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  1. Patches.. on Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate' · · Score: 1

    Maybe he could change his last name to "Patches" so his name will be Patches Pirate.

  2. Show me the money. on Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades · · Score: 1

    The quote from Jerry Maguire and your kids will say "Show me the money!". Gee, I wonder what does it speak about our economy and our situation.

  3. One for the igNobel? on Penguin Poop Seen From Space · · Score: 1

    That is alot of poop! Maybe a researcher could study this a go for the igNobel award.
    http://improbable.com/ig/

  4. No decrease volume of spam. on FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unlike the take down of McColo, I see no decrease of volume of spam at all. In fact, since April 2009, my spam level has gone back to and within the last week, above the level of spam since the before McColo and my mail server statistics follow Spamcop.net statistics.
    http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear
    IMHO, the botnets masters have dispersed themselves to multiple locations around the world so now taking down on an ISP will not affect them like McColo. On my mail server, most my spam comes from the Central and South America IP addresses and I think those systems are controlled by some bot master somewhere else.
    However, IMHO, creating and hosting child porn is punishable by torture like waterboarding or worst. Dying is too good for those people.

  5. Pot calling the kettle black? on Russia Launches Anti-trust Probe of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    A former-communist country saying that Microsoft violates anti-trust laws is very interesting.
    However, Vista sucks big time in the few installations I have and I understand why most people hate, including entire countries like Russia.

  6. Re:djb on .ORG Zone Signed With DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    Mike Babcock is correct. You need to read and understandwhat Dan Bernstien says about DNSSEC before going this.
    I'm using djbdns on my domain with .org and I need to find out what to do now. I wish to keep djbdns with this going on hopefully with a few (or more) patches to djbdns. A whole new world for me.

  7. Not wise to anger Apple. on New Mac Clone Maker 'Quo' To Open Retail Store · · Score: 1

    Pystar quoted "that are filing bankruptcy because of the economy" so we can't see what Apple will really do to enforce their EULA.
    I'm interested who has the "very hairy balls" to financially back these guys with Apple huffing and puffing down your back. I also wanted find who is their legal consul is because they are crazy or have something interesting up their sleeves.

  8. Re:So, who makes HumVees? on GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company · · Score: 1

    AM General licensed the manufacture of civilian version of the Hummer to GM. The Hummer you buy is actually a Suburban with a HMMWV shaped body on top. AM General High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle -M998 Truck has different design specs for the military vehicle. Here is some history about this:
    http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/hmmwv-hummer.htm

  9. Which one is worst, NSA or Verizon? on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 1

    As a Verizon customer, this really sucks. I'm thinking changing my service to another carrier because of this. However, without all of the facts like if this person is off-shored and must stick to a script or just a moron that doesn't know the gravity of the situation. Hopefully, this a one time but only time will tell. I think heard similar stories with other carriers so jump from Verizon will like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

  10. Re:I'd like to see em try it on FCC Reserves the Right To Search Your Home, Any Time · · Score: 1

    I was an amateur radio operator in high school and like some people in high school, we wanted to boost our output of amateur radio way beyond the rating and one day we got called to the high school office because the FCC traced our transmitter to the high school electronics shop where we had radio equipment. We never thought the FCC would look for us. If remember correctly the licensed rating was for 16 watts but we found plans for an 200 watt amplifier.
    Unless you really boost your baby monitor so that you hear it from International Space Station, yes, the FCC will want to knock on your door.
    Most people that don't dick with their existing equipment you don't need to worry about them.

  11. No, he didn't have relations with that hard drive. on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also wag that finger on that dais.

  12. Sounds like droids from Star Wars. on Robot Soldiers Are Already Being Deployed · · Score: 1

    This is beginning to sound like the droids from Star Wars. Scary.

  13. No virtualization. on Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    What they appear they want to is to disable virtualized systems so they are the only system running. What really Microsoft want is to"sabotage" another operating system if they share system resources. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this vandalism and is a criminal act in the normal world.

  14. These people are morons. on Drive-By Download Poisons Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    I see that they are taking advantage of unsecure websites and security holes to propagate this crap.
    I have several websites that I regularly visit compromised by this.
    May these people be sent somewhere experience long term "extraordinary rendition".

  15. That Smell. on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 1

    The song from Lynyrd Skynyrd "That Smell" is best represents this situation:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjAPoN8qs0Q
    http://www.lyrics007.com/Lynyrd%20Skynyrd%20Lyrics/That%20Smell%20Lyrics.html

    I seen something similar to that last year when one of the tenants that moved out my parent's apartment and the refrigerator look worst than biological experiment gone wrong and I work at a biological research firm. At least I know what is grown at my workplace (at least I do an test PCR find out the things is) but is in that refrigerator can best classed "Wild type". The whole apartment ha a smell that would set off the gag reflexes of turkey buzzard and my parents refused to go into the kitchen and ask me to go. I brought had a disposable biosuit and mask from work so I had to clean up that refrigerator.
    More interesting that what we term "bio-hazard" at work would be just "dumped" in the garbage at an personal residence.

  16. The true power... on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    of stupidity. Loomis, REI and police saw they didn't have anything good charges against him so they let him out with only a civil restraining order. This prove how stupid something like Homeland Security could be twisted way out of it original meaning to tag anyone that is taking photo to be "terrorist". How many "terrorist" are out the in New York taking a photo of the Statue of Library and the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. today.
    The interesting quote from Shane's website from Officer Debra Pelic:
    "Officer Debra Pelich (#5976)
            Remember 9/11? I saw pictures of those buildings. One time when I was in Florida I was wandering around taking pictures. A security team came up and told me it was a high security restricted area. I wasn't supposed to be taking pictures there. I explained that I didn't know that, was a police officer, showed them my ID and complied with them. We cleared it up and I left.
    Me (totally baffled)
            Since you managed to pull the 9/11 card somehow, does that mean that everyone that took a picture of those buildings--"

    When does standing at an checkout line at an retail store constitute a "High Security Restricted Area" and have relevancy to this situation?
    Shane should get the ACLU and other freedom rights group and sue all three because they shouldn't not get away with this kind of stupidity.

  17. Cholesterol. on Elegant Bachelor Dinner · · Score: 1

    Good tasting cholesterol.

  18. Do more research. on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    The director of computing at Santa Rosa Junior College need to do some more research on this. Malware writers and spammers have use fake emails to send mail to us and the acronym "srjc" or any other acronym for that matter as part of the email address does in the From:, Reply-to:, or Return-path: doesn't necessary mean that someone at the college was using that to send mail from other domains. Spammers have taken legitimate email addresses and stuck random characters in the name part the email address in a attempt to pass through mail filters. Work for a small biological research organization and we plenty of spam with the acronym of our organization in the those fields to attempt to pass though the mail filters.
    Attempting to stop the use of the acronym in order to thwart spam and other junk is not going to work and preventing good people from doing good work at the school.

  19. Re:@jesus save me on Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I means you need wash you device with alcohol.

  20. So which person wants a knuckle sandwich? on Why Text Messages Are Limited To 160 Characters · · Score: 1

    I hate the 160 character limit which cuts into the body of my critical alerts I get. I want to give that person/people and the propagators of the 160-character limit a knuckle sandwich so the person/people who created this stand up. I understand if they limit the body of the text with 160 character limit but they include the header in that limit which with most senders takes about half of the 160 character limit and what is left for body is nearly useless IMHO.

  21. Manuel Noregia and crickets? on Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember I was deployed to Panama for Operation Just Cause as an forward air observer and Manuel Noregia fled to the Vatican's Embassy (Apostolic Nunciature) and the US set some boom boxes around the embassy and they played rock music all day and night. We were camped about mile from the embassy and we can still hear the music clearly from that distance so I know much louder it was at the embassy. Nevertheless, Manual Noregia gave up afterwards.
         

  22. Re:It was for a PHOTO SHOOT???!!! on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    Remember the crash of XB-70 and a F-104 was also a photo shoot.
    The some of PR people at White House have no senses, no matter what administration it is.

  23. No such thing as a free lunch. on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    As the saying goes, "There is no such thing as a free lunch".
    If you don't know where it came, then don't download it.
    There is no such thing was an absolutely secure system since the user can override the security features.
    Another saying, "Intel inside, idiot outside"

  24. No schiet Sherlock. on The Ecological Impact of Spam · · Score: 1

    My mail server at work uses about 25% of it processing constantly to sort the mail.

  25. Re:I have a feeling.... on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    As Deep Throat once said, "Follow the money".