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  1. Collect evidence, look for another job, and then on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    and then it's every man for himself. You want to protect your own butt so you might want to be the first to call the BSA. You'll want to do this so the people at previous company doesn't frame you for it.

  2. Virtual Machines for browsing, and on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    when something goes wrong, roll back to pristine VM image. Keep the host running something sane, and not use the host to browse the web at all. This should reduce your Family Tech Support workload drastically.

  3. But it's so much harder to write exploits on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 0

    Now instead of one easy target, your sploits have to work on 32- and 64-bit kernel, as well as on SPARC, ARM, PPC, MIPS. Where does one find the time?!?

  4. Has time to call 911 on cell phone, but ? on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    But no time (or presence of mind) to push the selector into neutral? How about turning the ignition off? What?

    The stupid, it burns!

  5. Off-road usage on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 1

    We tend to go to places where cellphone reception is next to impossible (Death Valley, Moab, out kayaking on on open waters, etc.) You really need standalone GPS with proper maps for this sort of activities.

  6. More dangerous the bigger it gets on Sony Demo'ing 360 Degree 3-D Tabletop Display · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't want to be around one when the mirror / imaging plane shatters. Also pity the poor child who manages to get his/her hands past any containment system.

  7. POV? on Sony Demo'ing 360 Degree 3-D Tabletop Display · · Score: 1

    Looks like a more polished version of LED-POV displays that many people have gotten to work already.

  8. Pot calling Kettle Black? on Harald Welte Calls Out Netgear's Open Source Sham · · Score: 1

    The arguments he makes regarding Netgear's binary blob can also be made about VIA's famous on-again off-again open-source stance. Where are the complete documentation for their Chrome chipsets?

    "Apparently they either did not do that, or they chose to ignore the values/rules by which this community works" ... hmm, VIA does this all the time.

    "or they had somebody with limited understanding to advise them" ... and I thought Welte was supposed to advise VIA on Open Source?

    "If anyone has a relationship with Netgear and contacts to the product manager responsible for this product" ... people have been contacting Welte forever. Did anything positive come out of it?

    "Netgear, you can do much better than that!". Right, VIA can't, yet Netgear can ...

  9. Not liking some characters on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Dr. Rush: should learn to submit the hysterical Chloe, maybe learn a choke hold or two.

    Matthew Scott: I see we're going to have several episodes of him goofing things up ... sigh.

    Eli Wallace: "The holographic doctor", without the humor.

    Ronald Greer: somebody please blow this homicidal maniac out the airlock already, before he blows up the ship.

  10. No way they can catch smart criminals on High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican Border · · Score: 1

    Look, they are just looking for easy targets. I seriously do not expect border patrol to be able to find encrypted partitions hidden in SDHC cards inside a camcorder, or in mini SDHC cards inside cell phones. My phone, for example, has mini SDHC that boots to Linux. I would be very surprised if they actually notice that, or if they even bother to look beyond the Windows Mobile interface.

    My laptop has two separate partitions, and they are both encrypted: one with CyberArmor, and the other with LUKS. They're going to need to have me present to type in the password. The Windows partition requires my fingerprint to log me in. How are they going to access it without me being present?

    I also carry around SDHC card formatted with JFFS2 with ARM stuff in there (it's for development). How on earth are they going to look inside it without an ARM board?

    I'm probably going to enjoy telling them the things they miss, if I had time :-)

  11. A thousand million 1GB memory sticks? on SKA Telescope To Provide a Billion PCs Worth of Processing · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're gonna need a LOT of pigeons.

  12. Re:data shows no sign of altitude loss, rapid dece on Communication Lost With Indian Moon Satellite · · Score: 1

    +5 would laugh again

  13. Read the EULA on 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    It appears the EULA requires you to wear this gizmo on your head where, after the requisite time period has passed, it zaps your brain with Amnesiatron (TM) particles to make sure you forget the message, thereby fullfilling the design goal of making the message vanish forever.

    Oh and the computer will be equipped with C4 that will be triggered at the same time, just in case you happen to take a screenshot.

    You don't want to know what will happen to the ISP...

  14. It is as binding as those "stay back 300 feet" on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    Just because someone puts up a "stay back 300 feet, not responsible for shit I drop on the road" does not mean that the sign is binding. Same with this light lane thing.

  15. Re:It's been 24 years and the floppy still worked? on Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ah, going back and re-reading the actual text this time I realized it said the floppy was probably used to save images.

  16. It's been 24 years and the floppy still worked? on Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They sure don't make 'em like they used to. None of my 3.5" floppies would survive more than a couple of formats, and I'd be lucky to be able to read them on more than, what, 3 or 4 different machines.

  17. Experience is what matters, but on the other hand on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    Depending on where you live, HR departments might weed out candidates based on degrees. I know I wouldn't stand a chance if I wanted to apply for other jobs in the east coast (North Carolina specifically).

    I dropped out of university on my second year, but since I have Linux experience, I got hired to do sysadmin work for a start-up company in CA in 99 (prior to that I've been doing other work not related to IT). We're no longer start-up, having been acquired by a much larger company :-) So ... if you want to get in, you might want to start small, and work your way up. It's more likely that small companies will not care about your degrees.

  18. One way to defeat the open/close window sensor on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 1

    Tell me if I'm wrong, but from the picture demonstrating the open/close sensor installed on the window, it ought to be possible to break the glass and grab both pieces together keeping their proximity thus avoiding the transmission of "window open" signal (which I guess is caused by the two pieces becoming unaligned). It should then be possible to finish breaking the rest of the window to gain access that way.

  19. VMplayer or VirtualBox image running just enough on Is There a Linux Client Solution for Exchange 2007? · · Score: 1

    ... running just enough software to get you through your Office requirements. We do that for engineers that would prefer native Linux/X for CAD layout and run XP in virtualbox for office-related work.

  20. I rather like the new ads ... on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 1

    Especially the parts about the different "suits" one wears, and the vast differences between "offices". I would really love it if my office could be the ocean like the activist's, but I'll settle for taking my laptop to the beach during lunch.

    I'm a PC.

  21. The admin thought of this ... on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 3, Funny

    and changed the MAC address to C0:FF:EE:C0:FF:EE

    or

    FE:ED:C0:ED:BA:BE ...

    Just saying

  22. Maguire Scratch-X and plain old elbow grease on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    Scratch-X works fine for this application, and is cheap. Be sure to use their (Maguire's) foam pad, though. Otherwise you'll end up making more scratches on the disk.

  23. Re:Perhaps you could make the point clearer? on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1
    OK, will bite :) In many styles of Karate, the kata's practiced in class follow rigid patterns of movements, attack like so, deflect like so, block like so, etc. There are many named techniques involved in these kata's (and self-defense sets).

    In sparring, however, those techniques are seldom, if ever, used. Especially when pitted against another martial artist who practices a different style (e.g., Muay Thai or BJJ). IMHO, the more elaborate techniques in kata's are seldom used because they seldom are useful in actual practice. Try catching a Muay Thai roundhouse with a hand grab and that'll be the last time you try that. Try to work on pressure point on someone's punch (good luck catching the pressure point to begin with), and you'll eat another punch in the combo. Same goes for elaborate "counters" where, in class, an Uke does a half-hearted lunge punch and stand completely still while the defender goes berzerk with a five-technique sequence involving pressure-point and ending with a 180-degree turn foot sweep. I have yet to see someone actually do this in sparring or full-contact fight.

    What's practiced in class and what's actually used in the match are vastly different.

    This guy here: http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2008/06/23/why-do-you-have-to-learn-it-all/ said it like so:

    The truth is that you can win at sparring competitions with three techniques. You can win kata competitions without ever learning to spar. The two activities are almost entirely isolated and call upon entirely different skills and abilities. People talented at the one are rarely talented at the other./p?

  24. Re:Firing ranges are useless on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Completely miss the point ... but that's OK, you got to demonstrate your off-the-target sarcasm.

  25. Quite a few comments about "no full contact" MA on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Then why bother? I'm sick and tired of McDojo's run by pudgy Sensei's who's never seen a cardio workout in the last fifteen years. Punching air and doing elaborate kata's don't burn enough calories and you don't condition yourself doing that.

    Go take up Muay Thai or Judo (or both). That'll do you some good.