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  1. Re:Wrong Number? on Top off Your Parking Meter with a Cell Call · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I paid for my parking like this 2 years ago in Vancouver. This is old news.

  2. Re:Radar on Frozen Chip from IBM hits 500 GHz · · Score: 1

    Millimeter wave radar has been declassified military tech for at least a decade. http://quinstar.com/an05_millimeter_wave_radar_sub systems.html

  3. Re:Really? on New Caldera Promised · · Score: 2, Insightful

    2.5 Kernel?
    It's clear this is a massive troll. In addition to 2.5 being unstable due to its version number (odd point releases being unstable) it isn't even the latest version.

  4. Safari 2 on Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant? · · Score: 5, Informative

    IIRC, Opera 9 is not the only compliant browser. I believe Safari 2 is also compliant.

  5. Re:Xbox soft-modding issues on The Wii Virtual Console Hands-On · · Score: 1

    1. a) you cant. b) buy a used copy, or rent a copy, or borrow a copy from a friend, buy/rent/steal other games like 007 that have buffer overflows.

    2. a rom reader with USB or RS-232 interface. buy old games from thrift stores. at this point you may also want to pick up the original console.

  6. Re:I Love Articles Like This on Self-Censoring 'Chinese Wikipedia' Launched · · Score: 1

    Umm... at what point did the people of China get a say in this? It would be one thing if they chose their government, but this is not tryanical democracy, this is tryanical dictatorship.

  7. Re:MailMarshal on Exchange Compatible Spam Filters? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know of a company Global Relay that offers a hosted spam/virus filter for Exchange. They also do Email archiving so that in the event of disaster your company still has access to all its email. Their mail systems are so good that they've never lost a single email in 6 years. The Chicago Stock Exchange uses their services so they are well prepared for larger organizations.

  8. Re:One wonders on US Intensifies Fight Against Child Pornography · · Score: 0

    molested AND killed, nor OR killed. read up on your boolean logic plz.

  9. Re:Right on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    The oil companies do not fund climate change science to the degree that the various world gov'ts do.

  10. Re:Glad not to be an American! on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 2, Informative

    What the hell are you talking about?

    When the bank takes your SIN number it is so that CCRA knows exactly who to make sure paid their taxes on the interest.

    If CCRA asks your bank for your accounts, your bank provides them. Infact for most things like RRSPs, RESPs, etc, the bank takes the money from you and forwards it directly to CCRA just incase you wanted to skip town with your cash.

    What happend to honour, integrity and trust?
    No one paid their taxes.

    You have no idea what the CCRA can do. The way taxes work in Canada is if you get audited the CCRA gives you a bill, and unless you can prove otherwise that is your bill. Conversely, if they owe you, they send you the money. If you think they owe you more, you have to prove it.

  11. Re:A Whitehouse spokesperson was quoted as saying. on NASA Study Shows Antarctic Ice Sheet Shrinking · · Score: 1

    One year does not a trend make. Besides, if you don't want to get flooded by a hurricane. DONT LIVE IN A FLOOD PLANE, IN THE PLACE WHERE HURRICANES STRIKE.

  12. Re:A Lot of 'Theoreticals' on Test for String Theory Developed · · Score: 1

    Small black holes actually evaporate due to Hawkings radiation. So they generally dissapear before swallowing the galaxy. Interestingly enough, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy would float on water given its average density.

  13. Re:The beauty of Universal Binaries... on Apple Switched Chips Too Soon? · · Score: 1

    Ooh, a unified cache so one core trash the cache of the other. Maybe AMD will unify their memory bus and move it off chip too. Then they'd really kill intel. The whole reason a Xeon has a 16MB cache is because of what a shitty processor it is, AMD doesn't need that much cache because of the improved memory latency.

  14. Re:Titan wars... on Pay-to Play and the Tiered Internet · · Score: 1

    Everyone is free to raise their rates, as long as you dont have a monopoly. Users can simply go elsewhere. If Google can provide a cheaper service then by all means they should. Why we shouldn't have kick backs is because it distorts market conditions. Paper is worth what paper is worth regardless of what you use it for. If paper mills dont make money they can raise their rates or close up shop. Or settle for less money. The problem with SBC charging Google for their Google to access their customers is A) SBC has a monopoly and was granted this monopoly in exchange for building the network and being a common carrier.

  15. Re:What joke? on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 1

    BFD. Not everything that costs you money is a crime. I can legally do lots of things that cost people around me money. It's a joke. It's akin to asking all the students to the principal's office. It makes the office unusable, but I doubt anyone would be charged with a felony for doing it. Laws like disruption of public services were created to address serious problems of mischief. If you did something like this to a 911 service it would be an issue.

  16. Re:Mod parent troll on France to Legalize File Sharing · · Score: 1

    The culture of people who live in huts rarely venture to other places nor do they participate in geopolitics.

    In countries that matter you'll gain a better understanding of the culture by living in a city with the other 90% of the people. In very few countries do most of the people live in a hut half way up the mountain under a triple canopy forest. Most intelligent people have figured out that that way of life sucks and moved to the city.

    What you are learning about the culture is like going to Montana and living in Ted Kaczinzky's cabin and claiming that you now understand American culture, when really you've just been trained as a luddite.

  17. OpenBSD? on A Dedicated Firewall for a Small Town? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd throw OpenBSD on there. And scale down the hardware a lot. You will run out of bandwidth on your bus before you run out of CPU. Get two boxes and run CARP for fail over. That way when you patch the box your whole network doesn't go down. Just get two uniprocessor boxes. Dual Dual cores is overkill, and Windows 2003 has a single TCP/IP stack so dual processors are almost pointless.

  18. Re:No Surprise on Testing Drugs on India's Poor · · Score: 1

    How do you know what endangers the child with out trying it? You mentioned saltine crackers earlier, which didn't work for my wife, nor did any of the other "natural" methods. Exactly how long after saltine crackers were invented did they become safe for pregnant women to eat? What about "natural" unpasturized milk, is that safe?

  19. Re:stating the obvious...and giving the easy answr on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 1

    Great. That is exactly what they should do. I don't buy products I don't like. I just don't get up on a soapbox to do it. Women already aren't buying games. When I see a game that sucks I don't buy it. Men want fantasy games. The sims is frankly boring, I already have a house and go to work all day, if I wanted to do that I'd just do it in real life.

  20. Re:stating the obvious... on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 1

    You know why? Because instead of appealing to the Harlequin Romance book writers to write war books, Tom Clancy just wrote them himself. Women aren't helpless, they can write games too. Appealing to men to fix the lack of women's games is an appeal to the idea that women can't fix the problem themselves.

  21. Re:stating the obvious... on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would turn into Harlequin romance.

    Which men would ignore like we do now.

    Except, we don't bitch about making Harlequin romance more appealing to men. We realize it appeals to women and let them have their fun.

    So to answer, No, men wouldn't find it appealing and instead of trying to change it to make it appealing we'd just go do something that appeals to us.

  22. Re:Hey, wait a minute! on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. I don't get this whole thing about realistic women, I don't know but I find playing Warcraft quite acceptable and yet I don't have 22 inch biceps. Nor am I athletic. Quite frankly, Warcraft would be quite boring if all the male characters looked like me.

  23. Re:stating the obvious... on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 1

    It's like the complaint amongst fat women that there are no clothes for fat women, and yet, no one starts a store doing exactly that. If women want to make games that women want to play, make them. Also, you might want to let strip clubs know about realistic women attracting more men and women. They'll be very interested in this development.

  24. Re:Gone on Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Use ML_ipod for winamp.

  25. True AI on Company Claims Development of True AI · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you develop "true AI" you dont make a press release about it, you phone the military of your country of choosing and wait for men to arrive with large briefcases full of money. Let me put it this way, true AI is not annouced by /., you will read about it in Janes about 10 years after it happens.