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  1. Re:TiVo no longer fits my needs on TiVo Unveils Series3 HDTV DVR · · Score: 1

    Don't you get it? Hes never ever touched a Tivo and just bitches about things he heard from a friend who heard from a friend, etc, etc... Whereas those of us who know a little more know that we are a simple https login away from being able to download via the Tivo's built in https server. No hacks needed.

  2. Re:Not surprising. That's what Jobs does. on Behind a Steve Jobs Keynote · · Score: 1

    I remeber that piece of crap...I got it for free from Rio and still didn't think it was worth it.

  3. Re:I doubt eMagin's new toy will have mass appeal on 'EyeBud' for the iPod Video · · Score: 1

    Yeah nevermind the part where Real just didn't want to pay Apple for licencing. Apple is more than happy to let anyone who wants to use thier DRM just like Microsoft's WMA just they have to licence it just like with Microsoft. Real paid Microsoft and didn't want to pay Apple. I could POSSIBLY understand if realy didn't pay Microsoft and cracked thier DRM to where they wouldn't need to pay, but they didn't. Go troll elsewhere once you learn more than "OGM 1 #@t3 @pp113!!!"

  4. Re:Microsoft's involvement on ISP Restrictions Based on Hardware/Software? · · Score: 1

    Actually some ISPs allready do monitor traffic for malware traffic. They aren't always spot on, but the do catch things. Heck my connection got turned off about a month ago. I believe they said that I had Klez32 and the port that I use for my webserver (for eaisily grabbing some files remotely) was open. Well they were half right. I did have that port open to accept connections since they block port 80, but no Klez32. Haven't heard from them since and the tech on the other end was trieing to bullshit me of a few other things too. Least has wasn't from India so I could understand him I guess.

  5. Re:Dead on arrival. on HP No Longer Exclusively Supporting Blue-Ray · · Score: 1

    Saw one over at Walmart last night (don't ask why I was there...thats the first time I was in there in 6 months) that was a 27" for $700 so your not far off. It was a piece of crap, but none the less close to your $500.

  6. Re:Actually rather different on Another NTP Patent Invalidated · · Score: 1

    Then that raises the question. Why haven't they gone after Palm? I love my 600 & 650 :-D

  7. Re:Even with... on Microsoft Wins Hyperlink TV Pause Battle · · Score: 1

    Yeah...like "stop" the show and "remeber" the location you want to start the program again from. TiVo does that essentially allready with commercials. I certainly do wish that this IP would make TiVo unable to put that crap on my box to maket shit to me I'm allready SKIPPING.

  8. Re:I have a guess on this. on Computer Rebates Not As Sinister As You Think · · Score: 1

    Thats actually how some places do rebates. It's more of an insurance setup. Usualy you find that more with the places that will try to invalidate your rebates over any small thing like you forgot to cross a T.

  9. Re:Duh on Computer Rebates Not As Sinister As You Think · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry...your wrong...Best BUy is not the Walmart of Electronics. That title lies squarely with Frys and instead of mexicans fresh accross the border it's Indians. At least Best Buy has some diversity in thier employees.

  10. Re:Great more features! on Tivo To Also Offer Ads Your Way · · Score: 1

    You just need to "hack" the Tivo and change a key for software updates to 0. Figure if your going to hack your Tivo for the ability to make it do more you NEED to block updates so they don't break your changes when an update comes out. I think I'll be doing this shortly on my Series 2 soon since I'm allready irritated over the adds that pop up on the main screen and don't want anymore.

  11. Re:AIM from the moment I was hired on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 1

    I'm not trieing to flame, but the unecrypted AIM conversations that aren't even saved vs unencrypted emails that sit on a server?

  12. Re:Come on, Mods. on Recruiting IT Students? · · Score: 1

    lol...I've heard that last line many times before (only) from shill bosses that wanted to hire me for jack shit. Turns out I am now running my own freelance consult, making far more, my stress levels are virtually non-existent now and the ones that I worked for that didn't go under or end up getting investigated by the IRS, have either "moved back home," or have gone bankrupt. Of which I learned nothing from them other than that my work is worth around 2-3 times as much as they are willing to pay.

    I've worked in drafting (house design), graphic design (video games primarily), various IT, and soon translational work (I was extremely busy in High School...I'm 24 now). Of which any time I've heard something along the lines of what you just said in any of the fields I've worked in it's always been called intern and you don't run your business on the backs of interns. Sure it's great since you can get away with paying them Habib in India's Salary or less, but it certainly says something about the employer.

    The one insightful thing I've seen you say yet though is that you don't want some snotty U.S. kid dragging the entire team down. That's just something unfortunately you come across though. Which, is one reason you don't hire these faux interns. They generally don't deal well with handling international affairs.

  13. Re:NASA, Money and the U.S. on Hubble Replacement on Slow Track · · Score: 1

    Define "stable..." The Japanese Yen is debateably just as stable.

  14. Re:SonyEricsson will include iTunes on Costly Music Store Coming to Cellphones · · Score: 1

    The thing the poster sees that you did not is that the K750 plays MP3, shockingly unprotected AAC, and nothing else. No WMA, no ATRACK, NOTHING. Maybe this is something thats managed to slip under the grand Sony radar since it's not even available in the US normaly (hell I'm kind of tempted to import one if only it didn't rely on the "Sony Soul Sucking Storage Format").

  15. Re:market share? on BART Outfitted With Wireless · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well actually it's because Verizon is CDMA and almost everyone else is GSM. I bet they would have loved to have been able to lease out bandwith to others, but the tech just does not mix.

  16. Re:No Cash? on Sony, Amazon Detail Rootkit CD Buybacks · · Score: 1

    Oh how true that is.

  17. Re:Then why buy it? on First Xbox 360 Reviews Hitting the Web · · Score: 1

    Yes...and while you blow $500 for a MCPC with your $60 videocard we spend $110-$150 total (Xbox $80-130 + Modchip $20 (hell you could do a softmod if you were really cheap and save yourself $20)) and get 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i. It sounds more like you got your vaj. hurt that there is a cheaper solution that does the job with less hitches and doesn't have DRM built in. You can cry that DVI and HDMI are superior display methods to component, but your just going to get laughed at. The only reason those two are around is because you can NOT encrypt component. Your a hell of a sucker that got sold gimp hardware for way the hell too much money. While your screwing with your MCPC pissed that it crashed or got a virus I'll be watching my XBMC problem free. Not to mention if I did have a problem with it and somehow fucked it sideways (which is next to impossible) I'd just copy in the latest CVS build and be up and running smothly in 10 minutes or less.

  18. Re:A huge win for everyone, just one more thing... on EBay Drops Charges for Developers Network · · Score: 1

    Yes it can and I personaly never put in my max. A person may put in thier "hope bid" of $35 and if they don't get it? Big whoopty-do. Theres certainly going to be another item ending in an hour or less thats the exact same thing. Why not try again then? If I wanted to pay too much for something I'd just go down to a B&M and just pay what they are asking.

  19. Re:Hmm... on The Reality of Patent Expirations for the NES · · Score: 1

    And the guy rightfully deserved to get a C&D. He just wanted to be lazy and sell pirated stuff. At least Nintendo did just a C&D. If it was the music or movie industry he'd be in the poor house overnight. The guy is a bottom feeder and nothing more and unfortionately there are still tons like him selling thier tripe on Ebay.

  20. Re:So? on PCs Plagued by Bad Capacitors · · Score: 1

    I can believe 14. I had an ASUS board that I had caps popping almost every night on me for a month and I mean not leaking out the bottom, but the tops were popped. I just let the thing go since I was so lazy and one day it finally just wouldn't turn on. Called up ASUS (mmm 5 year warranty) and I had a new board a month later. Lo and behold now however the new board just shit out on me with only 3 leaky caps and I just got a letter from ASUS about an ongoing class action lawsuit against them because of the caps. Guess whos getting another board :D

  21. Re:I understand the first two... on California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM · · Score: 1

    Sony has never had an "image" with anyone that IQ above 40 or so. Past thier TV tubes that lost thier Copyrite a few years ago Sony essentialy means cheapply made, 1/3 more than other better made products, and will generaly break the day thier "90 day warranty" expires.

  22. Re:Motives for telling? on State Department Developing Cyber Toolkit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because they are full of shit. You don't spout shit like that off publicly unless your full of shit. I dunno how many times I've helped clients nock down problems like employee's installing apps that cause huge issues with machines than just telling them to just write a memo that says all machines will have an application installed on thier machines so they can monitor employees more effectively for screwing around and messing up machines. The employees believe it, machines have less problems for 6 months or so when they just re-announce a new app, and I get a nice check for just writeing a memo. If you want to catch someone doing something they aren't supposed to you DON'T TELL THEM BEFOREHAND!!!

  23. Re:Pointless if Walmart is your nearest store? on Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses · · Score: 0

    The thing you don't realise is that Walmart is almost NEVER the lowest localy. It's generaly cheaper and far better for your local market to look around and find a small shop near you that sells the same or comprable items for less. Sometimes they are more, but it usualy means the items are comprable and likely better made than the trash at Wal-Mart and it. Plus that small sid effect of supporting a local shop that may spend money where you work (or own if your entepriseing enough). Me? I run my own small buisness and spend my money primarily at other small buisnesses in city. One purchase may come back to me and the other I know wont. Can you guess which is the Walmart one?

  24. Re:And no matter what they do... on The RIAA's Halloween Tricks · · Score: 0

    Too late...most of what I watch & listen to thats produced recently is Bollywood, Korean Films, and J-Pop. A Tale of Two Sisters was a pretty decent movie.

  25. Re:An addition to your proposal.. on Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    Inecting it into the ground isn't the greatest solution. Partialy due to the fact that that waste still has some very good uses. Part of which is that the materials can be reprocessed and used (only part of the materials is no longer of any use). The only problem is that we have yet to figure out a viable means to reprocess the majority of it. We keep hearing were 10 years off, but eventually we'll get there.