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  1. Click here for a demonstration of your demise. on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 0

    "...Here is a demonstration of the vulnerability"

    Uhhh yeah right buddy. Maybe next time you should be a little more stealth in trying to hack an unsuspecting user.

  2. Re:Bah on Memory-Tech, Toshiba Develop DVD/HD-DVD Discs · · Score: 0

    Oh what, you're too cool for Laser Disc all of the sudden?

  3. Re:It's completely the opposite. on Firefox New York Times Ad, Soon · · Score: 0

    Bravo,
    I would like to see something like Open Visual Studio.Net for Mono. C#+Linux might be a good way to go.

  4. Financial records revealed... on GNOME Foundation Elections Results Are In · · Score: 0

    "...The run up to this year's election saw a threat of boycott, which ultimately resulted in the online publication of the foundation's financial records...."

    Everyone was in shock and awe when they saw that the biggest financial backers were Haliburton, MSFT and News Corp. Who knew?

  5. China bans Duke Nukem Forever on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 0

    Before it passes unit testing!

  6. The Biggest Loser in all of this ? on Massive Layoffs At AOL · · Score: 0

    The Post Office.

    They may have to crank up the price of postage to 75 cents per stamp.

  7. Linux AIM beta! on Massive Layoffs At AOL · · Score: 0

    Yes!!Now one of the disgruntled/unemployed hackers will release AOL's top secret Linux AIM port.
    Oh wait...

  8. Not PM's on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Project Managers will usually do a good job of writing, and including the right people in office emails.

    I'm glad that a lot of local CS programs are now requiring technical writing and/or professional writing courses as part of the undergrad requirements. At least my school is.

    I also think that it wouldn't hurt for employers explicitly encourage email standards. Seriously, if you frown upon that idea, you're likely an offender. The encouraged style shouldn't mean you have to write Tolstoy-esque emails...just don't write your mysterious thought process, spell-check it and click send.

    Oh, and hope that Slashdot posts haven't ruined you by now

  9. Windows ME on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 0

    Proof that some Operating Systems were meant to be secret.

  10. Re:Two words: on Initiative for Autonomic Computing Gains Strength · · Score: 0

    Michael Crichton is just a pessimest. There should be rosey alternate endings to Prey

  11. Xen, ZEN? on Red Hat, Novell To Package Xen · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hope it doesn't share the same fate as Novell's ZENworks(Zero Effort Networking). In one way it worked...the only place still using Novell Network is my local DMV...they also apply Zero Effort Everything.

  12. Re:MySQL sucks on MySQL Database Design and Optimization · · Score: 0

    3) because it's cheaper than MSSQL Server and performs as good if not better.

    A good way save money for a larger company, and a
    sometimes the only choice for a startup.

  13. stability under extreme temperatures on Liquid Lenses For Camera Phones · · Score: 0

    I wonder how well this oil/water solution will stand up after being in my car's glove compartment for a weekend. I will refrain from any jokes about French heat-wave victims being beta testers last Summer.

    I appluad the innovation though.

  14. Still working on the degree.... on How Important is a Well-Known CS Degree? · · Score: 0

    Check this out. I'm 27, and i've been a CS major at San Diego State U. for about 7 years now...
    I take one or two classes per semester and i've never taken a Summer class. You might want to laugh at me right off the bat, but i've got good reason to be in this situation. I have 6 years of real experience, from the start up that enticed me to join many years ago, to the established engineering company i work for now ($72k...which is near poverty level in San Diego). I've got a few tough classes ahead of me...mainly a physics that i sidestepped years ago and still haunts me. It hasn't been perfect, but i'm grateful that i made the decision i made. Most importantly don't give up on the CS degree...even if it's from SDSU. Why everytime i go to class I've got a grip of 22yr old "green" graduating seniors begging me to help them get $13/hr internships at my place. I tell these young pups to take advantage of google, msdn, codeguru,codeproject and familiarize themselves with the great Satan(tm) a la SQLSERVER, VStudio.Net, and XML that they don't cover in our CS classes. It's what will make them most marketable. My apologies to the hardcore white-bearded CS professors who might expel me for speaking of a MS-centric workforce. Experience is very important and can make up for a lousy CS degree, not to mention even a lack of a degree like in my case. Also...to you graduating CS majors, for God's(tm) sake work on your speaking skills, hygiene, firm up that handshake, shave that peach fuz and appear "corporate", depending on the company you're trying to get into. I have learned to morph into the culture. When I worked at HP, I was more hippie than Cheech. Now i work for an FDA regulated bio-engineering company, learn to adapt immediately...before someone asks you to. Don't show up in your Linkin Park t-shirts for the first week of the new job, learn to work the system later on.
    Just my 2 cents, only meant to help.

  15. Why stop there? on SNES Audio Unit As Stand-Alone Player · · Score: 0

    Hold out for the same hack for the NES.
    You know you want to listen to music and effects of Duck Hunt while you play Excitebike.

  16. Lets look at this from another angle on 2004 Interactive Fiction Results · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (tilts head 180 degrees)

  17. HP on Are Your Peripherals Monitoring You? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I worked at hewlett-packard's All in One division and we wrote software that did the same exact thing and sent the data back to HP over http.
    This software would be installed within the gigantic 120MB setup file. Somewhere deep in the EULA is a sentence about HP being able to process user activity data.

  18. Re:That's great but . . . on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1

    It's now spelled and pronounced "du-oool", per Zell Miller. Thanks, Management.

  19. Re:Will Bush appoint a more conservative replaceme on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1

    The Drudgereport is stating that Alan Keyes has shown interest, but it's unconfirmed. God help us.

  20. Re:Better the losing side. on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which is pretty pointless because barrels are usually wooden, and bullets go right thru them.

  21. Fine then.... on FCC Rules States Can't Regulate VoIP · · Score: 1

    Howard Stern Show via VOIP. Careful what you ask for Powell.

  22. Re:Heard this one the other day... on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 1

    "And my dad still runs a machine with 286 Xenix on it. Still works fine. In production"
    Oh, I get it now, your dad is the checkout clerk at Walmart

  23. Re:MS Access is a flaw in itself on Microsoft Opens Access to Vulnerability Notifications · · Score: 1

    Sorry. A classic example of someone seeing "Access" in the title of an article& not r-ing the TFA, while trying to get a slashdot post fix at work.
    I do stand by the parent post however!

  24. MS Access is a flaw in itself on Microsoft Opens Access to Vulnerability Notifications · · Score: 1

    We already know about the Diebold issues, we're just to lethargic to demand a better democracy.

  25. Weekend project on Cisco Source Code Up For Sale: Only $24,000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1)Purchase SCC's code: $24k
    2)Purchase Linksys W54G from BestBuy
    2.5) Port SCC code onto W54G.
    3)Resell Modded Linksys W54G to Fry's Electronics
    4)Profit!!!!