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  1. Garage Sale on How Cheap Can A PC Be? · · Score: 1

    My friend found a computer at a garage sale for under $100.

    What I'm saying is that you'll get more bang for your buck if you go with a used PC. In my friend's case, the monitor and all peripherals were included.

  2. Re: Spyware for fun & profit on Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related · · Score: 1

    Actually, my mom's new HP Pavillion came with Wild Tangent and lots of other useless crap. I also had a horrible tech support experience with them. The NIC card died. When I got the computer back, they had replaced the Dial Up modem, not the NIC. I complained to one of those Indian dudes at tech support and he said he would notify the repair facility. I told him not to worry about doing anything else, I didn't feel like dealing with them anymore.

  3. 5 seconds on World's Deepest Cave Explored Further · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...before someone posts the goatsex link.

  4. How do you know? on Hotmail Begins to Upgrade Free Accounts · · Score: 1

    How do you know when your account was created? I'd like to find the date for mine.

  5. ogg on Windows Media Player 10 Reviewed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does it support Ogg files in your playlist yet?

  6. If it's tapable... on Net Phone Customers Brace For 'VoIP Spam' · · Score: 0

    If VOIP can now be tapped, then they should at enforce the do not call list as well. Give us some good with the bad!

  7. Re:Odd thing about trains... on MagLev Trains Annoyingly Loud · · Score: 0

    The day-night equivalent sound pressure level, Ldn: Ldn = 10log[(1/24)(INT[10^(L/10)dt] + INT[10^((L+10)/10)dt])] The first integral's bounds are from 7AM to 10PM ...the second integral is evaluated from 10PM to 7AM the next day. L is the actual sound pressure level. Notice that for the nighttime integral you add 10dB. Got this from: The Science and Application of Acoustics by Daniel R. Raichel. ...finally something I can comment on because we just covered this topic in my engr acoustics class.

  8. Kompressor says... on X10 Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 0

    We must Destroy X10!! We must destroy all internet ad!!!

  9. Who uses MSN anyways? on Gaim Speaks Out on MSN Ban · · Score: 0

    Nobody on my MSN list is ever on... they all use AIM.

  10. Re:So what now? on Inquiry Into RIAA's Piracy Crackdown Tactics · · Score: 0

    Metaphor? You mean an Analogy?

  11. WMD? on United Nuclear · · Score: 0

    Iraq is trying to get rid of their WMD material?

  12. Re:Ummm.... on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well what happens when every cm^2 of the earth is covered with a computer that size and then people start stacking them on top of eachother like pennies?

  13. Re:Trillian on AOL Bridges AIM and ICQ · · Score: -1, Troll

    btw, I downloaded it from KaZaA.

  14. Re:Jabber on AOL Bridges AIM and ICQ · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't gimme nonna dat jibba jabber!

  15. nice try, but wrong on A Shocking Controller For The Xbox · · Score: 1

    Scott: What are you trying to prove here anyway?

    Venkman: I'm studying the effect o negative reinforcement on ESP ability.

    Scott: Effect? Effect! I'll tell you what the effect is. This is pissing me off!

  16. you need to... on Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    You need to check with the department of redundancy department.

  17. To improve cooling, lower contact resistance.... on PeltierBeer · · Score: 2, Informative

    The heat transfer coefficient for glass isn't as high as metal. Sure it's proper to drink guiness from glass, but if you want to increase the efficiency, use a metal drinking vessel. Also, use something that is flat bottommed to increase contact area. Better yet, use thermal adhesive to permanently stick a metal drinking vessel to the copper plate... that stuff will lower contact resistance quite a bit.

  18. Re:Adsorption refrigerator to cool intake charge. on Capturing Waste Heat with Quantum Mechanics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Want to give us a first and second law analysis? Wanna show that to us on a T-s diagram? I might bring this up in my thermo II class tomrrow.