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  1. Re:Geocaching explanation on Geocaching Crackdown? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And so... once the proper operation of the GPS has been verified, the sport can begin, right?

    How does that go?

  2. Re:Required Reading by E-mail Users on Bayesian Filtering For Dummies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have 5200 spam e-mails saved and about 1000 legit mail saved and my accuracy level is about 99.9...

    Yes, but you haven't reduced your exposure to spam. In fact, it looks like now you have to track your spam intake assiduously so as to keep the filter trained. Not many people would consider this an improvement. :)

  3. Re:That's nothing compared to this ... on Ant Farm PC · · Score: 1

    Nice box. Good tea.

  4. Why is it cool? on Ant Farm PC · · Score: 1

    Do you have a thing for normal ant-farms apart from PC cases? Do you bring ant-farms to your LAN parties, and find the lack of integration with your PC to be a hassle? Do your friends? Have you had even a passing thought about an ant-farm since you last saw one ion 3rd grade science class?

    If not, then why is this cool?

  5. Re:I see this as a positive step on Washington State Restricts Anti-Cop Videogames · · Score: 1

    Since video games core audience are males aged 18-34, there is a market for 'mature' content and should not be held up to different standards than other forms of entertainment (movies, TV, etc..).

    Exactly. And just like HBO or Showtime, which you have to choose to pay to receive, you have to choose to pay to receive a violent video game. So the same amount of government regulation of the content on Showtime should be applied towards regulating the content in video games: in other words, no regulation at all. Volunatary rating systems are as appropriate for video games as they are for Showtime or the movie theater down the street.

  6. Re:Cutting edge anti-spam tech stuck in the courts on MailBlocks sues Earthlink over Anti-Spam Tech · · Score: 1

    Well, if it's really cutting edge, then they deserve a patent for it, don't they?

  7. Re:So how many Microsoft people are Astroturfing / on For Microsoft, Market Dominance Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    What O'Rourke and Brix describe is not just "disguising" their association with Microsoft, but is in reality an outright unethical fraud.

    Kinda like these characters?

    Or do you perhaps approve of the deception in this case (maybe because it's so richly deserved)?

  8. Re:Universal Themes on The Gospel According to Neo · · Score: 1

    And if they were first exposed to Neo, they'd think Jesus was very Neo-like (except for no leather).

  9. It's about time.... on TiVo For Radio? · · Score: 1

    I cannot tell you how many times I have tuned to the news station to catch the tail end of a traffic report or something like that, and instinctively reached for the non-existent rewind control so I could hear the whole report without having to wait and listen for the next "Traffic on the ones" or whatever it was.

    TiVo takes over your brain like that, it's really insidious. :)

    With multiple tuners and a modest storage device, it should not be a problem to maintain a 15-minute FIFO for a dozen or so of your preset stations.

  10. Re:Stupid Administrators on Revising the Internet Email Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    I was responding to your apparent attitude that the way to ensure compliance is to wave around a bunch of unenforceable rules that aren't even rules. Your use of the word "require" in your O.P. is what I was speaking to. You simply cannot REQUIRE compliance with voluntary conventions embodied in "Requests for Comments." So waving them around like they are some kind of penal code gets you some chuckles, and not much else.

  11. Re:So awesome it's philosophical. on The Deepest Photo Ever Taken · · Score: 1

    I think it's amazingly unbelievable.

  12. Re:How many stars are in the "visible" sky? on The Deepest Photo Ever Taken · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They pointed the HST at an area of sky 1 degree southwest of the Andromeda galaxy, M31. They wanted to take a census of stars in the halo of M31. So the number of faint stars/sq.arc.min. in this region of the sky is likely to be higher than in other areas. Even though the Milky Way also has an halo of stars that extends in all directions, and so faint stars would be expected to be seen by Hubble if it pointed in any direction, M31's halo of stars would be concentrated in the area of M31 and cause a local abundance in its vicinity.

  13. Re:Stupid Administrators on Revising the Internet Email Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    The sheer number of people without postmaster and abuse accounts is astonishing and both are required.

    "Required" by what? A few RFCs? Those are, in case you didn't know, "Requests for Comments." They are not rules. There is no enforcing body. Compliance is the thing to do if you want to get along. If you don't care about getting along, the RFCs have no arguments or sanctions to make against you.

  14. What is it that keeps such an old platform going? on Still Life in the Apple II Community · · Score: 1

    People with no life, of course. Don't you ever read this site? ;-)

  15. Re:But that's the whole point on First Matrix Reloaded Review · · Score: 1

    The whole story was written from the beginning as a trilogy...

    I've heard that line before. So when do you suppose the W. Bros. will unleash the cute plush animals with silly 3rd world accents that accidentally save the day?

  16. Re:How has this problem escaped me? on Earthlink Deploying Challenge-Response Anti-Spam System · · Score: 1

    Is this true?

    Oh yes, very. I have collected an immensee pile of spam that grows at the rate of 40/day (2/3 my email volume) which you can have a copy of if you ever need to train a Bayesian system.

    Of all my email accounts, the only one I ever get spam on is my yahoo account...

    Good for you. I get spam on my Yahoo account and never gave it out to anyone. Only used it on Yahoo Groups.

    We need to punish the sensless posting of one's own email address to anonymous sources.

    Oh please. I was using my real email address on Usenet more than a decade ago, when it was actually totally acceptable and normal to do so, and mail bombs from some kook were the only thing to worry about (and then only if you engaged in flamewars on alt.guns or something stupid like that).

    Of course, Deja Vu and now Google Groups has preserved my true email address for all posterity to spider until the end of time (2038, when time_t rolls over and the Internet crashes :). But it isn't because I'm naive or careless.

  17. Venus Transit next year, June 2004 on 2003 Transit of Mercury · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No living person has witnessed a Venus transit. The next one occurs June 8, 2004. If all goes well, on that day I'll be on a beach at a resort in Mauritius, with a video camera and a telescope, and I might actually succeed in capturing a DV stream. The weather prospects in Mauritius are not the best, but considering that the best prospects for clear skies are in Iran and Turkey, I'll take my chances in Mauritius.

  18. Re:a Joke on Indiana Jones coming to DVD in November · · Score: 1

    I used to be opposed to capital punishment.

    But not any more!

  19. Forget Indiana! The In Laws is coming! on Indiana Jones coming to DVD in November · · Score: 1

    The In-Laws
    DVD ~ Peter Falk
    Average Customer Review: *****
    Release Date: May 13, 2003
    Not Yet Released -- On Order

    By far, this is the best DVD release for the month, if not the year.

  20. Re:Ah, another MS lockdown on Microsoft's Athens PC · · Score: 1

    This scares the hell out of me, and think long and hard about what the implications of such an act can cause if this becomes "mainstream".

    Yeah, you might actually end up putting away the keyboard. shudder Or you will sheeple off your mortal coil and accept it like everyone else.

  21. Oh great on Microsoft Rolls Out iLoo · · Score: 1

    Another service spammers can abuse to anonymously send us their shit.

  22. Re:Ahh, the old days.. on Unreal II Demo Released · · Score: 1

    Oh, I totally agree. EA Games is the worst at this. They release SO many games, and SO many patches, and then have the nerve to foist their customers off on these pay-to-download services like FilePlanet and Gamespy. Only their Australian subsidiary offers patches without making you subscribe to 3rd party services. What's the sense in this? Is EA getting kickbacks from the download services for putting out patches?

  23. Re:Life EULA on Catching up with Wine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey buddy. that's capitalism, the bestest system of getting rich ever invented. If you don't agree, we'll invade you.

  24. Re:All this effort is going on the wrong planet on Jill Tarter and the Allen Telescope Array · · Score: 2, Interesting

    aren't there a lot more equally fascinating yet infinitely more practical aspects of space exploration to spend tons of money on?

    Yes there are, and we spend lots of money on those, too. What is your point? Are you merely unhappy with the way money is being apportioned among the various interests? Then why don't yopu study to become a space scientist so you can have some influence?

  25. Re:NAT-based firewalling? on State "Communication Services" Laws Analyzed · · Score: 1

    NAT provides no inherent security. It is not a security technology, was not designed as a security technology, and makes no accommodation for any security technology. NAT is a hack to solve a specific problem of address scarcity, and nothing more than that.