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  1. Re:Fighting abuse with abuse is bad on Spam War Takes Out Blog Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    isn't that counter to what you have in your signature?

  2. Re:What must be done on BlueSecurity Database Compromised? · · Score: 1

    I'd bet that a bunch of that 116,000 people were kids that saw something about that booklet on TV.

  3. Re:FUD flying low again on Microsoft Bypasses HOSTS File · · Score: 1

    I've seen various antivirus sites get redirected too.

  4. Re:Is Tivo still relevant? on TiVo to Drop Lifetime Service Plan · · Score: 5, Informative

    How exactly are they making it more difficult to avoid commercials? I still fast forward through them just like before. The only change I've noticed is more commercials support Tivo's "press thumbs up for more info" thing if you do watch them.

  5. Re:Stupid on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    You could walk. It would take you a while, but you could, or you could take a bus or a cab.

  6. Patch Schedule on Ask Microsoft's Security VP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Microsoft recently deviated from their normal patch schedule to release the WMF patch. What is Microsoft's reasoning on trying to hold critical patches until a specified date every month instead of releasing it as soon as its ready?

  7. Re:Always the geek. Running the numbers... on FEC Rules Bloggers Are Journalists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    could it be that so many outlets are far left (NYT, etc) that if a paper is fairly unbiased, it looks like it leans right?

  8. Re:Not that I care.... on Blowing TiVo's Lid · · Score: 2, Informative

    it didn't talk about extracting or decrypting video, so no. It just voids your warranty.

  9. Re:Been using this for a while on Portable Firefox and Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    http://www.autopatcher.com/ is a pretty good resource for doing offline updates.

  10. Re:ow wow excite bike on Nintendo Eyeing the Big Screen · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's almost like Real got their design method from [buffering...]Excitebike.

  11. Re:Please tell me on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You can have your e-mail client delete immediately. It's in the server settings.

  12. Try Samsonite. on Advice On Notebook Backpacks? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Samsonite has a lot of nice backpacks for laptops. I have had one for around a year that's cushoned, has an internal frame, and holds my laptop and all my other crap comfortably.

  13. Re:Maybe another Law isn't necessary on House Passes Another Spyware Bill · · Score: 1

    if you continue doing it after the law is passed, however, then you can be punished. At least that's how I understand it.

  14. Re:Gotham city on Batman Begins Trailer Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Jerry Siegel Born in 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio,

    Joseph Shuster was born in 1914 in Toronto, Canada. When he was nine, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Shuster met young Jerry Siegel."
    curtesy of http://superman.ws/superman-comics/

    So you're half right. In the DC Universe Gotham and Metropolis are both equally New York.

  15. sneakemail on Is A Catch-All Address Worth The Spam? · · Score: 1

    I use sneakemail to have unique addresses with a label for where I used it. All the addresses point to my main one so it's easy to tell when someone sells an address. then I just kill that address and no more spam.

  16. Re:Eat food? on TMBG on DRM · · Score: 1

    it's too bad that the popular vote isn't what elects presidents in the US. The electoral vote is all that really matters.

  17. Re:Clippy, anyone? on Clones Are Overwhelming TiVo · · Score: 1

    I think it's a great feature. It knows I like movies with a certain actor and records them when they come on, or it sees I like Enterprise so it'll record TNG if there's space. The shows it suggests are always the first deleted when space is needed.

  18. Re:A review of a service pack on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Using Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows I have gotten zero virii. It flagged them as junk and neatly put them in the junk folder.

  19. Re:2 web sites? on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 1

    I read on their forums yesterday that they don't have a webmaster at the moment and had to hire a contractor to get the site redone quickly. Blame AOL for their layoffs.

  20. Re:What happened to free? on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 1

    you only have to pay to rip and encode in mp3. They have to pay licensing fees for the mp3 encoder so that's all they're charging for. The AOL icons are because AOL bought them and they're forced to put that in. At least they let you choose not to put them on the desktop.

  21. Re:Hmm on TiVo Goes After Sites Hosting Image Backups · · Score: 4, Informative

    and they do provide it. It's at http://www.tivo.com/linux/index.html.

  22. Re:Trying to switch from Mozilla... on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm using "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030804 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1" and it's working. I haven't tried newer builds in Windows, but I also installed a nightly a few days ago on my laptop with Mandrake and it was working there too. You might want to check out the mozillazine forums. They're a big help.

  23. Re:Trying to switch from Mozilla... on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released · · Score: 1

    see this on Firebird's site for the external links thing.
    I thought inline autocomplete was enabled by default.

  24. Re:XviD on Divx Now Adware Supported Only · · Score: 1

    Divx 5.0.5 is the latest, Divx Pro has always been adware/payware. They moved the free version off so they can have 2 things to charge and one "free" but with ads. I don't see anything on the page about what you say. Where is your proof?

  25. Re:Not such a bad idea on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows · · Score: 1

    This makes me wonder what percentage of people posting in this thread have ever even used the auto update feature.