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  1. Re:Ultimately.... on No Right to Privacy When Your Computer Is Repaired · · Score: 1

    Not everyone wants that. The NSA, CIA, FBI and Secret Service would probably prefer that you not be able to easily encrypt your data.

    They should really hate apple, with their really good encryption on volumes.

  2. Re:Irrelevant and inappropriate on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 1

    They are immigrants so long as they refuse to become part of French society.

    Kind of hard when nobody will give them a job because of their name.

    Here's what the so-called religion of peace was doing for this month (December, 2007).

    Oh look, a list of people getting killed, mostly in Iraq. Surprise - people get killed in warzones. You want me to go dig up the list of murders in DC (not a warzone)? Oh, and how do you know that these are all terrorists? Sounds more like a guerilla war.

  3. Re:Irrelevant and inappropriate on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 1

    France is experiencing riots because Muslim immigrants want to turn France into a shit hole just like the country they left.

    They aren't immigrants - they've been there 2-3 generations. How'd you feel if nobody would hire you because you had a north african name?

    When was the last time there was a christian wingnut trying to kill an abortion doctor?

    Here's one. Apparently, they're just another group of criminals.

    When that did happen some time back, religious leaders denounced the actions.

    And the muslim community denounces violence by its members, but guess what? It's not really reported.

  4. Re:Irrelevant and inappropriate on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 0

    Let's see - france has had recurring riots because people with north african names can't get jobs and the gub doesn't care, while christian wingnuts kill abortion doctors over in the USA. Most of the muslims you meet are just like you - make money, provide for the kids and maybe drive a nice car. There are a billion muslims - they can't all be good.

  5. Re:More than just ink... on HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink? · · Score: 1

    Yes the price of the cables themselves can be extortionate

    I dunno, $5 is pretty reasonable.

  6. Re:This picture puts all in perspective on HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink? · · Score: 1

    Gold doesn't vary that much in density when it's liquid.

  7. Re:have you even tried 64 bit Vista? on Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product · · Score: 1

    OK, so there was the one time I wanted to run a stupid program that the federal government wrote 15 years ago, but that's the government's fault, not Microsoft's.

    I dunno, backwards compatibility is a pretty big deal. You sure it isn't MS' fault?

  8. Re:2005 Called on Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust · · Score: 1

    That's a single threaded problem. It's also most likely IO-limited. More threads make the DB faster when its memory sizing is correct.

  9. Re:One way to get it back.... on Experience with Fighting Domain Farming · · Score: 1

    So in other words you're saying that once one person registers a domain, no one can ever use it again?

    Sure you can, so long as it's not simply extorting money from the previous owner.

    Right answer: register your domain as a trademark.

    Trademarks exist even when not registered. Of course, a nasty letter from a lawyer is cheap and effective.

  10. Re:Jesus, give it up with the DRM already! on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You have failed to demonstrate an actual harm. What precisely is it that Vista does that you are mad about?

    It makes a new laptop feel 5 years old?

  11. Re:Just in time for the holidays! on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And now everyone believes XP is the second coming or something. Just hurts your head sometimes...

    It took something like Vista to make us appreciate XP. That and people aren't allowing stuff to install on win2k (Photoshop, I'm looking at you).

  12. Re:Meh on Does Constant Access Shatter the Home/Work Boundary? · · Score: 1

    And only critical fixes during december, but then I work for a retail site.

  13. Re:One way to get it back.... on Experience with Fighting Domain Farming · · Score: 1

    And you missed the part where cybersquatting is illegal. Never mind that it was trademarked - just not registered. Absent the law, you could make a case that a vanity domain establishes an online identity, so it's not much of a stretch to claim a specific sort of trademark. Of course, this is unnecessary, since we have a law.

  14. Re:One way to get it back.... on Experience with Fighting Domain Farming · · Score: 1

    So if microsoft forgot to renew a domain they owned (like taht'd ever happen), I could jump it myself and do whatever I like? Rules are rules, after all.

  15. Re:I've heard people say... on Does Constant Access Shatter the Home/Work Boundary? · · Score: 1

    I once asked one of the VPs about it, and he basically said, "We let the managers get them because it makes them feel important and they aren't that expensive. But I sure as hell don't want to be on-call 24 hours a day."

    Yeah, if you're a VP, you get to decide who can reach you. Really, it has to be this way or nobody would get anything done.

  16. Re:UFOs of the 20th century on Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? · · Score: 1

    Do fission explosions give off any kind of radiation that doesn't happen in nature? If so, what?

    Well, they're certainly more intense and focused than can be explained by a normal earthlike planet.

  17. Re:Fuck Them on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 1

    And my parent was talking about 'someone'. Not specifically the gub.

  18. Re:Fuck Them on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 1

    they're both speech.

  19. Re:Fuck Them on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 1

    Someone can *not* sue you for speech

    Sur they can. Ever heard of libel?

  20. Re:That's why credit cards are better on FTC Says Payment Processor Took Millions · · Score: 1

    they do this after much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Much better to avoid the problem, since it doesn't save me money anyway.

  21. Re:That's why credit cards are better on FTC Says Payment Processor Took Millions · · Score: 1

    And what about the money that isn't in your account? Also, bounced check and overdraft charges suck.

  22. Re:You still haven't answered my original question on Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave · · Score: 1

    You live in a society, whether you like it or not. There is most definitely a we.

  23. Re:Duh. on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    Well, I have heard of people being charged with resisting arrest. Seriously, that was the only offense. I've also heard of people being charged with crimes that they couldn't possibly be guilty of (i.e., they were excluded by the facts of the case) and plead no contest on the advice of a PD.

  24. Re:You still haven't answered my original question on Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave · · Score: 1

    You've chosen your path, and I've chosen mine.

    This is true, but you can't be an island. We disagree, but enither one of us is going to get everything we want.

  25. Re:Duh. on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    Believing that the system sometimes fails and that people get screwed is now tinfoil territory? When did that happen?.
    /let's see if this one gets downmodded too - some jackass seems to have it in for me.