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  1. I think this means on Remote Feed: 72-Mile 802.11b Link · · Score: 1

    People are going to be able to surf while surfing. Now someone just needs to invent a waterproof laptop.

    ~S

  2. System Requirements on SGI Introduces World's Densest Server · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that the system requirement for the up and coming Doom III?

    ~S

  3. The way to change things on Sendo Can't Get Microsoft Source; Ditches Windows · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess this is the way that vendors can get a change out of Microsoft. If you don't like someones product, take your business somewhere else.

    ~S

  4. Re:Will it come with a lockout? on ADV Confirms Cable Anime Channel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Turn off the TV then. Problem solved.

    ~S

  5. Uh oh on Microsoft Antitrust Judgement · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hear the Microsoft bashers rattling their sabers... ~S

  6. We're gonna see this soon... on ACLU Campaign Challenges Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    "Give me 12 years, and you won't recognize America anymore." -Bush, 2003

  7. Re:UCI gone wild. on UC Irvine Cracks Down on P2P · · Score: 1

    This is true.

  8. Re:Try going to the record store on UC Irvine Cracks Down on P2P · · Score: 1

    Irvine isn't exactly a hotbed of music, live or otherwise. I know, I lived there for 22 years.

    ~S

  9. Re:DiscT@2 on Tom's Hardware Review of Yamaha CRW F1 · · Score: 1

    "Am I the only one who took several minutes to figure out that "DiscT@2" is "Disc Tattoo"?"

    No, I just figured it out also after coming back to the article 2 hours later.

    ~S

  10. I thought this said it best on Ballmer: "We'll Outsmart Open Source" · · Score: 1

    "Every operating system out there is about equal in the number of vulnerabilities reported," he said. "We all suck."

    That's the truth.

    ~S

  11. Re:How many MPs do I really need? on 13.8MP Kodak Tops Previously Leaked Canon · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly...

    ~S

  12. Re:really hard to circumvent? on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue · · Score: 1

    Seems to me you could do it with a device that would just barely bite into the wire, similar to an RJ-45 plug. Do it at two different locations and I doubt it would be noticed. Cords get frayed, split and nicked all the time.

    ~S

  13. Re:Please STOP!!! on WA Wins First Case Against Deceptive Spammer · · Score: 2, Informative
    Will it ever stop? how many idiots actually even read spam?
    Apparently enough idiots read spam to make it worthwhile for spammers. ~S
  14. Re:A dialogue I had with Anti-Adblocker on No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0 · · Score: 1

    I understand what your post said, at the same time it seems to lean toward the belief that pop-up ads are still somewhat valid.

    ~S

  15. Re:A dialogue I had with Anti-Adblocker on No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0 · · Score: 1

    Of course, when you go into a store your freedom of movement isn't impeded by the clerks throwing boxes of "ads" in your path. The really good sites spawn ads, that spawn more ads, that spawn even further ads, which can make your whole browser unusable.

    ~S

  16. Re:Oh damn... on Gone Fission · · Score: 1

    Ringworm is a fungus, not a worm.

    ~S

  17. Creepy on Rat Mind Control · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How long before we are hooked up to pleasure stimulating electrodes that make superior workers? Other than the computers we are working on right now?

    ~S

  18. And they said computers would be the paperless era on AT-ATs Coming to a Forest Near You · · Score: 1

    So they made a machine that would replace .5 humans traditionally sawing a Weyerhauser Weed and let it roll down the mountain. The vehicle is something I'd like to use to take to the bar, but it didn't seem like it was anything that would revolutionize the logging industry. Humans are built perfectly to chop lumber at an extreme angle.

    ~S

  19. Re:'Old' School on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    The most I ever got out of a teletype was the ability to take it apart. My pop told me not to plug it in, which was probably a wise command on his part (I'm 28 now). Teletypes have about eight jillion springs in them and I can't imagine trying to put one together or repair it.

    On a side note my father-in-law used to repair them in the army and could detect a teletype gone bad just by the sound of it. But on the same token he thinks the Windows XP CD I just gave him that was made from an ISO is too "old" and worn out to work correctly.

    Go figure.

    ~S

  20. Re: 3.5" - NOT Floppy on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    I actually used to have a few. The one's I had didn't work, but that didn't stop me from taking them apart. They contained a large I'm guessing 12" metal disk that held if I remember right about 3MB of data and they were highly susceptible to being bumped if they were actually operating.

    ~S

  21. Re: 3.5" - NOT Floppy on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    The 3.5's actually had a puncher too, but it was to make them high densities, back when a 3.5 high density was up to 4 bucks apiece.

    ~S

  22. Re: 3.5" - NOT Floppy on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    What do you use to backup your album sized hard disks? ;)

    ~S

  23. Re:3.5" Floppy on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    Although I did like the flight characteristics of the 8" floppy's better, all those 5.25's fit into my CD holder without bending.

    ~S

  24. Re:3.5" Floppy on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    Your single sided single density 5.25's? Me too! ~S

  25. Re:I don't think so... on Social Robot? · · Score: 1

    And as pale as the background of this webpage. :)

    ~S