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  1. Re:Wow... on How To Sue the Auto Dialers · · Score: 1

    WOW that was funny!

  2. Re:Wait a Second... on How To Sue the Auto Dialers · · Score: 1

    Nobody has noticed yet that the same law can be used to sue spammers as well; you would think people would be lining up to sue e360 for picking on spamhaus!

  3. Re:I don't on Will the U.S. Lose Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I don't think it would take long for a new for of IP regisration to emerge if 'THE US' decides to play silly buggers with it.
    just switch to IPv6 we'd never know! It would be like this:
    COP :"what's wrong little boy"
    US: "I can't find my parents" (in whiney sniffling voice)
    COP: "where do you live?"
    US: "in that house right there"
    COP: the one with the for sale sign out front?
    US: The furniture is gone too, they left while I was in school and no one told me! wahhhhh
    COP: you was picking on that Spamhaus kid again weren't you!

  4. Re:In related news on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    (to avoid another Inflation saving was strongly encouraged or mandated, these saving were used to buy German government bonds and that, ultimately, is how the Nazi state financed a huge increase in state spending without raising taxes).
    Actually that's a very effective way to deal with a depression cause by monetary deflation.

  5. Re:What about the Department of Corrections then? on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    Departments of Corrections runs prisons, correctional facilities, the military guys your trying to think of is Public Information, or G5/S5. This is old stuff really, the only thing new here is the emphasis on web news and timeliness. No need for the chicken-little routine, the Military existed before Rumsfeld and will exist after Rumsfeld and the military knows.

  6. Re:Imagine... on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    The Unix way of doing things introduces another level of abstraction Just explain everything is a file to *nix, it treats what you type at the keyboard as a file, it treats traditional files as files, a directory is a file of files, a hard-disk is a book of directories of file. Most of the time because everything is treated the same way, moving a whole hard-disk of file from place to place is almost a easy as moving a single file or folder. Unless your an expert doing unusual things, you'll never have to worry about whether the file is on one hard-disk or the other.

    (and Applications folder, which OSX has and Linux desperately needs) Programs can be in several places, /sbin holds programs that you need to be root to use and can muck things up if used wrong so don't worry about them; /usr/bin holds most of the program files you'll use, but over the years it's gotten pretty full so some programs with lots of applications keep their own bin directories under /opt//bin; /usr/local/bin hold special applications that mainly specialty programs.

    There is a logic to the way the windows did a lot of things, but that logic is every old and very simple and pretty much no longer applies to our present usage realities; *nix did thing a lot more complicated and expendable, but the result is *nix better fits what we do today.

  7. Re:Imagine... on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    I was shocked when my 2nd Win95 computer didn't have filemanager from win3.10, my first win95 computer was an upgrade from win3.10 so it was still there afgter the upgrade.

  8. Re:Imagine... on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    Then Vista will not boot because the user exceeded his upgrade allowance; and if it does the DRM will require that he place his first-born son in escrow in case he uses that MP3 player, thumb drive or burner be used to pirate copyrighted materials.

  9. Re:Imagine... on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    I'd argue that the elegance of being able to mount a drive anywhere in the file system, is much cleaner. try moving your "program files" to d:/ verses me moving /usr/bin from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1.

  10. Re:Imagine... on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    Be a man not a girly-boy, run Xroach!

  11. Re:Do or do not. There is no try. on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah like I really like how in windows app where hitting OK sometimes closes the present window and sometimes opens the child window.
    How about how if you open your browser, a single click on a hyperlink follows to the links URL, but the file-manager that looks just like the browser needs to double-click the links (shortcuts)?
    Here's a good one how about downloading an executable to a user's desktop, then right-clicking and run-as admin, ever try that it don't work, Windows says admin has insufficient privileges! Then you get sneeky and down-load it to a shared folder, and run-as, but that still doesn't work, you have to copy it into the shared folder, I've pleaded with every windows guru for 3 years to tell me how to do that, nobody knew! as far as I can tell I'm the only one! This is so unintuitive, admin is untrusted and to make a file shared, it has to be moved into a shared folder, and downloading into the shared folder doesn't count!

    I don't want to to things the "new" windows way, I want some sanity, I want the old tried and true, rational, expandable Unix way!

  12. Re:Ignoring a potential talent pool on Hiring (Superstar) Programmers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure there is a definition of "illegal alien" in the sense your implying, are you talking about someone who jumped the border to smuggle drugs, jumped the border to find a job to better himself and family back in the home country, or someone who jumped the border and has a family here that includes children that are American Citizens?

  13. Re:Screw ICANN, call your credit card company on Transferring Domains from Uncooperative Registrar? · · Score: 1

    So your saying that it's Go Daddy's, and probably most registrars policy, to receive money and fail to provide the services agreed to, to lie to their credit card companies and probably commit credit defamation, then to steal the domain name in a cyber-salted earth reprisal because the victim had the audacity to retaliate?

  14. Re:Some reasons on Optimizing Page Load Times · · Score: 1
    First a couple points, Asa Dotzler comments were dated December 26, 2004, that's a few relese cycles ago, but the comments he made were actualyy about the following:

    Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

    1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
        network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
    Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

    2. Alter the entries as follows:
    Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
    Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
    Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

    3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

    If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!


    Now you'll notice that step 2 is one of the things that the article actually discused, step 3, setting nglayout.initialpaint.delay wasn't discussed, however I've preformed both this morning and am quite impressed, but I might increase nglayout.initialpaint.delay to a higher value zero seems to quick and the rendering does glitch due to re-paints. One thing I did notice is the browser responds before the page is loaded, so if your serving ads off a dog-ass slow server, I'm all ready scrolled past your banners so you better upgrade.
  15. Re:How nice of you... on Optimizing Page Load Times · · Score: 1

    I agree with you in principal, but google-analytics, runner.splunk and double-click really do need to beef up their response times. I've made the changes suggested in the article to my copy of firefox 2.0 and it's made a real seat of the pants difference to the felt load times, yet the total load times seems about the same. The main effect now is because the browser is more responsive and doesn't block, I've scrolled down below the slow loading ads before they've even started to load.

  16. The best part was... on Congressman Calls for Arrest of Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    The best part was when the little boy cried out "But the Emperor has nothing at all on!" OOPS sorry I read the wrong article! I was wondering where that Malarkey guy went too.

  17. Re:Obviously... on Politicians Have Poor Grasp of Technology? · · Score: 1

    No not at all, I think former POWs deserve a respect above and beyond that which most military is due, and all soldiers and sailors serving their countries honorably deserve respect. I'm saying that as a retired Soldier. On the other hand doing the right thing by accident doesn't get you any "Atta Boys", it just keeps you from getting an "Oh Shit". I don't normally expect a state rep to be an expert on all foreign affairs, yet Michigan is a border state, and we have a shit pile of foreign investment due to the auto industry, so being totally clueless in foreign affairs and history is detrimental to being a good representative. I guess the bottom line is a politician should know enough about something to be able to tell if his/her advisers are keeping him in the dark and feeding him bullshit.

  18. Re:New blood on Politicians Have Poor Grasp of Technology? · · Score: 2

    My kid sent me an email, "Dad you gotta go to KBR and put in a job app, they are paying people $80K/yr. to be bus drivers and that's around post not thru downtown Bagdad either" Those school lunch-ladies could be making $50K! A couple semesters of chemistry means you can test diesel fuel and do lube-oil analysis for $125K.

  19. Re:Obviously... on Politicians Have Poor Grasp of Technology? · · Score: 1

    I had an opportunity to talk at length to one of my state representative who had co-sponsored a POW car license plate bill, this guy didn't realize that it was possible for people like soldiers for Germany to have been POW because we held as enemy soldiers or that soldiers of our Allies like the Soviets Union then considered an enemy could all be legal residents of the state. These guys are clueless.

  20. Re:Someone's misreading you on Politicians Have Poor Grasp of Technology? · · Score: 1

    Actually food stamps are a thing of the past primarily because they were being used as a secondary currency, and secondarily because of the Recipients gaming the system. With the old food stamps, unscrupulous retailers would have large supplies of penny/nickel/dimes candy, the kids would come in and pay with a food stamp dollars, since the dollar was the lowest denomination the change was made in coins; so mom could send each child to the corner store with a buck in food stamps and they'd bring back $2.50 in currency that mom could use to buy cigarettes or alcohol. Now they use an EBT card, it works like a debit or ATM card at the checkout, the Recipients were told it was to reduce the stigma and embarrassment of using food stamps, it it was really to eliminate converting food benefits into currency. Additionally it allows the gov to actually follow an audit-trail when check retailer compliance with the food program.

    As for the Twinkies or Ho-Hos, in your dreams, the government and the food industry lobbiests counts french-fries and tomato catsup as two vegetables, in my book french-fries aren't a vegetable but a strachy-filler.

  21. Re:MySpace is not Web 2.0 on The Web 2.0 Conundrum - How Much Control is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    web 0.1 html text,
    web 0.5 html text with pictures!
    web 1.0 html text, pictures, javascript
    web 1.6 html text, pictures, javascript, java, flash, shockwave, ad nauseum
    web 1.9 html text, pictures, javascript, java, flash, shockwave, ad nauseum in frames
    web 2.0 sctrach frames and replace with spans!

  22. Re:Probably not on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 1

    To me conservatives are people like Tom Jefferson, John Kenedy, Ron Reagan; liberals are guys like Ted Kenedy, Billy Carter, Hillery Clinton and both Bushes. Real conservatives want organizations whether governmental, religious, business or socal to be as small and powerless as possible so they'll have as little influence as possible on the individuals. Liberals on the other hand want powerfull centralized organisations and to have all privelages and rights assigned by that organisation. Liberals want to control society and want all individuals to feel obligated to the organisation. Liberals are collectivists and conservatives are individualists.

  23. Re:Googlebombing and spamdexing and link farms on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 1

    I think the the algorythms at google need a bit of tweeking to severely down-rank pages without content other than keyword spam typos squaters and their ilke.

  24. Re:Probably not on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Limbaugh is a republican fanboy, not a conservative; same with Bush.

  25. Re:This is why... on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 1

    Why does that surprise you, if a politician votes against putting the goatse.cx guy's picture on everybody's visa and mastercard, then they say he infavor of sending american jobs overseas!