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  1. Re:VHS saves lives... on Reports of VHS's Death Highly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    You could also say that Wilson wouldn't have needlessly died if Tom hadn't built that raft. (Or are you trying to imply that Tom Hanks's life is worth more than that of Wilson's?)

  2. Re:Warning: Alarmist Article on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1
    That's because they haven't discovered magnetism yet.

    Wyoming is so far back you can't even get AIDS there yet.

    (But at least it's not Utah.) ;)

  3. Oblig Fifth Element quote. on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

  4. Re:Question: How Does Knowing One's ID Make Us Saf on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    Good! So they would have re-upped thier visas on 9/10/01. From now on, all terrorists will have valid credentials. Thank god!

  5. But what if... on Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...I cut this line then inserted a device that intercepted this signal and resent the exact same photon down the line to the recipient? How would they know?

  6. Re:It's a good start... on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    IIRC, right click the drive in My Computer, properties, drive letter. But that might have been in device manager. I don't remember if it allows you to have two drive letters for one drive though, but it will let you change them.

  7. Re:Glad to see a first step.. on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1
    No prob. You can also simply right-click on the icon you want to open while holding down the shift key. Run-as will be on the menu there. (This is all predicated on the Secondary Login service being started.)

    I think if most windows admins took the same amount of time and effort that Linux demands of it's users to learn the metric fuck-ton of frivilous little commands, we wouldn't see as many problems with windows. By the same token, if Linux had to be designed to be user friendly to the average AOL user, and had a majority of those users, you would see the Windows problems become Linux problems. Personally, I believe roughly 90% of the problems in windows are problems of misconfiguration, the other 10% are compatibility to previous misconfigurations.

  8. Re:I would hate to see this, but.. on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1
    If Microsoft were to just take some cash they have in the bank, buy Apple, and port OS X over to the intel PC

    Oh, they are on their way, just without all that pesky "buying" ;)

  9. Re:How About Better Error Messages? on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    I use Filemon from www.sysinternals.com. Just watch what files it tries to open when you launch the program and grant permissions to those files/directories.

  10. If only... on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    ...all software could install as easily and permanently as spyware does. If only I could use VX1 for the accounting department instead of the current software. It's got to be the most fragile and breakable waste of electrons ever developed. Hire some of those spyware making whores and make a damn program that does require Zeus himself to install it, and doesn't shit itself every time you, god forbid, run another program at the same time.

  11. Re:Glad to see a first step.. on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    Like "runas /env /u:domain\administrator cmd"? (It's a little more typing, but you could put that in su.bat.)

  12. Re:It shouldn't come as a surprise... on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They'll still be able to break the rules, they'll just be creative about it. Switching ID's with each other or jamming them somehow. There are ways around it and if anyone is going to find them, exploit them, and get into trouble... It'll be kids. Especially if this is something that a teacher/principal is going to operate.

    I think that saying is: "You cannot solve a sociological problem with a technological solution." :)

  13. I guess that makes the internet a Scorpio... on Internet Turns 35 Today · · Score: 1
    ...And today's horoscope is pretty accurate:

    Is there a whole lot of tension in the air? There's no denying that there is a definite friction between you and a friend, coworker or family member, but you might not have the slightest idea how it came to be there. Are you overlooking something that you might have said or done to set them on edge? A sensitive soul might have taken umbrage at your quick wit and off-the-cuff comments. Think very carefully about what you might have said in the past.

    From: http://astrology.yahoo.com/astrology/general/daily extended/scorpio

  14. Re:In other news on Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities · · Score: 1

    Actually, the figure is really 87.5% ;)

  15. Re:the only solution... on Touch Screen Voting Industry Circling Wagons · · Score: 1
    "Most importantly: paper ballots are incredibly hard to forge in bulk, and it is very hard to introduce a significant amount of them into the counting process."

    Not when you are the company that makes the machines and the paper they use.

  16. Re:How to get Good MS PR on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 1

    NT 4.0 is affected.

  17. Re:Does he have to keep anything secret? on Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation? · · Score: 1

    That could be fun. They could be a public terror corporation! Then we could all buy shares and destroy them, thus truly destroy terror! That would really put two of GWB's favorite things together in one: Fake companies and insider trading! Then, of course, Haliburton could come clean it all up.

  18. Re:Reminds me of... on Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation? · · Score: 1

    OT but I saw that on the digital cable guide thingy, and the description was "A young man learns about his mom's new boyfriend". Kinda left out the whole atomic bomb part of the story. Who writes those things!?!?

  19. Re:Internet Durability? on Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation? · · Score: 1
    "We could wipe whole cities off the map and the internet would still function."

    Can we test this theory using Bakersfield or maybe Fresno? I swear to god, if California ever needed an enema, Bakersfield is where they would put the hose.

  20. Re:Internet Durability? on Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation? · · Score: 1
    When the internet was designed, durability and fault recovery were the guiding forces. Now cost is the force. I can make 3 OC48 links across the country and have each one of them capable of handling the total peak traffic, but it's cheaper to have 2 t3 lines and run them at higer capacity. Now apply that to every line out there. When there is a big cable severed, now it's a real problem.

    So the internet you described is the old socialist one, and the one we know now is the new capitalist one.

  21. Re:Industry *Likes* Ignorant Public on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1
    "I strongly believe that computer awareness is the next "literacy" of this millenium""

    I wonder if in the early 1900's radio operators thought that morse code was the "literacy of last millenium" and they were sure it was the way of the future.

    On the UPS thing, I actually overheard someone at Fry's asking a rep. "This mouse says it is internet ready, and this one doesn't say anything about it being ready." I liked his answer. "It means there is an AOL cd in that one." (Hell... It was nice to hear ANY answer out of one of those guys.)

  22. Re:The fine on $180 Million for Piracy Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Does he have to pay the fine while he is in prison too?

  23. P2P Soldier? on The Soldier is the Network · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like these guys are going to want to put a check in the box for "Do not function as a Supernode". =)

  24. Re:I'm a big fan of hydrogen... but on Nucular Hydrogen Economy · · Score: 1
    "Now IF these mini-powerplants could generate enough in the way of hydrogen an oxygen to rocket the worlds nuclear waste to mercury, then you might have something. Not sure if i'd agree, but it would at least be a game plan."

    I think I'd prefer it staying on the ground considering the chances of a challenger style explosion with radioactive payload. What about putting it near a subduction zone on the bottom of the ocean and allowing it to glide right back into the chewy nougat-filled earth's core (Which is already radioactive). Or for a real irony, why not pump the stuff into back into the places we sucked the oil from? Has anyone thought of this already?

  25. Re:Now remember who's writing this... on Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare · · Score: 1
    "Especially considering all the great things for technology like the DMCA that President Clinton did for us.

    Shit... If the DMCA was going through this administration, not only would it have passed, but it would have been changed to add more protection for Eli Lily or in this case maybe Haliburton, Exxon, Shell, or more likely, Enron. You can't possibly blame Clinton for the DMCA passing.