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  1. Reminds me of Ameritech (now SBC) on Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services For Hotmail · · Score: 1

    They stole my privacy with calls during dinner and had the audacity to try to sell it back with a special privacy "service."

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    Kidnapping and ransom.

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  2. Serve 1 day in jail for each spam email sent. on First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems only fair that the convicted felons have to do serious time.

    Perhaps we could have them write:
    "I am sorry for wasting people's time and resourses." Maybe 10 to the power of # spams sent.

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  3. Re:robotic exploration, automated (OS = Windows?) on NASA - Robotic Repair Of Hubble 'Promising' · · Score: 1

    Will Microsoft have Windows for Robots (R) ready in time for this to happen before Bill Gates dies?

    Or will B.G.'s post-life intelligence be the AI for the system?

    Inquiring minds want to know. ..
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  4. only the best students should get computers on Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas · · Score: 1

    I teach chemistry at a large, urban, mainly minority HS near Chicago. Most students don't want to read, write or study. Only the top 10% of the students should get laptops. Many of my students can't "remember" to bring book, paper or pencil. They lose books; think that they can't lose a laptop, then, think again.

  5. So Service Packs are listed as "Preservatives" on The Pure Software Act of 2006 · · Score: 1

    or perhaps there would be a breakdown into Active and Inert and Harmful ingredients?

  6. Overchoice on The Paradox of Choice · · Score: 1

    How many user interfaces am I going to learn in my lifetime. command line, WordStar, Desqview, Windows 3 95 NT 200O XP..., Linux desktops de jour, not to mention cell phones, fax machines, copiers, Palm, Pocket PC, WordPerfect, Word, Lotus 123, Excel, PC File, Access, television, SQL, microwave, washing machine, automobile, Ecco, manual typewriter, electric typewriter, camcorder, SLR, digital camera, Lotus Agenda, PC Outline, GWBASIC, VB, & etc. Gotta stop; getting headache.

  7. What? Slashdot has "leftest bent"? on Congress To Force Cable a la Carte Plans · · Score: 1

    Holy #(@&*@ !!!!! I never knew that. Doesn't seem likely to me. /.ers seem to dis all sides.

  8. I don't actually need privacy.... on Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 3, Funny

    since I stole someone's identity a while back.

    And no I was never a football tight end.

  9. Hugh Heffner's bio browser plug-in on Feds Reject Eolas Browser Plug-In Patent · · Score: 1

    Playboy has announced that Heff wants to market a physical plug-in so that computer users can "interface with their browser in more intimate ways." Analysts speculate that the E.D. drug manufacturers are behind the product, which may be scheduled to release prematurely.

  10. Spam will eventually stop. on Celebrating Spam's Ten-Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Technology will improve. Filtering will work as long as it is "intelligent". Mail systems will improve. Not too long before mail routing will toss out any message without correct verifiable origins. The returns to spammers will dwindle to almost nothing.

  11. I'm looking for a new OS ... on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...for my slide rule.

  12. I'm not surprised. AOL will ultimately fall. on AOL Lays Off 450 In California · · Score: 1

    Netzero and Juno are fine for dial up. If they had placed as many CD-ROMs at Blockbuster and Best Buy they would have almost all the AOL customers by now. Broadband will eventually pound the last nail in the AOL coffin. I sure hope it gets cheaper. My comcast is $47 / month.

  13. But what will MS do? on Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE · · Score: 1

    Will Microsoft buy Novell and SCO and Apple and RedHat and all the other Linux distros? They have the cash.

  14. hybrid cars are the only way to go on Keep Your Eye on the Electric Sparrow · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen powered / battery hybrid -- But the battery replacement cost would still be the uneconomical point. We are way overdue for H power. Another oil embargo like in the '70s might do wonders toward ending imported oil usage that costs $$$ and causes major eco-damage. ---

  15. I need a EM device to block cell phones in class on Build Your Own HERF Gun · · Score: 1

    I am a high school teacher and need a very simple EM device to block cell phone use in my classroom. Anybody know where I can buy one or get plans to build a simple one.

  16. long way to go for that monkey on Think And Click · · Score: 1

    There is a long way to go to get to where the monkey can use WordPerfect function keys.

  17. paypal has worked for me on Online e-Commerce Issues w/ PayPal? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have used it several times, without problems to make payments.

    The Anti-PayPal website is spamming all the Usenet newsgroups. They had a commercial interest in seeing a paypal competitor called c2it which is CitiBank's micropayment initiative. But c2it asked them to pull the ad. c2it had a link on Friday but not today (Monday)

  18. buy it cheaply on Half.com on The Left Hand of Darkness · · Score: 1

    Here is the link: http://www.half.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=5090867& domain_id=1856&meta_id=1

  19. Re:Sequel is not Called the "Right Hand of Light" on The Left Hand of Darkness · · Score: 1

    Please do not treat my previous message as factual.

  20. Sequel is not Called the "Right Hand of Light" on The Left Hand of Darkness · · Score: 2, Informative

    I really enjoyed "Left Hand of Darkness." She is a terrific writer.

    The sequel is "Appendage of Antimatter" and is very hard to find.

  21. goes with my PI ring on Binary Watch · · Score: 1

    I am selling a ring that projects on the wall PI to 85,000 digits. My web site is not up yet.

    If you want one by Christmas please sent $29.95 to
    Brent's PI ring
    P.O. Box 3.14....
    Chicago, IL 10010011001

    No shipping fees and I can promise you delivery before Christmas.

  22. Did you really MASTER any program? on The Power of Multi-Language Applications · · Score: 1

    Your question sounds like you are fairly good at several programming languages, but have not really mastered a major one.

    May I ask why use many programs when perhaps one will do? In your case C++

  23. Support costs drive all the profits out of MS on Microsoft Would Settle For The Children · · Score: 1

    This is a master stroke of punishment.

    Think of all the kids and teachers making support calls to Microsoft. If they don't do a good job at support then you (the att. general) fine them $300 million per month untill they do. Which heavily cuts into profits, knocks their stock down and forces them into Chapter 11. Sun and Oracle partner to "buy" them.

  24. Mr Coffee motherboard on Using Radiators to Cool CPUs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now for sale: The Mr Coffeee motherboard. (Patent Pending.) Yes it works well, but only on processors over 400 MHz. Makes up to 6 cups per hour.

    Retailer and investor inquires welcome.

  25. MS is ticking off their CUSTOMERS on Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    with really high prices!

    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7238508.htm l? tag=pt.msnbc.feed..ne_7238508

    What's the cost of little or no competition?

    For some Microsoft customers, it's paying as much as 107 percent more for the software they buy in volume.

    As previously reported by CNET News.com, Microsoft on Oct. 1 will dramatically change how it licenses software to its largest customers. That change will drive up what they pay for products such as Office XP or Windows 2000 between 33 percent and 107 percent, according to market researcher Gartner.
    Many customers also are finding they have to buy new versions of Office even to qualify for the new licensing program. With market share of more than 90 percent in both desktop productivity applications and operating systems, Microsoft is able to charge more in a way it couldn't in a more competitive market, say analysts and the company's customers.

    Some Microsoft customers--many of which are companies not even halfway through their 2001 fiscal year--are outraged with the changes, which the software giant announced in May.