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  1. fingers and what? on Chalkboards With Brains · · Score: 1

    > surf the web and edit video using their fingers as pens."

    tell me i'm not the only one who read this as fingers and penis?

  2. Re:.mp3 format? on Microsoft's Music Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    > You can do a D-A-D conversion with quality loss

    Something tells me that if you get a pair of good mics, and a proper 'booth' that you could do very good D-A-D conversions. Most music is A-D-D anyway. I wouldn't expect anything less than a typical MP3 quality. Has anyone published info on this method?

  3. Re:They want the remote access. on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1 · · Score: 1

    Actually, Our government (via microsoft) want to insure that the trojan horse known as windows is used by all countries that we need to keep an eye on. There is no better way to keep an eye on folks than to give them the gift of windows.
    Forget looking under your desk lamp for a 'bugging device', just look in your operating system.

  4. Is that a joystick.... on Porn in Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    In your pocket.....?

  5. Porn for kids? on Porn in Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    place this PSP Porn in the same drawer as your hello kitty and nimbus 2000 vibrators.

  6. Re:Not exactly felled on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    more like $11.25, but not a bad guess for someone who didn't do the math.

  7. Re:recommendations? on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 1

    >>Just stick it to the bottom of the keyboard

    Nice, I programmed my work voice mail password into one of the speed dial keys of my work phone. I even labeled it "2699#". :)
    No one would ever guess.

  8. Re:you're drinking the wrong kool aid on Tracking Dynamic Completion Dates in Development? · · Score: 1

    Not always true.
    In my company (when I say "my company" i mean my employer), We have begun using MS Project to plan our future. We also add all of our scope creep and distractions to it during our Mon., Wed. and Fri. meetings.

    We do it for many reasons:

    To document the cruft that builds.

    To manually move the finish dates as needed
    (Unfortunatly, MS project does not selectively level a project.) Some line items become hot, others get pushed back. Resources are averaging 300% per head.

    Keep the PM informed so he can talk with our director about resources and stuff.

    See what is on the critical path.

    It's not about proving a point or whinning. It's about knowing where you are half way through the project so that you can make needed decisions BEFORE you fuck the whole plan.
    When we do good, the PM and director Do good, the company does good.

    If only we could figure out what to do the the control freak fuckwads in personel with the pee tests, dress code, attendance policy all being updated to screw the little guy. We actually have the word "tardy" in our attendence policy as though we are school kids. talk about ways to beat you down...
    It's a damn good thing Engineering is busy with more important things or we would walk over thier and kick thier asses the whole lot of them.
    oh well, :)

  9. Re:OS-X? on CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack · · Score: 1

    TFA clearly states OS/2. ...unless they fixed the article.

  10. Re:run some numbers on Distributing Windows Programs to Linux Desktops? · · Score: 1

    >they wanted to run Office apps while they're at it? Assuming you can get some volume discounts that could be another $50,000.

    Maybe they want to run office apps, not Office apps.
    In this case this case it would cost them around $0.

  11. Re:Ideal opportunity to disinfect the internet on CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack · · Score: 1

    3.0 Tell all compromised PCs to wipe their hard drives AND INSTALL Ubuntu Linux.
    3.1 Rename Firefox icon to Internet Explorer.
    3.2 Rename Evolution icon to Outlook.
    4. No more compromised PCs! Well... not for a VERY LONG while anyway!

  12. OS-X? on CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack · · Score: 1

    So in infects Windows.

    Doesn't touch Linux or OS/2???
    What about OS-X? Is it just a typeO or is there more OS/2 on the net than OS-X?

  13. Re:125 MPH on Windows Servers Neck and Neck with Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    Yep, I've been up to 141 twice on a local bypass in Pa USA. Seems like the car has more power but hits a hard limit in the on board computer. I'll never do it again because I'm older and wiser.... or afraid.

  14. Re:Sales != volume on Windows Servers Neck and Neck with Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    >Britney Spears has more sales than Tom Waits, but that doesn't mean she's better.
    Well, I refuse to consider sleeping with Tom Waits.

  15. Re:Starting the book now... on Debian Sarge Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    > I luv me some gramma. ....It's all relative in West Virginia.

    But don't let grampa find out what you been do'in.

  16. Re:Noisy Components on Cubicle Privacy · · Score: 1

    I alway try to buy a fanless MB and video card just to keep noise down. Typically, I buy oversized, slow case fans to attach to the CPU heat sink. I've lined My PC case with thick cloth, suspended my hard drive by insulated wire so the vibration doesn't transfer to the case. Moved the power supply fan to one of the inner walls of the PSU case (dremel required). At one point I could hardly tell my PC was powered up. Last thing, Put a towel under the case if your setting the PC on a hard desk surface.

  17. Re:Not P2P on Terrorist Link to Copyright Piracy Alleged · · Score: 1

    Funny my ass, This guy is brilliant.

    Where is the +5, Brilliant?

  18. Re:Not the way it works... on Terrorist Link to Copyright Piracy Alleged · · Score: 1

    If you drive a petroleum powered vehicle, you are funding terrorism. ...and you are funding George W Bush.

    Is there a connection?

  19. Re:Linux? on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 1

    >if she doesn't have a firewall and a virus scanner, then she needs to be slapped

    If she is young enough to be slapped then she is young enough to have the firewall and virus scanner or linux installed, administered and locked down FOR HER.
    My neice and nephew screwed my moms PC only two times before I blamed myself for giving mom a windows box. I quickly installed Linux and neither of us has had a problem with her PC since in almost two years.
    This guy is an Intel big shot, what is he doing leaving crap computers lying around in the first place?

  20. Re:Linux? on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >he needs to slap his daughter and tell her to quit.

    He can slap his daughter till she falls over and the root cause of the problem will still have a blue screen. Someone should slap bill gates. That dickwad could actually fix the problem (unlike that little girl you want to slap). She is a victim in a world thats so insane but you don't see it because you are numbed up to the spyware shuffle.

  21. Re:Good game Nokia! on Nokia Announces Patent Support to the Linux Kernel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >sure, this is a step, but it's very small.

    It's one thing to say "I forgive your for killing 5 people."

    It's yet another to forgive someone for all the killing they might do in the future along with who they might kill.

    What would you do as a business? ...as a person?

    As long as they issue a statement like this once in a while we won't get to far into something we can't easily get out of.

    Personaly though, I think Nokia is just trying to fend of the WinCE folks by attracting "us". Good job N. In your face MS! ;)

  22. Re:Encryption use != evil on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention that my employer freely hands out 512MB USB Pendrives with encryption.

  23. Re:Encryption use != evil on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1

    >In other words, if he's hiding something, he knows he has something to hide.

    Replace "hide" with "protect".

    I'm an inventor who protects all ideas until they are ready for disclosure, usually to my employer. I protect everything I do. You can't rely on Windows to protect your work. Windows will blab everything on your hard drive for a song. Our IT department supplies laptops with encrypted drives so that we can safely take them out of the building.
    Even a computer based artist/musician/photographer etc. should protect his/her work until its ready. That what copyrights, trademarks and "evil IP" are all about. You have to prove that you are the original. If someone else releases your work before you, how do you prove anything? An encrypted drive is just a light layer of protection. It's not taboo, Don't let them brainwash us into thinking so.

  24. Re:Encryption use != evil on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw two weeks ago:

    Guns kill people, just like spoons.

  25. Re:Best. Mark of the Beast. Ever. on Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs · · Score: 1

    >>>There is a difference between requiring fingerprints on record (actually having your fingerprint in a database somewhere) and using your fingerprint to create a random sequence of numbers. If you cannot see that, then you are forcing yourself to be blind to it.

    If all the library needed was a random sequence of numbers, why not just do this:

    RANDOMIZE
    a = RND
    ??

    Oh, a uniquely identifying number that does not identify you yet let them know that you are you?
    I call bullshit on something, I'm just not sure what that something is.