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  1. Re:All NEW cars on NTSB Recommends Black Boxes For All Cars · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Constitution says people have the right travel. Some cities are only connected by interstates, therefore only way to travel them between them is by interstate which requires a motor vehicle license. People have the right to travel between the two cities and it can be argued that this right is being infringed upon by requiring a license(Priveledge).

  2. Re:Australia is always about Defense and Farmers on Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws · · Score: 1

    Umm who's going to invade australia? Only threat I can see is china but they only have a defensive army. I can't see New Zealand invading, unless they found out how to equip all their sheep with weapons.

  3. Re:Atlantis tragedy made economicly possible?... on Soyuz To The Moon? · · Score: 1
    Considering NASA breakdowns a shuttle after launch and goes over everything with for worn parts. And after all the worn parts are replaced, the shuttle is rebuilt.

    BTW, shuttle has never crashed due to worn parts. Challenger crashed because of failed O-ring that froze and cracked. Columbia crashed because a piece of styrofoam knocked off a ceramic tile on a wing.

  4. Re:Market Share - Hogwash on Microsoft Challenges Google · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Depends on the sites your running. Nerds like me and you use google. People like my Grandmother see yahoo ads on tv and use that.

    Check out the top searched words on the scrolling banner Its quite funny to see people searching for ebay or google as their search string.

  5. Re:OK OK OK NOW HERE'S THE SERIOUS QUESTION on Upgrade Doubles +R Speed For Some Lite-On Drives · · Score: 1

    I heard xbox reads through the top of disk and not the bottom.

  6. One word on 419 Scammer Gets Scammed · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    0wn3d!!!

  7. Re:Already fixed? on MSN, Word Vulnerable To Shell: URI Exploit · · Score: 1
    Tried both in messenger and word.

    Word popped up a warning but ran explorer after I clicked OK.

    Messenger asked if I wanted to download explorer.exe with a big warning saying files could contain viruses and be harmful.

    What was the exploit again?

  8. Re:Please... on Intermec Claims RFID is Proprietary · · Score: 1

    How long have they been implanting RFID in pets, i swear its been since the mid 90's.

  9. Re:Corporate Acceptance? on Building a Better Mozilla With Plugins · · Score: 1
    MS SQL. Well... long story short, I now have to keep an eye on MS SQL to make sure it doesn't die, which it's already done several times in 6 months.

    I call FUD. I've seem MS SQL deployed in extreme conditions(Telecom routing database) and never die. Same goes with Oracle which powers our Sonus PSX(Another telcom routing DB). There's reason why people pay 100s of thousand dollars for licenses for MS SQL or Oracle. They don't crash. Plain and simple. 4 Years, 20+ SQL servers, not one crash. Our 2 Sonus PSXs(oracle) are only 6 months old but haven't crashed.

  10. Re:duh! on Microsoft's Midlife Crisis · · Score: 1
    In the past 6 years I've worked on 2 projects that were halted, because the product we were creating was added in to Windows. It's hard to sell a product that duplicates what comes in the OS itself.


    All that time and money to develop solitaire?

  11. Re:cellphones too? on Is The 6-Month Product Cycle Upon Us? · · Score: 1

    V60 has some firmware updates to it, my original V60 used to crash all time. My new one hasn't crashed on me yet.

  12. Re:Madness on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 1

    Montana has no open container laws, you can drink while driving.

  13. First three characters on Auto Manufacturers Running Out Of Unique IDs · · Score: 1
    To overcome the shortage, SAE is taking a close look at the first three digits of a VIN -- known separately as the World Manufacturer Identifier. It consists of numbers and letters -- excluding I, O, Q, U and Z because they can be mistaken for numbers or another letter.

    Which number can you confuse U with? And you must be pretty stupid to confuse Z with 5 or S.

  14. Re:Search for Linux on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Its not the domain name, its the text between the anchor tag that makes a difference. You can see it with the "French Defeats" search and other humor searches where the search term isn't even the domain name or the page itself.

    MSN beta search works little like google's page rank where inbound links are counted toward search placement, but it looks like msn places lot more emphasis on it. Problem with this, it breeds link farms and spamming the results.

  15. Re:Useless on Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open · · Score: 1

    You ever been to vegas? Doesn't seem like you have. If you been there, you would know there is usually 30 minute wait for taxis after 7pm. You also know the strip is very congested and impossible to drive anywhere. Most people take taxis from casino to casino. If you been there you'd also know getting to the convention center is the pain in the ass from farther out casino's like mgm, mandlay. Once this project is done, it will link downtown to strip. I personally like staying on strip because of the nicer hotels but downtown the odds are lot beter to gamble but its a $15 cab fare one way!

  16. Re:Apple intruding on MS's territory? on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 2, Informative
    Um system 6.0 didn't have anything like active desktop. 6.0 is when multifinder came out. System 7.0 had desktop stickies, but that isn't active desktop.

    BTW, most of home routers use UPNP. Netgear, linksys, dlink etc.

  17. Netbios on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microsoft has netbios as well which announces computers/printers on a network by UDP broadcasts. So why do we need this software again?

  18. Re:Monitors exceeding software limitations on ViewSonic VP2290b Super High-Res Monitor · · Score: 1
    2) Many software assumes a specific DPI A program that is meant to run at 1024x768 at 96dpi will look like a postage stamp when you get a 300dpi display device (coming soon). A 16x16 icon will be the width of a human hair. Software needs to know that pixels aren't a valid measurement -- You need pixels and DPI.

    Icons, toolbars, and other gui widgets will just move to vector graphics and instead of using pixels to define size, you'll use some other unit that represents actual viewable size.

  19. Better yet on Telus Puts A Stop To 'Modem Hijacking' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most of these international telecom LD companies use voip, and the gateway will negotiate to the right codec depending on whether its a data or voice call. Have the carrier detect whether its a voice call or data call and drop on the results.

  20. P2P doesn't reduce electricy but saves gas! on Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML · · Score: 1

    Gas required to drive to bestbuy or blockbuster to get a movie or some music.

  21. Re:Microsoft's Viral Licenses on Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Express, VS 2005 Beta · · Score: 1

    Thats probably the reason especially since they are packaging beta versions of their sql server with them.

  22. I just bought 5 MSDN Universal licenses for $350 on Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Express, VS 2005 Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which includes vs.net licenses aswell. Thats $12k worth of licenses. Microsoft runs great deals, you just gotta keep your eyes open for them. If you pay retail for any of your ms software licenses, you're a moron. BTW, 5 msdn universal license for $350 applies to ISVs and is advertised on their partnership web site. So if you sell custom software, you can get this deal aswell.

  23. Confirmed Hogwash on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 1

    Went to GMail Swap. Offered pictures of my rack, and boom I had invites in my hotmail email account. Can't believe people are so interested in my rack, i mean its just a bunch of computers.

  24. Re:Correct verdict, but... on Saudi Webmaster Acquitted of Terrorism Charges · · Score: 1
    I agree mostly with your comment, accept for Abu Ghraib statement. Soldiers are trained to fight, they aren't trained to run a prison or do police duties. If we use soldiers for these activities we should except problems. Policing activities should be left up to the UN or the local population. Look at Iraq, look at somalia. You can't train a group men and women to kill and then expect them to act like police. Look at our police force, they aren't trained to kill people.

    Another misomer is that we have a defensive fighting force. US force isn't designed for defensive fighting. Its designed as offensive army. Money is spent on aircraft carriers and long range bombers. These are offensive weapons. US army can easily invade but holding an area is not what we are designed to do. Army vehicles and men are trained for speed as we saw in both iraq wars and war 2 in both theaters.

  25. Re:Once again, I'll have to disagree with this. on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 3, Insightful
    In order for Linux to have the same infection rate as Windows, Linux would have to have the same (or similar) flaws. For example, the same email client installed, by default, upon every Linux machine and that email client would have to run executable content.

    Umm same email client? Outlook doesn't let you run executables period. It doesn't even let you recieve executables(.scr .bat .vbs .exe), this has been a secuiryt feature since outlookXP(2002). New viruses zip their content and user must open the zip file and fun the executable. This is not a flaw in outlook, outlook express, eudora on any other mail program. Its a flaw of the user.

    Outlook XP Default Security
    My doom email virus