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  1. Re:Impressive on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power · · Score: 1

    Match this up with cold fusion and we'll have a winner!

  2. Re:Yay on Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters · · Score: 1
    Has anyone ever been arrested for sneaking food into a theatre though?
    And who would arrest you for what? Last I knew, there were no illegal food consumption in theater laws. The most the theater could do would be to kick you out.
  3. Re:Recycle on Making Use Of Old LCDs? · · Score: 1
    besides, if you're that serious about wasting the shit you should be banging it anyway
    As a non-drug user, how exactly does one have sex with coke? Or is there another definition for banging that proves how little I know?
  4. Re:Why not go all out? on iPod Mini Custom Installation In A Ford Explorer · · Score: 1

    I saw that exact show last night on TLC. When I saw this article, the first thing that I thought was, who is Jessie, it was Lawyer that got it. Overall it was a nice job on a H2, but I didn't think he got much for his $100g. The company that did the work was 310 Motoring.

  5. Re:I wonder... on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 1

    It was a joke guys. :) You really can tell when you are joking with geeks...

  6. I wonder... on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 5, Funny

    how high a 10kg super bouncy ball would bounce going 4000mph in low gravity. Think it would bounce hard enough to hit the space station?

  7. Re:How to control it... on Scotts Testing Genetically Modified Grass · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Until an entire field is covered in it...then several...then a large township...etc. It's not a problem to kill a golf course green with a shovel or burning it, but are you going to do the same with fields and larger?

    Look up the history of Kudzu for an example of something that once was thought of a great idea, now everyone hates it.

  8. Re:Really hard to understand for someone on Probable Solution Found for ECC2-109 Challenge · · Score: 1
    Worldwide non-NSA talent vastly outweighs NSA talent, I would wager dollars to donuts.
    Which is where the CIA fits in, helping to "level" the playing field, getting rid of the competition.
  9. Re:Dell PowerConnect on Gigabit Networking for the Home? · · Score: 1

    You would be incorrect then, assuming that 350 was ment to be meters. The IEEE 802.3ab standard stated 100m over UTP over ordinary Cat-5 cable. STP and coax still has a limit of 25m. It's not like the signal magically stops when it gets to the limit. You might be able to push it 350 feet (100 meters = ~328 feet). If you want reliable performance > 100m, you will have to go with fiber.

  10. Re:I use ettercap on What Network Sniffing Tools Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    I looked at Ettercap a few months ago. At that time, I thought it just wasn't there yet. I didn't have the opportunity to spend hours reading about how to do things and it wasn't the most intuitive thing out of the box. The port stealing function was an interesting feature, but unfortunately I was never able to successfully get it to work.

    Maybe newer versions have improved on it though.

  11. Re:sniffing, etc. on What Network Sniffing Tools Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    It looks like basically an all-in-one solution where you can deploy at a point within your enterprise, either remotely or locally, that will do the data capture for you. Then using their console, query that data. Think of it as running Ethereal via a remote X-Window session. Except probably a lot more efficient as only the required data would be transmitted instead of the window image.

    Is it worth $25K? Donno. Would it be useful for a small company where the admin could just walk down the hall to capture the data, probably not. Would it be benificial for a large enterprise that needs to capture data remotely? Possibly.

    My company has this handheld tester and have found it very valuable on numerous occasions.

  12. Re:Good... down with Real on Real Problems · · Score: 3, Informative

    And that makes it spyware how exactly? Spyware captures personal information about you our your computer usage and transmits it back to a third party. Most software updates just query some type of a file to see what the current software version/build number is. If the two don't match, offer the person a chance to update. Nothing nefarious, but then again I don't wear a foil hat.

    BTW: Disabling the updates is easy as going into the preference, changing to update manually and disable update notification on startup.

  13. Re:Back in the day... on 3D, FPS File Manager · · Score: 1

    Possibly, but then all you would have to do is find "The One", plug him into the network. Sure in the end he'll die, but at least your little underground world would be safe for the time.

  14. Re:Ah lawyers! The next big thing! on SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix · · Score: 1

    Oh second thought, ignore my message above. I'm an idiot.

  15. Re:Ah lawyers! The next big thing! on SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix · · Score: 1

    If your JD is in CS, then yes it's worthless (unless you are going to be a professor at a university teaching CS classes).

  16. Re:blah... on SBC Park Plans A Giant 802.11 Hotspot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Becasuse life is short enought that you shouldn't have to check your e-mail every 4 hours. Enjoy the game. It's called entertainment. If it was work, you wouldn't pay $20 for the opportunity. If it was something critical, they would have called you instead of sending your e-mail.

  17. blah... on SBC Park Plans A Giant 802.11 Hotspot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe someday people will go to the ballgame to watch the game, not to check on their stocks, surf for porn, view the nannycam, or whatever else they think they need a WiFi network for.

  18. Re:Mugging on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 1

    Speaking of tasers...

  19. Re:Learn to live with it on Fighting the Forced Ranking of Employees? · · Score: 1
    and ranked within our department (~1000 people)
    I'd hate to work there when my birthday came around. It'd cost 2 weeks paychecks just for the doughnuts for everyone...
  20. Re:He was in a casino on Lawyers Using Databases To Grab Clients · · Score: 1
    He was in a casino [s]o I'm going to guess he is over 21
    Isn't the legal gambling age 18 and the drinking age 21? The Bellagio states on their website you have to be 18 to enter the casino, but lists exceptions for under 18 people. Other casinos probably have similiar rules. If he looked like he might have been 18 but was under 18, the casino might not have questioned him unless he started to gamble.
  21. Re:windows prank on Pranks for April Fool's Day 2004? · · Score: 1

    This would actually be funny (well, actually no it wouldn't, but anyways...) if that led somewhere. However, our friend Mr. Goatse hasn't been around for sometime, and even that IP address leads to a domain suspension notice.

  22. Re:Ummm on Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years · · Score: 1

    What is this nucular word you are using?

  23. Re:I want my old google back on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1

    I browse at 1024x768. The max my monitor will do is 1280x1024. At the higher resolution, a good 1/3 of the screen is blank. I have no problem with them keeping the ads seperate from the results, but 3-4 inches is excessive.

  24. I want my old google back on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I noticed the new interface just before this story was posted. I don't really like it. I much prefered the old "tabbed" interface. While the newer interface is minimalistic, it almost looks amaturish.

    For instance, Google groups search result pages looks like they are formatted for a 800x600 resolution screen. Viewing it at a higher resolution forces a large white space between the search listings and the ads. I would have much prefered for the results to take up this space, fitting more results on the page at a time. If the group name is long, then the "View Thread" becomes unnatural looking wrapped between two lines. (example)

    Maybe it's just new, but hopefully it'll grow on me.

  25. Re:Depends on the Carrier on How (and how well) do Wireless "Worldphones" Work? · · Score: 1

    Or just tell them that you are traveling abroad and they will unlock it from day 1. T-Mobile usually has sub-1 day turnaround time for sending you the unlock codes via e-mail...or at least it was that way when unlocking 2 of my phones.