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  1. Looks like there's some phun to be had! on SPF To Be Integrated With MS 'Caller ID' System · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know how to ANI fail with Outlook? Can you email the operator, claim you are blind and tell them "your" email?

  2. Re:A perfect game? on The Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Each batter could hit the first pitch and have it caught by a fielder. Then there would be 27 pitches. And a perfect game can have "balls" thrown, as long as no one reaches base.

    IOW, "perfect game" tells you nothing about the number of pitches thrown.

  3. Re:Anti-rodent bias in humans! on Trained Rats for Mine Detection · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I was unclear with my pronouns. What I meant was: people will be upset when the little buggers die, because of said money and time.

  4. Anti-rodent bias in humans! on Trained Rats for Mine Detection · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sick of this anti-rodent bias in humans! "Plus, if one of them blows up, who's going to cry?" says the poster, and not a one of you will disagree with him, will you?

    Fuckin' speciests, the lot of you!


    On a more serious note, people will be upset about this, if only because it costs time and money to train any animal, even rats.

  5. Overclocking? Why not underclocking!? on A Running Shoe For Agent 86? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I saw this article in the NYTimes this morning, I first asked myself would you be able to underclock it to get a better than 100-hour lifetime of the batteries. I mean, who wants to change their shoes' batteries every four days?

  6. Re:Godwin's Law, no more replies. on Who's Behind the Shower Curtain? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Godwin is a real human, and was recently Interviewed on /.. The other thing about his law is that if someone attempts to invoke Godwin's law, the thread will continue eternally. See Jargon File Mirror.

  7. Reality meets your fears on Growing Teeth with Stem Cell Technology · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, Vagina dentata are real, although exremely rare (scroll down).

  8. Most. Annoying. Story. Ever. on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    But I must admit I really loved BASIC in the day. But Perl runs my life now (or I wish it did!).

  9. naim all the way on AOL Mail To Be Accessible Via IMAP · · Score: 1

    I'm really enjoying naim, actually. Pretty interface, offloads the IM software off of the work computer, can be saved in a screen session, if the mood takes you (it doesn't take me). And the encryption means the boss-lady has no idea :-) SSH is your friend, yes?

  10. Then we are agreed on AOL Mail To Be Accessible Via IMAP · · Score: 1

    And I to gaim

  11. Re:Wish AIM were next on AOL Mail To Be Accessible Via IMAP · · Score: 1

    Shame the AIM Linux Client doesn't work. I've never seen anyone using it (unlike Acroread). I tried it on a Slackware 9 and Debian 3 system and it wanted some archaic (yes, even older than Woody) C libaries.

  12. Re:Ogg Icecast? on NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio · · Score: 1

    I don't use Windows if I can't help it. But the grandparent was asking about a DirectShow filter, and, hark, there is one!

  13. Re:Ogg Icecast? on NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio · · Score: 1

    There is a DirectShow filter for Ogg Vorbis.

    However, it is not OSS, if that matters to your Windows computing needs.

  14. Copyediting? on Custom Debian Distributions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How does one help Debian copy-edit this piece? It really needs it. It was clearly written by a non-native English speaker, which is neither here nor there, but it does need some cleanup...

    I Edit

  15. Re:Non English? on Congress To Force Cable a la Carte Plans · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe they have English en SAP, check if your TV supports it.

  16. Finally! on Comcast Signs Deal To Acquire TechTV · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some explanation to the Disney bid! I couldn't figure out why Comcast wanted a somewhat-struggling content provider in their portfolio, but now I see that They (as in MS) were looking for that key 3-12 year-old demographic.

    "Daddy, Mickey said that all Linux users are terrorists, and that I should kick you in the shins until you buy Windows 2600"

  17. Re:Why not do a non-linear download? on RSS And BitTorrent, Together At Last · · Score: 4, Informative

    BT is non-linear as you suggest. The n'th person gets the n'th chunk. This still allows for (randomly-caused) relative scarcity of certain chunks (although they are not the last ones!), and that is the problem you notice up around 98%.

    No, seriously, try playing a partially complete BT download of an AVI with a player that doesn't look for the index (mplayer, DivX, etc.). The file is missing random chunks, not the end.

  18. Re:.NET framework on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He's not a programmer. This is important. From the end-user perspective, .NET is just a ill-formed buzzword. I do not doubt the idiocy of MFC (although I've never used it), and the improvement that .NET brings (although I've never used it), but as a Windows user, not developer, I can't see the difference or the point in installing the .NET framework.

  19. Which just goes to show... on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... that Longhorn will be even more delayed. As others in the thread have noted, this is exactly what happened with 95 (B and C) and 98SE and ME's entire reason for existance.

    Today we have learned that "new intermediate version" means "omigod, I am up to my eyeballs in delays, and I don't want to look like an ass to my users^W customers"

  20. Re:Photoshop's multi-monitor support on A First Look At The GIMP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Really? You can't move the "active" box to another? I've never had a multimonitor set up myself, but I've tried moving the "monitors" about in the display window (yes, the control panel... may be under "Advanced" on the "Settings" tab).

  21. Re:Photoshop's multi-monitor support on A First Look At The GIMP 2.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Using the display option, you can switch the active screen, and pull the dialogue boxes back.

    HTH

  22. BT has acheived 1mW on An Introduction To Wireless USB (WUSB) · · Score: 1

    Several PDAs use those Class 3 radios, which are 1 mW or less. Most USB dongles are 2.5 or less mW (the ones my company sells are about 2.1, according to the FCC). And don't get me started on the 100m for the measly price of 100mW. Let's see 802.11b get 330 foot range (no special attennas, neither).

  23. Syncronicity on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    And I was just reading this node just about an hour ago. Scary.

    So who's taking bets on each of the given possible scenarios?

  24. Re:Messing with thier system on RFID Tags For The Rich · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You do not need to decrypt a signal that you can repeat. i.e. I can say "Bonjour" without knowing a lick of French, or even the literal meaning of that phrase.

    Now, if there was some kind of challenge-response going on, it would be much harder to deal with, although not impossible, given enough "captures".

  25. Re:I remember... on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 1

    So upgrade to Moz 1.6 (I don't use it for mail, so I can't tell you if it improves the situation or not), or grab Thunderbird. T-bird is nice and small. I use it at home for my school mail and it has integrated Bayesian filtering.