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  1. Re:Great for swap and /tmp on RAM Disk Puts New Spin On the SSD · · Score: 1

    With a 32-bit processor you have a 4GB RAM limit.

  2. Re:No ECC. & slower then a motherboard with 64 on RAM Disk Puts New Spin On the SSD · · Score: 1

    With this, we'd also be lucky enough to lose our data too

    That's why it has a CF slot. Leave a CF card in the slot, and if the shit hits the fan, go press the "Backup" button, which will take less time than your UPS' power.

  3. Re:Out of line on Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App · · Score: 1

    That's not cool regardless of numbers or target.

    What about cracker jokes?

    See bold print.

  4. Re:Out of line on Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App · · Score: 1

    Oh, I draw exceptions for things like cracking racist jokes when there's just one black person in the group

    But if there are two or more black guys, bring on the racism! Dude, WTF? That's not cool regardless of numbers or target.

  5. Re:Here is your peice of herring on Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. Posting is certainly more constructive than reading about quarter-century-old tech.

  6. Re:Here is your peice of herring on Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who has time to click a page 14 times

    Someone who has the time to read the first page of it, read comments about the page, and then spend five minutes constructing a complain explaining why he wouldn't click "next"?

  7. Re:...no on Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Sounds more Ferengi to me.

  8. Re:First things first is Cyclic Passwords on How To Suck At Information Security · · Score: 1

    Well password length, complexity and 30 day expiration is enforced by Windows.

    30 days? Holy hell, that's crazy. You must be working with national security secrets, have very few people, your employees are geniuses, or you are resetting passwords constantly, because that would be incredibly irritating and entirely unnecessary.

    FTFA:

    [Don't] Require your users to change passwords too frequently.

  9. Re:First things first on How To Suck At Information Security · · Score: 1

    You get a Director to tell them that until they sign off on their acceptance of the policy, they have no access to [anything]

    That worked here to a certain extent, but I guarantee many of the people still didn't read it except just to find the part where they sign their name so they can get back to playing Bejeweled.

  10. Re:Not good enough on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    and even setting the default keyboard layout at installation time

    That's not new: you can do that with the Windows XP installer.

  11. Re:This reminds me... on Coffee Can Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Guess it depends which one scares you more.

  12. Re:Cairo on Wiretapping Program Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    If these people want to be treated like POW's they should try putting on a uniform.

    Perhaps they can't afford ten thousand matching uniforms (especially after buying all those guns).
    Perhaps they don't recognize the Geneva Conventions.
    Perhaps they would recognize the Geneva Conventions if they could read.
    Perhaps they do not feel any attachment to their country's leaders and only want to fight against those invading it.

  13. Re:So if Florida uses Microsoft Windows? on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    isn't your sister-in-law's brother also your brother-in-law? Wouldn't she be your wife's brother?

    Could be his brother's wife's brother.

  14. Re:At last... on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    Wow, that sounds awfully invasive.

  15. Re:At last... on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    Once it becomes court record, it becomes public record. You can't seal documented evidence any more than you can seal a witness's testimony.

    But the code itself doesn't have to be presented as evidence. You just need to have an expert to review the code (under NDA, of course) and have him testify as to whether or not he believes the code to be properly written.

  16. Re:If only... on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    Yes people have an inalienable right to inflict self harm.

    See: The War on Drugs

  17. Re:Exactly on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    If she was any smart she should had bought a router

    Wow. If she no know buy any router, why she had buy a one? In English, how is she supposed to know that buying a router would help? People outside of IT don't generally know what a router is, let alone why it might help them do anything.

  18. Re:Exactly on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    Even calling some tech-savy high school student would have solved her problems a lot easier.

    Calling a five-year-old would have helped... and effectively quadrupled the IQ involved at the same time.

  19. Re:Exactly on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    I have used Dell's support site in FireFox for years and have never had any problems.

  20. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    I used duct tape and plastic sheets (doubled over) and I just mailed my December gas bill: $76.

    Of course, my apartment is about the size of a normal one-car garage. In fact, it's on top of a normal one-car garage.

  21. Re:Looks good for kids learning about gravity... on Crayon Physics Combines Science and Puzzles · · Score: 2, Funny

    helps to illic[i]t their creativity/drawing skills as well

    I suppose it depends what you are drawing, but for now, most drawings are legal.

    (I think you were looking for "elicit").

  22. Re:Seems credible to me on Can We Create Fun Games Automatically? · · Score: 1

    You basically have 3 [...] components in any board game : randomness [...], tactical planning [...], bluffing

    One of your stated examples, chess, is lacking the randomness component, making your statement untrue. Although I suppose by taking the Uncertainty Principle into account it could be argued that there are random moves, they are just infinitely unlikely to occur... Though if I were on the other side, I would demand the piece be moved back, unless it was a valid random move.

  23. Re:I do it. on Piracy and the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    A quality mod cartridge and a MicroSD card cost no more than three or four games

    I bought one with a 4GB MicroSD for about $16. That's less than most single DS games.

  24. Re:stupid question but..... on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 1

    There is a standard format for images: DICOM. When I had my last ACL done I was given a CD with all these .dcm images.

    That's partially true. The images themselves aren't really in a "DICOM" file format: the "dcm" file extension is not a standard, it's just what the software vendor called their file package. They can be one of a number of file formats (including JPEG, JPG2000, etc). DICOM is really about a standard communication and storage method, so that multiple PACSes or DICOM modalities (CT, MRI, ultrasound, etc) can talk to each other without a custom interface on each device.

  25. Re:stupid question but..... on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 1

    Creating a single standard for health records has already been done, now there just needs to be an efficient and effective way of tying all the different data stores together and allowing fast, secure communication.

    I too work in Healthcare IT, although probably for a much smaller organization than you. What health record "standard" are you referring to? I know of no such thing and have no idea how that's even possible without standardizing all hospitals on one/few CIS vendor(s). It's all just databases, which are surely not standardized -- I have written many Crystal Reports, and if there is any standardization in that overcomplicated mess of tables and nonsense, the whole thing needs to be scrapped and redesigned.

    Or are you perhaps referring to the communication/messaging system (HL7)?