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  1. Re:Only 39% curse at their computers on Only 39% Curse At Their Computers? · · Score: 1

    The rest curse at their administrator.

  2. Re:Hmm on What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not if you live in Nebraska.

  3. Re:I've worked IT in the boonies on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 0, Troll

    The monoculture is what would get me.

    There are only so many times you can be told that 'you just have to go to The Creation Museum.'

  4. Re:What they include on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Anybody else read that as "In the 2015 version, Bender shoots first."?

  5. Re:"Often reliable" on 7-Inch iPad Rumored · · Score: 0

    We've had this conversation before.

    Some people want a Cheap Ass Ultra Portable notebook computer with a 6 hour battery life.

    Not everybody wants what you want.

  6. Re:not even close to the worst on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    ^ this!

    Damn. Used last mod point!

  7. Re:"a profound lack of judgment" on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    A few dinners by a middle age bloke getting some on the side is corruption on a massive scale? What's wrong with you?

    $20,000 dinners?

    Yes. Sounds like about 10 - 15 nice dinners to me.

    Those $500 bottles of wine add up fast.

  8. Re:Home burglary is dead on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Home burglary is almost dead. What's to steal?

    Police impersonators invade Pleasant Hill apartment

    "The intruders then rummaged through the apartment, took electronics and ran away to a vehicle driven by a third person."

    "Investigators now believe that the robbers were familiar with the apartment and at least one of its occupants, and were looking for drugs, said Sgt. Scott Vermillion."

    Same article.

  9. Re:This study is nothing but Communist propaganda on Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's fine. The scary part is that most of the people who watch him don't realize that.

  10. Re:So... on Microsoft Spurned Researchers Release 0-Day · · Score: 1

    I disagree with your assertion that jigsaw puzzles are fun.

    (You otherwise make a very good point.)

  11. Re:But you DO have the freedom to tinker!! on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 1

    So if he had said XBOX instead of PS3, would XNA have killed this argument?

    Same price, too. $99/year.

  12. Re:Shell context menu for folder you are in? on Windows 7: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    Wow. A cool feature I never knew I lost. Thanks!

    A workaround might be to just use the navigation pane & select "Automatically expand to current folder" from Folder Options.

  13. Re:Dead Eye on Review: Red Dead Redemption · · Score: 1

    +1 Badass Grandpa

  14. Re:Does the droid and iPhone do this?! on Android Sales Surpass iPhone Sales · · Score: 1

    My bad for spreading misinformation again.

    Yes, RDP on the iPhone has saved my ass a number of times.

  15. Bill Gates announces World's Largest Supersoaker! on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 3, Funny

    Awesome.

  16. Re:Does the droid and iPhone do this?! on Android Sales Surpass iPhone Sales · · Score: 1

    Android has an ssh client--first thing I installed when I got mine. No idea about that other one, since I have zero interest in it.

    iPhone does, too. If you jailbreak it.

    (See previous conversations about iPhone not being designed for power users & IT admins.)

  17. Re:Privacy on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So far most of these new devices seem to have a huge tradeoff.. Privacy. There are very few apps on my iPod touch that allow me to keep my stuff within the confines of my home; especially if I am on the road and not on my own netwok. Until these privacy concerns are addressed I would hope PCs survive, otherwise the tech industry has done a monumental disservice to everyone. This all sums up my main dislike for Apple.

    You are in the minority. I'm sorry.

    We need a major privacy catastrofuck to educate the masses or sway public opinion. Even then, you're fighting cheap convenience.

  18. Re:Comes as default on the corporate IT Build on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 1

    WSUS & GPO should solve that as soon as the computer joins the domain. It should be fairly seamless. Unless I misunderstand how corporate IT works.

  19. Re:No surprise. on Bloomberg Reports That Palm Is Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    The app-store makes things dead simple.

    I don't think the target audience of the iPhone has never seen a piece of java code.

    The change from WinMo 6.5 to Windows Phone 7 seems to indicate the walled-garden being where manufacturers are going (for better or worse).

  20. Re:#1 firefox issue on Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode · · Score: 3, Informative

    Someone's even created ADM templates for you.

    Though it's still not as easy as IE is with WSUS, it's not any worse than trying to keep Java, Flash & Acrobat up to date & properly configured.

  21. Re:The fun is in the simplicity on All the Best Games May Be NP-Hard · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think my point is that Minesweeper has been sitting on nearly every desktop in the world, from Windows 3 (1990) to Windows 7 (2010). Other games have not. QED Minesweeper has far wider "coverage" to borrow a term from Nielsen television.

    But if Windows users had the choice of the two, Minesweeper or Tetris, automatically available to them, I'm confident that Tetris would win hands down.

    What was Peter playing in OfficeSpace? Not Minesweeper.

  22. Re:population sample on Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi · · Score: 1

    Czjzek's team compared the microbial genomes of 13 Japanese people with those of 18 North Americans.

    If I used this many test subjects in my job I would get fired.

    They don't even let me use test subjects in my job. Even after assuring them that most won't die.

    Yeah, this recession has made it hard for most IT departments to get test subjects...

  23. Re:Anyone with more info? on Microsoft To Distribute Third-Party Patches · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The press release states that Secuina "...announced that their renowned authenticated internal vulnerability scanner ... has been integrated with ... WSUS..."

    Is this third party patch management or just a vulnerability scanner built in to WSUS?

    Scanning is neat, but it would be one hell of a lot nicer if I could make sure Flash & Java are updated as easily as the latest Windows updates.

  24. Re:Apple isn't an open platform. Deal with it. on Opera Mini For iPhone Submitted To App Store Today · · Score: 1

    Hey! Fucktard is a wonderfully rich and expressive word that never hurt anyone.

    Don't go around disparaging fucktard just because you don't like the fucktards that use it!

  25. Re:Microsoft on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    Odd. That hasn't been my experience at all. I found early versions of SEP11 more intuitive, and that's a Symantec product!