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  1. Medical benefits? on Brain Scanning May Be Used In EU Security Checks · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll have to up the minimum requirements for being the security check person from "some highschool" to "med school graduate"

    Now offering free prostate exams with every flight!

  2. PDF Report on 3,800 Vulnerabilities Detected In FAA's Web Apps · · Score: 5, Funny

    The PDF report itself tests for the 3801st vulnerability.

  3. Re:Crackfix please on Windows 7 RCs Shut Down To Force Updates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not "free as in beer." It's "free as in drugs" as in "the first hit is always free."

  4. In related news on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 5, Funny

    ThePirateBay.org registers the domain TheTeacherBay.org

  5. Re:The 'data centre' is obsolete for most users on What Data Center Designers Can Learn From Legos · · Score: 1

    There's also tons of viruses, worms, parasites... Windows Brain Edition?

  6. Re:"hand over control" - yum, troll link text! on European Union Asks US To Free ICANN · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously Canada should govern it. After all it's in the name.

    Yes ICANNada!

  7. Re:This is how things compare to me... on First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook · · Score: 1

    You forgot option 3:

    * Spend $150 on the turtleneck

    * Spend $300 on the glasses

    * Spend $200 on the jeans

    * Spend $6 on the latte

    After buying the Macbook

  8. In related news... on White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter · · Score: 5, Funny

    In keeping with the Obama administration's open adoption of modern American Pop Culture. The Whitehouse announced today of plans to start filming a new reality show called "Obama's BFF." The show will closely follow Obama in his search for a friendship with a world leader, akin to the Bush-Blair relationship. 16 world leaders will live in the Whitehouse for 8 weeks as they compete for Obama's friendship.

    Who will be America's next ally? Find out this summer, only on Fox.

  9. Re:dude.. on Portables Without Cameras? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always just cover it with my thumb when I open the lid to show them that there's no camera. It's foolproof!

  10. Re:Backhanded Compliment? on US Says Canadian Copyright As Bad As China's, Russia's · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the problem with the slow-to-adopt-new-technology Americans. In Canada we use digital methods of content distribution. While they continue to look for these fabled and elusive shipments of DVDs and CDs.

    Devious, I know.

  11. Re:Ditch Acrobat... on Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Anyone know if this affects Bluebeam PDF Revu?

  12. Expletive: on Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets · · Score: 1

    Splat!

  13. Re:WSUS and Enterprises on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I didn't know I had to explicitly add it from there. I thought it would show up in WSUS automatically like IE6 and IE7.

  14. WSUS and Enterprises on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 1

    I logged into all of my WSUS servers and none of them have the option of Approving/Declining IE8... so much for testing before approving for deployment

  15. Re:The year of linux on the desktop. on USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps · · Score: 1

    The won't let it run Linux out of the lab.

    The specs will be upped to 1.6GHz atom processor, 1GB Ram, it will be the size of a netbook and it's going to run Windows 7 Starter Edition, limited to 3 torrents at a time.

  16. Re:We are a bunch on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    You're still more likely to be eaten by a shark than you are to die in another plane crashing into a building.

    I'm safe, ever since seeing Jaws I have stayed at least 10ft away from all bodies of water.

  17. That was a close one! on Judge Opens Hearing On RealDVD Legal Battle · · Score: 4, Informative

    Judge Patel sealed the court after DVD Copy Control Association lawyers "argued that public testimony of aspects of the CSS copy-control technology would violate trade secrets."

    They almost let the cat out of the bag!

  18. It works on Opting Out Increases Spam? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It works even better if you include your SSN, DOB, and banking info too.

    But if you really want to improve your fortunes, I know this Nigerian Prince that I can put you in contact with.

  19. Re:Not surprised on New Mega-Botnet Discovered · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's fair that the US government has to pay full price for the same eXPerience that THE UKRAINians get for (almost) free!

    WGA should block these pirated copies of XP from running this popular New Mega-Botnet software.

  20. Original story link on Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=844

    Here are some selected quotes:

    "you can open as many windows as you want from a single program. So if you want to open 15 tabs in your browser, six images in your photo-editing program, and a couple of instant messenger windows, you can do it."

    "Windows Explorer windows don't count."

    "Basic Windows tools don't trigger the limit. You can run a Command Prompt window or open Task Manager"

    "Antivirus programs that run as a system service don't count."

    "In short, when I used this system as a netbook, it worked just fine. On a netbook, most of the tasks you're likely to tackle are going to take place in a browser window anyway."

    "If I tried to use this system as a conventional notebook, running multiple Microsoft Office or OpenOffice aps, playing music in iTunes or Windows Media Player, and using third-party IM programs, I would probably be incredibly frustrated with the limitations of Starter Edition."

  21. Re:Cost will fall flat... on Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price · · Score: 1

    It obviously depends on what you're talking about. Desktop OS vs server OS. Desktop software vs server software. A few systems vs hundreds systems. etc.

    I have a Nagios monitoring server. Sure I lost time setting up myself but I would have had to learn how to setup the equivalent MS solution. I don't need support contract for it. I dont have to pay for upgrades. I dont have to pay a license fee for the server + licenses per device monitored.

    On the user workstations I replaced WinZip and WinRAR with 7Zip. CuteFTP with FileZilla. PDF Creator instead of Adobe Acrobat. etc.

    If you incrementally move to new software and give users time to get used to them they happily accept it.

  22. Re:Tantalising Read More? on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 2, Funny

    would you prefer nibbles?

  23. Re:Non-issue? on New Nokia Smartphones Leak E-mail Passwords · · Score: 1

    It was more of a rhetorical question.

  24. Re:Non-issue? on New Nokia Smartphones Leak E-mail Passwords · · Score: 5, Informative

    Basically their (RIM, etc) server will check for email, download it, compress it, then push it to your device.

    So if you have 10 email accounts rather than your device constantly checking each one, wasting data and battery life, the server does all that work and you get push email functionality.

  25. Re:Non-issue? on New Nokia Smartphones Leak E-mail Passwords · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you setup an email on your Blackberry with BIS (not BES) then RIM has your credentials.

    Why is it an issue now with only Nokia?