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  1. Re:Why would you refuse a breathalyzer? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    No doubt tons of innocent people will be searched without their consent, for one. And since the breathalyzer test has known problems, more innocents will be caught up.

  2. Re:Why would you refuse a breathalyzer? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    Our ideals and legal system is not supposed to allow the conviction of a few innocents, even if it means allowing a few guilty to go free. This (admittedly well-intentioned) quest to prevent drunk driving is imposing some scary repercussions for the innocent swept up in the great machine.

  3. Re:Which is worse? on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 1

    As long as it does it in less than 12 parsecs.

  4. Re:The IPv6 nightmare begins with it's design... on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but people aren't locked into the Mac. They buy Macs (generally) because they like them. Microsoft, on the other hand, desperately needs to maintain lock-in.

  5. Re:My plate is pretty full right now... on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I had the same problem. IE8 can emulate IE6 well enough to get rid of it (with a little work), see:

    http://www.publicstatic.net/2010/04/migrate-intranet-applications-from-ie6/

  6. Re:In other news... on Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn · · Score: 1

    Uhm, adults have sex.

    Show us the evidence ...

    I have no evidence. I'm married.

  7. Re:Alfresco on Simple CMS For Mixed Mac/Windows Team? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oi, I tried it. I didn't like that one. In fact, I've tried every major CMS out there.

    I'd suggest also looking at dotCMS -- it's fantastic. I ported a medium-sized financial site to it almost a year ago now and couldn't be happier. It's been very stable and supports multiple themes. It's based on velocity, which isn't my favorite thing, but it's easy enough.

  8. Re:In other news... on Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn · · Score: 1

    "Pixar is adult. The iPad is adult."

    Uhm, adults have sex.

    Ok well, some adults have sex. This is slashdot.

  9. Re:bad analogy? on Fixing Internet Censorship In Schools · · Score: 1

    "Research, when it was necessary at all, was done at the library or at home."

    That's the problem, they're talking about "inequities in household income." This is about those kids who have no home computer. And the library is filtered.

  10. Re:Er, a PS3 on What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Netflix rocks on the PS3...

  11. Re:WTF! FORCED SHUTDOWN on Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE · · Score: 1

    Bah, on Linux and *every other OS besides Windows* I can upgrade my websever, test the configuration and restart just the process when I'm ready. I often do the upgrade work a few hours beforehand (when I'm awake) and reboot Apache during a slow period (usually late night).

    On Windows you may have to first shutdown the webserver to upgrade, or reboot the entire server, causing a much longer outage than needed.

    Or just look at the jar locking hacks Tomcat has to do because you can't replace an in-use jar. I've converted several developers from Windows because rebooting Tomcat all day long is so god awful.

  12. Re:WTF! FORCED SHUTDOWN on Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE · · Score: 1

    Rebooting to upgrade a library because you can't replace an in-use file is 15 levels of wrong. :-)

  13. Re:WTF! FORCED SHUTDOWN on Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE · · Score: 1

    Ah, that's why... http://heartbeat.skype.com/

  14. Re:WTF! FORCED SHUTDOWN on Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rebooting to upgrade a browser is at least five levels of wrong!

  15. Re:Big Battle on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    From what I can tell, most of those SEO strategies are much more successful on Bing than on Google. I have several sites that rank well in Google despite never really working on SEO. It's a competitive category and the other sites are spamming the web with all kinds of links.

    On Bing, my sites rank nowhere. In fact, they're found several pages into the search, long past some really obscure sites.

    Bing is pay to play. Maybe people like that, I don't know. I would rather keep the more democratic Google, who works hard to keep the spammers out.

  16. Re:You damn well should on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 1

    Any developer who can't competently administer his own machine is incompetent.

    Heh, I was never more depressed for mankind when I had to show a fellow developer how to change the Windows screen resolution. :-)

    But, on topic, I can't believe the first few posts weren't, "I took the Windows laptop and put $distro on it." Worked for me!

  17. Re:Only if it has Google Voice on Google Nexus Rumored To Cost $530 Or $180 w/Plan · · Score: 1

    You could try fring + skype... But currently GV depends on a phone line.

  18. Re:over 40 on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about git? It's slowly taking over distributed source control...

  19. Re:Why CMS on White House Website Switches To Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because if I change it, I have to have a service request, check it into svn, build, file a request for change, deploy during a change window, etc. If the users can change content in a CMS, no paperwork required.

  20. Re:Since it is EU that is dragging on Sun Microsystems To Cut 3,000 Jobs As Oracle Deal Drags On · · Score: 1

    Those jobs (and more) were already lost once they decided to sell.

  21. Re:Astroturfing. on FTC States Bloggers Must Disclose Paid Reviews · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not in time to prevent the massive astroturfing campaign for Windows 7, however...

  22. mod up on Cyber Gangs Raise Profile of Commercial Online Bank Security · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points

  23. Re:I like Bank of America's approach on Cyber Gangs Raise Profile of Commercial Online Bank Security · · Score: 1

    Yes, but cellphones are locked down and patched by the carriers. And the limited memory, diverse hardware and software makes creating most typical Windows malware pretty impractical. In all, I'd much rather have users logging in from a cell phone than a Windows computer.

  24. Re:I like Bank of America's approach on Cyber Gangs Raise Profile of Commercial Online Bank Security · · Score: 1

    EV (and certs in general) are little better than snake oil. If the browser is already compromised, trusting it to tell you the site your visiting is trusted is foolish.

  25. Re:I've used one on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Firefox portable might help, since you've already bypassed AppLocker.

    Good luck with all that, though it sounds like you likely have a real computer at home. :-)