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  1. Re:System Registry on Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault · · Score: 1

    central repository like cfengine?

    Used it many times, implementing it again soon at the new company I work at.

  2. Re:Do we have to be nasty? on Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Go rm -rf /etc, /boot, /etc/password, or /etc/shadow and see what happens."

    Hmm, didn't seem to have any issues with the system. It just gave me a bunch of permission denied errors.

  3. Linux 20% market share on Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linux has more than 20% of the non-MS market share!!!

  4. Re:I'm not denying. on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    Do you know many people that claim to be "Computer Science" specialists? At best 10% or so actually know what they are talking about.

  5. Re:Can't see why this would matter. on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    It matters because management, the HR folks, the sales people, the marketing group, the Manufacturing team and the warehouse people keep calling me an IT guy!!

  6. Re:Can't see why this would matter. on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    "Except if you called the person in sales one of the "IT People", or vice versa. They'd correct you."

    Altered and it's still true.

  7. Re:Can't see why this would matter. on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    I don't like you using the term "management" I'm a directory I actually do work, I'm not a lowly supervisor or a sit on my arse C*O.

  8. Re:Can't see why this would matter. on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    This is as stupid as a Doctor complaining about being called a medical professional. Does a high end chef get mad because Wendy's calls their fry cook a chef? IT stands for Information Technology. A programmer uses Technology to process Information, therefore you are an IT person.

    Sorry.

  9. Re:Once again on Apple Asks Judge To Shutter Psystar's Clone Unit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the difference being that if I have a legal license to run software then I have a legal right to load that software into memory and utilize it as long as the original agreement allows for it.

    But...

    If i pirate software, then run it I don't have a legal right to have the original copy or the additional copy running in ram.

  10. Re:You mean on Apple Asks Judge To Shutter Psystar's Clone Unit · · Score: 1

    Of course you can do what ever you want with software you legally own. But any software you license from someone else is software you have to play by the owner's rules with.

  11. Re:The obsession with more government power on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    Is network neutrality supposed to be scary?

    Not so much.

    Media-ownership caps so that a small handful of corporations aren't controlling broadcast news?

    The scary term here is caps. Just the idea of it scares the crap out of me. Government saying you are too big and not allowed to grow any more. Perhaps if it was more along the lines of doing away with government sponsored corporations, limited liability protections, and corporate person hood ideas that allow for the overly large corporations I'd be for it but instead of going with shrinking government he choose to start a new regulatory branch to choose what companies are too successful.

    Public broadcasting is scary? Do PBS, NPR, and the BBC make you quake in your boots? Seriously?

    nope, just in my wallet. Why do we need media paid for directly by the government? Is it to insure the government always has an avenue of propaganda that it has 100% control of? All of which only have programming that is either completely non-contraversal, or very feel good right now no mater the future consequence type things that liberals like to cling to. It's always easier to say "Save the kittens" than it is to say "We have to take care of all the feral cats."

  12. Re:Yeah on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    Warrants for inspection of computer databases should come with specific search string queries attached.

  13. Re:Okay, that's enough. on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    When I say I want something the president or any part of the government is doing to fail I don't mean I want the health-care plan to go through get implemented then turn out as bad or worse than it is expected to be. I want it to be a non-starter. Get voted down for the betterment of all. Then we can start looking at some simpler less costly solutions that have a chance to actually work. Continuing with health-care as an example we've already got more than 50% socialized health-care in the US and it only get's worse the more the government takes on. Perhaps we should try going to other way and see if it gets any better???

  14. Re:The obsession with more government power on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    while many Democrates in congress have suggested it. "In February 2009, a White House spokesperson said that President Obama continues to oppose the revival of the Doctrine." -from Wikipedia with citation

    the scary quote was the control Obama suggests from this quote:
    "Does not support reimposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters ... [and] considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible. That is why Sen. Obama supports media-ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and print outlets."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

  15. Re:I am shocked! on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    ...and be able to define what criminal conduct is.

  16. Re:You sound like you're surprised on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    There really are only two wings of the progressive party. The Democrat wing that takes tons of money from the academia, entertainment and union lobbyists and the Republican wing that takes tons of money from big oil, banking and religious lobbies.

  17. Re:Decisions, decisions... on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    Don't they all?

  18. Re:Decisions, decisions... on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    It's like if a Prius and a Hummer got in a collision.

    Do you fell for the arrogant Hummer driver or the pretentious Prius driver

  19. Re:Simple countermeasure: Fly low on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 1

    Well, while the Democrats are running about doing all their dastardly deeds:

    "world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming"

    The minority of replublicans still get a little bit through:

    "ultimate super cool weapon."

  20. Re:I have no issue with this on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    I have no idea why you'd want to add a layer. Just use the selector tool, select an area and crop without adding the layer. It works just fine.

  21. Re:The name says what it does on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 3, Funny

    GIM is truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly, outrageous!

  22. Re:What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    seems like it would be better to make a hadoop cluster and store rainbow tables in it of all possible password hashes. The old lmhash tables could cover 90% of used passwords in about 12G of space. Sure lmhash sucked and only had to calculate 7 characters worth, but with a few pettabites that have been mapreduced and ready to query it might not be too difficult to brute force almost any password quickly.

  23. Re:Not a "right"! on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 1

    Well you have the right to believe what you want to believe, whether it is true or not.

  24. Re:Not a "right"! on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 1

    "On the other hand if my store is dirty, then what right do I have to silence my customers opinions? I have no such right."

    Witch is exactly right. Libel has to be untrue.

  25. Re:Meanwhile on Fox News on Obama Talks Internet Freedom, China Censors · · Score: 1

    Sometimes pointing out the truth can be considered funny.

    Also there doesn't have to be a joke in order to be a dish-vs-take issue.