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  1. Re:Viewable with My Telescope? on New Dust Storm on Mars Viewable with Telescopes · · Score: 2, Funny
    That's 13,803,862,720 rods for the anti-science crowd.

    How many furlongs is that?

  2. Re:BabbleFish on Magnetic Field Thruster Developed · · Score: 1
    What? It's just English, but with correct German grammar. Still tough to get through though, and I speak both English and German.

    It'd be like trying to run one language through another language's interpreter. Oh, wait, that sounds like Parrot/Perl6. :)

  3. Re:LDAP? on Open Source AJAX Webmail · · Score: 1

    If you're using IMAP, let IMAP auth to LDAP and be done with it. I think both cyrus and dovecot support it, and PAM is another good way to accomplish the same thing.

  4. Re:Yeahgoodluck.... on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 1
    The "P" is variable. You have a choice. And M can also be P or something else.

    Choice is the point.

  5. Re:Hmm. on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bingo. I'd also report my Exchange server missing. :)

  6. Hmm. on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 5, Funny
    The reason for that unstoppability is the lack of an awareness on anyone else's part of the value of an end to end solution where everything works together using the same technology

    Riiiight. I work in an almost all MS shop, and if everything suddenly started working seamlessly, I'd have a friggin' heart attack.

  7. Re:Did I miss the boat? on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Not POP. IMAP. I use webmail on my home server when I'm on the road, and I use thunderbird when I'm home. Since both use IMAP, I get the same mailbox and folders either way.

  8. Re:IF this happens on The Fracturing of the Internet · · Score: 1
    I agree. The only major entity to successfully buck standards and survive without interoperability is Microsoft.

    I don't actually think any nation would try it. I just think the idea of one country controlling all the root DNS servers is a bad idea. They should be distributed and managed cooperatively.

  9. Re:IF this happens on The Fracturing of the Internet · · Score: 1
    Building root servers won't force ISPs in other nations to use them.

    And I am in fact from the U$. :)

  10. IF this happens on The Fracturing of the Internet · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Will there also be a fracturing of existing standards going forward? Will HTML 5 be defined by individual countries? Might TCP/IP fork? Might firewall rules at national borders mess with worldwide connectivity?

    I'd much rather let the UN manage the net than even begin to contemplate the above. I'm not saying the UN has properly managed everything they've touched, but there is no other international body capable of managing the internet. And it needs to not be exclusively under Amerikan control.

    And I'm and Amerikan.

  11. Re:Spoof-based? on IE Flaw Exposes Users To Spoof-Based Attacks · · Score: 1
    A> If you had mod points, and you commented on this story, you couldn't give me any.

    B> You could only give me one.

    [/anal]

    But thanks! :)

  12. Spoof-based? on IE Flaw Exposes Users To Spoof-Based Attacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, like, Spaceballs could compromise my boxen?

  13. Mmmm, Katamari on Review: We Love Katamari · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like it breaded and deep-fried. :)

  14. Utility. on Tech Geezers vs. Young Bloods · · Score: 1
    People, generally, will tend to learn as much about a given tech as they need to know to operate. I know C++, PHP, etc. I Have no need to ASM, so I never bothered. If I someday need to accomplish something that's either best done with or only possible through ASM, I'll learn.

    This is typical for most people. The knowledge will be preserved by those who need it, until it is no longer relevant. An example would be how hard it is to find AmigaBASIC hackers.

  15. Bluetooth should be off anyway on Anti-Virus Protection For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1
    unless you're using it. Same logic that applies to services and TCP/IP ports applies to all communications devices.

    Unless, of course, you're going "toothing". In which cas, you might catch altogether another kind of virus. :)

  16. Re:Where are the Guardsmen? on Technology In Katrina's Wake · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Even if that were true, and not just ripped-off National Review agitprop, the question remains: Where are the supplies and equipment the Guard should be using?

    Oh yeah, Iraq.

  17. Re:Unless the security is ironclad. . . on Password Storage for Fun and Profit? · · Score: 1

    Except they said multi-domain, indicating that the systems in question auth to multiple locations, possibly including AD, vanilla LDAP, NT4 Domains, NIS, or local accounts. LDAP would only work if all the systems could auth to the same spot, and if that were the case, the question would not have been asked.

  18. Unless the security is ironclad. . . on Password Storage for Fun and Profit? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    it's just too risky. To satisfy me, the storage should be encrypted, and the access should require SSL.

    At the very least.

    I still don't think I'd trust it.

  19. Start the clock on Mazda Switches To USB Keys · · Score: 5, Insightful
    How long before someone hacks it to:

    A: Start multiple cars that they own

    B: Start other people's cars

  20. Why not do what casinos do? on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 2, Funny
    If you're caught cheating, you're escorted out.

    Sometimes, to a shallow ditch in the desert.

    Hard to implement online, actually. Nevermind. :)

  21. Plastic? on Fly To Mars In A Plastic Ship · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why build the spacecraft out of plastic? Who cases if it's flimsy? Why not simply put it into the wall s like insulation? How much thickness would you need? Talk about weight savings. . .

  22. Huh? on New Security Ideas From Intel · · Score: 3, Insightful
    So it shuts down if you suddenly start using it more? Like if I start a multi-threaded FTP transfer, a bittorrent session, or a portscan?

    No thank you. Don't decide for me what traffic I can generate.

  23. Re:Dr. Chandler, will I dream? on Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids · · Score: 1

    Dr. Chandra. HAL's creator was Dr. Chandra.

  24. Makes sense. on Self-Governing Online Worker Communities · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you give the employees not only tools to effect real positive change but also a sense of ownership, some say in operations and a voice of some type, they'll work harder, do better work, and stick around. Why isn't this common knowledge? I've been workplaces where this was the M.O., and it was great.

  25. In my experience, on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 1

    it's best to have a knowledgable manager. Failing that, it's best to have one who knows his/her limitations. I have a manager currently, for example, who, while largely ignorant of the nuts and bolts, is willing to learn and has no illusions about his own knowledge. If he doesn't know something, he doesn't just spout off some crap trying to make himself sound impressive, (like my old supervisor), he either does the research and comes up with a correct answer or informed opinion, or refers the question to someone who knows. He also tries to make an effort to educate himself about issues he needs to know about, such as email, spyware, virii, etc. He's no sysadmin, but he's not actively a problem, either, which is worth a lot.