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  1. Jon Stewarts "The Daily Show"... on MS Gets $7 Million From Spammer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...did an interview with Richter for a story called "High Volume Email Deployer". You really have to see this to appreciate what a moron Richter is. Not only was he stupid enough to agree to be interviewed by them, he was too stupid to realize they were making a fool of him.

  2. EFI at last!!! on UEFI Formed to Replace BIOS · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's about time we get rid of carburetors on the PC and adopt EFI!

  3. Re:Niagara Myths on SW Weenies: Ready for CMT? · · Score: 3, Funny
    On a good day, with a following wind, Niagara might be able to do 8 integer instructions per second...
    Uh, I believe they said it was 1.4GHz, not 1Hz.
  4. Sport, or not? on Internet Hunting Banned in California · · Score: 1

    "In a sport, both sides know they're playing!" -- Paul Rodriguez, on 'Politically Incorrect'

  5. Yawn... on Apple Release Mega Patch to Fix 19 Flaws · · Score: 1

    So the update I installed *two* days ago, is *todays* news on SlashDot???

  6. Re:What ever happened to easy backups? on Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Data Protection · · Score: 1

    This is the actual backup program that I run weekly on the SPARC machine I am using this moment: #!/usr/bin/sh ROOTPART=/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 BACKPART=/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 BACKPARTRAW=/dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s0 DD=/usr/bin/dd BLOCKSIZE=16777216 FSCK=/usr/sbin/fsck ${DD} if=${ROOTPART} of=${BACKPART} bs=${BLOCKSIZE} ${FSCK} -y ${BACKPARTRAW} All that is required to make the 2nd drive bootable is to edit it's /etc/vfstab and do s/c1t1/c1t2/g.

  7. I bought a laptap w/o WinBloze with no problem! on Is Obtaining a Windows Refund Still Difficult? · · Score: 1

    ...and they even included Mac OS X with it!

  8. Mark Cuban's Landmark theaters are doing this now on Irish Cinema Set to Go Digital First · · Score: 1

    The April issue of Wired has a feature article about it. Or you can google for assorted articles.

  9. Dumb mistakes in the photos on DVHS on a Budget · · Score: 1

    Figure 2-10: Photo has two circles on the tape with one hole, and one circle on the tape with two holes. Figure 2-11: The circles are the screw holes instead of the sensing holes.

  10. Re:Left hand side of the Curve on Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete · · Score: 2, Funny
    "The most blunt assessment came from Microsoft chief Bill Gates, who has put more than $700 million into reducing the size of high school classes through the foundation formed by him and his wife, Melinda. He said high schools must be redesigned to prepare every student for college"
    And this is coming from a man who never graduated from college.
  11. Re:Temperature Liability? on Dell Rejects AMD Chips (again) · · Score: 1
    With Intel you know that you are paying too much but you also know nothing is going to go wrong.
    So the FDIV bug never happened?
  12. Re:Dark Fibre (Fiber) defined. on Google's Dark Fibre Plans? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dark fibre or unlit fibre (or fiber) is the name given to fibre optic cables which have yet to be used. They are hence not yet connected to any device, and are only there for future usage.

    There is a second meaning: It is fiber which is not lit by the provider. For example if you have two locations and lease a dark fiber between the two, you are essentially getting two ends of a single fiber with no networking equipment in the loop. You will then connect your own equipment at each end and light it your self.
  13. Re:Will folks deliberately upload... on BayTSP Provides Automatic DMCA Notices · · Score: 1

    ...misleadingly named materials in order to create false positives?

    It's already being done. I work for a large Fortune 500 corporation. We are constantly getting nastygrams from the RIAA/MPAA assholes threatening legal action over material we are supposedly offering. The kicker is: the IP address of the server they list is NOT ROUTED ON THE INTERNET! It is in IP space we own, but for which neither we, (nor anyone else), is advertising routes. If the morons would try a traceroute, or even a ping, they would see that for themselves. Obviously someone is seeding file listings somewhere.
  14. Re:How can this happen?? on New York's Oldest ISP Gets Domain-Jacked · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, first thing to do is use the feature "REGISTRAR-LOCK" to make sure that for a domain transfer, not only does there need to be authorization from the listed contacts, but also you need to log in to your registrar and unlock it first.

    I am following the NANOG mailing list, and the domains were locked.
  15. Re:One nasty gust and he's history. on Closer to Human Flight · · Score: 1

    You are ignoring the fact that wingsuit jumping has been a part of skydiving since the late 1990's. There are multiple manufacturers of wingsuits, and there are hundreds of wingsuit jumpers. I have over 100 jumps on my wingsuit, and I can tell you an unintentional spin can be scary, but it *is* recoverable.

  16. Note to self... on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 2, Funny

    First thing Monday morning, talk to bank about refinancing house with a 25-year balloon mortgage.

  17. Reliable GPS *INDOORS*??? on Location-Based Encryption · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been playing with a high-end GPS device recently, and the first thing I learned was that you can forget about getting a reading indoors. So how will this device work when there is no GPS reading in the office???

  18. In other news... on AOL Builds New IE-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    General Motors has just announced a new car based on Ford's "Edsel Technology"(TM).

  19. It's about physics on Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2 · · Score: 1

    The fundamental problem with this story is the same as every other story from the past about "unintended acceleration". A car has the ability to *accelerate*, and it has the ability to *decelerate*. Every car on the road has more *deceleration* power in it's brakes, than it has *acceleration* power in it's engine. In other words, a car's drivetrain cannot overpower it's brakes. And of course there are also the previously mentioned common sense things like turning off the ignition, or putting the transmission in neutral.

  20. Re:ColorStream on Is "Marketingspeak" Killing Technology? · · Score: 1

    And today you have marketing idiots at Sony talking about "iLink", when they mean 1394/FireWire.

  21. Re:You'd get less time... on Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-Camcorder Bill · · Score: 1

    "Steal a little and they throw you in jail,
    Steal a lot and they make you king."

    Bob Dylan - 'Sweetheart Like You'

  22. Re:Reminds me of another article on Realistic Human Graphics Look Creepy · · Score: 1

    "This has got to be the first time in history that a new technology CANT be used for porn!" Now wait a minute! The article discusses problems with realistic *faces*. Who the hell is focusing on faces while watching porn?

  23. Re:I love it on Heat Insulators for Laptops · · Score: 1

    > Do people really think that products are designed by an army of Mr. Magoo clones? Having dealt with commercial application software, by answer would be a resounding: "Yes!"

  24. Ahhh...bigger targets for Colorado skydivers on Using a 747 to Fight Wildfires · · Score: 1

    http://www.dropzone.com/news/Skydiverinnearmisswit hsl.shtml

  25. Re:easy ... root for the feds ... on SCO Aims For The Feds · · Score: 1

    Alzheimers?

    Has anyone pointed out to Darl that these people are trying to help him?