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  1. Re:/. - are you listening? on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    You need to follow Microsoft's new "protocol of pain" and run your ie6 in it's own virtual machine inside of the "XP virtual machine" of your new Windows 7 desktop.

  2. Re:Idiocy on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    Such is not the case in 48 states.

    Really??? When did this all happen? I must be getting old and out of touch or something because I never heard anything about this?

    I think once people start talking to the criminal underground or trying to do things like taking flying lessons then end up on the radar of the FBI.

    Why do all terrorist desire to to take flying lessons? I mean can't they go buy some pool chlorine and brake fluid and go gas an elementary school or something? Is it really that they are just to crazy that they are incapable of thinking outside their little "crazy terrorist box" or something? I donno but it's all very laughable to me...

    God forbid American is ever faced with a real organized terrorist threat.

  3. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 1

    what you never had to replace a power supply, or you never had a computer
    that had the bad caps plague (i had 3 this 2 weeks) and they were not second-handed (i dont work at a computer shop)
    never had a bad-working power switch, broken graphics card or memory
    that failed because it was overheating

    We always did a lot of laptop power connector fixes since people like to stab them into the laptop as hard as humanly possible.

  4. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 1

    But you don't actually DO anything when you fix a computer. I mean, at least a mechanic takes parts out and puts them back in. You just click on things. That isn't real work! The people smart enough to know that knowledge is worth something aren't the kinds of people who end up having to pay to get their computers fixed.

    LoL.. ok sure spending hours at a keyboard clicking isn't real work and mechanic's always replace a part and never just turn off the odbc2 code that is making the check engine light come on.

  5. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 1

    No, not really. If I take my 1991 minivan offroading, break a bunch of stuff, and take it to my mechanic to get it fixed, I would expect my car to break AGAIN if I took the same actions AGAIN. The very definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.

    I agree, I've just learned that most normal people somehow don't see it that way or instantly think "he just removed a virus and gave it back and said good day" when in fact it's the other way around.

  6. Re:So? on Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed · · Score: 1

    No he's not. Read the stuff BEFORE that.
    He put the whole hard drive in the cache by doing that.

    I did read it... and I thought.. cat? really? not dd or something just plan old cat?

  7. Re:But... on Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed · · Score: 1

    The above is not troll... offtopic, redundent, or overrated but not troll.. If you are going to mod down please read the FAQ.

    Taken from the slashdot FAQ:

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  8. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 1

    o ok then, Debian it is!
    I can use the 'make' command every once in a while if need be, I already build my own kernel without silly things like ISA support.

    Thanks,
    ae

  9. Re:Problems on Using WiMAX To Replace a Phone? · · Score: 1

    For that matter, what if you travel away from that "local counties sherrif's number"? Are you going to look every number on the fly and adjust your aliases constantly?

    There's an app for that...

    Honestly people got by before cell phones.. remember hundreds of years ago when we only had pulse dial?

    But yeah your right it's not perfect but once again if you are so afraid that you can't be without your 911 then stick with a normal cell phone or even a land line with a really long cord or something. I don't think anyone was saying you personally had to switch...

    I for one would welcome the silence of not having a cell phone. I have no disire to be reachable 24/7 365.25 days a year. I'd drop my service in a second if my job was not tied to having a cell...

  10. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 1

    We are talking about a few years ago before VM really was something you could deploy but yes I enjoy using it to test crap before installing it, although I am about to begin switching over to a linux Desktop and just dumping most of my Windows XP apps. I don't play games anymore and from the sound of it open office is good enough now and whine should run my quickbooks 2003 or I can change to the open source clone if not as quickbooks is bloat code.

    Really the only program I paid money for that is something I'd like to run is anyDVD HD and they deserved the money. I've never seen anyone release updates every 2 days. Well I guess I paid for adobe acrobat pro as well... I tried the other pdf programs and just didn't find anything good enough for me. Not that acrobat pro isn't damn annoying to use and the whole javascript feature is a joke. I guess I will have to look at everything when I finish my switch. O I paid for winRAR as well... good program.. I hear 7-zip is good enough though and honestly there might be a winRAR for Xfree... haven't looked.

    Any advise for good apps for linux out there? I mostly use my computer for annoying slashdot, adding dvd's to my media computer, quickbooks, writing stuff, spread sheets, ftp, torrent, burning cd's / dvd's, some coding and mostly boredom.

    Current list:

    1. Open Office
    2. Handbrake
    3. GIMP
    4. Audacity
    5. VLC Media Player
    6. Q7Z
    7. DVD writing software for xfree?
    8. I've used Debian for years, so what's up with ubuntu anyhow?

    I've always stayed away from xfree as the console has always gave me a warm fuzzy feeling like when I was young and had a shell account and a 14.4 modem.... but I'd like to keep the graphical interface to avoid thinking as that is what the government commands.

  11. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 1

    I quite natural assumption, don't you think?

    Not sure if you are joking or not. If not yes I installed whatever antivirus or spyware scanner that was free and/or tried to get them to pay for one before they where good free ones like AVG. (yes yes AVG isn't that good compared to kaspersky or f-prot.)

    We are talking 1999 to 2006 so VM's where not an option plus people probably would get mad when they have to keep reinstalling that new codec to view their pogo.com site or that porn.avi.exe file.

    The store I worked at really tried extremely hard to help people and we bent over backward to explain what happened and how to prevent it in the future. It was a small local store so that is a requirement to stay in business or it was in Virginia Beach...

    Really doesn't mater though if people choice to ignore you and still like the "punch the monkey" game and bonzi buddy's.

  12. Re:Problems on Using WiMAX To Replace a Phone? · · Score: 1

    n order to "dial 911" over VOIP and get connected, the VOIP provider needs to be able to route your call to a PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point). The challenge is knowing which PSAP actually applies to you

    not really... look up your local counties sheriff's number and program it in and alias it to 911... problem solved....

    That will be 1.6 million dollars please.

  13. Re:Problems on Using WiMAX To Replace a Phone? · · Score: 1

    My voIP provider routes calls to my local police. Teliax.com be them....

    Now if I am roaming the earth I normally never have to call 911.. I think it's come up twice in 20 years or so.. If it's some huge explosion I'm pretty sure someone else will call as well.. If someone has shot and killed me then I guess it doesn't really mater anymore.

    Saving $100 a month at the expense of being GPS tracked everywhere you go is a downside however....

  14. Re:invisible != inaudible on Acoustic "Superlens" Could Make Subs Invisible · · Score: 1

    Article translation....

    1974 VW van muffler converted for military use for only 700 trillion dollars.
    (Military leaders say in between snorting lines of coke that "they really really needed this to stop the red menace uhhh I mean terrorists...")

    News at 11.... am...

  15. Re:They don't care on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree, I worked at a computer store doing service for many many years and I would see the same old people over and over and over again. I would tell them to just stop installing kazzzza! or stop browsing seedy porn sites but they never did and it was always their teenage son's fault.

    (If it was me i'd ask how to lock him out after the 5th $100 reload) - didn't always need a reload just saying...
    I even offered to explain to them how to setup a bios password and sold special case locks for three bucks... no takers.

    They would however, always be very mad at me for not preventing their computers from getting reinfected. I guess they expected I would create some sort of magic barrier for them.... I donno... It's funny hearing "I'll never come back here AGAIN!" from the same person and then see them back in two months or so....

    People don't mind going out to the bar and spending $200 on shots but don't try and charge for fixing their porn box or you'll get beat...

  16. Re:Let's be honest... on The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release · · Score: 1

    The game's target audience (twelve-year-old girls) probably wouldn't even know how to pirate it, they'll just ask their daddies to get it from the mall. Those who have now downloaded it are probably the bunch who download anything new on TPB as soon as it appears and never pay for anything anyway.

    True... but was this really a leak or a clever marketing tool.

    1. Release buggy version, we'll call it shareware (crashes after you get addicted enough)
    2. Release full blown super version with all the DRM in the world to foil those darn hackers
    3. Profit...

  17. Re:Idiocy on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    That's because the drug lords don't want anyone to blow up their customer base.

    Oooo ok... so sort of like how the mob helped the federal government during world war two protect the ports except that the mob got something out of it where-as the drug lords could get paid from both sides and still make money from the "too scared to leave the house" class of citizens all needing to get that quick xanax fix but without all the expensive and risky medical visits?

    If I was an evil drug lord... o god how I wish I was... I would help the terrorist for a price as long as they only targeted US government buildings... Make money and cripple enforcement... sounds good to me... As far as it making it harder to get drugs into the US.. I think most hard drugs come in via sub now and pot gets grown in our national forests now from what I've been seeing on the propaganda box so it's not really gonna hurt them much plus according to the propaganda box drugs pay for terrorism so I.... well... I donno... I'm just very confused...

    One more thing that strikes me odd.. So terrorist can't buy a boat and sail their asses over here? maybe hijack some yuppie American couple's yuat or something? I donno it just seems like a well funded group could do better than one attack on US soil every 10 years... I mean... at least send over a few guys and have them break into some houses and find some guns and go shoot some people while yelling "death to America" or something..

    Maybe the terrorist leaders are just like our politicians... All talk and no action. I mean if they ever wow and destroyed America what would they do go get day jobs?

  18. Re:Idiocy on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    embarrassment for a major democratic free country to offer people second class citizenship.

    Sorta like what happens when someone is convicted of a feliony? The whole losing your right to vote for the rest of your life and having to declare it on every job application for the rest of your life? And people wonder why convicts aren't reformed... it's because you have made them into second class citizens fools! Strange that we have one of the largest prison systems in the world isn't it?

    As far as illegal immigration goes... Does anyone else ever wonder how millions of illegals can cross a hot desert border every year and not get caught but somehow terrorist can't? I donno I'm not trying to sound all tin-foil hat like but I sometimes wonder about Al-Qaeda inability to operate within our borders.. It's not like they need to bring drugs over the boarder or even bombs.. you can make some pretty nice bombs by going to the local hardware store and truck stop. And it's not like they aren't willing to kill themselves if they get caught. So what's the deal???

    All I'm saying is that as a person who has no trailing I could sure kill a lot of people if I was somehow delusional enough to think it would mean I'd get a bunch of virgin's in heaven and god would welcome me with "way to go man!". What about the rest of you? I mean if you where evil like cobra commander couldn't you figure out how to cause a lot more chaos than what we have?

  19. Re:Idiocy on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    What is the point of catching someone you don't want in the country when they are leaving it??

    Because it's a lie and it's not really about getting those damn dirty illegals. I mean how many Mexicans do you think fly back to Mexico?
    You know things are getting bad when they wanna know who's leaving a county.

  20. Re:Getting to be a cliche on Burglar Nabbed By Backup Program · · Score: 2, Insightful

    keeping and using things you've stolen is the dumbest thing to do if you're a thief!

    Honestly not really man. Leaving all of the serial numbers and not doing a full wipe is dumb. Trying to find someone to fence your stolen equipment too can really backfire on you not to mention they take a huge cut. The fence isn't going to be any brighter than you and when the cops grab him you can expect to be next...

    Moral of this story is steal stuff that you understand well enough to insure it can not be traced back to who you stole it from. And remember children not having a receipt for something doesn't mean you stole it. Missing serial numbers don't mean a thing unless it's a car or a gun. And always know your rights and the laws you are breaking before hand.

  21. Re:Getting to be a cliche on Burglar Nabbed By Backup Program · · Score: 1

    Yes I'm sure using your home internet to reactive your new stolen laptop and then downloading the Windows 'Generous' Advantage update is much much smarter than just trying to use the laptop.

    Or I guess I mean it really doesn't make any difference so just Install Linux or at least a pirated copy of XP.

  22. Re:So? on Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Running "cat /dev/sda > /dev/null" on boot.

    Was this ment to be funny? I sure hope so....

  23. Re:But... on Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed · · Score: -1, Troll

    When the article starts out like this, you can guess where it's going.

    You know if I didn't have a job and lived in my mom's basement I'd go back and cut and past every press release microsoft has ever made about their new OS and how magical it would be and then I'd write up an article with all the true and false things they have said over the years.

    Then I would be murdered in my sleep before being able to send it to all the news outlets on the planet...

    It's always the same thing from them.. "It's the fasts and best OS ever" and every time it is "The slower and slightly more usable OS ever" if not something horrible...

    Someone please... please I beg you.. go back and do this... for the children..... lets all just start saying no to corporate propaganda....

  24. Re:Crazy- this should be funded more to go faster on French Fusion Experiment Delayed Until 2025 or Beyond · · Score: 2, Informative

    You'll be reading about these people in 10 years or so http://www.emc2fusion.org/

  25. Re:Crazy- this should be funded more to go faster on French Fusion Experiment Delayed Until 2025 or Beyond · · Score: 1

    If I had the 200 million I'd give The Polywell Design Team the money to build the full scale plant without blinking twice. Even the US government knows it's likely to work and that is why they have been providing just enough money to keep the project going until it's time to switch over to fusion.

    (after all the big wig's get out of the oil business and things get bad enough to start causing a large enough disruption in "nation security" so as to allow the passage of all the coming "for your protection and safety" laws.)

    Read the wiki article on the polywell and see for yourself. Take a look at the design and the low power requirements and the lack of nasty radiation.

    The guy who came up with this idea isn't some quack off working in his basement. Yeah he is dead but his work isn't.