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  1. Re:"no danger to the public" BBC on Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But 5 years from now, when eveyrone gets used to using a GPS and some fancy mapping program, what then?

    Paper? what paper? oh! ePaper!
    nope, our laptop got the virus last night. Sorry, WE CAN'T RESCUE YOU UNTIL WE GET OUR LAPTOP FIXED!

    Boy, im not optimistic tonight.
    -Grump

  2. Re:I used one of these in March on CA Secretary of State Bans Diebold Machines · · Score: 1

    In SC, what kinda bugs are there in the system?
    Maybe it was well engineered and not some fly-by-night POS that diebold thing is. Thus, there is no "panties in bunches" situation in SC. Maybe the system has been in SC so long, that everyone has openly accepted it.

    In CA, this is a new system. We are parinoid about it, we are concerned over the accuracy of it (b/c of the 2000 election and the florida mess).

    In CA, we are just unable to overlook the bugs in the electronic voting system. (call it stupidity, call it smart...)

    -Grump

  3. Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water on Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey!
    I'm a pretty bag...its just that i'm filled with "ugly water" because of modern industry.

    -Grump

  4. Re:Oh great on OO.org Selects Its Own Sea Bird · · Score: 1

    I don't think a kid in elementry school/middle school would have a CV.
    and what the heak is a CV? I didn't find out till i got to college.

    There are many highschoolers out there who knwo some html and could use some hosting.
    -Grump

  5. Re:Why were MP ever such a big deal? on Beyond Megapixels · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Heh, when I was taking calsses at a CC, I met a guy who worked as a photo tech at a drug store.
    He told me that APS was just crap...and to avoid it like the plague.

    He also said there was some thru the mail company, seattle film, or something like that. they would send people film, you send the film to them for processing. The quality on the film sucked because it was some different technology, and that you were locked into their scheme because you couldn't get it developed anywhere else..

    Grump

  6. Re:I'd hit it on WormRadar Node Volunteers Help Graph Attacks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what kinda thing?
    he looks much nicer than Michael Jackson.

  7. Re:my regular client software can do most of this on NetStumbler v0.4 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    But can your "regular" lan client track with a GPS and provide a comprehensive list over time?

    That is the power of NS. A regular client just shows "I see this near me right now" You tell it to rescan and it updates the list, and loses all the old "finds"

    NS logs them with a time and (if a GPS is avial) location you found the AP at.

    -Grump

  8. Re:FUCK! $1,092 USD on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 1

    I mean its "high profile" in the sense that it "Catches the eye" more than say, a focus would.

  9. Re:External hard drives - USB/Firewire on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 1

    Yea, thats another tihng I have a destkop for.

    I've had my laptop hdd die on me before.
    I copy all the important dir to the desktop...

    Also, having a desktop is convenient. I can, research on one and hack out an essay on another. Someone comes over and wants to check slashdot? use the desktop!

  10. Re:FUCK! $1,092 USD on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm 20.
    Thinking about it, 4 times is a lose estimate.
    When I was 18, I moved into the dorms to do summer session (damn math placemnet test and 2 questions)
    Then I moved home after 5 weeks,
    Moved in 2 weeks later for fall quarter
    Moved home at the end of the year
    Moved into apt I'm in now.
    I'm moving home again in 6 weeks.

    Joy!
    Here, I'll give you a few tips.
    Keep your life simple. Every item you bring to the dorm/apt, you have to move home eventually.
    Go buy some 20 gal plastic bins. I live out of 5 of them. 2 for clean/dirty clothes. 3 for storage.
    Buy a laptop and a desktop. Laptop is great for going to class (history guy talks so much, I would end up going through 3 notebooks by the end of the quarter) Desktop is to dump files on. (Do you need all that pr0n in lecture? nah. save that for when your alone in the apt.)

    Don't get a sports coupe (like a miata, s2000, SLK, etc) Get a pratical car. It makes it much easier if you are going out with friends/when you move home at the end of the school year.

    Also, with a high profile car (s2000, miata, SLK) it is more prone to get broken into/stolen (which just sucks)

    -Grump

  11. Re:FUCK! $1,092 USD on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 1

    I've moved 4 times in the past 2 years.
    Your point?

    I use my laptop as my primary machine, and I dump large files onto my desktop.

    For instance, I don't need to run around everywhere with movies, and games, and everything else. That stays in the apt. When I do need to move, the desktop (mini tower) fits nicely behind the passenger seat of a car.

    -Grump

  12. Re:FUCK! $1,092 USD on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 1

    "You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work."
    -- Kevin Smith

    She never brought you lasagna at work...your better off without her. Go after the 999,999 other ones out there and find one that will bring you lunch at work.

    -Grump

  13. FUCK! $1,092 USD on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly why I run a desktop...to dump all my files on, so I don't spend a grand just on laptop storage.

    -Grump

  14. Intelligent Road Studs.... on Intelligent Road Studs · · Score: 1

    Great. I sure hope they don't bring this technology to the US. The last thing I want is to see my bio professor stripping by the side of the road....urgh old fat guy.

    -Grump

  15. Re:UCR by way of Jonathan Ocab on Intel Ranks Colleges with Best Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    actually, its compounded worse by people at worst buy and the likes when they tell them "you need this card for wireless"
    so they end up getting a 2nd wlan nic.
    I don't know if its salesman stupidity (possibly be, because if you look at how unknowledgeable some car salesmen are) or they are motivated by comission (which car salesmen are...want a v6 instead of the 4?)

    -Grump

  16. Re:UCR by way of Jonathan Ocab on Intel Ranks Colleges with Best Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    yea i know you.
    If you remember like 2 years ago, I posted with advice on how to overcome the D-lin DWL 650 driver issues (prisim2 chipset) by using the samsung drivers.

    -Grump

  17. UCR on Intel Ranks Colleges with Best Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    woot! ucr is 16 on the list. Glad my student fees of 1800/yr is going to something useful.

    Did I mention 3mbit up/down on the wireless?
    aah, I love ***lecture hall (its a secret! if I told you, then the bandwidth would disappear). Has an 11a AP that nobody uses (cuz all the suckers are on 11b)

    -Happy Grump

  18. Re:A quick comparison with google. on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 1

    go here
    http://a9.com/-/feedback/A9
    and write a complaint then.

    -Grump

  19. A quick comparison with google. on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 2, Funny

    I searched the following keywords:
    sex:
    a9.com: about 8,610,000 hits
    google: about 216,000,000
    goatse:
    a9.com: about 9,930
    google: about 41,
    amishrakefight.org/gfy
    a9.com: about 211
    google: Sorry, no information is available...

    Statistically, 2/3 of the time you are better off using a9.com

    -Grump

  20. Re:Distilled Water? on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    But you have contamination in the laptop and such.

    If you were to douse a room with distilled water, the water would probably be ionized by something in the room, and zap! there goes your electornics.

    -Grump

  21. Re:price? on Invulnerable, Waterproof PDA · · Score: 1

    I don't own an ipod. I'm glad of it.
    I decided to spend 200 dollars on a portable dvd player that can play mp3 cds. Very happy

  22. Re:No admin! on Tracking Changes to a Windows System? · · Score: 1

    "Give them an account named "install" that has admin, and explain that it's very dangerous to use that for anything but installing store-bought CD software."

    But what if they pick up an AOL cd at the store?

  23. As the road shifts. on 'Ice Highway' To Open Earth's Last Frontier · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because the road is a definate scar across the surface of the ice, it would make it much easier to track movements and discontinuties in the ice; which would otherwise be unseen by the naked eye.

    -Grump

  24. Read between the lines... on Russian Group Plans Manned Mars Mission By 2011 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "They plan to have 6 people explore Mars for months before returning to Earth. The Mission would take 3 years, and would depend on fully equipped spacecraft containing its own garden, medical facilities etc."

    So sending 6 people there and bringing them back. Ok, so you got a space craft loaded with a garden, a medical facility, and a way of getting there and back. What they don't tell you is the people are expected to die about 2 months into the jouney, and the exploration on Mars will be done by bots. Afterwards, the robots are to be brought back to earth.

    -Grump

    Maybe that is what is going to happen, oh well. What do I know, I'm taking a history class, not a futre-ory space travel class.

  25. Re:So I guess... on Cisco's LEAP Authentication Cracked · · Score: 1

    no, no, no.
    and lastly, I'm an athiest.