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  1. Try this on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    You think that is confusing? Try this one....in a application I work on (in windows), you have to hit Shitf-Delete to Copy and Shift-Insert to paste. You can even do this with Ctrl-c stuff and in fact thats what you do when copying from a browser to this application window.

  2. Re:Free Market on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    It will take a LONG time for most of todays cars to become classics. Are you saying we'll see hot rodding Minivans in the future? :D

  3. Re:A return to appliances? on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    NO. It is NOT the first. WAY back in the 80's you had the first. The Atari 7800 could play both Atari 2600 and 7800 games. There maybe something even further back. Sony did not have a new idea. Just one that had not been used for a while.

  4. Re:not gonna happen, the lobbies are too powerful on Do-It-Yourself VOIP Telco · · Score: 2, Interesting

    By the way, your NOT talking about a PPC running VOIP software ONLY. Your also talking about WiFi handsets. Cisco already makes these. Here's the model I saw at hamvention. This is a PHONE that does VOIP over WiFi. Ritron(I think) can also hook a transciever directly into Cisco routers making Nextels obsolete. You just install a transciver at either end and it coverts the radio to a VOIP stream and sends it to everyone on your network. VOIP is going to make not just telcos obsolete but many campuses can switch to IP telephony very easily now....not 5 years from now. You jsut about have it down to only having to run Ethernet and power. That's it.

  5. Re:That movie looks so awful on Pentagon Climate Change Author Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. The only real part I could not totally come to grips was that they wrote a virus for an alien OS and infected the ships...with a MAC! Mac's are great and all, but I really doubt that you'd be able to figure out the alien OS in the mere 50 years with a banged up alien fighter! The blowing up stuff was cool, but I thought the most intense scene was the scene with all the F/A-18's and Alien craft fighting....you know....right before Randy Quaid yelled UP YOURS! :D

  6. Re:Quality Assurance on Review of the Roku HD1000 Media Player · · Score: 1

    The Patriot, despite it's problems, was and still is successful do to the resourcefulness of our men in the trenches.

  7. Re:That movie looks so awful on Pentagon Climate Change Author Interviewed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Get a life man, Idependence Day was, like it or not, a success and in my opinion, a wonderful popcorn movie. Sure, the situation of use beating a technologically superior race of mind reading aliens is not very likely, but it sure makes you feel good when they blow that big saucer up! Movies are supposed to be FUN! If I had a cerebral movie that was factually correct and thats all there was to see, I guarantee you I won't see it.

  8. Re:Uh oh, We've got to the explaining to do... on Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions · · Score: 1

    One REAL easy way to do this would be to buy multiple recording devices to record the show onto DVD, minDV or whatever then you have more then one copy! :) Also, DRM will be broken in one form or another if there's a sufficient amount of people who get fed up with it! :)

  9. GEESH! on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 1

    WHAT does Lucas have to do? Remember, even the ORIGINAL movies were made FOR KIDS pretty much. Also, it's Science FICTION. If there's a place for implausible stunts, Sci-Fi is it! Also, Lucas does not have to stick to some standard just because you want him to. All he has to do is make Fox money and he's definitely going to do that! For chrissakes you guys are sounding like the fat comic book guy and are saying WORST SEQUAL EVER before the movie is even given a chance!

  10. Re:Wrong precautions? on Can Cell Phones Ignite Gasoline Vapors? · · Score: 1

    This needs modded up. I never take my cellphones off my hip when I get out of the car (work and a personal one), but if one of these rang, I would wait until my tanks is full before taking it or checking it. Fueling a vehicle is a dangerous thing and we should not be using phones while gassing up.

  11. Re:Well.. on Can Cell Phones Ignite Gasoline Vapors? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You NEVER get back in a car when fueling. This lady suffered because of it. You are safe when fueling as long as you never open/close the car doors and more so if you don;t get in and out. It's tha static that causes this. Same thing goes when filling a can of gas for your lawn mower. Putting it in your car when filling not only puts you at risk for the gas overflowing, but also for the static to buiild up.

    Cell Phones, PDAS and everything else do not even come close to causing a gas station fire...unless your using a non manufacturer batter with explosion problems! :) According to Nokia anyway.

  12. Very good...let's go a step further..... on The Windows Security Nightmare · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that Motorola and other cable modem makers should provide a basic ethernet router with NAT between their public IP and the IP of the internal network. Your NOT going to get Roadrunner and others to do the right thing and install a cheap Linksys router between the Cable Modem and the PC so just build a cheap 1-2 port router into the Cable Modem. The Cable Modem/Router with NAT won't provide for the ultimate security, but will help against these worms immensely. Also, these cable modems/roters should also put a LCD status screen and a few simple buttons on them. Press one to block the internet when your loading a new Windows install and blam....no wormies. When the install is complete, press button 3 or whatever to open up Windows Update and Windows Update ONLY. When your updates are installed, press for to open up most commonly used ports (which may already be open).

    Microsoft should also fix this crap too. One great and easy example is have a one button application that creates a CD with all patches you have downloaded. Then when doing a install/re-install, if after x amount of time after release, ask for this disc. If you don't have one, then it should configure your system such that only the Windows Update website can work. Then it will auto download/install the patches. Or...and now I may be giving them too many ideas, change Windows Update such taht it uses port knocking in this situation. WU could even use a different port every time.

  13. Perfect! on China's New Craze: E-bikes · · Score: 1

    I live in a perfect range for something like this to work. I am about 4-5 miles away form work and at 15 MPH, it would take me LESS time to ride one of these to work then it would take to ride the bus. This also frees me of the bus schedule during the warmer months plus I woulr try and strech it. I could probably ride this from march until about november or so in Columbus. I could also ride this in a limited fashion in the winter as well. Plus soon the bus will be getting bike racks on the front of it so I can ride part way when it's rainy. Now, where do I find one like this? I think what we will shortly see is tons of these things being shipped to the US like the cheap DVD players. 100 or less e-bikes would be immensly popular for people just trying to get to work.

  14. Re:And cost on China's New Craze: E-bikes · · Score: 1

    I saw a scooter style E-Bike at the mall for 400 bucks complete with a OSU Buckeye paint job.

  15. Six Apart = Drug Dealers on Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme · · Score: 1

    What they have done was get the blogging community nice and addicted to their software. Now that we are addicted, they want money.....just like the drug dealer. I am sorry. GPL'd or not ( and it is NOT GPL'd), this is just a bad bad thing to do with a community as big as the blogging community condering that there are more CMS out there that ARE GPL'd. I WAS going to launch a personal site based on MT (just me and mmy wife as authors) and the free one won't work for me.

  16. Re:Who would have thought ? on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 2, Funny

    DOUBT that dude. No no, this is Microsoft. Their bloated installer would be around 2-5 MB at least! :D

  17. Re:Intel is so far behind anyway on Intel to Dump Pentium 4 in Favor of Pentium M · · Score: 4, Interesting

    80186 was not a failure. I just was not used in PC's. Once upon a time, there was no real difference in the embedded field between the desktop processor and the processor used in say a traffic light. The 80186 was used in lots of embedded solutions. Checkout Wikipedia

  18. How many people of come out against this?? on NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok how many people have to tell SCO to shove it before a judge does? Lemme see:

    National Retail Federation
    IBM
    Linus
    Autozone

    There are more I am sure, but I mean come on. Noone agrees with SCO (at least I have not heard of anyone). When is a judge just going to toss this crap out of court?

  19. Re:A few suggestions on Microsoft Drops Next-Generation Security Project [updated] · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First off:

    1. Dumping Features would break lots of stuff. I suggest that they don't ADD any more and fix what they got!

    2. Um, gcc prevents this?? There's no language that prevents these types of things. Even if you write with a language that supposedly does not have Buffer Overflows, you still rely on other modules that were written in a language that does allow them ot happen.

    3. UNIX and Linux both have 20 ways to do things as well. It's called choice. You choose the best for your situation. I think what you mean is that ActiveX components used on the web should never be allowed to stray out of the web sandbox nor should they be allowed to execute code. And another thing...the mail client should NEVER be allowed to execute code with out asking the user forty times!

  20. Neat.... on A Public Library's Linux Success Story · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My library still uses dumb terminals...no really! For the web comptuers though, this makes alot of sense. I just hope that CLUELESS web designers start to design pages that DO NOT exclude ANY browsers that are not IE. Just because I am using Safari or Mozilla doesn't mean that your crappy website won't work on it!

  21. Re:Keep it up, Europe on Growing Teeth with Stem Cell Technology · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bush isn't against stem cells. He just doesn't want innocent babies killed to obtain the cells when there are ways to get them with out killing a baby. The stem cell research in and of itself doesn't conflict with Christian morals. Abortion DOES conflict with moral values, like it or not. I also find that peoples opinions change on Abortion once they have kids. THINK about it.

  22. Re:Article a bit OTT on Should Sun Just Fold Now? · · Score: 1

    By the way, PowerPC and IBM's Power tech is pretty much the same thing. Sure the processors are a bit different, but overall, they are very similar. Similar enough that you can load Debian on most of them and a PPC Linux RPM can usually be installed on a AIX 5.2 machine.

  23. Re:Only five million? on iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked · · Score: 1

    It also looked like, to me, they only ever produced one commerical. I bought the Green Day I Fought the Law song, but I got so sick of hearing it I cringed when the commercial ran.

  24. Re:Only five million? on iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked · · Score: 1

    Oh but if you spend time picking yout bottle, you can get within about 80 percent of getting a cap everytime! :)

    The technic isn't really new either as one guy at one place who saw me checking my bottle said they had no more of the ones that gave you a free one and then I told him about the promo with iTunes. This was also in a record store that sold pop! :P

  25. Re:Only five million? on iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked · · Score: 1

    That's acutally not bad. Considering that I could find lots of caps myself and I only came within 80 of the maximum 200 (Why have a maximum??? Would Pepsi not just sell more pepsi if there was not one??). Plus my fav (Diet Pepsi) ran out of caps way too soon.