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  1. Re:Have GPS? on A Webserver on Your Cellphone? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Er, run a packet sniffer on the world-facing interface outside your firewall and watch how often random pings from the internet pass by.

    Maybe better would be a simple website with a small (5 letter) text field. Enter the right code, and it would ring.

  2. Re:NFS Series on Advergaming to Hit $4 Billion in 2008 · · Score: 1

    I'm all for it. FOSS and indy games will take up the slack and hopefully become rather popular for it.

  3. Re:Why blame the manufacturers? on State of WLAN Support on Linux? · · Score: 1

    The real problem is most manufacturers are taking the easy route with software controlled radio. The FCC is once again a stick in the mud, preventing them from releasing the required information for open source drivers.

    Of course ndiswrapper works well enough, but only Managed and Ad-hoc modes function - those other modes (namely monitor and the access-point (forgot specific name)) can be very useful. Not to mention the idea of actual drivers for linux is more attractive.

  4. Re:Wireless and the power ? on Wireless USB hubs · · Score: 1

    The devices will still need to plug into the wireless hub itself. Why not use an adapter? the idea is you can put the hub somewhere else and only have the transmitter hooked to the computer.

  5. Re:Why would you carry a credit card balance? on College Students Lack Literacy · · Score: 1

    Or:

    Their car fucked up and they needed to stretch to pay for it, and their stuck in a shitty job for peanuts. As in my case. Of course now I'm unemployed (out of state relocation) and I'm working on never getting payed peanuts again.

  6. Re:awesome on Microsoft Sees IBM as Biggest Threat · · Score: 1

    As per http://tinyurl.com/b6rym 3:42 EST, 01/05/2006

    Google has a market value of 89,241,681,960 USD

  7. Re:Bankrupcy? on Spammer Gets $11 Billion Fine · · Score: 1

    IANAL; yes. But, for some reason this is stuck in my head: You can only do it once.

    Not sure where it came from, but you may want to do some research into it before you go trying to do it.

  8. Re:Shouldn't it be WW I? on New Aircraft is Part Blimp and Part Airplane · · Score: 1

    If you use firefox, this extension should prevent any such PDF difficulties. I think this should be assimilated into the actual program instead of being left as an extension.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=636&application=firefox

  9. Re:Portable Firefox on Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 Released · · Score: 1

    The website itself says that (slightly) older versions of the individual portable apps are in that suit. Better to just download them seperatly to make sure you get the latest.

  10. Re:Portable Microsoft Office on Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 Released · · Score: 1
  11. Re:whooboy. on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 1

    and then watch as the 10% of the internet that actually does 90% of the work (made up the numbers...) dissapear from the "official" internet leaving the **AAs of the world with their thumbs up their asses and dumb looks on their faces.

  12. Re:more great editing on Throwable WiFi Camera · · Score: 1

    OMG it is so obvious. The balls go in before the cops do, so the cops know where they are!

    Not like you go around the corner and stick the mirror in to watch where you just came from... the mirrors go first too.

  13. Re:Yes! on MMOFPS Games The Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    Screw couterstrike, think Operation Flashpoint on a laaarge scale, game-in-progress joining, and no stupid "Tequila Sundown"-style CTF matches. Oh, and built-in voice chat that makes you sould like your on a transistor radio.

    Yes, I'm bitter.

  14. Re:Google on Finding a Needle in a Haystack of Data · · Score: 1

    it's not that hard. Go outside. Talk to people. Listen (thats the important part).

    Give it a few months and you will be suprised!

    (Of course, get yourself in shape - not too hard. an hour 5 days out of the week on a cycle or treadmill will do the trick. lay off the sugary and fatty snacks)

    Ive even had propositions! THEY came to ME!

  15. Re:lol no this is not a virus on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 1

    That may be because the Apple doesn't yet have 13 trillion trojans out there taking advantage of that choice. Since Windows does, the awareness of the problem (and hence whether the OS hides them or not) is higher for Windows.

  16. Re:Here's the interesting part about the crashes. on Are three cores better than two? · · Score: 1

    You would think they would try installing two identical dual-core chips. That would eliminate the problem of using two different types of chips. Also that would be a quad-core system! better than tri-core!

  17. Re:Suggestion on The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want to see someone stick an "Intel Inside" logo on the gate to an embassy.

  18. Re:Let me guess: on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1

    You're worrying about that around here? How many children under 16 do you think actually read all the way down into the comments this far (if they even go here at all, unlikely).

  19. Re:One of the bigger perks... on VLC Media Player 0.8.4 is out · · Score: 1

    Hehe, I would buy a dvd player just for the fact that it had a "No UPOs!" sticker on the box...

  20. Re:Meh. on AIM Bots: Useful or Spam? · · Score: 1

    What? I can't see anything in your post.

  21. Re:great on Used Microsoft Licenses For Sale · · Score: 1

    That would be the mark of the "Overrated" mod. Not meta-modable either.

  22. Re:If you have 1.5 RC1... on Firefox 1.5 RC2 Available · · Score: 1

    /. is hardly the place to stick bug reports...

  23. Re:Well on Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And what ends up disabled because of turning that off?

    If its nothing signifigant, than cool! But if half the program ceases to function...

  24. Re:Cutting edge stuff! on First-Gen Xbox 360 Games Single-Threaded? · · Score: 1

    Tone of voice doesn't carry over text very well. Neither does facial expressions.

  25. Re:quake 4 linux on Quake 4 Linux · · Score: 1

    More than likely an i586 optimized i386 compatible binary. But what are you trying to run Q4 on non-x86 hardware for? (couldn't help it... i don't actually feel that way)