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  1. Re:A few comments on Siemens Develops 1 gbit/sec Wireless Link · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean the opposite? Wireless LAN will provide high rates, but cellular will offer more mobility?

  2. Re:Our Village Hall Needs that Cat! on PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming · · Score: 1

    Uh, dude...The Pentium was introduced at 60MHz...

  3. Re:You insensitive clod on PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my cat's litter-box is Piled Higher and Deeper, too.

  4. Re:Didnt TBS do this a while back on Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo · · Score: 1

    That's exactly why they did it -- to stand out during Nielsen sweeps.

  5. Re:Aquafina? on Verizon-Pushed WiFi Bill Becomes Law in PA · · Score: 1

    Most 'spring' water is simply municipal water that is filtered with charcoal and bottled -- so Aquafina would be biting the hand it feeds if it did this.

  6. In other news... on Expedia Books its First Patent · · Score: 1

    In other news, Microsoft has patented, trademarked and copyrighted the three English articles: 'a', 'an' and 'the'. Anyone using these three words must enter into a EULA with Microsoft and pay royalties and licencing fees. When asked, why they applied for all three forms of intellectual property protection, Microsoft public spokesperson Mike Rosov replied, 'We simply wanted a way to cover our bases -- woops, I just said "a"!'

  7. Repeat offenders on How Do You Deal w/ User Induced Stress? · · Score: 1

    One thing I do is if I have a user who repeatedly does the same thing over and over, I will go to that person's manager and report it as a training issue. Usually getting bitched out by your manager is enough to make you get your shit together, but on the rare occasion I've unfortunately been directly responsible for having a particular troublesome user fired. C'est la vie....

  8. Easy solution on ERP/CMS for Small Business IT consultants · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pay some high-school geek minimum-wage to do it -- much cheaper.

  9. 'Cold' CRT's on Thin CRTs to Challenge LCDs in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Anyone remember cold CRT's? They used lower voltages and hence were smaller and used less electricity. Haven't heard anything in the last 10yrs tho...

  10. UniLect PATRIOT? on North Carolina May Redo State Election · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They're called Patriot Voting Systems???? Maybe UniLect's engineers have been indoctrinated by the sponsors of the PATRIOT Act....

  11. Retrolutions on U.S. Military To Create Its Own Internet · · Score: 1

    History repeats itself...does that mean shag carpet and leisure suits are coming back too?

  12. Hilarious... on Ekush: A CherryOS For the Windows World? · · Score: 1

    They got hit with in-school suspension....

  13. Try it on an Apple ][e on Mac OS X Panther On A 25MHz Centris 650 · · Score: 1

    Now if she could somehow find a distro of Linux that runs on an Apple ][e, somehow compile PearPC for the 6502, and run OS X on *that*, then I would be truly impressed. :) Since the 6502 runs at 1MHz, we're talking 0.002MHz or a 2 *KiloHertz* G3, so it would probably take years to boot....

  14. Ahhhh Zelda on Classic Gaming with Zelda Homebrew · · Score: 1

    This is AWESOME! I spent many hundreds of hours of my youth playing Zelda. The only game I've played that comes close in terms of crack-addict potential is Fable for the XBox.

  15. Good on HBO/Cinemax Cut Off Recording of On-Demand Programs · · Score: 1

    I think 'OnDemand' is a huge rip-off anyway. Nothing to see here..move on.

  16. I have issue with the name! on Build Your Own Drum-Playing Robot · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't they have called it B.R.U.F.O.R.D (Box of Robot and USB-Fuelled Old Ratty Drums)?

  17. (In my best Checkov voice) on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    So it's no longer Russia that has the nyuklear wessels?

  18. The Truman Show on 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Optical Storage · · Score: 1

    Wow, the entire Truman Show on one DVD. Buy it while it's hot!

  19. Go to 2K3 on Active Directory on Win2k or 2k3? · · Score: 1

    2K3 without any service packs is more stable than 2K SP4.

  20. Recycling on Prioritizing Computer Replacements? · · Score: 1

    Haul off any broken/unwanted electronic stuff to Officemax -- they're having a promotional recycling offer.

  21. Are you listening, Coppertone? on Plankton Can Make Clouds To Block UV · · Score: 1

    How about making this the active ingredient in sunscreen? SPF500 here we come!

  22. Software as art on Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200 Years · · Score: 1

    The gist is that software development is still in the craft stage -- it has not progressed to the engineering discipline that, say, civil construction reached with the greeks four-thousand years ago....

  23. Re:Go for a walk on Handling Eye-Strain? · · Score: 1

    > Daylight on the retina is registered in the pituitary. Actually, not to quibble, but it's the pineal gland, inside which sunlight stimulates the production of the neurotransmitter melatonin.

  24. Dave Thomas on The Pragmatic Programmers Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh....so the maker of thick, juicy hamburgers and frosties didn't die -- he just became a coder. Whew, I was sad for a while there.

  25. Transparent aluminium on Amorphous Steel · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can watch Star Trek IV and implement Scotty's specs for creating transparent aluminium....