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  1. Re:No, Technology isn't magic. on Has My Cell Number Been Cloned? · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can press a phone code to turn off your call id, and number forwarding, so that the recieving party cannot trace you. (in the u.s.) This was done so that victims of abuse could call home without fear of being traced. The phone company dosen't get that number either.
    Lies. The company gets the number no matter what. CID blocking is just that: blocks anyone with "Caller ID" from getting your number. Anyone with ANI will still get it. Do you think that you could block CID when you call 911? "Sorry, we don't know where you are!"
  2. Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard on Lawyers Ordered to Play RPS to Settle Dispute · · Score: 3, Interesting
  3. Re:O-Zone (Numa Numa) on Viral Music Videos A Problem For RIAA · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought that when first seeing the title of that video.

  4. Re:Price too low on Apple and Nike Team up for iPod Shoe Interface · · Score: 1

    The cheapest shoes cost $85. How long do you think they last?

  5. Re:i bet on Windows Media Player 11 and Urge · · Score: 1
  6. Re:EA's upcoming innovative titles on EA Aiming For 50% Innovation · · Score: 1
    American Mcgee's NHL 2007
    That would mark my first sports game purchase ever.
  7. Re:It's not for the OS, it's for the experience... on Microsoft Releases Vista Hardware Requirements · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...came out the same year as the G3 was introduced (1999).
    November, 1997
    iMac (Bondi Blue) shipped August 15, 1998.
  8. Re:Are you kidding??? on Too Soon For A Columbine Videogame? · · Score: 1

    I believe generals was actually created before 9/11 but the release was delayed because of it.

  9. Re:What I would have done on D-Link Settles Danish Time Dispute · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, because everyone is going to be so confused that their router is set to the wrong time that they will go out and buy a competitors product.

  10. Re:Fiber connections on Dell, HP, Lenovo Announce New Display Protocol · · Score: 1
    The Goldmund Powercord uses specially made high-speed cable, shielded and protected against HF pollution. The selection of connectors has been made on criteria of semi-conductor effect cancellation to avoid impedance accidents as in the Lineal cable. The Goldmund Powercord Standard model is the fastest and may be used even for Power amplifiers. The Special version uses twice the quantity of wires in a cross section to minimize inductance and should be used only for very high power applications.

    Awesome.
  11. Re:iTunes... on Managing a Huge Music Collection? · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah. Right after starting iTunes, it's using 62MB of ram and 60MB of VM

  12. Re:iTunes... on Managing a Huge Music Collection? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Same cpu/ram/os here, i have 20K songs on a raid 10, search is instantaneous if itunes is loaded into ram. But if I have something running that makes it page out (vpc, wow, etc), it takes a minute to respond. I guess if I had another gig I wouldn't have this problem.

  13. Cost on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1

    Electric Car - $1,000
    538Lbs of Li-Ion batteries - $99,000
    Beating a $440k Porsche - Priceless

  14. Re:20 patty burger on Forget Expensive Video Cards · · Score: 2, Informative

    In-N-Out 16x16 (not mine)

  15. Re:Your computer must fail it. on Azureus Inc. Moves Toward Commercialization · · Score: 1

    Java 1.4.2_09
    Apple Computer, Inc.
    SWT v3139, carbon
    Mac OS X v10.4.6, ppc

  16. Your computer must fail it. on Azureus Inc. Moves Toward Commercialization · · Score: 2, Interesting

    USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
    ben 267 6.1 14.0 540848 127992 ?? S 6Apr06 4258:54.27 /Applications/Azureus.app/Contents/MacOS/java_swt -psn_0_1048577

    After running for 23 days (and 44GB of transfers), activity monitor reports 124MB of real memory, 528MB of virtual.
    Dividing the CPU time by the number of minutes it's been running yields 12.8% average CPU usage.
    This is on a G4 1GHz with 896MB of ram.
    I've never seen the cpu utilization issue or the window resize issue.

  17. Re:That's nothing,... on Faking a Company · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Someday soon ... circa 1996 on Neural Interface for Gaming Getting Closer? · · Score: 1

    Wow. I remember using a demo of that at Frys a long time ago.
    Looks like their web page has remained the same since 1996.

  19. Re:condolences on AMD Bumps Up Socket AM2 Launch Date · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to the article S754 is going to actually outlast S939.
    AMD's Socket 754 to Outlast Socket 939

  20. Message of the *day* on Sysadmins - What's in Your MOTD? · · Score: 2, Funny

    [ben@bees ~]$ ls -l /etc/motd
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 Jul 28 2000 /etc/motd

  21. Re:Sound like a fair deal ... on Run Windows Applications Natively in OS X? · · Score: 1

    OK granted it wasn't the best of times, but $150mil is a drop in the bucket compared to $1.2bil. 700mil for first quarter 1996 loss is about $8mil/day, so $150mil would tide them over for.. oh.. about two and a half weeks. The point is the cash from MS didn't save them.

  22. Re:Sound like a fair deal ... on Run Windows Applications Natively in OS X? · · Score: 1

    Yes, nearly bankrupt with 1.2 billion in cash

  23. Re:Does Apple have a Windows lab? on A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab · · Score: 1
  24. Re:I don''t agree either. on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...850 MHz Centris...
    Really?
  25. Re:FireWire 800 Was Stupid on MacBook Pro Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Where do you get 82? (33*(32/8)) = 132 800 / 8 = 100 132MBytes/sec on standard PCI, 100MBytes/sec on FW800.