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  1. Re:Surprised? on Federal Science Gets More Politicized · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the gang of internet trolls ranting "conspiracy theory" would be more than happy to explain it to you since they always follow me around.

  2. Re:innovative? on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    It's like being glad your slave master allows you to have two loafs of bread for supper instead of one. Considering the history here... this is just damn funny for _you_ to be expressing this point of view.

    You might begin to amuse me, yet.
  3. New on "DNS Forgery Pharming" Attack Against BIND 9 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    However, security researcher and Trusteer's CTO, Amit Klein, has discovered a severe flaw in BIND's implementation which allows fraudsters to efficiently predict generated random numbers without the need to control the route between the user and the DNS server. How long has BIND been using the same random number generator? I'm a little bit skeptical that Mr. Klein is the first person to consider the possibility of mimicking its behavior.

    Maybe the headline should read,"Exploit which bored college students figured out fifteen years ago is finally released to the mainstream".
  4. Re:innovative? on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    I also got tired of looking for equivalents and "alternatives" for my Windows apps. When I began using Windows I spent all my time looking for equivalents and alternatives to the functionalities that I had taken for granted on other more mature OSs.
  5. Re:More push toward VM's on New Hack Exploits Common Programming Error · · Score: 1

    It's just people being lazy, hurried, or in some unfortunate cases, stupid. We have the most fun hurrying people and then spreading the word that they're stupid. Works every time.
  6. Re:In other news on TimeWarner DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Maybe I've been hypersensitized to spiteful and abusive sysadmins who have no oversight.

  7. Re:In other news on TimeWarner DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Until the definition of "bot" is "anything which connects on port 6667". Then we'll have a problem with abuse of authority, again.

  8. Re:IRC networks must police themselves on TimeWarner DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    They don't even know anything about it.

  9. Re:IRC networks must police themselves on TimeWarner DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    How long until an AC posts some hate filled reply to this?

  10. Re:The two are not mutually exclusive on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    and its the truth Sure it is.

    Did you earn yourself an academic scholarship? Yes, I did, but they gave it to the rich kid instead because I had actually saved some of my own money, which I worked for and earned, for college and, because I had that money saved, I didn't qualify for the scholarships that the rich kids, whose parents were all well versed on the ways to hide their money from the FAFSA criteria, received the scholarships.

    distractions such as "trolls" should not dissuade one from a goal if it is important enough to you. So you admit that you never had any such distractions.
  11. Re:you're so out of touch on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    Note that I am just now entering this conversation. Tell another lie.

    I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.

    It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.

    So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.

    Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
  12. Re:The two are not mutually exclusive on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    I earned it. My work. My effort. My doing. Oh, that's a time honored classic.

    If you call working towards a goal and achieving it to be someone else's fault How many people were trolling you daily?

    I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.

    It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.

    So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.

    Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
  13. Re:you're so out of touch on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    Proof? Else, calumny. by Anonymous Coward

    When did you first begin using that word on Slashdot?

    I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.

    It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.

    So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.

    Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
  14. Re:The two are not mutually exclusive on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    You insinuate that my lack of debt was due to someone else's efforts...I had a full academic scholarship to college, Sounds rather obvious to me... Unless you're insinuating that you magically created that full academic scholarhsip on your own?

    The only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you. Were you going to say something with respect to a topic which you know anything about?

    Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.

    I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.

    It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.

    So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.

    Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
  15. Re:you're so out of touch on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what you're talking about (or who you think you're responding to); I haven't posted much in the last six months except for this discussion. You're the same Anonymous Coward who's been coming back in groups of two and three and five since January.

    Go get some professional help. This coming from the person with the identity problem?

    I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.

    It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.

    So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.

    Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
  16. Re:The two are not mutually exclusive on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    If someone like me could do it and outsmart the system The other team walked you to third base and you act like you hit a home run.

    Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.

    I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.

    It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.

    So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.

    Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
  17. Re:you're so out of touch on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    I'm not "quoting", I'm giving you numbers. Numbers which come from organizations whose heads are associated with the business circles which profit from importing foreign workers. In the scientific and medical fields this is referred to as a biased interpretation of the data.

    Are you saying the NSF is lying about the percentage of foreign graduate students? No, I'm saying that has nothing to do with the need that American companies have. There is a myth that there is a shortage of American scientists and high technology workers. None of your numbers has anything to do with this.

    Are you saying the NSF is lying about the drop in computer science graduate students? No, I'm saying that the drop in computer science graduates has no direct link to the need of American companies.

    the goal of that funding is to keep the US internationally competitive and to benefit the US economy as a whole; No, the goal of that funding is to perpetuate the myth that there is a shortage of native born American scientists and tech workers. Judging from your attitude the funding is accomplishing its goal.

    If you can't compete against Indian and Chinese programmers on both salary and skill, But you have yet to quote any number that says that American graduates can't. The only numbers you've quoted are to indicate that companies choose to avoid the competition and, instead, hire foreign workers because they can are subsidized (by the tax money from the very people their supposedly competing against) and experience a greater quality of life on an equal or slightly lesser salary.

    It makes sense for the corporate interests but in no way does it make sense for the taxpayers. That's what makes this a plutocracy and not a democratically elected Constitutional Republic.

  18. Re:you're so out of touch on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1
    And... as I pointed out in my first response to you: You're quoting the people who have a vested monetary interest in perpetuating the lie.

    But, nice try.

    "The US" hasn't been able to produce enough CS graduates, which is why it has been bringing in foreigners to fill its CS programs Wrong. Foreigners come to study here for two reasons: 1) because they want to, or 2) because there are systems which profit off of taxpayer dollars by hyping the importation of foreign students. It's that simple. It has nothing to do with how many graduates the US produces. The model is that of a chicken farm. There is no deficiency or shortage of US chickens; Federal Politicians and their business cohorts have simply learned that the novelty of foreign chickens allows them to siphon more tax dollars.

    I understand how you can be lacking this basic analytical ability. I forgive you.
  19. Re:Due Process on University of Kansas Adopts 'One Strike' Copyright Infringement Policy · · Score: 1

    Any guesses whether or not this new policy applies to the legacy-admit son or daughter of a wealthy alumnus donor? It doesn't, or, if it does, it'll be a poster child case for some legacy-admit who decided eight months ago that they were going to transfer anyway.

    This rule is only used in the (dreadful) event that one of those base middle or lower class students starts acing their wealthy legacy-admit "betters" in classes and hurts their fragile ego...

    It's also a Plan B. Plan A, in the (dreadful) event that the middle or lower classes begin to produce students who perform better than their wealthy legacy-admit "betters", has always been to throw the goose-egging psycho girlfriend at the would-be usurper.
  20. Re:The two are not mutually exclusive on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    The most important thing is to understand the system...I would attribute the cycle of such historic events to how humans act, rather than some pre-planned grand conspiracy over the centuries Try to read the first sentence of Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. You cannot possibly say, with a straight face, that you even remotely understand the system if you're trying to deride it as a conspiracy.

    Maybe you'll some day admit that it is a collaborative effort to perpetuate an unchallengeable debt--and you can call that a conspiracy if you like--so was slavery and, after the same fashion, indentured servitude.

    Yes. It's how humans act. Those in priveleged positions of authority and power conspire against their working class to prevent the loss of their empires. Six thousand years ago it was acceptable to do this with the sword. Since the Civil War, and arguably even at the Revolutionary War, the top level government entities do this by maintaining their, for lack of a better word, serfs in a state of financial debt from which they can never escape. If they should ever stand a chance of escaping that financial debt then a Great Depression or a .com bubble, or an S&L bust, or a real estate market bubble, will ensure that the numbers shift back in the direction which favors the self-anointed authorities.
  21. Re:you're so out of touch on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1
    Me:

    Um, your quote was that CS programs have been underpopulated for decades... You:

    Not quite. Read it more carefully. I did. It's a common symptom of habitual methamphetamine misuse when people forget what they've said:

    For several decades, the US hasn't been able to produce enough CS graduates;

    The notion...is absolutely laughable and completely out of touch with reality. As is, for that matter, the notion that there are "plenty of" Americans available, at any price. I suppose you're now going to try and say that the programs aren't underpopulated but that the US still can't produce enough graduates.

    So, for the third time, according to whom?

    There is no shortage of qualified native born American scientists and technology workers--no matter how much you might wish it to be so.
  22. Re:Qualifications on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    a good 50% of your most recent posts all share this raving quality. That's the voice in your head. That's not the voice in mine.

    I understand, though. It's common for people of substandard quality to try to project their failings on to others. It's the principle of dragging their peers down to their level so they don't feel so alone.

    It's not working on me.
  23. Re:Cheap Labor Lobbyists on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    Because, even if you find someone better than the American, you are not going to hire him You still failed the challenge. But that's because you want to keep riding the argument that there's a shortage of qualified American scientists.

    There is no shortage of qualified American scientists. Get over it. Just because you want there to be a shortage so that you can promote your personal H1-B cause doesn't make it so.
  24. Re:you're so out of touch on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    According to economic and demographic data; for example: Um, your quote was that CS programs have been underpopulated for decades... yet the only point of yours which comes close to addressing this is:

    The tech industry has been expanding, while CS enrollment has been declining strongly, so things are getting worse. And, again I ask, according to whom?

    And, again, I'd like to point out that you're listening to the slave trader's answer on how important the slave trade is to the economy of the south, and then basing your entire view of reality on the answer from the slave trader.

    And, again, your analytical skills are at a level that I cannot even begin to express.
  25. Re:Difference between Good and Evil on Custom Trojan Creation Tool Sold Online · · Score: 1

    You haven't even asked for my resume, nor have you asked about my skills and experience, nor have you asked what I'm qualified to do, nor have you offered me a list of your available openings. All you want to do is rant. Tech companies can spend nearly a hundred thousand dollars bringing an H1-B applicant online but they can't give me a little boost out of this situation? Sounds like a fishbowl.

    You qualify for the standard response...

    Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.

    I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.

    It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.

    So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.

    Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.