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  1. As any good Ferengi will tell you... on Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy · · Score: 5, Funny

    the 257th Rule of Acquisition says "Sell to your customers first, then sell your customers!"

  2. What I don't like on Sorting the Spam from the Ham · · Score: 5, Interesting

    about this kind of filtering is that it has to download the email content - not always as good idea, especialy in a Windows environment. Besides, I can identify spam just by looking at message header information. Sender, recipient, and subject line are nearly always enough. Plus I don't need to waste time, bandwidth, or get subjected to offensive graphics, or risk 1-pixel confirmations or getting hacked by the latest security issue. My homespun message header analysis program drops nearly all spam, and results in few legit email rejections. I score the headers based on missing recipient, sender info, keywords in subject, string match in sender email or name, punctuation count in subject line, number of contiuous spaces in subject line, plus a few other things that seem to run common in the spam I get. I can also permit certain email addresses to pass no matter the score. It's not fancy, but it works, and I never have to waste time drawing the whole content down to my local machine. What I do may not work for everyone, but it seems that in most cases it should, unless you get a lot of email from unknown (non-spam) sources - not typical for the average email user.

  3. Re:That's like Ronald McDonald... on UK Govt Warned: Don't Buy GPL · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least the KFC kernel is very stable, having been dead for some years now...oh wait, that's colonel!

  4. Production will be limited on Honda Crash Detection System · · Score: 2, Funny

    since they can only run the assembly line with the vehicles 300 feet apart.

  5. If this can kill you on Build Your Own ECG · · Score: 2, Insightful

    then for capital punishment why bother with an electric chair with hundreds of volts and significant amerage? Why not just use a 12-volt car battery and a little gel? A Die-Hard perhaps?

  6. And the first 500 seats go to on Sudden Death Experience · · Score: 1

    Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, SCO Executives, spammmers, ax-murderers, lawyers, Dr. Kavorkian, and finally duplicate posters :)

  7. Static, on Microsoft Rolls Out iLoo · · Score: 1

    I pee!

  8. When will this be available on Digital DNA Circuits · · Score: 1

    at Radio Shack?

  9. The jobs will coincide on Tech Jobs Projected to Double by 2010 · · Score: 1

    with the discovery of a large black rectangle near Jupiter

  10. Does anybody know on Real PDA Wristwatch · · Score: 1

    if the thing has a CLOCK anywhere? I didn't see it mentioned. I used to always run out of time until I started wearing two watches :)

  11. It's finally here on New Display Technology to Compete with LCDs? · · Score: 1

    the POWER OFF lamp.

  12. The New Verizon Commercial goes... on Tracking People Via Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Can you see me now?
    Good!

  13. Re:Question! on Ricardo Montalban Recalls Khan · · Score: 1

    Worf actually says, "We do not speak of it." Klingons do not use contractions! Contractions are without honor.

  14. What we need now on Voices in Your Head · · Score: 1

    is the old Get Smart "Cone of Silence" Invent THAT!