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  1. Re:So now I on The Ultimate Universal Remote Control · · Score: 1

    but the real question is, if you lose that remote can you still flush?

  2. Its Huuuge on Wireless Net on the Zaurus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is it just me, or does that thing look about the same size as the zaurus itself?

  3. oh wow! on Does Your Debugger Sing to You? · · Score: 1

    the Windows API sounds like the imperial march!

  4. dell warranty on Customers Rate PC Vendors' Tech Support · · Score: 1

    If you can get the onsite service warranty for free (not sure what their deals are now) I would certainly recommend it. The mouse on my laptop broke and they had somebody come out the next day and replace it. That being said, as soon as the warranty expired the 8, i, k, and , keys on my keyboard started working intermittently, so make of that what you will

  5. Re:I wonder how the FCC knows the # of Faxes...? on [Junk]Fax.com Fined $5.4 Million · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming they would have a dedicated phone line for each fax machine if they were doing this in volume. In that case couldn't you just check how many outgoing calls they made on that line?

  6. Re:whine whine on Meet the Spammers · · Score: 1

    Mayby he is the one person who likes to get spam. Thanks to spam I've gotten out of debt, lost weight, and made a ton of money with this guy from nigeria! I suppose thats just as probable as somebody not getting any spam

  7. Re:Obligatory Simpsons Reference on 1985 Usenet About Y2k · · Score: 1

    oh look! they have the internet on computers now

  8. Re:future on Hack Your Phone, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    There are ligitimate uses for changing a mac address. Take routers for cable/DSL connections. Some provider s check the mac address of the connecting computer which makes it necessary to change the mac address of the router to get it to work.

  9. Re:Windows XP Advanced Combat Edition on Robots Go Spelunking · · Score: 1

    hey! that hospital had it coming. They didn't sign onto licensing 6. Damn dirty pirates.

  10. Re:Attract the mosquitoes on Using Your Computer to Repel Pests · · Score: 1

    now wouldn't that be an evil computer virus... *slap* ow!

  11. $ millionaires? on India's ISPs Want Payola from Big Portals · · Score: 1

    a previous post mentioned something along these lines as well, except with the caveat that they were rupee millionaires. Now with an exchange rate of around 45 rupees to a dollar you would have $22,222 if you were a rupee millionaire. I don't know how far that actually goes in India, but that doesn't seem exceedingly wealthly by US standards. Granted the cost of living is less in India, but it seems like their might be less incentive for foreign portals to enter the market than those ISPs think.

  12. Re:A reason for big mobile-phone companies to sue on EFF Lists Wi-Fi-Friendly ISPs · · Score: 1

    yeah, but they don't bother. (thankfully)

  13. Re:It's not what you think. on Sneaking DRM Amendments Through the Back Door · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But what about the methods? Would they restrict you from distributing a program that could add watermarks to your own music collection? This could be construed as 'trafficking' in which case there is a problem here.

  14. Re:or if used properly on Black Boxes to Track Driving Habits? · · Score: 1

    I agree, its awful to be stuck behind somebody on the onramp to I270 who is going far below the flow of traffic. It forces you as well to merge onto the highway far slower than the speed of traffic which is not too much fun when everybody else is doing 70.

  15. Re:depressing on Chip a Playstation, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    and what about import games as well?

  16. Re:AHHH! on A Rock Moves In Space · · Score: 1

    better start looting now I guess

  17. guess msnbc got scooped on this one... on WebTV/MSNTV Virus Dials 911 · · Score: 1

    no big suprise there

  18. Re:Nuclear Batteries? on Pioneer 10 Still Running After 30 years · · Score: 1

    not as much longevity , but mission range. It would be impossible to power deep space probes on solar power as the amount of energy recieved from the sun decreases as the distance from the sun increases. How bad is NASA's safety record anyway? There don't seem to be that many recent disasters that have threatened lives. Regarding nuclear contamination, a quick google search only turned up the RTG from Apollo 13 (which survived reentry intact), the RTG from Transit 5BN (a navy satellite) which did release 17,000 curies above the Indian Ocean, and the Nimbus B1 satellite, which failed during launch, but whose RTG was recovered intact. Is there something that I'm missing here, like undisclosed radiation leaks or something? In addition, so far 111 shuttle flights have been flown, with only one ending in disaster, which doesn't seem like all that bad of a record (0.9%).

  19. Re:Huh? on FBI Arrests 4 College Interns For Stealing Lunar Materials · · Score: 1

    According to the article the students contacted a mineral collectors group directly. I think the idea was that the buyer and the students were to meet in person to sell the stuff so that way niether of them would get ripped off ( seller actually has rocks , buyer actually has $ ).

  20. Re: Quality Control on Pioneer 10 Still Running After 30 years · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you look at their recent failure with the last mars probe, they really did need a code review. The thing crashed because somebody used the wrong units in a function somewhere.

  21. Re:More intrusive on Spam Doesn't Work? · · Score: 1

    just turn off the option to view HTML emails in your email client

  22. Re:Ahhh on Gates and Lasser on Palladium · · Score: 1

    I thought he said to buy a copy of windows 98 and would pay $1 for each person you gave it to...

  23. I couldn't agree with you more on Results of the Commerce Dept's DRM Workshop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As someone else who was there, they really hurt any chance they had of being heard with their juvenial outbursts. On the flip side, I was pleasently suprised to find that the workshop was much more balanced that I had thought. Its good to that the discussion on DRM includes persons working for a solution that does not place far more power in the hands of copyright holders than they deserve. However, the effects of DRM infrastructure on open source and 3rd party developers were not represented at all. It seems that the open source community would do much better to have the CEO or Red Hat or some other industry figure attend these types of meetings, somebody who would actually participate in the discussion rather than interject with random outbursts.

  24. just like amazon? on FCC Allows Bells to Sell Your Telephone Usage Data · · Score: 2, Funny

    From pc world "Uncapher calls the decision a positive step. He likens it to customers being willing for Amazon.com to know which books they have purchased, and recommending others." So does this mean I'll be getting calls like "Hello. Based on your previous phone calls, you might enjoy calling the following people..."?

  25. Re:so if you've ever wanted to play Halo on Gaming on the IMAX · · Score: 1

    ooo and what about zork?