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  1. Re:I don'tt have an "antivirus" on Is Your Antivirus Made By the Chinese Government? · · Score: 1

    or IDPS

  2. Re:We'd never do such a thing on Is Your Antivirus Made By the Chinese Government? · · Score: 1

    pretty sure you just defined "totalitarian" not communist, thereby affirming what the parent wrote...

  3. no patch yet... on Adobe To Patch Flash 0-Day Friday · · Score: 1

    So still waiting on that patch. When was that going to be released again?

  4. Re:I really like Woz but.. on The Dying DVR Box and Woz Wisdom · · Score: 1

    Yes, because for profit schools always have students' best interests in mind... I'd say your inferences are entertaining, but they are really just sad.

  5. Re:I really like Woz but.. on The Dying DVR Box and Woz Wisdom · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see your average "engineer" get through ANY single course in music theory.

  6. Re:Obama acomplishments on Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email · · Score: 1

    I would like to introduce you to this song I heard on the radios.... it goes "meet the new boss, same as the old boss.... we won't get fooled again!" Oh wait, we might actually get fooled again during the next election cycle. Oh well.

  7. hand warmer... on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to make it do math... lot's of math. That's right it will get nice and warm and keep my hands from freezing in cold weather. Battery life be damned!

  8. bison? on Scientists Create a "Worth Saving" Index For Endangered Animals · · Score: 1

    And I suppose the efforts to save the American Bison were wasted since they were down to a few hundred in number at one point.... oh wait, now they have used up all the room we have given them and cattle ranchers are complaining their are too many.

  9. Re:Sure. Don't be paranoid! on Can You Really Be Traced From an IP Address? · · Score: 1

    DNA is better at proving people not guilty than guilty. Sure, it is used by prosecution along with other evidence, but DNA alone can't prove someone guilty (not to say someone won't be convicted by an uneducated jury, but you won't hear a properly trained forensic scientist claim proof, they will claim only a correlation usually by saying it is indistinguishable). On the other hand, if you analyze the DNA and find that the markers don't line up at all, it assures that the sample the lab was given doesn't match the defendant thereby demonstrating that if the sample is a valid representation of the perpetrator then the defendant is not guilty. IANAL YMMV.

  10. shell middens common throughout the state on Prehistoric Garbage Piles Created "Tree Islands" · · Score: 2

    This is hardly news to anyone living in Florida. There are shell middens all over the state... They are almost always by water and nearly all contain broken pottery, oyster and clam shells and broken artifacts. The natives essentially threw hard garbage in a spot, waited until it stopped smelling and then used it to keep above the water line and the mosquitos. Pretty smart really. A lot of roads in florida have the shell middens underneath instead of limestone. It wasn't until the last couple decades that they started protecting them as something of historical/archeological value. God only knows how much history was lost as we paved our way to suburbia in the 50s and 60s.

  11. Re:Flash on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Android For Development? · · Score: 1

    hahahaha. I made that mistake. Installed flash, and it worked so well I had to add a mile long hosts file just to eliminate the ads on my phone!

  12. Re:Sorry, but no on Motorola's Sholes Bootloader Unlocked · · Score: 1

    I have 2.3.3 running without too much trouble, my biggest issue with the milestone is that I am only getting edge in the US - have tried it on AT&T and T-mobile. T-mobile I would expect to not work due to the 1700mhz, but why I can't get AT&T to work had been really bugging me. I think it is likely just a baseband issue, but not certain - any suggestions?

  13. Re:WTF? on Facebook Kills Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure · · Score: 1

    Yeah, seriously. That is a lot of money for a Zuckerberg, but I'd pay it for a "My Dinner With Andre" action set...

  14. Re:bit.ly is still up on Libyan Internet Flatlined · · Score: 1

    whois lookup for bit.ly is nonresponsive. Just because the SOA records haven't expired means nothing.

  15. Re:I haven't watched the video but... on Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    That is like saying windows is not maintaining compatibility because I can't run Windows Mobile programs or Windows Server for Itanium programs on my x86 machine. It isn't compatibility, it is an architecture issue.

  16. headline change... on Researchers Turn Mice Into Wine Snobs · · Score: 2

    Researchers turn mice into winos

    Fixed that for them.

  17. Re:Gmail has always been somewhat of a crapshoot on Gmail Accidentally Resets 150,000 Accounts · · Score: 1

    because someone can't hack your gmail account, change your password and lock you out of pop access?

  18. Re:Only I value my data enough to protect it prope on Gmail Accidentally Resets 150,000 Accounts · · Score: 1

    You know most of your email is going through google or AT&T anyhow right? What is the point of even trying to keep plain text away from google. Even if you do your recipient probably uses either gmail, hotmail, msn, windows search or google toolbar. Either way a huge company gets to play data miner with your emails. If it is that important don't send it by email or at the very least encrypt it! As for running your own mail setups, it isn't the setup that is the issue. It is the maintenance headache of playing a perpetual game of tic-tac-toe with a few million spammers and bots. Let's face it, google has a way larger volume of email to use to generate signatures for spam than you or I ever will, and as a linux admin if you think the best use of your time is setting up a pop3/smtp server and keeping it secured you are wasting your client's money at best and over-rating your skill set at worst. I could train a monkey to setup a mail server, but keeping it up to date without users screaming that there is too much spam or their emails are getting marked as spam when they are not is an entirely different story.

  19. Re:Spam? What Spam? on Gmail Accidentally Resets 150,000 Accounts · · Score: 1

    Yep, which is why I use gmail with imap and backup my computer.

  20. Re:I never thought I'd see the day on Drupal Competes As a Framework, Unofficially · · Score: 1

    Because it allows you to give your customers more for their money in less time. Or at least it lets me do that, I don't really know about you. Then again, I have a job.

  21. unfortunately, LibreOffi isn't ready for primetime on Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately Libre Office still needs some work. While it is now technically possible to save in .docx, saving to .doc causes the application to crash quite often. We have had a number of users that set .doc as their default (for compatibility with their clients outside our office) and they have been reporting that the entire application just quits on save quite frequently. It is able to recover the document the vast majority of the time, but it is definitely an annoyance. We are currently trying to determine if there is a workaround or if we have to go back to open office 3.2. (If anyone has a solution please let me know - I am all ears, and no, saving in open office native formats is not a solution).

  22. SPAM from Space! on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1

    Great. Spam from Space. That's just what the developing world needs.

  23. Re:I just cannot wait on 1Gbps Wi-Fi Coming Soon To a Billion Devices · · Score: 1

    I plug my battery backups into each other. They feed back and forth and can run forever. You can't shut me down!

  24. Re:Cell Phone Jammers? on Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control · · Score: 2

    That's a little extreme isn't it? It is cell phones we are trying to stop, not spies. Use some good boat hull paint and call it a day. The copper will lower the signal, they'll blame AT&T and we're done.

  25. Re:Decentralize, everyone routes and multiple link on Egypt's Net Ruled By Phone, Not Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Like TCP/IP? UDP? Multicast? NetBios? QoS (802.11p etc)? Good thing all those protocols used to talk between devices are manufacturer specific. Oh wait, they aren't.