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  1. I wouldn't buy it w/o seeing more on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 1

    I'd want to see a TOC and some excerpts before I plunk down $35 for the book. It's not on amazon and the author's site gives no information like that. But, you CAN get a larger image of the front cover. Maybe that will get me to buy it over another book.

  2. Re:From the linked page on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you had these waiting for you wouldn't you want to give her the book?

  3. Re:Macintosh (refuses to die) on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    It's been pronounced dead by pundits who think success is measured by knocking off Microsoft, not by turning a profit.

    Wait until they get knocked up. Then we'll have TWO of them.

  4. Re:The REAL reason I wear an analog watch on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    9:43 and 17 seconds, no wait, 18 seconds, 19, 20, 21......................and 9:44 right about now!

  5. Re:#1 : Slashdot on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    You have to learn what each hand means, and what each position means in the context of each hand. Once you learn it, it becomes straightforward and easy, but it's definitely the opposite of intuitive.

    If you haven't figured that out yet maybe you should go back to , what is it, 1st grade? And maybe you shouldn't even have a digital watch then either.

  6. Re:Deff eq on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 1

    I later sold it for 40 bucks to a girl buying the same book in line. Everyone wins, sort of.

    This gives me an idea. Take your book to the bookstore the following semester just as the next set of students are coming in and offer what you have as used for a good discount. You will get more than if the store gave u money for them and students may even pay lesss by buying off of you instead; at any rate they don't have to pay tax. Or organize a book swap a few days before/after classes start and post fliers around so that everyone knows about it. Previous students can trade books with new students etc.

  7. Re:Unfortunately on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Turns out I couldn't even sell them back at the end of the term

    why did you wait so long? bookstores tell you the cutoff date for returns so if you knew the professor would never use them why didn't u return them before the term was up?

  8. Re:I'm with Comcast on Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers" · · Score: 1

    I work from home, and download large (several gigs apiece) drawings and presentations on a daily basis.

    I haven't seen a more stupid, less sensible way to work in all my life. So what if it's easy? It would take a long time and eat up bandwidth I could be using for something else. I assume your company would pay your ISP the extra charges when the ISP finally decides to bill you for all of it?

    By the way, the colleges on Internet2 called, they want their bandwidth back.

  9. Re:Don't ask me.. on Confessions of a Mac OS X User · · Score: 1

    When I got the 17' Powerbook

    Holy shit man, how the heck is that thing portable?

  10. Re:maybe they will go after on Microsoft to sue Mike Rowe for Copyrights · · Score: 1

    To get MikeRoveSoft confused with Microsoft, the user would have to not only have serious issues spelling,

    You are right, serious spelling issues. It's MikeRoweSoft.com.

  11. Re:Serves people right.. on Today's Windows Virus - MyDoom / Novarg · · Score: 1

    Its also why toner refills have warnings not to drink the contents

    Do you mix yours with water before drinking? I've never seen liquid toner.

  12. Re:CCNA is worthless for this very reason on CCNA Certification Library · · Score: 1

    I know more than one person that I would consider networking incompotent that got their CCNA on their first try. They don't know jack about networking. The extent of their networking experience is plugging their cable modem into the Ethernet jack on the back of their Gateway-built computer. That's all they've ever done (or will ever do).

    I have to wonder: what was the point of this person even taking the exam if they didn't know much about networking to begin with? I can't see the motivation for even taking it. The person obviously isn't a network engineer.

    Also, the test isn't that easy. You do have to know networking contrary to what you may believe. There are a good many questions on TCP/IP as well as things concerning routers that you wouldn't know unless you used Cisco routers before or you studied. Someone who can barely hook up their cable modem knows nothing about TCP/IP and don't pretend to give them more credit than they deserve. If anything the threshold for *passing* the test is just a little low, that's all.

  13. Re:So What? on Currency Detection Discovered in More Products · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want to still keep doing that, the joke never gets old, the person sees an excellent 100$ bill pulls it fully out of the card and sees my ass with full fruit basket, it's beautiful.

    The picture is beautiful or the joke? Please make the separation.

  14. Re:Character ugliness on Live Action Neon Genesis Evangelion Concept Art · · Score: 1

    If that's what "dumpy" looks like I'll take it any day, any time, any place.

  15. Re:Sounds Tempting! on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 1

    Im taking a guess but I believe it's about $1.50.

  16. Re:Maybe I'm being cynical, but... on Passenger Risk Database to be Implemented in U.S. · · Score: 1

    And how many pages would it take to list how many HITS you would get? Why don't you list them? You listed the misses, you have to list the Hits if you are going to be fair. Don't tell half the story.

  17. Re:Orwellian, don't you think? on Passenger Risk Database to be Implemented in U.S. · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is no appeal. Why should there be? The system is flawless, so anyone it flags must be a terrorist! Why let terrorists waste the time of honest, upstanding American citizens with an appeal that is certain to be denied? Are you suggesting the system might be flawed? That the Government might be wrong?

    No system is flawless but you have to start somewhere. You know that it's foreign born people who immigrate to this country who cause 99.999% of the terrorist acts so why wouldn't you take extra time to keep tabs on them as they come in? The ones coming into this country are not US citizens therefore they do not have the same rights, although people seem to think they do. When you can narrow down criminal activity down to certain types of people you should be looking at those people to try to prevent further crime, not look the other way. Yes, you have to accept false positives but its better than not find anything at all.

  18. Re:Some things in life money cant buy... on Israel v. Microsoft, Next Round · · Score: 1

    You forgot Visio 2003 which is another 400 or so.

  19. Re:Y2038 bug? on Verisign Plans DNS Changes · · Score: 1

    GMT 03:14:07, Tuesday, January 19, 2038. I know I'll be staying up to watch all the lights go out. I'll be about 60 then. I'll be up by 3am anyway.

  20. Re:FTP servers on How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    Since you obviously don't check your logs then maybe you should start to do so, starting with the logs of other services that you leave run w/o any monitoring. Every once in a while I view my ftp server log. No one ever gets in (only 2 people have accounts) that shouldn't but its interesting to see who tries to connect.

  21. how much is too much? on How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    The first month I got the RoadRunner service I downloaded about 20 gigs (Dec of 2002). This past New Year's Eve I downloaded 12 gigs in 12 hours. As of yet I haven't got a notice about too much bandwidth used. I asked when I first signed up how much "unlimited" meant. The woman said there was no hard value but there was indeed some threshold and that I'd be warned if I hit it. I guess I know that I can at least do 20 gigs in a month and be okay. I've done it twice so far in the past 12 months of having the service.

  22. Re:Who needs them? on Verisign Certificate Expiration Causes Multiple Problems · · Score: 1

    I just really wish I could find an affordable CA that I felt was trustworthy enough themselves as to feel safe making my customers trust their certificates.

    I hear the USPO has a CA. I doubt that they take private CSRs to sign though but you could always ask. Might mean that stamp prices get lowered if the USPO can start making money off of signing CSRs. Btw...I found this out after seeing how many freaking CAs were listed in Netscape Admin Console for Netscape Directory Server in the SSL section.

  23. Re:Mm, feds. on US Treasury to Post Previously Private Email Addresses Online · · Score: 1

    So, when this kook and his cronies and the current inept morons at each level of government are gone, they'll be replaced by a whole new set of gibbering morons and self-indulgent puppets.

    And no matter what we are bound to have everyone say " I didnt vote for the guy" and yet, somehow, he is in office. Odd that is.

  24. Re:The Open Source Software Institute... on The Open Source Dilemma for Governments · · Score: 1

    "So as more people use open source, the bigger target it becomes to hackers."

    I think the correct equation is: Bigger hole == Bigger Target

  25. Re:Wow, that's good news on Transmeta's New Smaller, Faster Chips Announced · · Score: 1

    Actually my Athlon 64 3000+ runs 10 degrees cooler (at 85F) than my friend's Celeron 1.1ghz chip (at 95F).