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  1. Re:music sales down 10% last year on SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday · · Score: 1

    geez it couldn't be the whole economy tanked

  2. Um on ULTra Robo-Taxi · · Score: 1

    I hope the purpose of any economy is 'more' and not 'less'

    don't confuse economy with society

  3. Great on ULTra Robo-Taxi · · Score: 1

    Now every teenage boy's room will have
    1) stolen stop sign
    2) stolen yellow flasher
    3) stolen ULTraRobo-Taxi

  4. I was just thinking the same thing on The Futility of Censorship · · Score: 1

    ...thanks for saving me the effort.

  5. Scientists.... on Marvel Universe Is Almost Like *Real Life* Society · · Score: 1

    hehe...oops, I've wet myself

  6. half sux, half doesn't on Do You Like Your Job? · · Score: 1

    I contract @ a *.gov. Although my hourly rate is the same as I've been making for the last few years; there is no overtime, or even the option of making every week a 40 hr one [like Presidents day was a 32 hr work week; but past places of employment I could make up to the base 40/week, not here].

    But that's the whinner in me, in fact, with all my CC bills, Im just glad to be employed.

    OTOH - management is a god-damn nightmare here; we now have two managers who don't talk to each other. I just lay low in my cube, do the minimum work, and count the moments until 4pm....

    oh, and cruise /.

  7. Re:Question on Job Experience on Do You Like Your Job? · · Score: 1

    yes...I have been fired. left it on resume. and explained it for the next few years of interviewing...no biggie once you done it (explained) it once. It's easy to bend things a little.

    My last firing was for 'non-performance' in 1995(?) I was assigned to code a xfer utility over dialup. Initially I said I could get 1 mb in 2 minutes? (I can't remember exactly, don't hold me to these numbers) and started working it out...well even though 19.2 modems were becoming standard, client would only provide 9600. I could not reach the numbers I initially said in 9600...bang; I was let go.

  8. A HUGE whiteboard on Visualising Code Structure in Large Projects? · · Score: 1

    and lots of colored markers...we do that here [for networking] and people gather round like a water cooler and point out issues, etc.

  9. well usa was started on David Brin on Privacy · · Score: 1

    by people who wanted to be left alone to do their own thing. they knew they needed a government, but wanted a minimal/efficent one.

    privacy was implied in almost every other word of our founding documents. our founders felt very strongly about limiting governments medeling in citizens lives. for the last 225 years, almost every generation has had to test those same ideals.

    the best defense, is a good offense...let's not make the usa a brightly lit stadium; lets give the military more flashlights.

  10. To much trust in Corporate-Speak on Comcast To Stop Tracking Users' Web Habits · · Score: 1

    This just In...Enron exec says future looks bright...RayBan stock rises...

    Jeez you guys will believe anything...I bet they are still tracking, just saying they arent...unless, they just ran out of tapes to spool the logs off to...

  11. OMG on Part One: Information Arts · · Score: 1

    I quote "Culture is being re-defined right before our eyes. For centuries, art and technology have been considered separate parts of culture."

    #1 Culture is always being redefined, every moment, since there was culture.

    #2 Talk to any art historian, art & technology have always fed off one another.

    #3 Jon is drinking more than normal

  12. Re:When Capitalism is taken too far. on FTC and JD Holding Hearings on IP · · Score: 1

    what if I come up with a new idea for a better computer screen?

    but wait, I'm to broke to start my own manufacturing company.

    Since, In your world I should "keep it to myself", my new idea will never be more than that, an Idea.

    I cannot share my new idea with either venture capitalists or established companies because we should not make money off ideas....

    In your world all the big companies & rich people have todo is listen for good Ideas from others.

  13. Re:Or, vice-versa... on A Look Inside the BSA · · Score: 1

    which shows the Corporate West for what they are...a bunch of cover-yer-ass-lets-not-affect-my-stock-options pussies.

    hmmm ... what would Tony Soprano do ...?

  14. Re:Or, vice-versa... on A Look Inside the BSA · · Score: 1

    not entirely true...if enron execs knew they were doing bad, they can be sued (civilly) and if violate criminal law thrown in jail. It's called white-collar crime. These laws have been on the books awhile, but rarely used by judges.

    My friends dad, back in the mid/early 70's, was convicted of white-collar crime and did 4 months in a minimum security NJ facility; but there was no civil suit to speak of, so he was able to keep all his off-shore monies; but he lost the 30 meter yatch which was in the corporations name...hehe that was some party boat....

  15. Re:A few I can think of... on Computer Hardware That Can Pull Double-Duty? · · Score: 1

    your friend right

  16. A local Eatery did this on Miscellaneous LinuxWorld Tidbits · · Score: 1

    He is primarily a BBQ joint, so for his grand opening got a giant floating (ballon) Pig.

    Well, it violated zoning, so he got a stiff $500 fine...and a full color picture of the offending Pig right on the front page of the local newspaper...with about 1000 words!

  17. Bio-Hazard Alert Detector on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites · · Score: 1

    damn this sounds fine! Screw investing, where can I buy one!

  18. I was wondering where everybody was today on Reviews of Hard Drive Reliability? · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Then I noticed this.

    And All I have to say is, you guys are a bunch of pervs...

    Oh...and, I got her G-String ;-P

  19. This just in.... on Intel's Answer to AMD's Hammer - Yamhill · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    FS: Mercedes-Benz, executive driven, slight stain and broken drivers window. Make Offer.

  20. KRAPPY LINK on Security Community Reacts to Microsoft Announcement · · Score: 1
    Since I am interested in the security of corporate systems, I analyzed only those sub-set of advisories that would be relevant to corporate infrastructures. Thus I ignore advisories that deal with email systems, browsers, and client applications.

    In general, there are three categories of security problems.

    The first category is user complacency. The most common example of user complacency is when a user opens an unknown email attachment.

    Ummm...how do you open email without an email system?

    I bet Roger Sessions of objectwatch.com is enjoying his nice (M$) bonus; that is, if the whole company is not a Microsoft stooge...

  21. Re:Personal cutdowns on Buy John Romero's Ferrari On EBay · · Score: 1

    Hey, I have a Ferrari !

    zoom-zoom-zoom

    so what if it's 1:32 scale !?! I be my insurance is cheaper.

  22. If He on California's "Wireless-Free" Zone · · Score: 1

    could get to Afganstan I sure he would feel much better.

    I know I would.

  23. 'bring technology' and 'rural areas' are to vague on Mobile IT Education? · · Score: 1

    Rural could mean (1) West Virginia, or (2) Afganistan

    Technology is just to open ended...but I suppose the poster meant Web Surfing

    Afterall, a steel Hunting Knife is technology in many parts of the world.

  24. Re:"Shop" at MSNBC.com on Site Review: 2002 Olympics · · Score: 1

    hmm ... my click took me to here.

  25. two words on Site Review: 2002 Olympics · · Score: 1

    speed masturbating