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  1. Re:Overheard conversation on TSA to Contractors - Encrypt Your Laptops · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That would be funny if it did not actually happen to me. I drive a truck and cross the boarder to Canada and back to the USA. I was literally asked for the keys to the laptop by customs.

  2. How you do steal someone identify? on Bill Introduced to Congress Would Allow ID Theft Restitution · · Score: 1

    I did not know you could steal one identify. How do you do that? I would love to do that my enimies. Image them waking up with a different identify where there friends and family no longer recognizes them. Talk about the ultimate horror. :-)

  3. Re:Normal users too have problems also. on Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court · · Score: 1

    Font size should be relative, like or not a specific size. The web designer should base the fonts off the default size on the client browser and increase and decrease it, not override it. So one client can set default font size of 10 and another can set default size of 18 and the web site will work on both IF it uses relative size changes.

  4. Normal users too have problems also. on Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court · · Score: 1

    I have seen many web sites with too small text and have to hit Ctrl-+ to increase the font size. Even if the font size is set large on my end. Too many web site are hard coding the font size and nearly all linux distros follow the DPI that is returned by the plug and play monitor/LCD. So setting the point size to 8 on a 120 DPI monitor will make it unreadable. And for those hard of sight, totally unreadable.

  5. Re:www.slashdot.org on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 1, Chips & Dips · · Score: 1

    I'me not sure where it started from. But I though the base domain name was for e-mail, witch uses the MX field to direct it to the right server. Or other things that are "serverless" where the domain name is just a starting point, like e-mail and domain registration. If having more then one server decated to a service, www, ftp, etc. makes sense to make sure the URL went to the right server without having to install a decated firewall hardware to redirect ports to the sperate servers. Allthough now a days with all the social networking sites springing up, www does seem to be the stone age now where large sites now split the site across separate servers, like "images", "static", "user", and the most hated one of them all, "ad|adserver|flashad"

  6. www.slashdot.org on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 1, Chips & Dips · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When will http://slashdot.org/ come out of the dark ages and grow up to http://www.slashdot.org/ ? http://www.slashdot.org/ has been down for years. Could some of you early ones fill in on the story behind this strangeness?

  7. "**"? (abcdeflamelassfilter) on Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech · · Score: 1

    Is that "F**k Islam" or "Fuck Islam"? They are two different groups as far as a computer is concerned.

  8. Good. on Google News to Host Wire Service Stories · · Score: 1

    I use goggle news. My main beef with it is for a major news stories, I see there is about 1,000 plus articles. However, when I pull up the full list of them and start clicking some of them to read more of the story, they are all the EXACT same thing. I would love it if they detect the dupes and just one link to the major wire services and the others are NOT reprinted wire stuff. I like to get more details and there is usually local paper that does it own story with more details, but it gets buried in 1,000 links of the same story from the wires.

  9. Crapware? on RealPlayer 11 Is a Real Rip Contender · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does it still load a ton of unless features and hides settings to turn off most of the undesirable ones? Last time I used it, it hog most of the system resources and did nearly everything but played the video.

  10. Re:Why.. on Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile · · Score: 1

    Calm down and get some real evidence of wrongdoing like a packet capture of private information going out over the wire before you cry wolf.
    *sighs* Do we wolves ever get any respect from humans? They always cry "wolf" every time they see us. *looks around, points and crys out "HUMAN!"*
  11. Cable are forced to package channels on FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable · · Score: 3, Informative

    The programmers, like Viacom, force cable companies to carry channels they don't want and therefore forced into package deals of today. Remember the brewhaha a few years ago between a satellite provider and programmer, that resulted a crawl text to all subscribers that there faverate channels may be dropped before they came to a deal.

  12. Re:you can patch in new keys? on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 1

    I would love to have this for windows media center edition. This will allow me to finally run mce under vmware on my dual boot laptop off the hard drive. I have yet to find a corp edition of MCE. I have the legal license key, it just won't work under vmware and I legal right to do so. Really pisses me off about this whole "activation" issue.

  13. Ferret? on Point-and-Click Gmail Hacking Shown at Black Hat · · Score: 1

    Nice thing that the summery explain what the "Ferret" program was and how to find it. Would be nice to actually show my friends the danger of http (not https) web mail.

  14. I don't block, but I still use DNSBL on Choosing a Good DNSBL · · Score: 1

    I use the list to score how long e-mail is greylisted and scoring in spamassassam. DNSBL are notorious for being political and having false positives. So a scoring system works better. Low scores for the worst offenders and higher spam scores for the better DNSBL.

  15. Misleading summery on ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It does not say if _all_ or just the ones that one on the "hit" list plates are "tagged" and recorded. I would object to this system IF it recored _all_ plates and locations. Recording just the ones that came back with warrants or stolen I have no problem with. And would disagree with the ACLU on this one.

  16. Its a new record. on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 1

    A ten page article spread out onto 120 pages. Wow. Anyone have a one to ten page link for us dial-up/cell phone uses?

  17. Re:Try LinPHA... on What LAMP-Based Gallery Software Would You Use? · · Score: 1

    Second here. I started out with IDS (Image Display System, not snort;). But development stalled 3-4 years ago and found LinPHA to replace it. Gallery has a poor UI plus you need to upload one image at a time back then. I do batch FTP uploads and LinPHA just runs with it. No "install" routine necessary. I've heared Gallery fixed this somewhat, but LinPHA has a clean UI.

  18. Re:Advertising? What are these ads you speak of? on Behavioral Search & Advertising On Its Way? · · Score: 1

    "Filterset.G Updater" is outdated and is no longer recommended by many. Use adblockplus with the two built-in self updating lists. "EasyList" and "EasyElement".