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  1. Boilerplate is ficitonal on Robots Of The Victorian Era · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, Boilerplate is a fictional robot:

    http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/bp.report. ht ml

  2. Many ISPs are filtering already on Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know for certain that MSN does. I had a friend who found he was unable to use a work SMTP relay and had to resort to using the MSN relay.

    As for me, I use Qwest and have found that they will not allow me to keep an open TCP session, meaning my SSH sessions constantly stall.

    Calling tech support resulted in an entertaining conversation during which the support guy insisted that if I could "browse my webs" everything was working.

    Oh well, time to change ISPs...

  3. Re:The ominous cloud of evil remains on Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Spam Efforts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >>Microsoft doesn't give a shit about the well being of it's customers

    >Welcome to the world of business.
    >
    >A business is not designed to make friends, >engender feelings of goodwill towards puppies, or >cure cancer. That, my friend, would be called a >charity.

    Caring about customer satisfaction is charity?

    Oh right- the function of a business is to increase the CEO's compensation package.

  4. I'm all for lighter notebooks... on Barebones Notebook · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but how am I supposed to get any work done on a laptop without any RAM or a CPU? :)

  5. Re:TIMMAY!!! on Small-Scale Warrior Robot Truck · · Score: 1
    I believe 'Timbot' is, in fact named after an early champion of the classic Mac game RoboWar.

    Annual Robowar tournament champs