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  1. Re:I just quit using email on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1

    why not just filter emails so you can only accept them from certain addresses? your solution forces users to install another app on their machines if they want to communicate with you electronically.

  2. Re:If you only knew.... on VoIP + 802.11 = Bad News For Phone Companies · · Score: 1

    If U of A is anything like University of Georgia, they don't mix their academic budgets with their athletic budgets. All of the money that is made through the athletic department is kept within that department and vice versa.

  3. this might work on Successful Do-Not-Call Complaints? · · Score: 2, Informative

    i got a call one time from a telemarketer and went along with it and said i was really interested. i told her that i was busy and asked if i could write down her information and call her back. she agreed. busted. i only did that once to see if it would work and it did. now i don't even answer the phone. caller ID is a wonderful thing.

  4. Re:Big whoop on Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained · · Score: 0

    In the words of my mother... "What is Mirrored?"

  5. Re:Bus tickets cost money too on New Disney / Samsung HDD Video Set-Top Box · · Score: 0, Troll

    if the only reason you're holding out on buying a car is because of the high insurance price, you are either:

    a) an idiot
    b) poor and want another excuse other than "i'm poor"
    c) a jerk
    d) live in a city where you don't need a car (Chicago, New York, etc.)
    e) all of the above

  6. Re:SCO should die on SGI's Letter to the Linux Community · · Score: 1

    Everybody borrows; genius steals.

    Perhaps that should be modified to:

    Everybody borrows; genius steals and gets away with it.

  7. Join these guys on Japan Introduces Consumer-Paid Computer Recycling · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Here's a question... on 3rd Lawsuit Against VeriSign Seeks Class Action · · Score: 1

    y0u h4v3 n0 ski11s s0 d0n'7 3v3n w0rry 4b0u7 i7. y0u c0u1n'7 h4X 4 br0wn p4p0r b4g. i ru13!

    WOOT

    j/k

  9. Re:Dell, shmell... on Dell Announces New Music Player, Download Service · · Score: 1

    earth to moron, come in moron....

    my grandmother is 80 years old. 80. she uses a computer for email and that's about it. i specifically told her not to buy a beige box from a local retailer because i knew she would need help. what did i tell her?? "hey grandma, you can buy a Dell for $400 right now and it will do everything you need and more". she couldn't be happier. and i couldn't be happier because she calls Dell's tech support instead of me.

  10. Ummm... on Dell Announces New Music Player, Download Service · · Score: 1

    i actually like the design

  11. XP programming?? on Mass Fatality Identification System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From XP web site:
    "Extreme Programming (XP) was created in response to problem domains whose requirements change. Your customers may not have a firm idea of what the system should do. You may have a system whose functionality is expected to change every few months. In many software environments dynamically changing requirements is the only constant. This is when XP will succeed while other methodologies do not."

    I'm no expert, but isn't this exactly what OOA and OOD is all about? Isn't the whole point of OOA and OOD to get away from the "waterfall method" and allow changes in requirements, use cases, code, etc...?

  12. Re:Discovery channel? on Replica Flyer Foiled By Weather · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    "Another Wright Flyer replica is being built by a group in Virginia and is scheduled to fly on Dec. 17 at Kitty Hawk."

  13. Energy, money, etc... on Booting Linux Faster · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person on here who doesn't give a rat's ass about my uptime (talking desktop pc here)?? I turn off my machine at night because it saves me money on my electric bill and because it saves electricity. Granted, it's not much, but you see articles all the time about how turning off your computer can save x amount of dollars. My RedHat 9 box takes forever to load but I still turn it off every day. My XP box takes less than 30 seconds.

  14. Re:Small wonder... on SCO Claims $15,300,000 From SCOsource · · Score: 1

    they probably just read slashdot

  15. Re:Not Until CorpGovMedia Squeezes the Consumer on Worldwide State of Broadband - S Korea, Japan Lead · · Score: 1
    holy fucking troll. quasi-socialist western european countries hardly qualify as "for the people, of the people, by the people." they rape the individual with enormous tax rates.


    "For the corps, of the corps, and by the corps". i'll call your bullshit. the U.S. has the fourth highest corporate tax rates in the OECD. like it or not, but big companies are what drive the U.S. economy.

  16. Re:Disney animators has finished? on Disney Completes Dali Animation · · Score: 1

    how do you know there is more than one animator? seriously, how do you know?

  17. Re:I Can't Believe This on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    jesus dude, talk about an over reaction. the music has nothing to do with this lawsuit. if you are such a huge fan and love their music so much why do you even care about a silly trademark, copywrite, whatever it is lawsuit. good music is good music so don't let corporate greed get in the way.

  18. In other news.. on VideoNOW PVD Reverse Engineering · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...there's still no cure for cancer

    man, i would love to have that much free time.

  19. Re:Failing cards... on ATi FireGL X1 Vs. NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 · · Score: 1

    Just my 2 cents:

    I just requested an RMA from ABIT for my GeForce4 Ti 4200 128 MB today. I bought the card in March of this year and this is the second time I've had to return it. The first time took 3.5 weeks and I was stuck with my GeForce 2. I don't know if it's an ABIT issue or an Nvidia issue, but two times in three months (since the last failure) is unacceptable. Just goes to show that video cards do go bad.

    Oh yeah, I don't overclock and have default mobo settings. The GeForce 2 has worked fine for years.

  20. Re:FireGL has MUCH better Price / Performance on ATi FireGL X1 Vs. NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even though $720 seems like a huge price difference, even small gains in performance can result in thousands of dollars in saved time. I would think the better performance of the Nvidia would end up costing far less than the ATI in the long run.

  21. Re:This is good... on DNA Extraction From Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    "If I'm not mistaken, it currently requires a judge's order in the united states to collect a DNA sample. Now all you have to do is dust something touched by the suspect to get a DNA sample" Where in that statement does it say that you don't have to have a judge's order to collect DNA from prints?

  22. No big deal on In-Flight Reboot? · · Score: 1

    I'm not trolling, but there is plenty of time to work things out. The first Raptor squadron is scheduled to be operational in 2005. On a side note, I live in Atlanta, GA USA and watch these bad boys fly into the Lockheed-Martin/Dobbins Air Force complex every now and then. They are usually flanked by a couple of F-18's and the F-22 seems much larger than the F-18's. Very cool to watch, and very cool to think about how dominant they will be in the skies.

  23. Re:Uh huh on Time Warner Cable NYC Begins DVR Distribution · · Score: 1

    i would rather see ads about products that i enjoy and use such as computers, sports, and beer than a couple ads for tampons, an ad for diamonds, or a ton of ads with annoying women selling clothes.

  24. Re:here's an easy howto: on Software Archaeology · · Score: 1

    i used to have hundreds of floppies lying around. cd-r's came out so i burned all the data to cd and tossed the floppies (don't even have a floppy drive anymore). when the next really cheap medium comes out for storing data i will transfer all my data to that and toss the cd's. i can see myself doing this same procedure about once every decade. not bad at all.

  25. Re:again not quite there on Kroupware Komplete · · Score: 1

    You may be right, but they sure as hell make it seem like it's an Outlook/Exchange killer for the masses.