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  1. Re:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II on Product Placement in Video Games · · Score: 1

    I challenge anyone to find a video game with advertisements in it older than that

    I guess you've never played Pole Position?

  2. Re:Why I don't already own a Tivo on TiVo, PVRs Not Making A Splash · · Score: 1

    all of these services require a phone line

    Then get a ReplayTV 4000. There is no subscription fee, and no modem... it connects to your home network using an ethernet port.

  3. Re:The media is barred and invited... on Judge Grants MS's No-Press Request · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, one of the plaintiff's is AOL Time Warner?

    and another is MSNBC :)

  4. Re:Less and less BTO - bums me out on Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy · · Score: 3, Informative


    you might want to take a look at http://www.apple.com/powermac/graphics.html

    It talks about Dual Display Support... Each Geforce4MX card offers built-in dual display support in two useful modes. Extended Desktop mode allows users to work on two monitors at once for increased desktop real-estate (and increased productivity). Video mirroring is useful when presenting, so you can see the same image on a projector that you're seeing on your Apple display. Each card can drive an ADC based Apple flat panel as well as any device with a VGA connector by simply attaching both monitors.

  5. Re:OK.. wats wit the icon on RTCW Single Player Demo & Linux Binaries · · Score: 1

    Y a quake Icon?

    First of all, it is an id game. Secondly it uses the Quake engine.

  6. Re:I love my Commodore 64! on CompactFlash / IDE Interface for Apple II · · Score: 1

    I can still use my Apple to play Asteroid--now with 64MB!! Geeze, I can load Appleworks into memory like 500 times, and still have room left over!

    These are used as storage (ala hard-drives)... not memory (ala RAM).

  7. Re:Product liability on Security Flaws May Be Microsoft's Undoing · · Score: 1

    Interesting, but in the case of free software, what would this mean for the developers? We all want Microsoft to be held responsible in some way for their security holes and such, but would we want to be treated the same way ourselves? What would happen when an author of a piece of free software was dragged to court because the software was buggy? And what would happen if it was Microsoft who did the dragging?

    What if said liability only applied to commercial (for profit) software?

  8. Re:Monopoly for the illiterate... on File Extensions And Monopolies · · Score: 1


    You're assuming that most people even know how to right-click.

  9. Freenet? on DIY: Building A Wireless Freenet · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    So, wait a minute... what does this have to do with Freenet?

  10. DX8.1 compatibility (What is that anyway?) on GeForce3 Titanium Reviews · · Score: 1, Redundant

    DX8.1 refers to DirectX 8.1

    Lame filler to avoid lame filter

  11. Re:CNN on Afghanistan on TONIGHT and TOMORROW on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    Info online about this at cnn.com/presents

  12. Re:equipment on Laserdisc Arcade Emulator - DAPHNE · · Score: 1


    I don't think you're going to fit a Laserdisc player inside your PC. The laserdisc itself is 12 inches in diameter.

  13. Hmmmm... on Hacker Tinkering With Yahoo Stories · · Score: 1


    How do we know that this story wasn't altered by a hacker that has access to slashdot?

  14. Prior Art on Xerox PARC Working On Modular Robots · · Score: 1

    We've seen this done before... it was originally a collection of robot lions that link together to form Voltron, Defender of the Universe!!!

  15. Re:He should know. on Stephen Hawking On Genetic Engineering vs. AI · · Score: 1

    any one know where I can get an mp3 of him

    Sure, you can find Stephen Hawking MP3's right here.

  16. pr0n on fast forward? on Exhibition of High Speed Photography · · Score: 1


    For a minute there I thought the title of the article was "Exhibition of High Speed Pornography".

    Everybody just fast-forwards though the boring parts anyway, errrr... ummmm... or so I've heard.

  17. I think you're wrong on Quicktime In Linux · · Score: 1

    I think this is one of the most important news items I've seen in some time

    Unfortunately it's not free (it costs $20) and it doesn't include the Sorenson codec which means that it won't play most Quicktime clips.

  18. Re:Facial recognition probably not the way on Borders Nixes Face Recognition · · Score: 1

    with facial recognition, how are you going to define and detect "suspicious" behavior

    It doesn't, as the name would might suggest, it recognizes faces and compares them to a database of known criminals.

  19. Re:Another solution on SSH Taking Stand On Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    there's no packet sent for each stroke of my password, one packet is sent when I hit at the end of my password

    AFAIK, *every* version of SSH has done that. The logon password isn't the issue... the issue has to do with passwords that are typed *during* the session... such as when you 'su'.
    Yes, I posted this already in reply to another, but people keep modding up these misleading posts.
  20. Re:OpenSSh - no problem on SSH Taking Stand On Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Informative

    It appears, using openssh 2.9p2 (that currently in debian/unstable) that it sends the entire password in one TCP packet, so no problem there then.

    AFAIK, *every* version of SSH has done that. The logon password isn't the issue... the issue has to do with passwords that are typed *during* the session... such as when you 'su'.

  21. Pox on Pirates! · · Score: 1

    Is thing any thing like Pox?

    Its sort of a Pokemon type game that lets kids battle each other via short range Radio Frequency... but it only costs $30, which is a little more accessable than a $300 PDA.

    There was recently a NYTimes article about it.

  22. Re:IPSec? Maybe secured protocols. on Aussie ISP Scans Downloads For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    IPSec will secure things. But you still have to look at the amount of users who have trouble finding the website they want, let alone setting up IPSec.

    I guess I was just kind of curious what it would take before IPSec becomes ubiquitous enough that "average" users don't even realize that they're using it.

    What about IPv6? I know it includes encryption but is it on by default?

  23. IPSec on Aussie ISP Scans Downloads For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1


    Would something like IPSec prevent this? When are we going to get to the point when all TCP/IP traffic is encrypted?

    What else can be done to protect our right to privacy?

  24. This scares me on Aussie ISP Scans Downloads For Copyright Violation · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I've never been one to feel paranoid, but this kind of stuff creeps me out!

    They can monitor my computer use at work... and now they are monitoring my computer use when I'm at home.

    This just sounds like another case of innocent until proven guilty... Not even the government can monitor this kind of stuff without the proper warrent, but this corporation can. When exactly did the big corporations get more powerful than the government??!?

    What ever happened to the right to privacy? How have we let things get to this point?

  25. Re:Data tax on RIAA To Target CD-R · · Score: 1

    That's sort of how ASCAP works

    Wait, aren't they the ones that prevent the suffering of animals? Oh wait, thats the ASPCA