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  1. Re:Surprised?? on Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping · · Score: 2, Informative

    The fun part is that with how unsecure the FBI hooks into the phone system are (the eavesdropping equipment installed into switches are Sun boxes hooked to the internet) it's quite possible organised and not so organised crime are also listening to OnStar subscribers as well.

  2. Re:hah on China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD · · Score: 1

    They are just keeping the riff raf out. If you can figure out how to compile a app maybe you shouldn't be using that app.

  3. Re:10 years Java experience on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    Asking for anything more than 2 years of experience with any language is limiting the number of employees your willing to hire arbitrarily.
    Of course it's arbitrary; Hr needs some way to weed out applicants. The last hiring cycle I was involved in we had 350+ people apply for a level two help desk position. we had to use arbitrary criteria or I'd still be interviewing.

  4. Re:Gimme a break on Simcity Microwave Power by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Of course Intelligence agencies never mistake a Chinese Embassy or a countries only large scale pharmicutical plant for terrorists.

  5. Re:Block their own ads? on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    Good point

  6. Re:What do you mean "free internet" will fail? on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    yes you could even get pr0n for free.)
    Ya, but it was all 8 bit GIFs or worst. :D

  7. Re:Block their own ads? on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    Why? After all you've either already bought their product or are a known pirate. Either way advertising to you isn't going to be much use.

  8. Re:Proxomitron on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    Would you mind sharing your custom rules? I'd love to see the concept/execution.

  9. Re:Ads do not equal free Internet on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    People have always been willing to share. Heck in the 80s I had a two line BBS and a fido node. Not nearly as spiffy as the net (And I sure loved Usenet before the september that never ended) but still usable. I'd be tempted to go back if I was assured never to see another piece of spam.

  10. Re:The site owner has choices too... on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    He could make a case for you libeling him :)

  11. Re:Blocking ads is bad news on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    Pages would get a lot smaller and more readable if we had to parse them in our heads from the raw source I'll tell you that.

  12. Re:Why does the Consumer have to accept advertisin on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    I think it's more that the internet has succeeded inspite of the broad based comercial uses. Sure B2B stuff has been huge but I wish all the low level consumer commercialization would just go away.

  13. Re:Banner Ads Have Already Failed on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    I wonder what percentage of those is accidental. I must hit an ad or two everyday just trying to switch windows.

  14. Re:Banner blocking is just fine on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    No kidding. Even punch the monkey didn't both me much but those stupid ads that had a mouse cursor moving around over them had me looking for a blocker and I haven't turned the Prox off since. Using a public terminal is almost too painful for words.

  15. Re:The choice is the SITE owner's: countermeasures on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    1) Will get you in trouble in the states because of the access for disabled laws.

  16. Re:SL-1 Reactor, Idaho Falls on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Of course north of the artic cirle solar isn't a real year round solution.

  17. Re:How to recognize different kinds of reactors... on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Well when you consider normal size reacters are measured in hectares this is really impressive. I also get a feeling this was originally a press release targeted at the alaska media and everyone up there know what a spruce tree looks like.

  18. Re:Biggest Outlook Beef on E-Mail Controls in Office 2003 · · Score: 1

    Or how about email for messages and FTP for file transfers. :)

  19. Re:Mike Pryke-Smith on E-Mail Controls in Office 2003 · · Score: 1

    His parents probably couldn't agree. I can wait until the theissen-smiths, cox-arquettes, and carpenter-wilsons start getting married.

  20. Re:Some facts on E-Mail Controls in Office 2003 · · Score: 1

    re: Screenshots are feasible but how many large corporations filter images in email sent externally? I know we do!
    Are you filtering BinHex and UUencoding even if they are not tagged as such. How about zipped text files? Word documents with embedded images? Do you frisk your employees at the door to make sure they don't have camera phones on their person? Unless your employer is CIA/FBI/DOD like circumvention seems trivial.

  21. Re:Pollution Free? on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 2, Informative

    'Cause gas is US$3.35 a gallon so the plant becomes cost effective much sooner.

  22. Re:nuclear power is cleaner.... on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course a lot of coal is produced by "topping". Which is where they take the top of a mountain off and dump it in the nearest "ravine" (IE: water way) No water pollution 'cause the creek/stream/river doesn't exist anymore.

  23. Re:vi for writers? on Word Processors: One Writer's Retreat · · Score: 1

    EMACS might? It has a built in OS a spell checker is elementry :)

  24. Re:"Press Any Key" on Where is the Any Key? · · Score: 1

    How the heck is the mod supposed to know that, not everyone has memorised all 300+ episodes. Now if Luigi had attributed the quote and given context maybe he wouldn't have been modded down.

  25. Re:Blaster, Sabers, Canada? on Slashback: Blaster, Sabers, Canada · · Score: 1

    Pfft! You call that a snow fall? We got less than 5 cm. I was still playing golf.