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  1. Re:If you want to stop spam... on Using Statistics to Cause Spammers Pain · · Score: 1

    I just wanted to remind you that by calling the toll-free numbers you are giving the number you are calling from directly to the kind of scum that sell phone lists to telemarketers. By dialing a toll-free # you are using there dime(which is good), but they have a legal right to see your # even if you falsify the callerid(which is bad).

  2. weapon selection? on GTA: Vice City Sells 8.5 Million Copies in 3 Months · · Score: 1

    Why oh why did rockstar replace the rocket launcher with the minigun? how am i supposed to kill those pesky helicopters? Every other shooter loves to include the rocket launcher, but not vice city.... why?

  3. When Used.... on PowerPC 970 Running at 2.5 GHz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does this chip match the power consumption and low heat dissipation that we have all come to know and love from the PPC arch? Does anyone know?

  4. Re:Maybe not on Presenting The CDR-ROM · · Score: 1

    Or anyone smart enough to hold down the shift key while the disk spins up.

  5. Re:does this mean on SecurityFocus On MS Security "Hole" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The answer is yes since you could transfer your program to the system where it would be run at system start... though this still doesn't make it much of an issue. The key to the article is physical security! Say it with me, physical security. If someone can walk right up to your machine then they can do pretty much whatever they want if they are technically sophisticated enough.

  6. Re:Bzzzt on SecurityFocus On MS Security "Hole" · · Score: 1

    How is this informative? He states very clearly in the article that he is discussing booting the win2k recovery console on an winxp machine! And on top of that it isn't a backdoor to winxp any more than booting trinux would be! Will someone please mod this down...

  7. Re:You know it. on Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium · · Score: 1

    So when did netcraft polling of webservers cover all chips in use? Given that the Itanium/Itanium2 architecture is focused toward high-end database and terminal-server use, wouldn't most of those machines be on intranet's where netcraft won't spot them?

  8. How is this interesting? on Blog From Your Cellphone? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does anyone really need to type long blog entries on the terrible interface of the current wireless phones?

  9. Re: Pro cycling is similar on Game Theory at 190mph · · Score: 1

    I was with you until you said the structures are surjective.

  10. Re:Ridiculous, Seriously. on Warming Battle Over Online Taxes · · Score: 1

    Whoa, but I think you are wrong man. Brick and mortar shops have insane costs associated with 'browsers'. You have to heat/cool the space. Then illuminate the space so they can see the goods. Keep the area clean so maybe someone will buy something. Pay someone to put all this crap back on the shelves in the right spot because the 'browsers' were too lazy to put it back. Shall I continue? Taxing something is ludicrous until properly understood... i mean look what happened in boston.... granted that may be because they were irish... but then i'm irish so lets all have a guiness and tell congress clearly that internet taxation is foolish.

  11. Re:conspiracy theory on The Fastest Video Card You Can Buy · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. please! there must be more interesting news on the web this fine morning than plugging this ostentatious waste of money!

  12. Re:Arcade Dead? on Sega Merges With Pachinko Company Sammy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I definitely do not agree that the arcade is dead. Are you familiar with how popular arcades and plinko arcades are in japan? Do you realize that there are countries other than the USA that are consumers of such machines? Maybe to slashdot the endnote about square merging with enix is bigger news, but arcades are far from dead.

  13. Re:Movie Idea on Unreal Security Hole · · Score: 1

    Okay. Honestly, that would not be the plot of any unreal movie that came out...
    Better now?

  14. Re:With all... on Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box · · Score: 1

    And I wonder about the constitutional viability of a one-machine license. If you have multiple computers and they can't both be having bits pass copper at the same time isn't it still one machine at a time?

  15. Re:Regarding the NYT on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 1

    I agree totally. When was the last time you actually saw something you cared about reported first in the new york times? I could care less about their content.... most of my daily news comes from the independent channels. Can I vote for no more NYT articles making it up on slashdot? pretty please?

  16. Re:Just a tip, buddy on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 1

    How is this funny? Kevin falling for social engineering or that there are enough 'marks' out there to make spam a profitable business for some really scummy people?

  17. Re:Please don't give 'Funny' comments to interview on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I have listened to his radio show which can be quite good. I already know he has a sense of humor and well adjusted to his current life. I would rather something of a slightly more technical/social engineering slant would be asked from a group of self-labeled nerds/geeks. Please mod the parent up.

  18. Re:Matrix: another film by Hollywood Luddites Asso on 1st Episode Of Animatrix Released · · Score: 1

    Please don't lump the matrix in with the terminator series. The wealth of gnostic imagery and actual metaphysics and philosophy underlying the cool bullettime action sequences is there to teach you something. Don't just blow it off as an action movie cause you didn't get it. Coming to terms with the machines and respecting life whether it is silicon based or carbon based is not being a Luddite. Though I sometimes do agree with King Ludd :P

  19. Wait a second.... on Review of BeOS Developer Edition 1.1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am a fan of the BeOS of yore. I liked it more than I liked linux, though things have changed. But just where does the author get off calling himself 'I was deputy Linux champion'. The guy can't spell, has worse grammar than me and doesn't understand why his winblows cd burning app cant fit two disks of binary data onto one cd! So does this make me 'Certified Linux Champion'? No, but this guy's fud never should have made it to OSNews let alone slashdot.

  20. Re:Thoughts on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1

    To all those who put the improvement of humanity before the risks to their own body. Here's to standing on one celestial body looking out toward the next. slainte

  21. Re:XM Sux, Siriusly on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 1

    Can someone please mod this parent down... though i agree sirius is better than XM and that having principles rather than advertising is important, they are both pay-to-play services that aren't the answer to the posters question.... and can anyone answer why i waste the time typing these things?

  22. Re:Why is WinCE still popular? on When Appliances Revolt · · Score: 1

    Will someone please mod this parent down. People need to check out the article before posting fuel for another baseless argument.

  23. Re:so on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed · · Score: 1

    So this is insightful? try rereading it and the SCSI bus is slower? and IDE drives are faster? Seems like he is missing something.

  24. Re:MICA sensor motes on Sensors Gone Wild · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity what kind of accuracy can those sensors give you at a range of roughly 2 feet from the specimen? Is the use for sensing for an individual specimen versus similar specimens return the same value?