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  1. Not one person affected? on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to troll here but I haven't seen one post saying how anyone has been affected. If there is one can someone point me to it?

    I personally think it's scary but I do think it's not completely worthless. With modification it could be beneficial to all outstanding citizens.

  2. How much bandwidth is wasted? on DoubleClick On The Blocks? · · Score: 1

    All those bazillions of transactions must waste a significant amount of bandwidth.

  3. Compaq smartarray cards are backwards compatible. on Experiences w/ Software RAID 5 Under Linux? · · Score: 1

    For the most part the compaq smartarray line of cards are backwards compatible and you can upgrade or downgrade the cards without changing anything.

    I have some limited first hand experience with this but I have only done it a few times so maybe someone else can tell of their experiences.

  4. Why does anyone need to see that site? on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the media do a good enough job of telling us how to think?

  5. Here are my results over the past 3 months on Firefox Shooting For 10 Percent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aug 2004

    MS Internet Explorer No 63689 91.9 %
    Mozilla No 1875 2.7 %
    Netscape No 1363 1.9 %
    Unknown ? 702 1 %
    Safari No 563 0.8 %
    FireFox No 554 0.7 %
    Opera No 315 0.4 %
    Firebird (Old FireFox) No 121 0.1 %

    Sept 2004

    MS Internet Explorer No 56837 91.5 %
    Mozilla No 1685 2.7 %
    Netscape No 1294 2 %
    Safari No 945 1.5 %
    FireFox No 931 1.4 %
    Unknown ? 211 0.3 %
    Opera No 118 0.1 %

    Oct 2004

    MS Internet Explorer No 40864 91.9 %
    Mozilla No 895 2 %
    Netscape No 880 1.9 %
    FireFox No 757 1.7 %
    Safari No 628 1.4 %
    Unknown ? 235 0.5 %
    Opera No 85 0.1 %

  6. I did it. on How Cheap Can A PC Be? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A while back a vendor (tiger direct I think) had a 850 MHz cyrix chip soldered on a motherboard. Free after rebate. I added a 256 mb kingston chip which was free after rebate. I bought a $29 delivered case/ps off of ebay. No floppy and I initially plugged in an IDE cdrom drive to load knoppix. Had it been preloaded I wouldn't have needed to. So really the only thing left is the cost of a hd. I think I've seen decent hard drives for $60 after rebate. (I used an old drive)

    I think it can be done. This machine isn't fast though.

  7. Didn't they just release that the press release? on Intel Cancels LCOS Development · · Score: 1

    What was the previous press release, just a trick to get the stock to jump?

  8. Go Cardinals! on Google Desktop Search Under Fire · · Score: 1

    You really put me in my place. Way to post anonymously.

  9. Looks like I stand corrected. on Google Desktop Search Under Fire · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that Windows XP Home addition did not have the security that the people who replied to my original topic have stated. My mistake and I apologize to Bill Gates and his fan boy that called me a "jackass."

  10. Ultimately doesn't this come down to how MS works on Google Desktop Search Under Fire · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not trying to troll here but I think this is a perfect example of how linux has a huge advantage over windows being that it's truly account oriented. Windows is moving that direction but files aren't protected between users in any way.

    Google Desktop is doing exactly what it's programmed to do. The insecurity is in the way Windows has no seperation between users.

    If there was a Google desktop for linux it would only be indexing the logged in users information and it would be readable/seachable only by that user (and root of course).

    I understand the concern and I would say that google desktop doesn't belong on public terminals. I mean is there any situation where public terminals should have files to be searched on them anyway?

  11. flamebait? on The Universal Off Button · · Score: 1

    Can someone please tell me why I was modded flamebait? I thought I asked a valid question?

  12. What about exhaust? on The Universal Off Button · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My car exhaust would probably trigger any sort of acoustic sensor. It's not that loud but generally stereos aren't either, you're just annoyed at the fact that you can hear it with the cars windows rolled up, etc. whereas you would probably expect to hear the sound of exhaust.

  13. How affordable? on VoIP Gets a New P2P Routing Protocol (DUNDi) · · Score: 1

    How cheaply can a home system be completed?

    I'm very interested but in the past it didn't seem like it was cost effective.

  14. Troll? It was a joke people lighten up! on Spyware/Adware Prevention In Large Deployments? · · Score: 1

    A poor joke at that..

  15. Only one tool to do the job right. on Spyware/Adware Prevention In Large Deployments? · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Is there a tool that we could push out to all the PCs to basically do what anti-virus programs do and block these programs from running and clean them from the computer?"

    Last I heard it's called linux.

  16. Re:I don't buy it... fine. on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    The nazi thing was a joke. I thought it went well with your fascist statement.

    The average person does bring in several times what they're making. There's other overhead besides their salary such as health insurance and unemployment insurance, etc. I wouldn't hire anyone I didn't feel was bringing in a minimum of twice what I'm paying them and I wouldn't expect to be hired by anyone unless I could do the same.

    I don't know if you're 16 years old and you've never had a real job or if you're 40 and you can't find a job because you have no people skills but that's the way things work.

    I'm done discussing this. If you'd like to post again you can have the last word.

  17. Re:I don't buy it... fine. on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    hahaha.

    So you're saying you'd hire someone is LESS profitable than the amount you're paying them?

    So you hire them for $70k and they only bring in $50k... Ouch. You're going out of business.

    So yes, I'm not going to hire a crappy person that isn't worth the amount.

    SCREW YOU! NAZI MORON!

  18. Re:I don't buy it... fine. on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    News flash I'm running my own company and it's a company not a charity. I don't expect $700k out of a $70k developer but I do expect them to pay for more than what I'm paying them. Otherwise I'd be back to charity.

  19. I don't buy it... on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 2

    I know I'm going to get flamed for this post, but my opinion is that this is all liberal propaganda.

    There are plenty of jobs here and there are plenty of workers. I think if anything we're seeing the weak developers wiped out.

    I interview a lot of people and it surprises me how many low skilled developers come in asking for $70,000. I don't care if you have 3 years of experience you don't ask for that much money unless you're going to be good enough to provide the company with enough output to bring in several times that much. There have even been some where I would have offered a job for half that maybe but usually if their head is so high in the sky I don't bother.

  20. I should mention I have a unique name on Interview with a Spampire · · Score: 1

    I truly have a name that has never been used in the history of the world. So when you search for my name you find me and only me.

  21. So incredibly true on Interview with a Spampire · · Score: 1

    About 2 years ago I searched high and low for everything google had on me and went through a lot of trouble to get it all removed from the web and from google's cache. They weren't that bad (mostly arguements on message forums) but the things I did in high school don't reflect me now. Now if you search for me it's all generic information that I consider public.

  22. netscape page doesn't render in firefox? on Netscape Turns 10 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is it bad that the netscape page:
    http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/storymain.jsp?num ber=1 doesn't render correctly in the latest firefox?

  23. 4 million lines!?!? on An Alternative to SQL? · · Score: 1

    I can't even begin to fathom that many lines of sql.

    How would you even begin to troubleshoot something like that? I'd think you'd have to start breaking it into smaller sections.

  24. I was about to ask the same thing. on An Alternative to SQL? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seems like it can handle just about everything but maybe I'm not thinking outside the box. The biggest limitation is my lack of knowledge about how to do the things I want to do.

  25. Exactly on Why Are There No Sports MMO Games? · · Score: 1

    Also in real life if one idiot tries to mess up the game by running off with the football you can catch him and beat him to a pulp.

    In online games unless you're playing with friends it only takes one person to mess up the whole game causing endless frustration.