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  1. Re:Sorry, Yes on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    http://www.whydoesgodhateamputees.com/ Maybe this will throw a wrench into your faith.

  2. Re:Ridiculous on Researcher Discovers ATM Hack, Gets Silenced · · Score: 1

    I'll take my chances and hope that out of the 0.001% of people that get hit with this when they release it, won't be me. People getting hit with this hack will also make the banks move their collective asses in patching this. It's terrible for the people that get hit with it, but it's the only way the banks will listen.

  3. Re:Exchange Server on London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows · · Score: 1

    Folks, it's a joke and I only said it to make my pun more clearly. I know their e-mail server isn't the greatest, I think so too.

  4. Exchange Server on London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never understood why Microsoft made a specific server for stock exchanges anyways. It sure does e-mail great though.

  5. Re:Guaranteed? on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Hahahaha, it's funny because he got 150 years.

  6. Re:So how long on Robotic Ferret Used To Fight Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps both human and "ferret" anti-smuggling techniques will be used. Although, I'd be pretty pissed if I lost my job to a ferret.

  7. Horror Story About Outsourcing on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    At the software company I work at, upper management had the fabulous idea of using an outsourcing company to rework parts of our site not business critical. Six months later, one of my fellow developers here decides to check up on how the project is coming along. To his shock and complete horror, he discovers the entire project has been done in VB6. Why the requirements weren't stated better, I don't know. They were obviously taken off the project and I don't think we'll ever be working with them again. Now we're stuck with a nightmare project to complete and for many years to come, a nightmare project to maintain. As if we don't already have enough VB6 code to maintain.

  8. Re:I use Astraweb.com on AT&T Dropping Usenet Netnews; Low-Cost Alternatives? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I've never had a problem accessing the erotica groups before using the Paypal method. If I remember, I think the reason I had to use the Paypal method is because the forms to use CC wouldn't allow Canadian addresses or something like that.

  9. I use Astraweb.com on AT&T Dropping Usenet Netnews; Low-Cost Alternatives? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're especially cheap(I pay $11 US per month for unlimited 20 connections) and they're upgrading their retention to 360 days, right now it's at 295. I don't work for Astraweb, I'm just a very satisfied customer. The only downfall, if you consider this a downfall, is to get the $11 a month deal you have to pay through PayPal's subscription service, which isn't all that bad. Here's the link: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html Click the "Now Accepting PayPal" button.

  10. Re:Only a 2D construct in anti-de-Sitter space! on String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids · · Score: 1

    I agree, which is why I put authors that can do this into such a high regard.

  11. Re:Only a 2D construct in anti-de-Sitter space! on String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids · · Score: 1

    I tried to find one at simple.wikipedia.org but no such luck.

  12. Re:Squatter on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, I guess if the situation calls for a speedy conclusion then your solution was most likely the fastest and cheapest. At the time, because of the nature of my company's business, we had and still do have an on call lawyer for any needs that might arise in the legal section.

  13. Re:Squatter on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    Would that situation not have been in accordance with the "bad faith" rule? The company I currently work at had a similar issue. We went to go create a website for ourselves(we had already been in business for a couple years) only to find that our competitor snapped up the domain. The battle went to mediation with CIRA and we won. Now mind you this was with a .ca domain, so Canada and maybe those rules don't exactly apply.

  14. Re:Your customers won't care on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    I know people who have no idea what that funny bar on top of their browser is for that displays some funky random characters whenever they click on a link and a page loads.

    This is exactly what my girlfriend does. She type a URL, .com and all, in google. I try to tell her to use the bar up top that she'll waste less time, but she absolutely refuses. Maybe I can get her to use the "I'm feeling lucky" button.

  15. Re:Glad to see.. on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the UK, honestly, but in the US and Canada it really isn't. If you're in a public place, which is defined as anyplace you can walk into without being hassled (it most explicitly includes malls, and hotels without someone checking for door keys or similar) then you have no expectation of privacy. You have a valid argument in civil court if you want some of someone's profits which were made from a work including your likeness et cetera, but that's about it.

    I'm afraid you're completely wrong: http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Ftechnology%2Fstory%2F2007%2F09%2F25%2Ftech-google-streetview.html&ei=RB3WSZeWG5_wswOGvM2iCg&usg=AFQjCNHKFb-rsuFUnHdexCYPe7rQNczGpw&sig2=qsPaVW8u6vFEm46Boh9-Bw

  16. Re:Sometimes entry levelers are the best on From an Unrelated Career To IT/Programming? · · Score: 1

    Write? Seriously?

  17. Re:More of these lines on Atlantis Seekers Given Thrill by Google Ocean · · Score: 1
  18. And.... on No More Space Tourists After 2009, Russia Says · · Score: 1

    Queue the "In Soviet Russia" jokes.

  19. Re:Good for employment, bad for productivity. on $30B IT Stimulus Will Create Almost 1 Million Jobs · · Score: 1

    Trips to the moon? Okay, that worked. What did we get out of that again? Tang?

    http://library.thinkquest.org/5218/spinofflist.htm Only Tang, eh?

  20. Re:Women don't want to do CS? on Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    That's not entirely accurate.

    There were more women in my higher level mathematics classes than there were men. They had no problem understanding the concepts and theory. If anything, I'd guess that women have a higher natural aptitude for analytical thought, they just haven't been encouraged to pursue scientific careers.

    We raise girls to be nurturers and boys to be tinkerers. Small children are all given little dolls, which act as security blankets. But when little girls get their next toy, it's another doll. A little boy will get a toy truck, or car. The girl gets the Barbie dream house. The boy gets the lego set. We define gender roles for children from the time they are small, then are amazed when they don't break out of those roles.

    You appear to have the same mentality as these people: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/may/04051010.html

  21. Re:If It's Possible... on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Its probably little more than a bootable drive with NTFS support, and some tools. I have a similar device. It's a CD called ERD Commander.