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  1. Teach Chip to eat his 'strained silly cone' on Strained Silicon to Perpetuate Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    I think I'd hate to be called Chip.

  2. Simple M$ fix. on Australian Police Given Power To Use Spyware · · Score: 1

    The govt.(s?) won't ALLOW Linux. You'll HAVE to run with Windows because it can be infected.

    Sucks, don't it.

  3. One solution. Noisier aircraft... on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 1

    Now the airlines will have no incentive to reduce cabin noise. There'll be all those idiots in the somebody something. It'll be bedlam.

    Then again, the airlines'll propably sell 'quiet flight' tickets to travellers who want to be in a 'dead zone' on a real quiet plane for X hours while they're up in the air. (No 'deaf person' or 'colicky baby' in the next seat.)

    It could be the next marketing ploy.

  4. I've been saying that for years. on China and its Relation With Spam · · Score: 1

    Until the fines are substantial enough, and the collection if the money is local to the sender, you're not going to see it happen.

    People are looking after their own pockets. As long as there are fools to fill them, not ever the threat of a bullet to the head is going to deter them if its in some other jurisdiction.

  5. Look at the new iMac. Look at a tablet. See the .. on Tablet Mac Becomes Reality · · Score: 1

    problem. Everything that would be needed in a tablet PC doesn't fit in a tablet PC. Almost but not quite.

    Hence, no practical (read $ paying) market place for it.

    Maybe as a wireless remote to a server, the thing would be okay, but you then need the kind of wireless environment to support it. (Love to work there.) PARC probably has something like that set up already.

  6. Offer 'em some money 'til they go away. on ACS Sues Google Over Use of 'Scholar' · · Score: 1

    You can do anything to any/everybody just as long as the alternatives are made less palatable tham what you offer.

    The use of language as a medium of inter personal communication is at the heart of this trade mark crap. Its not going to dissapear until we learn to do without language when creating trademarks.

  7. How about a fingerprint? on Password Security Not Easy · · Score: 1

    I've got a reader here.

    Now if I can just get them to upgrade their systems to friggin' well USE them, that will get rid of one call per month per system...

  8. I don't even bother... on Password Security Not Easy · · Score: 1

    I just call the help desk for a new password whenever I have to log onto these damn sites.

    I have a fingerprint reader on my desktop and until they wake the fsck up and get their systems to use that, I deal with the help desk.

    I think the reader would be a much better solution and tell them every time I get the chance to, once a month for every damn system :-)

  9. Neurotic compulsive shoppers? on Digital Packrats · · Score: 1

    Kewl. That would make people who watch "The Home Shopping Network" valuable as brain damage research subject. Talk about hoarding junk.

    How about the entire customer list of "The Franklin Mint?"

  10. It figures. Accountants adjust they don't delete. on Digital Packrats · · Score: 1

    Deleting is virtually unknown is Accounting. They keep the original mistake and the adjusting entry.

    It figures that the nation that brought us antique collecting (everybody else just filled interesting rubbish tips,) aren't able to throw anything away.

  11. How bout a virus that breaks malware? on No Honor Among Malware Purveyors · · Score: 1

    I think that this would be great. Just something that would look at everybody who'se catching keyboard and mouse events and if they are on a list of malware, break 'em at the event catcher.

  12. Does closing the pop up count? on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 1

    I LIKE using Mozilla/FireFox.

    I've been spared so much shit and popup and popunders (which my school is in M$ tightly cuirled fist so they ONLY use IE,) that most every damn site I go to when I am using the schools' computers leaves me closing windows I didn't want.

  13. Why buy when you can license? on Daring to Dream: Apple & IBM · · Score: 1

    IBM is NOT going to buy Apple. Apple is not going to sell out to IBM. BUT that doesn't mean that they could not work out a cross-marketing/cross-licemsing deal.

    Apple would design the IBM products, which would run on PowerPC platforms (NOBODY's got more experience) and kick-ass. IBM would get the products built by whoever (like, do you really see IBM making CELL based games to run on a Sony box? I thought not.) and would market them as IBM branded boxed 'solutions.'

    This would be a good thing.

    Steve Jobs is not an issue. He's a collaborator designing great IBM PowerPC boxes which are made by whoever.

    IBM makes $
    Apple makes $
    We get cool shit
    (and, incidentally, we get rid of M$, who's stuck on 64 bit boxen.

  14. Oh yeah! M$ knows the perverted morons out there on Microsoft Launches Blogging Site · · Score: 1

    "send pictures from your camera-phone directly to your Space. Now you can let Mom know just exactly what happened at that party last night!"

    I don't think its going to be MOM who gets the picture. Get the picture? The party last night is going to be the peep show and the participants were unaware (and unpaid.)

    And of course there will be something about it which makes it incompatible with the published standard but still work with M$ media center.

    I used to think: "There ought to be a law."
    Then I found out there was.
    Then I saw how it was applied.

    I'm gonna go out and post copyright violations and unsustecting teen porn pics on the M$ blogs because if they apply that law (its slander, libel, calunmny) like they did the anti-tust one, I'm laughing, mate.

  15. DCOM is NOT Windows only. on Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes · · Score: 1

    As to your sentiments. Sorry but as long as you can BUY an unpatched PC, you can STFU.

  16. And s/he'll ask who, what, when, where, why and on Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes · · Score: 1

    how.

    All you can answer for sure is the last question.

    A.G.s are bound by jurisdiction (country and state or province or depertement or prefecture or...)

    There is very little they can do. Most of this crap is flying around and over their territory. Its up to us to protect our machines.

    Spammers should have their CLIENTS sued. Get an ad for Viagra(, or PenileExtenders or whatever,) and whoever the RETAILER is should be the one to get smacked.

    Follow the $. Whover you were going to pay is the one who should get sued. Make it an international arrangement/agreement that the fines should be collected by the sender's country of origin.

  17. Only half of your chromosomes that way. on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't wanna clean your shorts.

  18. Greyed item VS. NO item on Top Ten Persistent Design Flaws · · Score: 1

    Its a matter of security.

    Depending on how paranoid your organization is, they either want you to:
    -permissive-
    see what you could command (see the menu item,)
    if the object state is incorrect (greyed menu item,) and
    if you don't have the priviledge (switch to unauthorized page,)
    or
    -restrictive-
    they don't want you to know dick-all and stop where you are

    There are arguments to be made for both modes.

  19. Liquifying CO2? on Robert Zubrin's Mars Gashopper Airplane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    CO2 sublimates, doesn't it? Might not make any difference for their application though.

    Its a good idea NOT to have to import hydrocarbons as the nearest filling station is back here, far far away. CO2 is pretty plentiful.

    The wings holding the solar panels would have to be self-cleaning though.

  20. Re:Hahahaha.... the fools! on Some iPod Fans Dump PCs For Macs · · Score: 1

    "The main thing stopping me from getting a Mac... Price."

    Thank [insert deity here] you're cheap.

  21. Re:Dangers of the iPod (or "iPod Madness!") on Some iPod Fans Dump PCs For Macs · · Score: 1

    No, Gateway does not make an iPod. They're seling (pre-selling really,) a $250 MP3 player though. Stores up to 1,000 songs. Yawn!!

  22. H1B schm1-B. It won't matter if this doesn't stop. on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    The USPTO has just received an application by Microsoft patenting identity comparisons (A == B therefore A is at the same address as B) which would make writing compilers illegal and using any compiler other than Microsoft's illegal as well.

    Efectively shutting the doors on GNU C and C++, Java, Smalltalk and everything that includes a == operator or its equivalent.

    This would effectively render the world Microsoft dependent.

    Youch!

  23. C# developer with more than five years experience on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    Yep HR minions are clueless. I was stuck with them and you see this kind of dumb crap (>X years of experience) when they A) have somebody in mind already (my cousin Jody) or B) don't want to really hier anybody (that [expletive deleted] PM can suck wind if he thinks we're gonna find anybody.)

    I was 'offered' a position in 1995 for somebody with 10 years experience in HTML. In 1995. Its was only two fucking years old.

    They usually aren't clueless, they're "Catbert"s

  24. Yeah... You got your CFA... on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    CFA? Come From Away, boy. You come from away and probably don't know the ropes (the ones around your neck) quite yet.

    I've got my CFA too, but its getting old, and so is working in NYC.

    Maybe I'll invest in something 'other than IT,' make my own job and get the hell outta Dodg; real soon now.

  25. uh, doesn't the USPO know Boolean? Or logic? on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 1

    The only operations you need are AND, OR, XOR, and NOT. ISNOT is equivalent to not.

    In Smalltalk comparison for identity (two instance addresses) is done by an '==' Equality is done by an '='

    Its like you can construct every comparison operation on ! = is != is !