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  1. Re:More scares, AND A TEMPORARY FIX! on New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer · · Score: 1

    Put it in a script that runs before your network interfaces are brought up.

  2. Re:If only all companies had this vision on Roku To Go Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Man, too bad my kid is missing out on all this packaged education while she is reading books, playing with blocks, playing outside, and "helping" her parents.

  3. Re:It's time to start a union how long before more on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1

    I was jealous right up until "Oracle Application Server". I'm sorry dude, I'm so sorry.

    Seriously though, you work for the government. Which means that your employer is spending somebody else's money (specifically, that of the taxpayers). It is not a union vs. non-union issue. It is private business that must pay its own cost vs. reckless government spending.

  4. Re:Confirm? on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 1

    He's right. Check the DNS server listed in the whois.

  5. Re:Working for an American Firm on Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do not pay for something that you have not tested.

    Put the requirements in the contract.

  6. illusion of reform, status quo, hell in handbasket on EU Patent Staff Go On Strike · · Score: 0

    It is not just the patent office; it is the whole damn country.

  7. Re:For balance, I'll write one for MS. on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 1

    You don't make your purchasing decisions based on buzzwords and slick ads. You aren't their target anyway.

  8. For balance, I'll write one for MS. on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Justin Long: I'm a Mac. Mac users are all annoying hipsters who like to stand around and look smug, never actually doing anything productive.

    John Hodgman: Yup, that's about right.

  9. Re:I hope they're removed, on Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot · · Score: 1

    Really? People can't be bothered to figure out which single candidate they like best so they just vote party line, and you want them to rank all the candidates?

  10. Re:You'd be Wrong on New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses · · Score: 1

    And what exactly will they discover? Some long string of bytes that's all. What do the bytes mean? You watch too many movies where these bytes lead to some impossible story progression.

    Until somebody gets the string of bytes from his own card and figures out that f( his_ssn ) = stream_of_bytes, tries it on a few friends' cards for verification, and then figures out an inverse function.

  11. Re:Asset valuation programmer seeks job on Data Centers Crucial To Lehman Sale · · Score: 1

    Or the hardworking people who bought houses they could afford and invested their savings in stocks of companies whose directors said were financially solid.

  12. Re:I don't think that's correct on Copyright Board Lawyer Responds On Pandora's End · · Score: 1

    If I create some music and hold the copyright and sell it without allowing redistribution, can a satellite or internet broadcaster play my music by getting a statutory license, without anybody having ever gotten my permission?

  13. Re:not a EULA eh? on Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    It isn't an EULA, it is an EULN. A Notice, not an Agreement. You won't have to agree to it. They just want to present the notice.

  14. Re:the answers are completely useless on McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And Obama will not do whatever the industry tells him to do nor set his policy according to industry lobbyists?

    Like standing up against the industry and refusing to vote for telecom immunity?

  15. Re:This is how interrogation should work on Indian Woman Convicted of Murder By Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    But _anything_ could trigger thoughts. A shadow pattern on the wall. The sound of nearby train. The smell of the aftershave worn by the tester. Or just something else you happened to be thinking about.

    What if the image was of firing a gun, and it triggered a memory of hunting with your father 20 years ago? The machine cannot tell the difference.

  16. Re:No, it is not reasonable. on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1

    At least look at the test before walking out. I give tests to candidates to help relax the interview and to learn about their interests. I am not an outgoing, extroverted person, and having questions and answers to talk about helps me become more comfortable with the candidate and the interview.

    I include questions like the following among the questions about the skills that the candidate claims to have:

    * vi or emacs?
    * Creamy or crunchy peanut butter?
    * What is the most interesting thing you have done with duct tape/superglue/pipe cleaners/et cetera?
    * What is technology that you have never been able to work with but are curious about? Why?

  17. Re:ZFS on Sun Bare Metal Hypervisors Now GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    You have missed the point.

    Sun did not release xVM under the GPL to be nice. They did it to strengthen their position for selling their other products.

    Releasing ZFS under the GPL would probably weaken their position, so they are not going to do it.

  18. Re:You hear the laughter? on Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    I currently have a Linux VPS hosted in the US.
    $20/mo gets me 12Gb storage, 200Gb/mo transfer, 360Mb RAM; sufficient to run a mail server, web site, and jabber server.

    Can anybody suggest a provider of a similar service in a country that will not do big business' dirty work?

  19. Re:Again? on Lawsuit Claims Nvidia Execs Concealed Serious Flaw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Their newer binary blobs are amazing."

    So long as you don't want to run two X servers on two VTs.

  20. running list on More Copy Protected CDs? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is there a running list of 'protected' CDs someplace? Someone should just get protectedcds.com, keep a text list, and throw a banner ad at the top. Then /. could make a slashbox for it, thus eliminating the need for these flame-bait stories.

  21. correction on MS DOS: A Eulogy · · Score: 1

    Windows XP (NT 4.9)

  22. Re:Code Bloat on Debian On DVD · · Score: 1

    Windows: 1CD
    Office: 2CDs
    Compilers (from Visual Studio): 1CD
    Service packs: (equivilent of) 1CD
    download all the other apps you still need: (equivelent of) 2CDs

    thats 7. And I still don't have a whole junkload of programming libraries.

  23. what i can't stand on File Extensions And Monopolies · · Score: 1

    is when a program (i'm talking to you winamp) registers half a dozen different file extentions (wav, mp3, mid...) all under the same file type. So if you want to register just one differently, you have to redo the other 5 as well.

  24. Re:Huh? on Michael Jackson Releases Uncopyable CD · · Score: 1

    "digitally pure" mp3 is like a "visually pure" postcard-photograph of the Mona Lisa

  25. my first troll on Hotmail Hacked · · Score: -1, Troll

    i'll try one time. one time only for whatever big number people are going for. i won't try it again, i swear. (bye bye karma)