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  1. Re:Benefits. on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kinda scary, but at one point I actually had too much beer. I was helping out a roommate who owned one of those movie theater/bars with the cute waitresses.
    Lotsa free suds later I found myself playing the criminologist in the Rocky Horror Picture Show...

    And someone out there even has pictures!

  2. Re:PuTTY on PuTTy Ported To Pocket PC · · Score: 1

    Now, I wonder if I can use PuTTY to tunnel 3389, and then run the terminal server client on the pocket PC.
    That would be great. I just wrote a client that actually makes this EASY for Windows...

  3. Look at this bias... on Stronger Anti-Spam Law Proposed · · Score: 1

    So its just plain old normal Senator Schumer, but RIGHT WING Christian Coalition? Sheeesh, no wonder lefties are blind to the world.

    Try Left Wing Senator Schumer and Right Wing Christian Coalition. It would help your point about strange bedfellows make more sense to those who have no clue who Schumer is even.

  4. Re:Might be flawed, but... on Mathematicians: Elections Flawed · · Score: 1

    I always love when people count the military in the US as a single bloc. In case you forgot, they're citizens too. If a revolution is popular enough in the civilian world to get 30% of the people involved, you can be damned sure that 30% of the military is involved also.

    Do you think that if the fedz passed a law requiring the military to round up everyone's guns that they'd do it? Not a chance in hell. The military would do NOTHING at all in a case like that. Most of them (the military being mostly republican and therefore protecting your rights) would ensure that such a thing would never happen.

  5. Re:News at 11. on US Secrecy Efforts Hurting Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    Update from last weeks story. Because the Democrats got their version of the Homeland Security Bill, John Markeov cannot be fired, and, instead, was given a mandatory promotion, and two extra coffee breaks an hour, so says his union representative. No one is willing to file the paperwork to fire John, since it will take 89 years to get through all the mandatory court cases. His supervisors figure it will be easier to just let him retire in 12 years than to fire him.

  6. Re:Most Resume Advice is Totally Subjective? on Resume Tips For Jobs · · Score: 1

    You have an AOL email account. When I sort resumes, they'd go right in the trash with the first round of rejections. Might as well write your resume with crayon.

  7. DOS attack? on Sun Joins RFID Program · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if its possible to buy these tags in bulk. Carry a bag of 10,000 into the store with you. Something like that would have to overload the system. You would be in your car before the computer could process all the tags at once.

  8. Re:Great opportunity for hackers on Sun Joins RFID Program · · Score: 1

    Sounds perfect with the other part of the story of the 70cm HAM equipment. Just key up while walking through the door. I'm sure a few watts coming out of the antenna would overpower a passively transmitting bar tag. Even if a deadkey wouldn't do it, its relatively easy to build a radio jammer across a small spread of frequencies. And go through the doors once with a frequency counter, and you'll know exactly what channel to use.

  9. Re:Opinions... on Testing Technology on a Veritable Army of Children? · · Score: 1

    Profundity? Sheesh... Ever listen to adults talk? Its the same thing. Mostly useless crap, but maybe you'll find a few jewels out there.

    I know most cultural stuff is useless, but it would be interesting to also find out how, over 5 years, their attitudes change about certain things. A way to get some relatively hard numbers that says the major change from happy-touchy-feely save the world kids to militants happens at age 14 in certain areas of the world...

    Or, it could tell you how soon these kids sell their new handhelds for a few loaves of bread.

  10. Opinions... on Testing Technology on a Veritable Army of Children? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is the perfect chance for a meaningful experiment into what different people think about the same thing. Over the course of the experiment, beam a happening news story to all the participants. Then, give them options on what they think about what they read, which is automatically tabulated and broken down according to culture. For example, in another terrorist act, you'll be able to see what they think about it from different sections of the world, who supports what happened, who decries it, etc.

    I do notice the anti-antarctica bias however...

  11. Re:regardless of what the subject ... on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you just nailed what I've always wanted but didn't know about. That is just pure genius. Wish I was moderator today, I'd give you 2 points on this one...

  12. All results suspect? on Microsoft Caught Rigging ZD Net Poll · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Maybe they've been rigging the polls on the number of desktops running Windows? Maybe only a few hundred people world wide actually run Windows. But MS is going out and hitting every website that tracks usage. And they're also taking cues from Scientology. Only 300 CD's of XP were actually pressed. MS employees are going out, buying these copies, then sending them back through the supply chain, only to buy them again, thus inflating the sales numbers!!!

  13. Re:Seems to me... on MS Struggles to Discredit Linux · · Score: 1

    I agree. I'd hope that people in business like this would talk in a bit more formal tone. But then again, I've seen much worse come out from business people, so its hard to tell. I'd almost expect a fake to be more professional. But then I remember, THESE ARE SALESMEN, and thats the strange language they talk!

  14. Seems to me... on MS Struggles to Discredit Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The tone of the message seems to suggest that he knew it possibly would be leaked. The wording seems to carefully step around anything suggesting Linux is evil, but suggests that he considers Linux the alternate operating system competitor that it is, sort of like Coke vs. Pepsi...

  15. Re:Here it comes.. on HP's OpenMail: I'm Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Does Exchange still require you to have a separate client system just to schedule conference rooms?

  16. Re:Here it comes.. on HP's OpenMail: I'm Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Yup. You can either use MAPI/IMAP/POP3 for mailing, and LDAP for address book lookups. Against my Notes server, I hit it either with the Notes client, LookOut, LookOut Express, Netscape Mail, or the Web client, all at the same time. And, the best part is, it doesn't require the Internet Infection Server to run the Web interface...

  17. Here it comes.. on HP's OpenMail: I'm Not Dead Yet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sheesh... If all of you weren't so damn scared of Lotus Notes. Runs on Linux, S/390, Solaris, NT, ASS/400 (yes, the extra S is there on purpose), and others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

    It may be a bit different from what you're used to, but it supports, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and HTTP(S) methods to access your mail easily..

  18. Re:Hmm, sounds odd... on Message from Kabul · · Score: 1

    Have you ever met anyone in the US Military? You try to ban guns, the first thing they do is turn their military weapons against you. People in the military aren't the robots blindly following orders you think they are. So Sorry, Wrong Answer, spin it again Vanna!

  19. Re:Parties on Friendships in the IT Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Forgot one thing: going to the shootin' range to blow holes in lots of paper! Then the strip club down the street...

  20. What type of... on Globalization · · Score: 3

    What type of government could possibly wrap itself around globalization? That is the major stumbling block that I see. The UN has bumbled its way around enough to know that it isn't the answer. Perhaps smaller regional governments (The EU, Pan-African Congress, OAS, etc) are the first answer to get around the poisonous ethnic problems that have caused the latest conflicts in the world. After that, let the global government figure itself out.

  21. Re:It's not only the fuel on Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft == Anti-Terrorist Device? · · Score: 1

    Your reference you were looking for. Its like the new freon. 100x more deadly than the old stuff, but because of one marginal benefit, you'll die in minutes if the AC in your car leaks.

  22. Re:It's not only the fuel on Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft == Anti-Terrorist Device? · · Score: 1

    Asbestos more dangerous? Only if you like to swim in it maybe. Asbestos would have given most people up to three more hours to get out of the building.

    Sheesh... check out www.junkscience.com once in a while.

  23. Re:Written by IBM? on Who Has Faster Pipes? Linux, Win2000, WinXP Compared · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lets see... IBM supports Linux... but guess what? They make a hell of a lot more money selling Windows systems. Both Desktop and Server. And look at IBM services? They're just going to suddenly roll over and say we don't support Windows anymore?

    Sheesh people. IBM is way too big. This guy writing the article has nothing to do with marketing, he's a programmer or in R&D. Sure he's a Linux advocate. But something this minor doesn't make it in the conspiracy business...

  24. Re:Fabricated Story on A Case for Linux in the Corporation · · Score: 1

    Dude, thats my point. IMail isn't 1/100th of the load on a server that Exchange is. Thats like saying NT is stable because I can run Solitaire for months on end and not have it blow up.

  25. Re:Fabricated Story on A Case for Linux in the Corporation · · Score: 1

    Whoa. You have 24,000 mail accounts on imail. Question: Where is the mail stored? Sure, you have possibly thousands of new messages on your box. But all your clients are downloading their mail to their client. So where is the load? Exchange keeps all the mail ON THE SERVER. So, your 24,000 mail users would have MILLIONS of messages and file attachments kept on one set of drives. And every time they look at a message, instead of the client handling all the work, the Exchange server does most of it. Big difference, so don't make it sound like 24,000 mail accounts is a big deal, when its all POP3.