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  1. Re:First post on 1 in 8 Take Fake Phone Calls to Avoid Talking to Others · · Score: -1

    The cliche was inevitable

  2. Re:Unusable and expensive on Sending Data In Bursts of SMS Messages · · Score: -1

    You didn't ignore the fact that "baud" is the incorrect term at all.

  3. Come On on Visualizing False Positives In Broad Screening · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anyone can write software to look for a turban

  4. Re:Careful. on New Coalition To Promote OSS To Feds · · Score: 1

    Just like they "helped" the financial industry.

  5. Google on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    You've already let the biggest data thief in the world at your laptop, whats one extra petty criminal?

  6. Re:Support is pending on Free Rainbow Tables Looking For New Admin · · Score: 1

    The computer club at Western Michigan University is entertaining the idea of hosting these tables, we've been in contact with the admin over there about the data and bandwidth requirements, and it looks like we have the resources needed to host them. Unfortunately we don't have a quorom to vote on the issue until the fall semester begins and the majority of our members are in town.

  7. Re:You mean racketeering on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    The product not existing isn't a result of there not being a demand or a drive for such a thing to exist. The problem with the textbook industry is that we have professors getting kickbacks from the book publishers, and the students are stuck with the inflated bill as a result. Given the choice, any student would obviously pick an open source textbook over one they have to pay $150 for. The plethora of open source software is proof that we aren't in a shortage of people willing to donate their time to open source projects, supporting the freedom of information.

    Maybe if the students had a say in the textbooks that they were being taught with, we wouldn't have the duopoly that is currently being abused by professors and textbook publishers.

  8. Re:Fail? on Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network · · Score: 1

    We're not here to debate the definition of a monopoly, we're here to squabble about side details of the story that don't matter.

  9. How about you... on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    Just wait until this whole DNS fad ends.

  10. Re:In Cisco tradition... on Cisco Introduces Rackmount Servers · · Score: 1

    Just like with all other servers in the business world...

  11. Re:Of Course on Can "Page's Law" Be Broken? · · Score: 1

    All of my software is twice as fast on twice as fast hardware, yours must be broken.

  12. Re:Send them to me. on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    1. DOS Emulator 2. Santa's Christmas Caper 3. ??? 4. Profit!

  13. Minidisk Technology on Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records · · Score: 1

    The minidisk player in my closet wants to know why it's not on the list

  14. Re:Lag. on On the Feasibility of Single-Server MMOs · · Score: 1

    Also why Guild Wars isn't fun or popular

  15. Re:I totally disagree! on Why Every Office Needs an Outsider · · Score: 1

    Or maybe, instead of inane nitpicking about grammar we can just recognize it for what it is, insignificant.

  16. BGP on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    Anyone work for a major ISP?

  17. What decision? on Morality of Throttling a Local ISP? · · Score: 1

    There are two types of jobs you're ever going to see:
    1 - The type of job where you do what your boss tells you after he's ignored your educated and thought out advice.
    2 - The type of job where you ignore your boss and do something correctly. Unfortunately, your current job probably pays better than unemployment.

  18. Re:Repeat on Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I think we found something to improve on!

  19. Re:Brilliant! on Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections · · Score: 1

    Could've just taken 1024/8 and settled by explaining a more familiar/easy speed to compare --> 128mb/s

  20. Re:OpenSSH bug? on Red Hat, Fedora Servers Compromised · · Score: 1

    Debian's OpenSSH vulnerability was a result of commenting some stuff out of the OpenSSH sourcecode and leaving a hole in it as a result. This is completely different, this sounds like a rogue user was intentionally trying to distribute a different version of OpenSSH with a backdoor built-into it.

  21. Re:(no subject) on 42% of Web Users Sneak Onto Others' Online Accounts · · Score: 1

    I have a part-time job where my IT coordinator for the building actually instructed me to do this so that she could login both with her account and my generic account. I'm glad the world is so full of smart people.

  22. A little each year? on The Microsoft Office Rental Program · · Score: 1

    When did $70 per year become a small amount per year? Sure it's cheaper than one of their OS licenses, but not even by that much, not to mention its a single piece of mediocre software, instead of an entire operating system. I'll be sticking with the open source versions of office when I'm not getting free MS Office through work anymore.