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  1. Math is a 4 letter word! on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you can't do the math without a calculator, you should not be doing it!

  2. A selling point? on Battlefield 3 Banned In Iran · · Score: 2

    Banned in Boston used to be a selling point.

    Now Banned in Iran is badge of honor.

  3. Help Giant Robot. on Designers Build 35-Foot Robot Snake · · Score: 1

    Giant Robot I need you to destroy Giant Robot Snake and Mondo Spider.

  4. Different in this case. on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 4, Funny

    Given that it is Zynga the employer may hire you based on that fact that you did sue them.

  5. Yep, you are right. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, and Al Capone was not a gangster, he just cheated on his taxes.

  6. Sieg Heil! on Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy · · Score: 0

    Sieg Heil!

  7. Nothing like........ on Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nothing like a two-faced backstabbing politician. I am shocked, politicians not being straight forward and honest.

    Of course, if we refer to Obama as a liar or two-faced or backstabbing, we'd be called a racist.

  8. File a lawsuit! Or many! on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? · · Score: 4, Informative
    There are some people or companies that will clean up their act when they have been sued. Sometimes it takes more.

    Within a week after I had been contacted by one drug spammer that I sued, my spam load went down by 50%.

    Another Spammer I sued, put in place a strong anti-spam policy and apparently quite effective.

    When I went after Avtech Direct (Arlene Sediqzad and Gary Hunziker ) for spamming, I also helped arrange 21 lawsuits against them. After this was over, Sediqzad told me she wish she never heard of e-mail, and had not heard of it until Gary Hunziker got her into using it. Another spammer, Robert Smoley, stopped, only because he was charged, pled guilty, and sentenced to 40 months. They also seized over $40M of money and property from him. I think that is one of my most productive 45 minute phone calls with an IRS agent ever.

    But this company you talk to is like Smoley, or Ralsky who needs to be sued multiple times or imprisoned for a while before they stop spamming.

  9. standardizing on certain dimension, sort of. on How Android Phone Makers Are Missing the Marketing Boat · · Score: 1

    If you are careful about "standard" location and placement, ie. hdmi to the left of usb to the left of X, by 2 mm, you can have standard connectors with little restriction on case size.

  10. Re:What a perfect opportunity... on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 1

    When I say cheap, I mean cheap compared to sending something 1AU as opposed to .00022 AU. It is small, not miles across.

    We can use the transporter, since it would be in transporter range.

    I doubt it would be moving at ludicrous speed, there is a chance it will be moving at ridiculous speed. As long as it does not go to plaid, it would be ok.

    Let everyone who bought their 1watt lasers aim at it and see if that is strong enough to move it.

  11. Re:What a perfect opportunity... on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 2

    To test attaching a rocket to it to send it on another course. It seems like a low cost way to test some of the anti-asteroid plans.

  12. Re:No death ray. on Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites · · Score: 0

    Yes it is me Kent.

    Stop touching yourself.

  13. Two words. on Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites · · Score: 1

    Plausible deniability.

    Worked for the Stargate program too. Everyone thinks that Stargate is science fiction.

  14. No death ray. on Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites · · Score: 1

    Of course, they would have told us of the hackers took control of the satellites that had the death rays. Oh, never mind, they told us that those satellites don't exist.

    Except, we have a house full of popcorn that says otherwise.

  15. They added the X for the ratings. on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    They added the X in the title, because everyone knows, if you have an X in the title, you get better ratings.

  16. It is a big difference. on Time Zone Database Has New Home After Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It is a big difference, and not just semantics.

    If the database was a valid patent claim, then using any type of timezone database could be blocked, forcing everyone to use GMT.

    Where it is copyright, they might be able to require people to buy their version of the database. But, copyright cannot be applied to purely factual data, ie. Los Angeles being in the Pacific Timezone which is GMT-9 or GMT -8.

  17. Lazy police on How To Catch a Laptop Thief? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It sounds like the police just don't want to bother. If it was the MPAA, RIAA, or Apple asking, they would have a SWAT team there in under 5 minutes.

    The IP address with location may not be sufficient for a conviction, but it does support probably cause. Why not see if you can go to the location, and then h

    Don't you have sshd enabled on your mac with an appropriate 50 character password? Just use ssh to remotely do it.

    Doesn't LogMeIn allow you to remotely control the machine? Use (ssh is preferred) that to set up a script that takes the picture, make several copies in several locations, copies the file via scp, and ftp to a couple of different locations. Then wait for him to log into different web sites so you can have his user ids, then have the computer take pictures.

  18. They killed their IT market! on Is Apple Pushing Away Professionals? · · Score: 1

    Apple was supporting IT with their XServes, and they worked with a company called Aqua Connect in developing a terminal server which works under OS X. Then they killed the XServe, and tried to send people to Mac Pros, not really designed for racks.

    Dumbing down the UI is not always a sign that you are killing professionals, but making it lower learning curve entry.

    What has to be asked is does the new, dumber interface, make the work more difficult or is it just bitching because the interface is different. They didn't kill Final Cut Pro, just changed it.

  19. Re:Really??? on Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    But the issue is the services provided by the Cyberbunker guys, not cb3rob.net guys. There is no talk about the cb3rob.net guys here and the policy of the cb3rob.net do not apply to the Cyberbunker guys as they are not the same people.

  20. Really??? on Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    I don't see their "abuse policy" that you post.

    What I do see on http://cyberbunker.com/disaster-free-hosting.html is:
    "As long as your hosting fee is paid CyberBunker will do anything in its power to keep your servers up. In addition CyberBunker protects your servers also from others who might want to take your servers down like the DMCA, your competitors, authorities, burglars, governments and terrorists. "

  21. Because! on Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    Because their spamming customers are the ones who send the spam.

    It is clear, from their own admissions, that Cyberbunker is a spam supporting service. Its no matter what service means that when Cyberbunker receives spam complaints, Cyberbunker will ignore the complaints.

    See the Cyberbunker "Mind your own business" policy:

    http://cyberbunker.com/disaster-free-hosting.html

    "Most of our customers desire to stay anonymous. In some cases we do not even know who our customers actually are. We have no idea and we
    simply do not care. Who ever you are, it is our business to keep you online."
    ---
    "CyberBunker does not poke around on your servers. Customers are allowed to host any content they like, except child porn and anything related to terrorism. Everything else is fine. CyberBunker has adopted a policy not to mind our clients business. Our famous "Mind Your Own Business" policy."

  22. Why not??? on Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    If Cyberbunker refuse to terminate spammers, then it should be blocked. This is like the porn affiliate program PerfectGonzo who ignored spam lawsuits, did not terminate a spamming affiliate until over a year after being brought to their attention, and only terminated one account of the spamming affiliate, not the 14 others. If Spamhaus blocked 1 IP address, how long would it take to change to another IP address? The failure to show Cyberbunker's record for dealing with spam is very telling -- if they promptly terminated spammers, it would have stated so.

  23. Re:Nuts? on Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus · · Score: 2

    Yeah, they blocked one IP used by a spammer. How many spammers use one IP address? They use one IP address, then when that is blocked, switch to another, and another, and another....

  24. Was Jerry Brown paid off. on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    Jerry Brown vetoed SB914. Is it a coincidence that Brown received over $38k from the Peace Officers Research Association of California, over, 90K from police unions, and over 160k from the Sacramento County Deputy Sheriffâ(TM)s Association?

  25. This ruling does not last long. on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a result of the Court's ruling, the legislature overruled the court by passing a law that provides privacy protection for mobile devices.

    See http://www.californiality.com/2011/09/california-mobile-device-privacy-law.html