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  1. Re:99.999% on Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's not uncommon. Companies run Sophos on Solaris or Linux servers to scan uploaded files before they're passed to the poor stupid Windows systems.

  2. Just as long as on The Linux Programming Interface · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't have to use Info to read it I'll be happy...

  3. Re:The Internet is this magazine. on Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yep. Print is REALLY dead this time. That said I do miss Byte.

  4. Re:Some Judges need to lay the smack down. on FBI Violated Electronic Communications Privacy Act · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Deliberate illegal acts should lead to jail time. Law enforcement officers are not above the law."

    Yeah, the problem is Barack Obama chose not to pursue the crimes of the Bush Administration. He believed that doing so would cause a Republican backlash. It is an understandable strategy, but leaves no room for JUSTICE. It also hasn't prompted the right-wingers to cut him any slack.

  5. Re:Exactly on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 5, Informative

    "No, but you do have to admit that this is pretty much the first time a president or administration or party in power has overtly dismissed an entire news network, and actually spoken ill specifically of them"

    Nope. In the 2004 election the Bush campaign faxed out dossiers attacking specific reporters and, even, whole news organizations. Bush was also the President who apologetically called a reporter a "major league asshole" on national TV.

  6. Re:icing on the cake: on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 0

    > Or set up a flag@whitehouse.gov email that your constituents can use to report anyone speaking ill of you or your policies for "further education"...

    I'm pretty sure that was disabled as soon as Cheney left office.

  7. Re:we care on Towards a Permission-Based Web · · Score: 1

    I own my phone. It is my business phone. My phone is a line item under assets under Rasputin Inc. Are you now saying that Apple should be able to dictate to a company what software they can and can not run on their property?

  8. Re:Analysis of Miguel's article on De Icaza Responds To Stallman · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well I've seen and heard him make personal attacks. At the Atlanta Linux Showcase he heckled an Oracle representative from the audience, calling him "a scumbag".

    That doesn't mean he's wrong about Mono.

  9. Dell is full of crap on Dell To Offer Open Source Bundles · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They only have two PCs sold Ubuntu and two PCs sold with no OS - none of which are even halfway modern systems. It's almost like they don't want to make money from Linux users. You'd almost think that some large monopoly was using them for a hand-puppet.

  10. Re:IBM = No service on What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean For Java, MySQL, Developers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "For those out there that think this is a good thing, try to navigate IBM's website."

    Yeah, too bad Sun's pages suck equally badly. As much as possible, I've always used Google to search either one.

  11. Define a successful merger. on What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean For Java, MySQL, Developers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The company culture between Sun and IBM are too different for a successful merger."

    Success: [n] Chomp, chomp, gulp.

    Just ask the former employees of Sequent, Informix, or Rational.

  12. Re:Or you could tell people not to bring their lap on IBM Wants Patent For Lotus Notes-Free Meetings · · Score: 1

    Yes. A lot of the teams I worked with at HAL were spread across the country. So, meetings were almost almost always held via conference call.

    And, you're right, they definitely do not use note blocker in-house. I remember a call with the security goons (aka the IES Committee) where it became obvious that the members were holding the real meeting via Sametime. Long pause... clickty click click click... "No, your lab systems are still considered servers. Permission denied."

    I'm sure my off-shore replacement will have much the same problem.

  13. K12LTSP on Open Source In Public K-12 Schools? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They've taken technology from other projects (ie Linux Terminal Server Project) and built a great package. It's being used in schools world-wide. Here's the link:

    http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

  14. Re:Balance of power. on DHS to Begin Collecting DNA of Anyone Arrested · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The fact that they're sampling people who have only been arrested, but not convicted, indicates that criminals aren't the target.

  15. Idiot. on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? · · Score: 1

    So obsessed with your paranoia about Clinton, that you can't see Bush's utter violation of the Fourteenth Amendment?

    http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/06/spy_room

  16. or del.icio.us? on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    It was bad enough when Yahoo bought flickr and del.icio.us, but Microsoft? Burn it down!

  17. That explains this... on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

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    Status: active
    Locked: N
    Raw whois output:

          Domain Name: NETWORKSOLUTIONSSUCKSDICK.COM
          Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
          Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
          Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
          Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
          Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
          Status: ok
          Updated Date: 08-jan-2008
          Creation Date: 08-jan-2008
          Expiration Date: 08-jan-2009
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  18. Re:Does UKUSA expand it? on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "...he's not locking up any U.S. citizens without due process..."

    Tell that to Mike Hawash, who was held incommunicado for weeks.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hawash

    'They are NOT tapping "any and everyone's communications."'

    We don't know this. The "Patriot" Act prohibits people from notifying the citizen being spied upon.

    "No freedoms of speech have been violated..."

    Ever been detained in a "free speech" zone? No? You must be a Bush supporter.

  19. Re:[AC]What can posibly happen... on Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They want to kill off Adobe, not Linux.

    Wow! Where have you been? Microsoft wants to kill-off everyone who isn't Microsoft.

  20. Re:Yes... on California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers · · Score: 1

    "Nobody is forcing people to work there, if the company wants to require employees be tagged with RFID there shouldn't be a problem with that because the potential employee has a choice."

    Fuck that. That's the same bullshit they spout when they make urinalysis a requirement of employment. Personally, any CEO who approves either mandatory UAs or mandatory chipping needs to be strung up by his/her genitals.

  21. Re:OK... on Crew Ends 100 Day Mars Simulation in Arctic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Homer: All that counts is that we're alive and rubbing elbows with the greats. [gasps] Ooh, there's Ross Perot, Dr. Laura, Spike Lee.

    Bart: Wait a minute, they're not so great.

    Homer: Okay but there's Dan Quayle, Courtney Love, [increasing panic], Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton, Ah! Tom Arnold! What the hell's going on?

  22. The citizen protection database! on US Shuts Down Controversial Anti-Terror Database · · Score: 1

    Or some such non-sequitur.

  23. recidivism. on MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search · · Score: 1, Informative

    The registries exist because sex-offenders are much more likely to re-offend. While there are habitual murders, they're much more rare.

  24. Someone tell DHS! on MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search · · Score: 1

    "...and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

    Homeland Security holds a patent on that algorithm - Someone alert their lawyers!

  25. Re:it's probably been said that it's always been s on Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices · · Score: 1

    Thanks. You just make me choke on my coffee!