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  1. I've always wondered on GQ on Google's Road to Riches · · Score: 5, Interesting

    why the salaries of the amazing engineers at Google aren't too high, even after the IPO.

  2. I'd love to see... on Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the RIAA sue for the rights of the hamsters to the music! Or for rights of downloading a music video of the hamsters running on their wheels

  3. Re:Sheesh... on Online Trust Failing Overall · · Score: 1

    I keep track of all CC receipts seperately from all other receipts. Then, when the bill comes in, I carefully require each receipt to match up perfectly with the itemized bill.

  4. Re:Darn it on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 2, Informative

    Either flight sim time is accepted by the FAA or not. There are no time fractions or anything. Also, it is no where near as realistic as a real plane without the cost, the full motion, and all the other forces. When in a plane, and you have to decide to get yourself to safety or save the plane, it is much different in a flight simulator. MS FS is very unrealistic compared to when I fly the same planes except from a real airport.

  5. Re:Tin Foil Hat for the GPS on California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car · · Score: 1

    Where I work, the tractor there is filled with airplane gas(AvFuel) at 3.25/gallon, not fun, but 100 octane is okay. What about airplanes, are they gonna tax mileage in airplanes?

  6. Re:Banks should not allow funds to be transferred. on Who's Really Responsible In Online Banking Fraud? · · Score: 1

    I just had an idea come to mind, I'm not sure how it would work exactly, but what if, before any online purchase was made, you would have to go to your bank's site and get a "Allow Purchase Number" which would encrypt the date, time(allowing one hour to purchase), price, and company name with a private key, and when ordering, the number would be given to the company, and before they could take money off a card or account, they would need to give the bank the number which would prove the user wanted to order the product. This is all assuming the online bank site is secure and the password is known by the account holder only.

  7. Re:Woah on Who's Really Responsible In Online Banking Fraud? · · Score: 1

    I can't remember where, but I remember a site, where the blink tags were all seperate, but the whole page was blinking, it was easier to read the source than to half to wait a half a second to read another two words. As long as RSS doesn't blink!

  8. YAY, a new case on KLOSS KL-I915A - SFF With An Edge · · Score: 1

    I think I'd rather get another 512MB of RAM then get a new case for my computer. I wonder how many people actually have Small-Form Factor cases.(did that take that long to read instead of SFF?)

  9. Windows is more secure on Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Feel safe in Windows. Just think, 13 different vulnerabilities are currently on your XP box and will be fixed tomorrow when it's been known about for a while. You will get great service as millions of XP users try to download the same fixes tomorrow morning.

  10. Re:Soo.... on University Of Calgary To Offer Course On Spam · · Score: 1

    No, not that, but ads on how to get cheaper bandwidth for your college or university.

  11. Re:Cold weather okay? on Making a Color LCD Dashboard Replacement? · · Score: 1

    I'm in NE USA right now, and just this week the temperatures have been swinging quite a bit(cold still, but swinging) When LCD's go completely black, is it permanant, or just while still heated or for a short time(a day or less) after the condition?

  12. Cold weather okay? on Making a Color LCD Dashboard Replacement? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Leaving a computer in the cold weather might also be a problem, and LCD's have a noticably slower refresh rate in the cold.

  13. Re:government? on NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity · · Score: 1

    Ah, i use 2's and 3's If you saw a book filled with 2's and 3's, what would you think?

  14. In school now, in BASIC I Academic on Student Logs Teachers Keystrokes · · Score: 1

    I'm in school right now, posting this. Happens that I'm in a BASIC class in freshmen year of high school when I learned basic in 2nd grade. Of course, I finished the assignment 10 minutes after it was handed out(some programs were required). There's no CS course anywhere.
    The school has no security and a very inadequate IT team(of one or two people). I've done some nmaps and pings and seen what I could do.
    Schools aren't even preventing attacks on any level. But they do know how to block Source Forge!

  15. More like, what's the worst distro on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1

    Lets help narrow down the choices. What you find to be the worst distro's you've used or know about. And consider everything. Even Knoppix for his company now might be good to introduce everyone to what they're going to get. Or what if they find XBox's to be cheaper and better than workstations, maybe GentooX is the best choice.

  16. Re:To put it short on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1

    s/distribution/operating system/

  17. I'd like to see foreign-born results on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    How many Americans(high school students and adults) could pass a citizenship test? Does anybody know sample questions from a citizenship test, I'm sure quite a few adults would get quite a few questions wrong. Foreigners are required to pass, even though American-born citizens would probably fail.

  18. Re:put yourself in thier shoes on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    SourceForge is blocked from my school.

  19. I'd like to see... on Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack · · Score: 1

    A screenshot of an iPod Shuffle with Linux on it! Or, imagine Linux on the Shuffle with text-to-speech to do everything. An image viewer "red pixel, zero comma zero" or just anything and typing with however many buttons there are.

  20. Re:Button confusion? on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    oh, thats nothing, my laptop came with over a one hundred button mouse. Each button is labeled "a,b,c,d..." and theres a touch screen towards the bottom instead of a standard mouse. I wonder why it didn't come with a keybaord.

  21. Re:Photoshop on Does Microsoft Cause Lower Software Prices? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine if MSPaint didn't exist. Photoshop would cost even more! But thankfully, I can do everything in paint, from stick figures to solid backgrounds. What can Photoshop possibly do to make it better than MSPaint?!?!?!

  22. Re:Curious Images... on Decrypting Kryptos · · Score: 1

    It appears to have shades of red in the colored pixels. Would the rendering also explain that? Unless of course the shades are an optical illusion...(I would check this but I am short on time for something right now.)

  23. Re:HTM? HTM? on Massachusetts Adopting 'Open Format' Software · · Score: 1

    No, when TXT was heavly proprietary, it stood for the large company that invented it. Ever since it became open, I can now use other programs besides notepad to view the files. :-)

  24. Re:Maybe something like HSS? on Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie · · Score: 1

    To calculate a hit movie would take a lotof CPU time, however, a Beowulf cluster would probably be able to do it.

  25. They should have... on Centrino Mobile Equals Desktop Pentium 4 in Speed · · Score: 1

    used AMD instead of P4 as comparison, that way in their already unfair marketing, they would put down a high end AMD(with a slower FSB) as being equal to a lower end Intel chip.