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  1. The 4th amendment is only for criminals! on ACLU Sues For Records On Border Laptop Searches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would you want to hide anything from the government? Why would you not want them to keep all your personal information indefinitely?

    What do you have to hide? You must be a communist^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h criminal^h^h^h^h^h^h^h terrorist since you want to have privacy from the government.

  2. The appeals court made a really biased decision. on Anti-Spam Lawyer Loses Appeal, and His Possessions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reading the decision, it is clear that the appeals court was biased.

    On the issue of the Washington law preemption, the Court referred to the complaint regarding subject lines and from lines as being "vanity domain names" that were not deceptive. The use of From lines of "Free IPOD" or "Free 50 inch Plasma TV" is deceptive. Just because, after opening the e-mail, and doing whois lookups, that you can determine that it is from Virtumundo, does not mean that the from is deceptive.

    The appeals court refused to rule who is an IAS, but said that a well known IAS (ie. Hotmail) does not have to show harm from spam because it is obvious, but a little guy does. The Court went further and said that harm under can-spam can't be the ordinary business expense of carrying e-mail, but one can argue that any mail provider must filter spam and carry spam, therefore there can never be harm from spam, illegal or legal. Any good IAS must provide extra capacity so that if there is spam, they will not crash.

    Do you feel sorry for the professional spammers that get harmed by the professional anti-spam litigation service? Of course, if Virtumundo itself in the from line, their spam would have been deleted by most filters.

  3. Nuked Blue on Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury · · Score: 1

    Instead of being nuked blue when you smoke at LSC, you also get nuked blue when you get a spinal injury.

    Cool.

  4. Why equate it to a house??? on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 · · Score: 1

    There are laws that make what Amazon did illegal! In California it is penal code 502. Under Federal Law it is the Computer Fraud and Trespass Act. They accessed a computing device and destroyed data.

  5. Good, now I can get more money from Nigeria. on East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With this cable, the e-mails about my unknown dead relatives leaving me money will get to me faster. I am very trustworthy, that is why I get so much money from helping to recover money.

    Goody, I can make more money helping the people who desperately need my help in recovery money.

  6. Re:Just dump it outside on Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out · · Score: 1

    Maybe. I didn't think of the amount thrust to get out of orbit towards the sun. Just throw it at New Jersey so that nobody will notice the shit raining down on them.

    I know its hard to aim that well, and you'd have to avoid all the other junk. Send up a politician, they are good at throwing shit around.

  7. Just dump it outside on Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out · · Score: 0

    Why not empty it into a bad, and drop it outside?

    Put it in a hefty bag, then put it toward earth or the sun, it will burn up.

  8. Call the smell good plumber. on Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out · · Score: 1

    Most problems can be fixed for $99.

  9. Not FTP, but any -- especially on IpowerWeb on R.I.P. FTP · · Score: 1

    Any credentials being stolen is a security Risk. I had some sites on Ipowerweb, which the credentials were stolen. They deny all knowledge of it, but it was the only source of the leak. I tracked this when I moved a site to my own server, but used the same credentials.

  10. Who keeps the records? on IT and Health Care · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I had an interesting experience in China. In 1996, when I received treatment, I kept my own records (they gave me a little paper booklet). This eliminates all the record keeping costs of the doctors and hospitals.

    It might be an interesting model to look into here.

  11. I am not saying that virtualization is evil. on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    As with everything, there is always a trade-off. I run OS/2 on my laptop inside of a virtual machine. The reason I do that is to be able to run Windows apps and not have to deal with some of the lack of OS/2 device drivers for some hardware.

  12. Well, duh! on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You ask that the OS be put into a virtual machine, would you not expect a big performance hit??? It is only common sense to anyone with any basic computer knowledge. You are adding another layer between the hardware and the program, what do you think would happen?

  13. I need that accuracy! on Pulsar Signals Could Provide Galactic GPS · · Score: 1

    Hey, when I am lost in space, that 1 meter difference is a big deal. I'll end up in the water instead of the beach when I travel 18,000,000,000,000 for my long weekend trip.

  14. Legally, it is hard. But, there is anothe on Should Developers Be Liable For Their Code? · · Score: 1

    It is impossible to do a lawsuit for something like this, or at least in the USA. To win a lawsuit, you have to show Proximiate cause, meaning it is program X, not program Y. That is the problem with many of the tobacco lawsuits, it was not smoking brand X, but the lung cancer was caused by the air pollution, genetics, etc.

    Even if you sued Microsoft for security holes in Windows, they will argue, "we are not liable for illegal acts of others."

    What might be a solution is not permit software companies to charge for upgrades, where you run into the problem. Software Back in the 80s and 90s, software companies used to give me free upgrades when I found their bugs. Now, like for Act! 2005, they said, "We added performance upgrades, like freeing resources that we don't use anymore."

  15. I had a friend fail a bar exam because of this. on Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A friend of mine took a bar exam in California in 2001 using software. The software corrupted her machine and the "technicians" could not fix it. It took me 1 minute with a dos boot floppy.

    Using exam software by people who can't write good code depending on an operating system that is written by people who can't write good code will always be a disaster.

  16. Pound on the table on RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you don't have the facts on your side, pound on the law.
    When you don't have the law on your side, pound on the facts.
    When you have neither on your side, pound on the table.

    When an opposing party start attacking people on their beliefs, you know they are in bad shape.

  17. Re:Last Post on Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub · · Score: 1

    No, Install Vista.

    If the bar was already open, that would explain Visa, MS DOS 4.0, Windows ME, and BOB.

  18. Re:You young whippersnappers don't know nothing! on "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs · · Score: 1

    It is available, but they are not free. See http://www.mdbs.com/prod_tde.htm and http://www.raima.com/

  19. You young whippersnappers don't know nothing! on "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Relational DB? People forget Network Model Databases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_model) and flat databases.

    Network model databases will outperform relational all the time. You just don't have the same flexibility.

    Newer models are not based on the design or performance issue, but the distribution of the data. These are not invalid reasons, but the old issues still apply.

    I have had arguments with people who consider PC programming different from mainframe. The same rules apply. The difference is that many PC programmers are just sloppier. When you have cheap CPU and memory, people don't analyze and optimize as much.

  20. Re:Make physical geography irrelevant on Places Where the World's Tech Pools, Despite the Internet · · Score: 1

    In one Dr. Who episode, the Daleks moved the entire planet.

  21. Get sharks with laser beams. on Crocodiles With Frickin' Magnets Attached to Their Heads · · Score: 1, Funny

    That will take care of the crocs.

  22. How soon until... on "Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How soon until homeland security shows up accusing him of terrorism?

  23. Not bad, but this is better. on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Leave the WIFI on, fix the channel to the one you don't you. They won't replace it then. But then for the finishing touch:

    Shart using it to share movies and music and let the MPAA and RIAA go sue them into bankruptcy.

  24. ACL in VMS on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 1

    They differentiate this based on a per program ACL that allows programs accessing what resources. If I remember correctly (it has since 1994), there was options to limit programs and control programs access to the internet.

    These features were advertised.

  25. nigeria on Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job · · Score: 1

    Minimum wage her is lots for the phishing schools in Nigeria.