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  1. Re:Vouchers on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    The voucher system only helps the 10% (number I pulled out of my ass) who don't have enough for private education already, but have enough to cover the *other* 7-10 grand a year private schools cost.

    The only schools I'm aware of where three thousand a year is a significant amount are religious schools where the church covers a significant amount of the cost of running. Having been in such a school, I can say that the quality of education can be worse instead of better, depending on what you are after. (not because they are religious, but because that lack the size and resources of public school systems).

  2. Re:Legal murder agencies... like Planned Parenthoo on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Hmm, you have a source on that? It's not that I don't believe you, as much as that I assume anything related to Iraq is FUD.

  3. Re:Legal murder agencies... like Planned Parenthoo on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    You do realize that ou destroy your credibility with half the population by putting planned parenthood at the top of he murder list?

    Also, how are suicide bombers a murder agency? I don't see how it benefits anyone financially.

  4. Re:I understand running away from prison... but on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Every single person alive, innocent or guilty, has broken the law

    Fixed that for you.

  5. Re:An the solution is.... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    Foxconn wasn't on your blacklist before? The things don't exactly support Windows properly either.

  6. Re:People are still buying DRMd music. on Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It · · Score: 1

    You are aware that there are no TC platforms sold where it can't be turned off in BIOS right? Nobody (so far) has made any attempt to push it as anything other than an optional feature (and it *is* useful for security, if used right).

  7. Re:An the solution is.... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    The single most common registry hack is one to fix your CD/DVD drive when it disappears from windows. Though recently Microsoft finally made an automated tool to do it.

  8. Re:What could this possibly do? on Video Game Labeling Law Passed In New York · · Score: 1

    Never actually played three, so wouldn't know, Warcraft 2 was M though, had to beg the clerk to let me have it. It sound like they eased up more recently.

  9. Re:What could this possibly do? on Video Game Labeling Law Passed In New York · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ESRB ratings don't work because Grand Theft Auto IV is in the same damned category as Warcraft (The RTSes, I'm not familiar with the MMO game).

    Somehow I doubt the government would do a better job at defining labels though.

  10. Re:Shove it down their throats. on UOF Vies to Be a Third Contender in ODF–OOXML Battle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LaTeX will never have a complete WYSIWYG editor, the whole point of LaTeX is that WYSIWYG is clumsy when doing the most detailed work.

  11. Re:Hopeful in regards to Silverlight? on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Register (specifically, the Open Season webcast) did an interview with some managerial type or another from Adobe, who stated that FP10 will have a same day release for Linux (Though I assume Linux's will come an hour later, just on principle.)

  12. Re:not a schemer or a planner on Batman Discussion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought of his rant more as an abstract, Joker had plans, but no Plan. If one plan failed, he just switched to another, nothing phased him, and no result was actually a bad one.

  13. Re:You BELIEVED the maniac?!? on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    No

    The Joker would have enjoyed it far too much if the survivors had to live with having blown up the other boat. (Keep in mind he had no idea one boat was going to be full of prisoners.)

  14. Re:Not necessarily "Nothing to see here"... on "Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct · · Score: 1

    What I want to know, given that results have apparently been reproduced with him involved, is what is happening different when the guy is involved? Is something different about his device, his sensing equipment? Does he just like setting up one part at a different angle? Does his body odor involve a strange mutant chemical that effects the results of the experiment? Or is he just really good at making people see what they want to see?

    I have no clue about how the experiment is done, so I don't know what to look for, but something must be different if he can repeat the results while other people watch, even if its just that he rigged the experiment (hell, maybe his equipment is outright defective).

  15. Re:Ask on a cell phone forum on Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees? · · Score: 1

    I pay more in taxes than fees (landline), just saying.

  16. Re:DNA can disprove only on FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches · · Score: 1

    The problem I've always had with means motive and opportunity, is that you've only established that they *might* have done it. Admittedly, the three are important, since if one can be established to be false, then the accused probably didn't do it, but just MM&O seems sloppy.

  17. Re:Actually, this really could be legitimate... on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Resolution maxes out, but a bigger display allows you to use max resolution without everything being tiny. (I had to move from a 15 inch to a 19 inh display myself, so that I could actually see at a higher resolution).

    That said, the problem doesn't really seem to be what they are buying, as much as where the money is coming from.

  18. Re:Bail on The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking · · Score: 1

    If he's a flight risk, why not just say no bail? It seems to me that would be much less of an issue.

  19. Re:Assumptions on Flaws In a BSA Software Piracy Report? · · Score: 1

    It's probably pretty close to one to one, but only if you only look at the people the BSA deals with. . The BSA only focuses on businesses, and then again, is only really able to investigate businesses with some valid copies (which is how the BSA gets its hooks in you, to my understanding). The result it, most of the time the BSA ends up going after companies with 900 valid licenses, and 100 pirated copies. Frequently this is an honest mistake, or a rogue employee at fault, sometimes the company is just trying to save 10% on the software, in really horrific cases, they just lost the COAs, and are being forced to pay twice.

    Now, if you had the choice of paying 50 grand for the unlicensed copies, or losing the rights to use the 500,000 in software you already payed for, which are you going to choose (remember, you're a businessman, not a /.er in this question, you've never used Linux, and you assume its crap because its cheap.)

  20. Re:You've missed the point on What Would It Take To Have Open CA Authorities? · · Score: 1

    From TFL

    Frank Hecker 2004-02-04 18:56:00 PDT

    My sincere apologies. I suspect that I may have been the bottleneck here -- I'm
    the person tasked with developing the mozilla.org policy on inclusion of root CA
    certs, and with approving noot root CAs for inclusion. Unfortunately between
    work, my wife's back surgery, and caring for a 17-month old child I have fallen
    badly behind on both getting the policy completed and approving any new CAs.

    In any case, I have looked over the documentation provided for CAcert, and I
    approve of including their root CA cert in Mozilla. I'm not the person who does
    the actual work, but I'll send that person an email to tell them to go ahead and
    include the cert as soon as possible.

    Again, I'm very sorry for the severe delays in getting this issue resolved.

    Assuming said poster is legit, it will be happening soon.

    Also, to those who are worried about typo scammers, most phising sites do quite well by not having SSL at all, how many users really know enough to check for SSL? how many of those are going to fall for a typo?

  21. Re:How is this difficult? on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 1

    There's a couple problems with that program from Dell, for one, it's only available for business customer's (though any registered business will do), the second, is that Microsoft only includes the downgrade rights on Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, which drives the price of the transaction up, a lot.

    If you're willing to self support, or have a vendor that will support you with a swapped OS (Which Dell only does for business customers), it might be easier to find an XP compatible system (and no, not every new system is compatible), and grab a 80 dollar OEM copy of XP home from Newegg.

  22. Re:Why the Ares I? on NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening · · Score: 1

    If I remember right, the Ares rockets are supposed to provide a lower long term cost than existing platforms, (IE, a give payload will cost less to put into space).

  23. Re:Translation of PDF on SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier · · Score: 1

    There's a slight problem with this idea, in that involuntary mental health institutions have a habit of completely ignoring what is typically considered ethical treatment of prisoners. Everything from keeping a person perpetually restrained (A major violation of international law) to simple stuff like denying a prisoner access to reading materials and visitation rights.

    There are certainly reasons to do all this, in extreme cases, but I wouldn't subject anyone to the nutjobs that run the madhouses if it was at all avoidable.

  24. Re:blacklists on Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most of these attacks come from zombies, and I don't think anyone wants to block potential customers.

    Though if they did, maybe people would start paying attention to computer security.

  25. Re:Stupid question on Should the Linux Desktop Be "Pure?" · · Score: 1

    Dunno about slackware, but by default Debian contains no non free software, you have to edit the sources.list to allow it.