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  1. Re:OK, but... on eBay Fraud Vigilantes · · Score: 1

    I would think that, in this case, you wouldn't want overdrafts. Instead, you want the money transfer to fail.

  2. Brains on Six Months Old, Eight New Organs · · Score: 1, Funny

    Must ... have ... BRAINS!

  3. Overreaching their charter on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do the FCC even have the right to add new things to the list of what they regulate? It was my understanding that they enforced decency regs, but could not define them.

  4. Re:ISPs on Broadband Access Leading to Internet Breakdown? · · Score: 1

    what makes you think it is your right to say who connects where and how?

    If I'm the ISP, then it's my right because I say so.

    I am so sick of spamassassin and people who have had their email account for 10 years.

    Yeah, I totally understand - they were sending email when you were learning multiplication.

  5. Re:ISPs on Broadband Access Leading to Internet Breakdown? · · Score: 1

    the job of the internet SERVICE provider is just that, to provide the internet service. heaven forbid a world where isp's start to apply upstream filters and controls on my account.

    What makes you think it's ok to spoof packets and propagate worms? ISPs have to serve more than just you.

  6. Re:The solution is simple.....if you're a genius on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Since the guy practically invented AC, they kept both him and his cigars.

    He invented Air conditioning?

  7. Re:*shrug* thats not that big of a deal- on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    So yeah, whining about losing your cellphone? Check your messages a bit more often or work to get a pager in place, if they'll let that (I don't think mine does).

    With all due respect, I don't think digitalvengeance works in a classified facility. Besides, what does your restrictive work environment have to do with him?

  8. Re:Steps 3-5 on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Email = paper trail. Get shot down, you print it out and use it as a shield when the shit hits the fan.

  9. Re:I'm curious. on Linux Sourcecode To Minitar Access Point · · Score: 0

    yea but you know that drivers are the primary reason windows is unstable right?

    So what do you propose we do, run without any drivers?

    Thats why Win2k/WinXp/etc like signed drivers. Being signed means they've been throught MS's tests

    You can still fake that stuff out if you want to. It's nice, but the only way to be sure is not to buy from people that make crappy drivers.

  10. Re:I really miss.... on Congress May Force Revealing of Car Computer Secrets · · Score: 1

    I miss minimal computer control....large engines with tons of horsepower.

    So go get a WRX - small engine with tons of horsepower.

    and it had enough power to smoke the tires for a couple of blocks

    Can't do that on the WRX - too much grip.

    I often think that if you could get one car executive to take a 'chance'...and try the old idea behind the original GTO's and later other muscle cars...throw a monster engine into a decent body of a car...keep the interior minimalist...with real perfomance, and keep the price reasonable. I gotta think these things would sell like hotcakes...

    I think the WRX sells pretty well at $25k. It has most of what you want, plus it corners well.

  11. Re:What about C++? on C Alive and Well Thanks to Portable.NET · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obj-C on the other hand looks like the designers thought to hell with C , we'll design our own new-look language and shoehorn it kicking and screaming into C.

    After meeting the designer, I'm inclined to agree.

  12. Re:Finally! on Plumber, Electrician... Digitician? · · Score: 1

    Until they figure out that shipping the whole PC back and forth is cheaper than having someone come in and work on it.

    Unless you ship it UPS - then theycan lose your PC and you get to go buy another.

  13. Re:I know you need to be paid for your time, but.. on Plumber, Electrician... Digitician? · · Score: 1

    What if you had a dayjob making $100 per hour. Would you consider that money saved or money wasted?

    Depends: how much free time do I have? Do I like working on cars? Would I rather do the work myself and send $100 to my index fund? If I make $100/hr (or even $10/hr), these are the kinds of questions that determine when I can retire.

  14. Re:Freedom comes at a price on U.S. Plans Targeted Draft for Computer Personnel · · Score: 1

    And what exactly is with the idea of giving something back to the country that makes your way of life possible?

    How about 1/3rd of my paycheck? Or are you saying that I'm obligated to put my life on the line to support that bastard in the whitehouse?

  15. Re:Build me a house 3 times cheaper and I'm in on Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House · · Score: 1

    A $350-400K home? Your fucking rich... maybe you should volunteer to pay your "minimal-wage mexicans" a little more eh?

    Around here, that's a 1500sf house cape cod built in 1945, if you're lucky.

  16. Re:Do we? on O'Keefe Under Fire for Hubble, ISS Decisions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    the top five percent of people are getting $2000 back in their pockets this year, thanks to Bush. Kerry has already promised to repeal those cuts.

    Do you make over $130k/yr? If not then you're not in the 5%. I figure that voting for Kerry is more than worth the $500 I'm likely not to see, and I wager that the same hold for the people that make $35k and shop at walmart to make ends meet.

  17. Re:So if I use an electric hairdryer in the shower on Can Software Kill? · · Score: 1

    However, you might have problems to find volunteers to take the roles of the killed people in the reproduction ...

    Enter the crash test dummy plus radiation meter.

  18. Re:Viacom really needs to watch themselves on Viacom and DishNetwork Battle On Air Over Contract · · Score: 1

    He's taken down governments in Australia and the UK before.

    Um, go Rupert! You bastard...

    I'm really torn on this one.

  19. Re:Waaah waaah waaah on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 1

    wow, a naive /.'r ;-)

    What, you don't like my cheap shot?

    yep, more than you wanted to know!

    nah, that sounds about right. Don't you just love being the landlord?

  20. Re:Malpractice Insurance on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 1

    I wonder if all the "programmers" who rail on Slashdot would be willing to take responsibility for every bug they write? To the extent that they have to buy liability insurance in case somebody uses their shitty program to do something important?

    Sure thing. I'm going to need about $350k per year to do it - hope that's Ok with you.

  21. Re:Waaah waaah waaah on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 1

    i can't go on with nonsense like reminding them to clean the gutters like the lease says

    Wow, a naive lawyer, now I've seen everything. Why not just hire a maintenance firm and add that to the rent?

  22. Re:Difficult? on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 1

    So why don't we have a Violence Against Men Act, since men have always made up the majoraty of victums of violence?

    Because, by and large, men are not persecuted for being men.

  23. Re:even better.... on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I had mod points you would be getting them. I'm sorry, potential lawsuits or not, you do the right thing. How many firemen do you think worry about getting slightly toasty when going into a burning building? Exactly.

    If the tenants turned around and sued firefighters as often as patients sue doctors, I'll bet you'd see a lot fewer firefighters. It's one thing to do the right thing. It's quite another to repeatedly do it after being used multiple times for doing so.

  24. Re:Many sys admins are just plain jerks... on The Oft Frustrating Job of a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    . Just yesterday where I work I witnessed a sys admin refuse to help with a machine that needed a bios update. He insisted that since he was not the "official adminstrator" of it, he couldn't touch it.

    What's the political situation over there? In some places, if your admin updated a machine outside his domain and it screwed up, he'd be on the hook for it. Where I work, he might be up on charges.

  25. Re:Slashdotters==Curmudgeons? on iPod Mini Sells Out · · Score: 1

    So what's the average age of a slashdotter? Undoubtably there must be a few in the target demographic, now how many have kids in the group?

    Well, I'm 28 and I'd love the regular iPod in that blue. The size doesn't matter - at under a pound, on my 190 lb frame, I wouldn't even notice.