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  1. its been done on Sub-Orbital Skydiving · · Score: 1

    back in the 50's the us airforce was experimenting with high altitude bailouts from aircraft. they took a guy up to 90,000ft and he jumped, reaching speeds of mach 1.2, being the only person so far to reach mach 1 without an aircraft.

  2. Re:Sympatico VS Rogers@Home on Excite@Home Claims Broadband 'Safe' · · Score: 1

    i get max speed on sympatico all the time..

  3. Re:Sympatico VS Rogers@Home on Excite@Home Claims Broadband 'Safe' · · Score: 1

    x fm sux,
    1 owned by teddy boy
    2 play the same dam song 5 times in 6 hours

    oh and ahem, i do Stittsville to Algonquin's Rideau campus daily..
    by bus.
    :)

  4. Re:free visio replacements on KDE 2.0 Final Released · · Score: 1

    well specificly i was looking for a tool that does network diagraming, you know, little pcs and hubs all strung together, like visio does.

    UCM looks interesting, but is not quite what i had in mind..

  5. How good is the service? ask the techs... on Excite@Home Claims Broadband 'Safe' · · Score: 1

    i have a friend who is in tech support at the local @home call center

    he uses the competing DSL from the phone Co.

    most DSL techs i know, use the service they support..
    hmmmmm....

  6. Sympatico VS Rogers@Home on Excite@Home Claims Broadband 'Safe' · · Score: 1

    up here in ottawa, the cable companys were running adds about download rigermotous, ie stiffing of libs that occures while waiting for downloads to complete.

    the local DSL provder started runing adds where the family bought the whole neighborhood so they could get fast, secure access.

    heheheehhehe

  7. fun @home on Excite@Home Claims Broadband 'Safe' · · Score: 1

    heheh
    1.walk up to a in mall demo of the @home service (in ottawa, rodgers cable)
    2.pull out your trusty floppy, with 1 permiscous mode packet sniffer
    3. use said program, peole will wonder what your up to, and look over your sholder
    4. explain to them that what they see is all the trafic on that segment of the @home Network
    5.point out bob749's password as he ftp's to some porn server
    6. tell them "oh yah,its very secure"

    enjoy the look on reps face...

  8. free visio replacements on KDE 2.0 Final Released · · Score: 2

    i had a look at kvisio there and it looks like a great flowcharting tool, it even looked/felt like visio (wich is still a good product, microsoft hasent wrecked it yet) wich is good, because that what i know, but i am currious, are there any good network diagraming packages out there? for net diagrams visio cant be beat, or can it...

  9. Banks in canada generally suck on OS-Independent Web Banking? · · Score: 1

    im with scotia bank, if you want to use online banking, you have to load up there propriatary windows authorization client to do so. They do offer HTTPS however knowone at the bank seems to know about it.

    Canadian banks gennerally dont care about there customers, because they dont make that much money off us, compared to the corporations..

  10. honeywell on Slashback: Padulation, Lightenment, Amends · · Score: 1

    lets not forget , they also make alar syatems, lightweight torpedos, and aftn message switches..

  11. Pattent this on High-Speed Greed · · Score: 3

    Lets pattent this busness model before at&t does, and sue em if they try to use it..

    who says the grannting of patents for dumb ideas cant be used to our advantage

  12. UM 3COM?? on 3Com To Charge $20 For Palm OS 3.5 · · Score: 1

    3com spun off palm as its own company a couple of months ago, they also planed to distribute all the 3com controlled Palm stock to 3com share holders.

  13. Re:What countries? on H1B Tech Visa Workers Being Deported From U.S. · · Score: 1

    most people who come under this visa are from canada. the visa was implemented as part of NAFTA
    to ensure free movment of labor and goods across the border. it was intended to allow people to work on short term contracts out of country, not create new lives south of the border

  14. Re:Missing the point on Deal Reached in iCraveTV Case · · Score: 1

    i crave is a Canadian company, and in Canada what they are doing is pefectly legal. here if its in the air, its fare game to capture. I Crave has a big antenna in Toronto, capture the signal, and send it out over the net... they are not rebroadcasting just changing the transmission media.

    the acctual signal goes unaltered, therefor under Canadian law is legal...

    im not a lawer, an imho thos yank corps are a bunch of whiners...

    btw if and when i crave comes back, check out the cbc monday at 8 for This Hour Has 22 Minutes. much better then friends..

  15. France whining about spies? on France Sues U.S. and UK Over Echelon · · Score: 1

    correct me if im wrong but wasent it french spies who sunk the rainbow warrior? and also dont the french have giant antenas pointed at Britan to listen in on gsm cell phone conversations?

    seems to me whats good for the goose is good for the gander...

  16. i hate to tell you this but... on The Do-It-All Remote? · · Score: 1

    i thought you should no that said harrmon/kardon remote runs a microsoft product...
    yep thats right, its a basterd sibbling of WinCE

  17. Re:Wow on Intel Releasing 700Mhz P3s · · Score: 0

    what do you expect from a 1st year, he hasent graduated yet...