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  1. What is the appeal of pandora? on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 1

    Not trolling. I've never used it. But why is this used vs. shoutcast servers?

  2. Re:Good. on Pickens Calls Off Massive Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure you prefer golf courses on every corner where forest used to be too. These things are as hideous as a strip mine to me.

  3. Most decent-sized companies on A Look At Google's Email Spam Prevention · · Score: 1

    ...are better off doing their own solution using a combination of sendmail, mimedefang, spamassassin, and greylisting. If you are big enough to 'need' postini, you likely have a staff that can do it better themselves using open tools and tuning that solution to your particular environment. But nowadays, nobody wants to hire competent staff, it seems.

  4. Protection? on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Viruses are a user idiocy problem. The only protection is to not let idiots use computers. Who is going to protect us from the drain and data loss caused bye the anti[sic]-virus programs?

  5. Twitter was cooler... on The Twitter Book · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... when it was called finger.

    Blogs were better when they were called 'homepages'

    Now get off my lawn.

  6. Re:Flickr and games.yahoo.com on Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design · · Score: 1

    No, they *did* other things quite well. Then they decided to mess with it to jump into that web 2.0 thang. Their groups suck. Their TV listings suck. Their calendaring and email both suck. Their authentication mechanisms (Some groups I'm a member of use Yahoo! groups) are braindead. No ical. no pop/imap without paying. tv listings that focus more on the advertising than the listing, etc.

  7. Re:as an end user on New Firefox Standard Aims to Combat Cross-Site Scripting · · Score: 1

    After the stunt the noscript author pulled with adblock's filterset, I will never use it again. It simply cannot be trusted. It is malware.

  8. Re:The Principal was wrong, but she was stupid.... on Of Catty Rants and Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but there's a difference between just seeing it, and copying it and giving it to a newspaper for publication (for profit, even) without your permission.

    Kinda like the .mod (or s3m or whatever) that was stolen by Nellie Furtado. Disgusting.

  9. Re:NOBODY on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    I agree, but to use compiz with any degree of efficiency, you unfortunately need the super key :-(

  10. Re:Caps lock will be the end of unintended shoutin on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    Ummm. One of the beautiful things about vi is it does not require modifier keys to use it.

  11. Re:Health Care vs FedEx on IT and Health Care · · Score: 1

    so have the history just be free-form text that each doctor appends to. Why make things more complex than they need to be? Append a medication list, and when prescribed, and by who for quick searches as well. Done.

  12. I'd be happy... on IT and Health Care · · Score: 1

    ... if they would just come up with a standardized paper form for health history. It could be a word, ooxml, pdf, whatever. I walk into the specialist du-jour, and just hand them the #!@#$@!$ piece of paper.

  13. Re:Hmmm interesting but not on Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs · · Score: 1

    Like hell they do. GP is correct. Ugly, and usually put up in places that were once beautiful.

    Say it with me. Nuclear.

  14. Re:Impact on birds... on Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and that's all kinds of aethstetically pleasing. Just the way our planet was meant to be enjoyed. By gazing at big ugly wind farms where the trees used to be on the mountain.

    Nuclear is a better solution.

  15. innovation... on Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? · · Score: 1

    this one occurred to me when setting ubuntu up for dad yesterday.

    Why don't sub-folders in "My Places" expand within the menu? Seems like it should, being that you are in a menu.

  16. Re:Programming by rote on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    And that's EXACTLY how HCL is run. I was a senior IT person at a company that outsourced to HCL. Their entire methodology focused around us creating "run sheets" for their employees to follow to do their work. Everything had to be detailed in these run sheets. If something needed to be done slightly differently, forget it. HCL could not deliver. As the parent stated, the culture is around memorization and following orders. It is definitely not the place to go for problem solving or architecture design.

  17. Re:wheres the white on black theme? on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    That's what the compiz negative filter is for ;-) Seriously, however, I do use it for exactly that (well, actually the green on black filter).

  18. College isn't about learning products on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    ... and that seems to be what this guy expects a graduate to have studied. Ridiculous.

  19. HCL on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    *HCL* is saying that US people are unemployable? Let me tell you about my experience as the lead security analyst at a fortune 500 trying to transition some work to that company...

  20. Did she profit from any of this infringement? on Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error · · Score: 1

    No. So why is the RIAA able to pursue this crap in the first place? *sigh*

  21. robocopy? on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 1

    Just configure things locally as if standalone, and use robocopy to sync the latest signatures and software?

  22. Re:My VZW Blackberry can tether, what's the proble on Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either · · Score: 1

    Sorry to follow up to my own post. That's $30 in addition to the $30 already being payed for the 'unlimited' data plan.

  23. Re:My VZW Blackberry can tether, what's the proble on Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either · · Score: 1

    ATT charges $30/month. Definitely not worth the cost for me. Shame, as it would come in handy every now and then while not near an AP. But I'm not paying some $360 a year for something I may use maybe 2-3x. It'd be nice if they had a plan that included tethering at no cost, and simply charged, up to that $30 if you go over a certain byte count in a month or something.

    Is anybody here using ATT's plan? I've been able to get my linux laptop to see the phone as a modem over bluetooth. AT commands work, etc. When trying any number of options for connecting using the various howtos, the negotiation starts, but then ATT disconnects. Is this normal since I am not on the plan yet? I'd hate to spend that $30/month only to find out I still can't connect to the #!@#$!@$ network.

  24. Re:Proper response by ISP on Disney Strikes Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I dunno. As an ISP I would think my customers would be, well, my customers, and not some web site trying to extort money from me.

  25. Re:its a new kind of internet weirdness on Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague · · Score: 1

    Oh, wow! That's hilarious! I used to browse the Bert is Evil site every now and then back in the day. Never even knew about this. Ha!