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  1. Re:How about in Canada? on FCC Still Pushing for Number Portability on Nov. 24 · · Score: 1

    Where in Canada can you change your local phone company? As far as I knew residential phone service was still monoopoly controlled everywhere (and rightly so).

  2. 2.4 Ghz on Parents Sue School Over Use of Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth, WiFi, cordless phones, baby monitors, and many other devices all operate in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz spectrum. Also, given the range and badnwidth cordless phones need over WiFi, and I don't doubt the 1/10th claim for 1 second.

    This lawsuit is just a bunch of retarded. soccer moms with nothing better to do.

  3. Yes on China Plans Manned Space Flight October 15 · · Score: 1

    They know how to run a proper space program.

    The US, as evidenced by the huge boondoggle that is the ISS, the continued use of the outdated shuttle program, and not even maintaining proper saftey standards, does not.

  4. Also for execute on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Enclosing statements in backticks causes the string to be executed at the shell level and the resulsts stored ina string. You can do this in bash, Perl, PHP, and a myrid of other lanuages. eg type "echo `ls`" at the prompt. Then again I am sure most everyone knew this already

  5. FYI on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    In Canada the legal age is 19 in most provinces, except Quebec, where its 18.

    Not that I am counting :P

    *mocks the draconian US alcohol laws

  6. Re:Nope. Wont do a thing to stop it. on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    Actually, in Canada the law requires that you check if you are over 19.

    Not that I am counting :P

    *mocks the draconian US alcohol laws

  7. They're not talking about pubs, Nightclubs. on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    These places are nightclubs (dancing, etc), where people wait in lines ot get in on Friday and Saturday nights. Trust me, theres a Queue. And unless you ar ebar staff, know the bouncer, or are bigger than he and all his buddies are, you ain't jumping line.

    You are thnking more of a pub where people go after the game to get drinks etc. Trust me that's not what theyre talking about here.

  8. This guy is doing it right for once on Frontiers: A New Xlib Compatible Window System · · Score: 1

    For once, this guy is trying to do a GOOD open source project. He is starting form the ground up with design documents, sepc'ing everything he wants out before he starts coding.

    Projects that are designed properly from the beginning and stick to that design while coding are normally more robust, and the actual coding is quicker since you already solved a large number of potential difficulties during the planning phase.

  9. Only in Winblows is it not possible on The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del · · Score: 1

    KDE grabs Ctrl+Alt+Delete. So can Gnome. And these are userland programs. I am not sure if userland apps in Linux can grab CTRL+ALT+Fx however (switch console).

  10. This is ludicrous on Touch Screen Voting Industry Circling Wagons · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can check fingerprints on paper too you know. And with paper, you have the ability to say "This ballot was held by X and he voted for Y", whereas with a screen with some 5000 people touching it in 1 day, good luck finding any useable prints.

  11. Kick Ass on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: 1, Funny

    "If I punch people in the face, can I call that a service, too?"

    Some people already offer this service.. Looks like you have some competition.

  12. Re:Any language? on Google Code Jam 2003 Announced · · Score: 1

    Google is running this through TopCoder, which started out Java/C++ only and has recently added C# and VB.NET. TopCoder challenges are object-oriented in nature, although in some cases, this is basically a thin veneer over a non-object-oriented problem.

    Jesus, get a clue

    PS: No thanks I can get others to do that for me

  13. Re:Any language? on Google Code Jam 2003 Announced · · Score: 1

    Because, as both the article and the guy above JUST SAID, its run by TopCoder.com

    Man learn to read.

  14. Use IMAP on Microsoft "Swen" Worm Squiggles Into Sight · · Score: 1

    Persuade your ISP to use IMAP (or pay for the service yourself), and you don't need to download messages you don't care about. Plus, moden clients like Mozilla mail and KMail can even download partial messages, so attachments are not downloaded unless you actually open them.

  15. You're looking at the website wrong on Groklaw Sends A Dear Darl Letter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're a ventrue capital firm. They don't "do" anything. They invest money in other companies that "do stuff", so that they can "do" it better, and Canopy can take a bit in return for their investment.

  16. MSN Search will never win this war... on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    ..because it will never be 'hip' to say.

    Eg: J-lo, from the movie "Maid in manhattan":

    "You can Google it at school" ... now with Microsoft..

    "You can MSN Search it at school"

    Bitch slap that outta hea mofo.

  17. Theres lots we could do on Astronomers Upset About Asteroid Panic · · Score: 1

    1. We could send Bruce Willis up to blow the thing up with an A bomb

    2. We could send the 2 years in secret preperations building a new civilization underground that can live for 1000 years, then pick the people who get to live at random .... Or don't you trust the summer blockbusters of 1998 to save us from disaster???

  18. Yay! on New BTX Form Factor Announced At IDF · · Score: 1

    Congradulations, you now have what any ATX PC with Windows (or a properly set up Linux) has had since 1998.

  19. He is right, but nothing to do with the kernel on Turing Award Winner On The Future of Storage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    His basic idea is 100% correct, but the reson is all wrong. It *IS* much harder to develop an app Linux the myriad of flavours, not because of the kernel, but because every distro has its own versions of libraries. I work for a company that makes Linux software, and we only support RedHat, and even certain versions of RedHat at that. While our product would probably compile against any number of distros, and even the BSDs, we just don't have the time and manpower required to build, test, debug, package, and maintain 15 different releases for every sub-release or patchlevel we have in the product. With Windows products, at least, (unless you are doing some lower-level stuff) if you build something you can be reasonably assured it will run on Windows 2000, or Windows XP, or Windows 2003. Not the same if you build something with RedHat 9 and try to run it on Debian or Suse, etc. And before you go on about "release a source package", not all companies release everything GPL, and want to keep their IP theirs, since they like to put some money on the table at night. It's definitly not FUD to say it is much more effort to develop and release cross platform binaries in Linux than Windows.

  20. Sysadmin, not a coder... on Is Your Banking Information Accidentally On Ebay? · · Score: 2

    .. are you?

    Would have been much easier to just have the program copy the password into the clipboard so you could paste it :P

  21. Troll? WTF ARe moderators smoking?? N/T on Google Wins the Filesharing Wars? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No text

  22. Yes BUT on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The point is that the DVD COMES with the soundtrack on it (obviously, Chicago is a musical, the whole movie *is* the soundtrack). And because it's all just digital an dyou bought the DVD you can LEGALLY record the soundtrack right off the DVD for your listening pleasure with any decent Hi-Fi setup.

  23. Just call support on Logitech Ships 500 Millionth Mouse · · Score: 1

    MS Support for their hardware rocks. Just call them up, give them some simple info showing you really own one (serial # or something), and they'll mail you a new one, no questions asked. My GF actually takes the calls for this. They mail out tons of stuff every day.

  24. Re:Kolab groupware on KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 Finally on FTP · · Score: 1

    Kontact is indeed part of 3.2, however, thought he IMAP support is great for Exchange, and I can import my appointments into KOrganizer vai WebDAV, I have yet to get the groupware parts of Kontact functioning properly (like whne people send me meeting requests, etc).

    The guys REALLY need a good HOWTO set this up for Exchange, which I have been unable to find. Kolab is great, but realistically, many people are going to be looking for Exchange compatability.

  25. When I first read this... on Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I thought it said

    Dutch court rules that thinking is legal in Scientology case

    I was like "man, these whackos are nuttier than I thought".

    It seems I was mistaken.. oh wait... nevermind.