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  1. Re:Normal Practice at Wal-Mart on Computerized Time Clocks Susceptible to 'Manager Attack' · · Score: 1

    Ever watch someone die? Fuck you, you have NO concept of what an EMT or Para does for a living.

    (I'm neither, but I know enough to understand what REAL stress is)

  2. Re:Games: Topics Beat To Death on Online Consoles Marginalizing PC Gaming? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Consoles do graphics better? I'm still waiting for the newest consoles to catch up to games I played on the PC 3 years ago.

    Please... consoles are great for mindless gaming, but graphics is not their forte.

  3. Re:Old School on Online Consoles Marginalizing PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    FPS on a console sucks. Nothing beats a Keyboard/Mouse combo. And even the games that let you buy one are not geared towards it.

    Being able to do a 180 degree turn in a split second is the key to games like CounterStrike, DoD, etc.

    I have a few FPS on consoles, and gave up, realizing it was just silly.

  4. Re:Console vs. PC on Online Consoles Marginalizing PC Gaming? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I play on the PC because of better graphics, more indepth gameplay, better controls, and ability to add content to the game after-the-fact.

    Even the newest Games on the consoles are "amazing" when compared to older console games, but to me... still mega-grainy looking.

  5. Re:The Battle Rages On on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 1

    What, that your kid will probably have a better porn collection than you by the time he's 15?

  6. Re:For Fuck's Sake! on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 1

    For now... But they are already rumbling about getting control of Cable and Satellite.

    This type of stuff needs to be nipped in the bud early, not allowed to fester and grow slowly until it's too powerful to stop.

  7. Re:Forbidden words and safe aliases on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 1

    Wrong, It went to the supreme Court, and FCC won against George.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

  8. Re:The Battle Rages On on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 1

    As an American, I wish I could explain it... but really, I honestly don't get it...

    It was a TIT!!! My kids were watching the superbowl and they saw a boob for half a second.. whippy do.

    I went over to the UK the next week, and guess what was on Page 2 of the paper... A huge blow-up of her boob and nipple piercing. Pretty much making fun of how stupid Americans are, and I had no way of defending it. It is absolutely insane that we are willing to give away our freedom over a boob or some swear words.

    Then, your kid that you are protecting so much goes to 3rd grade and learns all the swear words he'll ever need.

    Absolutely without a doubt the worst showing of American arrogance, ignorance and blind stupidity.

    When they come and say that your religion is "profane" don't come crying to me.

    And I say this as a Christian American.

  9. Re:Viacom is disrupting my TV on Echostar/Dish Network Pulls Viacom Channels · · Score: 1

    You act like the FCC is out to help anyone...

    This whole crack-down on decency has nothing to do with what people want, except some specialized groups.

    FCC is BAD, regulation of decency is bad. Some day they will decide YOU are indecent.

  10. Re:Duh??? on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 1

    Exactly... Microsoft's horrible software created a whole generation of programmers that got jobs for no reason... too bad now all the jobs are outsourced because they succeeded in making most programmers idiots.

  11. No, You get a clue on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    UNIX had memory protection on x86 CPUs since MINIX. The OS sucked, now they used hardware to finally make up for their sick oversights.

    Oh, I have a great idea... let's make an OS that lets you execute random segments of memory...

  12. Re:If you have a 1 or 2G ipod... on Build Your Own iPod Battery · · Score: 2, Informative

    Electricity isn't "pushed" it's pulled.

    If you plug a 20amp item into a 15amp circuit, it will pull the 20amps anyway, until smoke, or a fuse/breaker goes off.

    But the device wouldn't pull more just because there's more available. It's the recharger that might not be happy.

  13. Re:Attention: This is totally legal. on Eminem Sues Apple for Sampling his Samples · · Score: 1

    That is for Parody, which IS protected.

    This was not a parody.

  14. Re:Interesting for a public company on Apple Now Debt Free, Says Internal Memo · · Score: 1

    Buy Pixar? So, you have 2 companies and you buy 1 with the other... would seem a little... odd.

  15. Re:how about the hat.... on Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora' · · Score: 5, Informative


    A Trademark needs to be exact, It's a Fedora (Generic) and it's not red, and it's not pointing the right direction.

    Just ask Rob about the IBM Logo, IBM said that since it wasn't the proper ratio it wasn't a valid Logo. In an old job we got to co-brand with IBM, and the dimensions were defined down to the width of the spaces and blue in the lettering.

  16. You mean... on Mail Server Flaw Opens MS Exchange to Spam · · Score: 0, Redundant


    People put their Exchange server directly on the Internet??

  17. Anyone else think... on Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded · · Score: 5, Funny


    That Sun Microsystems was coming out with a new line of servers when they read the headline?

    First the SunFire line, now the SunFlare line, the STRONGEST EVER!

  18. Re:And the real funny part is... on Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for Security · · Score: 1

    The official list of ports is 50 sub-1024, and everything over 1024. The 50 that they want open are pretty much all the dangerous ones.

    We doubted they would tell us that too... Of course, Gates also personally promised our global CEO that WindowsXP would be so secure we wouldn't need to worry about Worms once we upgrade. Of course, that has always been Gates strong-point, get to talk to really high-end CEOs and make all sorts of random promises of costs savings and how you'll be able to fire everyone because the system will take care of itself.

  19. And the real funny part is... on Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for Security · · Score: 4, Interesting


    How much trouble their products have when seperated by stateful firewalls. I mean, it wasn't until after AD was out for a bit that they realized you couldn't put a firewall between them and for large corporations, that wasn't acceptable. Now there is a bogus work-around, but ultimately W2K is horrible at dealing with firewalls inside the enterprise.

    And the whole idea of a protected shell, soft middle has been destroyed by the likes of Nimbda, Nachi, etc. Eventually, someone gets past the outer shell.

    We like to keep all of our satallite locations seperated by Firewalls, but as we started moving to W2K3 we found out Microsoft won't support our infrastrucure with internal firewalls...

    Real nice Bill, thanks for the help.

  20. It would be more to the point... on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1


    If Darl would go on National TV, hold out both hands with the middle fingers up and shout "You could not have written better code than us, so FUCK YOU!" "WAAAHHH!!!"

  21. Re:A non-issue on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong, the GPL defines the rights. One right it does not give is the ability to restrict rights.

  22. The real question is... on SCO Calls GPL Unenforceable, Void · · Score: 1

    How much did SCO's lawyers charge for that document? That hunk of paper can't be good for SCO's bottom line...

  23. Re:Windows Media Player... on Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious? · · Score: 1

    Run a firewall that reports traffic... You might be shocked how much it chats with MS.

    Then, run Ethereal on the network and you'll find out what it's reporting to MS.

  24. Re:It's about time! on SuSE Going For Red Hat's Market · · Score: 1


    Most of what you mention are requirements on Sun equipment too. You install Solaris understanding you need to leave 2 partitions and a few megs free for Veritas to take over later. Since Linux isn't picky about using primaries, it doesn't really matter once you get used to the idea.

    As for NFS, I've had pretty good luck with it's performance if I give it extra network bandwidth, but yeah... it still needs work.

  25. Veritas - Good Products - Huge Pricetag on SuSE Going For Red Hat's Market · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I've been using Veritas in my shop for over 6 years, and I have to say, the Foundation suite is a great product. However, the pricetag has been going through the roof over the past 3 years. The core prices are going up, and they keep seperating out components and then selling them as "add-ons".

    Veritas NetBackup still isn't a great system, it's miles behind what OmniBack II from HP does, unfortunately HP Never ported the Cell Server to anything besides HP.

    While it might not be so bad if I spend $40,000 on a Filesystem when I spent $1.5Mil on the server, I don't think someone spending $50,000 for a server will want to spend $20,000 on the VM & FS.