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  1. Re:Sweet on Ariane Launches A New Way To Get Online · · Score: 1

    I think the key word there was "most".

    Once you get out of the cities, there is lot of open space with nobody living there.

    If you want to impress us, find the populations and area of the largest cities in Canada, and subtract them from your atlas totals, and redo the math. (:

  2. I paid 13 dollars on TMBG on DRM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The songs that you buy are in regular un-DRMed, easy to transfer or put on CD or put in iPod or put anywhere (including kazaa or whatever) MP3 files. On the download page, they ask you nicely not to share the songs on P2P services, but they don't force you not to by locking the songs to your computer with DRM. I like their approach. Sure, I could have illegally downloaded it all, but I like TMBG, and I want to see them make more music, so I'll support them any way I can.

    Rush just came out with a new mini-album called Feedback. I looked for it on iTunes, but couldn't find it, so downloaded it from bittorrent. But I kept looking for it on iTunes, and as soon as I saw it, I paid for it. Totally worth the 8 bucks.

    Support artists!

  3. Re:Bad Boys + Independance Day + Robots on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure he meant preview showing, or advance showing... not the movie trailer.

    Of course, I could be wrong. (:

  4. Re:Correction on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    You mean "It's a proper noun"

    Sorry. Well, not really. (:

  5. Spoiler! on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hear the Lone Gunmen die in this episode!

  6. Re:Howard Mann on On The Secret Life Of Videogame Voice Actors · · Score: 1

    http://www.autofish.net/asjad/wavs/somerye.wav

    Muahahaha!

  7. Re:2 Metres on Build Your Own Bluetooth Hearing Aid · · Score: 1

    No, he just has bluetooth installed...

  8. Re:Infra Red lapel blinkers on Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger · · Score: 1

    That's actually a pretty cool idea. (: I'll have to ponder this!

  9. Re:I'll wait until the book comes out. on Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated] · · Score: 1

    Don't look now, but the book is out. Penned by Peter David (same as the first one), it's really good. It has just enough trademark David bits in it, and plenty of humor, and sticks perfectly with the storyline in the movie, which is always nice.

  10. Re:MS & Google on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 1

    gmail.com redirects to gmail.google.com/gmail, so it's ok. (:

  11. Re:Just a question... on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 1

    Open up Regedit, and go to this directory in it..

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Serv ic es\CDRom

    Find the setting called "AutoRun" and set the value to 0 to turn off autorun. Whee. (:

  12. Re:Top posting, grrr on Rediff Joins The 1GB Webmail Club · · Score: 1

    I agree!

    > No, that's the Microsoft way. Nobody did this
    > and people were civilized enough until Outlook
    > came out.
    >
    > Sorry, but Microsoft is not a synonym
    > for "standard". RFC1855 looks more like a
    > standard to me, moreover people respected this
    > years before Microsoft released any TCP/IP
    > software.
    >
    > http://00f.net/item/27/
    >
    > If you like to quote 1 Mb of previous replies
    > just to add your own 2 words, that's your
    > choice.
    >
    > But at least, a webmail software should give
    > the choice to the sender.
    >
    >
    > --
    > Pure FTP Server [pureftpd.org]
    > Upgrade your FTP server to something simple
    > and secure

  13. Re:Stability on Rediff Joins The 1GB Webmail Club · · Score: 1

    Checklist of things to do every spring and fall:

    1. Adjust clocks for daylight savings time
    2. Change batteries in smoke detectors
    3. Shower
    4. Check GMail account to keep it active

  14. Re:Just a question... on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 1

    Ya, it's called the shift key. Hold it down while inserting the CD, and it will keep autorun events from happening.

  15. Re:~sigh~ on Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill · · Score: 1

    We can't tell you what to say, because then you'd be guilty of copying our works.

    Just tell your senator to OPPOSE the Incite act being proposed by Sen. Hatch of Utah. Tell him or her that it's against the best interests of the common person, and could lead to even more draconian measures to take away our freedoms.

  16. Re:how much were these cards?!? on School Internet Program Audit Shows Fraud and Waste · · Score: 1

    These were bought in 1999, not 2004, and the 24 million included installation charges. RTFA.

  17. Re:The only mainland US casualties from the war? on Japanese Balloon Battle · · Score: 1

    I'm sure if you had actually read the slate article, you would have noticed that they mentioned the "only mainland casualties" report.

    But of course, RTFA'ing is a lost art.

  18. Re:I don't interface on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1

    Hi, nice to meet you. I use gmail, and my yahoo account gets roughly one email per day that gets past the spam filter, from Jenny who would like me to meet her friends.

  19. Re:Please stop the NYT bashing on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1

    Right, because the New York Times knows the meaning of journalistic integrity.

    *snicker*

  20. Re:Not that impressive on Gmail Spam Filter Testing · · Score: 2, Informative

    tikora@gmail.com, I think.

    Mine is kredal@gmail.com, if you're interested. (:

  21. Re:Is this really censorship? on Testing ISP Censorship · · Score: 1

    That really depends on their terms of use. Sure, it probably says that you can't put up copyrighted works on your page, but this chapter of "On Liberty" wasn't copyrighted.

    If I went to foo.com and sent them a letter saying that they have copyrighted material on their site, I would hope that they would verify that it really was copyrighted, and not just take it down on the word of some anonymous person.

    And don't forget that you're paying for the bandwidth that you use from your ISP, so it is your money and resources going towards publishing. If the site got slashdotted, and more bandwidth was used than you paid for, then the ISP/host would be right to take it down, and send you a request for more money before they hosted it again.

  22. Re:Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane on Microsoft Changes Tune Again On SP2 Installs · · Score: 1

    No man born of woman will be able to update security of MS systems!

  23. Re:Lucky in the US... on Software Upgrade Crashes UK Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    Horray! Thanks, RetroGeek. (: That's been bugging me for a while.

  24. Re:Lucky in the US... on Software Upgrade Crashes UK Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the corrections. I've never been involved in any capacity with the English ATC system, so it was all conjecture on my part, based on what I've seen in US systems.

    I have seen (multiple times) where the flight strip systems have gone down, and had to be done by hand. It's fairly amazing how quickly good controllers can write shorthand and get it passed off to others in a crunch.

    That is fairly sucky that many GA (general aviation) flights had to be grounded because of problems at one center, though.

  25. Re:Mathematical significance of 1729 on The Mathematics of Futurama · · Score: 1

    When he copies and pasted, the superscript "3"s got turned into everyday normal threes, so 9^3 turned into 93, etc etc..