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  1. Re:gym on Securing Personal Data in Small Companies? · · Score: 1

    This is why I say Point of Sale software should be sold on older refurbished computers running old software, or new software on old hardware, or some combination there of, because how many point of sale systems need that brand new Pentium 4 processor and GeForce graphics card to run dos based software on a windows xp system connected to the internet. So when they arn't using the machine for purchases, they are probably browsing the internet if not doing other work, guess what gets installed via internet... why ahh... high schools in 4-5 years will be teaching windows software weekly maintenance alongside a typing/keyboarding class if they havn't already ditched that.

  2. Re:Hmph...well- on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    Personally I would prefer it being the DNC delegates. My home address? Oh big deal, its on the internet somewhere... Why do I care, if someone shows up here, they will of had their vehicle searched just to get to my home.

    2115 N. Pine St. Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234

    It doesn't bother me any. If someone posted on a discussion forum that said that they were going to kill someone or something, I would use my cache/proxy's logs... but I never keep logs on my webserver its asking to get raided, and then your site gets taken down and all that hojaz.

  3. Re:Hmph...well- on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    And this is why you turn off all longterm logging. You generate the information you need for statistics and delete the access logs. I.e. keep count of daily/hourly hits instead of generating them from parsing. After parsed into your statistics engine, delete the logs. That way, they can't request what doesn't exist. Now, if you are good you could just make your access logs a pipe of somesort and feed them automatically into your statistics engine, so the logs never physically reside on the harddrive, and they can't try to recover them.

  4. Re:Exciting & Exciting==Good! on Win the X-Prize Cup · · Score: 1

    Maybe a lawyer could clear this up for me. But isn't just the idea patentable, or do you actually have to show proof of the patent in action?

    Because if thats so, then if we banded together and setup a non-profit-organization where for each patentable idea submitted the NPO then submits a patent request so that companies that might try to make money off of patents that we came up with can't. Or if I remember correctly all we would have to do is put each idea in an envelope, mail it to ourselves, store it in a safe somewhere, and when someone else tries to patent it, claim prior art with the postmark and contents of the envelope being proof of it being prior.

  5. Re:IMHO on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If an application in a language constantly crashes, its 99.999% of the time not the languages problem. This actually brings to light one of the benefits of using java, you know exactly the kind of errors you can get if you read the API. Based on these errors you know you could get, you should make the program recognize and handle the exception.

  6. Re:Chicken and egg... on Traffic Control of the Future · · Score: 1

    Personal opinion i think an insurance company would jump on insuring these intersections. One they could extort huge premiums from the government so to cover their own ass when somethind does go wrong. Two, i'd hate to see some old fart driving an antique corvette into this intersection, and seeing him try to dodge all those other cars.

    Btw, try 9 lanes each direction with 81 granularity and 1 spawn probability... it basically killed the JVM it was running in.

  7. Re:1TB a month?!? on Bulk Data Storage For The Common Man? · · Score: 1

    Why not check out the his website: Vigyaan I can see that type of work requiring large amounts of data.

  8. Re:I drive a 2000 Chevy Lumina. on EPA Fuel Economy Myth: Too High, Too Low? · · Score: 1

    Err, a larger intake manifold

  9. Re:I drive a 2000 Chevy Lumina. on EPA Fuel Economy Myth: Too High, Too Low? · · Score: 1

    I would but that would also require a 4 barrel intake, which i really don't want to have to find until i rebuild the engine.

  10. Re:I drive a 2000 Chevy Lumina. on EPA Fuel Economy Myth: Too High, Too Low? · · Score: 1

    heh, I drive a '78 El Camino with a 305 and 2 barrel carb. I can range anywhere from 10mpg (when i am running late for work) to nearly 30mpg (when i take my time and catch a good draft). I think the MPG is just purely driving style.

  11. Re:Prior Art: Eclipse Project on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    Hell i found a bug for this feature dating back to September 2002...

  12. Prior Art: Eclipse Project on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This feature has been in Eclipse for I can recall 2.5 years (not sure on date). The program automatically notices TODO comments in the code and creates a list for you.

    What the hell is M$ thinking here?

  13. Re:Kekeke ^___^ on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh

  14. Re:Kekeke ^___^ on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LOL'd??
    Lots of laughed...
    I LOL'd...
    I lots of laughed...
    i think you forgot 'had' or some other word.

    Just me being picky

  15. Re:April Fool's on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    now that is cruel, making the email addy readable by email collector software thingies.

  16. Re:April Fool's on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just out of curiosity, since a button on a computer is still a button. Compared to a button on say a watch or alarm clock. Don't cd players, alarm clocks, watches sometimes require you to hold the button down for a short or long period of time to make it do something? I know my watch a Timex Ironman watch requires me to hold a button down for like 1-2 seconds to reset the stopwatch feature. Isn't this the same idea, arn't they taking a previously used idea and trying to patent it?

    yes go ahead and -1 offtopic but i want it at the top...

  17. Re:Freegis? on Open Maps? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey it took me 3 months of reading randomly through the tigerline descriptions to understand it.

    I still can't understand it well enough to do anything with it unless someone pays me to (Understanding = TIME * MONEY)

  18. Re:Freegis? on Open Maps? · · Score: 5, Informative

    good source of information, but doesn't come with maps.

    Best place i have found maps is:

    1) Tiger data (If you read the infosets long enough you can begin to undersdtand them)

    2) Shapefiles from ESRI(These shapefiles were generated from Tiger data)

    The software i prefer to use is Tiger Map Server The author of this software has also figured out a way to convert tiger data into his own shapefiles due to ESRI's license.

    Best of luck!

  19. Captain Obvious on FSF Subpoenaed by SCO · · Score: 0

    Alright, this subpoena was sent November 5th 2003. They are releasing it to the public May 20th 2004.

    Does anyone realize the half-year time difference here. I want to know what FSF actually did in response to this subpoena.

  20. Old Cars are great :) on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    This is the exact reason I drive a '78 El Camino, its carborated... no computer except my sound system. It has plenty of power to outrun the new electic POSes. It is still a small pickup... When It gets damaged its not a big deal...

  21. What about display for computer? on Making Use Of Old LCDs? · · Score: 1

    Is there some way you could go about hooking up an old LCD Screen from a lappie as a separate display for another computer? Thats what i want, to take my old laptop display and mount it on the hump in my el camino as a display for the mp3 computer i am controlly blindly with an old ibm keyboard.

  22. Blah on A Music Industry Case Study · · Score: 1

    They also make a small cut off of merchandising, concerts, random junk, paid appearances.... etc..

    Still doesn't add up to much though.

  23. My experience.... on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 2, Informative

    My experience with FTP/HTTP is due to FTP's authentication it responds slower and is harder to configure, whereas HTTP has near instant authentication & is more easily multithreaded on downloads.

  24. Idiots think. on SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu · · Score: 0, Funny

    We all most likely use SYSTEM 5 init scripts because they look so much prettier than BSD-style.

  25. Re:ADHD and others... on Dealing with ADHD and Other Problems in Young Children? · · Score: 1

    I try to focus my noticing talents upon identifing who people are by their look/dress/shoes/bag what they are doing in class or around campus. I also am trying to pick up minute details that are only visible for a split second.