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  1. Flashcom on Thoughts On Third-Party DSL Providers? · · Score: 1

    Frankly, Id say this in a problem with Flashcom. I tried in Jan of '99 to have them put in a DSL line to my house. 8 months later (consisting of phone calls, ignorals, refusals, and fingerpointing) I canceled and called Rhythms. 2 months later I had my DSL line.

  2. Re:Fix the link. on Fahrenheit 451 · · Score: 1

    That would be Book PriceSearch

  3. Re:Pr0n wants to be free... on Penthouse.com Goes After Usenet Posters · · Score: 1

    huh huh huh...he said 'beat'....huh huh huh

  4. Palm 3 and Novatel Wireless on Looking For Wireless Handheld E-Mail And Web? · · Score: 2
    Ive got my old Palm 3 with a Novatel Wireless modem on it. My shell account runs a bunch of .procmail filters and forwards any personal mail to my palm, and anything else (mailing lists, etc) off to my linux box.

    Oh, and I stuck on a goVox digital recorder thingy too.

  5. Re:We Rule on U.S. Wants Large Cyberpolicing Powers · · Score: 2

    As opposed to the long-held Catholic belief of no birth control, and have as many kids as you can...

  6. Re:We Rule on U.S. Wants Large Cyberpolicing Powers · · Score: 2

    We're a bully on a big street. 270+ million Americans, 6+ billion world population.

  7. AI Search Engines on What AI Elements Could Improve the Web? · · Score: 1

    I'd really like a search engine that allows me to put in a natural language question, and parse it intelligently. AskJeeves doesnt even come close...

  8. Web Theories on Bow Tie Theory: Researchers Map The Web · · Score: 1
    A bowtie? No style...how about a noose? Or one of the single-surface solids?

    I wonder if pr0n sites map out to a 'dirty picture and paper towel' image?

  9. Re:Who on Effectiveness Of Online User Databases Questioned · · Score: 1

    Not many people click on banner ads, actually. I dont remeber the actual percentage, but I recall its under 2%. But, with the amount of traffic even the smaller ad networks get during the day (30-40 million impressions), thats alot of scratch at even $3 CPM....

  10. Barcodes on Hyperlinks In The Meat World · · Score: 2

    They describe it as a barcode type of data. Barcodes are VERY cool, can be printed out on any printer (or even written, if you know the characters). There are wands available that are passthroughs for your keyboard. With a properly written application (and some creative codes) you can do some real nifty things....

  11. Re:Showed up here, too! on I Love You "Virus" Hates Everyone · · Score: 1

    Of course, you're only on the ball if clueless people dont open it, even if theyve been warned. (Insert rant about stupid sales people who think the rules dont apply to them)

  12. Showed up here, too! on I Love You "Virus" Hates Everyone · · Score: 1


    We've got a copy of it here, but it was caught by an on-the-ball employee that recieved it, and forwarded it to the IT department...

  13. Re:would SimElection be so bad? on Horribly Bad Game Designs · · Score: 1

    OOH! Creative Computing. Ive still got all mine in a box somewhere...very cool magazine...I wish that there was something like that out there now...

  14. Writing today on Ask Douglas Adams About...Everything · · Score: 1

    Given the rate of technological change, and the everyday items that wern't around when you wrote the Hitchhikers series, what, do you think, you would change or add if you were to write it today?

  15. Australian Criminals? on Your (Australian) Criminal Record Online · · Score: 2

    So, I guess they're putting the latest census data up on line? Australia being, after all, Great Britan's Penal Colony!

    (Smiley captioned for the humor impaired)

    -=Bob

  16. Re:um on Physicists Find More Precise Gravity Number · · Score: 1

    Isnt that what the moon is for? I think thats why sometimes it looks a little squashed...

  17. Re:But is it enough? on Microsoft Break-Up To Be Proposed? · · Score: 2

    The hell with breaking up Microsoft, lets just break up Bill Gates! Dip him in some liquid nitrogen, apply a 14 pound sledgehammer liberally, and sell the parts as religious icons to the devout Microsoft zealots!

    -=Bob

  18. Oh No! on eBay E-Meter Auctions Yanked · · Score: 1

    Good Lord, we cant have these things out in the general public! Someone might take one apart and find out that its only a galvanic resistance tester, and not some Tool of God

    -=Bob

  19. More robotics on Build Your Own Robot For About $89 · · Score: 2
    Whoa, imagine a Beowulf cluster...no wait, thats not what I wanted to say!

    But seriously folks, wander on over to LynxMotion for some nifty robotics. I got their first Hexapod 2 walker kits a couple of years ago.

    The usual disclaimer about not being part of the company, blah blah

    -=Bob

  20. Yippee on Intel To Drop CPU ID Number · · Score: 1

    Now I can start grabbing all that pr0n and mp3z at work again!

  21. Re:Feasiblity of these designs on Mysterious Cold War Spacecraft Designs! · · Score: 1

    Local drugstore. Buy some hydrogen peroxide.

  22. Re:Feasiblity of these designs on Mysterious Cold War Spacecraft Designs! · · Score: 1
    the Pentagon wouldn't have wasted its money on anything that wasn't completely feasible.

    Bwahahahah! [Bob falls over laughing]

    -=Bob

  23. Re:Mandrake strong points... on Mandrake 7.1 Beta Ready For Download · · Score: 1

    Mandrake is RedHat (my distro still says RedHat in some places) with a butt-simple install program, obviously aimed at the end user/desktop market. Its painless to install, and autodetected all the funky hardware I had on the box I have it on.

    -=Bob

  24. Default Passwords on Red Hat 'Piranha' Security Risk - And Fix · · Score: 5


    Anyone that doesnt change a non-unique, default password, that is documented 8 ways from sunday, deserves whatever he gets.

    -=Bob

  25. Re:Ask Slashdot. on Do Patents Still Work? · · Score: 1

    I prefer Ask Doctor Science myself.