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  1. Re:Not just for spam! on Reverse Firewalls As An Anti-Spam Tool · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For about 3.2 seconds till the UPNP enabled virus tells the UPNP enabled firewall that it is an authorized app...

  2. Re:Oracle 9i RAC doesn't charge for HT on Multi-Core Chips And Software Licensing · · Score: 1

    If you, or the mods, had read the damn article you would see that they covered that. Oracle and most others do not charge for HT, but they do charge for multiple cores. The article says that Oracle has added language to it's contracts that cover this and also has quotes from a fime that was hit with 100,000 USD/server additional costs due to the duel cores in the US IV.

  3. Re:Darts on Workplace Monotony? · · Score: 1

    420 per ceiling tile ;->

  4. Re:Remember... on Workplace Monotony? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, from the way both parties act these days wouldn't he be playing the exact same person on both? ;->

  5. Re:An odd analogy. on Identifying Compromised Websites · · Score: 1

    If you site was hacked and all the users saw was the 404 errors or the hacked pages then I would agree that they don't have to be told. However, in this case, software could have been installed on the users computer with out them knowing and that is why they should have been told.

  6. Re:What a bunch of on Macromedia: More FUD About SVG · · Score: 1

    The original post said that SVG does 1/2 the things that Flash does.

    What else can't it do? And why can't the client just install a SVG plugin?

  7. Re:What a bunch of on Macromedia: More FUD About SVG · · Score: 1

    What can Flash do that SVG can't?

  8. Re:Outstanding on Microsoft Announces Dividend and Stock Buyback Program · · Score: 1

    They SAID they will do a buy back of UP TO 30 Billion. They don't have to buy back that much stock and most companies that announce a buy back don't buy back new what they authorized to. I would be shocked if MSFT buys back more than 10 Billion over the next 3 years.

    And cutting employee benifits isn't a good way to keep your best employees, and that is a negative in regards to their long term stock price.

  9. Re:Can we have some details on the JSF on SCO Claims Linux Lifted ELF · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the Linux port of JFS done from the OS/2 code base, not the the AIX code base? I think they are two different implitations of the same spec with the OS/2 version sharing no code with the AIX version.

    But, I could be wrong.

  10. Re:Meh on US Government Keeping Close Eye on Longhorn · · Score: 1

    Because, perhaps, it will stop the GOP from acting like DEMS?

  11. Re:Is it just me on IPv6 is Here · · Score: 2, Informative

    128 bit addresses allow for 2^128=340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768, 211,456 total theoretically assignable addresses.

    THAT is a virtually unlimited number. ;->

  12. Re:Dream on. on Dunst Demands Asset Reduction For Spider-Man 2 Videogame · · Score: 1

    Yes, because women HATE other women with large breasts. I mean, just look at the breast sizes in women's mags at the supermarket...

  13. Re:HP's benefit ... on Dell CEO Tells All · · Score: 1

    Did you every work with a guy named Barry Gaberial He was based out of DEC's Dallas, Texas office.

  14. Re:Do let's be consistent, shall we? on Dell CEO Tells All · · Score: 1

    Insurance, back by the taxpayer in the event that their overseas assets are every nationalized.

    World security (no MAJOR wars and nothing that really effects shipping) provided by the US Military.

    Below market rate loans, subsidized by the taxpayer, to move and develope their overseas operations.

    The worlds most transparent, most reliable and well managed capital markets.

    Below market R&D and patent licenses from FEDGOV research, subsidized by the taxpayer.

    Those are just a few of the things large corps get. I could write more, but it's late.

  15. Re:Hear hear on Dell CEO Tells All · · Score: 1

    Then why doesn't the F500 use their lobying power to get it done? It's easy, they are large and can afford to hire people to understand the regs for them (hell, the write a large portion of them). Smaller companies can't afford to do this, so it gives the F500 an advantage.

  16. He appears to be lying. on Dell CEO Tells All · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He said "The bulk of our employees are still in the U.S. "

    That is a LIE.

    ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - Computer maker Dell Inc. has more workers overseas than it does in the United States, reversing the makeup of its work force of just a year ago. Round Rock-based Dell said it was allocating resources where growth has been fastest, including China and Japan.

    "We have great opportunities outside the U.S., and as such we have built our employee base in areas that best reflect our strong growth areas," Dell spokesman Bob Kaufman said Tuesday. "Our jobs have grown all over the world, including here in the U.S."

    Dell had 46,000 employees as of Jan. 30. About 22,200 of those, or 48.3 percent, were in the United States, while 23,800 people, or 51.7 percent, worked in other countries, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.

    A year ago, 54.2 percent of Dell's workers were in the United States, according to company filings. Dell's work force grew 17.6 percent during 2003.

    Dell said overseas job growth in the past year ran the gamut, from sales and manufacturing to call center support.

    Last year, Dell stopped routing corporate customers to a technical support call center in Bangalore, India after a flood of complaints. Tech support for Optiplex desktop and Latitude notebook computers are being handled from call centers in Texas, Idaho and Tennessee instead.

    Shares of Dell were down 23 cents to $35.56 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

    FROM: Associated Press ^ | Apr 13, 2004

  17. Re:Do let's be consistent, shall we? on Dell CEO Tells All · · Score: 1

    Judging from your debating style it appears you are a member of freerepublic. What's you screen name on fr?

  18. Re:latency aside ... on Ariane Launches A New Way To Get Online · · Score: 1

    That isn't camping... ;->

  19. Re:CARs GPS-based or Galileo-based don't work. on Ariane Launches A New Way To Get Online · · Score: 1

    With your abuse of stats are you a GOPer trying to ban porn/sex or a DEM trying to ban guns? ;->

  20. Re:Security vs Liberty. on 1984 Comes To Boston · · Score: 1

    I would contact my insurance company and have them pay for replacments.

  21. Re:Enron Equipment on Pick Up A Piece of Enron · · Score: 1

    I bet you a lot of the good office desk and chairs are now in use at goverment offices. That's what happened to some of the desks from SNPC.

  22. You can get some good deals.. on Pick Up A Piece of Enron · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Having purchased at auction a large amount of items from one of my former employers (Sunpoint Securities, Inc - One of the largest brokerage failuers in US History) if you are careful you can make a decent profit on auctions like this.

  23. Re:What happened to RISC? on SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs · · Score: 2, Informative

    True. There are at least two different x86 emulators available. There is the HW one that is built in and the newer and faster IA-32 Execution Layer (currently only available for windows).

  24. Re:More American Arrogance? on Language Tempest At Orkut · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, but companies can take out all the ads they want with out getting prior approval from the Goverment (doesn't apply to brokers and medical ads).

    Perhaps you are the one who is trying to force your values/way of life on us because you appear to not know what the hell you are talking about.

    Perhaps you don't like those BAD tourists from the USA because they remind you too much of your self.

  25. Re:What happened to RISC? on SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs · · Score: 3, Informative

    AMD and Intel happened. What do you think is running your computer right now (assuming it's an x86)? It a RISC chip that has x86 translater attached, the core of the chip is RISC.