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  1. Re:Is Apple on the offensive on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 2, Informative

    In addition to NetInstall, you can create an image of a hard disk, and use Disk Utility or asr (on the command line) to clone that image to another drive. That's how we set up machines here - one image each for Account Service, Creative and Studio, each with custom applications and settings. Our setup time is approximately 30 minutes with this process.

  2. Re:not needed on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 1

    I agree that we do have the right. However, I imagine anyone trying to overthrow the government will get attention from various Three-Letter Agencies as well as the Secret Service.
    What government, regardless of natural human rights, is going to allow itself to be overthrown? The Nepalese king just gave up some of his power to avoid that.

  3. Re:it's about time for the really big change on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the Declaration of Independence isn't a legal document, and confers no rights to anyone.

    I'm all for revolution, but it's not going to be "legal."

  4. Re:I am already cashless! on French Town Tests Cashless Society · · Score: 1

    Where are you paying $4 for gas? Or are you not in the US?

    It just hit over $3 here in southwestern CT.

  5. Re:Heartfelt note to recent "switchers" on Mac Security Alarm System · · Score: 1

    Real Mac users run OmniWeb.


    Or, we run Safari because 1) it works and 2) we can't afford the OW licensing fee after buying that Mac.

  6. Re:Wow, this is incredible on Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    may also be the case for the XPClassic environ... (Or whatever they call it.)

    You mean the Red Box? It's been a rumor since the late-90s Rhapsody days. With Apple assisting on the WINE project now, it seems to be more of a reality than a rumor these days.

  7. Re:a more appropriate response on Apple Begins Fixing MacBook Pro Issues · · Score: 1

    Yes, and we looked into that, but our leasing company won't send anything but the newest hardware...

  8. Re:a more appropriate response on Apple Begins Fixing MacBook Pro Issues · · Score: 1

    Except, when your company leases every computer in the building (cycles are two years for laptops, three for desktops), there's nothing you can do about getting the newest hardware in.

    We received about 15 MacBook Pros about two weeks ago. Luckily enough, there were just enough for us to distribute to the IT department and spare the rest of the company from beta testing new hardware.

    Other than being unable to print from my Active Directory account because I used the Migration Assistant, and a screen bug that I can't reproduce, I've not had a problem with the laptop.

  9. Re:"5200?" Also, you're lying. on Apple Begins Fixing MacBook Pro Issues · · Score: 1

    No consumer machines caught fire

    Well, the PowerBook 5300 did better than the Aluminum PowerBook G4

  10. Re:So Simple? on Device Developed To Help Socially Challenged · · Score: 1

    Actually, the vibrator should work perfectly in this case.

  11. Re:Not Flawed Legislation on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    Define "terrorist."
    If I read Marx/Lenin/Trotsky, am I a terrorist?
    If I read the Koran, am I a terrorist?
    If I read Recipes for Disaster, am I a terrorist?

    Where is the line drawn? How is it drawn?

  12. Fridge? on Opera CEO on Devices, Linux, and Web 2.0 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This is the part that caught my attention:

    (stuff about Linux on a fridge at IBM)
    Q23b. Really? To look up recipes?

    A23b. It's kind of cool. It will actually recognize what's in there, and that kind of thing, with barcode reading and other technologies. I have to be careful not to say too much, but a lot of it is based on Linux, and they're using Opera.

    I want to hear more about this. It would be so very cool to be able to connect to my fridge (via email, web, SMS, whatever) while at the grocery store, and find out what I need more of.
  13. Re:Does it still have a built in bias? on Google News Leaves Beta · · Score: 1

    Did you just call Daily Kos "extreme-left?"
    Daily Kos supports Democrats. At least in the US, that's not "extreme-left."

  14. Re:Stupid name on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 1

    Your average consumer, if their minds ever even think of such things, probably don't know what chip is inside their computer.

  15. Re:Information overload a diagnosed problem? on Knowledge Overload or Internet Lazy? · · Score: 1

    e-mail is down all weekend for maintenance

    What's worse than posting on Slashdot on New Year's Eve?
    Mail server maintenance.

  16. Re:What about the chimes in the commercials? on 'Intel Inside' No More · · Score: 1

    That's a real song, called "Woo Hoo," originally written by the Rock-A-Teens and performed for the Kill BIll soundtrack (same version used in the Vonage commercial) by the 5,6,7,8's

    This tidbit of rock trivia brought to you by little-to-no-sleep.

  17. "What About Your Country?" on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 1

    Well, in my country, it was 1984 almost 22 years ago!

  18. Re:Um, what? on Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Er, yeah. I miss the blink tag, too...
    Something like that.

  19. Re:only winner on The Math Behind the Hybrid Hype · · Score: 1

    Why key an SUV when you can blow a few up?
    In all seriousness, check out the film End Of Suburbia - our local IMC just did a showing of this last night. Hybrid cars won't save you from peak oil.

  20. Similar... on Dilbert Hiding On Your CPU · · Score: 1

    If you open up a Sun SparcStation IPX, you'll see a cat etched on the motherboard.

  21. Re:Cancelling AOL was very easy on AOL Fined for Making it Hard to Cancel Service · · Score: 1

    Good to know... my current employer has a ix.netcom.com account from when the company was much smaller that we still set up on every single laptop we hand out. It's a pretty crazy place.

  22. Re:Newsflash on Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants · · Score: 2, Insightful
    be vigilant. But there will never be compulsory "implants" that will be required for all

    Just as there will never be internments for all Japanese- or German-Americans in certain states, or random searches on the NYC subways.....

  23. Re:Who and How? on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    Try Recipes for Disaster from the CrimethInc Ex-Workers' Collective instead. Sure, there's no information on making drugs, but for real-world situations from direct action to silkscreen and guerrilla performances to reclaiming the streets, it's more than a valuable tool.

  24. Re:Third party checks on Wired Strongarms Subscribers? · · Score: 1

    "God, I wished they named it the more appropiate 'Big Brother Act')"

    As an [OT] FYI, I went to a debate between Chris Shays (R-CT) and Bob Barr (former R-GA) on the act. Shays is all for it (one of the reasons he didn't get my vote), and Barr is against much of it. During the course of the debate, the name was brought up. Even Shays agreed that it should probably have been called something else, but no one's going to do anything about it now.

  25. Re:Wow flashback on A Review of the 128KB Macintosh · · Score: 1

    Do you remember what this was called? I remember Apple projects that might fit, though I can't exactly recall. The first was Dylan, the second was Cocoa (not the same as today's Cocoa).