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  1. Re:Re-tooling on Lessons of a $618,616 Death · · Score: 1

    Why does a CD and a piece of paper from Oracle cost $100,000? Because a lot of research and development went in to developing it.

    Why does a few ounces of platinum cost hundreds of dollars? Because there is not very much of it and it is expensive to find and process.

  2. Re:Your management on A Public Funded "Microsoft Shop?" · · Score: 0

    Because IE is already installed everywhere.

  3. Re:hmm... on A Public Funded "Microsoft Shop?" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, but they can *wink*wink* *nudge*nudge* take an executive on a nice golf vacation if the organization does not use anything else.

  4. Re:NX is a bitch: use XRDP instead on Ubuntu Desktop In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    I have found it easy to set up FreeNX. But then I discovered that you cannot use private key authentication.

    Fail.

  5. Re:I write for Slashdot on Bloggers Now Eligible For Press Passes In NYC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    inciteful

    It is not a word, but it should be.

  6. Re:You're doing it wrong! on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he can get them off by dismantling the drive and he can already get them on by dismantling the drive but he was hoping for a cheaper and easier way to get them on.

  7. Re:Any alternatives that stick to their guns? on A Second Lessig Fair-Use Video Is Suppressed By WMG · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you've just replaced the Internet with cable TV. Welcome to sixty years ago.

  8. Re:Security is no selling point on Over Half of Software Fails First Security Tests · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Protecting against SQL injection attacks, XSS, buffer overflows, and validating user input does not put off users.

  9. a jackass? on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am considering buying a penthouse apartment in Manhattan

    Am I just being a jackass?

    Probably.

  10. Re:More Atrocities: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experime on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 1

    No. But I think my doctors and I can do a great job of running my health care system.

  11. Re:More Atrocities: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experime on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hey, I have an idea. Let's let the government run our health care system!

  12. Re:Doesn't really solve much though on Europe To Block ACTA Disconnect Provisions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    there's nothing to prevent them from doing that.

    Sure there is. Countries will start leaving the EU if it imposes laws that the member countries do not like.

    It remains to be seen if the EU member states that think they can leave at will run into the same situation as the US member states that thought they could leave at will in 1860.

  13. Re:Go Pirate Party? on Europe To Block ACTA Disconnect Provisions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would not call Ubuntu "just as good as Windows 7" for the same reason that I would not call a pry bar "just as good as a hammer." They are similar and can both be used for hammering nails in and pulling nails out, but the pry bar is better at prying nails out (and a bunch of other things) but a hammer is still better and hamming nails in.

    If you tell somebody that Ubuntu is just as good as Windows, the person will expect Ubuntu to be just as good as Windows at every single thing he did with Windows, and will end up thinking Ubuntu sucks.

  14. Re:Doesn't get the resolution on Game Testing ATI's Six-Screen Eyefinity System · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about 6 projectors aimed properly?

  15. Re:Also known as on iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic" · · Score: 1

    They will not burn it. The people who have bought and will buy it decided they love it before it was even introduced and named. No amount of contact will reality will change their impressions, and they will buy the next iProduct.

  16. Re:Contingencies on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's really not. If you've ever been involved with, or known anyone involved in politics, you'd know how false that statement is.

  17. Re:One step toward active botnet fighting? on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    When you can prove that your patch will in no way adversely affect any computer that it is installed on.

  18. Re:Seems a bit high on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are nuts.

    12 people at 40 hours a week for 9 months is 1123200 minutes. The kernel is about 12 million lines of code. That works out to a line of code every 5 and a half seconds.

    Good luck with that.

  19. Re:Benefits of DNSSEC? on Comcast Launches First Public US Trial of DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    You still need validated HTTPS certificates because nobody is verifying that when I register hsbcbankusa.com that I am actually HSBC.

  20. Re:Benefits of DNSSEC? on Comcast Launches First Public US Trial of DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    Now: Phisher gives a bogus IP address and you see an SSL certificate error.

    With DNSSEC: Phisher gives a bogus DNS response and you see a DNS error.

    Yay, sign me up.

  21. Re:Benefits of DNSSEC? on Comcast Launches First Public US Trial of DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    Sure. So you get all the hashes in 2 minutes and then you have a month to crack them before the responses change.

  22. Re:Benefits of DNSSEC? on Comcast Launches First Public US Trial of DNSSEC · · Score: 2, Informative

    DNSSEC increases your maintenance costs (constant resigning even if no changes), makes DYNDNS servers harder to run, exposes your zone data, and helps DDOS attacks.

    Did I miss anything?

  23. Amplifier Attack on Comcast Launches First Public US Trial of DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    In case anybody else did not know what an amplifier attack is:

    http://dnscurve.org/amplification.html

  24. Re:To be fair on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The essence of something can still be a failure.

  25. Re:To be fair on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 1

    Pick any sufficiently large group, and you will find extremists giving the rest a bad name.

    The problem with the Evangelical Christians is the same as the problem with every other group - most of them are too concerned with their immediate surrounds to not get fooled by the extremists, wackos, politicians, schemers, and crooks.