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  1. Re:opendns on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 1

    I haven't said anything good about Symantec in awhile, but Norton DNS provides this free for home AND commercial use.

    Two limitations, it only has 3 levels of filtering to choose from and no whitelist options that I'm aware of...

    Levels include:
    1) Spyware
    2) Spyware + Porn
    3) Spyware + Porn + File Sharing

    Just need to use their DNS servers. There are obviously ways to circumvent the filtering, but those individuals will at least be learning other (valuable?) skills if they learn how.

  2. While I agree with the rest of your post....

    First off, we can assume that the FBI has more than one surveillance van, in which they can't all have the same SSID. They would include some sort of vehicle ID, etc.

    Why can't all the vans have the same SSID? This would allow the FBI agents to switch vans daily and not have to re-connect their laptops each time they use a different van. This assumes they use the same authentication/password as well.

    I've setup multiple residential and low-budget commercial networks with low-end access points in this manner and it works relatively well. Not to say this is the best or right way, but when has that ever stopped somebody.

  3. Re:History repeats itself.. on 'Flying Saucers' to Go On Sale Soon · · Score: 1

    It would be easy for me; I'd just follow the river Haven't you seen back to the future?

    Hover cars, which is what flying cars will actually end up being don't work on water. I hope you're wearing your self-drying jacket, McFly.

  4. Availl on Laptop/Server Data Synchronization? · · Score: 1

    This is meant for WAFS, but if money is no object its about $2500/license and does most of the things it should.

    http://www.availl.com/

    Only transfers deltas, compression, SSL, version history, etc etc...

  5. Re:Trivial ? on Using Two Monitors Makes You More Productive? · · Score: 1

    About 90% of the employees at our company have dual monitors. Our users have grown so attached to them they are buying monitors on their own for use at home. A decent 20 inch flat panel is about $300 and assuming it only lasts you 3 years, that comes out to about $0.40/day assuming your employees don't work weekends. You'll need to add in support and training costs, which will vary depending on your company and employees.

    This benefits not only the power users, but also the slowest computer user. The slowest user can turn their head slightly a lot faster then they can find the 'Minimize' button, move the mouse down to the taskbar, click on another app, do whatever they needed to do, and then find the Minizmize button again, move the mouse down to the taskbar, and click to bring up the original app again. For some people it literally takes longer then it took me to type out all the steps.

  6. Re:Not nearly enough information on What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have? · · Score: 1

    If the price for CommVault and EMC don't fit your budget, then check out http://www.mapilab.com./ They have an add-in call attachments processor that runs in outlook that will remove attachments, save them to a file system, and leave a shortcut to the file in the email. Works fine on public folders. Not a perfect solution, but total cost was $24.

  7. Re:Nice website on Google Hacking for Penetration Testers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not free, but it's cheap (as in beer) and automated (as in no hands required)

    http://www.pornsnatcher.com/

  8. Re:Easier to go insane, yes on We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee · · Score: 4, Funny

    The irony being that you have a hamster cage sitting on your desk and the furry creature inside is still planning his revenge against the monster that put him in the dungeon and tricked him into running for hours in that little wheel.

  9. Re:Looks Pretty Good From Here on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    Your comment is pretty much the reason for the "gap".

    Almost anybody on H1-B visas are more then willing to work for 80-100K, live in the "slums", and will show up to work for 60 hours/week.

    You on the other hand can't imagine living in a $500K fixer-upper.

  10. Re:Pricing looks good on Verizon Taking FTTP Installation Orders · · Score: 1

    Do ANYTHING except pay more money right?

  11. Re:This would be exciting.. on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    Sorry I forgot the tag in that comment.

  12. Re:A nice idea... on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of solutions that allow you to do this on a windows machine.

    The most obvious (VNC) involves a GUI so that probably eliminates it as a possibility for you.

  13. Re:This would be exciting.. on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    Download using a torrent from 50 sources at 5k/s each or download directly from MS at 250k/s....

    I'm gonna do my part to crush the MS monopoly and continue to d/l everything directly from microsoft.

    If you were true *nix lovers you'd do the same and not try to play this off as some legal use for p2p since from my limited understanding of copyright laws it isn't a legal use.

  14. Re:Why not? on Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a better analogy would be if they made safety belts out of tissue paper, and then said "you can always replace them with safety belts that work".

    For anybody that isn't tech-savvy IE WORKS just fine. Ignorance and fear can be blamed for them not investigating other solutions because of security issues, but for the 90-98% of people that use Internet Explorer and have NEVER had a security problem affect them why the hell would they want to spend countless hours learning something about a different browser when they only want to use it for checking CNN and email.

  15. Re:America's Most Wanted on FCC to Reorganize 800mhz Band? · · Score: 1

    Well if the guy that got shot in the back wouldn't have kept saying "Can you hear me now?" Then the nextel user wouldn't have been forced to shoot him.

  16. Re:so when will they open googleporn.com on Google Social Network: Orkut · · Score: 1

    The surface appearance to the common person would be that www.googlegear.com is directly related to www.google.com because Google has become a well-known name among even the non-tech savvy. Google knows this and probably paid a small amount of money now instead of paying lawyers a proportionally large sum of money later when www.googlegear.com decided to not 'just sell computer parts'.

  17. Re:Outdated infrastructure? on AT&T Migrating Phone Network to IP · · Score: 1

    countries like Somalia and the rest of Africa could make use of this supposedly outdated hardware.

    They could....except for that fact that no copper wiring exists in these countries. It is much more economical to use wireless solutions for almost everything then to try and run wiring in these war torn countries.

  18. Who got the ticket? on UK to Put Monitors in Every Car? · · Score: 1

    Traffic accidents decrease the exact amount that domestic violence issues increase because of the fighting over who got the ticket in Dad's car.

  19. Re:Fatigue on Satellite Driven Farming Equipment · · Score: 1

    Yeah this should reduce the potential for human injury because the people that use to drive the tractors/combines will be at the local bar drinking away the sorrows of losing their jobs.

  20. Re:Many years ago, on Non-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits · · Score: 1

    Every once in a while I get a spurt of calls and nasty-grams from collection agencies

    Got a credit report lately?

  21. Energy Companies on Mixing the Unmixable · · Score: 2, Funny
    An alternative might be to disperse the medicine in degassed water, which is already produced on a large scale by the oil industry.

    If the oil industry uses this on a large scale it would seem that accidents would have happened where the oil came into contact with this degassed water. Those damn energy companies have known all along.....OIL AND WATER DO MIX!

  22. Test it first on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be better to release the encryption and have it tested in the real world before you classify it as unbreakable?

  23. More than console on Microsoft to Buy Vivendi Games Division? · · Score: 1

    Has anybody considered that Microsoft wants to gain more from this then just exclusive rights on Xbox games? Although Xbox seems to be the predominant reason.

    As Linux becomes more mainstream, an important selling point should be the ability to run games comparable to games on windows. With Microsoft owning the rights to all of these games, the possibility of them being ported to Linux seems nonexistent.

  24. Re:Good idea on New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law · · Score: 2

    Bleach doesn't kill kids, kids kill kids.

  25. Re:We have no real problem either... on MSNBC: Offices Remain Spam Free Zones · · Score: 2

    This is what client-side anti-virus software is for. Mcafee among others can easily be setup to update DAT files at 4am and you have the server update at 3am. So as long as your users stay one day behind the newest virus release, you will have close to four zero's of infection. 0.000?%