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  1. Re:read your usage agreement on Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies · · Score: 1

    Your idea has one key flaw, a mail server doesn't know if a recipient is in the to, cc or bcc, all it sees are recipients.
    To/Cc are cosmetic headers put in by client software to make it easier for oomans to read the mail and have nothing to do with the transport or delivery.

  2. Re:A little late, aren't we? on SETI@home Turns Five Today · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is a dupe of the original aniversary announcment and we just all missed it the first time it was posted :)

    /me runs away from the office because its 5pm and i can smell my karma burning already

  3. After a quick read on Intel Sued for Patent Infringement · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It looks like the patent is describing any method of running hardware components at speeds faster than the frequency line on the board.

    This vaugly could be anything including having a clock multiplier on the CPU (Look out AMD, Cyrix, Transmeta, VIA, HP, IBM, Apple, anyone else!) however as it was only filed in '93 I think intel can claim prior art with this, given the 80486 DX2/4 used frequency multipliers .. although I can't recall when they were released.

    That aside, its now friday afternoon and its time to clock watch to 5pm!

  4. Re:If I had a nickel... on Solar Cells Get Boost · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a few in the uk, i'm sure if this permantly overcase and rainy island has them the rest of the world does!

    It seems the parent site doesn't like linking to the actual search results only the heading, Que Sera Sera

  5. Re:Launch window opens *52* minutes after the hour on Live Broadcast of Satellite Launch · · Score: 1

    And the rocket would properly be called AC-166.

    Great now those Anonymouse Cowheards are getting rockets named after them!

  6. Re:Question on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 1

    Read the article? You must be new here!

    Now that my duty is over with the /. stereotyping ..
    While google may indeed be offering 1TB of e-mail storage I personally don't beleive that they currently have the capacity to handle that storage for every user, and what they are infact testing is their ability to drop additional drives into the storage array when space starts being an issue.

    Apart from Mr. I'm a schmuk who publicly displayed his e-mail address somewhere, or Mr. I'll abuse google to e-mail myself an archive of my Natilie Portman's Hot Grits collection for disaster recovery I can't realistically see anyone actually legitimatly using 1TB of storage on e-mail.
    Apart from Outlook Longhorn users where Outlook itself takes 0.75TB ;)

  7. Re:What's wrong with this on Keeping Your Keg Cool Sans Ice · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Einstein trying to split the beer atom?

    Its Friday afternoon and its almost time for the pub!

  8. Re:The ultimate prize... on NASA Needs Prize Contest Ideas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just remember to call shotgun when presenting your designs.

    I'll be here for 90 minutes then my weekend starts, try the shrimp.

  9. Re:POLL on Making Use Of Old LCDs? · · Score: 1

    It looks like a natural language query to me, maybe asking jeeves would be better than google for this one.

    -1, Troll for proposing the idea that ask.com is better than anything ;)

  10. BBC Story on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1

    Not on the monitoring, but on the bomb that almost was can be found here

  11. Re:Orleans on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 3, Funny

    maybe those are 3.5 canadian hours, given the current exchange rates that could translate to 12 US hours.

    Its funny, laugh

  12. Re:Tesla is a magnet for kooks on Tesla Special on PBS · · Score: 1

    And the dynamic brake, and the 3-phase motor, and the AC distribution system, and many more.
    So we have Tesla to thank for the ACs? Well at least he has some nice potential methods for getting rid of them again ...

    Back to slackdotting

  13. Re:Who cares? on Unprecedented level of Virus Alerts · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for the virus that shuts down cpu/psu fans using acpi and lets the PeeCees zplode all over the user ... maybe then they'll get a Mac.

  14. Re:Maybe someone who's British ... on Revised Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not for pressing trousers, but they do make great cheese toasties

  15. Nigerian Translation on Microsoft Plans to Create Local Language Software · · Score: 1

    Dear friend,
    I am in need of urgant assistance and advice. My name is David Fault, son of the great millitary and computer hacker leader General Protection Fault.
    ...

  16. Re:Further reading... on USDTV Announces Low-Cost, Localized Digital TV · · Score: 1

    This was (IMHO) the major problem with the UK DVB Service formally known as onDigital.

    They failed to make the expected revenue from the sales of the other channels they offered (mostly Sky movies and sports, and the oblig. pr0n) because the set top boxes were too easy to hack, and as such most people were getting the pay (and PPV) channels for free denying onDigital the revenue.

    --
    Now that TopUpTV is comming into existance in the UK, and I still have my olde onDigital box from the '90s, I wonder if the same card will work ...

  17. Re:Biased Poster? on Melting Europa · · Score: 1

    Its okay, when CowboyNeal dupes it the headline will be much better!

  18. The practical way on Tracking Social Networking In Shakespeare Plays · · Score: 3, Funny

    The most practical way to tell the difference between Macbeth and Hamlet requires two days and a local theater company.
    Day One:
    Enter the theater and say "Hamlet" to each of the actors, observe their reaction
    Day Two:
    Enter the theater and say "Macbeth" to each of the actors, observe their reaction, be prepared to run away from an angry mob.

  19. Re:Anyone have a link for the spam ratio? on Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits · · Score: 1

    Try messagelabs They have graphs of recent spam/pr0n/virus activity and may have a history graph that spans the last decade.

  20. Re:Lethal Weapon on Can Software Kill? · · Score: 1

    If its not on fire, its a software problem!

  21. Re:aww on Meet the Nasalnaut · · Score: 1

    I thought we all wanted Barney to go into space, one way express ticket!

  22. Re:Oh NO! Worldwide Outbreak!!! on Superflu Being Brewed in the Lab · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only Tom Cruise can save us?
    We're all doomed!

    Heads for the nearing sporting goods department and sets up home in a nearby supermarket

  23. Re:Yeah, great marketing.... on FBI Anti-Piracy Seal · · Score: 1
    Where are all those pirate Slashdotters you keep ranting about? Most people I hear on Slashdot generally are against music and software piracy.

    No no, you've got it wrong, most slashbots are against the music and software industry
  24. Re:So, like, WHY is this bad? on Microsoft Warning Leaked Code Traders · · Score: 1

    Only if the first thing that is compiled is freecell or minesweeper!

  25. They already did ... on Amateur Astronomer Discovers New Nebula · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hubble images of M78 (The originating nebula from which this star is emerging) were NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day late last January and can be found here