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  1. Re:XMPCR? on XM Radio Hacked by Car Computer Hobbyists · · Score: 2, Informative
    Hmmm... that link's redirecting straight to the XM Radio home page.

    I'm using an opera browser and it goes to the correct page. I just checked with IE and the results is like what you said.

    Here is a chached version for IE users.

  2. Re:XMPCR? on XM Radio Hacked by Car Computer Hobbyists · · Score: 4, Informative
    I've never come across the term before. Anyone got a handy explanation?

    Check this out.

  3. Idle computer on Google Launches Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 1

    According to Google, it will only index the files once the computer has been idle for 30 seconds. However, after the installation I searched and got some results even though it wasn't idle for 30 seconds.

  4. Review on Google Launches Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is a thorough review.

  5. Re:Gee - if only I used MS products.... on Google Launches Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 5, Informative
    Google does support (partially) other browsers. I copied the url into opera and I got the following message:

    Our software suggests that you're using a browser incompatible with Google Desktop Search. Google Desktop Search currently supports the following:
    Microsoft IE 5 and newer (Download)
    While we're still testing Google Desktop Search, you can also click here to use your unsupported browser, though you likely will encounter some areas that don't work as expected. You need to have Javascript enabled, regardless of the browser you use.
    We hope to expand this list in the near future and announce new browsers as they become available. In the meantime, you can use IE 5 and newer.

    It seems to work fine in opera (for now).

  6. Standards on FTC Wants Comments on Email Authentication · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Does this mean that the government will now enforce standards?

  7. Priceless on More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities · · Score: 5, Funny
    From Yakov Shafranovich's blog:

    Microsoft Windows 2000: $200
    Microsoft Access 2000: $200
    PC: $500
    Hiring an embezzler to put in three set of election results into your voting software controllable by a hidden combination of keys known only to you: $60,000 Changing the election results in favor of your candidate: priceless

    "Of course, there are some elections that money can't buy. For everything else, there is Diebold."

  8. A Younger Jeeves on Ask Jeeves Looks to Outshine Google · · Score: 5, Interesting
    It looks like Mr. Jeeves got a lot younger.
    Before:
    http://web.archive.org/web/20030324210627/http://a sk.com/

    After:
    http://ask.com/

  9. What about... on Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik Answers · · Score: 1

    If the Libertarian Party's main platform is real freedom, then does that mean that spamming would be legal?

  10. Former Programmer on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1
    From Zogby

    "Badnarik is a computer programmer and technical trainer from Austin, Tex. He declined to say if he could program an electronic voting system that would deliver a Libertarian victory."

    "I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said 'Diebold (a system vendor): Making machines that vote so you don't have to,'" said Badnarik.

  11. An Insider's Tale of Sender ID on IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yakov Shafranovich, the former co-chair of the Anti Spam Research Group (ASRG), has written an excellent dissection of the history of Sender ID, published on the CircleID website. Part 1 Part 2

  12. ...@SpamHotmail.com on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    This site has been put together for one purpose: To count the number of messages recieved. When people post messages in newsgroups (usenet), they will often place "nospam" or "spam" in front of their email domain in order to stop spammers picking up their email address. This domain monitors all emails sent to @spamhotmail.com and counts the results.

  13. Jabber on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1

    What does this mean for Jabber?

  14. Dept. on You've Got Mail -- Tons Of It · · Score: 1

    from the city-that-reads-remember dept. Very appropriate dept. Baltimore's motto, after all, is "The City That Reads".

  15. Slashdotted on Video Projector for Home Theater? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here is a link to a cached version of the Geocities page that has been slashdotted.

  16. Data Loss on iPod Mini Hits The 'Sweet Spot'? · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    What good is all of this hard drive space if the iPod mini loses access to data stored on its internal hard drive?

  17. Timing on The Lyrids Are Coming! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Couldn't this article have been posted earlier, and not a few hours before the action.

  18. Re:Notice... on Linux's Achilles Heel Apparently Revealed · · Score: 1

    He is probably a BIG M$FT fan.

  19. Re:I wonder.. on Microsoft Settles Minnesota Antitrust Suit · · Score: 1
    Will the one million overcharged customers be seeing any of this settlement? Or is this just a penalty being assessed by the state?

    NO and NO, the lawyers will get every penny of it.

  20. Re:Yeah, whatever... on Microsoft Settles Minnesota Antitrust Suit · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Don't forget Microsoft previously paid $1.55 billion to settle similar suits in nine other states and the District of Columbia.

  21. Is M$SFT Guilty? on Microsoft Settles Minnesota Antitrust Suit · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Here is a qoute from the article:

    Microsoft attorneys said the company had done nothing wrong...

    Then why settle even before the plaintiffs even finished putting on their case before the jury?

    Could it be the case was compelling?

  22. Re:What does D stand for? on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    What does D stand for?

    Here is a qoute from their website:

    "The original name was the Mars Programming Language. But my friends kept calling it D, and I found myself starting to call it D. The idea of D being a successor to C goes back at least as far as 1988, as in this thread".

  23. Summary on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 5, Informative

    D drops archaic C++ features like the preprocessor and forward declarations. It adds modern features like design by contract, unit testing, true modules, automatic memory management, first class arrays, closures, and a reengineered template syntax. D retains C++'s ability to do low level coding, and adds to it with support for an integrated inline assembler. C++ multiple inheritance is replaced by single inheritance with interfaces. D's declaration, statement and expression syntax closely matches C++.

  24. Penetration Problem? on FCC Opens Wireless 3.6GHZ Band · · Score: 2, Informative

    The higher the frequency, the harder it is for the signal to penetrate through a wall.

  25. Re:Occupation? on NASA Extends Rover Occupation of Mars · · Score: 0

    This is not an occupation. The rovers will be there forever regardless of the mission status. NASA has just extended their life.