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  1. Just steal it anyway on The Economist on Patent Reform · · Score: 3, Funny

    Base your corporation in Delaware, use the patents illegally, and pay yourself huge sums of money. If people get mad they can sue the corporation, but you don't care because you aren't the corporation.

  2. Re:plug for fastmail.fm on The Webmail Wars · · Score: 1

    FOr the love of God, why don't more people use IMAP? I mean I do NOT understand this, all email servers support it, all clients support it, WTF?

  3. Re:hold on on Ukraine Holds 4th Largest Programmer Population · · Score: 1

    I don't really have much of a choice. There are really very few things made in America. Where can I buy an American made TV? American-made cars are around 15% off-shore content now. Shoot, stuff isn't even made in Japan anymore. We barely grow any food. I can't help but think that this is bad for our national security. And I don't know that I'd pay that much more. If the Dollar Store across the street from me went to a Dollar and a Quarter store I'd never notice. And I bet that the people who had jobs making that stuff would be less likely to be on welfare or commit crimes than they are now. It's very very complicated in a world economy, and we're not going to solve it this morning on SLashdot.

  4. I done did it to myself on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    I live in a good-size college town with major growing pains (traffic), I commute OUT of it into the sticks every day. It's the same 45 minutes on the road, but instead of being stuck in a traffic jam 45 minutes to go 8 miles, I drive nonstop on two-lane highways through farm country. I get great bennies and flex, I'm home to see my kids, although the pay isn't great it's been worth it so far.

  5. Re:Biased reporting or biased science? on How Journalists Distort Science with Balance · · Score: 1

    NO, it's because agreeing with an invisible man in the sky who loves you unconditionally but will roast you in hell for all eternity if you don't flatter him, and whose existence cannot be proven, is silly. FOr instance: the word SOAP is not in the bible. Surely an allpowerful cosmic muffin could have put a recipe for SOAP for crying out loud in the bible.

  6. Why does the truth hate America? on How Journalists Distort Science with Balance · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All this is just liberal stuff, cuz I got a book what was wrote by neolithic sheep herders what says it's the truth. Besides that, journalists are the people who couldn't pass calc, chem or physics 101.

  7. Take your pick on Will Wind Power Change Earth's Climate? · · Score: 1

    1) Concentrated power (nukes), where screw-ups kill a relatively small group of people locally

    2) Current situation, emissions from thousands of power plants lead to mildly shortened life spans and persistent health problems for everybody.

    Whatever!

  8. But Ashcroft said that terrorism was defeated on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1

    So why are we still bothering? And why wasn't it defeated before Nov 2? Why was the attack on Fallujah held up until after Nov.2? No reason, sure, just coincidence.

  9. Re:I think the problem is... on Employee Stock Options? · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Buy all your food on credit cards. Cancel your insurance. Have a good time. Take trips. Work on your house. If anything happens really bad like cancer, sign all the forms promising to pay, they'll fix you up. Then you declare bankruptcy (don't ever pay your home off, if you do then they can take that from you). You are now scott free, with all the equity in your home, no credit card debt, and the world is great. I Am Not A Lawyer

  10. Re:I hate to be picky... but.... on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    I have SP2'ed over 200 machines. No lock ups at all. But then again we don't have any viruses already, we read the documentation, and we have legal copies of all our software. Your 2 out of 5 lockups indicates to me that you probably shouldn't be allowed to own a computer, much less administer one.

  11. Re:Install SP2 You Dummies on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now now,actually knowing how to use Windows is punishable by death on Slashdot. It amazes me how many people don't consider recompiling a kernel a nuisance, and these same people won't be bothered to actually read the documentation that comes with Windows 2k/xp/2003. Yeah. If you've been keeping up with patches this is a non-issue.

  12. Blame XP on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    Once you set it up right and users can't install all the various pieces of software that screw up the systrems, you've worked yourself out of a job.

    Blah Blah Linux Blah Blah

  13. Re:Information Superhighway Robbery on California Takes A Last Swing At VoIP · · Score: 1

    note: the police dept budget is more than everything else put together except fire. Gosh, however shall they pay for it? Oh wait, it should just be FREE! Those cops will come to work for nothing! Just like everyone else!

  14. Re:Sort of understandable on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    COrrect. The old hijacking rules are dead. In fact because of cell phones the rules changed WHILE THE PLANES WERE STILL in the air! If you die a hero you get to go to Valhalla, and if I'm going down, I'm damn sure going down a hero.

  15. ANYthing that brings back drive-ins. on Guerrilla Drive-Ins · · Score: 1
    They were the best fun when I was a kid, and also as a teenager :-)

    Rate -3 for old-timer nostalgia.

  16. Re:IBM Thinkpads... on Annual Customer Support Rankings · · Score: 1

    A few years ago I was building a server on New Year's Eve (screw you I know I have no life) . At 2 am I was feeling a bit frustrated I couldn't get the software to install right. I called IBM, just to leave an email and a number where I could be reached whenever they came back. An ENGINEER answered the call, stayed on the line until he had me straightened out. No waiting, nothing. I like IBM. Compaq, now.............yuk.

  17. Re:Until people start taking human factors serious on Software Usability As A Technical Problem · · Score: 1

    I feel that part of this problem is that the colleges (and the students and most everybody) do not feel that any of that stuff is necessary - a "roundedness" in education is no longer what people want. They want a degree that gets them a job making money. Of course perhaps that's the way it's always been and I'm just getting old.............

  18. Re:I hate to be the one to have to break it to you on GNU/Linux Clears Gov't Procurement Hurdles · · Score: 1

    I think using the Encrypting File System in 2k/xp option would protect your data, if the computer was a domain member and you had the password cache disabled. That way you'd have to contact the domain controller to log on. You'd have to do something about your locally cached copy of the EFS certificate, but I think if you encrypt the whole user profile as well, you'd be in good shape. A roaming profile with a logoff script to delete all cached content might work too. Notebooks would be worse, but you could use a smartcard and get the certificate off the computer altogether.

  19. MS is CHEAP if you work for the gummint on GNU/Linux Clears Gov't Procurement Hurdles · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really, it's almost free it's so cheap. It's cheaper than the posted prices of Redhat Enterprise. I think my org paid $150 for Windows 2003. It's easy, people are used to it, it works, it's cheap. Hard to get a reason to change.

  20. I finally switched for one reason......... on Mozilla Gains on Internet Explorer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can turn off flash in FIrefox and it won't ever ask me to install it again except for the first time. Just a nice icon I can click if I ever need annoying flash crud. Google toolbar worked for popups, and I keep IE patched. I don't even use an antivirus, and I haven't had a virus since 1997. I still have to use IE to get full Microsoft support functionality.

  21. As an American I don't need the rest of the world on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 0, Troll

    So block it out. What the heck do I care about news or opinions from Africa or China or Macedonia? They can call me on the phone if they need me -and if they have my cell phone number.

  22. Re:not detected by AV software? on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Because you didn't read the article, silly. Just update your A/V and go on your way. Took me roughly 3 minutes to download the a/v definitions and push them out to all my users. Whoopie. Then I billed them for 8 hours work and went back to bed.

  23. This is what the Internet is for!! on 19th Century News Coming Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I mean I like pr0n too, but access to the vast libraries of historical documents out there strikes me as what we all thought would be accessible to us back in the days of Tom Swift.

  24. Re:It's getting to be more than just a nuisance on Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit · · Score: 1

    Hmm..... ran my windows 2k box for THREE YEARS connected straight to the internet. No firewall. No antivirus. 0, that's a zero, infections. All I did was turn off windows sharing. And that was that. Why you people have so many problems is beyond me. Of course I stay off Kazaa and don't go to porn sites.

  25. Nothing. I use it and it works. on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 1

    Yay me!