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  1. Re:Outlook 2003 blocks all of the image-spam I get on Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver Itself · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you realize how many valid emails are likely getting caught by your filters? Just because you're not seeing any spam doesn't mean your spam filters are doing what they are supposed to do.

  2. Re:Cry me a river... on Cost of Game Development is 'Crazy' Says EA · · Score: 1

    It definately affected my purchasing decision. I had heard rumors that battlefield 2142 was a decent game. I really knew little about the game and walked past it in Target. Got closer to check it out. "Oh, EA makes it" that alone made me not buy it. That plus there are planty of other good FPS out there.

  3. Re:A war over antiquated technology? on NPR Finds XM's Achilles Heel · · Score: 1

    So you like that new song ... Head On Apply Directly to the Forehead! Head On Apply Directly to the Forehead! Head On Apply Directly to the Forehead! Head On Apply Directly to the Forehead! Head On Apply Directly to the Forehead!

  4. Re:Just gets easier on Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Considering that a search on Amazon returned 334 hits just for books on Openoffice, I'm sure one of them can tell you how to insert in your spooky halloween clipart.

  5. Re:MySpace's fall on Friendster's Rise and Fall · · Score: 1

    That's not a fad, that's an artform.

  6. Re:Work Visa on Intel Developing New Chip Designs in India · · Score: 1

    I'm basically for free trade myself. If all countries had similar labor laws, free trade would be ideal. However things like worker safty, enviromental laws, child labor laws, etc are all good but cost money. The biggest flaw in free trade is that it rewards the country the exploits it citizens the most in order to produce the cheapest products. Oh, I'll continue to use firefox thank you. Enjoy your updated bug ridden IE7

  7. Re:Shoulda seen this coming... on One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End · · Score: 1

    Using it or using it with a grain of salt? The default config of spamassassin use spamhaus but like most weighted spam filters a positive result from spamhaus does not automatically result in it being tagged as spam. If the email fails several tests including spamhaus it gets tagged as spam.

  8. Re:Look at the seismic data. no spinning this one. on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Siesmograph = $5000 Having NK Peon tell 'lil Kim there was a low scale naturally occuring earth quake at 10:36AM = $0 Organizing press coverage to the eargerly awaiting news media = $0 Being able to convince the world you have nuclear weapons and you tested one at 10:36AM: Priceless

  9. Re:gOOD lUCK on War Declared on Caps Lock Key · · Score: 1

    Yes heard of that, I also heard of carple tunnel. I'll stick with my hack and wack 3-4 finger typing and still have use of my hands when I am 50.

  10. IC Cost on Toshiba Subsidizes $200/Unit on New HD Player · · Score: 1

    Maybe they wouln't need half of those ICs driving up the price if it didn't have fscking DRM!

  11. Re:Bah! on World's Most Expensive Mp3 Player · · Score: 1

    No flac either, teh lames !!!!11!1!

  12. Hurray for capitalism on Sony Decides Against Blu-Ray Downsampling · · Score: 1

    Nice to see it working as it should for the consumer

  13. Re:CD-Rs with a 100 year warranty on Burned CDs Last 5 years Max -- Use Tape? · · Score: 1

    I converted my company from using normal CD-R to the gold archive type (http://www.mam-a.com/products/gold/archive.html) for the master copies of our software releases about a year ago. So far we have not had a problem reading data from any of these CDs. I've been getting these from here http://www.datamediastore.com/goarqucd.html (Even though they are a "yahoo" store)

  14. Da Da Da Dah Da on Finding a Ready-Made Dev Team? · · Score: 1

    In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

  15. What is the big appeal of blackberry? on BBC Shuts Down Internal BlackBerry Service · · Score: 1

    What is the big appeal of blackberry compaired to standard e-mail protocols. I'm not trolling, I just don't know. From what I see it requires exchange and sometime breaks like this. With my Treo 650 I have full access to email via imap, pop3 or exchange. Does blackberry have its own network (like skytel) that has better coverage that the disgital networks of Sprint or Verizon? They has to be something more than the fact that it limits characters to 128 or something.

  16. Re:Well you won't have to on Blu-Ray To Punish Users for Modifying Hardware · · Score: 1

    But if HD-DVD = Blueray + eternal_playability the HD-DVD format may win out even with its lower capacity.

  17. Re:A filmmaker's perspective on Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of Moviegoers · · Score: 1

    I pretty much agree here but I think it worth pointing out the Pixar films (Incredibles, Nemo, Tpy Story, Monsters Inc.) have all been sucessful, in my opinion due to the fact that they actually had a good story. Without a good story all you have is Sky Captain

  18. Re:Browser notice on Mac mini Built Into Wall · · Score: 1

    Well sure he does if your car leaks fluids all over the place and is a type of car that is likely to get broken into ; )

    Now where's that Microsoft free Fridays mod...

  19. Re:"can't tell"? on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 1

    Sorry but I'd have trouble believing that you can measure your mpg accurate to 1mpg with the gas pump gauge and odometer as your sources. There's too many other factors (temp, air pressure, tire pressure, when the pump cuts off, etc. ) to be scientifically that accurate.

  20. Re:HA! on Consumers Prefer Movies At Home · · Score: 1

    Recently there was a moive theater chain that started listing movie time for when the movie actually started not when the commercial started.

  21. Re:Fedora Core 4 is great... on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 1

    I think you are right if you are doing a full install. However the original poster is either 1. Full of crap or 2. Ran the "install" for his shiney new XP Preloaded PC and went through the few steps of the preload install which may have been 3-4 steps. I just did this recently on a Windows 2003 server that was preloaded. I remember the steps were minimal, could have been three (as they should be if it preloaded). Of course if we are now talking about preloaded installs it no longer a fair comparison.

  22. Re:It's purely a marketing move. on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the sysadmins are the technology decision makers or heavy influence the decision makers. A piss poor CLI (although low on the list) is one of the many reasons I usually recommend unix/linux over windows.

  23. Re:Reaction to Ubuntu success? on Redhat Spins Off Fedora Project · · Score: 1

    Gentoo sure as hell isn't a gimmic. Compile from source is what a lot of people want and I find gentoo much easier to keep up to date than any package distro.

  24. Re:Agreed: Don't Do It! on Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link? · · Score: 1

    "The claim is 'wireless online surfing as fast as DSL'." Exactely, what they define DSL speed to be is not 3.0Mbps but often 256kbps at best

  25. Re:Bruce Schneier agrees on Write Down Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    Important information like this should be backed up. A firesafe is $20, cd-r is $0.05 or just use that 8MB flash card that came with your camera. There's really no excuse not to.