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  1. Re:It's not paying for the lock... on US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed · · Score: 1

    You've discovered irony. What would you like to research next?

  2. Re:Maybe on ASCIIpOrtal Has Been Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    Same thing with your post:

    Hosting offsite for the first week. Just link to this page for the most up to date links.

    Note: The LGShort and Sharebee hosts were commented out in the page's html.

    Download Windows binaries: WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire LGShort Sharebee

    Download Mac binaries (by FutureStack on RGRD): WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire LGShort Sharebee

    Download Linux-32bit binaries (by Brandon): WHFF Solidfiles mediafire

    Download Linux-64bit binaries (by Kaw on RGRD): WHFF Solidfiles Mediafire LGShort Sharebee

  3. It's not paying for the lock... on US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's paying for the research, development, and possibly deployment of a new and improved lock.

    Analogies should be correct to be effective. Sadly, the most effective ones are often incorrect.

  4. Re:Everything for the database on Oracle To Increase Investment In SPARC and Solaris · · Score: 1

    They're throwing more money at it. That means they'll go away from their goals, meaning less integration with Oracle Software, meaning better SPARCs for all of us.

  5. Stronger Metal? on Sony To Put Chrome On Laptops · · Score: 1

    Does this mean they will be more durable? Made with REAL CHROME!

  6. Rockband? on Gaming the App Store · · Score: 2, Funny

    They "worked on" rockband... I wondered why it had so many good reviews.

  7. Re:The bottom line on Can We Abandon Confidentiality For Google Apps? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When you don't pay for something, you can't rely on it. Try winning a law suit against a patient because you didn't have the correct medical knowledge because your ISP couldn't resolve a Google DNS one day...

    I'd think this is a much greater issue than worrying about Google email snoops. That and unecrypted standards over wifi access. Doctors: Don't go mobile. Stay within your cellular-free hospitals.

  8. Re:No problem. on Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen · · Score: 1

    However, some studies have suggested an enhanced risk of early death for those who have undergone splenectomies

    No, it's the possibility of some tests that think this may lead to a slightly larger possibility of DEATH to a very small percentage of the human population. Very concrete facts. This is a major problem. A matter of national security.

  9. Re:How could the miss that? on Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, despite popular belief from sci-fi films and tv shows, you cannot just cut something open and look at it with the human eye or any amount of visual enhancements to get an understanding of a complex system such as the human body.

  10. Re:how do i find out if my teacher did that? on Students Settle With TurnItIn In Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    How do we contact the attorney? After a lot of link searching, there's no real contact information.

    What if a teacher requires you to submit the paper for their class? Can you do anything then? (Asking because of a class discussion I had once as I do not want my work copyrighted by turnitin.com. It was basically decided that the teacher could do whatever they wanted. Where does the law come in on this?)

  11. Re:Makes me wonder on Null Character Hack Allows SSL Spoofing · · Score: 1

    And a better idea is.... \1? It's called a standard. What about any optimized language, are huge overheads really better? Or am I missing something?

  12. Re:The story title is wrong ... on Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionately · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you were able to sum up the complex cellular relationships within our bodies into a simple equation. I'm so glad you've solved the world's nutritional problem.

  13. Re:Ridiculous on Researcher Discovers ATM Hack, Gets Silenced · · Score: 1

    If it gives access to innocent people's accounts, then it should be released sooner, destroying the companies reputation, forcing the company to fix the issue in customer reimbursements after losing half of their customer base, to send them under. Sadly, customers would be forced to leave the banks, not the diebold machines, which supply all banks in certain regions.

  14. Re:Huh? WTF is a programming mouse? on Best Mouse For Programming? · · Score: 1

    Ever been the guy to take the screw out, and realize all your company bought in the first place was a single wrench?
    If you haven't, then it's only a matter of time.

    Oh and those awkward workarounds could make you 100% more profitable, if used correctly. I'm not saying I'm the keyboard wizard myself, but it's hard to beat proficiency ratings.

  15. Cost vs. Benefit? on New Firefox Standard Aims to Combat Cross-Site Scripting · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the cost versus benefit doesn't make sense for some site, they're free to keep doing business as usual.'

    The author gave the best reason for not implementing this.

    The benefits of this, and other various security implementations, won't be seen until it's tested. The costs of testing? Way too high compared to the current cost of operation. This is a very hard proof-of-concept problem, and unless this is already built into development standards, I doubt any deployments would switch.
    Which would you take, the option which delays production for a week, or the option to just hit "next"?

  16. Blizzard Entertainment on Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger · · Score: 1

    I would argue that blizzard does this quite well. I don't think this has to do with Vivendi, Blizzard's mother company, either.

  17. Re:Nice Shapshot! on The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S · · Score: 1

    How is it a good review? Many of the fields he entered "you know.. I'm really not sure". A quick google or hacking the device itself will tell you more answers than this "review".

  18. Re:Back-peddling on Search And Rescue Service Stopped After Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    back peddling can be used for many things. In bicycling, it's moving backwards (which is how I used it). In conversation, it's "digging a hole" in an argument, usually with a spouse. Someone knew what I meant, which is all that words/terms matter for, capisce?

  19. Re:Passwords? on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obligatory bash quote: http://www.bash.org/?244321

  20. Re:what about caps? on Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010 · · Score: 1

    That'd technically be really nice, but expensive. If they could give me a unique net in the top 8? I'd be golden.

  21. Re:It's Comcastic on Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Are you connected directly to the ISP pipe or do you have a home router? Oh and the title of the post is misleading. They're going to have trials in 2010.

  22. Back-peddling on Search And Rescue Service Stopped After Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The person suing is only back peddling. He wants a better search and rescue team? Don't sue them you idiot! Donate to them!

  23. Re:Reminds me of a crappy film... on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    Yeah that was just in the film version. Read the book, it's much better.

  24. Re:Huh? on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sadly, this is the common misconception most people had. Returning to work at Cisco my father made a reference to my IT job. I had to explain that even though, as a company, Cisco makes IT solutions that does not mean my job title is IT nor that we're an IT company. Fortunately though, this matters little to most people not in "the field", even if he is the manager of a non-profit's entire IT staff (1 person, like the author of this post).

    But back to the author's question-- Stay clear headed, remember that it's just a job. If it's not enough for you (you're too passionate) then find something better, after waiting out the current economic times of course. If you're happy where you are, then find some good technologies and improvements to occupy your time and continue to deal with the external pressures as best as you can. I would suggest explaining or finding a way to let the other users understand how difficult and important what you're doing is. If that takes pushing deadlines then fine. Maybe posting a few articles around your office / on your door about how Google or BoA lost 10,000 customer's social security numbers, then do that. Be creative.

  25. Re:Take that, HP! on Cisco Introduces Rackmount Servers · · Score: 2

    No, not in servers. Routing and switching? sure.