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  1. One problem on Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod · · Score: 1

    Where are you going to get these RFIDs that your going to inject into items you wish to steal?

  2. Re:Proprietary shitware on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Embedded XP and Windows CE dev kits come with source code. So what was you point again? As for developers listing, nevada gaming commissions requires it, Why should slot machines meet a higher standard than voting machines? I'm pretty sure microsoft could come up with a list of the developers that worked on windows, you know that hr department thingy. Can linux or bsd do the same? If not, they are out of the equation.

    Please buy a clue thanks.

  3. Re:Accountability. Or Lack there of on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 1

    Can linux or bsd list all the programmers who have contributed?

  4. Re:Quality Repairs on Fix Your Crashing X-Box 360 With String · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Umm yeah... Thats why maintainence at my building decided to shut off the air conditioning unit over the weekend. I came back monday to find a bunch of dead PSUs in my server room. Thats why all real servers come with two PSUs because PSUs don't fail.

  5. Re:More games on Should You Wait For The PS3? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Got love the sony fan boys. By a small collection of games you mean 200+ games that are certified to run.

  6. Mushroom Management on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    At my former job we used this mushroom management with great success. While people quit or get laid off we ended up with Lava Flow. And it ended up with my favorite practice called "down by the river eating government cheese".

  7. Re:It's just cool on Xbox 360 Hardware Disassembled and Analyzed · · Score: 1

    No open source ATMs, store you money in your mattress. No open source car computers, i guess you can't drive either. No open source Airline computers, can't fly too.

  8. Re:I'm not feeling the X360 love on First Xbox 360 Reviews Hitting the Web · · Score: 1
    Contrast this with the XBOX. It started off with lots of hype, never really went anywhere with its library, instead relying on technical superiority, and they're already coming out with the next console before this one has had five years.

    You mean games like:
    Panzer Dragoon
    Ninja Gaiden
    Halo 1 and 2
    Forza Motosports
    Mech Assault

    Or maybe cross platform titles
    Tony Hawk
    FIFA
    Burnout
    Madden

    As for nintendo having backwords compatability, do you really believe they are going to have nintendo, super nintendo, n64 slots on the revolution?

  9. Re:Computer power on How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD? · · Score: 1

    Umm but how does roboform store the password?

  10. Re:Buying a new computer on California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Umm.. if its not your insurance company, you don't have to follow their rules. Remember it was the others guys fault. Its there responsibility to pay for the damages they caused, they should be the ones calling dell to get the old parts. They want to be dicks about it, i'd say i'm starting to have neck problems and tell them i'm seeing a chiropracter. They'll settle right on the spot.

  11. Re:Glorified Slots machine on Virtual Property Investor Recoups Investment · · Score: 1
    Given that, the Project Entropia system cannot generate rewards greater than the amount of money fed into the system, minus however much MindArk takes off the top.

    Sounds like day trading the stock market. You can't make money unless other people put in money.

  12. Thats Ok on Dealing with Digital Music and Vendor Lock-In? · · Score: 1

    I have a shift key.

  13. Re:Crazy question on Microsoft Discusses Anti-Spyware Plans · · Score: 1

    Because spyware is bundled with P2P applications like bearshare or whatever. Or people download some stupid cursors program or messenger emoticons.

  14. Re:Open Source, People on MSSQL 2005 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Tell me when mysql has table variables, compute by, dynamic sql calls or at least a row count variable, or let me put an index on a view. Mysql is great for some casual web site but comparing it to oracle or mssql is really an insult to enterprise level databases.

  15. Re:I don't see the big deal behind intelligent des on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 4, Funny
    [blockquote][i]I don't see why the two theories can't be merged. *shrug*[/i][/blockquote] If someone wants to believe in ID, by all means, that is your choice. However, the reason the scientific community is reticent to "merge" the two is that their is no scientific fact or observation supporting ID. It is a tautology, stating that there' must be a Designer because the world can't exist without one. That's just bad science.

    Theories can't be merged because evolution uses slashot forum system and ID uses UBB forum system. Posts are incompatbile with each other.

  16. Re:Profit Margins on Apple - What A Difference Eight Years Can Make · · Score: 1

    Apple's profit margin is actually bad for apple. Apple needs more users using OSX so they can attract 3rd party developers. They could make their computers ~10% cheaper and get more buyers. Apple made this mistake back when Scully was president, increased the profit margin on computers.

  17. Re:I'm sorry on Google DVRs and TV Advertising · · Score: 1
    They'll show ads to me based on my interests? Great! I'd rather see ads for things I'd purchase than crap I don't want. Wal-mart decides to stock shelves with things that are relevant to my area's purchase history - so if I go into a Wal-mart, it's more likely to carry something I intend to buy.

    Till you bring a date a home to watch tv and google bases its ads on the porn in your gmail inbox. How do you explain to your date, that you aren't really into midget watersports?

  18. Re:Cool! on .Net Framework and Visual Studio Now Available · · Score: 1

    I agree. I can switch between java and c# like its nothing. Eclipse is a nice IDE but i prefer vs.net maybe because i'm used to it more. Eclipse refactoring tools are wonderful, but there are 3rd party addons(refactor is one) to vs.net to add the same functionality.

  19. Umm? on Two Megapixel Cameraphone Shootout · · Score: 1

    So the new cell phones don't make phone calls well?

  20. Re:One question on Price of Power in a Data Center · · Score: 1

    Server can't exactly hibernate when there's limited activity. Last thing i want is my server shutting down. At my last job, we never brought down our solaris boxes because we were always afraid they wouldn't boot up again. 3 years uptime on them.

  21. Re:Top Down / Bottom Up on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't change what you type, it will make suggestions but if you want to type out .blahblah, it will allow you too. Visual Studio won't autocomplete till you hit tab. The guy posting has obviously never used visual studio but gets modded 5. Quite funny.

  22. Re:Perspective on Court Battle Over Internet Calls · · Score: 1

    Can't firewall encrypted traffic on some arbitrary port.

  23. Re:Help! on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: 1

    Do developers really need to learn the internals of winsform application? This topic reminds of some interview questions i had. What is hex code in beginning of java libraries and what does the c# compiler do to properties. Does it really matter that i know that CAFEBABE is in the start of every java library or that c# converts properties to get and set methods? Its some fun trivia and shows how java checks the first few bytes of java library to determine that it is java library but in reality you never use it in real life. Good coding is not knowing every little detail about a library, its about learning the fundamental concepts. Libraries change, concepts don't. I'm amazed of the people i interview who can name off every class in .net System.xml namespace but have never heard of any design pattern.

  24. Re:Help! on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: 1

    Yawn, there's a blank project option in vs.net thats starts off with 0 files and 0 reference. VS.net is for rapid development, templates are there to help you out. Saying vs.net makes stupid developers is like saying hibernate also makes stupid developers since it hides SQL from the developer. Hell any developer tool out, lets take xml spy and its auto schema generation, or its xslt generation. Lets lump junit in on it because its serves as crutch for developers to write bad code as long as it passes the unit tests. Or javadoc and class reference documentation. And if you want to talk about stuff hidden from the developer, take a look a ruby on rails. So much is hidden from developer in terms of data access its scary. But you know what, with ruby on rails, i can whip out an application in a 1/4 of the time then jsp or asp.net. Time is money. This guy bagging vs.net for templates and intellisense is really a bag on all RAD tools and enviroments.

  25. Re:Force? on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: 1

    vs.net debugger will take out vs.net, create a really complex project toss in a bunch of reflections to other projects that are in your solution, now try to step the code. It will crash about 1 in 10 times.