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  1. Questions from the article you noted on HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity · · Score: 1
    According to the article you referenced:

    But Roehrkasse said operations were continuing as before and marshals would still be deployed on "critical" flights.

    This seems to imply (along with the emails to air marshals about changes to their schedules) that they are NOT deploying air marshals on what they define as "non-critical" flights. Unless they're only talking about Cessna's, this makes me nervous. Any major jet, filled with fuel and passengers, becomes "critical" if slammed into a major piece of architecture (buildings, dams, nuclear facilities).

  2. How is it fair to ANYONE ... on HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity · · Score: 1

    for the current administration, on the same day that they announce that have direct Al Quaeda intelligence that there is planning for renewed suicide airline takeovers, to simultaneously have the transportation department severely cut the number of air marshals because the department has a $900 million budget shortfall?

  3. Negatives on Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived · · Score: 1

    Despite my immersion in this field, as far as taking pictures is concerned, I'm sticking with film. I like/trust negatives as a storage medium. I also get Picture CDs created when I process my negatives to give me easy access for later PhotoShop manipulation. But long term, I trust negatives.

  4. You're forgetting something on Slow And Steady Leads To Windows Refund Success · · Score: 1
    Court costs: $135

    Total: $334

  5. The current administration feels that ... on Judge Disconnects Interior Dept., Again · · Score: 1

    the best way to service the humans covered by the BIA is to explain that they're being compassionate as they bend the clientele over, grab the Crisco and ...
    You get the picture.

  6. Soggy, yes. on Judge Disconnects Interior Dept., Again · · Score: 1

    Sticky? ...You're on your own there.

  7. Don't worry. The Ministry of Love is already ... on Judge Disconnects Interior Dept., Again · · Score: 1

    aware of your comments and are on the way over to help. Just sit quietly and wait.

  8. Droolproof? Droolproof?!? on Judge Disconnects Interior Dept., Again · · Score: 1

    I'll take that challenge!!

  9. The Current Administration: Security Through ... on Judge Disconnects Interior Dept., Again · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Stop asking questions about that! What are you, a terrorist? I think you should be indefinitely detained."

    I feel safer. And the chocolate rations have been increased to 5 units.

  10. Then again, possibly not on Cyber Sleuths vs. Secret Networks · · Score: 2, Informative
    Since I posted here, an AC on Macslash posted what they claim is a portion of the Orchard contract:

    You grant to us throughout the Territory during the Sales Period the
    NON-EXCLUSIVE rights to sell, copy, sublicense, distribute and otherwise
    exploit any and all of your Recordings by any and all means and media
    (whether now known or existing in the future), including, without
    limitation, the non-exclusive rights to sell, distribute and otherwise
    exploit any and all of your Recordings throughout E-Stores including, but
    not limited to, those via the Internet, as well as all digital storage,
    download and transmission rights
    , whether now known or existing in the
    future.

    If this is an accurate rendering of (or materially similar to) the contract that Jody Whitesides signed back in the late 90's, then the sublicensing would seem to be legal (keeping in mind that IANAL).

  11. Investigate Buymusic.com on Cyber Sleuths vs. Secret Networks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As reported on MacSlash, Buymusic.com is violating copyrights. Jody Whitesides, a musician, found an old CD he made for sale on the Buymusic.com site without ever being informed/asked/paid. He checked and also found albums from friends of his. As it turns out, they all had dealings with a brick and mortar distribution company called Orchard in the 90's that supposedly went out of business. They didn't and now it seems that anyone who had dealings with them might be on Buymusic.com without their knowledge, consent or recompense.

  12. Most Bootlegged Songs?!? on Cyber Sleuths vs. Secret Networks · · Score: 3, Funny
    Ignoring the implication of the phrase, I find this list really hard to accept:

    Busta Rhymes: Pass the Courvoisier
    U2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    Bon Jovi: You Give Love A Bad Name
    Van Halen: Hot for Teacher

  13. ...one page of 23,000 lines of HTML ... on The Web Programming CD Bookshelf · · Score: 5, Funny
    one page of 23,000 lines of HTML

    Just like any /. "discussion" on Microsoft's business practices.

  14. They'd have to sue our great grand children! on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1
    They'd have to sue our great grand children!

    Michaela says that as if she expects that they won't. Oh, yes. They will. They've developed a company called Life Extension (LE) that will store their physical bodies while allowing their minds to roam free, suing P2P users, their children, their children's children, etc.

  15. Don't forget ... on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1

    They failed to take out Don Corleone not once but twice.

  16. You're missing the point on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: -1, Troll

    a) We hate them because they're EVIL.
    b) We like articles like this because it shows that along with being EVIL, Microsoft is NOT INNOVATIVE
    c) Tobacco companies/executives give lots of money to charities too. It doesn't make them any less EVIL.
    d) Pointing out Microsoft's failures is a good thing. Did I mention they're EVIL?

  17. A few differences on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Abe wrote his own speeches.
    Abe started out poor and had to work for everything he got.
    Abe worked hard to educate himself.
    Abe was never saved again and again and again from repeated business failures by friends/supplicants to his family.
    Abe was forced by circumstances into military action, designed to save the country.
    Abe was elected President.

  18. That is so untrue on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 3, Funny
    [spoiler alert]


    Young Mr. Lincoln saved those Clay boys and proved that it was John Palmer Cass that did the stabbing.

    If that wasn't an innovative use of the Farmer's Almanac to prove it couldn't have been moon bright, I don't know what is!

  19. Success breeds failure on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    If you are afraid to succeed, you will never fail.

    Boy, this is easier then it looks.

  20. One of my favorite movies: on Petri Dish Babies, 25 Years Later · · Score: 1, Funny

    A Womb With A View

  21. Don't you realize it's obvious? on Decipher · · Score: 1

    The Vatican wants to blow up Atlantis to keep the secrets of the Illuminati from the Knights Templar/Free Masons so that the Trilateral Commission can ...Oh wait. The CIA is beaming a message into my brain telling me to stop typing.

  22. Don't you realize that the Atlanteans .... on Decipher · · Score: 2, Funny
    needed to be down there. With their advanced computer systems, they needed the Antartic weather to keep their server rooms cool.

    And where else are you going to get fresh penguin-sicles?

  23. The /. Review of Moby Dick (spoilers) on Decipher · · Score: 4, Funny
    The whale wins. Everyone but the narrator dies.

  24. He says ... on Decipher · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which one of you would be willing to wear this duck? So the geologist says ...

  25. The nanites of MST3K would have ... on Decipher · · Score: 1
    blown up the planet from the Satellite of Love and then they and Mike and the bots (and Pearl and Bobo and Brain Guy) would have gone someplace/time else, where there would be other worlds and peoples to eventually blow up.

    The way it was meant to be.

    This post is spoiler free!