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  1. Instead of Top Overall on US and China Top List of Spam-Relaying Countries · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead of just giving a top overall count of who's sending spam, how about a figure weighted by how many connected computers are in the country overall? If China sends a bit less than the USA, but the USA has 10X as many broadband connected computers, then Chinese computers are far more vulnerable to this sort of activity, and focus preventative measures there to mitigate the problem. Under those circumstances, the USA problem might be dealt with in a different way than the Chinese problem, but without this curcial information, who knows?

  2. Re:I call bullshit. - About Lame Screen Shots on US Government Checking Up On Vista Users? · · Score: 1
    Lame screen shots from some Windows app isn't enough to validate a conspiracy theory.

    They're certainly enough to get you sued, and thereafter spending upwards of $100K in legal defense against the RIAA.

  3. E-Mail it to Google on Storing CERN's Search for God (Particles) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just e-mail it all to Google. By then gMail should be able to handle that much per user.

  4. The Future of Anti-Virus on Custom Trojan Creation Tool Sold Online · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm believing that the future of anti-virus/rootkit solutions has to be a live CD that runs fully independently of the host system and software being scanned.

  5. Hard to Believe on Huge Martian Dust Storm Threatens Rovers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's hard to believe that air so thin can hold up so much dust.

  6. Just Get It Into My Hands on AMD Phenom and John Woo's Stranglehold In Action · · Score: 3, Funny
    Just get these new chips into my hands. I don't know which is taking longer to arrive:

    AMD quad core K10's
    Flying cars
    Televisions you unroll and hang on your wall
    Battery/Capacitor hybrids giving the best of each
    Truly efficient, cheap solar cells

  7. Easy on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    Easy. Believe the non-evil twin.

  8. Fix It Quick on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 1

    This whole thing looks so easy to test that MS better fix it quick, before a few hundred supporting tests really blow the lid off of this.

  9. Re:The evil CDT-Foul Mouthed Kids on Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill · · Score: 1
    I know a kid who has been allowed to cuss at home since he was like six.

    This becomes a self-correcting issue. Some day he'll cuss at another kid about his own age, and get his clock cleaned for having done so. Afterwards he'll be more circumspect about "fighting words".

  10. The Courts Still Have The Last Word on Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill · · Score: 1

    The courts will still have the last word on the matter. They, not Congress, decide what Free Speech is.

  11. How is he selling this book? on Former Spammer Reveals Secrets in New Book · · Score: 1

    I think I got a spam e-mail today hawking this book.

  12. Yeah, But... on Cheap Paint-able Solar Cells Developed · · Score: 1
    Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers.

    Yeah, but, the replacement cartridge costs are astronomical!

  13. Mass Defection Time on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 1

    Is it time to stage a mass defection to gMail yet?

  14. HTML 5 Won't Matter... on W3C Considering An HTML 5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    HTML 5 won't matter until Microsoft almost handles it in Internet Explorer. I'd guess that might happen 5 years after the standard is adopted.

  15. Re:Good news for plumbers-BOLD REPLY on Broadband Data Improvement Act Clears Committee · · Score: 1
    I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.

    THEY WILL, AND HATE YOU FOR IT!

  16. Re:This is a monopoly provision bill-Cool Yer Jets on Broadband Data Improvement Act Clears Committee · · Score: 1
    smaller providers -- who may still be able to provide acceptable speeds -- out of the market. If you won't be able to give the minimum, get out of the market.

    Cool your jets!

    I don't know of any smaller provider(s) who run their own cable/wire to your household. They piggyback on the big monopoly telcos and cable providers. As such, they have the same available line speed options available as the monopoly providers. If they can't meet new minimum broadband requirements using the same delivery infrastructure, then there's a serious question if they should be in the market at all.

    Your post just sounds like an anti-Republican rant.

  17. My Own Kingdom on Broadband Data Improvement Act Clears Committee · · Score: 1
    aggregating the data by ZIP+4 instead of just the full ZIP code.

    If they aggregate by Zip+4, then I'm my own little broadband kingdom of one household. This means the original idea that as long as one household in the measured area has broadband, the whole area is considered to have broadband, becomes a binary truism.

  18. One Advantage on Web-based Anonymizer Discontinued · · Score: 1

    One potential advantage is that I can't get TOR to work with the ISA proxy where I work. Proper configuration is scanty, and help resources have been non-existant. Perhaps this will work more easily in such a setup.

  19. $375/hour on RIAA v. Santangelo Default Judgment Vacated · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Mr. Gabriel contended that the $225/hour asked by the Defendant's lawyer in Capital v Foster was far too high. Especially since it was such a simple and straightforward case. Yet he bills nearly twice that amount to other Defendants.

    Shouldn't it be "reasonable" that attorney's fees on both sides of the case be billable at the same cost/hour?

  20. How About Something More Useful on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1
    his experiment might show that a change made in one beam shows up in the other beam before he actually makes the change.

    Can I use this to determine Powerball numbers before they're drawn?

  21. Re:Only one for sale? Already Pointed Out! on Enigma Machine for Sale on eBay · · Score: 1
    100 posts and nobody has bothered to point out that you need two to play?

    Actually that was already pointed out above, in a post on why buying only one of them might be so cheap. Perhaps you didn't decrypt that post properly.

  22. Just Wondering on Enigma Machine for Sale on eBay · · Score: 1

    Just wondering where you'll find replacement light bulbs for it. And how about the batteries? If you have a machine like this, it would be fun to be able to actually use it.

  23. Short Reply on eBay Bargains Soon To Be A Thing Of The Past? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Although Merle Norman does not claim that the eBay seller ever contracted with the company, it contends that the seller's act of purchasing the makeup from a salon that had entered such an agreement and then selling "at discount prices" on the Internet constituted unfair competition, interference with its contracts, and civil conspiracy (see complaint). In other words, the eBay seller, according to the company, is guilty of breaching somebody else's contracts and unfairly competing by selling to consumers on the Internet at prices that are too low.

    The short reply to this is: Doctrine of First Sale. I would argue that once a product is legally acquired, that the manufacturer cannot control what you do with it afterwards.

    How long before the RIAA tries to take down used CD sales under this SCOTUS ruling? It's as bad as the eminent domain debacle of last year - and you can't blame just one political party for this pair of rulings.

  24. Re:90 freaking GB? 160GB, and here's why... on Retailers Leak New TiVo HD Specs and Price · · Score: 2, Informative

    It has a 160GB drive, giving an estimated 21 hours of HD recording. The reason for the smaller drive is most likely to that they can still maintain a market for the much more profitable Series 3 Heavy at $799 + monthly programming fees.

  25. Re:comcast's HD DVR is worse on Retailers Leak New TiVo HD Specs and Price · · Score: 1
    Comcast's HD DVR is about the worst piece of shit I've ever had the dubious privilege of using.

    I have a Comcast rented Motorola DVR6412-III, and completely agree with you. I'm on my 4th unit with them in only 3 months already,

    but

    Comcast is supposed to start making TiVo software DVR models available as their DVR rental unit in just the next couple of months. While it will take a while to filter through their system, I'm doing my best to be first in line when these arrive.