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  1. Re:Better Use of Funds on Israel Suspends MS Office Purchases For Now · · Score: 1

    It seems they are in a way, by funding a Hebrew translation team.

  2. Re:Address and Phone Info!!! on Alan Ralsky Gripes About Can Spam Act · · Score: 1

    And don't forget to honour any opt-out requests you might receive.

  3. Re:Take the Spam Lists with You on Alan Ralsky Gripes About Can Spam Act · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the people who complain about blocklists are spammers who are frustrated about not being able to get their junk into people's inboxes.

    In my experience, blocklists produce very few false positives, even from the supposedly controversial lists like SPEWS, and cut out around 95% of the spam I receive.

    If I was to check the 600 or so messages I receive every day using spamassassin, it would take me 1.5 hours, and I probably wouldn't get such good results.

  4. Re:The problem with these things on PDA Speech Translator · · Score: 1

    Even with a word like dial, people will pronounce it differently in different places.

    In the US, it will probably be something like deh-il, in England, it might be daah-il, in Scotland it might be dye-uhl

  5. Re:The article is wrong, should be rotation on Earth Travel On Time, Again · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the melting ice-caps move the mass towards the axis overall? Yes, the ocean rises, but that's because the icebergs are melting and spreading the water all over the globe.

  6. Re:this sucks on Earth Travel On Time, Again · · Score: 1

    What? You're actually in bed by midnight?

    I really could use that extra second of partying on new year's eve.

  7. Re:look at the picture on Mars Crater Theory Tries To Explain Missing Beagle · · Score: 1

    They did have parachutes. The problem is that there isn't much air on Mars for the parachutes to make use of.

  8. Re:They need to just tell us the truth on Mars Crater Theory Tries To Explain Missing Beagle · · Score: 1

    and Mars is the God of war after all. Best not mess with him.

  9. The BBC has a report as well on Mars Crater Theory Tries To Explain Missing Beagle · · Score: 4, Funny

    It says it was a "recently discovered crater". I trust it wasn't caused by the impact from Beagle2 crash-landing.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3354271.stm

  10. How does this compare on UK Approves of 5.8GHz For Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    with the wireless service already available in some parts of the country - http://www.pipexcommunications.net/products/wirele ss_broadband/

    It started life as tele2, then it became liberty broadband, then gxn networks and now pipex.

  11. Re:what ever happened to FMD? on Tech Titans Prepare to Battle Over Next DVD Format · · Score: 1

    We have such a technology. It is called the 3.5" Floppy Disk.

    It can store a whopping 1.38MB data. That is enough for 1 minute of audio, 1 photograph, or 2 seconds of video.

  12. Re:wikimdida free? on Wikipedia Needs $20K · · Score: 1

    Free as in Freedom.

    Yes it free. Yes it costs money.

  13. As it probably won't survive the slashdotting on Wikipedia Needs $20K · · Score: 5, Informative

    Donations should be sent to

    Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
    3911 Harrisburg St. NE
    St. Petersburg, FL 33703

    Can't see any way to post the paypal links here.

  14. Re:Legal Documents on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Mine is an Canon Bubblejet fax machine. It cost GPB220.00 in Office World about 4 years ago. These days, you can get a similar machine in Staples/Office World for about GBP150.00.

    The cheapo GBP50 thermal machines tend to be 14.4k.

  15. Re:Flying at night? on Solar-Powered Plane to Fly Around the World · · Score: 1

    When Concorde was around you could arrive in New York earlier than you left London.

    In any case, you could start your journey early in the morning local time, and arrive in the evening local time, which would allow you to fly slower than the earth's rotation and still stay in daylight.

  16. Re:They still sell well... on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 1

    I find that a lot of people use a modem to send their outgoing faxes, and have a normal fax machine to receive the incomming ones.

    Windows 2000 makes sending a fax as easy as sending it to the printer. Receiving faxes through the modem takes a bit more effort.

  17. Why I use fax on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find that you get a much faster response to a fax than to any other form of communication.

    It is much harder to ignore a fax sitting on your desk than it is to pretend that the email got lost in the spam filter, or the letter got lost in the post, or to sit for hours waiting for them to answer the voice telephone.

    Fax spam can be a problem in the UK. Fortunately, my home fax machine isn't on any of the spammers lists, but at work we get about 15 spams per day, even although they are illegal.

    If work was a Ltd company rather than a partnership then it would be legal to send them unless you put your number on the "do not fax" list (Fax Preference Service). A lot of spammers will stop if you put it on that list, but there are others who use the FPS as a list of confirmed working fax machines, and spam their own "Do not fax" services to that list. They generally want about GBP5.00 for you to be placed on the list.

    If you try complaining about it, nobody wants to know.

  18. Re:Legal Documents on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 2, Informative

    My fax machine can transmit at 33.6k, on the rare occasion that it meets another 33.6k fax machine at the other end of the line.

  19. Re:Hmmm on Holding On To Hope For Beagle 2 · · Score: 1

    Well it needs to run on Martian time. The Martian day is slightly longer than the planet earth day.

    If you look at the Beagle 2 site, it is using things like Sol 1, Sol 2, ... for Martian days, and giving the time on Mars.

  20. Re:Errr....will it affect Freedos? on Microsoft FAT Licensing Plan - No Big Deal? · · Score: 1

    Well, does FreeDOS support long filenames? If not, then there are no patents to worry about.

    Even if it does, it appears that as long as they have a clean room reimplementation, they should be fine.

  21. Re:Simply Insane on Nigerian Scammers Claim Another Victim · · Score: 1

    I don't think there is any particular relationship between 419s and drug trafficking.

    Drug trafficking is a profitable business in itself, and doesn't need subsidising.

  22. Re:Private worldwide networks. on China, Russia, U.S. To Build 100MBps Network · · Score: 1

    Problem is, as soon as you let companies onto the network, you let spam onto the network.

  23. Re:The article is misleading. on Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads · · Score: 1

    Gives you an idea of the cost savings you can achieve by outsourcing to India.

    Seriously, while the exchange rate is something like 45 Rupees to the US$, on a cost of living basis, it is more like 2 Rupees to the US$.

  24. Re:Linus is lying on Linus Blasts SCO's Header Claims · · Score: 1

    That wasn't the case at the time. Linus started his linux project partly because he was frustrated at not being able to distribute improvements to Minix.

  25. Re:The insanity continues..... on Linus Blasts SCO's Header Claims · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Of course, the fact that their quarterly earnings announcement was today has nothing at all to do with it?

    Of course not. Don't want to peddle conspiracy theories in here, do we?