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  1. Snapshots on Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It · · Score: 1

    Falling back to a clean snapshot regularly (or always... can VM clients be configured to always boot from a snapshot? If grandma doesn't update her antivirus, she's not going to roll back her VM.) would help to mitigate both problems.

  2. Re:Beautiful way to honor your brother on A Geek Funeral · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, an all powerful god would have foreseen this development and made backup provisions.

    Indeed. Not everyone gets to die one piece.

  3. Re:I think the computer guys know too on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 1

    I am.

  4. Why? on Honda's Answer To the Segway · · Score: 1

    Honda's Answer To the Segway

    Did it really need a response?

  5. Re:Bad start: Name the company "Demon". on ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands · · Score: 0, Troll

    talents

    Hollywood script writer

    Oxymoron

  6. Re:I've got an idea on Newly Declassified FBI Docs Reveal Predictive Data System · · Score: 2, Informative
  7. Re:Three? on Coverity Report Finds OSS Bug Density Down Since 2006 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    0. Samba
    1. tor
    2. OpenPAM
    3. Ruby

  8. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    If the address bar and tab bar didn't autohide and the bookmarks toolbar, status bar, and menu bar weren't eliminated completely, I might actually use it.

  9. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    I just checked my Firefox menu, and the only things I found more than two levels deep were under "Bookmarks -> Bookmarks Toolbar", a feature that I don't care to use anyway.

    I make frequent use of the bookmarks toolbar, but it's doesn't go very deep (I've got more complex bookmark folder hierarchies), especially after eliminating the default bookmark folder and RSS feed there. There are deeper menus though. Firefox (3.5.3) has View>>Character Encoding>>More Encodings>>$FOO>>$BAR, but I doubt more than a handful of people use it.

  10. Re:kdawson sucks on Microsoft Reportedly Poaching Apple Retail Staff · · Score: 1

    Bribe implies something illegal is happening.

    Doesn't have to.

  11. Re:Poor admins on The Perils of Ramming Products Down IT's Throat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The high-up management deals with the big picture. The folks in the trenches deal with all the technical details that can make or break a project.

    And in your scenario, management is not dealing with the big picture. Management needs to define the objectives (Email, filesharing, website), and the sysadmins work out the details (Exchange/Postfix/qmail, SMB/NFS, Apache/IIS). Probably the deepest they should meddle should be regarding third-party compatibility ("We need .doc support").

  12. Re:Hulu outside the USA without proxies? on FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted · · Score: 1

    Not it's not. The RIAA is not an ISP. Whether or not the RIAA is liable for something (DoS?) is possible, but Net Neutrality rules don't affect them.

  13. Re:What if...? on Sony Ericsson Develops Contact Headphones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ideally there would be a setting in software.

  14. Re:EMP? Impending poverty? on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    That's what mine looks like.

  15. Re:Font on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    ...only one person on the slide at a time, this is definitely not to be forgotten.

    Ignored always, but never forgotten. If you forget you won't keep an eye out for the recess monitors.

  16. Re:No more crashes? on Forkable Linux Radio Ad Now On the Air In Texas · · Score: 1

    True, but I doubt it is that big a difference.

  17. Re:No more crashes? on Forkable Linux Radio Ad Now On the Air In Texas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "nvidia crash windows" has more hits.

    Not even double. On an OS that (conservatively) has 85x the marketshare.

  18. Re:Who needs that? on Intel Core i7 For Laptops — First Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sitting here wondering what someone from 2003 would say...

    Probably something along the lines of:
    "Duke Nukem still isn't out?!?!"

  19. Pirate Bay is dead. on Pirate Bay Buyer Sued For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    What are some good alternatives?

  20. It happens. on Mozilla Firefox Not In Violation of US Export Rules · · Score: 1

    It's a natural part of innovation. More entrenched companies don't test these boundaries, and so don't risk running afoul of government red tape.

  21. Re:since when did slashdot provide BS units? on SKA Telescope To Provide a Billion PCs Worth of Processing · · Score: 1

    It' as tall as Bob.

  22. Re:You're damn right it is too broad on Major MMO Publishers Sued For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    O wait it was game of the year in 1997...

    Impressive for a game released at the end of March '98.

  23. Re:You're damn right it is too broad on Major MMO Publishers Sued For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Well, duh, that's not the point, the point is I figured out a way to use IRC to get you baked goods.

    Your 'innovation' is using IRC instead of HTML. You weren't even creative enough to deliver something other than baked goods. What's so patentable about that?

  24. Re:Mandatory? on Security / Privacy Advice? · · Score: 1

    Assuming you don't have a deadline looming.

  25. Re:Enough is enough - Time to amend the Constituti on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 1

    Why not?