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  1. My Plan on Ph.Ds in IT - Good or Bad for a Career? · · Score: 1

    I am in a BS/MS dual degree program at RIT i Computer Engineering, giving me a full year of on-job experience by the time I graduate. After working long enough to pay off student loans, I will choose between either an MBA or a PhD, depending on what I want to do at that point.

    Anything wrong with this plan? A PhD wouldn't have to be in CE, but EE and CS are also options. Possibly even MicroE.

  2. Re:A good worm is a dead worm... on RPC DCOM Cleanup Worm Appears · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd agree if the fix came out first.
    But if a worm/virus/elephant is released creating mass media, and another one is released abusing the same, you deserve it. Plus it at least has a good intention. It's better to try than to not.

  3. Re:Is it just me... on Palm Reveals New Name · · Score: 1

    I think I'll just go to oldversion.com and download the original a la realone.

  4. Re:ebay is full of scammers, $5 at a time on Profile of an eBay Scammer · · Score: 1

    I get scammed all the time too, but it's minor and ignored the way I bid. Some people set very high shipping costs which have no correlation to reality att all. I see the exact same item being shipped by the same company-- different costs depending on person, even when both are in the US. Both list the extra for insurance, which naturally makes sense.

    I don't understand the way it seems most people bid on there. I place one bid per item. Amount I'm willing to pay, minus shipping. I never have to check back at my auction. If I get outbid, I do the exact same thing at the next auction offering the same item. I must be doing something wrong because often at these same auctions I see people betting several times. :P

  5. Re:Ugh, lazy patchings on LovSan Clone Let Loose · · Score: 1

    Right. I'm going to restart my computer everyday for the new somehing that has a minor chance of effecting my computer.

    That would completely nullify my bragging rights in IRC from the moo.dll script which gives my uptime information. Sure it may saves billions of dollars, but, but just having that "week" segment makes me look all leet.

  6. Re:shutdown /a on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 1

    Firewalls won't help unless your blocking MS system ports, such as 135, which isn't always a good idea. If you just want to block that port to the internet (as oppose to ethernet) then you better hope you aren't hooked up to a 10,000 computer campus just waiting to sneeze virii on you.

    I fought it off today... where's my purple heart? ;)

  7. Exactly on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everyone wants linux to be used more, but no one wants to help to make it happen. Look at any newbie to *nix going to an IRC channel for help. By them alone going there, they are already in the top 5% of knowledgable computer users. What are they told to do, no matter what they ask? RTFM. You don't need to read a manual to use windows, so why for nix? If you need to for linux, then you've already added a separation from a normal person. But as people have said, there shouldn't be a huge division between regular linux using, and newbie linux using. Over simplification is a disaster. People will be upset because they can't do anything, then some jerk will come along and say "well obviously you can't do that without being in " (insert some cryptic word here) " mode.", they hit a key combo, recompile the kernel, whatever it does't matter, and leaves the user with what amounts to a completely different operating system. Write a script so a program will work? That's less than the half of top one percent of users. That's horrid to make a newbie do. You want to know why linux isn't around? Open up.

  8. Re:"Fact of Life" != Today's Rampent Corruption on Inquiry Into RIAA's Piracy Crackdown Tactics · · Score: 2, Informative

    Want of the majority out weighs the need of a few, eh? Everyone's out of the majority in one issue or another. If every minority gets killed, everyone dies.

  9. Re:Stem Cell Research on The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement · · Score: 1

    They work on varying levels for different people, and not at all for others. It depends on why they are deaf-- is it a physical ear problem, or nerve damage. I go to RIT where we have many (2000+?) deaf students. My deaf psych teacher was talking about about it but I just can't remember, aside from knowing that he couldn't wear an implant to fix it.

  10. Re:The probably won't happen for awhile on Microbes for Bioremediation · · Score: 1

    Think about it for digesting spent nuclear fuel. That can be a contained environment where you don't give the microbes anything else. And possible you have some sort of anti microbe...

    i got nuthin

  11. Can I have one? on China Building Linux-Based 10 Teraflop Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    I think I can get Cray to make one for me afterwards. I mean, after they make one, another can't cost that much.. right?

  12. Pull a microsoft... on Diebold Voting Systems Grossly Insecure · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't tell anyone about the problems, then when it becomes known you have infinite votes, call it a feature.

    Also introduce a talking chad to help you vote, and notify you when it looks like you're writing a letter.

  13. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA on Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back · · Score: 0

    I was going to say victims spam spammers, but then you showed up.

    Realistically, a subject of "In soviet russia..." with no body is plenty for this story.

  14. Re:I don't understand on Swiss Researchers Exploit Windows Password Flaw · · Score: 1

    20 gb = how many double sided high density DVD's? 2? I think it's at the point where the hack takes longer to move than to execute

  15. Re:Is this really news worthy? on Swiss Researchers Exploit Windows Password Flaw · · Score: 1

    Anyone whose password exists in a dictionary deserves what's coming to them. Then again the way the dictionary is adding words, things like my old password (Good2Moo) will soon be listed.

    Good2Moo. n. Etymology: Came from some loser's head.
    1 : Password frequently used on many websites and bank accounts by Brian Cody.
    2 : being at a state where mooing will provide a wanted consequence.

  16. Re:Cool, Life is a game, so... on Gaming Site Reviews.. Real Life? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see the controls. I still can't figure out how to do a split.

  17. Re:where does the name come from? on Latest Proposals for C++0x · · Score: 1

    It's actually Ox, not 0x. Ox - Oxford. At least the website sure makes it seem like that.

  18. Re:"Can't be bothered..." on Restrictive Sales Practices on the Web? · · Score: 1

    I'd agree except for the simple fact that I could order any of these products for anyone anywhere, and send it to them myself. Fedex/UPS/etc will just charge me accordingly.

    If their scapegoat of a reason is about warranty laws, etc, across countries, well that's very stupid response. Companies exist for the very purpose of acting as a buffer between legalities of countries. Sure they take a fee, but just charge that to the company.

    They really do have no good reason. Alternatively the customer in a non-US country can probably go to a company that will order the product under US credentials.

  19. Re:But... on Bill Gates On Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Excuse me, but what qualifies something as dead? I don't think usage alone is enough. Take VHS. You can buy them, rent them, and millions of people own them; billions are owned. It's dead.

    I call something dead if it is in a critical region, downward spiral, inside a event horizon, (etc etc). Now back to the previous example if someone released a VHS cassette that stored 100 hours, the medium would be 'revived', or 'resurrected', if only for a short time. It can be dead and still be in wide use. (IMHO)

  20. Re:Way too easy to fake on eBay Provides No Privacy For Sellers · · Score: 1

    I hope you see the reasons for it, however, as supplied by others. They need to be just as open as anyone who owns a store anywhere, or else scamming is afoot.

    Alternatively you could open up every buyer, but that would be top-down-in-your-face-Bush-economics, now wouldn't it? (ducks)
    all in fun...

  21. Re:Is the article really focusing on Debian on Debian And The Rise of Linux · · Score: 1

    Like a cancer you must sacrifice the possibly infected.

  22. Re:Is the article really focusing on Debian on Debian And The Rise of Linux · · Score: 1

    hmm make 2004 into 2010, and couple of years into couple of decades, and "at least" with "and the destruction of Washington State".

  23. Re:Oh wait, here's one on U.S. DoD Commits To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Completely FYE zoloto (don't know anyone else will see it).

    Every multiple of 6 in time is directly related to the Babylonians. Seconds per minute, minutes per hour, hours per day, days per month, months per year. (30 days per month)
    They held either 6 or 60 to be sacred, and a working system sprung up from there. As for 7 (days a week) you're probably right (rested on the seventh day, etc). I don't recall the Babs having names for the days but I haven't done much into that.

  24. It's ok on Solar Powered Helios Plane Destroyed in Test Flight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All in the name of science after all. Good thing whatever went wrong happened in the prototype phase, before anything but monetary anticipations were relying on it.

    I'm very interested to know exactly what went wrong. From what I briefly read, I'd imagine it was the actual construction which had a problem, not the technology. Unless this was a pre-flight damaged part, this could be valuable information as I'm sure this plane used the latest designs, as other planes will be using.

  25. Re:whatever on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    Well that's actually a well known tactic for making things look like they cost less. Look at all the things that cost $?9.99, etc. Of course it's simple trickery, as there is no rationalization otherwise to cut out a couple pennies. If they were at all intelligent, they would price things so that once tax was included, it would be a whole dollar amount. A lot of small stores are starting to do that (so that things like a soda are $1 even), and I like it a lot.

    That said, a lot of stores are now doing the reverse. Something costs $1? Why not $1.10. That's basically a dollar. Hell, inflate all prices by up to twenty-five cents no one will know the difference.