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  1. Re:Riiiiight on The Year of the Political Blogger · · Score: 1

    Amen to that.

    I'm in the process of clean up the mess the guy I replaced made. The set of servers I setup never have a problem, but the ones I'm replacing always do.

  2. Re:This happens constantly on the Facebook wall. on Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is Scott is a pos that was compromising peoples accounts. His excuse was "It's not me it's my affiliates" and it's a load of shit. I guess it's true in a sense as it wasn't him directly, but he fucking knew about it and didn't give a shit. Fuck him and his "company" media breakway, dynamic dolphin, etc.

  3. Scott Richter is a dbag on Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court · · Score: 0, Troll

    Take it from someone that knows. Everyone that has ever had any dealings with Scott knows what a pos he is.

  4. It's easy to measure productivity. on Six Questions To Ask Before Telecommuting · · Score: 1

    I telecommute everyday and it's pretty easy to tell if I'm working or not. Do I get my assignments done, yes or no? It's that simple. If I didn't get my work done then I wouldn't have a job.

  5. Re:heyho, python - the new perl. on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    I know people as well as myself that have worked for big corporations that use PHP. Several state, city, and county governments also use PHP.

    To quote you "Thanks for playing, try again sometime."

  6. Re:To be fair to the corporates on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    Not to be nit picky, but the part of the PHP code base I looked at was C.

  7. Re:Perl IS the problem on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    but but but python is more web 2.0ish.

  8. Re:Sometimes the correct answer is the simplest on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    If you don't like regular expressions, that's your choice, but it really has nothing to do with Perl, and you should try to understand them, as they are very useful, even outside programming.

    Indeed I use them all the time for stuff I don't consider programming like command line string replacements in files using sed.

  9. Re:A good start. on FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel · · Score: 1

    Right, and the solution to crime is to put the lawabiding safely away behind bars.

    Finally someone that agrees with me!

  10. Re:A good start. on FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel · · Score: 1

    I had the same thing happen to me, only they were speaking Spanish. I still have no clue who they were or what they wanted. If a number would have showed up I could have probably figured it out. I had to get a new number to stop the calls.

  11. And my wife said it was porn! on Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got hit with this last night and it was a bitch trying to figure out what it was. I literally spent hours trying to find what had hijacked my computer. I finally said screw it and reinstalled Linux, because the only game I play regularly can be loaded in Wine.

  12. Re:Vista wasn't made for current computers. on One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? · · Score: 1

    Maybe I phrased that wrong so let me rephrase.

    "Vista will be as fast on the future technology as XP is on current technology in a couple years."

    While this might seem totally alien to you it's exactly what they thought. They knew people were happy with the performance of XP and they wanted the same thing for vista on the hardware it would run on.

    You can argue with me all you want, mod me down, or even tell me I'm flat out wrong, but when the next version of windows comes out I'll put this post in my sig just to piss you off.

  13. Vista wasn't made for current computers. on One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter if they were right or not. Vista was developed for future hardware. Vista will be just as fast as XP in a couple years then everyone will be using it. Then a new version of windows will come out and we'll all repeat this conversion saying "Vista is so much faster then X wtf were they thinking".

    Don't get me wrong I'm not a MS fanboy. I really don't like any version of windows. That's just what they did.

  14. Re:New Zealand solution on Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction · · Score: 1

    Apparently New Zealand has the right idea. I wouldn't be opposed the H1-B program if the U.S. had the similar rules.

  15. Re:Hmm on Where Has All My Spam Gone? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use to read a lot of not so nice forums when I was really into Info Sec and I always heard them referred to as "The Russian Business Network"

  16. Re:First Post on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Honestly I hate DRM. I think it's a joke. If I have something I really like and it has DRM and no crack. I'll crack it myself.

    I have litterally spent days cracking stuff that would be easier to pay for, but I refuse to give them my money because they used DRM. I would have happyly paid for it if they didn't use DRM.

  17. Re:First Post on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was a Comp Sci major so I qualified for a student copy of Visual Studio, but it was horrible. I prefered my priated version to the student version, because the every time I ran a program compiled with the student version there was a pop up that said something about it being compiled with a student version. So anything I worked on was nerfed. I couldn't afford a copy that didn't have that annoying pop up so I pirated it even though I got a student version for free. Now that I'm not in college any more I could afford to buy a legit copy.

  18. This isn't really that new on New SQL Injection Attack Fuses Malware, Phishing · · Score: 1

    I've seen it done before to generate backlinks for spam websites. They'd hack several websites via sql injection and insert "hidden" links to the sites to gain search engine ranking.

  19. Re:wow FUDSTER on Official Support For PHP 4 Ends · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not to be an ass, but your wrong.

    In PHP4 objects are passed by value. In PHP5 they're passed by reference.

    In PHP5 you also have public, private, and protected variables.

    In PHP4 class constructors were the same name as the class. In PHP5 it's __construct.

    I could go on about the difference, but I won't. There's a lot of differences between the two.

    I'm glad PHP4 has reached EOL.

  20. Re:Reason why? on 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 · · Score: 1

    I love how the guy in the article wants to blame apple. Why do people have such a problem with taking responsibility for the stuff they do.

  21. Re:The worst part on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    Only if that were still the case. In this day and age you presumed guilty and have to prove your innocence.

    Even if you're not convicted of anything it still shows up on background checks done by employers as an arrest.

  22. Re:Please tell me you're joking... on Getting Inked for Tux at OSCON · · Score: 1

    Primo is spanish for male cousin, but like the guy pointed out below he misspelled Primus.

  23. Re:Please tell me you're joking... on Getting Inked for Tux at OSCON · · Score: 1

    So in 25 years you won't like your cousins?

  24. Everex on "World's Cheapest Laptop" Available in Bulk Only · · Score: 1

    I picked up my Everex laptop for $300 after shipping. It's not exactly $130, but you don't have to buy 100 of them either.
    The battery life sucks, but you can pick up another battery for it pretty cheap.
    It's exactly what I wanted a cheap laptop that will run Linux and if it gets lost, broken, or stolen I won't be out 1k.

  25. Re:Snitch! on Google Caught On Private Property · · Score: 1

    I like my gutter thank you very much!