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  1. Johnny Ashcroft says on Steel Bolt Hacking · · Score: 1
    Only terrorists carry Bic Pens.

    God-fearing, red-blodded, honest Americans would never use a Bic Pen.

    If you use a Bic Pen, then the terrorists will have won.

  2. You obviously don't on Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers · · Score: 1
    Or you have never touched the Market Data feeds.

    At least until 2001, NYSE could bost of having one and only one Windows-based PC on the floor, and it was used to monitor another system. If it BSODed, then no big whoop. Everything else was custom coded Unix derivative.

    So, how many Windows boxes run in the NASDAQ (NWII) cluster? How many Windows boxes serve Bloomberg? What about Reuters terminal service?

  3. If we're lucky on SVP : More Video Anti-Copying Technology · · Score: 1

    In the future, modding hardware or capturing video without a license will be Illegal.

  4. Way to go, asshat on US Candidates Ignore Looming Debt Crisis · · Score: 1, Informative

    Please allow me to highlight the most important part of the article you forgot to include:

    Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2004. All rights reserved.

    As you are obviously incapable of understanding rudimentary concepts like copyrights, then I will not explain them to you. Perhaps someone else reading this who might be confused by your flagrant violation of the law will first check out common copyright myths before deciding to emulate you.

  5. You are new here, aren't you? on Republican Senators May 'Go Nuclear' · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Don't remember the 503 errors that happen after every code update? The lack of any process, the rogue programmer syndrome?

    What will you do when the government can't communicate and Taco only shrugs and says, "Par for the course," before turning back to his gin and juice?

  6. That means on Republican Senators May 'Go Nuclear' · · Score: 1

    It is time to stock up on Guns and Gold. :)

  7. Excellent advice on Tech Team Traditions? · · Score: 1
    When the boss plans something, don't bail just because ~. Show up, and have fun. ~. Its not the bosses job to make you have fun. He's going out of his way to provide the ~ atmosphere. The least you can do is try.
    Exactly! Some people just are friggin complainers! If only they would get out of their little world for a minute and realize that the boss's job it not to make you have fun at work, they'd probably avoid that ulcer.
  8. Gotta hand it to him on Employees Rights in an Emergency? · · Score: -1, Troll
    It is probably his first job and he's deathly afraid of pissing off his boss. So, he slinks off to /. (the resource of sound advice and extensive real-world experience that it is) and bellyaches to the world instead of seeing the solution that is staring him in the face.

    It is so cute to see the fresh meat all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, sucking it up for the man. When the man says "All employees will start wearing latex hoods with the zippers for the mouth in the closed position," these young'ns will try to make sure they get the right size, whereas use older, jaded (you would say, "experienced") workers will start pinging the personal network and to figure out where our next gig is going to be.

    Enjoy it while you can! After the hoods comes the ball-gags, then the rear-entry plugs, and finally the Abu Ghraib "telephone"

  9. Re:Not Scrapped Yet... on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1
    Then that bill has to be passed in both the house and the senate.
    And then they gotta bust Shrub's veto... assumine the "Grate" Communicator is still in office when it comes up.
  10. Re:And then... on Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices · · Score: 1
    ~ only those with Administrator rights can modify that portion of the registry.
    And getting Admin is a trivial exercise.

    Okay, you might also need some cheap hardware and a universal case-opening device

  11. And then... on Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices · · Score: 0, Redundant
    we can unblock access to USB keys right now, too!

    Remember that Microsoft Security is like a paper mache lock painted with gray #12 - looks real enough, but fragile when tested

  12. Silly! on Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices · · Score: 1

    The server is under his desk, behind the trash can, underneath the old copies of Windows magazine!

  13. Sure, sure on Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret · · Score: 1

    I concede defeat and wish to sign up to your newsletter.

    I now understand that since one can find a plethora of sundry words in the dictionary, one can use any of them and converse as if one were highly educated.

  14. Not evil on Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret · · Score: 2, Funny
    ~ are so badly educated ~.
    Education cannot be bad or good. The word you want is poorly, as in:
    Seriously, if the poeple in positions of power like this are so poorly educated, we are screwed.
  15. Sorry on Hardening Apache · · Score: 1

    YHBT. YHL. HAND.

  16. voluntary turnover on Tech Turnover Rate Lowest Since The 80's · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Yay, voluntary turnover is low.

    Hey, what's this pink piece of paper stuck to my paycheque?

  17. In this case, Monopoly=Good on Ring-Tone Barons? Japanese Record Companies Raided · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I think ringtones should be $300 each.

    Then maybe people will start using the VIBRATE mode, instead of the cry-for-attention, I-am-teh-5uX ringtone mode.

  18. Thank you on Did Your Code Ever Make Anyone Deaf? · · Score: 1

    I had no idea that it-posessive was spelt it's. I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  19. The subject on Did Your Code Ever Make Anyone Deaf? · · Score: 1
    Please understand that I hold you only in the highest regard.

    I suspect at least one of your small distal interphalangeal joints is malfunctioning, as your sentence capitalization is incorrect/absent. Perhaps you will consider using another joint while you get the defective item repaired or replaced.

    As to your questions, I categorically avoid holding a 'battle of wits' with unarmed persons.

    Cheers, "mate"

  20. Even better on Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS · · Score: 1, Insightful
    You are right for smart companies that keep talented people around to fix things when they break.

    Unfortuantely most companies will say, "your job [apt-get] is now handled automatically?! You're gone! Wee, we saved 0.025% of our IT budget!" Six months later when the connection fails because some idiot messed up DNS, they have no one left who can figure out how to fix it, and no one who can do it manually...

  21. Not nessi-celery on Did Your Code Ever Make Anyone Deaf? · · Score: 1
    That's just it, wouldn't your low battery indicator be one of the things you would test?
    I'm sure they had a test case similar to:

    Test case #348b: Battery Low

    1. Install undercharged (6%) battery into phone
    2. Wait for battery level to drop to 5%
    3. Alarm Sounds
    #348b: pass

    What they really needed to do was Test Case #348c: Battery Low While In Use, but they didn't because:

    • The project wasn't budgeted for that much testing,
    • Marketing promised delivery of the phones by a certain date, and additional testing would cause slippage,
    • Other, more serious bugs needed to be fixed first (e.g., phone exploded whenever ringtones were played, phone spat hot acid whenever the user pressed the pound sign (#), etc.), or
    • Cmdr "Par for the Course" Taco was in charge of Project management.
  22. Re:Word HTML on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1

    You need a doctype; unless you're coding in HTML 3.2, you need to lowercase all your tags; you need a character set (meta) tag...

  23. Re:consoles and freeware on In-Game Advertising Breaks Out · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ~ the cost of making a movie is astronomically higher now than it was in the 1980's ~.
    No.

    The issue is the fact that the movie companies ("Suits") are extremely risk-adverse these days; they want a guaranteed hit. To do this, they go with a familiar story (remake of some old chestnut, or a action/hot babe thriller) and lots of star power. The latter thought is based upon the assumption that people will want to go see their favorite star in a poorly-written story, rather than a cast of unknowns with a well-written script.

    The cost of the stars and the cost of overhead, of continuously tweaking a good story until it is a tired, retread POC, is what drives the cost up.

    Some of your best bargins are the so-called "minority" films. The studios generally pay much less for a "Mexican" or "Black" flick, even though the writing is generally of good quality, as in "Mi Vida Loca" or "Soul Food."

  24. Making illegal copies != theft on Alternatives To The INDUCE Act · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The misconception about copyright violation is is part of the problem---and I would place the big interests as the source of the confusion; they benefit when you misunderstand copyrights.

    Making a copy of a copyrighted work and distributing it is not theft. It is a copyright violation. These are two different things.

  25. Word <--> HTML on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But why use WORD to create HTML documents?

    There is a misconception about Word's Save as HTML function. It isn't there to generate (clean) HTML.

    It is there to save your document in a format that can (somewhat) be read by a browser, but more importantly, that can be read by Word. I found this out when I managed to corner a MicroSerf "evangelist" (or whatever the fark they call their sales/tech dweebs) and ask him what the #$@ SA-HTML was supposed to do.

    He told me the extra garbage they embed in the file is for Word's benefit, so it can recreate the document in all its bloated glory if you load the HTML file back into Word.

    Let's take a look at a "Hello World" doc, shall we? (spaces added to deal with crak-smoking---sorry---'leet filter/editor)

    Note that only a tiny bit of the document is concerned with rendering "Hello world." The rest deals with preserving document styles and properties--stuff you'd find under the "File, Properties" dialog.

    < html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
    xmlns:o=" urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
    xmlns:w= "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
    xmlns="ht tp://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

    < head>
    < meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
    < meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
    < meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10">
    < meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10">
    < link rel=File-List href="Hello%20world_files/filelist.xml">
    < title>Hello world< /title>
    < !--[if gte mso 9]>< xml>
    < o:DocumentProperties>
    < o:Author>SC< /o:Author>
    < o:LastAuthor>SC< /o:LastAuthor>
    < o:Revision>1< /o:Revision>
    < o:TotalTime>0< /o:TotalTime>
    < o:Created>2004-08-25T05:14:00Z< /o:Created>
    < o:LastSaved>2004-08-25T05:14:00Z< /o:LastSaved>
    < o:Pages>1< /o:Pages>
    < o:Words>1< /o:Words>
    < o:Characters>11< /o:Characters>
    < o:Company>Ye Olde /. Editor Crack Supply Haus< /o:Company>
    < o:Lines>1< /o:Lines>
    < o:Paragraphs>1< /o:Paragraphs>
    < o:CharactersWithSpaces>11< /o:CharactersWithSpaces>
    < o:Version>10.6626< /o:Version>
    < /o:DocumentProperties>
    < /xml>< ![endif]-->< !--[if gte mso 9]>< xml>
    < w:WordDocument>
    < w:SpellingState>Clean< /w:SpellingState>
    < w:GrammarState>Clean< /w:GrammarState>
    < w:Compatibility>
    < w:BreakWrappedTables/>
    < w:SnapToGridInCell/>
    < w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
    < w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
    < /w:Compatibility>
    < w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4< /w:BrowserLevel>
    < /w:WordDocument>
    < /xml>< ![endif]-->
    < style>
    < !--
    /* Style Definitions */
    p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
    {mso-style-parent:"";
    margin:0in;
    margin-bottom:.0001pt;
    mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
    font-size:12.0pt;
    font-family:"Times New Roman";
    mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
    @page Section1
    {size:8.5in 11.0in;
    margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;
    mso-header-margin:.5in;
    mso-footer-margin:.5in;
    mso-paper-source:0;}
    div.Secti