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  1. deliverator on Designers - Are You Influenced By What You Read? · · Score: 1

    Until i can goggle into the office, to play earth and talk to the librarian, while fully rendered as the baddest sword fighter on the net, i will not be happy. just give me reason.

  2. a geek getting a date on Some Geek Guides for Dating · · Score: 1

    is probably one of the most elusive social hacks. i have foudn sometimes it helps to whip out your 12" ti, although some women will say size doesn't matter.

  3. You know your a geek when.. on Lust After The Sony Clie NZ90 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... you Lust After The Sony Clie NZ90 and you have 'been' with more PDAs then girlfriends

  4. A significantly larger number of systems? on Linux Is Cheaper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "It is because Linux admins, although slightly more expensive, can handle a significantly larger number of systems than their Windows counterparts." Using what? VNC? I can monitor the same amount ofboxes using that on a linux machine as I can on my win2k desktop using WinVNC. We also use an app simply called remote admin on ms boxen that uses more resources than vnc, but is faster and has better windowing. Your average linux admins are made to handle more machines in their jobs, and windoze techs are see as l@mes whos remote administration goes as far as their kvm cables reach.

  5. What we all knew... on Your Genome Scanned While You Wait · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...was that this was coming. The question now are, when and will people accept this as a moral practice, or reject it as something unethical.

  6. Re:Think, don't react. on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    Live you life as you always have. Go to work, raise your kids, spend your money, and be happy until given a legitimate reason not to be. Out of all the posts on this site, how many are from people directly affected by 09/11, who either knew someone who is missing, or has family that lost a loved one.

    Maybe there aren't many posts on slashdot from people who were somehow involded with the WTC or Pentagon attacks, but maybe there should be. There were 50k people who worked in buildings that are now two smoking holes in the financial district, and many other hundreds of people involved with the disaster recovery efforts. Maybe the reason you dont see their posts on here is becasue it was damned traumatizing and not something easily posted like so much trite on slashdot. Maybe its because THEIR WHOLE IT DEPARTMENT WAS COMPLETELY VAPORIZED.

    Being a SF transplant, I moved to NYC just in time to experience the aftermath as this stunned city tries to cope with the terror that has been rained upon it. So, while your worrying about having a bag of the newest geek toys to show off at comdex, the hundreds of missing posters I pass every morning show that some people have more real fears on their mind. When more plains start hitting populated areas, its upsetting to say the least. Just because you don't have personal knowledge of the attacks, do not presume that people here in the city can just Live you life as you always have.

  7. More government control...? on Authentication is the Key · · Score: 1
    It always makes my teeth hurt when I see someone react with this kind of knee-jerk mentality.

    Sounds like a big problem, well lets pass a few hundred laws and set up a shiny new government body to control it.

    The United States government is probably the WORST possible choice for online authentication services, at least at this point in time (and for the foreseeable future.)The various branches of the U.S. government have altogether one of the worst security track records of all time, not to mention terribly antiquated and bloated networks in comparison with the private sector. I would rather let M$ handle a single user authentication system then some specially appointed government body. With M$ we would only have one company controlling our data, but with 'da F3DZ' in control it would simply go to whoever had the best lobbyists and the most money. Not to mention the fact that the government would now be able to keep tabs on us throughout our online adventures.

    'Sir, we have a bogey in grid C-A two-zero-four-three-niner who is going for Chinese porn, repeat Chinese porn.'

    Maybe we could call the project Carnivore II...