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  1. MOD PARENT DOWN TROLL on Extended RotK Expected December 14 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Warning: the third invite link is a google cache link to goatse. Very clever.

  2. Vonage eliminates the need for this on VoIP 911 Emergency Service: Problems and Fixes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Through the Vonage web interface you set your physical address so that when you call 911 they know where you are just like any normal POTS.

  3. Re:Typo on Serial ATA for Mini Hard Drives Planned · · Score: 1

    Well that would be cereal, but your joke is good anyways.

  4. Re:Praise God on Pennsylvania Child Porn Act Overturned · · Score: 1

    Of course, IANAL, but it seems to me that it doesn't matter if the law was created to restrict freedom of religion, only that it does restrict it (if said religion teaches that sort of thing).

  5. Re:Killing Robots on Robot Eats Flies to Generate Power · · Score: 1

    Stop defending the bugs. We killed them before this was made. Now, we've just found a way to kill a lot of them without much effort.

  6. Sounds like nothing to me on New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name · · Score: 1
    I am not a patent expert (IANaPE), but to me it seems like this describes any search engine. And how long has a search engine been in existence? Here's the full text for those who don't want to click the link:
    A universal electronic resource denotation, request and delivery system allows a user to locate information on a distributed computer system or network such as the Internet by knowing or guessing a short mnemonic alias of an electronic resource without the user having to know the physical or other location denotation such as the universal resource locator (URL) of the desired resource. The system hardware includes a client computer, a local server, a central registry server, a value added server, and a root server. The universal electronic resource denotation, request and delivery system supports a personal aliasing (nicknaming) feature, a universal resource accessing feature for finding location information such as URLs relating to a query term, a "see also" feature for including information about related documents or resources within the record of a resource, a feature for updating local servers and client machines by periodically deleting those records which have changed, a "try again" and "mirroring" feature for aiding a user in obtaining the resource under adverse hardware or software conditions, and an authentication and administration feature that allows a user to administer the aliases and related data which pertain to his/her resources.
  7. Just a Little While Longer... on Solar Powered Computers Planned for Rural India · · Score: 1

    Before computers start using us as power sources. But they're doing it out of order! The machines are suppose to wage war first!

  8. Darl McBride on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because, after all, some of the code SCO wrote is in Linux. Now Darl, don't be modest, show us what you've contributed!

  9. Re:How to reboot on Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy · · Score: 1

    IIRC, it's Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-start. Isn't that from Contra on the NES?

  10. Re:Not what I'd expect...? on The Underground History of American Education · · Score: 1
    McDonald's now has pictures of the food on the cash register instead of text.
    I'm not sure what McDonald's cash register you've seen, but all the ones I've seen (about 10 different stores) are all touch-screen, DOS terminals with acronyms for different items because of space limitations.
  11. Re:How is this different that widespread surveilla on Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS · · Score: 1

    My point is that civilized (however subjective that word may be) governments do execute individuals.

  12. You want a gmail invite? on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want a gmail invite you just have to search on Google. Google is giving invitations away a lot more now to current subscribers. Visit my website, I have 5 gmail invites left to give. And I'm giving them away for free, no strings attached. Gmail is still in beta too, so that's probably why it's currently invitation only. Not sure if they have plans to make it open to all though.

    Btw, POP access is currently in the works, though IMAP would indeed be nice. I'll make a suggestion.

  13. Re:How is this different that widespread surveilla on Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS · · Score: 3, Informative
    They also arrest and execute criminals.
    No civilized governments do that
    And I suppose the State of Texas has those needles in the execution rooms just for show, right?
  14. For Your Information on Mozilla's Sunbird Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Mozilla does not release their products under GPL. They have their own license, the Mozilla Public License (MPL).

  15. Re:Already Downloaded and on My PC on A Sound of Thunder · · Score: 1

    I think it was included as part of the software/driver package. I remember having it on my 4.1 surround sound card.

  16. Already Downloaded and on My PC on A Sound of Thunder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What? Doesn't Creative still package Sound of Thunder with their audio cards?

  17. Re:Harassment? on Automated DMCA Notices Still Full of Lies · · Score: 1

    I am not a lawyer either, but harassment is very similar to frivilous lawsuits, which isn't illegal in the United States but is elsewhere (can some Euroasians/Canadians help me out here?)

  18. I can attest to this on Body and Brains of Gamers Probed · · Score: 1

    When I used to play EverQuest, my wife said I was different when I played it. Edgy, aggrivated, and just plain mean, though I really saw it as any other thing: I was focused and she bothered/interrupted me frequently.

  19. Of COURSE Britain is the leader on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 1

    After all, they do have James Bond.

  20. Re:Last Appearence? on "Scotty" Gets Walk of Fame Star · · Score: 1
    until he's able to save his pattern in the transporter buffer overflow
    What's even more remarkable is the fact that buffer overflows are still existent to be exploitable. Scotty is a black hat!
  21. Re: Not as a back end on Replacing FileMaker with Free Software? · · Score: 1

    Ha, I never said I designed it. I do know the programmers used Microsoft's ASP GUI tool to create the pages in the original software, then IBM WebSphere to create the new software. While the old software seemed primitive, it is faster and more stable than the new software.

  22. Why Access? on Replacing FileMaker with Free Software? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Access is horribly slow for any real database usage (i.e. more than a few dozen people). Before you mod me down as flamebait, you should realize the company I work for uses ODBC for all of the database needs, and uses ASP/JSP as the interface. The performance sucks. Get anything more than 20-30 people using it at once and the server comes to a crawl. FYI, the setup is used about 70% for data retrieval, and about 30% for data entry. And, for some reason the coders decided it would be good to use IBM WebSphere for the new interface, but still keep the ODBC server.

  23. Uses... on NIST Unveils Chip-scale Atomic Clock · · Score: 0

    I want an atomic clock on my wrist.

  24. Re:Want to Listen to Music for free (legally)? on RIAA Grinds Down Individuals in the Courtroom · · Score: 1

    Yes, it has been out for years, I've been listening to it for quite some time. But it clearly was not mentioned and it's very possibly at least one person reading doesn't know what it is.

  25. Re:Ugly Americans on Tech Support Levels Dropping · · Score: 1

    I suppose you and I are different in that respect. If a customer requests my name and extension, I always give it to them.