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  1. I'm going to bet that billing... on Marriott to Add Wi-Fi in 400 Hotels · · Score: 2

    ...is going to be a huge pain. My guess is that it won't be integrated into your hotel bill. You will pay as you use it.

  2. Re:Pure operational exercise on Minimizing Downtime When Switching IP Addresses? · · Score: 2
    Have a wad of company cash/credit card on hand. You never know what comes up.


    Umm... DECLINED?


    Ditto for spares, whatever you can - is that disk that's been spinning for 4 years going to come back up?


    That one is easy: NOTACHANCE.


    Oh, and from personal experience, make sure there are no "flags" on your account at your current provider or they may try to prevent you from removing equipment.

  3. The biggest improvement in shopping carts... on High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...in the past 100 years is not in making them computerized...it's been making them fun for kids. My local supermarkets have this kind of kid-friendly cart. They are really great. If only more innovations addressed actual needs....

  4. Re:LISA on MSS Initiative Makes Progress · · Score: 2

    The best I could find was "Large Installations Systems Administration".

  5. Re:Just ask MS to open the API on "Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Directory · · Score: 2

    I'd mod you up, but you are not a detractor...so you'd probably get modded down again anyway.

  6. Re:The irony is killing me on Government Web Sites Are Not for the Incumbents · · Score: 2

    I'm curious as to why the Office of the House Majority leader is freedom.gov? Dick Armey? Scary thought.

  7. Wish I'd thought of this yesterday... on Sharp Unveils Glass Computer · · Score: 2

    What's that they say about people who live in glass houses, and use Windows computers?

  8. Re:USA enforcing beliefs on the rest of the world on Russian Snared By The FBI Sentenced To 3 Years · · Score: 2

    He'll get better treatment, as long as he doesn'y meet the "Tossed Salad" guy.

  9. Talk about a non-news item... on US .gov WHOIS Info Restricted Over Attacker Fears · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you need whois data for a ".gov" domain, go to the General Services Administration.

  10. Function that cannot be tampered, copied or faked on Crypto with Epoxy Tokens, Glass Balls and Lasers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...until it is tampered, copied, and faked. Never say never, especially with regards to crypto.

  11. This misses the point of testing and QA altogether on Testing Products for Web Applications? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your proirity in testing shouldn't rely on automation necessarily because what you are bound to find is that the application works perfectly, when it's following the script you've programmed. When somebody on my team brings me code/functionality to review, the first thing I try to do is to "do the wrong thing" (eg. letters in a field to be interpreted as numeric). Thorough testing requires "unbridaled" human ingenugity.

    Frankly, what you need are probably consistent programming methods (because your front-ends are probably being written by liberal arts majors who taught themselves --insert language here--), through error handling, documentation, a consistent testing mothodology, and much more upfront requirements analysis.

    This stuff ain't cheap and you need to factor it into your pricing. I'd say that 10% to 20% of your budget should be QA and testing and you should insist that the budget be used for that. Too often QA time is used for actual development, leaving no QA.

  12. Very poor content... on 'Harry Potter' Offered (Legitimately) on the Net · · Score: 2
    Other than Harry Potter, I've barely even heard of most of the other movies. This should keep the piracy levels down!


    A DOMESTIC INCIDENT

    Filled with dark humor, "A Domestic Incident" takes us on a roller coaster ride through a night of typically dysfunctional Americana.


    24 HOURS TO KILL

    Mickey Rooney plays an American smuggler stuck in Beruit in this exciting action thriller with several twists and turns.


    MR. BILL'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

    Tune in for some of Mr. Bill greatest hits...plus several of Sluggo's, too. No fan should go without this compilation of greatest moments!


    A GLEAM OF HOPE

    A Hong Kong detective on assignment in China awakens to find his dead lover's body beside him. Knowing that he will be sentenced to death, he must escape arrest.


    ADDICTED TO MURDER (I II and III)

    Two vampires in one lifetime is not a coincidence. The more Joel's drawn into the vampiric vortex the more he becomes aware of his own horror.


    AMERICAN TRAGEDY

    The OJ Simpson trial. It was an epic trial. The outcome was controversial and the events that led to the judgement hold a sordid tale of their own. Starring VING RHAMES.


    AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR PARENTS WERE WEIRD!

    A couple of wiz kids build a robot, but when their dad's ghost winds up inside, this family gets really weird.


    ASIAN DOLLS UNCUT VOLUME 13

    China Doll (a 21 year old blonde), Tammy Lee (a 22 year old), Kimmi Kann (a Filipino cutie in her first video), Tina Toy & Mayumi will all show you what it really means to be an Asian Doll.....


    BEAUTY INVESTIGATOR

    In order to capture a serial rapist, two beautiful policewomen go undercover as club hostesses.


    THE BEL AIR BITCH PROJECT

    The life of a beautiful model, living in Bel Air, is cut short by an unknown assailant, but her murder may not be a mystery to the many men she teased along the way.


    THE BLACK WITCH PROJECT

    A group of military rejects go on a retreat to find themselves, while in the process they notice how spooky and strange the camp becomes. Point blank a mad killer is on the loose.


    I can't imagine paying for this crap (except ASIAN DOLLS UNCUT VOLUME 13). I'd venture this stuff didn't even maket it direct-to-video. Frankly, I couldn't go through 80 pages of CASTLE ORGIES (3,000 girls are hand-picked for the Shogun to satisfy his insatiable lust). On second-thought...

  13. And by Slashdotting the RealServer... on Finding the Viscosity of Pitch · · Score: 2

    ...we've guaranteed that noone will see the pitch drop. At least not until this goes "under the fold."

  14. archive.org on Microsoft Typography Withdraws Free Web Fonts · · Score: 2
  15. Re:Next time gadget... on Russian Agency Charges FBI Agent With Hacking · · Score: 2

    Why would you have an expectation of privacy in non-private locations? You might have an expectation of privacy from home but even then, find a way to anonimize and encrypt your traffic. You should have very little expectations of privacy over "public" albeit corporate-controlled networks.

  16. Regarding Lee Goldberg on First Man To Mars? · · Score: 2

    LEE GOLDBERG - Armed with a Bachelors in electrical engineering from Thomas Edison College, Lee spent 20 years deep in the bowels of the electronics industry before deciding to trade in his scope probe for a pen. During this time, he gained experience in designing and using microprocessor-based systems for everything from measuring the thickness of baby bottle nipples to monitoring and controlling solar and wind-power generating systems. An eight-year stint in the aerospace industry found him heavily involved with the design and test of scientific instruments for an interplanetary spacecraft.

    http://www.chipcenter.com/networking/goldberg_bio. html

  17. Re:I get it now on Mutant Gene Responsible for Speech? · · Score: 2

    And finally, are you sure you don't want to ask about the 12-inch kielbasa implant first?

  18. Offtopic: no cookie for 50 karma sig... on Lord of The Rings DVD, Now or Later? · · Score: 1

    'cause you may have excellent karma but can't prove you have 50 karma.

  19. What would this look like in reverse? on Does Your Debugger Sing to You? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could you run a melody through and have programming structures returned? Metaphors are sunny days.

  20. Re:Oh please! on X-Box Flaw: MS Won't Use DMCA · · Score: 2

    A few billion is a bit more. What'd you give charitably last year? More or less than a piddly squat? Put down the stone, go back to your glass house.

  21. Ummm..who cares about Slashdotting? on FAA Using Webcams to Aid Alaskan Pilots · · Score: 2

    Last time I checked, cnn.com gets more traffic than Slashdot. And the article first appeared on CNN. Having survived both a partial Slashdotting (link off a +5 comment), and a CNNing (main link off a sub-section) I can tell you that a CNNing hurts more. So, even though getting "DoS"d by interested parties sucks, Slashdot does nothing worse in this case than CNN.

  22. WAMU.ORG... on Getting Your News as MP3s? · · Score: 4, Informative

    WAMU, one of DC's "public radio" stations streams in MP3 format. http://www.wamu.org

  23. PK Crypto on Coursey on Palladium · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One concern I have about widespread distributions of current technology cryptography would be reliance on crypto that is based on difficult (and theoretically complex) calculations. If the only thing that keeps public crypto safe is, for example, the difficuly of factoring, it's safe to say that advances in technology will likely render that difficulty less implausible and more accessible. As Avi said (paraphrase): I want it secret until man is no longer capable of doing evil.

    Naturally, this is not an argument for an anti-crypto position. It is merely a caution for overreliance on the secure technologies of today.

  24. Wouldn't this demagnetize... on Low-Tech Cell Phone Blocking · · Score: 2

    ...the magnetic stripe card in my wallet?

  25. Re:Taken in France by a Frenchman and its in... TE on World's First Photo · · Score: 2

    It's too bad that the treasures of American, Egyptian, et al civilizations were plundered, raided and taken to...Europe. Give back our civilization, you can have your fscking picture back.