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  1. Toldja! on Sculpture to Reflect Campus Wireless Traffic · · Score: 4, Funny

    FTFA:

    "It should make everyone's surroundings more interesting because that's the purpose of public art," he said. "To exist and engage the people who are passing by."

    See, officer, I told you she's not a hooker. She's a Performance Artist!

    -ELf
  2. MSTS on Alternatives to Citrix Remote Computing? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Seeing as I use MS Terminal Services to do everything you mentioned, I'd say you could fairly easily kiss Citrix (and it's relatively large licensing fees) goodbye. I've migrated 99% of my company to Thin Clients RDPing to MSTS2003 servers, and could not be happier. Four branches nationwide, and (excepting servers, of course) less than 5 non-thin-client systems, 2 of which are mine. It is salient that MS and Citrix have cross-licensing and other business-partnership-type agreements, which I believe include code sharing. MetaFrame is built on top of TS.

    -ELf

  3. Re:Clients are becoming too smart on The Future of HTML · · Score: 1

    How likely is it that we know all the security flaws in lynx? I won't contest the "more complex == greater likelihood of bugs" theory, but the "exposure == reason to exploit" theory is important too.

  4. Re:just to be clear -- there is no spoon on Wil Wheaton Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Stone Brewing Co. - It gets no better. Bless you for knowing.

  5. Re:Emergence.... and demergence on Deconstructing Stupidity - Why is IP Policy Bad? · · Score: 1

    **Obligatory Pedantry Alert** Actually, if we're proper, it'd be "immergence"; just as we should have "involution" rather than "devolution".

  6. Re:Hmm... on UserLinux Releases First Beta · · Score: 1

    People like to pay for things they rely on, its just wierd.

    It should seem much less weird once you consider that the majority of people recognize (semi-conciously, usually) that trading value for value is what makes trading a good thing. People like paying for things they get because paying signifies their right to own and use those things.

  7. Re:Actually, this is an old business model. on Altnet Sues Record Industry Over File Hash Patents · · Score: 1

    I'm curious as to how, when, and why ANY private sector individual's pay requires defending.

    If a market is free, and I own a company (alone, or with 750 of my voting-shareholding peers) in that market, I/we can and should pay our employees exactly what we wish. It is merely wisdom, not righteousness, that would lead us to pay them what they're worth.

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  8. Re:I think it is some much much worse on Astronauts, Robots to Save Hubble · · Score: 1
    Will get modded down because the groupthink is too witless to understand the references or the point?
    No. Has been modded down because the group is too witty to appreciate the use of clubs and sticks.

  9. Shameless Employer-Promotion on Upgrading Training and Certification? · · Score: 2, Informative

    As an instructor for a little-training-company-that could, TechSkills, I agree with much that's been said about the glut of CompTIA (and Microsoft, for that matter) certified individuals. However, it should be very clear that the glut is irrelevant to HR depts.

    To answer the original question, I refer you to the link above. ;)

    I'm currently based in Phoenix, but TechSkills has thirty-some branches around the states, and, of course, distance-learning options.

    And, yes, we do more than just 'teach to the exams'.

    -ELf: A+, Network+, i-Net+, Linux+, CCNA, MCIWA, MCSA
  10. Utopia...sort of. on Slashback: Pop-Ups, Books, Qmail · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ursula K. LeGuin's _The_Dispossessed_ is IMHO one of the best Utopian novels in print; especially since it avoids the flaws so many have already pointed out, namely, vociferous self-righteousness and non-existent human struggle.

    In a nutshell: physics genius from ascetic, cooperative anarchy on a quasi-prison planet travels to hedonistic, fragmented neighbor planet to revolutionize science across the galaxy.

    That summary is just SO inadequate...

    -ELf
  11. Re:Wuzah? on The Coming of Serial ATA · · Score: 1
    You are right, but the connector is a 40 pin connector, and historically ATAPI has been a 40 conductor cable. The UDMA cable has 80 conductors, 40 are the original signals, and 40 are extra return lines, called 'ground's by people who think grounding is black magic. This is to reduce inductance in the signal path.

    True, true, and all of which I knew. Though I do appreciate the explication. I commented more for the sake of pointing out a pretty glaring mistype--especially for a hardware review site.

    That being said, I'm pretty unfamiliar with Tom's. Is this article indicative of their sort of stuff?

    -ELf
  12. Wuzah? on The Coming of Serial ATA · · Score: 1
    Is it just me, or does this "40-conductor IDE" cable (scroll down) have a few more than that...

    -ELf

  13. Re:Just let it be for @!$%#^&@ sake! on Spider-Man, Star Wars and the Power of Myth · · Score: 1
    Let it be what it is, don't try to explain it, compare it, what ever.

    Don't react, don't think, don't talk?

    I would hope, regardless of an article's content, that the exercise of writing would be not only accepted, but cherished. No speech or speaker (eloquent or inept), and no thought or thinker (wise or foolish), should bear censure for annoyance's sake.

    It is the free play, and interplay, of ideas (expressed audibly or graphically) that built the culture from which Spiderman emerged. If you value that culture, I would suggest you rise above your exasperation and join the game.

    If not, feel free to continue whining. I'll feel free to continue parenting.

    "With great power comes great responsibility."

    Now how about adapting that to more charitable communication, instead of trying to blow off steam.