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  1. I've gotten two jobs via LinkedIn on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    One was the worst job I ever had. One was the best. On average, it is okay.

  2. Re:a Fall on What Has Your Phone Survived? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it died a week later when my wife ran it through the washer.

  3. a Fall on What Has Your Phone Survived? · · Score: 1

    I dropped a BlackBerry 8800 off the roof of a seven story building and it worked fine with a crack in the case.

  4. James Rouse did that in the 1960s on How Bezos Messed With Texas · · Score: 1

    James Rouse did the same thing in Maryland in the 1960s and yielded Columbia, Maryland. This is hardly an original trick. Wake me when someone has a new idea.

  5. Re:This isn't like Mitnick, and prison doesn't wor on Hacker Sentenced To Longest US Sentence Yet · · Score: 1

    I really don't care what he says about us. I told the AG's office to go easy on him four years ago hoping he'd learn a lesson. From this, I have learned this was misguided thought.

    He committed a felony while on probation. He is a repeat offender. The system offered him an opportunity to rehabilitate himself and he failed. Therefore, the system must now take action necessary to protect us all from a twice-convicted criminal. Salcedo has nobody to blame for this but himself. And unless he learns this, he will continue to be useless to society in nine years.

  6. Re:This isn't like Mitnick, and prison doesn't wor on Hacker Sentenced To Longest US Sentence Yet · · Score: 1

    I probably should at least know a little. So should you. I was on the team that caught him in 2000. He should have gone down on a littany of Federal charges. Letting him take probation for only the Michigan violation was a gift he squandered. Nine years is not long enough.

  7. Some facts on this case on Hacker Sentenced To Longest US Sentence Yet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Salcedo was arrested in the last month of a 36-month probation sentence after he broke into Arbornet and many other sites in 2000. The original Slashdot story is here.

  8. Re:This isn't like Mitnick, and prison doesn't wor on Hacker Sentenced To Longest US Sentence Yet · · Score: 1

    Well, probation doesn't work either. He was arrested in month 35 of a 36-month probation term.

  9. Re:The real problem on Replacing FileMaker with Free Software? · · Score: 1

    And forgive me for replying to myself, but I should make it clear. The world would be perfect if it were a part of the OpenOffice suite.

  10. The real problem on Replacing FileMaker with Free Software? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The real problem this user has is one I have had. There is no suitable replacement for Access, FileMaker, or dBase. An open-source portable replacement would be a killer app for the open source community, but it just isn't there.

  11. Spider? on Feed · · Score: 1

    Warren Ellis did it better.

  12. Re:Black Tuesday? wth? on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    October 29th, 1929.

  13. I hated the dolphin on RFID License Plates in the UK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    didn't i see this in the first episode of seaquest?

  14. Re:A dup? on Is Microsoft Money Crushing Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    No, you read it here.

  15. Re:Keep religion out of it. on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Dear moron,

    "Genesis" has no more to do with religion than apples, gardens, and salt. It's the Hebrew word for "beginings."

  16. Re:Where were those G5 going?!? on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    I bet not.

  17. Re:Where were those G5 going?!? on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    No, that's not true. I carried my cellphone around the White House complex without any problems. But, I always heard the President hates it when cellphones start ringing, so it was set to vibrate.

  18. Re:removing some utilities on BSDCon '03 Nearly Here (OpenBSD 3.4, Too) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, I was the original author of FreeGrep, and even if you pull out the text searchers in GNU Grep, FreeGrep is still only 1/3 the size (source lines).

    FreeGrep is also FAR more extensible and, in general, better designed. It would not be difficult to add support for grepping bzipped files, other compressed types, or even new types of files. It's also easier to add new options and features, though I do think the entire alphabet has been exhausted.

  19. Moving sidewalks on What's Always Next? · · Score: 1

    We do have moving sidewalks. Ever been to an airport?

  20. Don't use the GPL on Getting Software Added to Unix Distributions? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Drop the GPL. Your software is much more useful and far more likely to be included in non-Linux systems if the license isn't tainted.

  21. Uhm, 1991 eh? on Statistical Analysis of Copyright Registrations · · Score: 1

    1991 was around the time Berne took effect. Registration was no longer necessary. Of course they dropped off.

  22. Come on! on Microsoft Patenting IM Translation? · · Score: 1

    Years ago, I modifiedy AOL's Tcl/Tk TiK client to run everything through the jive filter. Nothing new here.

  23. If you have to ask... on Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Then you probably do not have the in-house talent after all. I suggest finding a commercial OS like Solaris, HP/UX. Or FreeBSD, then you won't need to worry about support.

  24. Re:What's the point? on Public Domain Enhancement Act petition · · Score: 1

    That's actually the best part. Mickey Mouse still generates a profit, despite being 76 years old. There is good reason for Walt Disney Co. to continue the copyright, but the lone person, who wrote J Random Book in 1930 who died with no heirs has no reason to worry about his copyright, despite the fact the information in the book is probably useful to someone.

  25. Infeasible on Public Domain Enhancement Act petition · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is completely at odds with current copyright law. Copyright law, under the Berne Convention, grants copyright immedietly upon creation of the work. There is no regisration requirement. Requiring registration on the backend is nonsensical and the Copyright Office will be unable to validate existence of a valid copyright when granting the extension.

    For instance, what prevents me from paying the dollar and renewing the copyright on "The Wizard of Oz" (movie, not the book, the book is public domain)?