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  1. OH DEAR GOD NO! on To Pay With Your Credit Card, Please Speak Up · · Score: 1

    I work with verifones.
    tranz terminals? 380-s?

    pinpads attach with an rj-11 phone jack.

    yer telling me- it's totally secure to use that cabled pinpad? because criminal orginizations cannot possibly make a compatible pinpad, that dumps the numbers pressed? or hey, make a damn keystroke logger equivelent for the rj-11 jack-- unplug pinpad, insert dongle, insert rj-11-

    start collecting pins.....

  2. Re:Does anybody remember LAUGHTER? on To Pay With Your Credit Card, Please Speak Up · · Score: 1

    but then what happens if you lose your sense of humor?

  3. Re:People start to find out you're an asshole and on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 1

    no- walmart was referred to only to evidence that the significant percentage I'm talking about in my rebuttal exists.

    where it relates to your post, is you think the 'asshole' won't be able to continue sales with a bad rep- I say rep don't matter, price does...

    (loosly inferring that walmart has a bad reputation, and cheap prices- as your hypothetical 'non-infringing infringer')

  4. pocket PC and some palms on Mobile Operating Systems Comparison? · · Score: 1

    can run terminal services.
    is there even a VNC client for Symbian?

    with terminal services/vnc, you can run the largest server in the world on your handheld readily..

  5. People start to find out you're an asshole and sto on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 1

    no no no..... people shop at walmart.

    pay attention:

    there is a SIGNIFICANT portion of the population for who PRICE is the ONLY consideration.

    not QUALITY, not RELIABILITY, nor REPUTATION but PRICE.

    in your libertarian society, with no restriction- there will always be a market for the asshole to sell to.

    I like libertarian ideas too, but I think you are flat out wrong.

  6. What modern peripherals company does not offer dri on DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you.

    creative.com

    sb extigy.. external sound card for laptops??
    not available.. I emailed, they replied I could order a replacement..

    WTF? I bought one at BB and maybe took it back.

  7. how thin clients work for me... on Microsoft to Release a Thin-Client Windows XP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have XP Pro on my main CPU

    My crappy windows ME laptop has a cheapo 15" lcd attached to it, sitting out in my shed- with a g network adapter... running a 2055 hack, I can- with one of the two monitors in my shed, run a full screen XP session and a full screen windows ME session at the same time-- the ME session serves up any video stream (rdc sucks at motion video) and stat monitor on my wlan connection- the XP screen affords me power to run whatever I run....

    Consider- I can run any of my commercial software while my wife is inside running the same commercial software... one license....

    this has extended the useful life of my winme laptop immesurably-- if it powers up, and runs mstsc.exe- it's a windows xp machine...

    that's what will mess over the hardware manufacturers...

    A lotta folks are annoyed at oracle for charging a per-processor fee, and counting dual cores as two processors.... I say-- fuck em! pay for two processors, and connect to it from 50 machines!

  8. Re:Good, now ignore local monopolies. on Verizon's DSL Gets Naked · · Score: 1

    check your MTU setting, I had a similar problem, with verizon DSL

    I reset my MTU to 1492- hasn't happened since.

    look for DRTCP to adjust it easily.

  9. Re:No thanks on Intel Dual-Core Systems Begin Shipping Monday · · Score: 1

    where did I say buying a dell?

    damn! I am thrilled with the fact that dualcore chips exist, for the simple fact that, in one or two generations, the prices will on first gens drop!

  10. Re:No thanks on Intel Dual-Core Systems Begin Shipping Monday · · Score: 1

    sorry- and I don't intend to buy a firstgen cpu for this purpose, at this time. I'll wait a couple of iterations- today I would buy a 2.4 pIV instead of a 3.6 EE I don't have that kinda budget-

    but I look forward to the development, and buying a first gen dual core after a few more series are out..

  11. Re:No thanks on Intel Dual-Core Systems Begin Shipping Monday · · Score: 1

    Well, I was giving what I thought would be more common tasks..

    Yes, I'm transcoding video 99% of the time I'm not sitting in front of my computer..

    I'd prefer to transcode 99% of the time.-- i spend a lot of time in front of my computer.

  12. Re:No thanks on Intel Dual-Core Systems Begin Shipping Monday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    burn many dvd's?

    Every try to play a game while encoding a dvd?

    watch a different video while encoding a dvd?

    I look forward to it like you can't believe.

  13. DEMOWARE! on Genre-Defining Games? · · Score: 1

    not a 'game' category per se

    But doom was distributed FOR FREE- with only a 1/3rd of the game.. but it was a complete game- it made you DIE for more- and to buy it!

    nobody put top of the line software out for free.

  14. Re:Populous on Genre-Defining Games? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Um, tim conway's Life?

    I know I codeed that into a apple //e for myself around 88-- others MUST have written software for it before that- it came out in a 1970? scientific american as a checkboard game...

    I felt rather godlike at the time...

  15. Re:are you sure? on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1

    and a bow with a flourish is delivered unto you this day,

    Thank you good sir, your instruction has proven valuable indeed, I stand corrected, and happily so!

  16. Re:Google did this a year ago on Google Search By Number · · Score: 1

    but can it compare the speed of light to the speed of a bicycle?
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/1 4/1418255

  17. are you sure? on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1

    Anything you can do with a mouse can be done with a keyboard.

    I'd actually like to know how I can set multiple files that are apart in a selected state with a keyboard.

    I can hold shift and arrowkey around to select multiple files, but if they are not adjoining, I can't do the equivelant of a Ctrl+click to add a file to the files already selected...

  18. Re:The task bar has more in it than you realize on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1

    yes it does.
    tweak ui lets you change the items on the left
    from 'my computer' 'my desktop' ' my documents' etc to anything you want.

    you can also do it directly with the registry

    MS-Office applications (recent versions at least) have it as an option to add a common folder right from the open/save dialog box... and it's list of 5 on the left is separate from all other programs open/save dirs

    I have my left list to include network shares..

    I also have one pseudo mapped drive that I change on the fly for every project I work on.. when I'm making a dvd, I might use nero, studio, adobe photoshop elements, ms publisher, word, and epson's print cd program, before I start the project, I change my mapped 'x' drive to a folder for that project, and save all my different programs output to the 'x' drive (which is a folder on my local data harddrive) and each file type gets saved with the project.. if I have to re-create it, it's all right there, if I need drive space, I pick a project folder that has sufficiently aged, and delete it.

  19. Re:Start button doesn't stay in the bottom left on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1

    right click the taskbar, select 'task manager'

  20. simple solution- on Survey Reveals Americans Support Blog Censorship · · Score: 1

    if someone wants to post an individuals home address, then require the POSTER to list their own address & phone# just above- in the same font and size....

  21. like say--- on Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups · · Score: 1

    ebay ?

    cause yahoo and amazon auctions do so well..

    your argument holds, until you hit Juggernaught class.. people sell on ebay, cause that's where the buyers are, and people buy on ebay, cause that's where the sellers are...

  22. A lot more than a whimpering is involved.... on The Complicated Way to Turn on a Flashlight · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never actually set a schoolgirl on fire..

    (I don't reccomend the experience without earplugs)

  23. yeah.. on Battlestar Galactica in HD · · Score: 1

    my 'friends' father wouldn't speak to him for a while- (live a few hundred miles apart) not beacause he was angry at his 'son' for downloading the show, but because he didn't want his 'son' to spill ANYTHING about the ending.

    how depressing, my 'friend' could have saved his father so much pain....

  24. NEWS AT 11! on Detecting Speech Without Microphones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Half duples

    so-- people talk without listening?

    (I couldn't resist)

  25. Find it... on Why Don't PDAs and Cellphones Use USB? · · Score: 1

    I mean it..

    Best Buy
    Circuit City
    Radio Shack..

    none of them stock IRDA adapters of any flavor.

    PDA's with IR sure-- nothing for the IRDA port on your PC...

    No- IRDA is not common enough in the USA