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  1. Re:Wrong jurisdiction... on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 1

    Around here in, Michigan, I think most civil summons are served primarily by certified mail, then by private parties like off duty police officers, PI's and bailbondsmen, lastley for things like evictions, the service documents can be just attached to the door. Of IANAL.
    If these guys were realy serious, they'd have hired a local lawyer to effect service, a local lawyer has connections to people who do it professionaly and legaly, the two lawyers would have coordinated and found where the laws intersected and serviced the documents in a legaly airtight way.

  2. Re:sorta OT on House Passes Another Spyware Bill · · Score: 1

    I agree, what's trying to get out tells more than what's trying to get

  3. Re:Actually, it is... on House Passes Another Spyware Bill · · Score: 1

    It is unlawful for any person, at least they didn't limit the law to persons inside the US.

  4. Re:The CAN-SPY Act on House Passes Another Spyware Bill · · Score: 1

    Barton acknowledged that experts had recently found more than 60 varieties of spyware installed on the panel's own computers. He said all the spyware programs had been installed without the permission of computer users.

    I thought those machines were pretty clean for windows computers that were actualy used and cleaned for the first time. I suppose that it wouldn't be too had to write code to spare machines running on the .gov TLD from the plague that most endure.

  5. Re:Commute route == choice of mount on E-bike E-xperiences? · · Score: 1

    But don't you just love the rifle-like crack a piece of pea gravel makes as it's ejected from the side of a 105 psi racing slick and hits the expensive paint on some assholes car who thinks he's to good to share the road with a meer bicycle?

  6. The biggest thing to watch for on Stolen SSN, Credit Bureaus Alerted , Now What? · · Score: 1

    The biggest thing to watch for is a change of address on your credit report, it means that someone has opened an account and the statements are going to someplace you aren't, bad sign.

    Mistaken Identity is probably a bigger problem than Identity theft, there is a woman localy, who's first name, last name and middle initial is the same as my wife's, who's SSN is one digit different, who's driver's license is one digit different and she seems to like bouncing checks and not paying taxes or hospital bills.

  7. the problem with water on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What everybody forgets is there is a problem with water, and that is that its a significant green-house gas. There are four major greenhouse gasses; Sulpher Oxides, Methane, Water and Carbon Dioxide. The contribution to global warming by CO2 is arguable on a scientific basis, but the others are pretty solid. I'm not sure if trading a weak green-house gas for a stronger one is wise; and definately not something we should rush into based on emotional pleas from people who treat "environmental concerns" with religious zeal.

  8. Re:Conflict of interest? on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    The commercials have a few more things to worry about like, building such a vehicle without free labor, and saftey concerns. I think the average car buyer is going to think Hindenberg every time they see one, don't most people think a bic lighter and a welder spark equals a 15KT nuke? I know I'd think twice about driving a vehicle with a preasure bottle full of hydrogen on the road with your average american driver.

  9. Re:Sigh...another reference to terrorism on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 1

    Not that hard to get, anyone can purchase then a their local welding store this helmet should do the trick with its Auto-darkening filter cartridges darken in a fraction of a millisecond, 10 times faster than standards require. of course when the "shutter" is open these things are usualy about shade 3 which is pretty dark, at night it would be like flying blindfolded.

  10. Re:Easy to get these lasers... on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The extremely high (relatively, anyway) divergence experienced by almost all cheapo, poorly colimated 5mW laser pointers means the beam will be at least inches wide I would argue that while true in the manufactered form, a 5mW laser might be distracting, consider what might happen if several were aimed through a easily obtained 6 inch telescope to properly colimate the beam, which was then aimed at an airport runway catching an airliner just as it was flairing on final approach.

  11. You need Police involvement on What are My Rights Against Video Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but my take is
    1. you don't know what has been recorded
    2. not knowing the above you can't know if it's illegal
    3. if it is illegal any self-remedy could be destrying evidence.
    4. not reporting might be considered being an accessery after the fact
    5. not reporting might in fact be a crime for you i.e. your a MD, nurse, teacher and might suspect child-abuse.
    A good procesecutor can probably find a seeming unrelated law that makes this illegal. If I place a video camera in my bathroom, that's obviously a camera the law might be one thing, hiding a camera inside another otherwise innocuous device is probably a whole different critter. Another thing to consider is if it's illegal, what happens if the FBI cracks a ring of child-porn or up-skirts back thru the server logs, to the ISP to your address, what's to keep the perv from saying "Chris must have been doing it"?

  12. Re:PO Box on Shielding Domain Registration Info? · · Score: 1

    Probably a good idea, years ago an internet freind in Australia got wigged out over a nazi spam she got. Wasn't to hard to track it through it British host to someone in florida, never was completely sure exactly who sent it but it was either a father or a son and I found street addresses on both.

    I occaslionaly google for my name, user names I use, telephone number, SSN and driver liciense number just to see what everybody else can see.

  13. Re:Just get a good timer on A Smart Lawn Sprinkler System? · · Score: 1

    Living just a half mile from the St. Clair River, which flows 190,000 cubic feet per second, Water shortages have never been a concern; but my "smart" lawn spreaker system is usualy just opening the valv and pushing the "manual start" button. I've only watered about 10 this year;
    my seceret is;
    1. don't cut too short, never less than 1.5 in
    2. fertilize by putting half as much, twice as often if needed.
    3. TLC, Thin layer composting or mulching

    if the cut leaves start to build up, somethings wrong, usualy needs more water for them to break down.

  14. Re:ID 10 T Problem on EWeek Details Linux to Windows Migration · · Score: 1
    The article is primarily trolling by a publication aimed mainly at windows centric PHB, heavily advertised in by Micro$oft. The part that made me LOL was
    Case also was concerned that his company did not have appropriate in-house Linux expertise
    Running Oracle on a website but can't use Linux, give me a break. Now that I realy think about it there wasn't any PHP nine years ago and I don't think there was any Perl suppport for Oracle back then do they had to be coding in c, and runing the Database in Solaris.
  15. Re:What does he want to do with this data? on Town Fights FOI Request for GIS Data and Images · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This may change with restrictions and recommendations from the Feds bout reducing access to critical infrastructure data.
    A worrisome aspect of that is the fact that the info missing is often as revealing as the info present.

    If I were of neferious purpose, I'd be more conserned with the "black-areas" than the illuminated. In my area, there are places where an attack one an infrasturcter facility could stop the water going to millions of people or power going to an area the size of the last blackout.

  16. Re:It's google's job to give balanced news on Optimizing News Sites For Google News · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Google just searches and indexes the web, it's news index has a few additional filters for lameness, so it's obvious to me if users are searching for terms, that the reputable newss providers aren't using they will come up short on the ranking; and are probably a little bit out-of-touch with their readers. Publishing on the web is different than publishing in print and the media is going to have to learn.

    All of us geeks have just learned how to search on google news to get a ballanced index, search for "kerry" + "john kerry" that's all

  17. Re:Huge Scam, IMHO on Would You Bid for a Job? · · Score: 1

    You see a mexican with a cold vs. a busted arm/leg, the ER staff sees a potential SARS victem contaminating the whole waiting-room vs. someone who isn't going to bleed to death.

  18. Re:A bit confused? on Would You Bid for a Job? · · Score: 1
    1. Nurses and the intense level of patient care they provide are the reason that hospitals exists, your confusing cause and effect.
    2. Hospitals are generaly non-profit or not-for-profit which means that revenues can not exceed expenses, not that they have to be well managed or can't pay insane amounts of money for supplies or be the largest property owner in the community.
    3. If hospitals paid their Nurses a salary inline with
      1. the difficult of their education
      2. the resonsiblity involved
      3. the difficulty of their jobs
      their wouldn't be a shortage of nurses to begin with
    And if there was not shortage, the hospital wouldn't have to scramble to cover their shifts; bid this job probably means this hospital is dangerously under-staffed
  19. Re:...what, exactly, would that do? on Computer Viruses Cripple Colorado DMV · · Score: 1

    Realy it's not like an AIX to Linux port would be killer or anything. Wonder how many states have DMV suites that couldn't as easily be run in wine or even dosemu. Actualy it might be interesting to find out how much of the system isn't an emulation of the dumb-terminal to mainframe paradigm.

  20. Re:I'm sure... on Computer Viruses Cripple Colorado DMV · · Score: 1

    Which also means that it's not the sort of software that Microsoft can test for compatability with it's security patches; so the contractor had better be able to. Considering that the DMV probaly runs 3 or 4 different versions of windows client win98se - winXP, each with 3 or 4 different vendors which means different hardware drivers each effectively altering the OS; 3 or 4 different servers w2k - win2003 ect. and who nows how many different routers and switches this easily becomes a mission impossible.

  21. Re:That's what happens... on Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again · · Score: 1

    natural antibiotics just can't be patented
    This is a recurring urban theme, and is wrong or misleading on several levels.
    While it may not be possible to patent an obscure wonder drug from cactus juice,
    1.a process to extract the drug is,
    2. adding a chemical to it to alter its' solvebility such as biological half-life is defenitly patentable
    3. adding chemicals to alter its' excretion route is
    4. a method to grow the catus to maximized drug content is patentable
    5. splicing the gene that produces the drug into yeast for factory production is patentable.

    there are very few drugs used today that aren't derived from a natual source.

  22. Re:Self interest (What is the Cost?) on A Day with an ISP Spam Investigator · · Score: 1

    Typical, one person asks for cost, meaning marginal cost (how much more does one email cost) and the answer given is average cost (total expenses divided by the total number). If a networks trafic is 1 million an hour, and they spend $1K to process it the each message has an average cost of .001, assume that the trafic is 80% spam and that is then eliminated then the costs become .005 per message because the overhead expenses don't change much because they still need the capacity to meet peak demands.

  23. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    you can't legally sell yourself or your children into slavery I'd say your right about your children, you don't own them and they can't give competant informed consent, but about your self, I think your wrong. That's why slavery is refered to as Involuntary servitude, not slavery; voluntary servitude is OK within limits of law. Minimum wage laws are probably a bigger deterant to slavery than the typical anti-slavery laws are, but of course IANAL.

  24. Re:You can only patent methods of imnplementing on MS-Sun Agreement Leaves Opening For OO.org Suits · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen either, an example is electro-formed seacrete, one person owns a patent on using it for making artificial coral reefs, another owns a patent on using it for making sculptures.

  25. Re:Lawsuits ala Lindows on MS-Sun Agreement Leaves Opening For OO.org Suits · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Microsoft Says

    Q Can the licenses for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas be used by open source developers?
    A Yes. You can distribute your program in source code form. But, note that the patent and copyright provisions in the license for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas require you to include a notice of attribution in your program.
    Q. If Microsoft obtains a patent for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas, does that in any way affect the royalty-free license?
    A. No, the license is unaffected. Under the patent license for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas, Microsoft offers royalty-free rights both to its issued patents and patents that may be issued in the future.

    Now I haven't done a lot of digging, but I suspect that the licenses are non-transferable( the web site does imply they are), so if your Using OO you might want your legal people look at the terms of the license and get your own licence.