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  1. Panasonic Toughbook off ebay on PCs For A Workshop Environment? · · Score: 1

    You can pick them up for under a grand. Plus they are bulletproof :)

  2. Re:and I for one will never buy another product fr on Belkin Offering Pre-802.11N Products · · Score: 1

    That's ok. I bought a RCA Home theater system and sent my UPC in for a 100 off rebate. Never heard back from them. I think you need to send registered mail otherwise it gets "lost in the mail"

  3. Re:More problems too! on 64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I would say that rather than including sata drivers, if during installation it would have at least asked for any drive i.e floppy, cd, usb even would have been nice. I had this happen with changing motherboards in XP.

    The best thing to have done was install the drivers, sysprep and then replace the motherboard but I forgot.

    The motherboard I bought did not provide a floppy
    with the drivers instead they were on a cd. So I booted up in my BartPE rescue cd and copied the files off of the cd onto a floppy and started building then.

  4. Re:#1 will be... on Top 25 Innovations of the Past 25 Years · · Score: 1

    Nah Internet Porn.

    (didn't read the thread nor the link)

  5. Re:Back off! on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually we do. First you have the subs that patrol under the ice flow. Course our newest had a small fire that has put it out of commission for a year as the bureacratic BS of why this happened and who is to blame goes on. Plus we have the Rangers who do patrol. Course they don't have the borders covered quite like the US with Mexico.

    It is patrolled just not heavily. Best way for an army to invade? Claim refugee status.

  6. Re:Umm.... on Security Issues in Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Only if you have admin privileges on the machine. If you are joe normal user you don't have access to other user profiles.

  7. Re:Sample on Sneak Peek At Microsoft Anti-Spyware · · Score: 1

    Don't laugh. I have seen that with Norton where it would find a key generator and gripe about it being a bad file (can't remember exactly what it said but it wasn't a virus or trojan)

  8. Re:Well.. on Inside the Shadow Internet · · Score: 1

    hehe Weird Science.
    I used to think Kelly LeBrock was hot now with that big hair she had in that scene she looked like she stuck her finger in a light socket.
    Loved that movie when it came out. Ah Puberty was wonderful...

  9. Easy Solution on RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans · · Score: 1

    Stop using Windows Media files (or are they also talking about XVid, DivX, et al?)

  10. Re:MOD PARENT UP! on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1

    I would suspect that Google and Yahoo will never be taken to court for two reasons:
    1. They are willing to remove links if there is an issue with the page they are linking (i.e. DMCA infringing, or mentions Xenu)
    2. The amount of links provided linking to copywritten material compared to links of "safe" material is probably miniscule.

    With point 2 LokiTorrent is going to have a harder time proving that they are not a "gateway" to stolen software as majority of their links are not "safe". If they linked to was all OSS and all of a sudden a link showed up to something copywritten they would probably have a chance but it is highly doubtful.

    Now the Pirate Bay may have a chance....

  11. Re:Am I the only one who likes RFID? on NYT: Wal-Mart Slows RFID Plans, Suppliers Resist · · Score: 1

    True but since most people are too lazy to do it themselves and tend to rather wait in a lineup with cashiers, we (my wife and I) go in the diy line and are out the door before said lazy people are even started.

    Plus I have noticed that cashiers are a lot slower now. It seems in my area (Ottawa Canada) that baggers are extinct and that cashiers now do both jobs (although the bagging part seems to be quite poor compared to when I did it as a young lad in High school)

  12. Easy Two Words on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 2, Funny

    No Balls

    Thank you! I'm here all week! Try the Chicken Kiev!

  13. Re:Am I the only one who likes RFID? on NYT: Wal-Mart Slows RFID Plans, Suppliers Resist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Grocery store I go to has a self scan system. It has a camera watching you and after you scan something you put it in a bag ("It put's it in the bag or it will get the hose"). There is a cashier watching about 6 locations to make sure nothing goes through on the outside. Biggest annoyances:
    1. Slow people
    2. Size of stalls. 4 of the 6 are pretty small so if you are doing a major buy you are kind of limited to going to the other two.
    3. No mute for the reminder voice. If you spend too long looking for which bag to put the item it bugs you. Which automatically gets it the bird.

    Otherwise we prefer it over the normal cashes as the wait is usually shorter

  14. Re:Windows 2003 popularity? on Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 · · Score: 1

    Canadian version of the NTSB has gone to Win 2k3 AD. I suspect there are other sections of the Government that will be as well. Other reasons:
    Better handling of AD in larger networks.
    Ability to export and import the AD (build a server and ship the AD rather than build the server and ship the server if the link is flaky/slow)

  15. Re:Stumpers on Jeopardy! Whiz Becomes Encarta Spokesman · · Score: 1

    The key is to ask him about Linux and then ask if he got that from Encarta.

  16. Re:Take my country, please on Canadian iTunes Music Store Opens · · Score: 1

    Apology accepted and understood :)

    The only reason that the Soviet Union failed in Afghanistan was that the US was funding the Muhajadeen (Sp?). The taliban fragments don't have this luxury. HOWEVER, all that Afghanistan is right now is Kabul and a small amount of surrounding area. The real issue will be when they try to get the warlords to give up control and their ever flourishing Poppy fields that appeared after the Taliban disappeared (the Taliban had (for once) done something right by banning Opium production but the US turned a blind eye right after 9/11 as the Warlords needed the money to fund their fight against the Taliban).

  17. Re:Take my country, please on Canadian iTunes Music Store Opens · · Score: 1

    I could go on. I'm just amazed when American's take the position American doesn't spend enough on its military. Its a ridiculous position.

    Hehe. You should have RTFT (Read the F*ckin Thread) I was talking about the Canadian Military not the US military. Better description of the US military is that it suffers from Extreme SuperSizing. Canada has had problems with our existing Sea King helicopters, about a third of our 120 CF-18s are in for maintenance at all times and not flight worthy. Our troops were sent to Afghanistan in Green Cadpat camoflage when they should have had the Desert Brown.
    The Canadian Troops are well trained but unfortunately are funding deprived. The rumour is the replacement for our main battle tank is going to be the Striker which will open a new pandora's box. We have a soldier killed in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber who jumped into the Altis which is a open air Volkswagen Fox, ideally they should have had APCs and said bomber would have just splattered himself off the side but guess what no money.

    Canada has prided ourselves on being the world's peacekeeper but Afghanistan is not the same type of role that Canada has taken before. Rather being in the middle and non partisan, we are now considered a target.

    US seemed surprised that we didn't go into Iraq. Even if we had wanted to, we couldn't have afforded it.

  18. Re:Sweet on Portable Firefox and Thunderbird · · Score: 3, Insightful

    mod parent up. I work for military and the only approved browser is exploder. I would say a good portion of my group uses firefox at home and we all have admin access to our machines due to our roles so installing is no problem and in our cases we are not being audited for software (yet). However we can get a security sweep done of our office at a moments notice and that would be pretty much job termination, none of us are stupid enough to risk our jobs for it.

  19. Re:Take my country, please on Canadian iTunes Music Store Opens · · Score: 1

    Technicality is right no one is alive who fended them off. Our ancestors are not we. If it was we who fended them off we would not have allowed a government to basically starve our military to the point it is at.

    So it is not we, it is they.

  20. Re: do you know who your #1 Oil supplier is? on Canadian iTunes Music Store Opens · · Score: 1

    Probably less often than you pay for US electricity. It used to be that we (CDN) provided the states with a lot of juice but not anymore. I have a friend who works with the CDN gov who recently enlightened me on this fact. Can't explain why though.

  21. Re:Take my country, please on Canadian iTunes Music Store Opens · · Score: 1

    Actually we didn't. The British did. Canada was not a country at that point for several years.

  22. Re:This is new? Maybe so on TV Piracy is Next · · Score: 1

    True but I was talking from the client side of things. There was nothing more annoying on Kazaa or WinMX where you were downloading a file and either someone logged off or disconnected you. BitTorrent helps. I would rather get something at half the speed than get half of it at full bore.

  23. Re:Not a nail for Microsoft. on Failed Win XP Upgrade Wipes Out UK Government Agency · · Score: 1

    And chances are that was how they got them back online. 60k workstations and a multitude of ghostgast sessions. Properly sysprepped generic workstation image, you could probably do a 1000 easily within an hour.

  24. Re:Stupid Man/Article. on TV Piracy is Next · · Score: 1

    To counterpoint my comment above, I wouldn't be surprised if the CRTC (Canadian version of the FCC) becomes concerned about this as people will be able to filter out all the crap that we are force fed because it has "Canadian Content". Mind you some Canadian shows have become quite good. But there is still crap shows from here that would never make it without the CRTC Nazis pushing for it.

  25. Re:Stupid Man/Article. on TV Piracy is Next · · Score: 1

    Macleans is a canadian magazine. I would say most of the reasders are not your typical Suprnova visitors and have no clue about BitTorrent. TV is the same as US. Sometimes we even get shows before. I remember Home Improvement being on a day earlier in Canada than the US as Global showed it on Tuesday and NBC (or was it CBS) showed it on Wednesday.

    Why are they doing it? probably needed filler but then again why was napster considered so newsworthy? Probably that it made things a lot easier than using ftp servers to get music as well as Kazaa for games, etc.

    The fact is that distribution has become a lot easier. In Canada, you are legally allowed to rebroadcast tv shows so this is not as big of a deal as the states.