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  1. Re:Consumer electronics suck. on Sony and AOL vs Microsoft · · Score: 1


    I've had a Pioneer 606D since '99 and it has component out.

  2. Re:The diabolical trio goes to war! on Sony and AOL vs Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Shit! Where the Hell is Baal?

  3. Re:One man's spam is another man's spiced ham on Anti Spam Bills Continue · · Score: 1

    If we're going to model this on the junk fax law (which would make some sense), then a broadcast message to your users regarding server status would be acceptable, since you've got an established relationship.

  4. Re:I keep launching spammers into the sun... on Anti Spam Bills Continue · · Score: 1

    Gotta love that quality construction.

  5. Re:Goodwin's Law an Intellectually Bankrupt Cop-ou on Gracenote Sues Roxio Over Switch to Free Song Database · · Score: 1

    Godwinn's Law, you tosser! And it's not even close to what you're making out.

    Godwinn's Law states that when a discussion has degenerated to the point where people are calling each other Nazis, the conversation has lost all meaning. That is not to say that it won't continue for some time; it originated to describe Usenet, after all, and everybody knows how rich an information source that is.

    Oh, and you can't invoke it deliberately. Doesn't work.

  6. Re:About Gracenote on Gracenote Sues Roxio Over Switch to Free Song Database · · Score: 1

    Oh how the times have changed.

  7. Re:I don't understand how some of this is illegal. on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 1

    If somebody wants it to be private, they will not allow connections to the port or use access control. Otherwise, what value is the information?

    Is the company liable for being this stupid? I say yes.

  8. Re:(in)security of non-clients is not your concern on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 1

    How is using a SQL client to connect to a net connected box (with no passwords or defaults) any less authorizeed than using a http browser? I browse websites all the time, and the only authorization I have is an open port 80.

  9. Re:I don't understand how some of this is illegal. on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 1

    The main thing i can think of is that nobody's started a SQL client war.

    yet...

  10. Re:Obligation to those whose privacy is threatened on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 1

    I agree, there is some obligation. However, the threat is potential and they aren't your client.

    If you know of an impending action based on this threat, then yes, drop them a line along with all the other people you are going to be notifying. Even that may be unwelcome, and they are big boys, able to look after themselves, at least niminally.

  11. Re:Seriously. on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    Come ex maggiore inglese, devo essere conforme. È non soltanto pigro e lento saltare facendo la vostra propria ricerca, ma se neppure non avete i cervelli PER RIPETERE lo stuff allora state rubandoli dovete lanciare i burgers per alcuni anni fino a che non decidiate che siete pronti ad essere un allievo reale.

  12. Re:Destroyer of Lives on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    erm, who? maybe this was one of those profs i didn't get...

  13. Re:Only one thing shocked me on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    Get Boleslaw Sczymanski (sp?) for the 400+ level courses. He's hard to understand, but very good.

  14. Re:I was a CS TA @ RPI for 3 years ... on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    Wow! when did RPI lose its love affair with Java? That was the big thing when i graduated in '98.

  15. Re:IT will never unionize... on IT Unions? · · Score: 1

    Try 'plant Kiddie porn on one exec's home computer, introduce another exec's mistresses to each other, drop some cocaine in a third's Porsche and report it stolen'.

    Or, in a nicer vein, from the IBM commercial - 'Hey, this manager makes twice what this other manager makes. I'll bet he doesn't know that. Oh well, he does now; I just mailed the salary list to everybody.'

  16. Re:M$ will do what it likes. on New Microsoft Feature: Planned Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    Hey no fair! If we're playing that game, the how about loading windows under eemulation on Linux, the loading mac under that, then loading Amiga under that, and finally, loading a gameboy under Amiga!

  17. Re:Fluorescent tubes dump more radiation than moni on Low-Level Radiation May be Mutagenic · · Score: 1

    No, most of that stuff is fundamentally the same. It varies only in the energy levels. IIRC, UV radiation (from the sun) is about the start of the ionizing zone, which is what you have to watch out for.

    Oh yeah, power line emmisions are different; they are electrical fields, not EM radiation.

  18. Re:Low Level Radiation on Low-Level Radiation May be Mutagenic · · Score: 1

    Take Radiation and nasty chemicals at the same time and what does that do to a person?

    Hopefully, kill the cancer before the patient. It would be nice to have something a bit more sophisticated than this, don't you think?

  19. Re:Internal? on Low-Level Radiation May be Mutagenic · · Score: 1

    You can't irradiate a molecule - it is either stable or unstable, and it requires a lot of energy to convert one to the other.

    You can bombard Oxygen with neutrons of the right energy and get a different isotope, but that's tricky and unlikely to happen very widely. Also, i don't think adding one or two neutrons will make Oxygen very radioactive, if at all.

    Most of the problem is fallout - radioactive dust that spreads all over the place. If you get a beta emitter, Most of its radiation gets stopped by your skin, or even paper. If it's on the bread you eat, then that radiation gets absorbed by your body for as long as it's inside, which can be awhile.

  20. Re:M$ will do what it likes. on New Microsoft Feature: Planned Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    It's rather dificult to install Windows on any Mac

  21. Re:Doesn't the GPL "infect" all derivitives? on Ask an Attorney About Open Source Licensing · · Score: 1

    Wow. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of morons.

    I don't have to. I just turn on C-SPAN

  22. Re:Multiple Licenses on Ask an Attorney About Open Source Licensing · · Score: 1

    This has happened already. The linux kernel has incorporated bits of BSD code (I believe that the ip stack used to be BSD based). This is allowed because the BSD license allows it.

    I have no idea how the new licensing works - you can certainly still grab the original work under a BSD license, and you can grab the derivative under GPL, so does it matter?

  23. Re:Best Advice on On Starting a Successful ISP? · · Score: 1

    I remember those guys. I shudder to contemplate reporting a fault in their equipment.

  24. Re:Reduce, re-use, recycle on Internet Access Via Pneumatic Tubes -- Whooosh! · · Score: 1

    Questionable taste - the food's okay.

  25. Re:NetBIOS on Degrade Your Own Network · · Score: 1

    Well, if the router is properly configured, it'll drop netbios packets, especially the broadcasts, so it won't matter.