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  1. Re:IT as it relates to regular people on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 1

    A few things to add.

    Teens this days seem to be more connected than ever before some basics I would teach along with basic use and internet deciphering. The web is OPEN thus you should not be posting your life story in all its minute details for the world to see. Also that once it is online you should assume it will be there forever. So in retrospect teach the following:

    1) Be mindful of what you put online.
    2) Understanding basic security practicies.
    3) Online professionalism
    etc

    Those along can help someone go further than those that open up their facebook profile for all to see while posting pictures of underage consumption as well. Future employers do look at this stuff.

  2. Re:Mid 90's on Internet Explorer Turns 15 · · Score: 1

    yes but we all not what happened to Netscape. We can only pray IE suffers the safe fate.

  3. Re:The Future on Internet Explorer Turns 15 · · Score: 0, Troll

    nah its to busy trying to find a job so it can afford their first car next year.

  4. Australis? on Mars Site May Hold 'Buried Life' · · Score: 1

    I am not sure where this is at, maybe it is some new must see martian tourist location. Someone show check for a few brochures I am sure we could see at least a few tickets at insane profits. It does sound quiet trendy you know, as we all know celebreties are always looking for something new and out of this world to splurge on.

  5. Re:hooray on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now make it so that performing this act does not void your warranty as well and I would be a happy camper. Or at least make it so that if the carrier then bricks your device on purpose to get those unlocked devices out of the market be liable to replace it.

  6. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong? on Microsoft Opens Source Code To KGB's Successor Agency · · Score: 1

    If anything deserves this tag it would be this. The Russian government has long been known to be corrupt and it is my guess that before the ink even dries that a copy of the code has already made its way to the RBN and others.

  7. Re:Should have aimed for 10/10/10 on Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick · · Score: 1

    actually that would be 96 :)

  8. Re:Terry Childs ... on Man Builds San Francisco With 100,000 Toothpicks · · Score: 1

    actually he would have used a label maker to print off the network admin passwords and hid them in the carbon nanotubes

  9. Finally on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank god for this bill.

    When I was a yound boy I started doing salt. I figured yea its just salt right? Afterwards I moved on to cracked pepper and eventually later in life started experimenting with parsley, basil and oregeno. Before I knew it I was hooked on Thyme and garlic and I lost everything. My wife, my job, my kids, all gone. Even the dog ran away. No you will find me lurking on the school grounds giving away free herbs, knowing that once hooked they will never be the same. So please think of the children and avoid my culinary fate.

  10. correction they esitmate 600 million metric tons - you have 6 million

    so 600,000,000 / 2500 would be approximately 240,000 olympic pools

  11. Re:2012 on Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010 · · Score: 2

    They are creating Skynet I knew it.

    time to start working on my underground bunker

  12. Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would like to think of something off topic but my waffles are burning

    NOOOOOOOOOOO!! RIP Waffles

  13. Re:THIS explains all the closed rest stops in VA.. on New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup · · Score: 1

    naw the system was down which told the rest stops to lock their doors. The should be open again now, assuming it hasn't crashed again... well fudge

  14. Re:Funny math or multiple systems? on New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup · · Score: 2, Informative

    My guess is that would be multiple systems. They noted in TFA that they provided IT services to 1000 local governments and 85 state agencies in VA.

  15. Epic Fail on New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If any story deserves this tag it is this. from the article:

    "Virginia declared a state of emergency Nov. 11 in the face of record nor'easter rains and winds.

    But without backup circuits -- which VDOT had before the Northrop Grumman outsourcing -- to take up the load, the transportation agency's Hampton Roads' IT network went out of service 23 times during the event.

    "We called at 5:35 in the morning," said Gary Allen, VDOT's chief of technology, research and innovation.

    "It took VITA four hours to open the help ticket" and begin to solve the problem."

    4 hrs on a critical system seriously just to get started solving it?

  16. Re:Boinc Applications... on Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    but can it run Vista in the first place to even run Crysis?

  17. flushing apps on Squatters Abusing iPhone App Store · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't see why it would be to hard to do one of the following:

    1) require the binaries to be present when uploading the app, if you back out it doesn't save anything.
    2) give a 7 day grace period to upload the app binaries. If they are not uploaded by then, you forfeit the rights to the name

  18. Re:That would make... on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would make Windows a 128 bit wrapper around a 64 bit implementation of a 32 bit extension for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

    and has 0 bits of common sense

  19. Re:Impossible to overstate the SPAM opportunity .. on New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush · · Score: 0

    of course these domains would be easy to block at the firewall

    at first just deny access to every TLD that is NOT .com, .org, .edu, .mil, .{insert commonly used domain here}

  20. Re:Posting in the april fools article on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 0

    whats this april fool's you speak of - everything posted online must be true. I mean opera wouldn't lie about their facial recognition for example.

  21. But on The Best Way Through the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 0

    can I view this report in China because man this filtering sucks

  22. Re:any evidence on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: 0

    anyone that a clue on how anything works is smart enough to not be in politics.

  23. but on Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants · · Score: 0

    The record companies need to make money to, so please think of the money grabbing executives who can't count on their subpar talent pool to provide them their golden parachutes.

  24. Re:Cheap Hack on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 1, Informative

    If they don't put a proper effort into the UI design, then Ubuntu will continue to be the better OS.

    there fixed that for you...

  25. Re:at last. its f*ckin 21st century ffs. on $125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google · · Score: 0

    good thing the music industry doesn't do that. I mean they wouldn't consider charging for stuff done generations ago.