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  1. Better photos.. on Highest Bridge in the World Nearing Completion · · Score: 1
  2. Make tracking manditory. on Privacy in the Woods? · · Score: 1

    It's the people who are most likely to get lost that will also disregard the sugestion to carry a card, push a button, or wear a tracker.

    If you have the money: give everyone that comes into the park a "panic button". Starts beeping after 6 hours. Alerts you after one more. Press a button to reset for another six hours.

    Offset the cost in your entrance fee (if you have one).

  3. If it not for science then cuse we can. on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 1

    We don't alway have to do stuff for science. Kennedy sent us to the moon in the first place to beat down the commies. If hurling our garbage up there would have impressed the reds i'm sure he woulden't have wasted any time/money on putting people up there.

    Anyway, anyone with 6M to do this is hording money the economy needs anyway. Start Spending You Rich Basterds...

  4. how long he'd cook it for. on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 1

    I doubt it would take 5 min on high just to cook some tags, furthmore i doubt 3 sec on high gets anything hot enough to catch on fire..

  5. I'd like to see what Darl runs. on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    Probably Windows. Probably a Pirated version.

  6. RIAA Vs. USA on RIAA Prepares Legal Blitz Against Filesharers · · Score: 1

    It would amuse me to see them try to sue every person in the country.

    Do your part and visit: zeropaid.com to load up on ammo.

  7. YOu don't have a clue. on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1

    Subject: Re: What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?
    Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
    Date: 1994-03-03 10:24:08 PST
    In article ,

    >What sepcifications do you think the "standard" year 2001 >PC will have? 1 GHz clock speed

    1 nanosecond cycle time, huh? The fastest super-computers right now can't
    even do that (though they're getting close, last I heard). Given that
    we're already starting to approach fundamental limitations of the current
    hardware approach, it'll probably take an entirely new technology to get
    that kind of speed. I could be wrong, but I'll bet it will be more than
    7 years before we start seeing 1GHz clock speeds in commonly available
    computers.

    >2 or 3 processors

    This, on the other hand, is probably too conservative. We're already seeing
    workstations with multiple processors. Once you've got an OS that can
    deal with a multi-processor environment, it's just a matter of what the
    hardware can deal with to add more. It's hard to say how fast this will
    develop, but I wouldn't be surprised to see computers with tens or even
    hundreds of processors available in the next decade.

    >20 MB "floptical" removeable disks

    These are available already. I do agree that within the next ten years,
    portable media will move to something more capacious than 3.5" floppies
    (it's weird to think that a floppy that holds 1.2meg is too small, but
    it often is...)

    Berivity is... Wit.

  8. I think the problem is smaller than you realise on What Should a Community Computer Lab Offer? · · Score: 1

    Anyone who whats to use email, usenet, google, ect. has already figured it out. I doubt your grandma wants to learn how to set up a spread sheet in excel. If she wanted to do her taxes she'd hire somone or get out the ol' pencil and paper like she's been doing the last 40 years. She'd probally get it done way faster than using excel.

    People don't need to use technology just cuse it's there.
    My grandfather still reads the newspaper rather than usenet and slashdot, because he's happy that way.

    I wouldn't overestimate the avarage persons desire to learn anything new. You'll just end up with a empty class. (speaking from experiance)

    but good luck anyway.

  9. Wrong address. on New Kazaa Lite Protects Identity · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm pretty sure the address is actually, This

  10. Apple is a hardware company!! on Dvorak Thinks Apple Will Switch to Intel · · Score: 1

    He must be out of his mind if he thinks that apple would change to x86. That would be the equivent of... oh i don't know... Putting a gun to thier head, taking some pills, and jumping off the roof of thier headquarters.

  11. hydrogen is really light.. on A Hydrogen-Based Economy · · Score: 1

    so, does this mean i will finally be able you get a flying car. -- Ok, so you don't have to "think different" But Windows... I mean the least you could do it try!

  12. rating insted of filtering on Aggressive Email Filtering Blocks Political Debate · · Score: 1

    You matter how good your filter is, it seemes as if it always makes some mistakes.

    It might be a better idea to rate spam by what the odds are that it is spam. Then you rate all you email but how sure you are that it is spam. Start reading your mail till you get to the spam, after that you can be pretty sure everything that comes after it is also spam. You get to define the final boundry, the ratings just help you find it.

    Spam Seive, and other filters come close but still still try eliminate any grey area so you will always have false positives, and spam that gets through.

  13. fruit artilery on Potato Bazookas · · Score: 1

    wait till the figure out how to build a frozen watermellon mortor. then we'll be in trouble....

  14. Lots of devices have the same problem! on Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4 · · Score: 1

    Well check out This website for many common passwords..

    From the site:

    "NOTE: This listing is only provided as a resource to network administrators and security professionals. It is also meant to remind people that a serious problem exists when people configure a network or a computer system and do not change these passwords. The manufacturers of the listed devices, software or systems are not to blame for this problem, and we are not trying to discredit them or their products. A default login is a means for an end user of a product to complete the initial setup of the device or system. Most manufacturers strongly recommend their end users change these logins and passwords for security reasons."

  15. Xnap on P2P Software for the Mac? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Like WinMX but Mac OS X..

    Written in Java, and Fast, But not the most stable.

    You can find it here:

    http://xnap.sourceforge.net/

  16. Re:Hmmm. on New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law · · Score: 1

    I agree. Beliveing any statistic thrown at you is just as foolish as keeping a loaded gun beside you for protection while you sleep. Just because your bombarded every day on CNN by stories about terorists and the "Black Guy" who want to rob and/or kill you while you sleep, dosen't mean there is any greater posibility of it happening to YOU or any one you know. It seams as if some might belive that the nightly news is the true representation of actual American society. and that they, so far, have been lucky enought to have not suffered a similar fate. I doubt that an Amerian would tell a tourist that America Is a War obsessed country filled with "Terorist Sleaper Cells", and that every Black guys mission was to kill you for your shoe laces. But thats sure the inpression that I get when I watch American Nightly News.