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  1. Re:Objection, your honor! on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am sorry, but I have completed four years of undergrad and three years of a PhD program and have never even heard the words mentioned in my education.

    As an outside observer reading a transcript, I can infer their meaning from their roots and context, even if I didn't come from a family of attorneys. As someone being paid to defend an untenable posision, in the high pressure situation of a deposition (and make no mistake, having been deposed before, depositions are quite intimidating), I can see why someone didn't make an obvious leap.

    A good attorney does not need to make an already hostile witness any more hostile by being a pretentious ass, not that this at all questions the validity of the line of questioning.

  2. I wouldn't say that it is flawed..... on Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed · · Score: 1

    Just that the users are flawed, and need to be better educated. I think it is an excellent tool, and I make damn sure that I verify my sitekey before I enter my password. No matter how clever your schemes are, if the users are too clueless or apathetic to make use of them, they will be ineffective.

  3. Re:Back again to Windows Security on Trojan Using Sony DRM Rootkit Spotted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, because 99.975% of Windows users run as super users.

    On OS X, accounts marked as Administrators are really regular users who happen to have sudo powers, so you have to type in your password.

  4. Re:Onlly reason I haven't... on 1 Million Windows to Mac Converts So Far in 2005 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your mistake is buying 2GB of RAM from Apple. They overchage for RAM unlike anything i have ever seen. Save yoruself some money and buy from someone else.

  5. Re:Natural Evolution on Games That Shoot Back · · Score: 1

    I'm remember reading that 3/4 of the soldiers in WWI and WWII didn't aim at anything. They were conditioned to shoot at little bullseyes, not people. Notice how the military trains on human shaped targets now? Human-aim-fire-response.

    I always thought that had more to do with the don't-want-to-get-my-head-blown-off instinct than the type of target they shot at in training ;-)

  6. Re:The New WalMart on Amazon Offers 2-Day Shipping For $79/Year · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Excellent point. I think that this is really the reason for the move. There are also numerous times that I spend a lot of time when purchasing online to find the best shipping deals - places that are close to me and standard shipping vs. places that are far away with express shipping. This type of deal could really sway folks, especially in situation where the shipping price is the deciding factor in the choice of online merchant.

  7. Re:Maybe they'll fix that annoying XP problem on PGP's New Release, Source Code, and PRZ · · Score: 1

    RTFM, PGP 7 never had XP support for the networking components, only the encryption/signing of mail and clipboard contents.

    IIRC, their webpage made that fact pretty clear, so trying to install the networking components was probably pretty foolish.

  8. Re:There are other shipping routes on Global Warming will Open Northwest Passage · · Score: 1, Informative

    Completely different parts of the world. The Suez canal, IIRC, links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. The Northwest passage would be an alternative to the Panama Canal (which exists in central america).

  9. Compiler error messages on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was playing around with a compiler a friend wrote for a compiler class..... it had only one error message: "You lied: You told me this was a program."

  10. Not really on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is the right thing to do, though. Over the past few days, on TV and elsewhere, I have seen many "tributes" to the people who died on that day. TV shows commemorating the heroism of the New York emergency personell, the heroism of the people on the flight that did not crash into a building, etc. I even "half watched" a cople of these, mostly because I was too lazy to quit coding long enough to find a remote to change the channel. On every single one of these specials, I saw something that made me lose all respect for what they were trying to do: Commercials. If you think about it for a moment, TV stations are still charging for that advertising, and since they know that a sentimental American public will be watching those advertisements, I would imagine that they are charging a boatload more for that airtime. At that point, to me at least, these specials become less about "honoring the dead" and "remembering the tragedy" than they are about shameless and blatant corporate profiteering off of a tragedy. This simple action has placed Slashdot and OSDN a cut above the rest in my eyes, and I salute their action. /-Dan

  11. Re:I want to see LOTR on IMAX on IMAX Develops Movie Transfer Technology · · Score: 1

    They actually did have LOTR playing on the IMAX at a few theaters around the US - I know that they at the very least had it on at the IMAX here in Dallas, TX - I think they might have just projected 35mm onto the imax screen, as the picture quality was not as high quality as a standard IMAX movie, but the sound was worth every penny - i believe they said 25 to 30 thousand watts.....