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  1. Re:I can't say this comes as a surprise on "L33T" Speak Invades Schools · · Score: 1

    I had a teacher in high school that would have done the same thing I think. I never took abreveations or any of the 1337 speak on tests, although my notes were filled with it. (And why not, they are my notes which only I will see).

  2. Re:When users attack... Themselves on When Users Attack · · Score: 1

    Ring (in US) 90volts, 20 hz signal
    On Hook 50V
    Off Hook 5V

    I believe both the on and off hook voltages are DC, but the ringer is AC.

  3. Re:Microsoft makes it especially difficult with IE on Are 99.9% of Websites Obsolete? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why not VMware? A web developer where my dad works uses this with some copies of Netscape 3-6, and IE 3-6 on his box so he can test and see what the pages look like all on one box.

  4. Cash on Police Ask Stores to Take Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Another reason to use cash, no tracibility.

  5. Re:so many diabetics! on Tattoo To Monitor Diabetes · · Score: 1

    I believe the ratio is something like 20:1 (it was like 90-95% type 2, the last 5-10% type 1, at least I think thats what I read a few days ago).

  6. Re:Good Intro class on Auburn University First To Offer Wireless Degree · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that buying one would be considered cheating....

  7. Re:Franklin said: on Want Freedom? · · Score: 1
    I think, but am not sure, the full quote is:

    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
  8. Re:funny on Seagate Overcomes Superparamagnetic Limit · · Score: 1

    I don't know why but:

    It's HAMR time!

  9. Re:Beta in TV on Sony Kills Betamax · · Score: 1
    The article makes it sound like they are only stopping the consumer stuff. It says about 1/2 through the article
    Sony said it would continue to offer repairs and manufacture tapes for the format, adding the move would not affect its Betacam products for the broadcasting industry.

    Plus isn't some of the Betamax stuff that the broadcasters use digital anyway? (I just know that in some catalogs that offer broadcast/production equipment there is Digital Betamax on some items.)
  10. Re:I'm waiting for the donkeys ... on Pig-to-Human Transplants On Their Way · · Score: 1

    When someone calls you a complete ass you can say that only your heart (or whatever transplanted part) is.

  11. Re:Windows on Gamers Drive High-End PC Market · · Score: 1

    I know they aren't are card, but don't forget the SGI systems with up to 2GB of video ram.

  12. Re:Horrible idea on NYC Law Aims To Ban Cell Phones In Theatres · · Score: 1

    Another idea to this is that if the theater people figure out who it is they can take a photo and add you to a no-enter list, and explain that you are no longer welcome for some time. That way if they catch you on the property they could get you for tresspassing.

  13. Re:A solution for the rest of us on Consumer Friendly (or Disney Hostile) DVD Players? · · Score: 1

    Depending on how long it takes to turn on/off, you can toggle power (via the software switch on front) and just hit stop like mad so it doesn't try to start it, or at least this is what I do on my panasonic sometimes.

  14. DVD feature on Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films · · Score: 1

    Wasn't a feature of DVD players to be able to use the rating set in the DVD player and edit the film (or select which film parts to cut or display alternate) dynamicly?

    I seem to recall hearing about this (DVD auto edit) several years ago, can someone confirm?

  15. Breath Button on A Humanitarian Engineering Problem · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have seen this before, just set it up so there is an air tube that the person can blow some of their breath through to activate a button that could sound something.

    I know some people do morse code this way because they can't move their hands or legs.

  16. Re:The real users of filtering? on Interview with DMCA-challenger · · Score: 1

    The school district I graduated from in June had CyberPatrol (Under NT4 w/ microsoft proxy) installed in the proxy. We, my friends, were butting heads with it quite often. The worst was when it was reporting violations and we were looking through the logs (we had Apache running a proxy-server passthrough to the main proxy) and discovered that it was reporting the links on pages as well as the pages themselves. It was also bazar some catogories it used, Limewire under "Anonymous Proxies", Napster same catorgory. At one point we were contemplating the fact that they(CyberPatrol) said that they automaticly blocked sites w/ a notice saying you had to be 18 to view and wondering how we could get that on the schools web server somehow.

    So while the filtering were preventing us from going there it was also showing false positives.

  17. Thoughts on Borrowing ROMs · · Score: 1

    it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

    Hmm. It specificly says internet, does this mean that if I have a CD-R full of rom images I can loan it to my friends and they copy files off of it, then it is legal if I have dumped them myself? Or sharing them off of my computer when I am at college on the schools intranet?

    Just some thoughs.

  18. Re:It is illegal to drive with home-made fuel on Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel · · Score: 1

    If I remember my facts, this seems similar to the dye that is put into agricultual diesel. Road tax isn't paid for the ag diesel and from what I under stand, that dye never seems to go away completely so people looking in the tank can tell if you used the ag diesel at some point.

    Not sure if that was all correct, but I think it is.

  19. Projections on Gaming on the IMAX · · Score: 1

    My friend and I have always wanted to do something like this (the big projection thing). Just borrow the projector and point it on the side of a building. If we hadn't been so fast to return the project after the senior (high school) banquet we would've had dreamcast unreal tounament on a screen 30 ft. diaginal. Although at a school dance I helped DJ we did have a 35 ft diagonal projection of Crazy Taxi 2, more people were watching the player play than dance.

  20. Re:Problems on Low-Tech Cell Phone Blocking · · Score: 1

    I turn on the vibrate function on my phone, but out of fear that for some reason it will ring I turn the dang phone off. It works (although I don't use it for anything serious like a doctor would, my friends can wait).

  21. Re:All I want... on Low-Tech Cell Phone Blocking · · Score: 1

    or have something attached to every chair that listens for the tones the ringer usually makes (I read something about the cell phone's ringers usually making certain frequencies) and have it shock the person and the people around them. It won't stop the phone directly but the people arround it will stop it. After a few times, the person with the phone (or observing someone with a phone that has gone off) will make sure the audible ringer will not be heard. Vibrate shouldn't be affected.

  22. Re:It's only the binaries on No Love From Microsoft For Xbox Modders · · Score: 1

    I'm going out on a limb here, so bear with me and this thought:

    I think that if this was true, than shouldn't people have to pay Microsoft money everytime they put a program they made in Visual Basic/C up for download because it is using Microsoft code/APIs?
    I don't have the license things in front of me right now or I might be able to answer my own question here.

    If they put the code they wrote up, so what? They wrote it and the have the license to it as long as the microsoft code doesn't get posted as well based on what we seen the disclaimers in Microsoft code snippits about using them in GPL projects.

  23. Imported Games on No Love From Microsoft For Xbox Modders · · Score: 1

    They ( modchips ) usually allow you to play imported games from out side your region. I'm not sure if the X-Box has region encoding. (I can't remember right now so this may not apply).
    Some of the mod chips for the original playstation would just let you play imported games but not play copied games.

    This should be legal because a game is purchased and is not copied. The use of the mod chip is to allow you, the owner of game and system, to play the game that you rightfully own.

  24. Re:Illegal to contact dead satellites on Satellite Back From The Dead · · Score: 1

    That is when the sat. is in Mode B/C, 70cm up, 2 m down.

    When the sat is in Mode A, 10m up, 2 m down, this doesn't apply.

    Under the Mode B/C thing:
    Uplink: 432.125 - 432.175 MHz *See Note

    The note explains all. Mode A doesn't have this problem. The frequency selected for the uplink in the 70cm band is the problem that the article seems to mention. It doesn't seem to mention anything about the other frequencies.

    Vance - KC7QHH

  25. Truck not SUV on The Ultimate S.U.V. · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its FAQ says that:

    The MaxiMog(TM) is a Truck not an SUV and requires a driver's license for a heavy (over 12,500lbs) vehicle with air brakes.

    So I doubt that we would see these being driven by soccer moms. Although it would be cool for a road trip.