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  1. it's already in use... on Could Fake Phishing Emails Help Fight Spam? · · Score: 2

    And it's called more exactly honey-pots.

  2. Why not just... on Windows 7 To Be "Thoroughly" Tested For Antitrust Compliance · · Score: 1

    Instead of having IE and WMP installed, they have just the link to the installer?

    The user at their discretion should be able to decide if they want that bloat or not in their OS.

    (either at runtime, or during the instalation)

  3. Re:Great, more product placement in future games on Video Game Conditioning Spills Over Into Real Life · · Score: 1

    For it to work, it will be much more subtle...

    Like good things be assigned to blue, bad things to red, and over the years, blue products get more sales then red ones... ;)

  4. Short stories... on Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    The universe of Blade Runner is ripe for a short stories sequel... ;)

  5. The best defense... on Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is shared-hosting... and backups, off-site naturally.

    In that case, if they seize the server, they are seizing my site... and the site of more then 1000 other hosted sites...

    And with the backups, you are ready to just setup another host, and update everything in no time... ;)

  6. Re:...because H1Bs are forms, not people on Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans · · Score: 1

    Sure... And do you thunk that within this ressession 2 months is enough to get a new job...

    Welcome to indentured America more likely (H1B1 is that, only camouflaged).

  7. Re:This summary is a little misleading. on UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data · · Score: 1

    I would be much more worried by the educational level children get today, and their parents by the way, then the proper child abuse.

    Kill the sources and you are just left with almost no issues to handle...

    THE problem with this approach is:

    1. It solves the issues;
    2. IT IS extremely slow at doing it (you can expect 2 or 3 generations to start to have an effect).

    So it isn't political correct to use education as a tool to sort this things!

  8. Re:If the law was passed to make it free on UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't work if it was free.

    The queue in the ISP with waiting info requests to process would just be tremendous.

    Or, the ISP would just deliver all the logs in paper, ALL of them.

    Feel free to peruse them...

  9. Re:Part P on UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data · · Score: 1

    That is idiotic laws...

    So, i won't rewire my home and just add more and more and more extension cords and splitters...

    Til the building BURNS to the ground!

    Smart laws indeed.

  10. Re:Capitalism at it's best. on RIAA Threatens Harvard Law Prof With Sanctions · · Score: 1

    They don't need to.

    You can represent yourself and stop the proceedings ALL the time asking for what you can or can't do at EVERY step.

    It isn't contempt of the court, you just need to be informed by the court of it's own rules and the legal rules that apply. ;)

    p.s. 1- don't do that...

    p.s. 2- get a lawyer...

    p.s. 3- IANAL (not am i in USA)

  11. The question is more... on The State of Video Game Regulation · · Score: 1

    Why are needed "new" laws for "online"?

    The current laws for "offline" would work as well, so why???

  12. Re:Odd... on Get Out of Sprint Free · · Score: 1

    Not if you accept the new terms.

    That is way they have to allow you to refuse them. ;)

    p.s.- you don't have to pay ETF because it's them that don't accept to keep the terms of the contract not you. Also, you may request an indemnification because of that. They are the ones defaulting on the contract.

  13. Re:wish tmobile would offer the same on Get Out of Sprint Free · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why get a replacement at all?

    Just scrap the GSM phone.

    When you are around the computer use voip... if not, well, people can send you an email!

    And, use the free time you just got with all those useless calls to get a nice warm cup of *whatever*, and relax...

  14. Phone is too personnal... on Get Out of Sprint Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When using phone, you are talking, and so all your voice undertones are being served to the other side, and vice-versa.

    That will make things harder to untangle, as they get more personal, some times too personal...

    Chat doesn't have that issue, with the plus side of the reliability of information conveyed in that way... ;)

  15. Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can confirm this...

    MSOffice files from diferent versions are just mangled up by each-others.

    Thankfully, apart from very small errors, OpenOffice.org opens them all with easy to correct errors only (apart from a bug that sometimes makes some images to vanish).

    Alas...

  16. Re:Sure... on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 1

    They place you in guantanamo until you reveal the password... ;)

  17. I don't understand... on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wasn't the "secure computing" preached by Intel/MS and others a "secure" platform that would solve all the security issues?

    To me seams that it was only a farse to disguise DRM into everyones computers...

    And fail...

  18. Re:The environmental cost? on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1

    I wonder... what was the CO2 footprint of a old Ford T?

    And now of a modern car?

    My guess is that a modern car has a HUGE manufacturing footprint comparatively, but i don't know exact figures... can someone help here?

  19. Re:Finally on Valve Takes Optimistic View of Piracy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is the point then if they launch the game at diferent dates all over the world?

    Any DRM will be break in 2 or 3 days if enough interest is generated.

    The only thing that escapes this is when the suppliers band together to make an hardware/software lock-in like the one made with blue-ray disks.

    And even then, it only survives a few months.

    If they make global launches, and don't sectored the world they will gain:

    1. Cheaper production: one size fits all;
    2. Easier to manage launch: only one date to manage;
    3. Less appeal for pirating due to the fact that the product is truly available.

    But i don't understand nothing of this... i just... don't buy if i can't access.

    And i've also avoided to buy games due to DRM (mostly the dreadfull - you need a cd to play this game - nope i don't care to pack 50 cd's so that i can play my games).

  20. Already works... on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For years in Portugal...

    And it's a very good program.

  21. Re:Microsoft has done some good work on this so fa on Electronic Medical Records, the Story So Far · · Score: 1

    If the medical records disappear under the supervision of the stated hospital, then it's the hospital responsibility.

    I don't think that the hospitals will want that liability!

  22. Re:Scary how people don't care on Electronic Medical Records, the Story So Far · · Score: 1

    May i see the medical records of soon ex-President Bush?

    I bet that when they are in the public, "They" will care about Joe-The-Plumber privacy!

  23. Re:Do you want to play with it, or have it work? on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? · · Score: 1

    They will answer, if you have a support incident (and incidents do cost $$$$) to use, otherwise you end talking to a wall. ;)

  24. Re:SME Server 8 on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft SQL Server...

    SME Server = Windows not Linux... the last time i checked.

    Unless Microsoft now does a Linux distro?

    zZzZzZ

  25. Re:SME Server 8 on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? · · Score: 1

    It had a grave flaw...

    You couldn't install SQL Server on it!

    (at least on the versions i tested)