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  1. Would be really handy on Just How Effective is System Hardening? · · Score: 1

    if DISA put out a lockdown script for the various Unix flavors. The Gold Disk they have for Unix breaks shit. But dang if the Windows one works. What's up with that? It's a real pain manually doing this.

  2. Ambivelant about this on Dreamworks Acquires Rights for Ghost in the Shell · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know. On one hand, sounds like a good idea. On the other, some crappy Hollywood writer will find a way to fuck it up.

  3. Re:Security improvements on HP Admits Selling Infected Flash-Floppy Drives · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And it doesn't state whether it affects only Windows servers. Anyone running Unix or Linux on their Proliants and getting hit with this?

  4. Re:The Airforce and no IS Security on Air Force Emails Sensitive Information to Tourism Site · · Score: 1

    I suspect that USAF is using contractors for their IT needs, much like the rest of the US Gov't.

  5. Huh? on Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution · · Score: 1

    "to allow teachers the freedom to teach whatever they wish, even if it is in opposition to current standards."

    So the people we ask to give us an education can decide what we can learn, based on what they feel is the truth? WTF?!?!?!

    Of course, I had this problem with some professors in college, but come on, facts are facts. They are not up for interpretation.

  6. Ha Ha on Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks · · Score: 1

    You have got to be kidding. Did they just now figure this out? Or did a member of the press feel the need to point this out, just like when someone printed the article that the US was eavesdropping on OBL on his unencrypted satellite phone?

  7. Awesome! on Kimchi in Space · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, it's nice that they are allowing this, however, I suspect that the smell will permeate everything in the station. Just saying.

  8. HP Calculators on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    My basic HP Scientific calculator is still working after 15 moves, 10 years of college, and two years of high school. I bought it back in 1984.

  9. Re:I'd rather... on Farscape (Kinda) Returns · · Score: 1

    I don't watch it much either, except for Eureka, SG Atlantis, and The Dresden Files. The problem with SciFi is that they don't have a budget for these types of shows. Dresden at least keeps the special effects down to a minimum. I hope they bring it back.

  10. New movie title on The Dusty Concern for the Mission to Mars · · Score: 1

    "Earth Needs Dust!" as opposed to "Mars Needs Women!"

    On another note, don't any of the rovers there have the ability to measure this kind of thing? That would sort of make sense.

  11. Re:how do you start with a purely educational "gam on Serious Games - World of Borecraft? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was a game like this. "Typing of the Dead" I think was the title. Basically, every time you typed a word correctly, you would kill a zombie. They would come at you faster and faster, so you would have to type the words faster. Mistakes had to be fixed or the shot didn't count.

  12. Re:You're kidding, right? on Will Linux Win the Next Presidential Election? · · Score: 1

    I think that has more to do with money and who the candidate's people choose to use to host the web site. I believe that whoever is hosting the Republican Party's site is a Windows shop, and whoever is hosting Democratic Party's site is a Linux shop.

  13. You're kidding, right? on Will Linux Win the Next Presidential Election? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most, if not all, the candidates don't have a clue about what their website is running on, much less care about it. I really doubt that Hillary discussed Windows versus Linux versus BSD. Get real. It seems to me that most in Congress are technophobes, and have people do stuff for them.

  14. Controlling Computers With the Brain on Controlling Computers With the Brain · · Score: 1

    So what's Pinky going to do?

  15. Re:Ok, but elaborate about Al Gore on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 1

    And knowing is half the battle...

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

  16. What? on New Theory Links Biodiversity to the Stars · · Score: 1

    "hopefully we don't have to wait around 64 million years to draw a conclusion on this hypothesis."

    I don't plan on being here in 64 million years, do you?

  17. Re:This is a good thing on Mass Effect Delayed to September · · Score: 1

    So that would make Duke Nukem Forever the most awesome game ever!

  18. Re:Summer Drought on Mass Effect Delayed to September · · Score: 1

    I'm old enough to remember either myself or one of the neighbor's kids doing this when I was a teenager. In my current neighborhood, a lot of the kids could do this, and during the winter, they could shovel walkways. But the lazy buggers next door wouldn't even do their own walkway, so go figure.

  19. Summer Drought on Mass Effect Delayed to September · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would seem to me that there should be more sales around the beginning of Summer, when the kiddies are set loose from school. Also, most of the younger set would get money from jobs (mowing lawns, odd jobs) to pay for new games. I know there is a big holiday rush, but come on, Summer should be great, too.

  20. Hmmm, on Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    New Socialist government, airships with slogans. The Venezuelans wanted this guy in power, so they got what they wanted.

  21. Re:Be careful what you wish for on Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days · · Score: 1

    Ok, I exaggerated. But, considering that the perp himself locked the other students in,..

  22. Re:Be careful what you wish for on Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days · · Score: 1

    Having actually gone to VT, 2600 acres includes the FARM that's attached to the school. The main campus rings the drill field. Locking down the buildings would have been trivial, and everyone in the dorms could have been notified.

  23. Re:slashfud on PowerPoint Bad For Learning · · Score: 1

    Newflash: Powerpoint is used as presentation software more than the others, hence the vilification.

  24. Re:No on The Sci-Fi Movie Stigma · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not sure if my memory is correct, but this was one of the first "blockbusters." Hollywood got the idea that they could make hundreds of millions of dollars per movie, so they started banking on this concept, especially during the summer.

  25. I worked at one 10 years ago on CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores · · Score: 1

    I was a member of the "Small Business Sales" group, then the "Government Sales" group. A few weeks after I walked out on them, CompUSA dropped the business sales groups. They really couldn't compete with CDW or any of the big government contracting groups. We sold network cable installation, at $200 per drop. Couldn't compete at those prices. This was in the DC area, with the average being $100 or less per drop, and they only had one cabler. No sense or business sense with how they did things.