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  1. Windows security? on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1

    It basically bypasses all of the Windows security

    Windows has security?

  2. Re:Exceptionally good. on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    GIMP needs to be renamed.

    Immediately. (more like years go).

    Unprofessional, silly, nondescriptive, and just mentioning the name can make one possibly be considered in violation of a workplace anti-harassment policy.

    Other names aren't so bad, just nondescriptive or misleading.

    Jabber makes me think of a internet phone application, not an IM tool.

  3. Re:You cat harasser on Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia · · Score: 1

    It is better to claim you are going to harass your cat, instead of exercise it. That way you won't get in trouble for patent infringement. ;)

    Patent 5,443,036

  4. Re:But is it Safe? on JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners · · Score: 1

    Everything causes cancer.

    Technically, every time I go to California I'm breaking the law, since I don't stamp a Proposition 65 warning on my forehead.

    (everybody has carcinogens and radiation, some natural even, in their body).

    Heck, just entering the state probably breaks a few dozen laws. :)

  5. Re:In use at London Heathrow, but... on JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners · · Score: 1

    Just because it won't kill you, or cause you to mutate inside the airport

    Too bad. Because for most people one encounters in the airport, mutating could only be an improvement.

  6. Re:Not all use is illegal on Many Scientists Using Performance Enhancing Drugs · · Score: 1

    Agreed, mostly.

    But sometimes Doctor's can know about interactions (assuming the patients tell them what they are taking/planning to take).

    Someone died from 2 ounces of a dextromethorphan (DXM) cough syrup. Because she was also taking Nardil (a very powerful MAOI).

    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1930348

    Fatal serotonin syndrome! (a horrible way to die).

    2 ounces of cough syrup is a bit more than usual, but she was taking it for its intended purpose, and some people take lots more that than for non-recommended purposes and not come anywhere near dying.

    Then again, anyone on Nardil (a very dangerous drug) should know all the warnings, such that eating the wrong kind of cheese can kill you... Perhaps her Dr. didn't or she didn't listen.

    P.S. Someone needs to fix Firefox's spell checker. Can't recognize Nardil, DXM, (OK understandable), serotonin or dextromethorphan (come on now...)

  7. Re:in the perfect world... on Should IT Shops Let Users Manage Their Own PCs? · · Score: 1

    I meant BSD

  8. Re:in the perfect world... on Should IT Shops Let Users Manage Their Own PCs? · · Score: 1

    MySQL?

    It may not cost anything, unless loss of your data costs something.

    Use PostgreSQL instead.

    Safer, and it has a BAS license.

  9. Re:From the horse's mouth on eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Re:Definitely time to look for an alternative :( on eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory · · Score: 1

    In your case, if you are telling us the full story, tell them to go screw themselves.

    And if anything negative appears on your credit report (and assuming you are in a place with fair credit laws), sue them.

    Here in the US, that's a $1000 payable to the victim of the unfair negative credit entry.

  11. Not all use is illegal on Many Scientists Using Performance Enhancing Drugs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't necessarily illegal to possess or use prescription medicine without a prescription unless it is a controlled substance or there are state or other laws that come into play. It is illegal to dispense it without a presecription.

    Inderal is not a controlled substance.

  12. Re:FIOS availability on Comcast Blocks Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    People who don't have money to blow just to keep watching TV, environmental damage due to millions of discarded TVs, and corporate welfare (the government has basically given a jackpot to the consumer electronics industry.

  13. Re:FIOS availability on Comcast Blocks Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    FiOS is Verizon, not AT&T.

    Of course, one will buy out the other eventually, we'll be back to one big phone company soon enough, thanks to the Republicans destroying anti-trust legislation, taking over the FCC (and forcing analog TV off the air) and stacking the Supreme Court.

  14. Re:Comcast: we hate our customers on Comcast Blocks Web Browsing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have no problem with tiered pricing. Today it's often based on speed, but I what would be better is service level based on some packet metric. When I eat at a cheap buffet I don't mind that the food isn't at 4 star quality levels.

    Would you mind that certain more costly foods at the buffet were laced with a chemical that would make you barf if you ate more of them than the buffet owner wanted you to eat, yet this was never disclosed and they said it was an all you can eat buffet - and then when called out on it they actually tried to defend it?

    That is a better analogy.

    Also, if you eat more than 100 items of food there in a month, you get banned for a year the first time, and banned for life the next time. That is like their "secret" 100 GB/month limit.

    Use DSL, at least they actually get the bandwidth they advertise. Where I'm at, Embarq has always given at least the promised speed, and none of the crap some of the cable companies have been pulling.

  15. Like the new US, almost on China Continues to Shut Down Video Sites · · Score: 1

    Chinese video sharing sites must promise not to show videos that inspire fear, contain pornography, or endanger national security."

    Just like the US is trying, except that would include videos which attempt to dispel government sanctioned fear (i.e. of terrorism, pornography or drugs), contain pornography, or endanger national (or corporate) security.

  16. Re:I would have read the article before replying on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    This is just like with physical items.

    Someone in Florida was facing the death penalty because he let someone borrow his car.

    He was lucky though, he is now currently only serving life without the possibility of parole.

    He didn't know the car would be used in a murder.

  17. Re:damnit on MIT Student Gets Artistic With LED Art · · Score: 1

    What happened to her (Star Simpson)?

    No news of conviction, sentence or acquittal or much of anything?

    Did she "disappear"?

    As controversial as her actions were (*), the fact that there is not even a wikipedia article on her is shocking...

    (*) People saying everything from she should've been shot, should go to jail for the full 5 years all the way towards making her out to be totally innocent of anything, including being a bonehead.

  18. Re:A thought on Linux PCs Discontinued at Wal-Mart Stores · · Score: 2, Funny

    (From your sig:)

    >Ubuntu 7.10 was the first Linux install I've ever done that worked! (Now what do I do with it?)

    Replace it with Gentoo.

  19. Re:Microsoft Bribe? on Linux PCs Discontinued at Wal-Mart Stores · · Score: 1

    First of all, 1.3 is ancient, and should not be used. Let it die!

    Secondly, Apache on Windows is a pain. I know from experience.

    Thirdly, Apache is overwhelmingly on UNIX or UNIX-like systems.

  20. Re:It remains an endpoint problem. In Windows. on Jonathan Zittrain On the Future of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Few will run under a restrictive Secure Linux profile

    Oracle won't work - due to a reloc failure.

    Secure Linux is too secure for a lot of stuff.

  21. Re:Another theory on Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health · · Score: 1

    Given that both are correlated with inflammation, this may well be true.

  22. Re:Technology on Iran May Shut Down Internet During Election · · Score: 1

    Diebold will be able to vote for president directly, using all of the popular votes to directly choose one.

  23. Re:Why? The prevalent gun culture... on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 1

    Unless it stores prescriptions, supports Air Traffic Control, keeps a 911 center running, or controls SCADA for a chemical or nuclear plant or numerous other examples.

    Computer break-ins can KILL.

    Of course, we should prosecute based on intent and harm, some student changing his 'F' in phys ed to a 'C' should get less punishment than someone causing a nuclear meltdown.

  24. Re:Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives on Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    Try saying anything about an alternative to Einstein's theory of Relativity. Lose all your funding, likely. At the very least, someone will call you a crackpot. I'm sure for posting this someone will call me a crackpot for even suggesting that "sacred cow" theory could be wrong.

  25. Re:Try to buy just a copy of Excell, just try on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 1

    Get Gnumeric.

    Works just like Excel mostly, except when I tried to print it came out all corrupted, but that is likely fixed by now.