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  1. Re:Not good for large installations. on 'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you lock down the server and no users have admin rights (except IT), then no danger of viruses, malware, etc. We support over 200 facilities using Citrix (with users either accessing via workstations with only the OS and a Citrix client installed or a thin client (Windows Imbedded), no problems with malware from end users since they don't have rights to install anything. You do have a point about the single point of failure. If one server goes down, many users can be affected. As well as in our case, each site is connected to corporate via a dedicated circuit. If the connection goes down, the site goes down. But our communications vendor actively monitors the connections and immediately starts work to correct outage (which typically only lasts a few minutes)..

  2. No kidding...... on Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Here in the South, the air conditioner is the biggest electricity user (at least in the summer). Bill goes sky-high during July/August...

  3. Re:Heat it without Electricity on How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? · · Score: 1
  4. Let the a** kissing begin! on Yahoo! VP Calls For a Shakeup · · Score: 1

    Gonna be a lot of a** kissing around Yahoo in order for people to save their jobs and justify their paycheck..... :(

  5. Re:wow on Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement · · Score: 1
    No kidding

    Look what happened to Dog - The Bounty Hunter. He got arrested due to a warrant from Mexico...

  6. Re:Little Suzy. on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 1

    Not around here.....you get a bill within 30 days demanding the full amount from the two hospitals here in town with two weeks to pay....if you don't pay it, you get bounced to a collection agency or worse they start proceedings to garnish wages........ ding! on your credit...

  7. Re:But that's Catch-22 on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 1
    "Poor credit ratings are a sign of bad judgement and recklessness. Not poverty".

    You sound like a professional student (with rich parents) who has never had to do an honest days' work in your life. You give no consideration about people trying to support families who suddenly face overwhelming medical bills due to a sudden illness. When you have weeks where you have to make a choice between making a payment on a credit card (that you had a balance on BEFORE the illness hit) or paying the electric bill (after receiving the shut-off notice and the electric utility won't negotiate a deferred payment), I would like to see you be in that situation and then let someone judge YOU as a 'deadbeat' or 'reckless'. You might have a different view on things...

  8. Re:Little Suzy. on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's one.....about 9 years ago, I filed for bankruptcy...and about 6 months after the bankruptcy was discharged, I started getting credit card offers in the mail again (albeit with VERY high interest rates). I would promptly chuck them in the trash after ripping them up thinking it would help me to have as few credit cards as possible or none preferably. I was still paying on a house and that was about it. My wife and I went to buy a car a year ago, applied for credit, the dealer saw that I had been making on-time payments on my house and other bills, but due to the lack of credit cards CURRENTLY with a balance on my history, that dinged my credit score.... in other words, too many cards with a balance is bad, but also too FEW cards with a balance is bad as well.... I had read this article where even paying down some old debts can even HURT your score. Very screwed up credit scoring system we have...

  9. Re:Big "OH Brother" on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1

    Arkansas has the same type of law...it may be stupid to grind up large quantities of tables, but before the law here came into effect, that is what they were finding at meth labs.....large quantities of Sudafed and other ephedrine based OTC medicines waiting to be ground up.....

  10. Re:How is this different from security guards? on DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an incredibly boring job....

  11. Re:A Glow Jet Turbine? on Another Ornithopter Takes Off · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Ducted fan, maybe?

    Den-tist! Jugga jigga wugga! Deli-style! Jugga jigga wugga!

  12. Taxes???? on A House For One Red Paperclip · · Score: 1

    First off, I don't know how the tax laws are in Canada, but since he was originally unemployed and making no money, I hope he doesn't have to pay income taxes on that house! He would if he was in the States (someone correct me if I am wrong)..... If he does owe taxes, he is on the hook for big $$$! Might want to trade down!

  13. Re:Depends... on The Living Dilbert? · · Score: 1

    I agree with you on not wanting to manage other people. I don't have the mentality or patience for it and am perfectly happy with staying with a job I thoroughly enjoy and get paid well for it. But apparently some companies frown upon that line of thinking. I interviewed for a local company a while back and one of the questions that they asked me was the typical "What do you want to do in 5 years?". At that time, my financial situation was not good and was working a second job. I hadn't really thought about it at length. I was just worried about getting a steady paycheck to pay the bills. Depending on the place I am working at, my goals might change once I have a look around. I really couldn't give a straight answer, because once again I hadn't given much thought about it. It didn't set well with the interviewer. They looked for people who are wanting to advance and not just stay at one job for 20 years. That is fine and all, but what if you love the job you are doing and are good at it and you DON'T WANT to advance to a job that you may totally loathe?

  14. Re:Take a page from SETI on Blue Security Gives up the Fight · · Score: 1

    You mean this? Make Love Not Spam

  15. Re:Pharma master identity on What Happened to Blue Security · · Score: 1

    Since he attacked an Israeli company, they need to sic the Mossad onto him....

  16. Jeepers! I hope Jimbo has.... on Boot Camp For Suckers? · · Score: 1

    put his flame retardant suit on!

  17. Re:What's next? on The Beatles, Apple, and iTunes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to TFA, that agreement covered only PHYSICAL media like CDs or tapes. I agree with Apple computer's position, that Itunes is just data transmission...

  18. Re:Awesome on First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity · · Score: 5, Informative

    You haven't been keeping up on your Trek manuals, have you? The Inertial Dampening System predicts the adjustments it has to make when the command to jump to warp is issued. With weapons impacts, those are not predicted. The system can only REACT, therefore you get the shaking and jolting...

  19. Re:My experience on Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    I agree about the 'under the radar' thing. There was a family here locally that got a bunch of properties that they had bought seized by the Feds. They had bought them with a bunch of cashier's checks under $10,000 (the threshold when it is reported). I couldn't remember what they were under suspicion for, and the money may have been legitimately acquired, but it got them nailed...

  20. No middle class here to market to... on President Defends Global Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Quoting Bush: "'The classic opportunity for our American farmers and entrepreneurs and small businesses to understand is there is a 300 million-person market of middle class citizens here in India, and that if we can make a product they want, that it becomes viable" In other words, better market to the middle class in India since they are getting our jobs, because the middle class market in America is shrinking.... :(

  21. Re:Actually let them patent it now on PTO Requests Working Model of Warp Drive · · Score: 1

    No kidding.....it will use crappy made warp coils and counterfeit dilithium crystals.....the power transfer conduits will probably rupture half the time ;)

  22. Re:Good TImes on Creative use for empty whiskey bottles · · Score: 1

    I would have rather used a Jack Daniels bottle :)

  23. Re:Aventis account policies on Get Fired. Delete Colleague's Account. Go To Jail. · · Score: 1

    Exactly....his account should have been disabled as soon as they issued him his pink slip, plus reset passwords on any admin level accounts that he used as well.....

  24. Re:Riiiight on Functional Paper V8 Engine · · Score: 1

    Those are nice, but check out these from Conley's ..

  25. Re:Liebert - What about the UPS on Price of Power in a Data Center · · Score: 1

    Try 3 Lieberts (like at my outfit!). Those blade racks put out a bunch of heat! Not to mention another unit in the telecom room...