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  1. Re:Charges for stupidity... on Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged · · Score: 1

    zerging doesn't work in WoW - a dozen lvl 5 characters won't be able to do anything to a lvl 30 character.

  2. Re:Surely we should take intent into consideration on Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged · · Score: 1

    Not in switzerland - they apparently stopped doing that. The point remains - you have to give your info to someone in order to function in society. May as well require the banks to protect that info.

  3. Re:About Bloody Time on Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged · · Score: 1

    To respond to your point about "fine-working legislation", we are doing quite nicely thank you very much. Crime has in fact fallen, but you would never know it from the hysterical media reporting, and for that reason, crime is, alas, perceived to be on the rise.

    Is that why I heard it reported that about 40% of violent crime goes uninvestigated?

    One cannot help but observe that the peculiar American fear of gun control - one presumes it stems from deep-rooted insecurities about power, feelings of inadequacy and the belief that a man without a gun is impotent

    No, it has to do with the ability to defends ourselves from british soldiers and privateers. We don't really have a gun violence problem - we've got a drug problem, and the dealers use guns.

  4. Re:and then.... on Vista at Risk of Being Bypassed by Businesses · · Score: 1

    Stealing focus is not acceptable for anything short of things like imminent powerloss.

  5. Re:and then.... on Vista at Risk of Being Bypassed by Businesses · · Score: 1

    PS Microsoft still supplies their Java VM updated, it is still 10x faster than Suns and doesn't have inherit problems by violating NT security.

    Is it still 1.1ish compatible or have they updated it in the last decade?

  6. Re:and then.... on Vista at Risk of Being Bypassed by Businesses · · Score: 1

    Don't be a pendant.

    ..

    Trust me, I don't dangle.

    .
  7. Re:Whatever, stalking mods on Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet · · Score: 1

    So pushing a child that you know is unstable into suicide is not a crime? I'm pretty sure I could make something stick.

  8. Re:Whatever, stalking mods on Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a psychological problem with her and something that should be looked-at carefully by those familiar with both people.

    Who cares why she did it? The point is what the effect was.

  9. Re:What are the police really like? on Aqua Teen Art 'Terrorist' Describes His Ordeal · · Score: 1

    Achmed the shepherd doesn't live in Oz - he lived in Afghanistan and can't read, much less do anything about blowing up the assholes invading his country. What he did do was piss off someone who decided that he was a good trade for $50kUSD or whatever.

    What I don't understand is why does the west sweep Isreal's atrocities under the carpet and empasise the (smaller scale) atrocities of their vastly weaker opponents?

    Good PR? Not to sound anti semitic, but the jews have managed to conflate anti-israel sentiment with anti-semitic sentiment, so you can't question what israel does or you're a racist tool and will get booted next election. Also, Israel is a friendly, Us funded, country in the mideast. They know that they depend on us to actually exist, so they have to be friendly, while we want that foothold.

  10. Re:What are the police really like? on Aqua Teen Art 'Terrorist' Describes His Ordeal · · Score: 1

    We need more cops like you.

  11. Re:What are the police really like? on Aqua Teen Art 'Terrorist' Describes His Ordeal · · Score: 1

    What sort of message do you want to send to Achmed the Shepherd? That's the sort of guy we have locked up in gitmo.

  12. Re:Missing the point on IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops · · Score: 1

    They should be providing info for that sort of decision making, though. Demanding laptops for your group necessarily requires increased cost or lowered service, and a lot of people aren't willing to accept that.

  13. Re:Laptops on IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops · · Score: 1

    Servers are easier to maintain/backup, and can be hotfailed with minimal effort.

  14. Re:Clunky but cramped. on IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops · · Score: 1

    The keyboard is crampy, I HATE touchpads with a passion, its just not what I'm after.

    Use a docking station and usb kbd/mouse. I do and it works great.

  15. Re:Clunky but cramped. on IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops · · Score: 1

    So Linux dual screen is funky, oh well. My only problem involves a laptop and two docking stations with different sized monitors on each of them. And a kvm switch.

  16. Re: Screening works especially well.. on Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls · · Score: 1

    and with T9, I can text as fast as you and not look like an idjit.

  17. Re:Recommendation for online gaming on World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Get a removable drive sled and you only need 2 disks.

  18. Re: Screening works especially well.. on Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls · · Score: 1

    the cost structure is artificial - I got a text package so I don't have to care about texting charges. I also dispute the inefficiency - a single sentence or maybe two takes about a minute to type or less, and that should be enough for anything important. It's not a generational thing - your son just doesn't know how to use a phone.

  19. Re: Screening works especially well.. on Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls · · Score: 1

    Tell him to text you. Geez...

  20. Re:A doozy on Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment? · · Score: 1

    If you're a hedge fund and your principal designer leaves, it's incumbent on you to have a custom NC - something like 1 year gardening leave seems reasonable.

  21. Re:Where'd the ideas come from ? on Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment? · · Score: 1

    They may be "your" invention(s), but you can not deny that at least some portion of the ideas for the invention(s) were obtained from experience working with the company.

    So what? General experience goes with the employee. So long as it isn't proprietary, and it also helps when your hobby isn't the same stuff as your work.

    This company has obviously been burned before, they're simply looking to ensure it doesn't happen again.

    Doesn't mean that they should try and claim everything. Be sensible here - claim stuff specifically related to what the company does/stuff done on company hardware.

    This would be fair for the company in the sense that you're unable to steal their business model or information that could be considered trade secrets & profit from them.

    Why should they be able to protect business models?

  22. Re:What happens when... on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 1

    of course not. I already said that elsewhere in this thread.

  23. Re:Is protectionism really corrupt? on MA Proposes Two Year Jail Term for Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    The point here is that you can build more amusement parks and get more rock bands - I've never seen the stones, but they stopped being relevant before I was born.

    only one "celine dion" (and only one "hannah montana").

    Thank god for that. I do have to go get some shonen knife tixs, though.

  24. Re:What happens when... on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we send stuff into space, but it's usually pretty old - 386es and the like.

  25. Re:What happens when... on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 1

    what are you doing that puts 4Gs on a car? Even Ferraris only brake at 3G, and most CPUs for cars are fairly limited devices.