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  1. Re:As an aside... on AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny · · Score: 2, Funny

    The worst is when people express a date like 01/04/03

    You mean like our beloved slashdot?? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/14/130201

  2. Re:Great... on iPod Mini Custom Installation In A Ford Explorer · · Score: 4, Funny

    It also looks like it would be too easy to accidentally bump it out of the little holder while driving.

    You mean, it would most likely be "thrown" from its holder when the owner goes off-roading because, I mean, why else would you buy an SUV righT??

  3. Re:Posting Date. on AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny · · Score: 3, Informative

    It would be a little more interesting if it didn't appear to have been posted on April 1st. http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/01/Apr/mcrhf.htm l

    Ooo, swing and a miss.

    Most websites owner sort things chronologically, meaning a sorting of descention. Applied, that would be sorted by: Year, Month, Day, Hour, Min, Sec.

    So in your example above, the 01 would be year.

  4. Re:Not for Home Users? on Iomega Ships 35GB 'Son of Jaz' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    USB pen drives however are gaining more and more ground. Still behind floppy disks though!

    Agreed, any removable, rewriteable, bootable, inexpensive medium where the data/format is easily dupilicated is hard to replace...

  5. Re:Easier, cheaper, way. on RFID for Automobile Tracking · · Score: 1
    I totally agree with some of your statements, but that's exactly why this will get implimented it.
    1. Because I don't want to wear my seat-belt.
    2. I don't feel like wearing my helmet.
    3. I still want to drink an drive (one drink won't hurt)
    4. I dont' feel like picking my son up at his friends house after dark, let him drive (that would invole me to actually 'parent').
    5. Speeding is relative...I disagree with this point.
    6. Fun should not be taxed...
    7. Bah, can't disagree.
    8. Manditory testing only makes lines longer.
    9. I need my SUV to haul my kids and gear around.
    All of your assumptions involve --the public-- making the change. Either some person has to change, some department has to change or some group of people have to change. And that's why it's not going to work. Its easier to change policy than to actually change a person, which is why its easier to make a law and get it passed than to teach people GOOD manners and the RIGHT way to do things.
  6. Re:Gygax? on The Trouble With Using D&D Rules In Videogames? · · Score: 1

    Citizen,

    Rumors are Treason. Please report to the nearest Confession Booth to confess your crimes.

    The computer is your friend.

  7. Shuttle SB75G2 on The Blues for LEDs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As far as expensive gadgets go, the Shuttle SB75G2 has a blue power LED that lights up my ENTIRE LIVING ROOM when pitch black. The room is lit with a ghastly blue hue just enough to where you can navigate after shutting out all the rest of the light.

    This guy is right on target with this new "blue" craze because it's starting to take the coolness out of all the things I've custom modded with blue LEDs :(

  8. Bittorrent of Daily Show Stuffs on Spam and the Law Conference Report · · Score: 4, Informative
  9. Makes me sick... on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This just totally makes me sick. As soon as I feel that the two sides have made some headway in the deal, the music execs are trying to get their grubby paws on the rest of the deal.

    This is a slap in the face to Apple and everyone else who joined the online music store business because they feel they were just trying to make a good fair deal (Napster doesn't count because they are sell-outs and Microsoft just wanted to "enforce a standard" of WMV) to both the consumer and industry.

    The music industry doesn't need regulation, the music EXECS need regulation. Who wants to regulate? ;)

  10. Lawnmower Man... on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 2, Funny

    Always applying religion when there is a simple more rational solution.

    Jobe obviously wasn't killed by the mangetic core reactor as we thought he was... *looks around*

  11. Re:UnfairPlay on New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM · · Score: 1

    Hell, Apple never wanted to incorporate DRM in the first place. They don't care it was cracked. They expected it. The only thing that is going to cause trouble is the RIAA. I guarantee to that the RIAA imposed a contract allowing them to shut down iTunes unless Apple "fixes" the broken DRM.

    In fact, I'm willing to bet they will be get MORE subscriptions under the (false/true) pretences that their DRM can be broken. More script kiddies will buy because now they CAN share the music with their friends easier.

  12. AHH!! on States Link Databases to Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not too late to change your taxes!! :)

  13. Re:http://gmail.com/ on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 2, Informative

    1995-08-13
    That seems a little fishy to me...

    among other things, Mickey Mantle died on that day at 63 in Dallas.
    http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0813.htm

    However, it seems that www.google.com wasn't registered until 1997-Sep-15

    google.com
    Registrant:
    Google Inc.
    (DOM-258879)
    2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
    Mountain View
    CA

    Created on..............: 1997-Sep-15.
    Expires on..............: 2011-Sep-14.
    Record last updated on..: 2003-Apr-07 10:42:46.
    94043 US


  14. Censoring on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I really hope you do get to see it on the big screen, all movies are better on it. However, I hope (and I doubt, unless MPAA has a hand in it) they will keep the movie uncut and its "R" rating. The gratuitous nudity scenes add to the humor.

    Although, I'm sure if Steven or George got a hold of the re-release, the lions would be replaced with kitties, whips with walkie-talkies and other such atrocities.

  15. Re:I think they know something we don't! on 100-Year Domain Renewals? · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's probably too long term in thinking. Let's think ahead to a few years when we want to regulate domain names and its only give .coms to commericials, and the US is required to use .us.

    While new and smaller companies will be stick with spiffyname.com.us, everyone else will still have .com which has been ingrained in people's mind for 7 years.

    So, while it isn't a bad tactic for NetSol, it isnt' really a bad tactic for businesses either.

  16. Re:LOL on Microsoft's Online Music Store · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know, they'll come out with some huge, bloated, over-featured music player!

    I guess this is one of those times where Apple decided to steal an idea from Microsoft?

  17. Re:Not hard on Nasty New Virus Variants · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we got off our butts and wrote an equilivant mail server with scheduling features and a protocal for clients we might have something to offer the suits as an alternative.

    I'm bad at deciphering between sarcasm, suggestion, and rhetoric, but the answer you see lies in SUSE OpenExchange. We are a small-medium sized business and would rather not spend 2x the server specs for Exchange vs OpenExchange.

    All that was required was installing the connector into Outlook for the users who we wanted desktop support, everyone else using OE or NSMail got WebMail. And the core price was cheaper too. About a temp salary cheaper as well as lower yearly costs.

  18. Re:Not Impressed (100 Words or Less) on Andreesssen: Why Open Source Will Boom - in 103 Words · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You can make it 100 words by altering #2 and still make it say the same thing.

    2. The Internet is the carrier for open source.
    to
    2. The Internet carries open source.

    BAM! 100 Words or Less :)

  19. Re:Use hierarchical names on The Worldwide Domain Battle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Probably a new hierarchy should be created While I would like to agree with you, I fear that having such an effect will be catastrophic to the community.

    The majority of people think that .com is the only domain extention. This came about during the ".com revolution".

    For such a change to be made to be "organized", it would cause its own problems. Even if we did follow rules for internationalization. What qualifies as a world organization? Do you need to be the only organization with that name? Do you need to have offices in more than 1 country? Who decides? etc.

    So, we abondon the .com/.org./.net and tell everyone they now have to use .(country-code). In the case of DOMINO, it might be a little clearer. Dominos is the pizza company, Domino is the sugar company, and DominoServer is the IBM product (losing spaces).

    I may be a fan of ManufactuerProduct.com for names (e.g. DodgeViper, ChevyLumina) rather than product.com. However, I am MORE in favor of viper.dodge.com and lumina.chevy.com, if we want to stick with heirarchy. 1 Company, 1 domain. Unlimited subdomains.

    All-in-all, this is just a duct-tape and glue solution to a BIGGER problem of trademarking and copywriting which need to be handled first.

  20. Re:This is a really good idea on Make the Debian CDs Better by Installing popcon · · Score: 1

    My only issue is:

    The part-timers or learners may have chosen a "default" install, which installs packages that never gets used but are included for "posterity" sake.

    Unless I'm wrong (and please correct me), one of the packages that gets installed by default in all redhat/fedora (where most people start from) seems to be "isdn-utils". And (again, unless I'm wrong), there really is no need for them to be in any default install these days, nor on the 1st CD of anything.

  21. Re:But no Xvid? on ExtremeTech Wages War of the Codecs · · Score: 1

    [no review of the]...open source video codec?

    Well, the answer is simplE. The open source video codec doesn't have a "pro" version you could buy and therefore give a slight kickback to the revieweR..

  22. Re:Hmm on First CAN-SPAM Lawsuit Filed in California · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a) SMTP HELO's with names whose IP addresses don't match the originating IP

    That's interesting.. when you send a mail from a windows machine, it uses its NetBIOS name as it's HELO.

    Surely, that's name doesn't match the original IP address when you try to resolve it from the recipients computer.

    Is it me, or is this one of those overly broad clauses they only apply when they need to?

  23. Re:I don't think they need to worry. on Losing Control of Your TV · · Score: 1

    Who is actually recording television anymore?

    I am. Occasionally I like to learn stuff.

    And when I don't, it's for Scrubs, CSI, and "Whose Line Is It Anyway?".

  24. Re:Cool prank idea. on Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus · · Score: 1

    I'd like to laugh, but I have NO idea what this references. Can you help me out?

  25. Re:Why... well, because... on The Nine Lives of Napster · · Score: 1

    Why should campuses be buying music subscriptions for their students?

    Purely legal reasonS.

    Instead of X University getting lawsuits because they "allow" their university to be nodes of Kazaa or their IPs have been found downloading music, they are being strongarmed by the RIAA* to purchase their way out of a lawsuiT. "Buy this product, so your students don't pirate, and we can't sue yoU."

    * RIAA, et. al.