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  1. Re:ID3 tagging on Digital Radio With Removable Flash Storage · · Score: 1

    I would doubt ID3 tags would work since most stations don't put track names into the information field (rather, websites and show contact information). It would be rather like recording ratio to a cassette.

  2. Re:I hate to be pessimistic, but... on Digital Radio With Removable Flash Storage · · Score: 2, Informative

    I used one in a shop just today. It's not a new (as in just launched) product - a few months old.

  3. Re:a usefull site... and not Googled yet... on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    The advertising spider feeds a different, more frequently updated index than the search spider.

  4. you can download it from microsoft now on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1, Informative

    You can download it now from Microsoft. This isn't the streamlined version you would get from the automatic updater, but is official all the same.

  5. Re:Fast download! on Windows XP SP2 In Release · · Score: 4, Informative

    Windows BITS will download SP2 incrementally every time you are online using spare bandwidth (assuming you dial in directly) when you enable automatic downloading of updates. In a couple of months (years ;)) you'll be prompted that it's ready to install, assuming you haven't ordered your cd by that time :)

  6. Re:I can't take it anymore! on Make Something Unreal Gets Next Phase Winners · · Score: 1

    On the off chance you're serious it's a rocket launcher (the Q3 one?)

  7. Re:iPod needs WMA on Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... apart from being the format of choice in almost every other online music store.

  8. diebold. on First Trojan for Windows CE Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IIRC everybody's favorite e-voting company Diebold uses CE for their voting machines. I wouldn't be surprised if they used it for their ATMs too. There's a pretty big market to be hit if you can get a worm onto either of those private networks.

  9. Re:So they name the book on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh, but they did. Had you RTFA then you would have realised then the original title for the book was to be girl.com, changed because the content of girl.com was at the time of the decision pornographic.

  10. Re:freakin great on Doom 3 Gets Reviews, Piracy Questions, Exultation · · Score: 1

    Wrong order, dude.

    BUY THE GAME then upgrade if you feel it's necessary. There is no point in spending $250 on a new graphics chip if your performance with the old one would have done the job. Case in point: people who upgraded this time last year to play hl2 and doom3, the benchmarks showing doom3 does fairly well on old hardware.

  11. Re:Marked confidential? on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    So its ok for Mozilla/Firebird to utilize security through obscurity, yet when a closed source application?

    Same deal. If developers can not fix a problem there and then it's fairer to joe public that the script kiddies don't know about it - there's very few people who actually have the skill to find these problems themselves. The Mozilla team have failed in that a fix or workaround (security warning) hasn't been silently integrated since the bug was filed.

  12. Re:Kinda Empty, no? on The File Sharing Database · · Score: 1

    It's blatently a new site. Submitter (the site's creator) probably wanted publicity. Nuff said.

  13. Re:I wonder how it affects global tides? on "Blue Moon" Appears in Sky Saturday Night · · Score: 4, Informative

    None: The earth doesn't rely on a calendar so no pattern is changing.

  14. Re:Marked confidential? on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Informative

    If a fix would be hard and/or time consuming to create then isn't it fairer for the majority of users that it isn't known outside the development group rather than having them rush out a kludge that may introduce more bugs.

    That said, five years is a long time.

  15. Re:And on the software front... on Doom 3 Hardware Guide Debuts · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a sign that it might be time to move away from '98 then?

  16. Re:Dangerous vehicle on Segway Revolutionizes Polo · · Score: 1

    The only reason they're falling is because of the funny manouvres they're trying to pull.

  17. Re:Post Hoc Propter, Much? on Microsoft Looking to Sell Slate Magazine · · Score: 2, Funny

    The surge hit the microwave tower that happened to be transferring your details between banks at the exact moment the cashier rung up your cheque, duh!

  18. Re:Celebration! on Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles · · Score: 1

    1 is best :-)

  19. Re:Proof is in the Pudding on PC Magazine Reviews Firefox, Opera · · Score: 4, Informative

    If there's one thing that I couldn't fault IE on is the fact that it actually displays pages pretty fast.

  20. Re:Hi, you're on Slashdot. on iTMS Sells 100,000,000th Song · · Score: 1

    All the images are (on occasion) hosted on akamai. They probably switch it on and off depending on load.

  21. Re:Thanks, Verisign... on Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates · · Score: 1

    I'll concur with that. It's a great move (and a birthday present for me) but sitefinder is a sin not worth forgiving.

  22. Re:Powerful Hull? on Saturn Hailstorm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was going to post some sarcastic comeback until I looked at your user ID and realised you were probably being serious.

  23. Re:No-risk, non-abusable on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    Tell that to XO Communications, Dunlop Services and all the others :)

  24. Plenty of open alternatives on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are plenty of places you can safely point to. It's fair to assume that mailboxes at example.{com|net|org} are unmonitored. There's also me@privacy.net which bounces email with a polite notice that you don't want email from the sender. Spamcop provides the conspicuous nobody@devnull.spamcop.net, originally provided for users of their newsgroups but open to all and of course you can just use fake tlds like nobody@fake.invalid which will always be rejected before the email even leaves the spammer's servers.

    If you do want to recieve email but only, say, once from a company then you'll be looking at SpamGourmet which provides simple, free, fowarding addresses that expire after X hits.

  25. Re:Didn't Mitnick go to jail? on Mitnick Speaks About Hacking · · Score: 1

    He was prohibited from going anywhere near a computer for years. He's served that part of the sentence beyond custodial too.