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  1. Source of unobjectionable embrionic stem cells on Scientists Create New Human Embryonic Stem Cell · · Score: 1

    You're telling me that Planned Parenthood clinics don't have any spare unplanned embryonic cells laying around?

  2. Maybe USPTO... on Patent Examiners Flee USPTO · · Score: 1

    should create the USPPTO (U.S. Patent Pending and Trademark Office)

  3. Re:A simple question is warranted on Reminding Customers Patented by Amazon · · Score: 1

    Apparently they were hoping the processor, in this case Shaniqua-Bunifa-Leticia Jackson was too busy smacking gum and rubber-stamped the application.

    It was either that or a bribe... there's been a few scandalous patents in the past.

  4. Well shit. on Reminding Customers Patented by Amazon · · Score: 1

    I guess when my dentist auto-reminds me for a cleaning after my root canal my HMO is goint to have to split the claim check and send a portion to Bezos.

    Lovely.

  5. Problem here on Check Boxes and Radio Buttons Conquered by DHTML · · Score: 1

    Even though this is a nice solution, the problem is that most users have been used to the fugly styles of radio buttons and check boxes for so long, that most users won't know that these new styles are clickable (they will think they are just static images).

    That differs from a standard windowing UI application where the user subconciously knows what is clickable and what isn't. With the browser we have become so ingrained to knowing that "such and such is a picture, it does nothing when you click on it" that I'm afriad it's too late to use this technique with any effect.

  6. Hmm worms and virii on DECnet Isn't Dead · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I guess if you wanted to keep really sensitive stuff from being seen, you could PIX your application server and behind that, everything runs on DECnet behind the application server.

    But, if you're going to do that anyway... you could just as well use Appletalk, VINES or NetBIOS (w/o TCPIP) instead of DECnet... neither of which would be visible to outsiders.

    None of this will save you from VBS attacking desktops. Email is email, whether it came in over IP, a floppy disk, or DECnet.

  7. Re:your infosec on file on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 1

    Every time I get CapitalOne's stupid invite I mail it back (doesn't cost me anything anyway) with black Magic Marker:

    "I DONT WANT YOUR FUCKING CARD STOP FUCKING MAILING THIS CRAP"

    I am already a CapitalOne cardholder. How many of their cards do I need at 20% interest?

  8. Forget US schools. Mexico is a better option. on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm all in favor of the DREAM act. Since 1890, Texas has been dealing with a flood of illegal immigration, which didn't abate after the amnesty program in the 1980s.

    Seriously, these are kids who aren't interested in the Service, and they're only signing up because they're being sweet talked into it like a crack whore lookin' for a fix. Soon after they're shipped off for BT do they realize what a mistake they've made.

    So, where else is there a pool of semi-muscular blobs that can be turned into killing machines? There are two... a) the prison system and b) illegal immigrants.

    Illegal immigrants want to become citizens. They keep saying when they come over that they'll just work for a few years and go back home. That never happens.

    Why not convince these people to actually do something meaningful for a change and stop debasing wages? That's right! These pobrecitos who are picking our oranges and driving our trucks can make MUCH better money in the E3-E6 paygrade... WORLDS better than back in the coloñias or the barrio.

    Let these immigrants prove their worth! In exchange for their service they get citizenship and GI eligibility.

    Mexico benefits as well as the US here. The military fulfills its quotas and can stop harassing the preppy white kids in schools. Mexico's population declines to a level its government can support. Everybody wins (oh except the kids that won't join up... you get to fight for white collar jobs that haven't left for India).

  9. DLP Projectors make AMC Theatres Obsolete on Consumers Prefer Movies At Home · · Score: 1


    1. Dell DLP projector $900
    2. Bose compact theatre system from BJ's electronics $500
    3. Use ScreenGoo (tm) acrylic wallpaint on your drywall
    4. Let paint dry
    5. No more listening to Lakeesha Shankeeka Laquita Jackson jabbing on her cellphone while you are trying to watch LOTR.
    6. ...
    7. Profit.

  10. TheDailyBSDWTF.com on Linux For Losers According To De Raadt · · Score: 1

    We need to start a www.dailtywtf.com just based on OpenBSD source code... alone!

  11. Doh on Spyware Floods in Through BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Now I'll have to find somewhere else to download my warez and leetz crackz.

    I wonder how NYC bigwigs managed to convice these companies to buy ad space... "Yes you will have very good coverage amonst 13-26 year olds... we have their attention, and HOW!"

  12. WTF? on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something I would see on www.thedailtywtf.com .... not on Slashdot.

  13. This would be interesting... on Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 and LX700 Showdown · · Score: 1

    ...if there were a solution for also handling the video display wirelessly (which is what I thought the article was going to be about since it said "wireless desktop"). For just desk IO, other than that, why bother? Infrared or RF, pick one.

  14. IBM Global Services, now IBM Europe on IBM Europe Workers Strike · · Score: 1

    IBM is going to take their slash-and-burn cost cutting tactic throughout their entire organization, wherever they see that they can minimize their payroll expenses.

    It's obvious IBM's payroll is enormous, and that slice of the pie is gigantic compared to all the other costs IBM has, it's too hard for the PHBs at IBM to ignore it. IBM Global Services got thinned out after employees there started complaning about the multi-state income tax conumdrum they were being forced to pay and their recent litigation over their pension changes.

    It won't be long before IBM's operations in Latin America is trimmed as well as their US operations. Sure, that payroll pie slice will get a lot thinner, but I suspect it will be a very cold winter coming for Poughkeepsie and Armonk residents. Better get a blanket.

  15. /.ed on Risk Management - A Cautionary Tale · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow. Looks like even the mag for CIOs can't keep up with a /. DDoS attack. Maybe the CIO for CIO should be fired?

  16. What is this post for? on Load List Values for Improved Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Any web developer who'se picked up a book for PHP/ or NET Web Development would know how to do this in Apache or IIS.

  17. IIS/Apache - No diff on MSN Search Engine Favors IIS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only difference in the HTTP response is just that IIS adds headers and that IIS has that stupid HTTP Continue on handling SOAP via ASPNET.

    Just telnet to almost any Apache web server and type GET / and then to an IIS server and do the same thing. Look at the top. Almost all non-IIS web servers return no default headers.

    Microsoft.com:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:56:20 GMT
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
    P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo C
    NT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI"
    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
    X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
    Cache-Control: private
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    Content-Length: 23027

    redhat.com

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
    .... blah blah
  18. EVERY web developer KNOWS... on 100,000 More Social Security Numbers Exposed · · Score: 1

    ...that when you are writing a web site or web service that is going to pass information based on some sort of identifier, that identifier should be cryptic enough that it will be hard to guess other valid identifiers.

    If you don't know what that means (for you Microsofties)... that means you should be using a GUID or something just as random or hard-to-guess identifier, like a SHA-1 hash, as an identifier for records that your web client will pass back to the web server.

    So in this case, PayMaxx could have used a GUID or SHA-1 hash or even some big random unique number for enumerating its W-2s and then tie the enumerator to the actual payroll ID with an indexed lookup table to prevent just the sort of "data snooping" that happened here.

  19. Ok... so we won't participate in wireless security on China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks · · Score: 1

    if (__mylocation == LOCAL_RICE_PATTY ||
    LOCAL_SHANGHAI || LOCAL_BEIGING)
    {
    return WAPI_SECURITY_ENABLED;
    } else {
    return STANDARD_SECURITY;
    }

  20. WAPI is old on China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to this rant WAPI is "on old technology, performs poorly and is insecure"

  21. I don't get it... on Microbes Alive After Being Frozen for 32,000 Years · · Score: 1

    It's a new type of bacteria, that's 32,000 years old...

  22. Wireless Philadelphia Not That Wireless on Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide · · Score: 1
    If you http://www.phila.gov/wireless/review the coverage maps for Wireless Philadelphia, you'll quickly see that it only covers some of the JFK Parkway greenery and LOVE Park, which is only handy if you happen to have a laptop and you're sitting in the area.


    There are only a lucky few who happen to be in residential buildings or hotels who are near the repeaters. For the most part, any residential on the parkway is going to be a high priced condo. So in reality, wireless is not very accessible here yet.


    When coverage expands to Washington Square, South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties it will finally be a practical solution to those $100 Verizon phone bills (for basic phone + DSL).

  23. Ugh on IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Considering RHI Techonolgy specializes in temping and most of that large portion of temping (ok... "termed contracts") is on the low end, I would imagine that salaries would remained depressed.

    When I retire I think I'll make good money as a cab driver.... in Bangalore.

  24. You know EVERY time you use Linux... on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 1

    God kills a kitten.

  25. Going to the Poor House on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    Anybody gonna find a job for these guys??? I'll hire 'em