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  1. Re:Well... on Dell Throws In For The +R/+RW Standard · · Score: 1

    By the time one format wins out over the other, DVD burners will probably be about $20 apeace so replaceing it wont be a deal, and they will probably at least be capable of reading both formats.

  2. Re:How soon.. on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.snopes.com/business/money/pennies.asp

    Here, this should clear up all the confusion. This explains what legal tender is and contains links to the government sites defining EXACTLY what legal tender is.

  3. Re:Just don't overdo it on Bacteria More Virulent in Microgravity · · Score: 1

    Actually many astronaughts get "space sickness" (related to motion sickness) and some end up blowing chunks in space. (seems to affect about 1/2 of them) They vomit into bags to keep it from going all over.

  4. Re:I got the same email.... on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 1

    At least they arnt like Microsoft Hotmail that sells your email address to spammers without telling you. (except for 1 sentence in the privacy policy)

    Anyway with yahoo I did an experiment starting about 2 1/2 years ago. I made 3 email accounts. 1 I give out freely to whoever wanted it and posting it wherever I felt like. Another I was more choosly about giving out, and though i did post it, I always used some kind of spam filter (like replacing the "@" with "#" and the like. Didnt even go as far as slashdot does with mixing up "yahoo" and "com". The third e-mail address i didnt give out to anyone, and have never posted it. The first email got innudated with spam, and now recieves about 30 spam messages a day. Yahoo filters about 2/3 of the spam into the bulk mail filter and 1/3 makes it to the inbox. The second e-mail has surprisingly not recieved any spam. Shows that spammers are too lazy to replace "#"'s with "@"'s and that those kinds of filters work, Or that my email was just lucky. The last email address has recived 5 emails total. (4 from yahoo itself and one from me just to see if it was actually working)

    (started this about 2 years ago, 6 months after the yahoo experiment started)
    In the meantime I did an experiment with hotmail, though just with 2 email addresses. One I gave out freely, and the other I didnt tell anyone about. Within 6 months both were recieving tons of spam. (first one recieving about 45 spam mails per day, second one about 30 about half made it to the inbox.) After the 6 months I just let these accounts die and have refused to use hotmail since.

  5. Re:384,000km? on AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors · · Score: 1

    You had units of measurement? Back in my day we just called it far away. Anyway the space program's computers have been slow to be upgraded. (laptops 5 years ago were better than the space shuttles computer and were probably better even before that) Though with the way modern computers are im not sure they would want them upgraded. The shuttles computers need to be reliable before they are fast. You wouldnt want the shuttle computer to have a blue screen of death come up.

  6. Spam Libs!!! on Sweet Revenge On Nigerian Scammers · · Score: 3, Funny

    They link to a site that lets you make your own nigerian spam! Heres how mine turned out:
    site at: http://www.southwesternhell.com/perl/weblibs.pl

    From sanusiabiola_311@mail.com Tue Oct 1 21:01:34 2002
    Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:34:23 -0500
    From: sanusi abiola
    To: [ Deleted ]
    Subject: URGENT BUSINESS

    Dear Sir,

    I am Dr. Bob Dole, the personal Assistance to the late Nigerian
    Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the Federal Chief
    George Bush, who was murdered on 23rd of December 2001 by unknown Gold Bars.

    Before he became the minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the
    Federation, he was once the Minister of United States Govenment. During his time
    as a Minister of United States Govenment, the Federal Government of Nigeria
    gave to his ministry the sum of US$376 , which is to be used
    for the completion of the Ajaokuta Steel Industry and the purchasing
    of Dimonds and able for the Nigerian Electric Power
    Authority (NEPA). Then this jobs and the supply of the Dimonds
    were done, but of low Quality standard and the Dimonds he
    imported were of red quality standard and of stupid power capacity.

    Because of the low quality standard of this jobs, the sum of US$19373456
    was realized of which he deposited US$3.14159265357 to a security company
    abroad and was looking for a reliable person or company whom he will
    transact business with before he meet his un-timely death on the 23rd
    of December, 2001. He informed the security company about his foreign
    partner who will be coming to pick the Penguin although no company's name
    was given to the security company before he died it was only I and the
    late Chief George Bush knows about the Penguin.

    Therefore, if you can be trusted in fairness to your honesty to safe
    keep that Penguin pending when I will be coming to meet you in your
    country. Please, if you are not interested with this business,kindly
    inform me As soon as you received this proposals. At the same time, if
    you are interested, kindly send me as a matter of urgency:your company's
    name and address, your private Train and Helecopter.

    This will be used to send to you the Plane which you
    will use to claim the Penguin from the Security company.

    I am awaiting to hear from you.

    Best regard.

    Dr. Bob Dole

    NB: You can find more informations about the death of cheif George Bush
    on the

    following weblink:

    http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/spotlight/ige.ht ml

  7. Re:But wait! There's more... on Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The number changes on every page too after a while.

    Results 1-15 of about 365 containing "linux"
    Results 76-90 of about 344 containing "linux"
    Results 211-225 of about 262 containing "linux"
    Results 226-240 of about 253 containing "linux"
    Results 241-255 of about 16242034 containing "linux"

    Results 1-15 of about 16 containing "linux windows"
    Results 16-30 of about 8897867 containing "linux windows"
    Results 31-45 of about 8897853 containing "linux windows"

    I dont think this has anything to do with an ulterior motive by microsoft. I think its just a shoddy search engine made by them with their usual incompetence.

    This post was spellchecked by google.

  8. Alternate possibility: on Microsoft Defies EU Commission · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not just ship windows with a selection of media players installed allong with windows media player?

  9. Re:I don;t know about 9 on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    So your saying to make buses safer we should pay the drivers more?

  10. Re:Too bad it isn't heading this way on Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    spaceweather.com has some images of auroras over Orlando from late october. They did get as far south as Florida. Too bad it was cloudy where I was every night they were out here in NY. :(

  11. Re:I Agree Totally, My Experience with the Linux on Red Hat's CEO Suggests Windows For Home Users · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem,

    The ext3 filesystem uses journaling, and it is supported by the kernel. (what redhat 8/9 uses, and probably most of the newer distros) Its one of the main things that sets it apart from ext2. Did you install linux on an ext2 filesystem?

  12. Re:Update on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    Here is a NOAA article on the new giant solar flare.
    Looks like it was directed away from earth so it should not have as much of an effect as the previous major flares did.

  13. Re:This is the Future on New Optical Chip Claims 8 Trillion Operations/sec. · · Score: 1

    The users are too slow. Get rid of humans and replace them with optical users.

  14. Here you go........ on Home Brew Hard Drive Silencer/Cooler · · Score: 1

    [root@localhost]# /usr/bin/eject /dev/hda
    umount: /: device is busy /usr/bin/eject: unmount of `/dev/hda1' failed

  15. Re:Can you say, "Pump and Dump"? on SCO Calls GPL Unenforceable, Void · · Score: 1

    All elementary school students! Protest this ruling by saying the pledge of allegence in the middle of math tests!

  16. Re:Subliminal Messages? on High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory · · Score: 1

    every 180th frame, not for 180th of a second. essentially it would appear for 1 frame every 6 seconds.

  17. Re:Was on nova months ago on High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory · · Score: 1

    Why flash it? Why not just display the information?

  18. Theres....No....brainwashing...... on High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory · · Score: 1

    *monotone* Brainwashing... Thats... rediculous.... Now if you dont mind i have to go donate my life savings to the people that invented the memory glasses and fight to make them the overloards of earth....... */monotone*

  19. Re:HotHardware? on Athlon 64 Motherboard Triple Threat Round-Up · · Score: 1

    4 computers kept my dorm room at a nice 70-75 degrees, even with the heater off ond temps outside in the single digits.

  20. Re:You'll keep wasting wood until you can't afford on The End of the Oil Age · · Score: 1

    I know of someone who actually converted a car to run on steam made by burning firewood. It looked rediculious, but was capeable of traveling up to 50Mph. Unfortunatly as far as I know he hasnt put any of the plans online.

  21. Re:The man on Software Exorcism · · Score: 1

    Ever want decide to sit and test out every rune word on every possible object?

    Actually I wouldnt mind doing stuff like that. Trust me I've done stuff like that before in some games and have found some interesting bugs. :D. (not in diablo II, but in similar games.

  22. Re:The man on Software Exorcism · · Score: 1

    What about video game testers?

  23. Re:Tweedy jackets? on Software Exorcism · · Score: 1

    I saw a prof wearing a tweedy tie the other day.

  24. Re:Look at me! I'm so brave! on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1

    If they dont have IE, then they wouldnt get popups. This kind of evilsystemscreweruppercrapware is designed to work with Internet Explorer. Use a different Browser, and you dont get popups.

  25. Re:Pah on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    I still have 98SE too, and its what I boot to the most when I need to use windows. (My system can boot to 98SE, Me (never really use, just there cause dell tech support people are idiots and complain if im running a different OS than came with the comp), XP, Redhat 9.0, mandrake 9.1. Whenever I want to use something I cant run with wine (aka most of my games), I boot to 98SE. I reccomend staying with 98SE and setting up your system to be dual boot 98SE and Linux.