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  1. Re:Audiophools on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 0

    Cable elevators might work if you were running the wires on bare cement or concrete floors where quartz in the sand/ aggregate was interfering. but then what Audiophile is running cables on or in a bare concrete floor.

  2. Re:repeat offender on Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh come on flamebait? Microsoft is a repeat offender. Funny maybe, Flamebait hardly

  3. repeat offender on Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well if anyone knows what a repeat offender looks like it is Microsoft.

    I could list the slashdot articles but it seems like there is a hard limit to the length of a comment

  4. Contradiction or equivocation? on New Method for Rendering Particles Outlined · · Score: 5, Funny

    New Method for Rendering Particles Outlined

    "Although this method has been employed in games for many years Slight contradiction or equivocation on the term "new"
  5. Re:Is biodiversity also booming? on Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming · · Score: 1

    1) Marketing
    2) People like names not to change

    http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/europe/greenlan/greenlan.htm

  6. Re:Ron Paul wouldn't allow this sort of thing on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    Regardless of Ron Paul, I stand by my statement. Most people do not consider long term consequences of their actions they merely react instead of act. Most of my experience is with Americans and the British so I constrained my comments to them.

  7. Re:Ron Paul wouldn't allow this sort of thing on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    Because most Americans do not take the time to be informed, let alone think about the implications of various actions (This is likely true worldwide not just with Americans)

    Note I am an American

  8. Re:The First Amendment to the Constitution on Leaked ACTA Treaty to Outlaw P2P? · · Score: 1

    What the Constitution says is in the hands of Judges these days, many of which seem, from their actions, to have never read it.

  9. Re:So... on EBay Pressured To Block Sales of Ivory Products · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have not checked for ivory but it would not be surprising if both statements were true. marijuana and Alcohol were both regulated in this way at recent points in history here in the US. You had to have a tax permit to carry, buy or sell either but there were no tax permits available. It was just a way of making trade illegal without "violating" the constitution.

  10. Re:17 USC 506 -- why it's criminal on First Guilty Verdict In Criminal Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    2) total value over $1,000 And what is the RIAA claiming the value of a single track is these days?
  11. Re:Nice to know on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the so called "right to work" states, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work then you can be terminated without cause at any time. It s not uncommon for an IT worker (especially a high level one) to give his notice and be immediately escorted from the building under armed guard and his personal kit shipped to him.

  12. Re:By Hand on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely! Or send 2 couriers, but they should by no means be sent together, nor should they be sent by the same courier company. Contact a licensed security or private investigation firm in your area as they are bonded and frequently have secure couriers at a minimal charge.

  13. Re:Repairing em' on The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Macs are just fine for personal use, but Windows is far better in a lab environment. It's easier to administrate, reasonably easy to keep secure, and very easy to buy hardware and software for. I never found it difficult to set up a single image and have the 35 macs in our lab all netboot off of it. Need to upgrade software? Change the disk image, need to return a mac to its base install , reboot it, not a lot of administration required. The Macs are more secure than Windows either out of the box or properly secured. HArdware nd softwre? The only issue i ever had was gps software for personal use and i just went with an opensource solution. Your response simply shows that you have not been trained to administer a lab.
  14. Re:Turning proprietary? on When Should We Ditch Our Platform? · · Score: 1

    At least someone who has taken the class would know that CompTIA does A+ and not Microsoft.

  15. DFW on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    I noticed this happening a couple of weeks ago in the DFW area at a few clients houses and then my own. Obviously I disabled it immediately but it is still very annoying to say the least.

  16. Re:Mechwarrior on FASA Studios Now Out of Business · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolemaster Rolemaster is the other one you can die in during creation.

  17. Re:Steam isn't an energy source on The British Steam Car Challenge · · Score: 1

    So I was one off. Thanks for the correction.

  18. Re:A few other notes on Apple and AT&T Announce iPhone Service Plans · · Score: 1

    I for one will be waiting for the 2nd generation iPhone. some rumour mills have it supporting GPS and some other goodies. If so, and the phone can be unlocked, w/o ATT service then I may well just stay with MetroPCS and use it to replace my dead newton. Oh and here's hoping that sqlite or something similar is in the build.

  19. Re:Steam isn't an energy source on The British Steam Car Challenge · · Score: 2, Informative

    I thought iron was the first to require a net energy input, but I can't be bothered to look.

  20. Re:disbelief in evolution on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    spelcheck os ur freind

    Sorry about that.

  21. I for one... on The British Steam Car Challenge · · Score: 1, Funny

    Welcome our steam powered overlords!

  22. Re:How about in the US? on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    being a bit reactionary or just building a straw man? Just because one believes in creation or ID or whatever doesn't mean one "think man was created 10,000 years ago, ate an apple that his girlfriend got from a talking snake, and built a cruise ship for swingin' animal couples."

  23. Re:disbelief in evolution on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    Oops I forgot to mention that Fundamentalists probably drive me more nuts than they drive the average /.er. Fundamentalism is a rejection of modernity (by its own self definition) I on teh other hand am Reformed witch is a rational expression of Christianity (that doesn't mean you think its rational)

    - sorry about replying to my own post.

  24. Re:disbelief in evolution on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    Heh I love Russian movies Solaris was great, the US remake sucked. Of course I am also one of those people who accept genetic drift or micro evoloution while rejecting macro evolution. Leaving advanced degrees aside its not always an issue of not being able to wrap one's noddle around it, sometimes people just see a better / different answer. You either presume an Omniscient, Omnipotent Atemporal Creator or you don't. If you do then creation makes sense if you don't then it is ludicrus (sp?).

  25. Re:How about in the US? on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    I was quoting the study; but yes, I do realize that. In fact I was taught so called theocratic evolution in biology however many decades ago 9th grade was. I, of course, rejected it as a silly compromise between evolution and creation, but that is what I was taught in Catholic [read Jesuit] schools