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  1. Re:$4500 a "large sum of money" for travel? on TSA Changes Its Rules, ACLU Lawsuit Dropped · · Score: 5, Informative

    The law is not that you cannot carry more the $10,000 in or out of the country, but simply that you must declare it to customs when you transport more than $10,000 in and out of the country.

  2. Re:It isn't just a hobby on Mixed Conclusions About Powerline Networking vs. Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    The frequencies that BPL affects are frequencies that allow people to talk all around the world, so the problem extends farther than just where the power is out.

  3. Re:FCC Rules Part 15 on Why Your Clock Radio Is All Abuzz About iPhones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cell phones do not fall under part 15 of the FCC's rules. Therefore they don't have to follow this. I believe cell phones fall under part 22 or part 24 (but I could be wrong about this).

  4. Re:Step one on Pimping Out a New House · · Score: 1

    Since when does Copper Rust? I thought rust by definition was the oxidation of iron into iron oxide. Hmmmmm

  5. Re:Count yourself lucky you have a retail store. on CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores · · Score: 1

    Correction: You've got questions? We've got cell phones!

  6. Why the passport? on Fatal Flaw Weakens RFID Passports · · Score: 1

    It could be just my messed up thinking, but why is the big push on securing the passports. At least in my opinion, which obviously is not what the government wants to hear, but the problem doesn't lie in the passports. We all have to prove we are allowed to be here on entry, but not when leaving. The last times I have been on a plane to go to another country, nothing is done to track anyone when leaving the country. What's to stop people from coming in, mailing their passport to another person, and doing the same. If they never know when we leave, how do they know it's really the same person entering the country all the time. I seem to believe that people entering a country have about as much attention paid to the picture on the passport as people shopping at Home Depot with a credit card and having their signatures compared.

  7. Re:Really? on 419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective · · Score: 1

    At least you'd be a mile away wearing his shoes...

  8. Re:specs available? on Sun Unveils 64-bit Server Line · · Score: 1

    Coincidently, that same company develops applications for IIS webservers, so therefore, I have a feeling there survey is biased towards the windows market since they want more people to switch to windows to keep them in business. "Port80 Software develops tools to enhance the security, performance and user experience of Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server. Simply put, we have combined business and programming expertise in Internet technologies to make IIS Web sites and applications safer, faster, and more user-friendly."

  9. Re:To each his own, I suppose. on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 1
    On the other hand, Word's style of editing headers and footers has one downfall. In a recent document I was working on on MS Word for work, there were over 5,000 pages, all broken up into multiple sections.

    When trying to edit the header and footer, even if you stop the pagination, it takes forever on a 500 MHz machine with 512 meg of ram to switch from normal view to page view in order to edit the headers and footers. I know that having a 5000 page doc is not ideal, but sometimes it has to be done. Since this was for my job, I couldn't really use OO but it would be interesting to compare the two and see if it handles headers and footers any better in this regard, otherwise it's a disadvantage to use the word method.

  10. Re:Yay for Coral Cache! on Star Wreck 6 Finally Complete · · Score: 1

    And if Coral actually used port 80 like a normal webserver, then it might be more useful for people who are behing proxies and firewalls.

  11. Re:Not necessary too late. on FCC Approves BPL Despite Interference Concerns · · Score: 1

    Yes, half the connections out there are using DSL. If you think, most have everything necessary for DSL. Yes, there are people out in rural areas that cannot get DSL, but a significant number of dialup customers in cities can. Why do they not get high speed? Maybe they don't need it. My 90 year old grandma has a dialup connection because she gets on to check her email once a day and to check one website every week or so. Does she need high speed? I think the biggest factor causing people to not upgrade to high speed is the cost. If suddenly BPL would become free at the same cost as your power with no additional charges, you might get those people to switch from dialup, but if you spend 30 bucks more on your power bill, or 30 bucks more on your telephone bill, is there really a difference? You are still not going to convert cheap people who are happy with Dialup because they spend nothing or 5 bucks a month or whatever.

  12. DNS Server? on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1

    Who needs those. Remembereing a boat load of IP addresses is so much more useful.

  13. This stuff is nothing...l on City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dihydrogen Monoxide is nothing. It's not very dangerous. The real kill is the Hydrogen Hydroxide. Closely related but much more dangerous. We should ban it first.

  14. Re:Ad-Aware on Spyware on One in Twenty Computers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Personally, I have found Spybot to be a much better program to remove spyware. Spybot's Website But personally, nothing can beat knowing what you install and reading those license agreements carefully. Or install Linux where people arent as likely to embed spyware in the program.