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  1. Re:MS has already licensed the code to universitie on Microsoft Agrees to License Windows Source Code · · Score: 1

    actually they give the code to the BS majors so that the CS magors don't get "contaminated" (and its a good way to...)

  2. Re:big numbers? on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 1

    shoot just the CEO heck i would think that The Big Red One would show up on the corporate campus and remove the buildings.

  3. Re:For or Against? on Peter Quinn Explains his Resignation · · Score: 1

    pardon me for swinging a clue by 16 but if you just happen to do some looking if you check the Open Document Formats they are zip files containing the payload of content.xml (text parts) styles.xml (styles/css stuff) meta.xml (meta.info) settings.xml (odd bits needed by programs) meta-inf/manifest.xml (list of the structure of the document [what goes where]) directories with linked objects (pictures and stuff) (pictures and sounds and ...)

  4. Re:'a'political? on Peter Quinn Explains his Resignation · · Score: 1

    quick lets get the political hacks in mass to cheyene mountain, dial chulac and pitch them in (or Annubis' homeworld) hmm what would be a good planet to send these folks??

  5. Re:MSN on Microsoft Spending $120M To Look Smaller · · Score: 1

    all they need to seem smaller is start pretending they are a very large school of herring then the penguins will come ...

  6. Re:NFS Series on Advergaming to Hit $4 Billion in 2008 · · Score: 1

    But if I'm tromping through Midgard and see a Radio Shack add, I'm going to be annoyed.
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    But would you take having a "Circle R" shop have some "magic artifacts"?
    oh btw Radio ^wShack add^w would be correct ie your statement should have been "...and see a RadioShack ad..."

  7. A Not so modest proposal on Feds Asked to Take Action Against Adware Creator · · Score: 1

    1 long term: every program must come with a list of files (and config entries) and their purpose and if an UNINSTALL is requested all files and config entries must be reversed/removed (no self repairing stuff) 2 somebody needs to come up with a Linux LiveCD that has an antivirus/ "funkware" program with a: ntfs read write b: a way to dump the reghive *hijack the windows files if its needed since the system would have a licsense anyway heck it doesn't need to have anything fancy x.org and a barebones WM would work (for the gui folks)

  8. Re:Suse 10 on State of WLAN Support on Linux? · · Score: 1

    nice try but atmel does happen to be a company that has driver+firmware running about (i don't think that its in a vanilla kernel but the patch works more or less Mandriva 2005le PP has the firmware on disc)

  9. Re:Dirt's a tough place to live on Soil Bacteria Show High Resistance to Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    a "neat" tip if you land up in the hospital you might want to get a pack of cheap pens and then if the doctors/nurses leave your room have them switch to a new pen.

  10. Re:90% effectiveness... what about the remaining 1 on Doctors Claim Suspended Animation Success · · Score: 1

    this is all about what you might call the "code blue clock" if your heart stops for 2 hours? then you are D E A D and talking with the monty python parrot. using this method i would guess the clock stops (unless you thaw)

  11. Re:Battery Life? on New Sony E-Book Device To Debut This Year · · Score: 1

    umm actually the comment of discharge due to time is very valid it takes a battery a nonzero amount of energy to hold the charge for example if you charge a Nicad rc battery and put it on a shelf about 5 days later the battery will be at zero charge even if not used (of course they may be using a Li-Ion battery that can hold a charge for a few months

  12. Re:I want one... on New Sony E-Book Device To Debut This Year · · Score: 1

    but with all great things irony is one of the major materials used (and yes darwin level stupid things use it to)

  13. Re:But will it come with a rootkit? on New Sony E-Book Device To Debut This Year · · Score: 1

    P&G is a huge company that is into everything in the home/personal supplies sector of life
    You could be born ,cleaned off with a P&G product, clothed for the first time with a P&G product, put in the nursery cleaned with P&G, have your first meal.. [fast forward 70 years] be prepared for your wake using P&G products.

  14. Re:But will it come with a rootkit? on New Sony E-Book Device To Debut This Year · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    speaking of public domain books does anybody have a script to take the Project Gutenburg DVD and 1 unzip the text files 2 rename them to something longer (ie the first 25 letters of the title) 3 and drop them into a folder tree in letter order (numbers in 1 folder "A" in the next folder "B" in the next...) bonus points if you include stripping the hard (40 column) formatting if you do have a script 1 get it online! 2 Gmail me with it

  15. Re:GPL violators are at risk on Some Linux Users Violate Sarbanes-Oxley · · Score: 1

    um they are selling thier own software deal is a gpl have fun be happy and share b you pay U$ adn you can have fun be happy and NOT share

  16. Re:Be thankful that you only find fibre on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 1

    so given the decay rate of explosives what would you want to bet that someday it will be a common practice to after scanning beam the "pipes" out??

  17. Re:Besides... on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 1

    or even better give me an M1A1 (general sherman tank) and even without ammo i can do Massive damage

  18. Re:Information Technologist vs. The Red Neck on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 1

    What about us Red neck IT guys? ----- Y'all count twice of course (you now owe me a box of Krispy Kremes)

  19. Re:Nothing New on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 1

    from "the hacker crackdown" "The flaw caused the 4ESS switch to interact, subtly but drastically, with incoming telephone calls from human users. If--and only if-- two incoming phone-calls happened to hit the switch within a hundredth of a second, then a small patch of data would be garbled by the flaw. But the switch had been programmed to monitor itself constantly for any possible damage to its data. When the switch perceived that its data had been somehow garbled, then it too would go down, ... And then the switch would be fine again, and would send out its "OK, ready for work" signal. However, the "OK, ready for work" signal was the VERY THING THAT HAD CAUSED THE SWITCH TO GO DOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE. " So what we have is a situation where the "all clear" signal is damaged and a switch that goes into scream and die mode when it hears bad data. this would be a nuke grade "OOPS"

  20. Re:Home vs Pro on Ask Microsoft's Security VP · · Score: 1

    as it turns out there will be about 3 "watered down versions" and counting oem version about 20 versions total (you want the "ultimate" version when "shopping" your bargin etailers)

  21. Re:21st Century underground on Piracy Setup Discovered in WV Capitol Building · · Score: 1

    What i think is a crock is that if you (as a biochemist) start "cracking" and hit above a certain proof number you would actually have to have 1 ABC permits (and the tax stamps) 2 some sort of waiver 3 spike the bottles so that they are not drinkable

  22. Re:Obviously, they were fighting terrorism on Piracy Setup Discovered in WV Capitol Building · · Score: 1

    yes he is wide open but you forget the And people think West Virginians are all dumb, inbred, hillbillies WITH SHOTGUNS!

  23. Re:And what will they do to combat the problems... on Admission Tickets as Text Messages · · Score: 1

    easy a couple of ways 1 use a method similar to gift cards where the pin number is hidden behind that silver gunk (you need to reply to the message to have the barcode validate) 2 have a timeout built into the system (ie if you don't use the "ticket" for some reason the transcation get backed out)

  24. Re:Things are different in sales on Meetings are Bad For You · · Score: 1

    speaking as a sales support guy mettings can be defined as 1 whats going on 2 How do i get paid 3 New Product !! 4 Info about products 5 B6T!

  25. Re:Makes you wonder.... on Sony RootKit Still A Problem? · · Score: 1

    actually there are in fact about a dozen different "cd logo"s the first two from http://www.gnscd.com/cdlogo.htm are pure RedBook and nothing but audio