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  1. Re:The non-intuitive solution on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1

    Non-profits usually universities, schools, hospitals are not subject to the same visa cap. That's a good way for her to get here legally.

  2. Re:My Suggestion to OO Developers on OpenOffice.org 2.1 Released With New Templates · · Score: 1

    It is purely a guess but I bet that the people who create clip art are NOT the people who enjoy researching memory leaks and optimizing code.

  3. Re:Hotmail is so irrelevant on Behind the Scenes at Hotmail · · Score: 1

    Hotmail deletes junk older than 5(7?) days so most of the junk is gone. Which is quite sucky cause I've gotten quite a few false positives. Which is crazy considering that stuff with "Sexually Explixit" spelled in the subject just goes through undetected.

    And is it just me or is it way slow as well. Emptying the junk mail folder with 10-20 messages inside takes quite a few seconds. Yahoo, gmail are way way faster.

  4. Re:Wow nice incenvitve. on Firefox Seeks Full Page Ad in New York Times · · Score: 1

    I use an easy and very efective fix for the /. bug. Ctrl +, ctrl - and things are OK. Alterantive ctrl middle mouse button scroll.

  5. Re:A counterpoint on MIT Names First Female President · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Example of how this works in the real world and exactly opposite to your fantasy.

    Philip Greenspun

  6. Re:A counterpoint on MIT Names First Female President · · Score: 1

    So this firm has an opening. Because they lack members of many minority groups in order to satisfy the law now they are very likely to hire somebody who is a member of multiple minorities (asian female). Suddenly the pool of candidates that fill this unpublished requirement has shrunk dramatically. This leads to much higher chance that the person they hire will not meet the qualification set for other candidates. By them being less qualified than the rest of the employees will just enforce the white guys prejudice, particularly cosnidering the fact that it's very un likely that this new person will get any help from their peers.

  7. Re:No on Big Brother In Your Front Seat · · Score: 1

    Jersey drivers are the sux. Not as bad as NYC but close second. Usual trip from Harrisburg to Long Island gives the following average speeds in the three states I pass:
    NY: 20mph
    NJ: 40mph
    PA: 80mph

    One big problem in NJ is that in congestion everybody keeps changing lanes like crazy causing even futher slowdown. After congestion is eased half of the drivers forget to speedup to the limit and/or move to the right.

    Basicly it feels like nobody is paying attention to the road, maybe they are just sued to being passengers on trains, busses, etc.

  8. Re:Too Bad Verizon is Evil on Verizon Announces FTTP Prices · · Score: 1
    SMTP traffic is filtered unless it goes through their server and if it does go through their server, you can only use a verison.net email address.


    I'm in greater Philadelphia area and this is my third location using Verizon Home DSL and they don't filter anything. I'm using 4 different STMP servers - work, school, wife's school + old free service. They do however sell the email addresses cause I have never used it and it get tons of spam . I check it like once every couple of months when I log online to view my bill but still the amount of spam is way too much.

    I reply cause I don't have any mod points to mod up the other replies.
  9. Use students on Pro Photographers that Will Sell the Copyright? · · Score: 1

    If you are willing to accept a bit of risk and have a good quaility potography school around you can post there. You will have to interview the candidates and it will be more time consuming for you but the price difference might be worth it. Another choice is most metropolitan areas is the somewhat shady Chinatown photographer whose price will be way cheaper than usual.

  10. Email storage format on Next Generation Mail Clients Reviewed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know this is a bit off topic, but how do /. user recommend to keep old emails? The answer to this question is a big part fo choosing the mail client (at least for me).

    I have a ton of old email I like to keep and so far resides on IMAP server. The trouble is that is approaching my 100MB limit and that's all text emails - no big attachments. Most is standard encoding, but a few use alterantive encodings, though no 2bit characters.

  11. Re:Paying More For Choices on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    Verizon aDSL is actually $34.95, the extra $5 on top is for the ?premium? plan(not sure exactly how it's branded) which gives you some number of dail-up minutes in case the DSL is down. Of course by default you get the higher priced one.

  12. Re:the real problem is... on Linux: the GPL and Binary Modules · · Score: 1

    Not really. nVidia guys have already seen the code of the third parties so anything they do is contaminated. They have to get comepletely new people to work on that starting from scratch. Obviously if they thought that was in their best interest they would have done it long ago since they are for profit company.

  13. Re:DC, Boston, Chicago, and the Bay Area on A Geek's Tour Of North America? · · Score: 1

    Intel's museum blows. Half of the demos are not even working. But at least it's free.

  14. Re:geez on The Next Step in Fighting Spam: Greylisting · · Score: 1

    my problem is with the moderators. Moderate it up only after the site is slashdotted. Before that it is redundant.

  15. Write to the media on BSA IDC FUD · · Score: 1
    This is my example

    Dear Jeff Bater,

    I was really disappointed by your article "Cutting Software Theft Could Boost Economies -Study" which I saw on http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030402/1531001099_1.html . If you read the study you will see that while it proves correlation it is nowhere near to prove causality. Implying that software "theft" causes bad economies is a perversion of the results. It is exactly this kind of FUD that gives BSA a bad name.

    The same argument can be made that having computers increases life span since globally the people owning PC tend to have more financial resources and thus better access to healthcare.

    Furthermore I do not like the term "software theft" - the legal term is copyright infringement. Theft implies that a physical object is taken forcefully away from the rightful owner and this clearly not the case. Companies like Microsoft (primary sponsor of IDC and BSA) do not lose anything real with copyright infringement just potential revues. Which are exactly that - potential.

    I would also suggest you read what a large number of the technology people think about this study:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/19 40243&mode=nested&tid=98&tid=187
    good explanation of BSA faulty logic:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59396&cid= 5647608

    Thank you in advance for researching this matter more in-depth.

    Sincerely,

    xxxxxxxxxxx
  16. Re:Costumes? on Sci-fi Channel's Children of Dune · · Score: 1

    No sure what is you point about the still suits - were they supposed to be made out of high-tech microfiber with nanoprobes? I wonder how does arabs survived centuries in Sahara with cloth. These are fremen - extremely low tech. Anyway nothing can stand up in sand storm even fremen find shelter.

    There were numerous carving in the sietch - gods and stuff. Posssible example here
    http://www.scifi.com/dune/images/desktop4.jp g

    I did not attack Lynch's changes but rather his tacky even kitschy style. I find the visuals of his version of Dune fugly. It is like comparing Apple Aqua to RedHat 5.0 ;-)

  17. Re:David Lynch on Sci-fi Channel's Children of Dune · · Score: 1

    I think you either skimmed through the series or have no idea of style(at least in cinematography). Vittorio Storaro's work is beyond reproach. The sets are amazing and beautiful without being in you face and blend perfectly with the story. The lighting and camerawork are extremely masterful as well.

    Everything from costume design to editing blows away David Lynch's way overdone, tacky style.

  18. Re:I think it's interesting... on Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    Refrase that to "authomatically check multiple account". It's in the release notes marked as bug 85227.

  19. Re:I think it's interesting... on Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    How's Mozilla mail better than OE with IMAP? Please give some examples.

    I was looking to move to Mozilla but it's inability to check more than one mail account is a major annoyance for me.

  20. Re:good pricing? on Radio-Controlled Microcar Review · · Score: 1

    I bought a Zip-zap. Default models are horribly slow - 1.4mph. Even with the fastest motor it is still less than 4mph. The remote works only about 6-8 feet. All the other upgrades are just a fad - don't help performance at all. The cars are available in 2 frequencies, which means that only two people can play at the same time - sux. Me and my buddy returned them after 3-4 hours - it's not worth the $20.

    My matchbox cars are way faster when I push them ;-)

  21. Re:Speed = wrong direction on Hard Drives Evaluated for Noise, Heat and Performance · · Score: 1

    Having huge cache helps only if you retrieve the same data all the time. It won't help a single bit for boot times or loading times. Another problem with things being cached is that if your machine crashes or loses power it might not have the time to save the data back to the disk(anybody remember MacOS 7 and below - if you delete something by mistake just pull the cable really fast).

    No HDD is reliable enough. That's why there are BACKUPs. If your data is that important you should back it up often and consider thing like multiple copies, offsite storage, etc.

  22. Re:No major news, and still a memory hog on Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing · · Score: 1

    IE has much worse problem with tiling small images. That is IE6 on W2K.

    I found this the hard way - my colleagues were complaining that a design I did was slow and I couldn't figure why. Mozilla 1.0 had no problem with it, but IE took minutes to restore after minimize.

  23. Wife and kids - the anti geek diet :-) on Scientific Battlegrounds in Diets · · Score: 1

    What works for me is running after my 1.5 years old daughter. It's both fun and exercise.

    I know it's not the geek diet, but having a spouse to emotionally support you and keep each other in check as well as high-energy kids, really helps one live a healthy(ier).

    It just much easier to make yourself cook something healthy if your kids and wife are going to eat it. Making a meal for myself was always a huge motivational problem.

  24. Re:Wow, now I won't get flamed... on Joel On The Economics of Open Source · · Score: 1

    How is that informative. The author is swithing the sbujcet from Linux to Solaris. Solaris is even more expensive than Windows.

  25. Re:Please consider the fact... on Warcraft III Gone Gold · · Score: 1

    I think you make a valid point - you try stuff before you buy it. It is almost impossible to do this legally with both music and software and that is what is wrong with the laws.