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  1. Stuck on Celebrate the XML Decade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So we're officially stuck with this crap forever.

    Yay! Lets party!

    XML is for data interchange, nothing else. Unfortunately, it's being used for everything but.

  2. Technology advances... on The Ballpark Stadium of the Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ad technology that is.

    The best part is you cannot leave the stadium until you buy at least $100 worth of advertised product, but you get to do it with your cellphone! Yay, how cool! Go Cisco!

    People really still drag themselves to a stadium through all that traffic when HDTV exists?

    .

  3. Re:Please also say WHAT is in short supply on IT Worker Shortages Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Standard ad. Post insane requirements, then hire your friends.

    If there weren't laws that required postings, 99% of jobs would never be advertised at all. The 6 month run just means the position got put on hold, but they are still required to cover their ass.

    They aren't "looking" for you, or anyone else.

    .

  4. Perfect storm... on IT Worker Shortages Everywhere · · Score: 1

    - Companies aren't willing to pay, so they outsourced. Thinking ahead all the way to the next quarter, wow.

    - IT involves life in a cube. Companies treat their IT [all workers] like shit, and fire them all before age 30 when they get lives and aren't willing to work 80 hour weeks for 40 hours of pay.

    - The press portrays outsourcing as the end of all jobs. We're doomed!!!

    - Outsourcing costs went up. India + overhead costs ~= US costs. Actually this was true from the start, how surprising the press got something wrong!

    - People are avoiding CS majors, because of the press on outsourcing, and the idiots in charge are waging war on science and keeping our foreign students out of the country.

    = "Shortage"

    In summary... HA HA! Pay up biatch.

  5. Re:Requests to delete server logs on German ISP Forced To Delete IP Logs · · Score: 1

    They have stated publicly many times - absolutely not.

    Then they wouldn't know what ads to give Adblock to block :)

  6. Re:Requests to delete server logs on German ISP Forced To Delete IP Logs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fear not! Google has a copy.

  7. Re:Not a Hoax on Long-Term Wikipedia Vandalism Exposed · · Score: 1

    If you write about your own work it's removed. You have to write about 2nd hand information. Which leads to a whole lot of stub articles that just point to the actual work/site/references.

    It's easier to say you're an encyclopedia that way... I guess? Seems to limit the completeness of articles if you ask me. Wikipedia is just another source, as likely to be wrong at 3:27PM as it is to be right at 3:26PM.

    Sure is great though - but it is NOT an "encyclopedia".

  8. Re:Oh good... on New Zero-Day Vulnerability In Windows · · Score: 1

    It is when you can run as non-admin and have it mean something.

    3 years and zero virii, trojans, etc on any of the Win machines.

  9. Oh good... on New Zero-Day Vulnerability In Windows · · Score: 0, Troll

    "all Microsoft based operating systems except Windows 2003"

    Glad nobody I know is vulnerable to this. Everyone is OSX, Linux, or Win2003 for a long time now.

  10. Re:Where is the HOWTO? on How Encrypted Binaries Work In Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Having all the application code on my Mac in RAM at the same time wouldn't even use 10%.

    malloc & friends still get paged, so it's a huge security win.

  11. Summary: on Community Patent Review Project Announced · · Score: 1

    "We got ours, lets make damn sure nobody else gets any"

    How nice.

  12. Where is the HOWTO? on How Encrypted Binaries Work In Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Well that was useless.

    Where is the tutorial on how to get our own apps loaded into this special no-pageout protected memory area so that they aren't screwed up by idiots clicking "yes" on a web popup? Every bit of protection helps.

  13. So close, and yet... on Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It · · Score: 1

    "Stern points out, however, that any action will only be effective if truly global."

    In other worlds, it doesn't matter, because China and India don't give a damn, and will poison as much of their air/water/land as they have to to make a buck.

    At least that is self-correcting, they seem to have reached the point where they are killing themselves off with the toxins at an exponential rate...

  14. Wayback Machine... on Security Firm Bypasses Patch Guard · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Page Files... Wow.

    I haven't had a machine with one of those in at least 5 years. I also don't have a 5 1/4" floppy drive anymore. Both turn a modern dual-core machine into an Apple ][e class machine.

    In all seriousness, why is this even supported in 64bit Vista?

    Memory is no longer a constraint in a 64bit system. If you can afford $450+ (widely leaked price) for the non-crippled Vista, you can afford the RAM. And if you're running a server, paging = death, even when using 15k RPM drives.

  15. 27 clicks later on OLPC Inspires Open Source Projects · · Score: 2, Informative

    So you dont have to dig...

    "Why user space sucks" is at:

    Pages 441-449 of http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_ procv1.pdf

  16. Shocked... on How the DMCA Protects YouTube · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So Google [big corp XYZ] gets to take other poeples copyrighted content, and make money off of it without paying, but users cannot even share it for free.

    If this wasn't business as usual, I'd be shocked.

    .

  17. "conflict-free" on Lab Created Diamonds Come to Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I love how DeBeers turned "diamonds we got by killing Africans and anyone else in our way, funding local wars, and ripping you off on something that is so common everyone could have 10 and we'd still have warehouses full" into ... "conflict-free".

    Until these guys ramp up to massive capacity, buying a diamond still involves killing people.

  18. Hole in the system... on Veeker Makes Video Instant Messaging a Reality · · Score: 1

    So because no one has turned on the videophone feature in their cell network yet, this company popped up. As soon as they do (and they will soon), this company is totally useless as far as I can tell.

    Must be nerve wracking being 1 SIM card update away from bankruptcy.

  19. Way to go... screw the user in the end. on DVD Jon's DoubleTwist Unlocks the iPod · · Score: 1

    The iPod plays MP3's just fine, so anything can play on the iPod. Burning to MP3 is easy last I looked.

    So why do it need this tool exactly? Seems like a hacker feeling full of himself after some fame due to hacking.

    Now Apple will have to change iTunes constantly, or music companies (the RIAA) will leave iTunes. They would do the same if this "tool" showed up for Windows Media too, it's in their contracts.

    Nice job.

  20. HA HA!!!! on Zombies Blend In With Regular Web Traffic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Everyone blocked all ports except 80 because MS couldn't be bothered to fix system security.

    Now you have to block port 80 as well... Good luck with that ;)

    The bad guys have orders of magnitude more money behind them then the good guys, it's obvious who will win.

  21. Denial... on TV Really Might Cause Autism · · Score: 1

    Nothing at all to do with the fact that the valley is home to hundreds of toxic superfund cleanup sites.

    They dumped enough toxins into the ground water around here before they moved all chip production to China to kill everyone on the planet many many times over.

    But I'm sure that's not it, nope.

  22. Re:Sanctions? on North Korea Air Sample Shows Radiation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What exactly would you saction?

    The are already starving, lack electricity in 95% of the country, are almost completely uneducated, and make most starving African nations look rich in comparison.

    They quite literally have nothing to lose, which is very sad.

  23. Wow, that's alot.. on Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion · · Score: 1

    But they paid LESS per copyright violation then anyone else! Less then a dollar per copyright infringement for sure.

    Nice deal!

    Too bad every IP lawyer in the US just got a call that the deep pockets took the bait, and will be working full time suing Google for months.

  24. In summary.... on Rough Guide to Outsourcing In China · · Score: 1

    "Completely uneducated workers (often child/prisoner/slave) in harsh and very unsafe conditions didn't work out so good. But we saved a few bucks, woohoo!!!"

    Welcome to China.

  25. Re:Do not click that link at the end! on A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules · · Score: 1

    To be fair, all /. links require bouncing through the sponsor's blog posting first.

    Sometimes two or even three of them.

    The days of linking directly to the actual source article are gone.