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  1. Re:Richard Dean Anderson has a reduced role? on Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis Renewed · · Score: 1

    No, he's saying they did that episode. Season 5 (or 6).

  2. Re:Mac vs Unix on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1

    Wha? You can cmd+c all you like in the finder, works great.

  3. Re:Inspiring? on The Real Story of Audion · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you'd read it, you'd see nowhere in there do they think they got fucked over by different companies. Apple bought their main competitor after Panic was already had a deal in progress with AOL, and then released what they see as a different (and in some ways superior) program. Apple even tried to hire them on.

    Not a "fucked over" situation.

  4. Re:Who needs books!? on Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery · · Score: 1

    Because you can't pick up a SATA drive dock?

  5. Re:Come to DC! on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    Could be. She worked at Menwith for a while.

  6. Re:Come to DC! on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    Hum. Since an old friend of mine has dual citizenship with the US and the UK, and works at NSA, I think you're a little off there.

    That said, getting a security clearance can be realy arbitrary. I used to work for a foreign national and I got clearance (TS/SI even), while an associate of mine got turned down for having visited Taiwan a couple times in the past year (family is from there).

  7. Re:Come to DC! on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Maybe you should think about becoming a citizen then.

  8. Re:What I'm wondering is... on The Rise of Open-Source Politics · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you want to give 18 years olds how much power?

  9. Re:Maintenance on Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available · · Score: 1

    To make it even more fun, as of 10.3.4, pre-binding is no longer necessary.

  10. Re:Not just games on Fixing That Old Game System · · Score: 1

    You know, not everything thats old is "historic".

  11. Re:COOL! on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Double digits? How'd you sign up, with punch cards?

  12. Re:Boot CD on Live CD for PPC? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Why can't he just return it? on XBox Owner Sues Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Only if the car had a giant spike going through the seat, or the heater made the car hit 100 degrees Celsius.

    She bought a product that was unsafe to use in its advertised from. Thats against the law.

  14. Re:Why can't he just return it? on XBox Owner Sues Microsoft · · Score: 1

    At the temperature it was given to her, she couldn't have drank it. Its called selling an unsafe product.

  15. Re:Fear of powers on Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent · · Score: 1

    But its good for the economy. You're providing a job for a white high school kid to come in on call and get thrown out. Everybody wins!

    </sarcasm>

  16. Re:Fear of powers on Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent · · Score: 1

    Not at all. Just make sure its a group of people you punt out. Include a token white guy.

    Good use for a stock boy, actually.

  17. Re:Fear of powers on Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent · · Score: 2, Informative

    The way it was explained to me by a judge I know, is that you can exclude (same goes for firing, btw) someone for good reason. You can exclude someone for NO reason. But you can't exclude some one for a bad reason.

    You can tell a customer to get out because you feel like it. You can tell a customer to leave because they're causing a disturbance. But you can't throw a customer out because you dislike their wheelchair.

  18. Re:PPV on TiVo Plans More Functionality Reductions · · Score: 1

    You might actually want to read your Cable/Satellite contract on that one....

  19. Re:Monthly costs? on Verizon Taking FTTP Installation Orders · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no installation costs. If you cancel the service in the first year, you have to give back to the router or or pay em another $50.

  20. Re:Tort Reform Redux on Amazing Things Your Automobile Can't Do · · Score: 3, Informative

    The burden of proof is on the plaintiff in civil cases. The issue is that a civil case quit requires a "preponderance of evidence" to win, versus "beyond a reasonable doubt" for a criminal case.

  21. Re:Glad on Amazing Things Your Automobile Can't Do · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I have to admit, people around DC drive like they're trying to play Dance Dance Revolution.

  22. Re:VNC on Mac OS X on Which VNC Software Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Gotta love the dual screen support.

  23. Re:That's not really an argument on The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed · · Score: 1

    If you had one on the savannah, and there were continually no elephants around you, then yes, I might buy one.

    if you lived in the ghetto, and tried to convince me the very large gun you carried openly prevents muggings, you might be on to something.

    Things actually can be prevented, you know.

  24. Re:For those that didn't already know on The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed · · Score: 1

    If its anything like the other ones, it'll also be about 1/3 accurate. I've worked at "spy agencies" and his work is pleasantly fictional, and more accurate than movies like "Enemy of the State" or "Sneakers," but still wrong.

    If he was in the loop for some of the things he's writen, then he'd probably be in jail for breach of his lifetime obligation agreements.

  25. Re:For those that didn't already know on The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just a thought. If it had been prevented, something else would be the largest attack on US soil. So maybe it already has prevented bigger things?