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  1. Free Replacement? on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    I had a WebTV Dish Player 7200 (like Tivo) made by Microsoft. The darn thing kept crashing every 3 months. Since I bought it new and was under warrent, I had to mail it back to the manafacture for new replacement. Does this mean I be getting a new car every few months?

  2. Re:WE SLASHDOTTED NASA on NASA Releases World Viewer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know this is off topic but food for thought. If we can ./ a massive website like Nasa, I wonder what affect we will have on election day if we ./ georgewbush.com and johnkerry.com?

  3. Re:Commercial site (free usage) on NASA Releases World Viewer · · Score: 1

    FYI, you cna look at general images of cities of other countries also. They are not detailed on the street level but still usable to gee the geography of the region.

  4. Commercial site (free usage) on NASA Releases World Viewer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a commercial site but you can use it for free with watermarks. You can zoom to a persons house. All you need to type in the address of the place. Pretty nice, check it out. Only problem is that some of the images are a couple years old... but then how often do streets and house move/change physcially?

  5. Myth TV on Current Crop Of HDTV Recorders Compared · · Score: 2, Informative

    Myth TV (http://www.mythtv.org/)is the best software out there to use under BSD. Wendey Seltzer actually used the program and make it fully functional. on here website you have full directions, drivers and programs to do it. http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/ I myself am looking this for an option to build my own with a DVD recorder. IF serveral people are interested in this kind of project let me know, maybe we can share insight and idea.

  6. HDTV - PVR / DVR under $200 on Current Crop Of HDTV Recorders Compared · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have HDTV and I am with Dishnetwork. There is a cheaper option to record programs and to receive HD tv. It would cost you under $200 to view HD and to record with the ability to record SD signals (There are only like 6 channels in HD anyways). The HD recievers are now on promotion (DirectTv and Dishnetwork). If you can get a 1 year contract, you can get the receiver around $80. Then you buy a modified Tivo box (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite m=5721787901&fromMakeTrack=true) which will run you around $100. The Tivo box you can send the recorded stuff onto a computer for later viewing. Best of all, no monthly fees ever once you buy this unit. Let me know what others think. No this is not my auction.

  7. Sight seeing on The Space Elevator - Public or Private? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wonder if I can go all the way up just to sight see. Love to be a tourist :)

  8. The GPS on Review of Nokia 7250 - Triband GSM w/camera · · Score: 1

    I tried to look around for more infor on the GPS features. Had anyone been able to get some additional data on that feature? What I am looking for a GPS feature that will allow, the user of the phone, to be pinpointed VIA online, or some software. By online I mean, to see where the user is located in real-time. And when I say some software... some sort of feature that will allow you to download the cordinates from the phone, into a computer to be analized by software of a road trip.

    Yes I knwo alot of people will say.. use a GPS navation.. but I want this feature to be in a phone. Any inputer or perhaps on others phones avaialbe on the market? Thanks

  9. Re:From Auschwitz to Heaven on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Quote from South Park; "I havn't seen a jew run that fast (or fly in this case) since Poland, 1939!"



    I hate to say it, but when I saw clips of the explosion, I had the song from the Mel Brook's film, History of the World Part I. Refrain "Cuz were jews in space...."

  10. Safty tips for selling drives. on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 1

    Any drive I sell or put up on an auction, I make sure I do one or all of these things. Any of these will ensure the data can not be retreived from the drive.

    I drop it, on the floor, a few times.
    Open the unit up and pour cement/paint inside.
    Use a paperclip and touch random metal parts together
    Soak it in water for 30 minutes
    Put it in the microwave for 30 seconds
    Put it in water and microwave for 30 seconds
    Play football with it
    Attached it to your car muffler for a day or two
    Take a shower with it
    Take a bath with it
    Give it to a child, for a crib toy, for a week
    Drop it into the shitter while taking a dump!
    Use it as a freezz-bee
    Put it in the mover, for a few hours, at max


    I am sure you can think of more exciting way to ensure data cleaning. If so, please add to this list!!

  11. Getting caught.... on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1

    I read alot about when you were moving around the US to elude the authorities. From my understanding, they found you because you were still using one of the systems (telecom or other) and they tracked it. My question is as follows...

    When you felt they were getting "hot on your trail", have you considered just stopping all computer/telecom related activites to become harder to find? Or even go to Canada or Europe?

  12. Surrond Sound... on Speak & Spell Hacking For Fun And Profit · · Score: 2

    Is it network compatable so I can interlink them for Surrond sound?

  13. Re:Wasn't this done? on Speak & Spell Hacking For Fun And Profit · · Score: 3, Funny

    No.. These guys did it without using an aluminum foil covered umbrella. Now thats progress!

  14. Mirror? on Linux-Based Bar-Monkey · · Score: 2

    Anyone has a mirror? Monkey is already dead :(

  15. Re:I wonder if this will work: on More 3D Printer News · · Score: 2

    That is an interesting point. Would they tackle flavors also? If so, how would this be done? Perhaps by using generic flavors (pinch of chicken taste and steak to make a duck flavor) or create it molecule by molecule to get that perfect taste. Any ideas?

  16. wait a second... on AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am confused....Aol is for Anti-Span? Does this mean we like or dislike AOL now?

  17. Hmm.. interesting... on DSL Rising · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thats funny.... Steve wrote to us with an article about the rise of DSL throughout the world. Is this why they I am losing my Directv Dsl so others can use it throughtout the world??

  18. Re:Life Sized Locutus on The Business of Star Trek · · Score: 2

    Even better... making the RealDoll like like Picard or Data.

  19. Re:Well... on DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    Forgot to spell check :(


    Should say...

    You work for them right? Concerning the Telocity modem/fake routers that we use currently, for the services, can you tell us how we can mod them in order to use its routing capabilities? I am going to assume, that directv will lets the consumers keep them. What are your thoughts on this?

  20. Why do I get the feeling.. on DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    Why do I get the feelign the same thing is going to happen, as when Flashcom, Winfire and part of megapath went down, a large number of dsl modems will be sold on ebay?

  21. Re:Well... on DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    You work for them right? The Telocity modem/fake routers that we haev to use.. can you hitn me how to mod it so I cna use the routing capabilities? I am goign to assuem they will let me keep it. what is yoru input on this?

  22. Their Modem/fake router on DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this mean I stil have to mail them their modem or I get to keep it permently? I would nto mind keeping it so I can hack around with it. Any ideas? Can it be used as a normal DSL modem?


    The funny thing is.. there is a sticker on it and it still says Telocity.com on it.

  23. Re:Go figure on DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    no.. They charge $49.99 a month.

  24. Re:RMS on Da Vinci's Purposeful Mistakes · · Score: 2

    sores? If you mean source, then yes.

  25. Re:Da Vinci the programmer on Da Vinci's Purposeful Mistakes · · Score: 2

    I wonder if he would stink as bad as stallman. My department at NEU.edu had him come onto campus, in 2001. As he walked into the building, he had an old flea market smell.... blah! He even forgot comb his head.

    Thinking about it... Back in the day of Da Vinci, showers were not an everyday thing... but again he was gay (usually are very clean).. so we may never know.