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  1. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? on Large-Scale Mac Deployment? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's exactly what he said. 0-40 MPH is very easy -- even a MCSE admin could set it up to do that. But once you get to a complicated AD environment you will have a very hard time.

    But it can be easily summed up for all MS "technologies": microsoft doesn't scale.

  2. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? on Large-Scale Mac Deployment? · · Score: 1

    Because the enterprise didn't use computers before 3.11 for workgroups....

  3. Re:A more efficient solution... on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 1

    It would be more efficient for the 5 unmodified photos, but the point is to try to put some reality back into the other billion images hitting teens everyday. People have really fucked up self-images. HD video is nice because it is harder to hide reality from it.

  4. Re:Going to be obsolete anyway on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 1

    They fix their hair, alter their face bone structure, smooth all wrinkles, remove all blemishes, whiten the whites of the eyes, thin the waist, smooth all skin shading gradients, re-shade the breasts, remove wrinkles from the clothes, ...., on and on.

    They are making the size 4-6 models smaller and even the plus size models.

  5. Re:Britain's legal system is busted on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    1) has news full of rampant lies

    And you also have provably false things, except in your case proving them false would be libel UNTIL you pay lots of money to show a court that your are correct.

  6. Re:Yeah, right on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    Actually, in reality it is even worse than that.

    Since a union is involved, they would furlough people based on lack of seniority. So Gov't would keep all the 55-60 year old people that are waiting out their time until retirement and can't leave because they have non-transferable pensions unlike the less senior workers.

    Seniority is the only important things to Unions. That's why there are so many really bad and lazy employees in the unions.

  7. Re:GAS Tax? on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    They are paying their fair share.

    Since they are consuming less petroleum, they are keeping the price down of raw materials used in road maintenance. And since they are creating less acid rain they contribute less to wear and tear.

  8. Britain's legal system is busted on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, everyone in the world knows their legal system is busted. Why do they even have free speech, if they can silence people with lawsuits?

  9. GAS Tax? on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    If they could come up with some way to tax gas purchases, it seems like it would track miles driven. Of course, they'd have to come up with a whole new administration to collect this tax on gas....

  10. Re:It's very entertaining. on New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected · · Score: 0

    Exactly my point!!!

  11. Re:Yeah, right on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    Because of course, since you can't fire a gov't worker, i'm sure you think the managers don't get better raises if their department does better. The problem is they can't fire workers. If they had an opportunity managers would sure as hell lose the crappy workers over the good ones.

  12. Re:It's very entertaining. on New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected · · Score: 0

    Isn't it quite telling that the Antivirus companies refuse to make AV that can detect every single virus that will ever be created in the future? If they did that, they'd be out of business right?

  13. Re:Important emails on Boston City Government Discovers Email Retention · · Score: 1

    Because their pledge puts them into much more internal conflict than anything else?

  14. Re:No retention? on Boston City Government Discovers Email Retention · · Score: 1

    You need to be smart enough to not accidentally kill a person

    Wow. That really is smart!!

  15. Threads suck ass. on Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server · · Score: 1

    Threads suck ass anyway.

  16. Re:Whatever it is built with, it doesn't work on Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server · · Score: 1

    Because up until that moment Facebook has no bugs.

      I think Michael Jordan used to say the same things to his coaches when they would....ahem...try to coach him.

  17. Re:Not really...Truth abou humility on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Randroids don't pass the Turing test.

  18. Re:It's about damn time. on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 1

    It was a good attempt though. Do you have any good ideas for making him not dead?

  19. Re:It's about damn time. on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 1

    None? Unless they ate from the same apple.

  20. Re:It's about damn time. on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 1

    Why do you care? If it doesn't hurt anyone. At worst it comes out the same as before.

  21. Re:Spread the FUD on Swine Flu Outbreak At PAX · · Score: 1

    And it's pure hype to speculate based on the mortality rate that it will become a total pandemic and wipe out the human race.

    What do you think hypotheses are? Do you think they have the facts first and then test them later? At least you didn't say, it's "only" a theory.

    From WP on h5n1:

    "Due to the high lethality and virulence of HPAI A(H5N1), its endemic presence, its increasingly large host reservoir, and its significant ongoing mutations, the H5N1 virus is the world's largest current pandemic threat and billions of dollars are being spent researching H5N1 and preparing for a potential influenza pandemic"

    Influenza viruses have a relatively high mutation rate that is characteristic of RNA viruses. The segmentation of its genome facilitates genetic recombination by segment reassortment in hosts infected with two different influenza viruses at the same time.[30][29] A previously uncontagious strain may then be able to pass between humans, one of several possible paths to a pandemic.

    Yes, spreading H5N1 is easier.
    How much easier? Like 2x easier or 100000x easier?

  22. Re:I'm sorry, but maybe I'm missing the point... on Cryptographic Tools To Keep You Hidden On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I give you my personal guarantee that no one will ever be able to decrypt information you haven't shared.

    They also won't be able to decrypt information you shared but failed to encrypt.

    I'm not sure why people are missing the point that there is an opportunity cost to not sharing information. Why use email or communicate with ANYONE if you are that worried about the information getting out?

  23. Re:Spread the FUD on Swine Flu Outbreak At PAX · · Score: 1

    same as the avian flu some time ago or SARS.

    Have you seen the predicted mortality rate of H5N1 if it mutates to infect humans? That is the one that really really scares researchers. It's pure hubris to believe that something that is killing lots of animals somehow will pass humans by.

  24. Re:Spread the FUD on Swine Flu Outbreak At PAX · · Score: 1

    I agree with almost everything you say except for the mortality rate being higher for the elderly and the young.

    Check out the Graph at the CDC. If you scroll to the bottom, the graph shows that 41% of the people that died were in the age group 25-49. But, 3 times as many people from 5-24 were infected. (see the graph 2 above it) So the death rate for 25-49 was much higher!

    This is only for early infections and it doesn't provide any co-factors, but it is still very interesting. I'm not saying be concerned since the total mortality rate is still really low (and the number of sample was low), but i found the graph very interesting.

  25. Re:Spread the FUD on Swine Flu Outbreak At PAX · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not true. Novel H1N1 was killing around 0.05% while normal influenza is around 0.1%.