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  1. Re: on How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit · · Score: -1

    -get you arrested along with the phisher

  2. Re: on Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year · · Score: -1

    This is "insightful"? Far from it, it's just a post insulting parent. MOD DOWN.

  3. Re: on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: -1

    Bluray doesn't motivate me to go out and buy it, but when I have an HDTV and cheap players are less than 100 bucks and I need a new DVD player anyway I will probbably buy one. As long as it plays all my old DVD's.

  4. Re: on Faux-CNN Spam Blitz Delivers Malicious Flash · · Score: -1

    The problem is that 'places people can trust' often don't release the software and media that people want to run or view.Microsoft is not going to release today's latest screener movies via BitTorrent, and Debian is not going to add "Asian Teen Whores IV" to its download repositories.Your solution is great for OS upgrades, and some applications and their updates, but it certainly doesn't work everywhere.

  5. Re: on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: -1

    Sure, because the "full time professionals" are doing a wonderful job. Not.They're the ones who were on watch when California got into this mess. They're also the ones who can't seem to figure a way out of it without paralyzing their state government and causing the state employees considerable financial hardship.The "Pro's" are also the ones up in D.C. managing the economy for the rest of the country.I live in Wyoming where we, like Texas, have a part time "citizen legislature". No government shutdown or b

  6. Re: on Electronic Eyeball Uses Curved Image Sensor · · Score: -1

    "I'll keep an eye out for you."Isn't that what the hooker with the glass eye said to her loyal customer?

  7. Re: on NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorate · · Score: -1

    _Very_ nice reference. I tip my hat at you, Sir.

  8. Re: on Source Claims 240K Kindles Sold · · Score: -1

    Really? I thought it depended only on chance... pico is less than 1 and is derived from italian, though nano is still below 1 and is derived from greek...

  9. WINE by MS? on Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes · · Score: -1

    By taking the name of the popular operating system 'windows' and replacing the last bit with 'blows' (which is a colloquialism meaning 'bad' or 'inferior') you've just given the name a whole new meaning, while not really changing the sound of the word too much! this is the epitome of both wit and humour! other highly amusing (and often underused) slag terms are 'windoze' (doze meaning 'light sleep' or 'knap') and {'M$'} (which usually stands for MicroSoft, but in this case, the 'S' is deliciously replaced w

  10. Re: on Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web · · Score: -1

    I've successfully bought SSL certificates for companies that I had little or no verifiable connection with, from authorities that are trusted by all major browsers. Now, I obtained these with full permission of the companies in question, as a contractor, but as far as the authority was concerned, I was Joe Bloggs.

  11. When a mobo manufacturer supports linux publicly.. on Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes · · Score: -1

    Hm, but why does it take a storm of negative publicity to make them change their attitude? Why can't they just build stuff that works? Or would that be too much to ask...

  12. What? on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: -1

    Last I checked, there were a whole bunch of candidates and parties to choose from.Again, if people for some reason decide that they're going to collectively ignore all but two of the options, then that is still their voluntary choice.

  13. Robot scouts ftw! on NASA Shakes, Bakes, and Rattles Lunar Spaceship · · Score: -1

    Will it blend?

  14. Re: on Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? · · Score: -1

    So a week later, and the best sinister motive they can come up with is Microsoft doing something they could've done without contributing to the project.. *breathe a sigh of relief*

  15. They are censoring a beer pong video game on The War Against Virtual Beer Pong · · Score: -1

    2. There is no way to enforce age limits for WiiWare downloads.

  16. Re: on Creating a Security Test Environment? · · Score: -1

    Nessus looks great. Thanks for the link!

  17. I would hate this on NASA "Bed Rest" Contractor Blogs the Days · · Score: -1

    I think the thing that makes it tough above all else, at least by her accounts, is the chronic pain. That would make anyone cranky.

  18. Re: on OpenDNS As Quick-Fix To DNS Patch Dilemma · · Score: -1

    Unless you hace a ****ty NAT-firewall in between. And if a lot of people use OpenDNS, you'll all be an easy target.

  19. Re: on A Step Backward For Voting System Transparency · · Score: -1

    On the other hand, warrantless wiretapping is blatantly unconstitutional. It'll be overturned as soon as (if) it hits the Supreme Court

  20. Re:tee-hee on Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted · · Score: -1

    There's a joke here about federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison and clogged tubes but I'm just going to savor the indictment instead.

  21. Re: on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: -1

    Unless you mean to imply he's gone senile, I think the word you want there is "is".

  22. Re: on Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion? · · Score: -1

    Off the top of my head, you've got Trac, CVSTrac, Redmine, Collaboa... Trac is pretty well established. CVSTrac (AKA SvnTrac when dealing with Subversion) is lean and mean and absurbdly quick to set up. Redmine is pretty new, but seems to have picked up a lot of good ideas. Collaboa looks nice, but development appears to have stagnated.There's plenty of others, though. Commercially, things like FogBugz also have Subversion integration. But it's not exactly hard to find all this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems Be aware that once you lock yourself into a combination of SCM and issue tracking system, migrating to another SCM is absolutely hellish. Hope you really, really like Subversion.[disclosure: I mostly maintain CVSTrac]c.

  23. Re:Interesting project but...do students use books on Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed · · Score: -1

    I still remember the day where we had the ACM-MCPC (an qualifying round of ACM-ICPC for the Midwest section of U.S.) contest in a November weekend two years ago.Our university happens to be a host site, and because of that, allowed to have 3 teams to compete instead of two. For most other universities, people have to qualify to appear at the competition. For us, we do not have enough people. So that, the professor assembled two teams of three people from the CS department, which happened to have the highest

  24. Re: on FCC Votes To Punish Comcast · · Score: -1

    So whose side is the FCC on? they seem pretty two-faced to me.

  25. Re: on Reasonable Expectation of Privacy From Web Hosts? · · Score: -1

    Unfortunately for you, since acceptable use for both parties was laid out *in a contract* your point is moot. If the contract says "we will not do x" and they then proceed to do x, they have just broken a legally binding contract.here's a good analogy for you:If I go to stay in a hotel, does that mean that when I go to the front desk to ask where the pool is they're allowed to search my room? No? Then the "it's their property" thing is null. In fact, since you are PAYING for this service...Anyway, it's