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  1. Re:Demo Link on Alphanumeric Phone Keypad - Fastap · · Score: 1

    Shift-@ produces & in the demo. Shift, however, appears to work like caps lock - you have to press it again to turn it off. (so to type Blah you'd press shift b shift l a h)

  2. Re:Big Whoop on Megaspammer Monsterhut Loses On Appeal · · Score: 1

    my yahoo mail account gets tons of spam... in fact, 99.999% of the email there is spam. My real account is fairly spam-free, but still gets lots of junk mail... damned all_students mailing list at my uni... they love sending worthless garbage to it, often multiple times... I believe (but am too lazy to check) I said that most of the email I got I didn't want, not that most of it was spam :-D

  3. Re:Big Whoop on Megaspammer Monsterhut Loses On Appeal · · Score: 1
    Spoketh the poster...
    Sigh....between spam and virii this last week, I don't think I really wanted to see 10% of my email.
    10%? You're lucky... I doubt I wanted to see 90-100% of my email...
  4. WHAT?!? on Instant Messenger or Instant Advertiser? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it has advertising... but SmarterChild (which is an ActiveBuddy, not teamed up with or whatever the article blurb states) is supported by that advertising... and I use SmarterChild all the time... My Trillian log for him mostly has me say "spell" and some misspelled word. ...and SmarterChild isn't exactly targeted towards children, the main features being news headlines, weather, stocks... *sigh* I should know better than to expect accuracy here...

  5. Re:The Irony - Palm knew about this patent on Palm/3Com Graffiti A Patent Infringement on Xerox · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you're overqualified.

  6. Re:Goodbye Slashdot on @Home Network Approaching Shutdown · · Score: 1, Informative

    Use http://slashdot.org/index.pl?light=1

    It'll load faster over sucky dialup :-D

    Luckily, I won't be joining the dialup masses - yet. I'm at school. My parents, however, will. And guess who gets to talk them through changing settings over the phone? *sigh*

  7. Re:Oh, great... on Spammers Stoop To New Low · · Score: 1

    Must be a very weird Mac if @ isn't shift two. Perhaps you should invest in a keyboard localized to whatever your locality is?

  8. Re:Well... on Public Outcry Over Popup Ads · · Score: 1

    Well, I use Guidescope which is basically Junkbuster with a nice interface and an autoupdating block list. Proxomitron crashes my machine too often.

  9. Re:Not true on Prevailing Against Michigan Censorship · · Score: 1

    No, you didn't say it. Replace "violent video games" with "periodicals that offend me" and killers with rapists, and you have a good summary of your post though.

  10. Re:It's the same stuff that makes the GPL valid on Red Hat Working w/UCITA Backers to Change Law · · Score: 1

    Uh... No.

    If, when lacking a license, you cannot use something, how can I read a book? I havn't yet seen a book (except for software manuals, books with CDs, etc) that has a license anywhere in it.

    I can use a book I bought. Sell or give it to someone else. Shred it. Burn it. Whatever, as long as I don't copy it. Thus, copyright.

    If the GPL ceased to exist, I could still use the software I have. I just can not distribute it (or "derivitive works") anymore. (IANAL, this is not legal advice, blah blah blah, why are you still reading?)

  11. Re:Wrong target on I Won A Lawsuit Against A Spammer · · Score: 1
    Sent a message to the rest of the old women who try to spray you with perfume as you walk by.

    Maybe if you showered they wouldn't spray you with perfume? :-D

    Anyway, I don't see what would be wrong with going after this spammer... even though the company is (almost?) dead. It sets a precedent.

  12. Re:Damnit. OT on A Different Kind Of Digital Divide · · Score: 2
    This post has been brought to you by the lette Z.

    And this one by the letter 'r'

    Sorry, I Just had to.

  13. 2001-05-13 13:13:13 on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1

    2001-05-13 13:13:13 (That's a Friday)

  14. Re:I'll tell you what the problem is on FCC Considering 10-Digit Dialing [UPDATED] · · Score: 1
    1 signifies dialing a long-distance call, a toll call in all cases except 1-800, 1-500, 1-888, 1-8NN.

    Nope. 1-860 is most (geographically) of Connecticut. (1-203 is most by population, I think)

  15. Re:iBook on Sony's Latest VAIO Looks Like Barf · · Score: 1

    The original G3 powerbook has a fan, it blows out the small slot at the front bottom.

    However, it's useless and normally off.

    The 3400c (and the original PowerBook G3, which is just a 3400c with a different processor) is fairly sturdy. The PowerBook 100 series was very sturdy. (My 160 survived a 3 foot fall onto cement with only slight cosmetic damage. Although I think the scratch added to the case, since it was just a gray box.)

  16. Re:CBC Website on IOC Clamps Down on Athlete Web Diaries · · Score: 1

    Who needs a sat.? I'm near the border (upstate NY) and get CBC on cable. Compared to CBC's coverage of the Olympics is so much better then NBC's.

  17. Re:Heavens forfend on 3Com To Charge $20 For Palm OS 3.5 · · Score: 1
    will make do with what they have or they'll get the upgrade by other means, e.g. through warez sites.

    Or by signing up to be a developer and downloading the ROM dump intended for the emulator... plenty people have done this already.

  18. Re:potential headaches on 19" Monitor Goes Portable · · Score: 1

    Virtual Boy never gave me headaches... and I've turned off auto pause a few times.



    Mario's Dream Tennis kicked ass.

  19. Anal Correction on How Good Of A Unix Is Mac OS X ? · · Score: 1
    Kagi is just a shareware registration/payment service. I don't believe they program anything, 'cept maybe the little program that deals with payment.

    Kaleidoscope is made by Greg Landweber and Arlo Rose, and kicks ass.

  20. Re:i like the dept. on MacOS X Beta Sneak Preview · · Score: 1
    What happened to waiting until the software was of sufficient quality to warrant release, aka, v1.0 == bug free?

    Ah, but it's a public beta that we are waiting for the release for. Thus, bugs are expected. Or do we need a refresher on the definition of a beta test?

    If I'm getting a beta version, I'd rather have it now with more bugs then later with fewer. If I'm getting a release version, I want no bugs, and I'll wait.

  21. Re:..hostile to organized religion in general.. on Hackers And Mysticism? · · Score: 1

    Ah, but arn't you pigeonholing geeks into the hole marked "can't be pigeonholed"?

  22. Re:Seriously... on New Sony Palm, With Removable Memory Stick · · Score: 1

    There is also a GPLed one called Phlegm Hack. You can drag from the menu button to the home button to get a menu of recient and favorite programs, or from the home button to the graffiti area to switch to the previous one.

  23. Re:Damn! on New Sony Palm, With Removable Memory Stick · · Score: 1

    What implications might those be?

  24. Singular Their (Off Topic) on ICANN Has Approved New TLDs · · Score: 1
    According to my HS english teachers, as of a few months ago, using "their" as a singular pronoun is grammatically incorrect.

    However, so is s/he and all of the other constructs of the like. I hate them all, I'd tend to use "their" 'cept for when it may mess with my grade, in which case I avoid the need for a pronoun. (Which ends up being ugly...)

  25. Re:State Sanctioned Lottery on Today's Numbers: 17 42 69 ^H ^H ^H · · Score: 1
    (Me too to the political correctness rant attached to the same article as this.)

    CT was fighting the Foxwoods casino, but gave up. I believe they relized that because of the rights granted to reservations, they can't block it, at least not without a long legal fight. Of course, Foxwoods gives them a sizable portion of profits, I think. (The other casino in the state, also on a reservation, whose name I can't remember probably gives the state money too.)