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  1. Re:Emulator may be free (Free), but the ROMs aren' on HP Calcs Live On Under PalmOS · · Score: 1

    Damn, does your neck hurt from that giant tinfoil hat or what?

  2. Re:SP! SP! SP! on Gameboy Advance SP vs Canon Powershot G3 · · Score: 1

    Can't play games on a camera?

    You just have the wrong camera.

  3. Re:Xbox on Best DVD -Player- for Burned DVD Media? · · Score: 1

    Mine won't touch *any* movie burned with NERO... (where you have your VOB/IFO files pre-layed out, and just dump them in NERO) but plays fine when burned with any other program.

  4. Re:Oh poor baby on Working as a Game Tester · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hot gravel? S'cuse me Mr. Fancy Pants but in my day our gravel was cold as our dead grandpa, and besides, we only earned a half-tuppence between my fourteen brothers and I.

  5. Re:Sheesh on Dr. Pepper Tries New Astroturf Method · · Score: 1

    Thats mostly true. However where I live (washington) Pepsi distributes DrPepper, and Coke has MrPibb. In Idaho where my wife grew up, Coke distributes Dr Pepper and Mr Pibb don't exist.

  6. Re:In support of SBC on Baby Bell Deregulation Bill Fails To Pass In Kansas · · Score: 1

    You know why they send out a SBC repairman? Because they won't let ANYBODY else physically touch the line. Other people know how to work on them, they just cant touch the box because they are not allowed to. It's bullshit.

  7. Re:What a hack. on TiBook Wi-Fi Range Hack: New Card · · Score: 1

    Would that be called Minihard?

  8. Re:Thawte on Cheap SSL Certificates for Small Websites? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When the fuck did they start charging $199??
    Last time I looked it was $125 first time, $99 renwal.

    Greedy mother fucking bastard cum-lapping whore dicks.

    I guess it suddenly became more expensive to take your money.

  9. Re:Double standard? on MS Reveals Big-Name Xbox Games · · Score: 1

    Damn your stupid.

    Free market allows DEVELOPERS to make exclusive deals with whoever they want, for whatever price they want. Rockstar DID NOT HAVE TO TAKE SONY'S MONEY. They could of developed for whoever the FUCK they wanted to.
    Computer manf. NEED windows to stay in business, as its the biggest gig in town. MS threatened to gut their bottom line if they looked at the 'competition'-- they had NO choice.

    Find a better analogy shitface.

  10. Re:xbox modification dection on XBox Linux HOWTOs · · Score: 1

    9/10ths of the reason for a modchip is so you can load and run unsigned code on your xbox (at least for me). Not touching the hard drive means not doing a whole lot of things.

  11. xbox modification dection on XBox Linux HOWTOs · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Anyone who owns a xbox and puts in a mod-chip might as well forget about XBL for quite some time. There are about a million ways one could conceve of detecting mods.
    • MS downloads and tries to run unsigned code on your box (which reports back if run)
    • Look for the trademark files of all the alternate dashboards littered all over your drive. MS knows what the drive should look like.
    • Just scan your drive for unsigned code every night.

    I'm betting there will be a new generation of stealth mods and hd swap kits for those who want to make the box 'clean' to get on XBL. I don't really feel like playing cat-and-mouse every day to stay ahead of the game. Online play has historically been one of the most effective (not 100% mind you) means of copy protection.
  12. Re:Well done on Nielsen to measure TiVo usage · · Score: 2

    No, neilson likes to do accurate samplings of homes based on demographics and such. They will contact a home and request that they participate, never the other way around. They also request that you never tell anyone you are a 'neilson family'

    I think this whole tivo thing is so they don't have to give you a seperate box to monitor your usage.

  13. What I did.... on Painless Chairs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The last time I got a chair at work, they threw the office depot catalog at me and said find one that isn't too expensive. Well, in the catalog they have ratings for how long you can confortably sit in a given chair. The chairs can range from 1-2hrs to 8+hrs, and the cheapest chairs in the 8+ category are all over $200. (I had to argue that I spend 90% of my time at my desk to do my job to get the chair.)

    If you go in the store the don't seem to have the ratings on the chairs themselves, but they have a catalog at the front of the store you can look at.

  14. WHOAH on New Palm Pictures? · · Score: 1

    What makes this photo so crazy (real or not) is the fact that there is the STAR icon in the grafitti area. That is the 'favorites' button that comes on the i705 wireless pda.

    I think a wireless color palm would be a killer app.

  15. Ummm on 8128 miles Per (US) Gallon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course 2171 actual miles on one liter of fuel would probally NOT scale very well when you are carying 4x the fuel at the beginning (One gallon instead of one liter). With numbers like this, weight must be a very important consideration.

  16. Re:Killer App? on Get Ready For Divx On Xbox · · Score: 1
  17. What this really means on US Govt Wants to Control ICANN? · · Score: 1

    You do all realize that this action was most likely started because some big-time lobbyists down at the capitol asked (read: paid) some senators to start this. Most likely big business wants more freedom to do as the please in taking away 'copyrighted' domains (read: microsoftsux.com is going bye bye) among other things.

    All for the greater good of the public (copyright doubleplus good!)

  18. Re:second part makes sense on NSA/U.S. Navy Working to Intercept Fiber Optic Cables · · Score: 1

    Umm, take a look Here about the truth regarding our interstate system.

  19. Re:Why store secret key? on Keeping Private Customer Data...Private? · · Score: 1

    And how do you propose the billing dept. reverse the one-way hash to process the credit card for an order?

  20. Hehehe on What Free Cable? · · Score: 1

    I remember when I got my cable modem installed by AT&T techs, the cable TV had a bizzare selection of channels scattered through the dial, but not even basic.
    Later, when I ordered digital phone (via cable) a 3rd-party cable technician came out for the install. When he was done he told me he was supposed to install a filter to prevent me watching tv, but said he wouldn't even bother doing such.

  21. Re:Get an Ipaq on 802.11b Cards for Handhelds? · · Score: 1

    Nope! The blazer browser goes though a handspring proxy that *cannot* be turned off. Look Here for the truth (three questions in a row address this issue).

  22. I've been there. on Decepticons Are NOT Attacking the .US Registry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had the *exact* same thing happen to me. I am the web developer for subaruparts.com. I have one function to connect to the database that is used universally throughout the site that happens to generate a particualar error message when the database cannot be found. When the database server goes offline most pages will say something like "Mr. Database was killed by Colonel Mustard in the Study with the Knife." It randomly picks the items in clue when generating the message. I thought it was funny at the time.

    Well, Last week some meat-headed security camera techs managed to unplug my database THREE times (twice by network, once by power) while installing some equipment. All the visitors saw the message and thought we had been haxx0red. I had to go visit a bunch of car boards and explain that we hadn't been breeched.

  23. SANGOMA on Hardware Manufacturers that Actively Support Linux? · · Score: 1

    Sangoma is a excellent company to work with when it comes to linux-related issues. They make internal T-1 CSU/DSU router cards that can save a company a bundle.

    They produced the drivers themselves, and therefore know them inside and out when you need support. I've even had them offer to log into the box I was working on and set things up for me (granted if the t-1 is your only connection thats kind of impossible!)

  24. Re:New ad types? on Slashdot Subscription Update · · Score: 1

    just a suggestion, but have you tried using the esound daemon, and starting the esd wrapper around nutscrape to trap calls to /dev/dsp?

  25. Re:Dear Congressman Bob... on U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID · · Score: 1

    Wow, you didn't even manage to say that you were writing about Passport and access to government sites! Your congressman won't even know what your talking about if you send this letter. A good guide is to clearly state the issue at hand, and if you support or oppose the issue in very plain terms.