there are some state laws, but none where I come from.

  19. Re:My philosophy on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 1

    But there are ten times as many people using it to look at porn faster and more efficiently than ever!

  20. Re:What?! on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 1

    You know, plumbers do a lot more than unclog toilets. In fact, the number of plumbers in the US has dropped off even as population and housing units have increased in numbers because plumbers no longer have to go around and hose everybody's sink every day, and instead spend more time installing pipe and such.

  21. Re:6/7 IT Indians consider themselves happy on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 2, Informative

    What are you talking about? The average Indian programming job ranks in at roughly $15,000 a year.

  22. whatever on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 1

    This is based on a British survey with only about 1,000 respondants between all the professions they surveyed. I mean, come on -- that's like saying "we asked seven IT professionals if they were happy and one said no." That's the weakest sample I've ever seen anyone hold up as relevent!

  23. Re:Um...no on 100-Year Domain Renewals? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Help me out -- what is an active directory implementation?

  24. Major companies on 100-Year Domain Renewals? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft and Time Warner (when it was AOL) have both issued 100-year bonds. Clearly they and their investors (at least, those who purchased the 100-years) think they stand a good chance of being around that long.

  25. Re:Right on The Arrival of Very Small Memory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whether you're a troll like the other guy says or not, there are thousands of companies that employ engineers to develop technology and then licence the technology to companies like motorola, intel, etc. The technology may require some degree of marketing to achieve critical mass usage, but that's irrelevent because if there's enough economic value (which this project practically guarantees, eventually) a larger company will either license it or develop its own.