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  1. Give up liberties on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    "People will tolerate any deprivation of liberties as long as it is protrayed as being good for the children. " - Goering

    Pretty well sums it up.

  2. Re:Quick, tiny review on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released · · Score: 1

    What is required to import Thunderbird 0.1 folders? Do you have to throw that away to upgrade? Saw a lot about converting other email clients but not squat about upgrading its own.

  3. Re:The problem on Louisiana Tries Anti-Spam Law · · Score: 1

    There is a major spammer that lives in Slidell. This would cause this slime to either comply or move. The other side of the coin is that would you really want to get caught, convicted, & do jail time in Louisiana?

  4. Re:Crank It Up on dB Drag Racing · · Score: 1

    Britney? Nope!

    Use what the Soviets used on us for jamming voice radio. What's that you ask? Simple, use bagpipes.

    Nothing, absolutely nothing, regardless how loud can drown out bagpipes. Bagpipes at 85db can cut threw and destroy any&all Gangsta' Rap regardless of the volume it is being played. Also, blows away any kewlness the players of that crap have.

    The Scottish Blackwatch Bagpipe band is the most fun I've had in a long time! 8-)

  5. Re:DRM is Microsoftspeak on IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone persist in saying DRM is "Digital Rights Management" which is Microsoftspeak for "we are for the artists and against the bad pirates/hackers"? Why not call a spade a spade?

    It is "Digital Restriction Management"! It is for locking the world into their monopoly.
    Don't fall for their Orwellian 1984ish politically correct speak trap.
    Call it what it is!

  6. Re:Europeans stopped something else on Satellite Imagery · · Score: 1
    600 million Europeans don't like having their foreign and defense policy dictated to them by 300 million US voters

    Then they need to vote with their pocket books to have a military that could do something about some of these two bit tyrannts running around instead of whining crying and sniveling in their bistros. Oh, you are too civlized for that? Then just piss & moan about the results. How many resolutions do you think that the UN would have to pass before the former tyrannt of Iraq would have surrendered and given up? Hell would have frozen over before he would have willing stepped down unless it was to give power to one of his sons.

    You are absolute fools to believe that you can talk these monsters out of power. I don't know what kind of dope you are smoking to believe that line of shit, but it must be a hell of a lot better than the Mexican weed here in Dallas.

  7. Re:It's not always technical on What I Hate About Your Programming Language · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about Kylix? Could it not be the "VB" for Linux?

    I don't have the experience with Kylix as I do with VB to definitively say one way or the other. Cross platform to a certain extent. But the Delphi compiler for Windows is quite pricey.

    my $0.02

  8. Re:Who knows, we just called those guys dad... on Job Chances for Older Coders? · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous that we can score and you can't!

  9. Re:carbine? assault rifle? on Slashback: Hatred, Glass, Identification · · Score: 1
    An assault rifle is a rifle that shoots faster than usual.

    Do you mean faster in bullets per minute or bullets that have a higher muzzle velocity? In either case, that is not the correct definition.

    The term 'assault rifle' has two meanings. The first to the people who know/understand fire arms is that it is a selective fire weapon with a carbine barrel length that utilizes what is considered intermediate powered cartridges. Cartridges that sportsmen would consider marginal for hunting deer sized animals. The cartridge that the AK-47 is the functional equivalent to the 30-30 Winchester. The second is the political term by the lunatic left to include most any semi-automatic weapon that they choose at the moment to try to ban due to their world view.

  10. No Free Speak to your boss on More on OpenBSD Funding Saga · · Score: 1

    OK. DARPA has concerns that OpenBSD is too good and that the not so nice crowd may be using it. Definitely not black helicopters over UofPenn with SpecOps folks in the bushes eavesdropping on Theo's Canadian socialist drivel. Still more evidence for the UFO landing at Roswell than the DARPA conspiracy against Theo.

    Now, for the ultimate test. All the little zit poppers out there that are mouthing off about 'free speech' need to go to their MacDonald's shift manager and tell him/her to "F* OFF!! @$$Hole!!!" really loud in front of some customers to get a real world lesson in free speech.

    Reality sucks. Deal with it

  11. Free Speech != Gubment Conspiracy on DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn? · · Score: 1

    The only connection between the anti-war statements and the cancellation is in Theo's mind. There is more evidence of a UFO landing at Roswell.

    Did Theo see any black helicopters flying over U of Penn that confirmed any of this speculation?

  12. This story on Cow Manure --> Electricity · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This story is only about BS!

  13. hmmm... Can You spell Blade Runner?? on Speeding up Evolution · · Score: 1

    Customized enhanced homo sapiens that are pre-aged for a built-in obsolescence to keep the protoplasm vats running. Corporate America couldn't be happier.

  14. Re:One of the best ways to make money... on Antibiotic Resistant Staph Antibiotic Discovered · · Score: 1

    I say Bull$hit to your Bull$hit!! Sir!!


    The problem lays with the patient and the legal system that will sue the doctor's pants off for NOT prescribing antibiotics.

    As a licensed RN, I've seen phyisicians prescribe medicines not for the good of the patient but for the good of their malpractice insurance. For if they didn't, they would be sued by the patient and/or their family.

    Then I am the one that has to deal with caring for a patient with a communicatible disease that will literally consume a patient's immune system. These patients are treated or cared for last since the staff doesn't want to spread this to the others. I wash when I leave the room and again in the staff lounge to insure that I don't carry anything to the non-MRSA patients.

    And all of this is because the d@%# lawyers have more say than the Chief Surgeon of the hospital. Yeah, I don't like a lot of the doctor's attitudes but having to treat my patients with one eye towards F'ing lawyers SUX!

    Do a search for RN license # 642474 at Texas Board of Nurse Examiners. and you will see that I've been in the trenches as one that has been there/done that.

  15. The Bulk of the Punishment on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 1
    Consider two scenarios.

    The first is that a group of computer crackers breaks into a mom & pop eStore that is hosted on an ISP that doesn't have all of the latest patches installed. These crackers deface the home page and lift the customer list/credit card numbers for subsequent resale. They claim that it's the store front owner's fault since they didn't have a full time system admin and a network admin and a security admin that allowed them to do this. Through boasting in a chat room the FBI manage to bust them. They are sentenced to 18 months of community service and get jobs later as 'White Hat' hackers to a security firm for a 6 digit income.

    The second is that a group of under-educated kids from the south side break into a convenience store, spray paint the walls, take the petty cash box, and haul off all the cases of beer that they can carry. They wreck their car laughing that the small mom & pop store couldn't afford to hire a full time security guard and were easy pickings. The local constabulary drags them off to the hoosgow and they end up in the big house doing 5 to 10 years for this crime. They get sodomized within 3 days and learn all the prison trades to become better criminals when they are released.

    What is the real difference? None really, other than it is racist to allow the middle class kids to get off without jail time.

    To say that a mom & pop eStore deserves a felon assault(being cracked) is like saying that a convenience store deserves an armed robbery since they didn't have a combined arms mech infantry battalion with an attached tank platoon and air defense section positioned around their store. It is like saying that a woman deserves getting raped since she dressed that way and didn't carry a pistol with her. The law is quite clear on physical breaking and entering. If there is anything in the way of the intruder, and this can be as slight as cobwebs, that breaking anything on the way into an establishment is a crime. The same standard should apply to eStores. Any form of physical protection gives you the maximum amount of legal protection.

    Four simple monosyllable words. "Thou shalt not steal." What part of that don't you grok??

  16. Re:Good point on Optimizing Linux Advocacy Efforts · · Score: 1

    Having Microsoft present is as appropriate as having a KKK cross burning. Both represent a hatred of openness and availability to all; which is the antithesis of those present.

  17. What about this? on California Consumers Settle MS Antitrust Suit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was in California and bought Microsoft Office when I was there. Since this purchase was made in California, could I get part of this even though I reside in Texas? Was I a 'California' consumer at the time of purchase?

  18. Doctors PRACTICE for 2.5 minutes on Complications · · Score: 1

    I've timed doctors while I was working at the hospital(I'm dual degreed RN & CS). The average time that a med/surg patient sees a doctor everyday while on the floor is 2.5 minutes. I've had to tell the doctors which patient is theirs in a semi-private room('Doctor, Mrs. ***** is the patient on this side of the room'). I've had doctors say that they do not recall being called in the night for orders and having to change a bunch of orders since they were totally inappropriate(but still dutifully cared out by the staff) for the patient.

  19. Arrogance a huge factor but responsibility is more on Complications · · Score: 1

    The doctors are scared of CPOE(Computerized Physician Order Entry) systems since it does one thing to them. Presently, they are the only profession that has all of the authority but none of the responsibility. If they order the wrong medicine, the nurse is responsible for administering it. They will stand at the nursing station and scream at the top of their lungs at the nurses if the gods of Olympia are questioned on an order. But they will hide behind, "Well, she should have checked before hanging that." when it hits the courts after something goes wrong. But with CPOE, they have to override the safety checks for f'd up orders so there is an audit trail that they deliberately meant to order that medication for that patient.

    With CPOE, they are then responsible for their actions. What a concept!

  20. Re:Seven Years? - a comparison on Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting · · Score: 1

    Seven years is twice that of other professions like nursing. The average male nurse lasts three years while the average female nurse makes it to 4.5 years.

  21. Let's do the math on EU Anti-Hate Laws On The Web · · Score: 1

    Let us see what kind of problem we are dealing with here. The home page of Google says that they have indexed "Searching 3,083,324,652 web pages". Assume 40 pages for each of the 4,000 'hate sites' for a total of 160,000 'hate pages'. That give us a whopping 0.005192038% of all web pages as being 'hate pages'.

    Now, would a rational person believe that we ought to trample over the freedom of the 99.9948107962004% of the rest of us for a bunch of idiots??

    Quick!!! Shred the Constitution!! Repeal the Bill of Rights! Mangle the Magna Carta!!

  22. Re:fascist american-centric money driven crap on Contact Your Senator and Rep About The SSSCA · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the RIAA doesn't only have plans for the tokens in our pockets but yours as well.

    To ignore the growing censorship in the USA by the rest of the world is as foolish as Americans to ignore the erosion of civil liberties outside of our borders. The international corporations don't care about lines in the sand, just our tokens lining their pockets.

  23. Re:Give me the Tshirt! on Miscellaneous LinuxWorld Tidbits · · Score: 1

    Seems that IBM has this resticted to only their employees. You would think that they wouldn't mind the free advertising from people wearing their gear. Sigh.....

  24. Give me the Tshirt! on Miscellaneous LinuxWorld Tidbits · · Score: 1

    Has anyone seen this on a Tshirt?

  25. Re:So? on Four Kids Confess to Goner Worm · · Score: 2, Funny

    After a number of these testosterone impaired virus writers share some time with a 6'6" 300 lb lifer that thinks that they are cute; writing viruses will no longer seem so funny. If you have the bandwidth to know how to write a virus, you have the bandwidth to know it is a virtual letter bomb that hurts people. It hurts people by taking away their productive time and denying them the use of the computer equipment that they bought.

    To state the obvious, 'You f*** up, you pay up. You f*** with people, you get f***ed with.' What part of that simple truth you don't understand???