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  1. Re:more information on Verizon Ruling May Tax Dial-Up Customers · · Score: 1

    hehe, and when i still don't have clue after reading both?

    Guess i wait for a best guess on who is billing who for what ;)

  2. Re:Dr Who / Buffy Spinoff comparison on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    hehe, someone showing their age perhaps?

    Spinoffs have been popular for ages. Currently watching Soap on netflix which spun off Benson. There are spinoffs of spinoffs but i can't think of the specific one i recall.

    Not like this recycling hasn't been around for decades :)

  3. Darn on Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s · · Score: 1

    So that means my business model of making vinyl albums recorded off webcasts isn't gonna fly?

    This is to keep people from using a stream to supply mp3 for download? We need a whole new law to protect the 2 albums that aren't available on BT somewhere?

    If someone is receiving this stream legitimately and they change to another format, they can't sanitize it and share it anyway if thats what they were gonna do? Those other formats aren't that secure are they?

  4. Oh oh on Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    Ii suspect if ii walk into a store and say ii want one ViiV and one Wii ii am more likey to get slapped than get new toys :(

    If thats the best they can do just add a 2 or 3 to another name or maybe the year, ugh.

    Incidently, if i don't know how to pronounce the name i am that much less likely to go ask for it so they better be easy to find ;)

    Furthermore, marketing campaigns that need to explain how to pronounce the products name first just don't seem like a good idea. There should be better things to advertise.....kind of a scary thought there :(

  5. Still a little confused on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    They say the major labels are doing it in their name.
    Then they say most Canadian artists are on independent labels. If you are not with them they can't do anything in YOUR name.

    oh well, at least saying something is good as there's too much noise on the other side :)

  6. Actually it just doesn't try hard enough on Vista Firewall to be Crippled · · Score: 1

    "But ZoneAlarm should detect those patterns (heck, maybe even by quering a zonealarm.com server or your-techie-nephew.com for info), and tell the user what he DOES want to know: the probability the connection is dangerous."

    It (paid versions i believe) does TRY to check. And one of the setting is to use these defaults. Although the database seems quite limited and missing some fairly common stuff with virtually no answers on games that need network access. Your techie nephew will have a better database handy? Maybe he should send to ZA ;)

    Unfortunately both are probably based on name so the malware named after something is let thru anyways.....

    There could certainly be a list with file size or checksum or something thats allows more good stuff thru automatically than they do. Once they learn that much maybe they could open the correct for the correct app only while they are at it ;)

    HArd stuff to solve :(
    I tell people to ok it if they added something that should need access, and nothing needs to be a server(they aren't installling games) and pray :)

  7. Sounds Cool on Micro-Pump is Cool Idea for Future Computer Chips · · Score: 1

    ok, bad pun is outta the way :)

    Having wet, electically charged canals in the middle of a CPU sounds weird upon reflection. And aren't they huge compared to the circuits, where's the room?

    hmm

    Article says challenges include sealing it to prevent leaks...DUH.

    Nor did they say the chip included OTHER circuits yet...THE WHOLE REASON for this cooling to exist.

    Interesting idea, nothing more and won't be for some time.

  8. Re:Anyone interested in this? on CPL World Tour 2006 Cancelled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    hehe, i am still trying to figure out why we think of true pro athletes as true pro athletes ;) Most of them are just playing games too :)

    ok, a little broad but still....

    I think they need to work on building teams more and find some billionaire owners and cool $20 mil arena to watch them in and.... nah

  9. Re:A 3rd option on HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray - Is It All in the Name? · · Score: 1

    "Asking me to pay an extra $300 for a player, plus $30 for a new movie, plus $2000 for a new tv, plus $100 for the cables needed to even hook up HD components, just doesn't justify a really nice solar flare."

    hehe, you forgot the $500 for my home entertainment center. The width for the TV is limited, if i get a new HD-widescreen it would have to be much shorter than my current TV to fit. I can't get any bigger diagonal TV in the hole :(

    Oops, if i do that i need a stereo rack as i havent seen a center that would fit in my room with enough space for all the vintage stereo.

    Oh oh, All that snazzy new stuff won't play on my vintage stereo gear well (if at all... can i get HD video and 4 channel output) I am gonna need some stereo gear....

    hehe, i just dont have space, money or interest to worry about either. Certainly not before i know the format is not gonna bite the dust. The price for all that would pay for theater tickets to every movie i may want to see for the rest of my life :)

  10. Thanks alot on HyperTransport 3.0 Ratified · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now half my brain will be trying to design a 939 connector USB cable in the background....

    hehe external CPU, someone got a better batch of something than i did.....

  11. Well then on US Intensifies Fight Against Child Pornography · · Score: 1

    If everyone is Soooo into the whole 'get tough on child porn' thing why do i never hear of any arrests? With all the action one would expect nightly reports of all the people they have rounded up.......

    Bah , i wouldn't trust these people as far as i could throw em :(

  12. Genius on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1

    You could save the entire US economy that way.
    Just imagine the productivity increases as office surfing plummets....At least i really really HOPE it plummets afterwards.... :)

  13. Exactly.... on New Blow for Microsoft in EU Row · · Score: 1

    "Try going to Apple's home page and clicking the Quicktime tab at the top, and you'll see a big "Quicktime for Windows" download button"

    which will take you to the next screen with a big FREE DOWNLOAD button which will download itunessetup.exe !

    There is a little text link on there somewhere to download JUST the program you were aiming for. The page is also clearer about it being quicktime AND itunes than it was last week? when i did it..and got itunes instead. All i wanted was to watch some short little clip that needed quicktime and the default links take you that monster.

  14. Midway climbed way past ubisoft on my hit list on Ubisoft Officially Drops Starforce · · Score: 1

    Good luck

    I bet i would get a 20% error rate trying that. How does one KNOW what they have or don't have.

    Midway arcade treasures deluxe didnt say in the ad or on the box or during the install that it uses/requires the starforce rootkit. Only sign is a starforce popup telling you to reboot AFTER installation :/

    Definately not sure why that POS requires copy protection in the 1st place. (90's arcade games stripped of arcade features...ie race games that won't use a wheel or forcefeedback even tho the arcade version did...should be false advertising)

  15. Re:Let's start with the corporations on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    Heck i'd be happy if they cleaned up a couple of the stupidest loopholes.

    My favorite is a Wa state Litter tax. Like .15% of gross for places most likely to sell litter causing stuff(basically food).....EXCEPT FAST FOOD joints....exempted recently....HUH?!? Safeway and Rite-aid cause a litter problem BUT Burger King and Taco Bell do not...Whatever they get to smoke in Olympia i want some too.

  16. Re:Force Field? on Mysterious 'Forcefield' Tested on US Tanks · · Score: 1

    Make it even simplier for /. folks ;)

    Think Battlestar Galactica NOT Star Trek :)

    Force field here is kinda like free checking, 50% off jewelry sales, or that 2-legged robot that can't stand on 2 legs.....

  17. ugh on Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry · · Score: 1

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  18. Re:I don't get it. on Ad Measurement Is Going High-Tech · · Score: 1

    "They know what a Z132339944, that's the wassup commercial. They have no idea what a AB33444993, so they have no way to find out what your conversation was about."

    As long as AT&T is not one of their 'partners' .........

  19. Doesn't that mean someone has broken on AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA? · · Score: 1

    alot of copyrights?

    If they made a copy of everything, i wonder how many illegal downloads are on the gov't computers? Sick the RIAA on em, hehe. Hey maybe that means it IS ok to copy stuff. Which is it?

    Do they have a copy of the short story i sent the other day? They do not have permission to keep it, what court does the RIAA prefer? Damn i wish i was stupid rich ;(

    That was my 1st thought, the rest aren't suitable for publication.....

  20. 1 question on Two Legged Robot Sets Speed Record · · Score: 2, Funny

    How is it a 2-legged robot?

    Without the boom it will fall over, nor could it walk.

    Of course it can't even STOP , that might be a minor issue for usefulness ;p

    Hurfy
    Fastest man on 2 legs...while running down the aisle of the airliner anyways...

  21. Re:Broken beyond repair on Netflix Suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Umm, my library did that for books in the 70's.....

    Oh wait, on a computer? Naw that's entirely new and something nobody else ever would have pictured being done...

    Oh wait, Thats exactly what they did when they got a computer in the 80's. In fact it's part of the reason they WANTED a computer, i guess index cards start to suck after the 1st few thousand customers. :(

  22. Re:More info on Starforce in case you needed it. on Lawsuit Against Ubisoft for Starforce · · Score: 1

    Go get em

    " StarForce's developers claim that their EULA absolves them from any responsibility for problems that their software may cause [3]."

    Ok, i'll bite with Midway's Arcade treasures. I never Ok'd this app on my computer. No notice on box. No notice during install. Only a reboot when done-that is in a starforce window, didnt even know what it was at the time, i dont do many games anymore. Only EULA for game is AFTER install is done anyway WTF install 2 GB then ask if i want it?!? Course the registration was BEFORE install. No idea what those guys are on, but i ain't going back there. Even worse the game i wanted in the gamepack is a crippled port, not the real thing. At least i won't feel guilty getting mame and the rom now ;p

    Not only is the downloaded rom free it is BETTER, thats NOT the way to fight piracy dumbass publishers. All this over some cheesy arcade games from the 90's that aren't worht the time to swap out the CD anyways.

  23. Whew on Super-ATMs Being Rolled Out · · Score: 1

    It is about the one at 7-11...I was scared someone had installed a BIGGER one somewhere,hehe.

    The monster is slower to get money out of by a tad than the old one last year. By a whole lot tho if some fool in front of you is cashing a check or something odd.

  24. EWWWWW on Slashdot Design Changes for Wider Appeal · · Score: 1

    There's not enough PURPLE ;p

  25. Re:I wonder why... on Grand Theft Auto Civil Case Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    "In other words, videogames TRAIN the players to become better and more effective criminals. I don't know about you, but the thought gives me the creeps."

    So you have written to all the networks complaining about them teaching people to be better bank robbers? Seem s to be free training most every night now ;)

    How about HOUSE MD for training on poisoning techniques, he barely figured it out and he had the script ;) Seriously, wondering if that would be discovered IRL :O

    I wonder if anyone has gotten away with a technique that Perry Mason uncovered? Would your loacl yahoos uncover it?

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