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  1. Other products are available on Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent · · Score: 1

    Just a quick info on a product that is from a woman in my town here in Norway. I think this has a huge potential and is targeting parents with kids from 7-10 years old.

    Bipper.com is a simple sim-card with a the code included in the sim-card that makes you monitor and select who can call and text your children etc. There is also a code the child can call and then the phone will call persons in a ring until one answers. The location of the phone will also be sent. Since it's all on the sim-card it will work on most phones, even old phones that you most probably will give your youngsters.

  2. Re:Well no wonder on US Monitoring Database Reaches Limit, Quits Tracking Felons and Parolees · · Score: 0

    FYI, that limit is no longer present in Excel 2010.

  3. I consider myself a rather "expert" on Windows on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    as of today, Windows 7 gives me nothing but a few advantages for my company.

    1. More satisfied users, as they feel the Windows XP is rather old.
    2. uhh.

    That's it.

    Windows 7? Nothing to see here. Move along.

  4. Let me round it up for ya on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Whatever the allegations, Assange has managed to get himself into trouble. Like this other guy at HP. And also this guy named Clinton (no need for URL I guess) that did not have sexual relationship with that woman.

    Interesting how everybody thinks the wikileaks issue is some kind of CIA attack.
    These are males. You know, the male human.

  5. Behold, this is America on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 1

    Where airtime is given to anybody saying anything shocking or idiotic. And even posted at Slashdot.

  6. Proof on Possible Issues With the P != NP Proof · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Possible != Not Possible

    Proof enough for me.

  7. A Toaster? on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays? · · Score: 0, Redundant
  8. Very interesting. And yet informal. on Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers · · Score: 4, Funny

    I do declare this comment to be very authentic. I write now while drinking coffee. I insert reference http:/// and get modded up.

    (Automatic comment-system robot v0.4 r2)

  9. Prince sees internet as the enemy? on Prince Says Internet Is Over · · Score: 1

    I wonder if he changed his name just to fight piracy in the first place. I bet he's been fighting Internet for a long time.

  10. 2 options, gift certificate or buy-back on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 1

    I think the following options might help:
    1. An option for gift certificate solving the "grandma problem". Just buy a certificate for e.g. $100 at MyTicketService.com (or similar), which I bet they already can do.
    2. Buy-back. The ticket services should buy back for 90% of price within 3 days before concerts, 50% 2 days before, and 40% the day before. This way they would also be able to counterfeit the black market.

    I don't care about people trying to sell tickets for profit. They just destroy for us all when they buy more tickets than they are able to use. Why should we care about them?

  11. No longer looking for multitaskers on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The main reason for this might be that a lot of IT seem to be specializing their people on narrow professions. There's less need for women, who are excellent multitaskers.

  12. Re:This just proves on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 1

    They're smarter than the men.

    Written by Anonymous Cowardess :)

  13. The belief in punishment on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been the US way of thinking for ages. Yet you have more prisoners than any other countries.

    The US needs to do something about why people go for such drastic steps, becoming burglars or similar. You cannot continue having a society where some win the great price and become rich whilst the majority stay poor. You need a better structure for so many things that I cannot see where to start.

    The only great about the US now is the great minds that continue to immigrate from other countries. Yet for every great mind there is thousands of people growing up not even knowing anything except how to steal. It's time to wake up and try doing something about how peoples lives can get better in general.

  14. Its not about logging on. It's about selling on Symantec Finds Server Containing 44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials · · Score: 1

    They would split up the list and sell it as small lists. E.g. you could split it up into lists of 1000 accounts or less, wheras the newest accounts are the most likely to work, thus having the highest price or similar.

  15. Windows Live Family Safety (yeah i know...) on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 1

    I would, even if you might not like it, recommend Windows Live Family Safety. It offers great parental control options like blocking websites, reporting, time limits, gaming restrictions etc. It needs Windows Live installed, but heck I don't care as long as I don't spend too much time setting this up.

  16. Re:OS/2 was a double-cross by Bill on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    I do not agree. You blame Microsoft for OS/2's failure. The project failed on it self. You refer back to 19*88* which was a long way before Windows 95. The competitor those days was Windows 3.0 which was much lighter and much easier to manage than a VERY heavyweight OS like OS/2. 5 minutes boot-up times and a long wait for every program startup. There were no appliactions available in 32-bit and it was simply a system 5 years ahead of any home computer. Microsoft did not use this as a lesson, instead, they withdrawed from the project instead of just waiting for itself to fail.

  17. OS/2 was a democracy. Just look what happened to i on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 0

    There was a reason Microsoft withdrawed from OS/2. IBM let everybody in the company come with their ideas and meaning. In the end the load time ended loading so much stuff that Microsoft just shook their head and withdrawed.

  18. Don't use Admin-enabled as your standard account on New "Spear Phishing" Attacks Target IT Admins · · Score: 1

    I've seen admin-problem in so many places. Both in Linux and Windows-environments. In Linux, people seem to add their ssh key so you can logon to pretty much every computer in your network. Well I sure hope you have control over every .sh file you might run. In Windows, it's very easy to add your normal user account to the Domain Admins group, thus you should really be careful on what you run from your account.

    Heads up. Use a separate account for your admin privileges!

  19. Memory footprint still bigger than Vista and XP on Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud · · Score: 1

    At work we have a lot of issues using Autocad when loading large files in 32-bit. I can confirm that Windows 7 leaves less RAM for applications than Vista and XP.

  20. What's next? on Brokers Get Strict Social Networking Rules · · Score: 1

    Are you gonne monitor my soft-porn surfing too?

  21. Buy the patents, compete with Spotify on Apple Buys Lala Music Streaming, But Why? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. Buy the patents
    2. Compete with Spotify

  22. Re:Idle computer resources on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 1

    My workstations at work uses 100W, even if they are 99% idle. Not much difference in idle and cpu load.
    Also, mind you, my workstations uses 35W when they are in stand-by, and even 35W when they are turned OFF! I guess this is because of Wake on Lan is enabled or similar.

  23. Book double overtime on Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? · · Score: 1

    Make a deal for booking double overtime for time spent at customer calls.

  24. IT professional! on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    I really like Microsoft's way of defining IT people. They're either IT Professionals or Developers.
    Being an IT Pro defines me.

  25. Re:In a related question on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 1

    You can't compare it to a ship? It's a BAY damnit! :)