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  1. Re:Rebates ... Dell on Dell Offers $100 For Old iPods · · Score: 1

    Which is why I never consider the rebate when pricing items. Rebates just alienate me from manufacturers. Just kike Dell did. I refuse to buy Dell products or any others that use such marketing tactics. I'm probably fighting windmills here, but at there's one person revolting against this industry practice.

  2. Rebates ... Dell on Dell Offers $100 For Old iPods · · Score: 1
    WTF is it with Dell and their mail in rebates. Here you are, buying a computer mail order, giving them your name and address anyway, and yet, you still have to fill out a form and mail it in to get money? WTF is that!!

    And another thing, if Dell is giving $100 rebate for their product, that tells me that their charging at least $100+ too much for it! After all, they still have to pay for the admin of the rebates ... geesh!

  3. Speaking of OS RDMSes... on DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System' · · Score: 1

    MySQL, PostgreSQl, and FireBird SQL are mentioned. Has someone compared the features and reliability of these?

  4. I respond with.. on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: 1

    I's rather be killed by a terrorist have my liberties taken away!
    Someone once said it best - Give me liberty or give me death!

  5. Mod Parent Up! on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: 1

    These are the abuses that we need to protect ourselves against!! And then some!!!

  6. Oh shit! on FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today · · Score: 1, Funny

    I signed a NDA! Now IBM is going to look up "MisanthropicProgram" in the white pages and send me a cease and desist! Fuck!

  7. My guess... on FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today · · Score: 2, Interesting
    On OS/2 for Windows (TM IBM) we hooked into known memory locations that Windows (MS) loaded into. (I wasn't the developer for this. That's why my explaination sucks.) This also explains why when MS added code for "fixes" it broke OS/2 for Windows.
    My point is Windows 3.11 probably did the same thing - it just "hooked" into DOS. In other words - the write byte to disk was at 0x3748443 (making this up)

    BTW - OS/2 was rewritten for the PPC NOT ported.

  8. 680 Attack Sub on FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    Can that session run that game?
    I'll be really fsking impressed if it does.

  9. Game Platform too... on FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    I can think of some games that were written in DOS that would work great on FreeDOS.
    Some of these games have their own grphics engines that work (speedy) better than Windows.

  10. Cool! on FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still waiting for :
    FreeAS400
    FreeOS360
    FreeOS/2 (dammit!)
    FreeLinux - Oh wait. Duh! My Bad. I got a little carried away here. Nothing to see.....Move along....

  11. Another stupid Linux question??? on FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    With DOSEmu, do I even need FreeDOS?

  12. Stupid Linux question??? on FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey, has anyone tried making this a DOS session on Linux? That would be sooo cool!!!

  13. Colors in smoke... on Disney Launches Fireworks With Compressed Air · · Score: 4, Interesting
    One of the things I love about fireworks is the light that's reflected in the smoke.
    The cloud that's created from launch turns into the color of the current firework going off. It just adds to the experience. So does the smell of the gunpowder. I guess that's why laser shows bore me.

    I also hate the crowds at firework shows. That's another rant.

  14. Link to history of SQL.. on SQL, XML, and the Relational Database Model · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a history of SQL. I wanted to check the article's facts. Also, I was curious... History of SQL

  15. Idea from English? on Herman Goldstine, ENIAC Developer, Dies at Age 90 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm trying to remember where I saw the article - maybe it was here, but the English had an electronic computer for breaking the Enigma codes in WWII before we Yanks had one.
    I wonder if Goldstine heard about the British one and knew that we needed one too?

  16. Trust? on Mind Scans to Map Decision Making Mechanics · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "If we knew what creates trust and could intervene to encourage it, we could do a lot of good for the world," says Camerer.

    No, it would be used to get people to "trust" a corp. or Government, so that they buy more shit or follow mindlessly the politicians. Because, only the corps or gov'ts would have the money to afford such a procedure.

  17. Retirement... on Mind Scans to Map Decision Making Mechanics · · Score: 2, Funny
    People don't save enough for their retirements because of a phenomenon known as forward discounting: ...

    No, it's from not having a job! You insensitive clod!

  18. Re:Wrong on Should Companies Expense Stock Options? · · Score: 1

    An Option gives someone the right to buy at a certain price for a certain time period - agreed?
    So, the way I would approach it (simply) would be to say that the option gives you the right to buy 1,000 shares at $1 - so, I would expense $1,000.00.
    You could get more sophisticated and plug those values into the Balck-Scholes option model to get a more "accurate" value.

  19. Statistics too... on NewsForge Reviews Excel Clone for Linux · · Score: 1
    Excel has some very nice built in statistical functionality that I use often. So these packages have that capability too?

    No. I don't have the time nor the expertise to write my own.

  20. Re:Umm... on Judge Halts Utah's Spyware Law · · Score: 1

    Constitutional law applies to Goverment only.

  21. Re:Holyshit.. on Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm really impressed if a Mod gets tis far down. And when I Med Mod I'll be sure to keep it in mind.

  22. I've heard of the book but on Confession For Two: A Spammer Spills it All · · Score: 1
    never read it. Shame on me!! Your link is now part of my bookmarks.

    It's on my reading list. The more I hear about it, the higher on my reading list it gets - It's now at #1

    Thank you! I want to use the "system" to promote a better world.

    You should be incredulous about what I'm saying - I would - My muse is "A Year To Live .

  23. Holyshit.. on Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    someone just modded' me as flamebait for speaking my mind and for speaking out about modderation....
    Just keep this in mind when John Ashcroft and fuckers come after us!

    Oh wait! I am one of those fuckers.

  24. Mr. Bw, on Confession For Two: A Spammer Spills it All · · Score: 1

    I, as an entrepreneurship student at GA State, would really like to develop a business according to the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, insert environmental cause here . Really. I really want to make this world a better place - using the system. As in, I'll become a capitalist/entrepreneur to do it. But, that website you've posted makes no sense at all. I don't get their ideolgy at all...

  25. Dude... on Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    someone just modded us "Offtopic". How bogus is that !?

    I tell ya, new modderators! They don't know shit!