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  1. Re:Constitutional questionability on Spammers Lose Court Battle Against Univ. of Texas · · Score: 1

    However, what you are saying would mean that the millions of bots out there spamming people shouldn't be able to be filtered either because they "could" be from a person. they simply do not want that spam going into their email system because it takes up space, bandwidth, etc... if the students want to recieve that email, they can use a service that they have the control over.

  2. Re:Uhhh... on Satellite Easter Eggs · · Score: 1
    *Speed of the Earth in Orbit


    Yeah, relative to the sun, but what about within the galaxy, or within the universe? our solar system moves much faster than that through the galaxy, the galaxy moves faster through the universe, in relation to other galaxies, of course.
  3. First Post! on Optical Computer Made From Frozen Light · · Score: -1, Troll

    This would be cool though.

  4. Re:But how? on Survey Reveals Americans Support Blog Censorship · · Score: 1

    The only issue with some of these things, addresses and phone numbers are, for the most part, widely available online. i.e. give me your phone number, i can go to anywho.com and look up your name and the address that phone number is registered to. take the address to google maps, i know how to get to where you live.

    What if the person simply linked to one of these resources? does that break privacy laws??
    the information is already available for anyone to see.

  5. Re:Maybe this will help Outlook/Exchange suck less on Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks · · Score: 1

    If your thinking of Bloatus Notes as an improvement, yes it's more secure and easy to use, but it is slow, terribly slow.

  6. Re:But if there's such a right on Is Blogging Journalism? · · Score: 1

    However, violating a contractual agreement, i.e. an NDA, is breach of contract, and Apple wants to know who is in breach of the contract, otherwise, why even have the NDA's?? It'd be like saying "hey, you , you want some corporate secrets, here you go, give them to anyone" While i don't agree with what apple did here, i do see why they did it.

  7. Re:Why the fee for hi-res on NYPL Digital Gallery Open to Public · · Score: 1

    No, not free 'as in' beer, free beer.

  8. Re:Why not Internet Archite on NYPL Digital Gallery Open to Public · · Score: 1

    They don't do that because 99% of what they'd be archiving would be pr0n.

  9. Re:Killer feature on Face Recognition Comes to Cameraphones · · Score: 1

    For all those real live women you date. Yah Right. :P

  10. Re:I hate professors on MGM v. Grokster: Here's Why P2P is Valuable · · Score: 1

    Ok, so you go to the library and check out a book, what "reasonable" safeguards are there that you won't copy that book and keep a copy of it without paying for the book?

    Do you have a VCR? What is there to prevent you from videotaping tv shows and making copies of the tape to distribute to friends? Or movies, etc...

    The internet is not ruled by the US, and the absolute best that can be done is to make it illegal to posess the software, but they will neve r stop the use. Just like legislation can't stop telemarketers, spammers, etc.

  11. Re:oh well... on Attempt to Apply Decency Standards to Cable/Satellite Television · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but no nudity or scantily clad women, that is offensive. they now need black boxes over those parts. thanks FCC.

  12. Re:STFU on Attempt to Apply Decency Standards to Cable/Satellite Television · · Score: 1

    Actually, the one i find funny is what the tv people bleep out, if someone says "God Damnit" they bleep out God.

  13. Re:After introduction of G5 on Next G5 Multitasks Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    By Symantec nonetheless

  14. Re:230 terabytes? Please on Wal-Mart's Data Obsession · · Score: 1

    Figured i may as well put it out there for everyone who's interested. go to http://lpdaac.usgs.gov/main.asp go to the EOS Data Gateway. This has media options plus the FTP downloads. otherwise the Datapool is full of free ftp data.

  15. Re:LSB? on Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implemenation · · Score: 1

    I think they really meant to say LSD not LSB

  16. Re:230 terabytes? Please on Wal-Mart's Data Obsession · · Score: 1

    50 TB, is that all???? a place i used to work, the EROS DataCenter, USGS. had over 1 petabyte of publicly available over FTP satellite imagery. oh, and if you need DDS4 Tapes or DLT Tapes, if you order the free data on the tapes, they will ship them to you for free, you don't pay for the tapes, and you get to keep them. :)

  17. Re:Grr! on Amazon Sued Over Recommendation Patent · · Score: 1

    You obviousely haven't taken science classes, it's called H2O because 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen atom makes it up. with only 3 atoms, there is no way to have 2 water molecules

  18. Re:Grr! on Amazon Sued Over Recommendation Patent · · Score: 1

    Just a few corrections. You would combine 2 Hydrogen ATOMS and 1 Oxygen ATOM to make a water Molecule.

  19. Re:Why is ISP mail readding bad? on Court To Reconsider Decision On ISP Mail Snooping · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How would this help prevent spam, with all the spam filters, etc... already in place, your ISP isn't going to read your email and delete all of the spam for you, especially not if it is getting past their spam filters.

    it is an invasion of privacy, they are service providers, not regulators.

    Either way, carnivore sees everything you do anyway, but being from a small town with a small town ISP, i'd rather not have my neighbor who works at the ISP reading my email.

    Especially since there may be usernames,passwords, etc.. emailed from institutions like my bank contained in those emails, and no, the bank doesn't give the option of the emails being sent encrypted.

  20. Re:who was the holdout on Spyware Fines OKed By House · · Score: 2, Informative

    RTFA.

    "The House voted 399-1 to approve the bill. Rep. Ron Paul (news, bio, voting record), R-Texas, who often votes against spending measures, cast the lone dissenting vote Tuesday. "

  21. Re:dangerous on Smart Cars Tell You About Road Signs · · Score: 1

    You won't need to worry about that, the car will know the speed limit and not allow you to exceed it. :-)

  22. Re:Er.. on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 1

    because this way M$ can't sue them for illegally modifying their copyrighted software under the DMCA.

  23. Re:Point the finger at yourself on Curing a Corporate Virus Infection · · Score: 1

    The only issue with that theory is that some places, management doesn't allow that tight of restrictions.
    i worked at a gov't facility, in which one department (the one i was in) fixed things ahead of time, i.e. patches, etc...

    we had another, larger, it department, that was not allowed to patch unless the user requested that the patches be done to their machine. this was stemming from back in windows nt where installing a patch could break things.

    the larger dept. had more virus breakouts, etc... because they weren't allowed to patch, and users didn't know that they had to request that it be done. the users thought that the patches were pushed out automatically.

    talk about a catch-22.

  24. Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. on Not Life After Death -- Email After Death · · Score: 1

    The client's $20/mo. guaranteed would probably ensure that the company stayed open, depending on how many gullible people they find.

    I mean, come on people, the internet has been around for 20 or so years, you really think it will be the same in 60 years when you die???

  25. Re:hmm...might this be the point of time... on The End Of DirectX As We Know It · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Every API is just as good, and you know why? Because every API has the goal of allowing access to the underlying structure of the GPU."

    That is not what makes the API just as good. if the code were done with opengl, then people on macintosh, linux, etc... could easily port the game, without having to pay fee's to M$ for the use of the new libraries on the respective platforms.

    For example. RTCW, Enemy Territory, WWIIOnline, etc... use opengl, so i can play it on all the machines i own, rather than only on 1.