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  1. is it funny? is it lame? on The World's Most-High Tech Urinal · · Score: 1
    I found the fact that that page snagged video cameras amusing, then funnier that the subject of the first 'related posts' was

    amazingly small

  2. see his home page/blog on Vista's Limited Symlinks · · Score: 1

    top left corner

    "I am a software developer in Seattle, building a new AI software company. I used to work at Microsoft on Excel"

  3. Grasp the offering-or cite a malixious scenario. on New Google Service Manipulates Caller-ID For Free · · Score: 1

    I can look up a phone #, click it, type in the phone# I want google to call, and to that individual google will modify the caller id info to show the # looked up.

    so- I can get the police caller id info to show up on someone elses phone/caller id display, but when they pick up the phone, they are in fact going to be connected to that party(the police) You cannot use it to spoof YOUR caller id and call someone, google uses it to spoof their caller id to match the party they will be connecting you to...

    where's the threat in that? I can (if I know your number) harrass you and connect you to the white house, dominos, and the local tobacco shops..

    until google cuts me off..

    there is no malicious scenario potential I can find.

  4. Ok, still not getting it. on New Google Service Manipulates Caller-ID For Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I use this service,
    I tell google, I wanna speak with toll free information (800) 555-1212

    I select the # for toll free information and type in MY phone number,

    my phone begins to ring, the caller id on my phone says the # calling me is (800) 555-1212

    I answer the phone, and a few momments later I am connected to information.

    where's the potential to misuse?

  5. wha? on New Google Service Manipulates Caller-ID For Free · · Score: 1

    I believe it's possible- but do you have a cite for In many states, it is ILLEGAL for businesses to have caller ID. further, if google can make the caller ID into you look like the business #, what makes you think they can't make the caller ID to the busness be your phone #??

  6. I;m reading the service page at google on New Google Service Manipulates Caller-ID For Free · · Score: 1, Insightful

    and thinking, wtf can I possibly do- OTHER than have businesses connected to an enemy/friend I want to prank a few times.

    the manipulation is ENTIRELY going into MY phone, if I use the service.

    I canNOT use it to falsify my Caller ID info going to the business.

    WHAT ALARMING potential does this possibly have? I see naught... can anyone identify a situation where using this service can let me 'get away with something' more intense than a prince albert in a can call?

  7. Re:Story posted to slashdot under the year 1969? on Nokia the Next Gizmondo? · · Score: 1

    it's one second before 1/1/1970

  8. small inaccuracy on When High End Gaming Machines Fight · · Score: 1

    maybe half of all dells, and 95% of the tv ad buyers, buy systems that start with a 90 day warranty.

    lots of dell systems have 90 days as a starting point.

  9. Not FIFO- flagged on Variety Declares VHS Dead · · Score: 1

    Tivo content has the ability to be limited beyond your desires.

    if I snagged something on vhs five years ago, I still have it.. tivo can set it so you lose something X hours after recording it.. even if you mark it as save until deleted.

  10. Buy a good handheld on Why HD-DVD and Blu-ray Are DOA · · Score: 1

    movies run 90-200 mb get ten to 20 a month.

    http://thepiratebay.org/browse/206

  11. there is always an exception to the rule on Linux Users Banned From World of Warcraft? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My wife, it kills me, she'll grind through the same thing on D2:LOD 50 times an evening.

    I accuse her of being a bot- it's the most mechanical thing you've ever seen.

    she writes down many EXP points she got per baal run, then does it again,
    then does it again, then does it again, then does it again, then does it again, then does it again, then does it again, then does it again, then does it again, ad infinity..

    to a 'gamebandwidth' counter, that'll look VERY suspicious

    (BTW some of the repetions above I typed by hand, some I did by cut and paste- can you see where I switched to cut & paste above?---riiiight.....)

  12. more variables than the machines on Remote Data Access Solutions? · · Score: 1

    how much are you paying the people?

    who says the 50k server has to be slower?

  13. caps.. on Physicists Promise Wireless Power · · Score: 1

    put caps in the car sufficient to let them go from 'section' to 'section' with the amount of juice provided from the last section enough to get to the next one..

    further, who said it has to be under the roads? but it in the light fixtures overhead,-- hell- put a retransmitter on the front & rear of every car and allow them to pass the juice along in a chain gang..

    the thing about the concept that would scare me is you've saved so much in battery weight, & the cars are much more efficient, they must weigh next to nothing and a hell of a lot more likely to flip.. a passing semi would be enough to do it...

  14. Wrong Shtick on First Company Logo Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    should actually be a poplar joke.
    http://popem.ytmnd.com/

  15. Let's define VISIBLE as naked eye visible on First Company Logo Visible From Space · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if I can see my backyard from google maps.. that's (ahem) [B] VISIBLE FROM SPACE [/B]

  16. Re:laptops in developing countrys? on OLPC Wins Popular Science Award · · Score: 1

    Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for an evening..

    cover him with gasoline and strike a match over him, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

  17. tried and true 'traditional' methods work best on Technologies To Improve Group-Written Code? · · Score: 1

    Try a cat o'nine tails-- they built the damn pyramids with them!

  18. He was both on Bar Performer Arrested For Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    "at the bar he operated between "

    the owner of the venue and the performer..

    maybe they sued his 'operator' hat, not his 'performer' hat.

  19. what about half naked chicks? on GamePro Expo's "Official Announcement" · · Score: 1

    isn't that the ban implemented just before e3 died?

    will we have half naked chicks again now?

    BRING BACK THE BOOTHBABES!

    RAFFLE THEM OFF!

  20. I have 4 comps in my house, + a server on Worst Christmas Ever For Gadgets? · · Score: 1

    and if one of them runs a different os, it's not the "END" of the world for me..

    Someone in a one computer household, that's old and decrepit and up for renewal- will go to someone like me for a reccomendation.

    I'm the one that's going to tell them to wait for vista to be loaded on the machine...
        they are going to hold onto that machine for 2-3 years at least- and it's the only advice I can feel safe giving a neophyte right now.

  21. Disclaimer- I only read the headline on Jimmy Wales Resigns Chair at Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    did he throw it?

  22. how about- on What Ways Can Sites Handle Spambot Attacks? · · Score: 1

    registration required to post a URL or email address?

  23. not excactly.. on YouTube Finds Signing Rights Deals Frustrating · · Score: 1

    the loophole is closed.

    WKRP music was permitted with the show- as the music was licensed for the shows.
    at the time, no one concievedof such home recordings, and no provision was made for those rights.

    in a similar vein, disney artists (voice artists) have sued disney for their likenesses which were used in theaters, but never licensed for use for dvd distribution.

    some of them picked up a few bucks..

    now- it's over- artistic licenses/contracts are written to "include future means of distribution, as yet unknown"

  24. 5 years? try 4... on Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters · · Score: 1

    5 years still is inclusive of the Anthrax scares..

    closed post offices, cost millions..

    here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Anthrax_Attacks go crazy.

  25. I'm not worthy of that opener...here is my best on Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Luckily, Our president is not some "RANDOM" idiot..