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  1. Re:Good and badGood and badGood and Bad on Contactless Credit Cards · · Score: 1
    in two departments stores i was un-lucky to work in before getting a real job no one was ever instructed to look at the slip. at the last place i worked, if the credit card went through the system, was aproved, and there's ink on the paper. all is good.


    and as another post in this thread said something to the effect of slow cashiers... it doesnt matter what i do, im still waiting on the cashier!

  2. Re:Good and badGood and badGood and Bad on Contactless Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    i dont sign any of my cards, and i realy hate when a cashier trys to lecture on me on why i should sign it. it is my personal choice to sign it or not. signature or no, if someone wants to use your credit card in a bad way they will.

  3. Re:Good and badGood and badGood and Bad on Contactless Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    then what is the point of the proximity based card if you still have to hand it to the untrusted cleark behind the counter?

    I HATE TARGET. they have credit card swipers on the end of every register for *my* privacy, but if i use it, i still have to hand my credit card over. what is the point?

  4. Will they realy? on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will you realy run these questions back to us as soon as you get them, or will i have to pay to see it as soon as others? personaly, i dont like to see stories right away, the chance of fakes and dupes isnt caught until about 50 people post saying it is a dup or a fake.

  5. So far on Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1
    There are a lot of posts saying "He should not have snooped". Who said he snooped? when i work on a windows computer i never take my eye off of what it is doing for a second! (for some silly reason i think this will cut down on freezing) From the sounds of it lets ASSUME the drive was put into a computer with an updated virus checker and that the virus checker was run on the drive.


    a) in attempt to pull kiddie porn from say kazaa someone put BO or Netbus out there as 3jailbaiters.jpg.exe or something and this user was dumb enough to get it somehow. i do realize kazaa has built in features to stop this, and i dont know for sure it was kazaa, but this is just an example. virus checker then shows the file name that is found as a virus and the location to it. The techie see's the awful name and opens up the folder....


    b) when moving or copying large amounts of files on windows it shows file names. Techie keeps flipping an eyeball back to check on it and notices a lot of kiddieporn named files...


    I personaly dont care about the context of how he found the pictures. He did the right thing.


    If you are willing to sacrifice childeren for your privacy then you are partaking in child abuse as well.

  6. Star as myself on The First Virtual Bond Girl? · · Score: 1

    I wish to star as myself with Angelia Jolie fighting to get out of a hottub full of warm jello!

  7. Re:iBook! on What Subnotebooks Work Best w/ Linux? · · Score: 1

    the ibook is unfortunatly more expensive then many x86 solutions. i looked at getting an ibook until i noticed the cost of hp's and toshiba's after rebate was far below the cost of an imac and the features in the hp and toshiba where more for the buck

  8. the easy way on Building Your Own KVM Switch...With Audio Connectors? · · Score: 1

    buy a manual select printer switch and put in audio jacks. vwala. how tough could that be? not being an electronical switch though i imagine you could get some nasty "pops" when changing between devices.

  9. Re:no it isn't. on Are Student Loans Burying Graduates? · · Score: 1

    Decent tech school like mit? decent? mit? just so you know, all but 2% of mit's students got a 4.0 through out their entire highschool career. i have a fealing mit would laugh you out the door. the remaining 2% had a 3.9 gpa.

    you wont get a student loan to go to college? how about a loan to buy a house? a car? a student loan is the best loan available.

    for four years of college to get me a computer science degree i am going to pay roughly 12,000 dollars. even if i went to a nice college in my state i am still only looking at $40,000 for four years. this is for a computer science degree of which there are plenty of jobs available if you have actualy have a degree.

  10. Re:My issues with their costs(plus an offtopic asi on Open Source Telephony · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    get over it. dont like /. and its methods? move on. whining like a little bitch boy isnt going to do a damn thing.

  11. at my work on Rapid Open Source Development for the Unix Console? · · Score: 1

    we used to print labels through an as400 using rumba as our client to it... you speed through labels in no time flat however you couldnt preview what you were going to print. they updated us to a point and clicky interface that was supposed to help us by letting us see what we are going to print before it comes out. well it ended up being the same situation as before, you cant realy tell what's coming out in advance and the new point and click interface just slows us pros down. however, i must admit the learning curve for new employee's is much smaller.

  12. Re:Difficult on Open Source Inventory Control Systems? · · Score: 1

    not to troll on, but perhaps you could explain to me how closed source is going to help him any?

  13. Re:Ya... I dunno.... on New Terminator 3 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Because Sigourney Weaver (and/or her manager) isn't stupid.

    have you seen galaxy quest? you think T3 would hurt her any? perhaps the time era this movie covers doesnt involve the kid or sarah...

    now that i've bit down on your troll i dont think its fair to judge the movie until it comes out. personaly the reason i loved t2 so much was because of the graphics and the robot mock ups..

  14. Re:Ya... I dunno.... on New Terminator 3 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    i want to know why the female wasnt played by Sigourney Weaver now that would have made for a kick ass movie!

  15. havent seen them retail in a while on Digital Cameras for Use in Tough Conditions? · · Score: 1

    i had a kodak dc215 which had a metal housing... bet you havent seen that on a digital camera in a while? its only 1 mp but it has survived many a falls. it would be safe to say it falls of my comp desk once a day and still work fine

  16. gender option on Calling All Computer Science Women? · · Score: 1

    Now slashdot needs users to select their gender so they can block certain genders from posting in stories.

    we've gone from helping the hens find more hens to cluck with (im in deap shit for that expression i know) to the horny nerd boys dreaming of 36 26 36 schooling them with less, more efficent lines of code and spanking them with keyboards.

  17. on the market on Building a Stained Glass Computer Case? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    on the market there are cases with pull out mother board trays. that might be something to start with. basicaly you could take a cheap case and cut out all the parts you need individualy. Personaly.. if you did a nice design stain glass window in each side of your case though.. i think that would be incredibly bueatiful

  18. Re:um on Apple In-Store Software Burning · · Score: 1

    well i must say, if i search for "methane" i dont get the story on the methane turned into money deal, but if i search for cow, it comes up... i think they should go back to using google for their search tool.. because whatever they are using now sucks

  19. um on Apple In-Store Software Burning · · Score: 1, Informative

    umm if it went un-noticed then what's this?

  20. Re:A swing and a miss on Linux Media Jukebox on the Cheap · · Score: 1

    retail i have seen the wintv pvr going for $200 to $300 how is that a few beans more?

    and your right, its just a midrange pc with redhat on it, and your just a poar excuse of a troll. since you want to sling mud...

  21. Re:Cases on Linux Media Jukebox on the Cheap · · Score: 1

    what you want is a rack mount case, about 1 or 2 u, definatly not bigger then 2

    and next time try to use little html in your comments ;)

  22. Re:Roll your own.. on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 1


    don't forget the:

    1. US$ 100 or so for the PCI-> PC-CARD addapter and the wireless card.

    2. US$ 60 or so for the case.

    3. The time to put it all together

    pci pc card adapter? what a waste. you can pick up pci wireless cards for $75. my fault for leaving that out, brings our grand total to $350 sinceas you know from following the message i replied to that the $150 is case included.

    and if you have any skill at all it shouldnt take you more then 10 minutes to put it all together.

  23. Re:Roll your own.. on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 2, Informative

    i was just thinking this, aprox. $150 for the unit, $25 in ram if you dont have any, and $100 for the drive, the itx has built on ethernet, two usb, and even a tv out if you want to hook it up to tv as your console for trouble shooting..

    thats only $275. not to mention how much easier it would be to modify this unit to your needs.

  24. Re:Not for Linux desktops on Windows Media for Embedded Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    apache runs on windows.. i realize that it is not iis but the fact that it runs on windows i think is a bigger reason for why the server extensions work with apache

  25. well on Pinnacle, Online Grades, Skipping School and More · · Score: 1
    My parents did their best to watch over me and my two other older brothers. However all the pressure they put on us caused one my brothers to drop out a semester before he graduated highschool two years early and all the pressure that i received caused me to move out the day i turned 17. my brother and i on our own now have good enough diploma's (ged) as well as we are both doing the college thing..

    at the age group of kids this effects there is no right or wrong space accross the board. it is a young adult individual need. in my family it just drove us away, perhaps in others it may work well.

    rather then just trying to force our kids to do better in highschool why isnt the whole idea of highschool restructured? i would estimate that a third of my highschool had kids who knew what they wanted to be. Why not for these kids have a program that actualy starts them on their way? i realize most states have a post secondary program now (go to college (in minnesota its paid for by the state) and receive credit for both highschool and college) and while its a nice idea it does affect classes at the college having the very young and inmature in classes. how about the other third of the kids who dont plan on doing a thing after highschool, the same kids who get truance charges etc. why are we forcing these kids to go? the other students are getting hurt by the pace the class must take to try and teach these kids. when i skipped school they kicked me out for a day.


    let me say that once more.
    When i skipped school they kicked me out for a day.


    what genius thought that up? do they want to help this group of kids truly? or not?

    i think a better ask slashdot would be, what can we do to improve our country's school system as a whole?