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  1. Re:Fraud??? on Auto Black-Box Data Being Used In Court · · Score: 1

    I believe the language on that title is something like "to the best of my knowledge the mileage is accurate." So since you know that bigger tires will mess with the odometer you know that the mileage is not accurate and you could be held legally accountable. Especially sense in some case you could get a different ratio speedo gear that would install into the transmission and correct the offset from your bigger tires. Yes you could play dumb and say your didn't know. It would be up to a judge to decide if he thinks your telling the truth or not.

    Side note on odometers, I lucked out when purchasing my last motorcycle. It was a low production Italian bike that didn't bother switching odemeter to read miles instead of km. I got a good price on the price because the dealer read it as miles when it really only had 5/8 of the mileage. Titles don't account for that. They are just concern with a number but not the unit. Its in my interest when I sell it to point out that the odometer is in km.

  2. Re:Fraud??? on Auto Black-Box Data Being Used In Court · · Score: 1

    Compare this to the odemeter. IANAL, but I believe it not the actually act of rolliong back the odemeter that is illegal. Instead it is the act of commit fraud in the case of a lease or selling the car and not disclosing that the odemeter is rolled back. I know that on some states (maybe all) you have to declare if the milage is accurate on the title when you transfer ownership.

  3. Re:Overclocking on Athlon Xp 3200+ 400FSB is Coming · · Score: 1

    The topic of overclocking came up in the gentoo forums. While an overclocked system may run perfectly stable running for playing Quake, compiling code can be a more complex task. A lot of people that claimed to have "stable" overclocked system where having a lot of trouble when they needed to compile.

  4. Re:FTP? Was: Keep it simple on Securing Your Network? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anonymous FTP still has valid uses. Sure you could just serve up all your large files 1+ MB with and web server but they have to be encoded into text which can waste an extra 40% of bandwidth. It all depends on what your needs are I guess.

  5. Re:I don't get it on Did You Really Want To Read That Spam? · · Score: 1

    aol,msn,hotmail, yahoo all get hit with spam so badly because the spammer focus on the big domains first to run dictionary spam attacks on. I've observed dictionary spam attacks run against smaller domains much more lately. Chances are your domain is next...

  6. Re:Red Hat a bigger player than Sun? on Sun Drops Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    Not quite yet Market Captialization Redhat (RHAT): 976.9 Million Sun (SUNW): 10.927 Billion

  7. Re:to the victors goes the spoils.. on More PlayStation 3 Predictions · · Score: 1

    They have half of those games for the Dreamcast. My friend was bragging about Phantasy Star online for the GC. Oh yeah I paid $10 for the same game and $50 for the console last year. It doesn't look or play any different.

  8. Re:Question! on AMD Moving to a 400MHz Bus? · · Score: 1

    I was upset when checking up on one of my servers that up for over three years. Its uptime stated that it had only been up for 26 days. When I checked the logs it hadn't rebooted. The uptime counter had rolled over which ment 1122 days. We had to replace the batteries on the UPS. Thanksfully the UPS had a DC bypass switch so we didn't have to bring down the server. Its still running

  9. sick of the "on steroids" cliche on 12" Powerbook: Slick and Sexy, But Not Without Issues · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhh... ibook on steriods. Does it mean that this new powerbook has little balls and dies after 40 hours of use?

  10. credit checks hurt your credit on Dealing with Employers Who Perform Credit Checks? · · Score: 1

    Respond with that fact that every time a credit check is done against you, your credit score it lowered. Imagine if this started insisting that they do a monthly or weekly credit check to identify which employees might defraud them.

    I could see interesting privacy issues to come up as well. What if some manager reads in CIO that the best sales people are agressive and agressive people usually have lots of speeding tickets. Will some companies have an unoffical quote of 2 speeding tickets in order to get the job?

  11. Re:Could someone explain... on When Will The Next Slammer Strike? · · Score: 1

    Because some banks were stupid enough to trust a mission critcal back end database to microsoft.

  12. flying cars / goo drive on Using Bacterial DNA For Data Storage · · Score: 1

    I've accepted the fact that I won't get my flying car I was promised but this gives me hope that my the my second dream of a puddle of goo hard drive

  13. Re:Keyboard too small for fat-fingered Linux gurus on Sony Releases Smallest VAIO Yet · · Score: 1

    Listen to me now and slashdot me later Mr. Girlieman, stop being such insensative clod. Hans and I like our properly pumped up finger tips even if it means that it means we can't get your website girleeeeeeman.com. Yah! -Franz

  14. Re:I see a boom if and only if on The Coming Time for 802.11a? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They do, linksys just put out the WAP51AB. To bad it goes for $300 though. Just came out so the price should drop

  15. Re:Console Only Mode on Zaurus Software Reviews · · Score: 1

    Cool got that to work, Any ideas on how to have access to the ESC or Ctrl keys. These are must have for killing a program or using vi. Thanks

  16. Re:Funny, just downloaded this yesterday. on Zaurus Sync Software (Finally) Available for Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    not a total mozilla sync solution but here is a mozilla ldif to zaurus address book XML converstion script I wrote a few days ago...

    http://www.jaysweb.net/zaurus/scripts/mozilla_ld if 2zarus.pl.txt