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  1. Oh well... on US Patent Office To Re-Examine Blackboard Patent · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess its back to the old drawing board...

  2. Re:Or if you're a Phish fan on Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract · · Score: 1

    That hood is also based on the Hood Dairy Company. There was a neon Harry Hood Dairy sign across the street from one of their apartments that would go out when the place closed. Hence the where do you go when the lights go out? Along teh lines of picture at nectar's being a place they used to play at when they were coming up.

  3. Re:Coincidence? on The Business of Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    I thought the article was bout one of the forums at Joel's site:

    "The Business of Software"
    http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz

  4. Re:FuckedCompany? on Dot-com Boom's Biggest Duds, From Flooz to iSmell · · Score: 1

    Pud moved on to AdBrite which is kicking a$$. Meh.

  5. Re:Anybody remember? on Device Developed To Help Socially Challenged · · Score: 1

    Whoa! Not Necessarily the News! Haven't heard that in a while. Gonna have to google it to remember wth it actually was.

  6. My Mom porgrams in Assembly... on Google Pages Reviewed · · Score: 1

    me: and she benches 250.
    guy: peices?
    me: peices?! No, pounds baby! POUNDS!
    mom: I'll bring my tools. I start tomorrow.

  7. Re:Cool...Hacks Author on PayPal Goes Mobile · · Score: 1

    Hey there. I authored the PayPal Hacks book. We hope to begin working on an updated version of the book. They have come a long way since its release, but it still should be some help to people just starting out. The advanced stuff is what is mostly outdated.

    Thanks.

    SS

  8. eBook's Advantages on eBooks - What's Holding You Back? · · Score: 1

    I give this speech several times during the year.

    If you want a book, you can go down the street to your local bookstore and buy the item. You have the satisfaction of having it fairly quickly, but have to get up and leave the house (not a bad thing).

    You could also go to Amazan and order the book and have it in a day or two. You don't have to get up, but you won't have the item for a day or two.

    if there was an eBook available, you could buy and instantly download the item giving you access immediately. That is the advantage of an ebook.

    No, they are not great for reading stories or fiction, but they are great for technical references and how to guides.

    PayLoadz.com - Buy and Sell eBooks

  9. IBM 5150 on Laptops Required for Freshmen · · Score: 1

    I can't type on laptop keyboards to well, I wonder if they will mind if I bring the keyboard from my IBM 5150. Ahhh, I LOVE that sound! The keys actually have weight to them. Nothing like the tactile feedback from those 5lb monsters.

    Of course, this was when you could actually bludgeon someone to death with your keyboard. Try that now with one of the new ones and they will just shatter into peices without inflicting any damage. Pfft!

  10. Re:Why Bite the Hand that Feeds? on PayPal vs Google(Buy) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The times they are a changin'
    That old MP argument is not going to hold up forever:

    PayPal Announces Micropayment pricing:
    http://www.paypal.com/activate_micropayments_5pct_ plus_5cents_new_account_pricing

    On August 31st, 2005, PayPal announced new Micropayments rate of 5% + $0.05 per transaction.

    The rate is available now, to U.S. merchants who sell digital content to U.S. customers, when PayPal is the sole payment solution offered to customers for micropayments transactions.

    Merchants who wish to use PayPal's micropayments pricing will need to open a new PayPal account through the account registration link at the bottom of this note.

    Each PayPal account is associated with only one merchant processing rate. That rate determines the fee that's applied to funds received into that account (additional information on PayPal's Standard Fees is available at: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display- fees-outside ). For example: if your Premier/Business Account rate for receiving funds is 2.9% + $0.30, using PayPal's 5% + $0.05 micropayments rate would reduce the total transaction fee charged to payments received below the value of $12 (per payment). However, if you accept payments that are greater than $12, you would pay a lower processing charge by accepting the payment into the account set with the 2.9% + $0.30 rate.

    If you wish to leverage PayPal's micropayments pricing, please open a new browser window and paste the link below into the URL field to open your new PayPal account with micropayments pricing of 5% + $0.05.

  11. Visible stars... on More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye · · Score: 1

    Did I hear correctly that almost all "stars" that are visible with the naked eye at night are double star systems? For some reason, that took some of the fun out of looking up at night.

  12. Re:because people are lazy on Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or because you're a Karma whore and did not RTFA or know anything about the Sober worm and that it spams using nazi-propaganda web sites? At least post AC.

  13. Re:poor marketing stunt of MAKE on Yet Another Holiday Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    I got my last issue warning as well today. Very strange indeed. I think I've received like 4 of these. Anyone use AAA? Well, then you get the idea.
    Heck, I'm an O'Reilly author, you'd think they could spare an extra subscription. in fact, they gave the first one that is now expiring that I am being hit up for now...
    o well...

  14. Anchorman... on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    I don't know why, but every time he said "pipes" i thought he was talking about his arms.

    Maybe we should take him to the ol' Gun Show without our massive /. biceps...

  15. Re:does this mean on EBay Acquiring VeriSign Processing for $370 Million · · Score: 1

    Actually, a micropayment is generally considered anything less than $1. I'm in enough magazine articles on the subject to know that much...

  16. Re:does this mean on EBay Acquiring VeriSign Processing for $370 Million · · Score: 1

    Didn't you get the memo? They already are:

    On August 31st, 2005, PayPal announced new Micropayments rate of 5% + $0.05 per transaction. The rate is available now, to U.S. merchants who sell digital content to U.S. customers, when PayPal is the sole payment solution offered to customers for micropayments transactions. Merchants who wish to use PayPal's micropayments pricing will need to open a new PayPal account through the account registration link at the bottom of this note. Each PayPal account is associated with only one merchant processing rate. That rate determines the fee that's applied to funds received into that account (additional information on PayPal's Standard Fees is available at: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display- fees-outside ). For example: if your Premier/Business Account rate for receiving funds is 2.9% + $0.30, using PayPal's 5% + $0.05 micropayments rate would reduce the total transaction fee charged to payments received below the value of $12 (per payment). However, if you accept payments that are greater than $12, you would pay a lower processing charge by accepting the payment into the account set with the 2.9% + $0.30 rate. If you wish to leverage PayPal's micropayments pricing, please open a new browser window and paste the link below into the URL field to open your new PayPal account with micropayments pricing of 5% + $0.05. http://www.paypal.com/activate_micropayments_5pct_ plus_5cents_new_account_pricing If you have further questions about the micropayments pricing, you can send questions to: micropayments@paypal.com

  17. Re:That doesn't make any sense. on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1


    You CANNOT WIN A WAR ON TERRORISM.

    Why not? We're winning the War on Drugs! ;)

  18. Re:Huzzaaaa on Citywide Fiber Project Challenges and Goals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Utah is a different planet. They have been trying to pass internet monitoring and restriction bills for some time now...

  19. Would move all to NetSol, but... on Recovering Domains from Negligent Registrars? · · Score: 1

    I also have a few domains straggling around with not-so-great registrars. Despite some of the horrible things that NetSOl has done in the past, I still like them enough that I would transfer the other domains to them.

    However, the main reason why I don't is that when you initiate a domain transfer with NetSol, you can't specify the DNS server address before the domain transfers. That means that effectively the site will be offline when it does transfer over, instead of it beaing ready to go when it clears the old DNS caches.

  20. Re:Aibo on PSP Hacks and the Mainstream · · Score: 4, Informative

    I *think* I recall hearing the same argument when the robotic dog thing came out from Sony. People were hacking it and Sony started shutting down sites. Then they realized the benefit of the 3rd party hacks and began releasing SDKs for the later versions of the wacky lil beast.

  21. Re:None at all on How Much Respect Do You Get? · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again." -RD

  22. Re: "Oh Snap?" on Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Oh Snap!"

    That phrase really dates you. I think you were looking for something more like:
    "Homey don't play dat!"

  23. Pointless on 'Online Poker' Googlebomb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google Bombing is used to get your one page higher, it doesn't do anything to the other sites' ranking except to the single site you may displace off the top 10 results.

  24. Re:Great minds think alike. on Double-Slit Experiment in Time, Not Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can copy and paste all you want from the intellectual desert that is PhysicsForums

    Mmmmmm...desert...

  25. Re:$240 per person to eat PAPER?!?! on Sushi Prepared on a Printer · · Score: 1

    And we wonder why people crash planes into our buildings.

    Has it been 20 years already?

    I thought we had to wait that long before we were able to make jokes about this kind of stuff...