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  1. Re:Would you want to work for this guy? on Worker Fired For Running SETI On State-Owned PCs · · Score: 1

    What an ugly bastard. I wonder what Debbie and Laura in Bay Village look like.

  2. Too Expensive. on Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S. · · Score: 1

    $12,000 for a car that I can't really put anything but two people in? I'd be interested in buying one as a second vehicle for the daily commute to work for, say, $5,000-$8,000; but for anything but the commute to work, it would be worthless (camping, hauling mountain bikes and all of the associated gear, etc). It would be nice to save gas, with my subie wrx only getting ~20mpg though. Bring down the price, and the car can probably sell well to single folks who need a nice commuter to go to work with each day.

  3. Re:Ahh.. RFID on RFID Drivers' Licenses Debated · · Score: 1

    And also know what kind of underwear they are wearing (clothing retailers seem to love this technology). Seriously, though, what is stopping Victoria's Secret from knowing that you are wearing a competitor's brand? Better yet, with the 'cookie' feature, they can tell how many times you have been to the store and bought/not bought something. Not cool.

  4. Not a great idea on RFID Drivers' Licenses Debated · · Score: 2, Informative

    considering how easy it is to rewrite RFID information, as demonstrated at defcon this year.

  5. Re:Google won't be another Netscape on Google Launches SMS Search Service · · Score: 1
    Hell Google even makes GreenPeace look bad.

    umm. GreenPeace makes GreenPeace look bad.

  6. Re:Bulls$%^!!! on Microsoft Issues Ominous ASP.Net Security Warning · · Score: 1

    Or put an apache server with mod_proxy and mod_security in front of your IIS servers, and take care of this problem there. Or even do it with mod_rewrite instead of mod_security.

  7. Re:For 99% of most scenarios WIRELESS IS BAD on Wardriving Worries Residents · · Score: 1

    I know that my (ex) orthoedic surgeon did not lock his down. One of a few reasons I do not give them my business any longer.

  8. Re:Fools... on Wardriving Worries Residents · · Score: 1

    We used to do "urban assault" night rides on our mountain bikes through town in the fall when it got dark early (fully equipped with 45+ watts of lighting a piece, of course). Apparently the cops wanted to catch us horrible threats to society, so they talked to the local bike shop owner to teach them how to do some technical riding. Of course, that shop owner was the one organizing the urban assaults. The post above about hiring the war drivers reminded me of that :)

  9. Re:repeat after me on Wardriving Worries Residents · · Score: 1

    Interesting, as winxp will blissfully associate automatically with any open AP it sees.

  10. Re:Please define spy agencies? on Spyware Fines OKed By House · · Score: 1

    Even if it were to apply to cookies, I think that a message on your pages stating that you use cookies, and what they are used for should be sufficient to keep your web pages from being considered "spyware". Of course, IANAL, so what do I know.

  11. Re:Never attempt to turn off the ignition. on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Maybe cars are the first step to skynet/the matrix

  12. Re:Head of Walmart IT on Inside Wal-Mart IT · · Score: 1

    The best people in the field I have ever worked with do not have degrees specifically in computers. Liberal arts minors, with a technical or hard science major (ie, the main guy I work with has a degree in physics). Personally, my degree is in Aerospace Engineering. Given a choice of resumes, I'll take somebody who is self taught and can write well and think logically over a CS degree every time. This field is about adaptation. "training" in a specific platform/os/language or a 'degree' in programming are worthless.

  13. Only one minor problem on Gaim Maintainer Rob Flynn Interviewed · · Score: 1
    It's the same one I have with firefox. I use this on my libretto, which has a 800x480 screen. The hard-coded configuration window is taller than that.

    It would be nice if the config window came up at a reasonable size.

    This seems like it could be an issue as IM seems like one of the 'killer apps' for smaller computers.

  14. Stupid on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 2
    If you cannot function without internet access for awhile, you really need to get some balance in your life. Ride a bike, go for a hike, grab lunch with friends, clean your house, cook your own dinner, etc.

    You should be able to lose one of your favorite activities and not go insane. If so, you have a problem, no matter what the activity.

    Personally, I recommend mountain biking for a daily outlet. Skydiving is a cool way to make a lot of friends too.

  15. Re:old school on USB Thumb Drives as ... Fashion Statement? · · Score: 1

    Original 8 Meg IBM Kangaroo here. The big black one. :P

  16. Re:Performance on SpamAssassin 3.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    It scales just fine. We are using it in comination with Mimedefang's multiplexor here. Mimedefang is great, since you can totally reject stuff that fails basic tests without having to even bother invoking your spam filters.

    We have 3 linux dual-processor mail servers, and have basically maxed them out with memory so that we can use ramdisks for Mimedefang processing. CPU Utilization is currently <10%.

    Some stats from yesterday:

    Spam stats:
    Total Mail In and out: 39320
    Processed by MimeDefang: 24210
    Spam: 1519
    Non-spam: 22691

    Rejected stuff:
    Completely discarded: 6453
    Reject 554 total: 31343
    Reject 550 total: 18151
    Reject 501 total: 4376
    Rejected pre-greeting total: 1273
    Suspicious Header total: 1
    Partial MIME type total: 0
    Non-multipart total:
    Forbidden File attachment total: 60
  17. ob dilbert reference on Is "Marketingspeak" Killing Technology? · · Score: 1
    When dilbert finds utopia in another engineering company. He then suggests they start a marketing department, which eventually destroys the company:


    http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-940/epid-12007/

  18. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    You forgot to add that nickels had pictures of bees on them. "Give me 5 bees for a quarter" I'd say...

  19. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    There's a bug with it (in linux at least), though. If you have something in your selection buffer, as soon as you release the mouse in autoscroll, you end up bouncing (or trying to be bounced if the cut buffer is not a URI) to whatever site was in the cut buffer.

  20. Re:One reason I quit fixing Windows on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 1

    yes, but fixing the problems on anything but windows is so much easier.

  21. Re:Scary on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 2, Insightful
    nowadays, most linux distros ship with most services disabled by default, with the option of enabling iptables as part of the install. True, there could be a daemon that could propagate a worm, but it is not as likely to be running on an end user workstation.

    Compare this to windows, which has no easy way to disable dcom, rpc, and such.

  22. Re:Free? on Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Interesting, I just read of something similar happening in the demoscene yesterday when I decided to rebuild my old mod collection. Apparently there was some guy who was performing purple motion's (future crew) old stuff, and selling it as his own.

    More about it here: http://www.modarchive.com/rippers.shtml

  23. Re:SACD vs MP3 on An Overview Of Present, Future of Music Technology · · Score: 1

    I use VBR with LAME for the best of both worlds, using the --r3mix option. It's been a long time since I read up on it, but is --r3mix a better option, or should I be using --alt-preset extreme or --alt-preset insane?

  24. Bad Title on An Overview Of Present, Future of Music Technology · · Score: 1

    You are talking about digital format technology, not "music" technology. By the title, I'd expect to see something about how instruments and such are changing.

  25. Re:Offtopic, sorry. on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    See my instructions for downloading below. Use Xine with the windoze DLL's to view.