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  1. Want to send a message? Cancel your account. on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is no automatic method of cancelling your account. You have to call the tech support line at https://secure.logmein.com/con... for your locale. All you can do on the site is delete the computers on your account. As of this post, I cannot get through to the US & Canada line, just getting a busy signal. Apparently I'm not the only one following this route. As has been mentioned in other posts there are plenty of free options out there capable of the same features that a free LogMeIn account was capable of doing.

  2. Re:Sub-Orbital == Final Frontier? on First Flight For SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you mean 3% of the Federal budget, not GDP. See http://www.richardb.us/nasa.html. In which case, for the years 1962-1972, NASA's budget was 2.86% of the Federal budget.

  3. Re:Makes you relize on Pre-20th Century Gadgetery · · Score: 1

    But we got Playstation 3

  4. WYSE Winterm S30 on Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing? · · Score: 1

    Built-in Internet Explorer. Set it to autoload on start-up. Not even any moving parts to break.

    http://www.wyse.com/products/winterm/S30/index.asp

  5. Re:cult of global warming on Cosmic Rays and Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should read more than "Rush Limbaugh and Haliburton's Guide to Global Warming". http://www.romansland.nl/globalwarming That's a lot of freakin' new volcanos since 1750.

  6. Re:3/4 LoC a night on The Astronomical Event Search Engine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to Google (how appropriate), 30 terabytes * 365.25 * 10 = 107.006836 petabytes.

  7. Re:it's the games, stupid on Media Fight - PS3 Blu-ray vs. 360 HD DVD Add-On · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and all I want to know about my cellular phone is, does it make telephone calls?

  8. Re:Craters? on First Super Close-Up Pictures of Mars · · Score: 1

    IANAA, however I would venture a guess that the atmosphere on Mars does provide some measure of protection against surface impacts by meteorites. However, the reason that so many impact craters are visible on the surface of Mars as compared to the Earth is a combination of two factors, time and erosion. On Mars there is no liquid water to erode the craters as there is on Earth, where visible impacts have been nearly completely erased by water and wind erosion over thousands or millions of years.

  9. Re:At least part of this is nonsense anyway on Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime · · Score: 1

    What's most amazing is the incredible 12 year old teenagers they found. Must be mutants or something.

  10. Re:Blu Ray? on Another Sony Format Bites the Dust · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and now my RCA minidisc player, Toshiba MemoryStick MP3 player, and Zenith Betamax VCR's are all worthless... oh wait, these products never existed because most of Sony's failed storage medium formats are proprietary. That's why they fail, not because of lack of technical merit.

  11. Re:Sell it piecemeal. on One REALLY Long Runway for Rent · · Score: 1

    Assuming the strip is approximately 50 feet wide and 3 feet thick, and you're looking to sell reasonable pieces of on average say 4 cubic inches, you're looking at about 972 Million pieces. At $50 a piece, you should be able to fund NASA for a couple years. Now how do you list 1 Billion chunks of concrete on eBay? Dutch auction?

  12. Re:Good idea on Novell Returns to the SUSE Name · · Score: 1

    Didn't we go through this once before? Anyone remember Borland/Inprise/Borland??

  13. Re:Good TImes on Creative use for empty whiskey bottles · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a solid 2 hour investment, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

  14. Re:PR on Crossing America on a Segway · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, he's such a PR genius that now everyone has a Segway. The old folks next door. The kids on the way to little league. There's so many out there you can't look out the window without someone riding by on a Segway.

  15. Dr. Sam Beckett Says... on Intel's New Slogan Clarified · · Score: 1

    Oh boy.

  16. Re:Real Player alternative on Free Windows Software Without Spyware/Adware · · Score: 2, Informative
    QTime... always ask u to upgrade to Pro version etc etc while all I want to do is watch the video.

    To avoid this, next time you want to use Quicktime, set your system clock forward ten years or so before launching and click "Later" when it asks you to upgrade. Then it won't ask you again until 2014. (Don't forget to set your clock back.)

  17. Re:Just for XBOX! on Halo 2 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Fortunately those of us who don't have the money to buy the latest and greatest PC, but still have our trusty X-Boxes from years ago will be able to play a great new FPS. Which is much less than I can say for games like Doom 3 which are barely playable on anything but the latest and greatest.

  18. Re:This is news? on Need A Few Post-Its Around The Office? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how you spell it, so I'm going to check out the link to that aluminium apartment story a few posts back.

  19. Re:Damn you Slashdot! on Seven Color LED Mousepad · · Score: 1

    That's why I keep a seperate folder of links for sites that were Slashdotted, so I can go back and look at them later without forgetting.

    Of course now I have to keep a seperate server online for the 3TB of storage that the links take up, but at least I get to see reviews of cool stuff like light up mousepads.

  20. Re:uh oh on Save a Chatlog... Go to Prison? · · Score: 1

    It depends on the law of the State you are in. Some states only require one party to consent to the recording, even if it's only the initiator of the conversation.

  21. Re:Easy... on Save a Chatlog... Go to Prison? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not so fast. The issue isn't whether or not the company was monitoring the employee's chat session, rather that they were monitoring the recipient of the employee's chat session. In two party consent states, it wouldn't matter whether or not the employee signed any agreement. The third party would have to consent to the monitoring.

  22. Re:Cynicism :-) on Skywalker Ranch Wines · · Score: 1

    They make any good beers?

  23. Re:I don;t know about 9 on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1
    "Oh and 2) Washed-up pro athletes in long-term contracts? Crap. All major sports athletes are overpaid primadonnas. Paying them millions because they can throw a ball only fuels consumerism. "Did you watch the game on Sunday? Wow!" mindless sheep.."

    First of all, even though some athletes may be overpaid, on average the amount of money coming in to the leagues far outweighs the amount being paid out to the athletes.

    Who deserves the money more? The athletes who are doing the actual work that is bringing in the money, or the owners, who got rich from another source and are just raking in the money by throwing a few million at an existing cash cow.

    Second, on the mindless sheep point, I guess you're right - I coulda been reading Slashdot instead of watching the game :)

  24. Re:How nice on Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk · · Score: 1

    This isn't exactly true. Altavista.com did not look exactly like altavista.digital.com. Altavista.com came online shortly after or about the same time as altavista.digital.com. This seems hardly enough time to cash in on a brand name that had not really been noticed yet.

    Not to mention the fact that altavista.com actually hosted a legitimate organization of the same name, or rather Altavista Technologies who provided web media software. It seems to me the inclusion of the redirect to Altavista.digital.com's search from their main page was a service to users who mistakenly typed their URL rather than the correct Digital one, rather than an attempt to trick users into buying their product. I know I did this at least once and was thankful they even bothered to let me know I was in the wrong place.

    This seems especially true due to the fact that their URL reflected their organization's name. You also have to take in to account that Alta Vista is not exactly a proprietary or even unusual name.

    http://www.altavistaflowers.com/ or http://www.altavistachamber.org/ or http://www.altavistapress.com/ or any other number of companies or places whose name are Altavista or Alta Vista might have been first to register the URL in question, but Altavista Technologies beat them all to it.