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  1. Re:Value on Dispute Continues Over Posthumous Yahoo! Mail · · Score: 3, Informative

    If this was about regular old pen and paper snail mail letters, there would be no doubt that the letters would belong to the estate. However, due to the clause in the T&C of Yahoo!, they are saying that either they own them or no one owns them. I guess what the father is trying to do is get the emails set on the same level as snail mail. Also if they were a confided in letter, why not just delete them after you are done with them? Or save them someplace and delete them off the yahoo server?

    On the other basis for this, is that the son was keeping a journal/log using the email that he (the son) was saving. He wanted them to stay around and told his father about this. That is why he is trying to get access to the emails.

  2. Re:Two sides on Getting Broadband To The Bayou · · Score: 1

    http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/universal_service/quarter.h tml
    Universal Service Fund. %10.7 tax on almost all forms of communication including cable internet. In addition, local governments (state, county, parish/township/town) also impose taxes on cable. In having the state require taxes on the internet providers, they are having them "fund" their own internet service in the same example as with Coke and Pepsi above.

  3. Re:Huh? on MacWorld Expo Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1

    It wasn't completely out of action, I could pull up the website here in VA and the only thing that didn't come up were the images. All the text was there, however.

  4. Re:Two sides on Getting Broadband To The Bayou · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let me know if the luisana state network customers have to pay the $10 or $15 broadband tax that the FCC charges private providers and then we can talk about unfair competition. Oh, and don't forget the local state taxes that the state and counties charge as well.

    This reminds me of Cokes reason for Fast Food resturuants to use them instead of Pepsi. If you buy pepsi you will be supporting your competitors (Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell). The resturants listened because it does make some sense. This is also why pepsi spun off those three as a seperate company.

  5. Re:other titles on FTC Tries to Can Sex Spam · · Score: 1

    Do you honestly think that any spammers would pay attention to a law that says they must put "spam" in the header? Besides, something tells me this is more than 51%. Much more.

  6. ye olde english death penalties on FTC Tries to Can Sex Spam · · Score: 1

    draw and quartering
    beheading
    keel hauling
    disembowlement with bowls being set on fire
    put rat(s) in cauldron, put caludron mouth up against stomach, heat base of cauldron

    The english used to have some great death penalties. Too bad they (and we) are all wimps now. We need to bring back some of these and the ones like it.

  7. Mute Button on This Call May Be Monitored ... · · Score: 1

    This is yet another reason to use the "mute" button while on hold.

  8. Re:Firing vs. resigning on CBS Cleans House In Wake of Erroneous Story · · Score: 1

    Think "honorable suicide" (resign) vs. "executed as a traitor" (fired) as the difference.

  9. McCain is retiring on CBS Cleans House In Wake of Erroneous Story · · Score: 1

    http://www.etherzone.com/2002/fahe071502.shtml
    McCain did/is not seeking re-election. So don't bother trying to oust him.

  10. Re:Magic the Gathering Online on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    cardboard crack, not paper crack. Get your tersm straight please. (M:TG Addict since 1996)

  11. Video games don't affect kids. on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Video games don't affect kids. If Pacman had affected us when we were kids, everyone would be running around in darkened rooms, munching on magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  12. UT2k4 and this BS article on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Chris Taylor, a staff writer at Time magazine and a regular game reviewer, said he thinks driving games and first-person shooters are particularly likely to make players lose track of reality.

    The only problem I had after playing UT2K4 for 7 or 8 hours straight was that my eyes hurt from not blinking much during the game. I also had a minor phobia of that huming sound the Mantas make just before you get run over by them. Other than that, I'm fine.

  13. Re:Quake + College Broadband = Hallucinations on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was at the mall with my girlfriend

    You're already one up on almost everyone else on /. Don't bother with the conseling.

  14. Re:I wonder on Adding Pizazz to Your RAM · · Score: 1

    Although the lights would increase electrical noise, we are already talking a very hostile RF environment in the PC to begin with. These displays should be so low power (both electrical and processor wise) that they should be too slow to really affect the ram. This thing probably has orders of magnitude less processing power than the motorolla 68ks I used in college.

  15. Re:Ai chingawa... on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 1

    Read Michael Chritons "State of Fear". yes, I know it is a novel and all about chriton not being a scientist, but he has an extensive bibliography in the book that points out what the scientists themselves have said and links to the raw data on temperature measurements going back to 1829.

  16. Re:Ai chingawa... on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 1

    Actually, someone has already tried to connect the tsunami with global warming. Not sure how, but they claimed that the tsunami was caused by it. I'm still skeptical about global warming seeing as how antartica is getting colder and the ice there is growing, among other things.

  17. Re:ugh on Ham Radio Served as Main Link to Disaster Area · · Score: 1

    Cell sites generally have a generator of either natural gas or Diesel to give them approximately 24 hours of backup time (had a project on this in school). After 24 hours, they figure either the power problem isn't going away and it will take them MUCH longer to fix the problem (at which point it would be uneconomical to have a power backup sollution in place for that unspecified period) or they will already have fixed the problem by then. This is one reason why I will always have a landline, even if I don't have a long distance carrier seperate from my cellphone.

  18. Re:Put everyone in jail! on US To Push Criminalization of IP Violations · · Score: 1

    "a)" sounds more like a breakdown of the system. Compare the law problems in the US to those of say, South Korea where they do caning and (as far as I know) don't do things arbitrarily

    As for "b)" I guess that doesn't matter when there is a breakdownin the system.

  19. Re:Only at the poles, for half the year on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Why worry about broadband? on US Ranking for Broadband Falls · · Score: 1

    Why are people worrying about broadband? There are still several million people in the USA that do not even have phone lines. And I am not talking about places like Alaska here. All this nothing new and nothing to worry about.

  21. Re:Put everyone in jail! on US To Push Criminalization of IP Violations · · Score: 1

    a) Which laws were punishable this way
    b) What did that set of crimerates compare to the US as (per 100,000 people).

  22. Re:Only at the poles, for half the year on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    You still need to consider the burning of hydrogen in a turbofan or internal combustine engine and converting that energy to mechanical engergy has inneficiencies involved. Thats what knocks down the efficiency and one thing i forgot to mention. Keeping it as a fly wheel cuts out some of the inefficiencies.

  23. Re:Only at the poles, for half the year on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    You still need to consider the burning of hydrogen in a turbofan or internal combustine engine and converting that energy to mechanical engergy has inneficiencies involved.

  24. Re:Hate to be the optimist, BUT ... on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Roof shingles won't get replaced by aluminum covered with this. Have you ever been in a shed with a metal roof during a rainstorm? IT IS FREEKING LOUD! There are also a few other problems using aluminum as a roofing material which is why it is not used in anything other than cheap construction. Shingles might be replacy by something covered with this but not aluminum or something else just as noisy.

  25. Re:wow! on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ok, the environmentalists have really gotten to you, ahven't they? Big Oil is investing in alternative fuels because they know that oil will run out someday. here is one example using shell. Don't believe everything you here. They are also investing in fuel cells as well and looking to change their production over to hydrogen if ti ever makes it big. Oil gets used in lots of things. Not just gasoline. They aren't going to go out of business even if everyone switches to hydrogen. Too many other things use petroleum.