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  1. SCSI? on 16x DVD-R Drives Planned for 2004 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Will these be in some form of SCSI since IDE would probalby not hold up for this unless you had a very large buffer. Apple uses SCSI for almost everything now, maybe it is time we see SCSI in PCs more often now.

  2. Re:Yeah, but... on EverQuest: What You Really Get From an Online Game · · Score: 1

    Most homicidal maniacs don't have enough money for a sniper rifle, muchless round tickets to Japan (Sony HQ)

  3. I don't trust Kroger on Kroger Testing Fingerprint Payment System · · Score: 1

    With those cards you get from them, they take the money from your social security funds. They are fradulant scumbags, and I will not use any service from them, WalMart, etc. Next thing you know, we will have to scan our thumbprint to activate windows!

  4. Is it just me or ... on Mandrake Appealing to Community, Again · · Score: 1

    ... do those graphs and such on that page look like they were made with microsoft excel? All the money there must be going to microsoft liscences and the zillions of domains they own. I don't know if it is all being spent wisely.

  5. Re:IM on AOL on Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive? · · Score: 1

    When I used it out of curisosity it pulled up a bunch of men, but whatever :)

  6. Re:Boxed Sets on Mandrake Appealing to Community, Again · · Score: 1

    The reason why they aren't making money is because they had all this money from MacMillian, advertised on TechTV like crazy in the beginning, made all these boxed sets, started their own support system of some sort, wrote books, hired programmers, and tried to keep a site running. They eventually separated from MacMillian and lost all the money.

  7. Re:So what's the secret? on Apple Accuses Worker of Leaks · · Score: 1

    I've recieved this arguement multiple times. This is why OSX is so much cheaper than Winders TP.

  8. 1984 on U.S. Proposes Centralized Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    And it has begun! George Orwell's vision is eventually going to become a reality, sooner than we though. If this thing passes and my ISP is required to spy on me 1) I will no longer vote republican and 2) I will no longer use the internet This is taking away all the things we hold dear for privacy in this nation. Bush is stupid to think that people in the middle east are using AMERICAN ISPs. Seriously. This won't even put a dint, nay a chip, in the problem. Thanks Mr. Bush but no thanks. You will lose my trust, my vote, and my faith in the things we hold so dear in America. Good bye free world, and good bye Republican party.

  9. Boxed Sets on Mandrake Appealing to Community, Again · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember my first Linux Distro... It was Mandrake 6.0. It is the best one I've ever used, for it's bare-bones Red Hat compatability and ease of use. They are missing the boat by trying to compete with people like Red Hat because they know they can't steal Red Hat users. RH users are dedicated to RH and usually revere Mandrake as child's play. Mandrake needs to re-evaluate their position and make themselves a Linux for the working man who doesn't have the time to sit around for hours making it work.

  10. IM on AOL on Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AOL was not the first company to deploy an instant messaging service that was availible internet wide, ICQ was and that is where the whole cyber-sex thing started. It was easy to find a partner via ICQ and it's random "Men Seeking Women" (etc...) friend finder was a god-sent to helpless, love-sick nerds everywhere (all-be-it porly sorted and managed). Simply put, AOL took an existing technology, put a family friendly coat of make-up on it and a "I don't like those dirty bad nasty words" fuction and called it good for a mere ~$23. Once again we've seen a monopoly take an existing technology, made it friendly, then made it availible. The only step that they're missing from various other monopolies is making it cheap. The last thing most of us will ever dream of seeing is an AOL user switching over to a better, faster connection.

  11. SSL and SSH on U.S. Proposes Centralized Internet Surveillance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think this helps anything, anyone who wants to "talk" on the internet is going to use SSL/SSH if they know what they are doing, so this means they would have to crack every single key and filter through everything is realtime, and have monkeys at terminals watching for anything suspicious. I don't think this is going to help anything, it is only a waste of tax dollars and abuse of the whole 9/11 tragedy. I don't think groups like the taliban uses the internet anyway.

  12. Re:They can on Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10 · · Score: 1

    Pehaps this was because of bad adminning on your business or your part. Macs have always been more stable than PCs just because the hardware and operating system work much closer together than that on a PC. Almost all crashes in Windows 95 (illegal exception fault or whatever) are due to problems with video or sound cards (leared this in A+ cert). In conclusion, PCs are less propriatary and more likely to have hardware/software troubles because of the immense ammound of devices they have to support. A Mac is more efficient because it doesnt have to jump through hoops just to send a packet of audio to the sound device or go through a seperate portion of the operating system (GUI/Kern are seperate units) to draw everything then get looped back to be displayed. Nuff said.

  13. For email and addresses on FTC Moves Forward With National Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why don't they do this with email and physical addresses so people wont mail you or email you, and maybe keeping away door to door salesmen too.

  14. Diseny's latest bombs on EA As The Next Disney · · Score: 1

    Have any of you considered all the recent Dinsey bombs? Atlantis and Treasure Planet were their most recent flops and almost every one of their movies for the last 4 years has lost money. Furthermore, with the recent lag in the stock market people are less likely to attend their amusement parks. It's fairly easy to see that Disney is quickly losing their share of the market and that only EA is versatile enough to take up the slack. More and more people are moving to dynamic medica because movies aren't enough to keep people entertained anymore. The closest thing Disney has is Disney Interactive and since Disney is so prevelent and regarded and children's entertainment there is no way that they could produce a title that will be well accepted by all age groups--or atleast the ones with money (teens and balding men).

  15. Re:They can on Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ever hear of Apple? I have a Macintosh computer from about 1993 and it is capable of playing high-quality Mp3s and do things that my PC from that era can't even comprehend. Sure this isn't 20 years old but the application remains: Get a Mac and you won't have to replace it, atleast not as soon as a PC.

  16. Re:Thanks, but no thanks. on CDRW Drives Hit 52X Speeds · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine said he got a 52x burner, and he burned a full CD in 20 seconds. Also, to burn CD's fast, you need a fast computer, or else you will keep getting buffer underruns. These have also been around for a long time, so it isn't really new news.

  17. Re:You know what? on Old Age Simulator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think I would rather live to about 70, having fun in life and doing things I like (drinking soda, eating junk food, etc), rather than living to 130 eating rasins and running 10 miles a day. I think it is better to enjoy life for a little while, rather than just be careful for a long time. I am sure you could say you are happy dancing with the bunny rabbits, and eating berries, but if you started drinking soda and eating mcdonalds food, you would be hooked and never want to go back. And I don't think that your meditation and such will help you survive a carwreck or somthing of that sort.

  18. I love it.... on Google's new toys · · Score: 1

    .... But I think it needs a scrollbar for the page I am viewing, and it also has some javascript errors, I hope this is done before the release.

  19. Re:Goodbye OS/2. on OS/2 Going, Going... Gone · · Score: 1

    Will the OS/2 source be opened? That would then allow a community of people to pitch in, and create somthing of it. Maybe OS/2 will revive though a community if IBM would release the source code to it.

  20. pricing question... on 1.0GHz P3 In A CD-ROM Drive Bay · · Score: 1

    Why does it NT 4 Workstation cost more than Windows 2000 Professional?

  21. This is the last straw .... on HOWTO: Annoy a Spammer · · Score: 1

    It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.

    I would say this is the last straw, I run both UNIX and Windows 2000 servers. I leave Windows 2000 for weeks by itself, only to login to terminal or to the console for somthing, and I end up with about 20-30 of these messages asking me if I want insurance or a magical diet plan, etc. This is NOT what that protocal was desinged for, we use it over the net to send messages about the network. They really slow down performance, has this happend to anyone else? On UNIX? Maybe if we flood them with the same type of messages, hmm.

  22. GoldenEye on SETI@Home Revisits Its 100 Best Signals · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the antenna off of the james bond movie goldeneye? That is the first thing I thought when I saw the picture.

  23. Re:So what does it output? on Fuel Cell Powered Backup System · · Score: 1

    It would be the perfect hot water heater, I think this is a good plan for the homes of the future, clean, efficient, quiet. If you were to make a device to split the O2 and Hydrogen, (like the science kit mentioned above, but more complex/etc). It is the ultamite household power solution!

  24. Re:This is just hilarious... on Fuel Cell Powered Backup System · · Score: 1

    I'd just like to say that this technology isn't new or unique. The only thing special about this is that it is now where consumers and home users can buy it. Hospitals and such run on fuel cells the size of trailers, etc. Now you can use it for backup power at the home level.