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  1. Sprint PCS on Email Notification via SMS in the US? · · Score: 1

    If you're a Sprint PCS user, you get a username@sprintpcs.com address. You can set it to notify you on your phone when you receive an e-mail to that address, and you can read the e-mail on your phone.

  2. Re:5 years!!! on Seagate Ups Drive Warranties To 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Ah, cool, thanks.

  3. Re:5 years!!! on Seagate Ups Drive Warranties To 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'll but that their specs say that. But I do know that the last two hard drives that failed on me worked fine until I turned on the computer one day and got SMART errors. I've never had one start malfunctioning while the computer was running. It may not mean anything, but that's been my experience.

  4. FastMail Rocks on How Does Gmail Stack Up In The Webmail World? · · Score: 1

    It's the most powerful e-mail service around. Paid user for a year so far. Nothing better.

  5. Sneakemail.com on How Does Gmail Stack Up In The Webmail World? · · Score: 1

    Also free, and even better. Randomized addresses that forward to a real address of your choosing, AND you can reply to the e-mail and it will go through Sneakemail and not reveal your real address.

  6. Sneakemail.com and FastMail.fm on Is A Catch-All Address Worth The Spam? · · Score: 1

    http://www.sneakemail.com/ It's free, you can make as many addresses as you want, and when one starts getting spammed, just delete it. Use it for your own Web site; when it starts getting spam, delete the address, make a new one, and put the new one on your site.

    http://www.fastmail.fm/Best e-mail provider, IMO. Their paid accounts can't be beat for price or features. Excellent uptime and service. I use them to host my own domain. Catchalls, custom server-side Sieve scripts, and several free aliases on their own domains too. Good SpamAssassin filtering too. You can try out a more limited free account too.

  7. More to serving God than money on 32,000 "Why I'm Tired" Emails · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you love God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and serve Him, He will take care of you. Giving back is important, but there's a lot more to serving God than money. I haven't read the book you mention, but you almost make it sound like he's saying, "Give me x dollars every month, and God will give you a raise."

    There's also more to prosperity than financial prosperity. Life isn't supposed to be about being financially wealthy.

    Before you give money to God's work, examine yourself and your heart. In my humble opinion, you should give because you want to serve the Lord and His work, not because you want Him to bless you in return. I'm not saying I'm perfect at that either. But it's something to think about. Be sure you're giving for the right reasons.

  8. Inaccuracies on The Political Games Surrounding Video Games · · Score: 1

    Not to be rude or anything, but as a fellow flight sim junkie, I would like to point out a few inaccuracies in your post.

    1. Missle range is entirely variable, depending on many factors, such as: range to target, launching-aircraft airspeed and altitude, target airspeed and altitude, aspect angle, closure rate, and what evasive maneuvers the target takes after launch. Not to mention IR or radar signature. That's why in modern aircraft, such as the F-16, there is a dynamic launch zone on the HUD that varies with all of those factors, except the last one, which is, of course, unknown.

    2. Do you know what an Immelmann is? It is a basic maneuver in which the pilot pulls up 90 degrees, rolls to the direction he wants to end up on, pulls down 90 degrees until he's pointing at the horizon, and then rolls level. Of course, in a dogfight, it won't be so neat and clean and the same every time. Anyway, you could do an Immelmann in a Skyhawk if you had enough airspeed. It starts out just like a loop. A MiG-29 can certainly perform one.

  9. Yes!!! on No Call List Bypassed Using Call Centers in India? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That sounds like the same calls that I keep getting! Recorded message, wanting to sell satellite service, same voice every time, same sales pitch, saying things like "I was given your name by a friend as someone who might be interested in this." Yeah, right. We already have Dish Network and have no desire to change to any other service. I finally called the stupid 800 number and the first option on the menu was the one to remove your phone number from their list. That just shows how many people they are ticking off. In two or three months they called around ten times. It's like e-mail spam: they figure if they spam you enough you'll eventually buy something. Argh!

  10. No Referrer = Error on Amazon Search Bar Will Track Your Browsing · · Score: 1

    Another brilliant JSP-driven site that borks out if you don't send the HTTP Referrer header. Anyone know why JSP programmers find it so hard to account for that? Or is it built-in to JSP, or what?

  11. Re:Why PDF? HTML for screens! on Classic Gamer Magazine Goes Free PDF Route · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, you didn't rebut my point, except by trying to insult me. Unfortunately, not all people grow out of that when they get out of their teen years.

    Anyway, show me one person who prints out this PDF to read somewhere else, and I'll show you fifty that are annoyed at having to zoom in and out and look at actual page breaks on their computer screen. PDF has got to be the most overused file format on the Internet. If your readers aren't printing it, and it's not a scan of some official document, it shouldn't be a PDF.

  12. Why PDF? HTML for screens! on Classic Gamer Magazine Goes Free PDF Route · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do they really think everyone's going to download the PDF and print out their magazine on their inkjet? Geez. When will people learn that HTML is for on-screen documents, and PDF is for ones to print.

  13. Re:Meanwhile... on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1

    I do, but with custom filters. I thought it was Prox causing it, but it doesn't always happen. Although, it usually goes away when I Bypass Prox, so... But at least I know now that it's not just me.

  14. Two Trek Ringers on Star Trek's Design Influence On Palm, New Tech · · Score: 1

    There are a couple of good Trek ringers at 3gupload.com. One's the intercom whistle from TOS, and the other the intercom beep from TNG.

  15. New Photon: Freedom Micro on What's in Your Gadget Bag, Cory? · · Score: 1

    They just came out with a new one, the Freedom Micro. Like the Photon 3, but smarter, and easier to use. So they say, at least. I still have my II (red) and 3 (white), but might "upgrade" sometime. :)

  16. Re:One good thing on Pop Up Ads in Space · · Score: 1

    In a room deep inside Cheyenne Mountain...

    *WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP*

    "We have a launch event!"
    "Launch event!"
    "Tracking source..."
    "Initiating contact with COMNOR..."
    "Launch site located...it's in Washington state."
    "What?!"
    "COMNOR's on the horn...he says to confirm the launch site."
    "It's confirmed."
    "Understood. Contact CIC."
    "Contacting CIC."
    "CIC on the line. He's authorizing a launch."
    "Understood."
    "Linux launch identified, tracking...thirty-one minutes."
    "Uh...CIC says he has a call from Redmond...SOFTCOM claims it was an accident...seems a worm took down their database and they thought it was the beginning of preemptive strike. SOFTCOM wants us to coordinate an Imbed launch to take out the Linux before it goes terminal."
    "What does CIC want?"
    "He's, um...leaving it up to us."
    "...Wow."
    "Yeah."
    "So...what do you think?"
    "Um...what's an Imbed anyway?"
    "I, uh...I don't remember."
    "Neither do I..."
    "Well, can't coordinate what we don't know about."
    "Nope, 'fraid not."
    "Too bad."
    "Yup...too bad."
    "How long?"
    "Twenty-nine minutes."
    "Twenty-nine minutes...ah...break it out boys...the good stuff...this is one to celebrate."

  17. Re:DIRECTV was already a great choice on Echostar/Dish Network Pulls Viacom Channels · · Score: 1

    Dish Network has the best customer service of any company I've ever dealt with, hands down. When you call in, wait times are short. The people you talk to are friendly, and perhaps more importantly, knowledgable, and have authority. Just yesterday I called in about a minor problem with my 508 PVR, and without my even requesting it, the tech is sending a replacement, free of charge. Every person I've ever spoken to at Dish is just like this. I can't recommend them enough.

  18. Cool. on Remotely Crash OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    I see. Interesting. :)

  19. Physical access = no security on Remotely Crash OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that violate the first rule of security: restrict physical access? If anyone can walk in and access the firewalls/routers, they could do whatever they want to them, OpenBSD or not.

  20. Still, six years. on Company Claims Patent on CD Writing · · Score: 1

    It's still been six years since they were granted their patent. Assuming it's a valid patent (for the sake of argument), why did they wait all these years to file suit? DirectCD has been around for at least three or four.

  21. Not if the PTO does it right on Company Claims Patent on CD Writing · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm no expert, but it seems to me that if the PTO is doing its job right, it would take about the same amount of time to accept a patent as it would to reject it. The same amount of research should be done on every patent application to determine if the application is worthy.

    How can it take seven times longer to research an application and write a letter citing existing patents or prior art, than to research an application and write a letter granting a patent?

    Oh, our poor, poor PTO.

  22. Re:what's really sad... on Can Lotus Notes R3 Prior Art Save The Browser? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Exactly.

  23. Re: Yahoo mail on How Do You Organize Your Data? · · Score: 1

    Hey, you get what you pay for. You expect them to give you a free account for NOTHING in return?

    I'm a paid FM user and quite happy with it. Never had an easier time managing my e-mail.

  24. Re:MSN 6.x on MSN Messenger Access To Be Restricted · · Score: 1

    Then you want Miranda. "Smaller, Faster, Easier"

  25. www.fastmail.fm Free and paid service on Study: Wi-Fi users Still Don't Encrypt · · Score: 1

    I recommend them.