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  1. You're in the wrong place. on Toshiba 40GB Perpendicular Magnetic Record Drives · · Score: 1

    I think you took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

  2. Re:Panera... on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    Maybe near the coasts. But if you move farther inland, coffee shops don't do as well. Free WIFI helps generate more business. You have to fill up the seats before you can turn them over.

  3. Re:Stupid question but... on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 1

    If you did that, you deserve to get caught.

  4. Recommendations? on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech · · Score: 1

    I've been wanting to get into home brewing for a while. Can you recommend some good books to look at for beginners? What do you think about the mixes they sell with the kits? Is it worth buying a kit at all or are the tools easy to get elsewhere?

  5. One word: Tacos on Why I Hate the Apache Web Server · · Score: 1

    Have you tasted their tacos?

    I think they're worth the risk.

  6. Re:A lifeguard!? on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 1

    I read several of Mitch's quotes and he's great!

    He reminds me of Lewis Black. In fact, since I don't know who Mitch Hedberg is, when I'm reading his quotes I imagine Lewis Black saying them.

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Black

  7. Re:You said don't ask... on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. But you put it into words much better than I would have.

  8. IPCop on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 1

    www.ipcop.org

    It will run on less than that and is a better firewall than anything running on windows.

    (and it's free)

  9. A10 Tank Killer on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 1

    One I liked was called A10 Tank Killer. You flied an A10 warthog. Try playing it on a modern machine and as soon as you hit the gas to take off, you've already crashed into a mountain very far from where you started.

  10. Re:I just use my turbo button! on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 1

    Those displays have jumpers in the back to set what they say. You can make them show whatever you want, it has nothing to do with the actual speed of the system.

  11. Re:It doesnt matter.... on 'Operation Site Down' Closes 8 Warez Servers · · Score: 1

    That's probably one of the best analogy of software piracy I've heard. But, here's the problem:

    How do you know that all those people who were sneaking in would have paid to get in if they didn't have a back door? How do you know that you don't just have crappy art and couldn't have made enough to keep the doors open anyway?

    Transfer this to music. You as the museum operator would be charging $50 a head then giving the artists maybe $1 of that. You may have a lot of people sneaking in the back door for free, but those same people will go to see the artist paint live and pay a lot more directly to them.

  12. Re:how is this solder free? on Build Your Own Chat-Cord · · Score: 1

    You don't have to solder anything to the circuit board in the phone. The previous article required that.

  13. Re:Warning - USA/Canada is Different on Build Your Own Chat-Cord · · Score: 1

    It's not going to ring anyway, so the ringing voltage doesn't matter.

    When it's on hook, you're not using it so it doesn't matter what that voltage is either.

    I've successfully connected two phones together using a 9v battery, so 9v is enough (don't know about the 5v from USB)

  14. So? on Google Earth Launching For Free · · Score: 1

    You just need higher volume to offset the cost. Something around infinity should do it.

  15. You forgot... on P2P and TV · · Score: 1

    The winner gets to work for The Donald, and it's in HDTV.

  16. What? on Identity Thieves Drain Unemployment Benefit Funds · · Score: 1

    That's the point of identity theft. They can pretend to be someone else so it doesn't matter what kind of list they really are on.

  17. Re:You'd think this would be obvious on Microsoft Genuine Advantage Cracked · · Score: 1

    I did a deployment job for a large company that just bought about 600 new Dells. They already had a site license for XP pro that covered the whole company. But, since Dell wouldn't sell the machines without licenses, they bought them all with XP home licenses (because they were cheaper)and just threw them away and re-imaged the machines with XP pro.

    That's 600 copies of XP home paid for and I'm sure this happens all the time elswhere too.

  18. Next... on HOW TO: Convert a Mac into an x86 · · Score: 1

    How to turn a Strongbad-computer into a Wet-computer.

  19. Me Fail English? on Time Picks Top 100 Films · · Score: 1

    That's unpossible!

  20. Re:And this is news? on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: 1

    BitTorrent is small potatoes. You have to go after the big fish, like TCP and IP.

  21. For Your Eyes Only. on The Shuttle Mission No One Wants · · Score: 1

    We have to keep those damned prying russian eyes off our technology. That's why as soon as everyone's off the ship, we set push the self destruct button and kick it out to sea.

  22. Re:Uh huh... on Ultaportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere · · Score: 1

    a lot of places block outgoing connections too. Government buildings and bank networks do this a lot. You can't get in or out on any port and HTTP traffic goes through a proxy that blocks half the sites on the internet.

  23. No SSL Popup. on Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out · · Score: 1

    Just leave SSL out. The only way anybody would notice the site isn't encrypted/signed is if they looked for the little lock in the corner and it wasn't there.

    How many people know to do that?

  24. Really? on Visa To Push Swipeless Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Choicepoint.

  25. ReplayTV on Can TiVo be Saved? · · Score: 1

    I know with ReplayTV, their prices are the same for Tivo for the monthy or lifetime subs, but if you get a second unit (or 3rd... up to 5) the monthly sub is half price if you have either the monthly or lifetime on the first one.