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  1. Re:How newspapers can fight back on Craigslist to Start Charging for Some Listings · · Score: 1

    Too bad it is for premium members only:

    This article is available to Premium Members only. Subscribe now.

    $150 annually (with significant savings on two- and three-year terms)

    You forgot to mention that.

    qz

  2. Re:Playing Devil's Advocate... on Apple Sued Over Potential Hearing Loss · · Score: 1
    (for compressible or incompressible air), the attenuation would be >0-db. Watt for watt, sealed air buds will deliver more power to you eardrums than regular non-form-fitting ear-phones or a speaker, regardless of the frequency or amplitude.

    BZZT! You lose. It is not the drums that get damaged. It is the little tiny hairs that collect the sound, usually the high freqs.

    A quick google has this but I'm sure there you can find more.

    qz

  3. Re:Prior art for this MS business plan. on Microsoft Won't Offer Patch Before Worm Strikes? · · Score: 1

    Excellent advice! My mother reads Information Week every day.

    qz

  4. Re:Opera on Cross Site Cooking · · Score: 1

    I have FF set to ask me about all cookies. It is not that hard to accept/deny and it is interesting to see the common tracker cookies across many sites.

    qz

  5. I read TFA... on Cross Site Cooking · · Score: 1

    And was interested.

    My question to the powers that be here who control cookies is why do so many site expire in 2016 or 2038?

    qz

  6. Re:Putting out fires from the road? on Cooking Dinner From the Road · · Score: 1

    Do you have a fire extinguisher you can operate manually in your kitchen right now?

    I didn't think do.

    qz

  7. Re:If all else fails... on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1

    That could work for me. I love animation but the story is where it really counts. If they do good stories I don't care if it is 2D or 3D.

    What a lot of people don't understand about toons is it should be written for adults. Warner Bros understood this. When you write for adults the children fall in line. They may not understand all the subtleties (did I spell that right?) but they won't be insulted.

    qz

  8. Really? on iPod May Become Next Fair-Use Battleground · · Score: 1
    From TFA

    One aspect of copyright law allows people to resell copies they made legally under the "fair use" concept.

    Since when?

    qz

  9. If all else fails... on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1

    Lasseter and friends quit and go on to form their own company. Once the news gets out that the former Pixar gang (with mentions in press releases about their previous work on Toy Story et al) is out on their own they will once again own the market.

    I would buy their stock.

    qz

  10. Re:Options for OS X on Mac users 'too smug' Over Security? · · Score: 1

    You might try their uninstall option. Just a thought.

    qz

  11. Re:Already paid by stations on Tension Between Record Labels And Digital Radio · · Score: 1
    They actually pay Harry Fox Agency.

    qz

  12. Re:Funny, Free Software Does Not Fail This Way. on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1
    When is the big Linux worm coming?

    You don't know.

    qz

  13. Re:Slow progress on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1
    Thousands of Linux and Mac users get along just dandy with restricted user privileges apart from the occasional annoyance of having to either log in as root or in the case of OS.X feed a nag window the root password so that the occasional installation program can touch sensitive parts of the OS.

    You don't need root on a Mac to do this - only admin and admin is not root. My root on my Mac is disabled and I do just fine.

    qz

  14. First post? on A Look at Google DRM · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What do I win?

    qz

  15. Re:Simpsons vs Family Guy on Behind the Scenes of The Simpsons · · Score: 2, Informative
    Maybe this is the reason: Alex Borstein

    Mad TV died after she left. She was one of the writers of Mad TV and plays Lois on Family Guy. Go to Familyguy.com and you will see she is also a writer for the show.

    qz

  16. Re:Video of Story on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 1

    From TFV: This is a growing trend.

    Really? Since when?

    Somthing else about learning lessons. It was directed at the kid but pot, kettle, black comes to mind.

    qz

  17. I'll go out on a limb here... on Scientists Witness Meteor Strike on the Moon · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now, I am no astro expert but I *think* I have the answer to this one:

    However, as Nasa plans to return to the Moon by 2020, the agency says it needs to understand what happens after lunar impacts in order to protect astronauts.

    I am guessing that there will be a crater of some sort after the impact. Maybe some floating dust. That sort of thing.

    qz

  18. You all missed the best part.. on Google PC to Hit Walmart? · · Score: 1
    It's not the Google part. It is this:

    What might be harder to swallow for Iger is this: Jobs, who is also chief of Apple Computer Inc., will demand a seat on the Disney board, becoming the leading candidate to replace George Mitchell, who plans to retire as Disney chairman at the end of the year.

    Now put this into context with the rest of the article and how credible does it sound?

    qz

  19. Re:Mashboxx on Grokster Launches Fear Campaign · · Score: 1
    From their site:

    The Mashboxx application is expected to begin testing shortly and potential beta testers are currently being enlisted at the Mashboxx web site, www.mashboxx.com.

    I wonder how this is working out for them. The date is June 2005 and nary a link to any software.

    I think this may explain it:

    Domain Name: MASHBOXX.COM

    Administrative Contact:
    Pacific Northwest Software
    Thompson Hayner
    11 Outlook Ridge Drive #208
    Revere, MA 02151
    US
    Phone: 425-218-6779
    Email: thayner@pnwsoft.com

    Correct me if I am wrong but MA is not in the Pacific Northwest. I think someone took a wrong turn somewhere.

    qz

  20. Re:Their house of cards is collapsing. on RIAA Bullies Witnesses Into Perjury · · Score: 1

    But you are forgetting one thing - back in the day it was to a few friends. Now it is in the millions. I traded lots of tapes with friends years ago but that was to three or four of them.

    Sure, it was copyright infringement but on a much smaller scale.

    qz

  21. most of mine are from Asia on AOL Names Top Spam Subjects For 2005 · · Score: 1

    This is an example:

    iuxm.lmeoerzyh@msa.hinet.net FW:1Äv¼Ð ®É©|¥]¥] ¥@ɦWö

    I have no idea what they are selling as I don't read Chinese/Japanese/Korean/

    So what is the point of sending them to me?

    qz

  22. Re:Sadly... on AOL Names Top Spam Subjects For 2005 · · Score: 1
    no, people who spam make lots and lots of money for themselves and there clients. It's pretty easy to trace which customer is responding to spam.

    --

    free Mac mini [freeminimacs.com] Now thats

    I'm not sure how to respond to this. Probably best I don't except...

    pot, kettle, black

    qz

  23. Re:Outrage! on Sony Settlement Start of DRM Protection Act? · · Score: 1
    on a Mac, for example, this could not happen without the administrator password. some people make the claim that people would just get used to typing their password and nothing would really change, but this is only because MS's permissions policy is so broken that people wouldn't be surprised that playing a CD required an admin password.

    I use a Mac and am used to typing in my password for installs. I haven't seen a password prompt for drag and drop installs (Firefox, Neooffice, Gimp) but if I inserted a music CD and it wanted a password it would definitely set off a few alarms. Even a drag/drop on a music CD would set me to thinking.

    But that is just me.

    qz

  24. heh... on NSA Caught With The Cookies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone else see the irony in the fact TFA wants to set a cookie that expires in 2038?

    qz

  25. Re: Err.... on ISP Restrictions Based on Hardware/Software? · · Score: 1
    However in less than a year Windows Vista comes out, and the Trust chip is part of the hardware specification for it. So just before and as Vista hits the market Trust chips will rapidly ramp up to standard hardware on every new PC.

    I don't see this. I see a lot of returned computers.

    Where is a link to the hardware spec that states this?

    qz