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  1. Re:Are there any humans around? on Malware Installed by LiveJournal Ad · · Score: 1

    here is the problem
    the ads where approved and sent to US ips but if you had a NONUS ip you were sent an ad that LJ did not even see.

    its similar to an OEM getting a product approved and then changing the specs after they get the go order for states not in the corp office state.

  2. Re:I am a fag, fag. on Has My Cell Number Been Cloned? · · Score: 0

    no but did you know that the whole nuking of Sodom was about ...wait for it Massive SODOMY
    and since this would be in genesis and the 10 Cs are in Deuteronomy i think the opinion of HIM is very clear on the subject

    but anyway to move back to the topic at hand try an expirement
    take your sim card and battery and mail it to a friend in another city if during the trip (to friend and back to you) calls are being made you have been cloned (or if you really want to have fun mail them to t-mobiles corp office with a note explaining the situation).

  3. Re:the article says it all! on Telecommuting Backlash · · Score: 1

    .mil jobs where the bolts are titanium and the thermite is the cool military grade stuff

    (seriously when ever possible desktop system should be wired shut and the system bolted to the floor with the nuts on the inside of the case)

    Thermite would be placed on top of the primary hard drive and rigged to smoke the drive if its tampered with.

  4. best quote from the article on Washington Post Reviews its 10 Years on the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We learned a major lesson -- neither your server nor your vendor should be so far away that you can't kick them."

  5. Re:My question is... on Prototype System Blocks Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    but you for get two things

    1 i would bet that a good percentage of time that a doctor is not "on call" said doctor is most likely SLEEPING/ passed out from exaustion

    2 what happens if something happens and the doctor is one of ?? doctors on the planet that can do XX

    Me i would have a thin LED readout under the screen that could scroll "All Federal agents 33 Please report to the lobby ... Large Popcorn $4.99 All EMTs please report to the lobby ... Phone Tag #324 call from *-*-5867 .... all boxed candy $3.00 " make it say red so you don't night blind folks

  6. Re:it's good and it's bad on Police Launch Drones Over LA · · Score: 1

    what i would like to see is the exact number of days the "threat level" has been blue or green (just to be fair also the number of days its been orange or red)

  7. Re:Ad content Vapid on Viral Marketing to Become the Norm? · · Score: 1

    At Wendys???

    Can you imagine the Possibilities of Blade razor/ car /sun screen/shoes tie-ins??

  8. Re:As an aside on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    the best way to explain this is imagine a circular race track and a car with paint writer do a 70 laps and see how many times you ran a lap exactly the same way. get in a plane and take a picture of the track. i would bet that you have at least 12 different sets of tracks.

    If you have access to a clean room and an electron microscope you can in fact see the same effect with a hard drive
    a single run of dd i=/dev/random o=/dev/hda count=bignum will not have enough wiggle to remove the data (the run might be a couple of mils to the left of the data or right of the data)

    the answer to the whole thermite might not get it is to use more thermite (maybe thermite the hd cage?)

  9. Re:Good on Microsoft Loses Appeal in Guatemalan Patent Claim · · Score: 1

    i kind of like a ante up system and a yearly "maintenence fee" for a patent

    1 to get a patent you would need to ante up one(or more) of your current patents and if the application fails you loose the ante'd
    patent(s) To help the little guy the scale would slide according to how many patents you have. under XXX patents you don't need to ante up, if you have XXXXXXXXXX patents you land up with an ante ratio of 8 to 1.

    2 On a similar scale every year you would need to pay a fee to keep your patents if you don't pay the patent drops (and any lawsuits over those patents would be thrown out "due to lack of standing")

  10. Re:forget 9 bucks difference.. what about faster l on How Much Should Broadband Cost? · · Score: 1

    the combo of "speaking the language" and giving the tech a good of a time as possible will work wonders for getting a stable modem connection. (oh btw pull up 192.168.100.1 and check things out)

  11. Re:Um... How do you figure this is flamebait? (n/t on How Much Should Broadband Cost? · · Score: 1

    is that because you put a mix of rust and aluminum powder on the hood?? Oh Sparkly!!

  12. Re:No Vista for 3rd world countries? on Microsoft Unveils 'Vista Premium' Requirements · · Score: 1

    i would think that the ARC would have XGL availible

  13. Re:SLOC: Vista vs. Linux on Why Vista Release Date Really Slipped · · Score: 1

    The guy is a Microserf alright... maybe its more of a hes to tall to duck so he did this to prevent being in the MicroTurf??

  14. Re:Release the Win98 source tree on Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux? · · Score: 1

    actually the combo of GPLing
    Windows 98se
    Windows media player (+1 from what comes with Win98se)
    Office 97
    oh and the fat32/ntfs filesystem

    would make this more than just MSeee (tactics)

    oh btw free unrestricted licenses on any patents (as long as the work is GPL)

  15. Re:It depends on their purposes on Verizon to Launch Mobile 'Chaperone' Service · · Score: 1

    you do know that Verizon Phones have a GPS chip in them and if needed they could put you in the correct half of a good many rooms?
    One of the things that having a massive/dense grid of towers is most likely you are in range of probably 4-5 towers (maybe not good enough lock for a phone call but... ).

    (to be fair most major carriers due to federal law will also have the chip)

  16. Re:I do it on Psychopharm Going 'Mainstream' In Schools? · · Score: 1

    you do know that (hand waving any use as a"buffer") delta-9-TetraHydroCannabinol has the same effect if it was say sequenced by nanobuilders or cooked out of hemp. Just because it grew does not make it safe by any means.

    My take on this is there should be a group of certified growers (most likely to include "pot heads" as staff) and if you had a medical need you could get a ticket to grow your own (with a limit as to number of plants).

    Did you know that groves owned by Coca-Cola produce much of the legal cocaine supply.

  17. Re:meta-troll on Dvorak Admits To Trolling Mac Users · · Score: 1

    somebody doesn't get Spam (R)??
    quick you get on the phone to a trucking company you call up hormel and find where the nearest warehouse is

    (note to self make sure to sub turkey spam if he he requires it to be "kosher")

  18. So wheres the Glowing report on this?? on Nuclear Agency Worker Information Hacked · · Score: 3, Funny

    just to get the joke out of the way

  19. Re:Quality on Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements · · Score: 1

    The big problem is that "Indian" call centers have a vastly larger percentage of folks that

    1 are "Proud to be (in) a Clue Free Evironment"
    2 could test out on "Anglo-Saxon (current)" but have little to no clue as to how to say things to a US citizen
    3 Have an accent that seems to slur or bend 75% of the context
    4 are on phone lines that are VOIP over AOL dialup (or involve chicken wire /flashlights)
    psst its common for store support to be gien a special number that goes to a US call center

  20. Re:By the by- what BofA did is illegal... on Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements · · Score: 1

    can you cite the CFR section that states this (ive found via google that its 12CFR but which section)

    my fave is 47CFR64.1200

    please send to robertltux at the google mail domain

  21. and why did adobe kill atmosphere!!! on Three 3D Web Browsers Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I do hope that if 3d web takes off that adobe brings back atmosphere (free player free server( location for it was topsecret burn before reading) but the offical tool to make $tuff wa$ a bit pricey.

  22. Re:Duh on Implants for Sensing Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    Dead (credit) customers are bad^Hworse customers.

    Dead customers !=Repeat Customers

  23. Re:not that shocking... on Flying Faster Without ID · · Score: 1

    and what folks are not considering is a geek with a laptop that has a "drive" inserted that just happens to have a few grams of semtex included with the other bits and bobs.
    Guy tries to hijack the plane and its [crtl]+[alt]+[meta}+! time even a large plane could have "airframe failure" if a charge is
    set off on a wingside Bulkhead, (smallest case you depressurise the cabin get lucky and the wing comes off)

  24. Re:Lucky Him on Flying Faster Without ID · · Score: 1

    for various reasons

    1 not logged in at the current system
    2 being able to say something that needs to be said but can't (due to SOX or local laws or)
    3 because sometimes "Jesus Christ" is a straight line and you just have to tell the joke ...
    42 just because

  25. Re:Great Googley moogley! on Google Releases Google Browser Sync Extension · · Score: 1

    nothing but it does help if you can take a page in either english or say spanish with no styling at all and build
    a style sheet (good chances he probably knows a thing or two about both cultures also which helps in styles
    (ie orange white and green are not good colors for a northern irish page)).