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  1. Re:IE on Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office · · Score: 1

    If your bank doesn't offer this, maybe you should look around for a new bank?

    My employment doesn't support Direct Deposit. Should I find a new job? I hate going to the bank.

  2. Re:IE on Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office · · Score: 1

    So, what bank do you know works with Mozilla, or Konq?

    I use Safe Credit Union. It's really nice if you're in the Sacramento, California area (I think they're most of Northern California actually).

  3. Better Headline on France: No Google Text Ads For Trademarked Words · · Score: 1

    Magistrate Masturbates

  4. Re:My story on Can You Sue Over Loss of Personal Information? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've _filled out_ several credit card offers and sent them in. No credit card sent. How lucky it would be to be you :). Although I'll surely be changing my tone in a few years when I have more credit.

  5. Re:If it's possible to cheat on Half Life 2 Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

    With a custom OpenGL driver (or an OpenGL wrapper), one can count the number of vertices a model has when it is drawn, and then subsequently assist in moving the mouse towards the model location. Do you want to hide models from being drawn? That would be a real fun game of trying to find invisible players.

  6. Re:Look at my email addy... on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MythTv can auto-skip TV commercials if you want to invest in a PVR.

  7. Re:Interesting.. on Essay Grading Software For Teachers · · Score: 1

    This thing seems to work good. I entered 5-6 of my essays I've written over the years and the ones I felt best about writing scored higher (political science ones lower, stuff I'm interested in higher). The longer essays seemed to get better "grades," but I'm expecting this is a side effect of the prompt asking for a short essay (500 words) and me giving it 1000+ word essays.

    All-in-all, this is great work, but I'm not sure I'd trust it to grade my own papers alone since it doesn't know anything about what the papers are supposed to be about, and would need to pass the turing test before that could happen. They are still pretty far from doing that.

  8. applications for slashdot comments on Essay Grading Software For Teachers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure that there's more than enough corpus of comments for "professional readers" to give this system enough data, because a lot of people post on slashdot.

    In summary, my post will get +5 Insightful based on this fabulous rating software because Natalie Portman likes grits eating goatse.cx (I need to get features of other comments in there!)

  9. Re:Huge profit on Testing The Right To Resell Downloaded Music · · Score: 1

    It's statutory damages, not actual worth that they can sue you for. The government (with special lobbying from the RIAA I'm sure) is the one that set the fee for "IP Theft" that high.

  10. Re:The disturbing thing is... on Spammer Hangout's Membership Roster Left Exposed · · Score: 1

    I work for a relatively "small" dial-up ISP (of around 10k customers), and we've just put up more than 4 top of the line computers (several thousand each) for email servers processing the mail. 3 weren't enough because of all the spam. With the ever-shrinking profit margins, the costs for spam does add up because it costs bandwidth too. Lots of it.

  11. Re:I don't mean to be a troll.. on Aethera 1.0 · · Score: 1

    you're right. I guess I just jumped to conclusions.

  12. Re:Looks too much like XP on Aethera 1.0 · · Score: 1

    "I don't recall ever having to install "CRITICAL SECURITY UPDATES" for Mozilla because of some worm going around." Please give me your IP addy. Check this out: one, two, three. I can go on if you want...

    I wouldn't declare upgrading to post-1.0 Mozilla a "CRITICAL SECURITY UPDATE". I would call it a "CRITICAL USABILITY UPDATE."

  13. I don't mean to be a troll.. on Aethera 1.0 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ..but the menus on their web page don't render properly on Mozilla Firebird, which is standards compliant. It looks fine in IE, and I'm sure in Konqueror. I wonder if the developers fell into the "Our web page looks good in the 95% of the world that use IE (and Konqueror), so that's good enough."

    I would validate the page and look for the error, but it's been slashdotted since I viewed the page for the first time.

  14. Trillian, $25 or $30 with MSN support* on Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing · · Score: 1

    End users paying to connect to MSN messenger using non-microsoft software. A real good idea.

    (* I don't think Trillian should charge people for the MSN component since it's completely seperate from the rest of Trillian. I don't use MSN, so why should I have make Cerulean Studios to pay for it?)

  15. Re:I'm sorry to say this. on Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I paid my $25 so I could be connected on AIM in addition to ICQ without using another client (and not to mention that the ICQ client got really bloated, and the AIM one is really stupid). I don't use Trillian Pro for MSN, so why should they get a cut of my money? If they block Trillian from using MSN, then I'm not going to use it. I don't now, but if someone uses MSN and no others, I'm not going to load another client since I've already seen the light of a multi-service client.

  16. Does it work yet? on Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To me, it just seemed like a general description of the RE process that people able to RE already know. EPIA M boxes are already good for small PVR boxes using mythtv when a Hauppauge PVR card is added (and a larger power supply). If the MPEG decoder can be used, I'm sure that even the lesser models of EPIA will be able to be used.

  17. Re:is the image resize still active? on Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    you can type about:config in the url bar to get them all. Most preferences were removed to make the configuration dialogs less confusing actually.

    And viola the instrument.

  18. Re:is the image resize still active? on Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing = false

    viola.

  19. Re:My guess = October 8 on Guessing Linux 2.6.0 Release Date · · Score: 1

    I guess October 13.

  20. Re:Anyone else finding 64 bit cpus disappointing? on Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    And what's your point? AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ are clocked at 2.2Ghz (I think), and run equivilantly to a 3Ghz Intel.

    And in all actuality 64bit compiting is slower than 32bit computing because in order to transfer the address of a single location in memory, you have to send 64 bits instead of just 32. Since memory is being read or written to a lot, this adds up.

  21. Re:Not JavaScript!!! on JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook · · Score: 1

    php variables are not inherited into local scopes from the global scope. You need to use $_GLOBALS["varname"] or put global $varname; .. nevermind I see your point.

  22. Re:Remember who's paying for this! on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly, it's BBC in America :).

    I'm sure it's not like the regular BBC channel if there is one. It seems more like it just uses the same set of programming that the BBC produces. I've never been out of America so I can't comment.

    Here's the next 24 hours of programming if you're interested in comparing (courtesy of tvguide.com)

    3:00 PM Monarch of the Glen
    4:00 PM Ground Force America
    5:00 PM Faking It
    6:00 PM To Be Announced
    6:40 PM The Office
    7:20 PM Coupling
    8:00 PM Faking It
    9:00 PM To Be Announced
    9:40 PM The Office
    10:20 PM Coupling
    11:00 PM Ground Force America
    12:00 AM Faking It
    1:00 AM 3 Non-Blondes
    1:40 AM The Office
    2:20 AM Coupling
    3:00 AM BBC World News
    3:30 AM Parkinson Starburst
    4:00 AM BBC World News
    4:30 AM Parkinson Starburst
    5:00 AM BBC World News
    5:30 AM Parkinson Starburst
    6:00 AM What Not to Wear
    6:30 AM Bargain Hunt
    7:00 AM House Invaders
    7:30 AM Ground Force America
    8:30 AM House Invaders
    9:00 AM House Invaders
    9:30 AM Ground Force
    10:00 AM Changing Rooms
    10:30 AM What Not to Wear
    11:00 AM Inspector Morse
    1:00 PM Monarch of the Glen
    2:00 PM Changing Rooms
    2:30 PM House Invaders

  23. Typo in Headline on E-Pass Can Resue Patent Case Against Palm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...The editors must be even less attentive than normal.

  24. Re:Remember who's paying for this! on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1

    Thank you! I've finally figured out why episodes of So Graham Norton on BBC America cut to commercial without any warning. It always seems like they cut out the good stuff too.

  25. Re:Maybe they can provide us (developers) some HW? on HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux · · Score: 1

    Not to be mean or anything, but I don't think saying you "won" an Epia and Hauppage from the companies is going to make them send you any more "prizes."

    I'm fairly certain that the MythTV developers have a PVR or three, but I do know that they have pretty good PVR-250/350 support from reading their mailing list. Donating hardware to open-source driver and/or software makers is definately a good investment.

    If any hardware makers see this and are in the giving mood and have more than one to donate to the freevo guys, I'm sure the mythtv guys would be more than happy to have one too. Their website is http://mythtv.org/, and http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev/ to sign up for the developer mailing list.