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  1. Re:Is GIMP still being developed? on Instrumented GIMP To Identify Usability Flaws · · Score: 1

    Change the name already. That should be bugfix #1.

  2. Re:Definitely Beneficial NOT on State Department Developing Cyber Toolkit · · Score: 1

    I understand, efindi. We will strike at dawn... err, I mean LOL OMG ORLY?!?!!

  3. Re:Why... on Microsoft to Storm Linux Strongholds · · Score: 1

    Well, if Roe wasn't out HOEing in the first place, the missy wouldn't had all those problems!

  4. Re:This Is Bulls**t. on Keystroke Logging Declared Illegal in Alberta · · Score: 1
    The law provides a simple and effective method for handling such employees.

    You fire them.

    Oddly enough, Microsoft also offers methods for securing laptops and other PCs. Use group and local policies to prevent users from effing up the laptops. Make it known that if a laptop ends up too far out of spec, it will be reformatted. If the salesperson then loses important records because they didn't place their work in a secure place, fire them for incompetence.

  5. Umm... FTP? on OSS Web-based File Management? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a friendly, universally available, and simple way for any user to store and retrieve files on a Intranet be the best solution?

  6. Re:Just not the same. on Large Scale Production of Artificial Meat · · Score: 1
    [... ] I don't see why you couldn't eat the artificial meat.

    Because it's creepy?

    A lot of religions and ethicists don't eat meat because the proper respect for the animal's life wasn't done. Kosher foods require a blessing and specific methods and conditions for slaughter. Other's balk at the idea that an animal has to die for their nurishment, when there are plenty of other resouces could be used.

    For those two groups, I think the idea of a sterile growth of animal biomass being used as food would be even more disgraceful and insulting.

  7. Re:It's a very historic place. on Mauritius Aims To Be First Wireless Nation · · Score: 1
    Holy digital signatures
    There's a Batman joke in there somewhere...
  8. Re:Timeline on PC Makers See Little Reason to Deploy XP N · · Score: 2, Insightful

    7. Government[s] become upset at Microsoft for tying their database product [SQL] to the OS. 8. Microsoft buries the database product deep inside the OS and its DLLs, purposefully glomming the two together [as WinFS] so that they cannot be extricated. 9. Microsoft and its apologists announce that it is impossible, unfair and unreasonable to debundle their database product from their OS, because the database product is a part of the operating system.

  9. Note to Developers: Include the SpaceOrb on Linux 3D Input Driver Project Started · · Score: 2, Informative
    Please include support for the SpaceOrb. It is the best controller for 3D games, ever. Six degrees of movement and rotation from a very responsive controller ball, with 6 buttons that also support chording. They don't make the SpaceOrb any more, but you can still find new ones occasionally on Ebay. I would recommend buying two at a time because the controller can break easily if you don't treat it with respect... Don't yank the controller by its chord, and don't twist give the controller ball extreme twists.

    If you are a 3D gamer, you must try the controller at least once. You might never go back to keyboard and mouse!

    I've included the top links for info on its drivers, use, and interface.

  10. ...Or the Task Tool in Outlook on Software for Technical Support Tracking? · · Score: 1
    Even in standalone mode, it will give you a calendar, tracking, alerts, and areas to clip notes or attachments.

    With 2000+ and an Exchange server, you can assign tasks to other people.

  11. Re:Hey, that should be the new OSS slogan on Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC · · Score: 1

    They did. It's called KnoppMyth. It's aknoppix based Distro that will either install a MythTV system on your PC, or act as a MythTV Frontend.

  12. Re:Another giant step backward... on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1
    Too bad your linked article says nothing about Islam's "convert or die" aggression. The Muslim and Moorish conquerors wanted territories, just like the Europeaners did. But the Islamic forces did not hide their desires behind religion like the West did.

    As a matter of fact, the quoted articles speaks of the Muslims allowing pilgrims into their lands, and even the allowed recontruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The article doesn't mention the fact that Jews still lived in Jeruselem as well. Islam, at its heart, teaches tolerance for "Brothers of the Book".

  13. Re:Copyright (C) Yourself. Right now. on Would You Submit Biometric Data to Join a Gym? · · Score: 1
    Yes, a central location where people can store all of their personal statistics. Sort of the Lexis-Nexis or ChoicePoint of Biometrics?

    The same (cr|h)ackers interested in breaking into the gym's database would be even more interested in yours.

  14. Re:Get it? on ROM Rental Service To Launch · · Score: 1
    BTW, I don't know how the rest of those CDs are, but I recently got a copy of D.O.A, a old Film Noir clssic, from that stack. The quality is terrible. I had raise my system's volume all they way up to hear the actors, then deal with all the white noise hissing. On top of that, the video was really bad. I realize that they don't always have the original masters for those older movies, but I know that at least AMC has a cleaned-up version that they show.

    Even at 2.99, I expect more.

  15. Re:An aol user was qouted as saying, on AOL to Replace AIM with Triton · · Score: 1

    LOL!!!!11

  16. Afghani Caves and IRA sleeper cells don't use P2P on U.S. Military's Hackers · · Score: 1
    Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations use laptops because they are are portable, not because they like the latest technology. They need hardware that can be easily moved from point A to point B, carried under a shirt, and if really necessary, thrown against a wall for easy destruction (of course the HDD is recoverable, but not usually out in the field).

    But, even they use laptops and older desktops, they don't use permanent Internet connections. Terrorist cells don't use permanently wired networks backended to the Internet. They depend on "sneakernets": floppies, removable HDDs, and some emails. This is why encryption is so important to them; their data can fall into "enemy" whenever a cell gets caught.

    For example, The JFCCNW would have had no way of accessing any of the data stored on the PCs hidden in the Afghani caves. Coalition troops had ship that stuff out to get it analyzed and translated.

  17. Conspiracy Senses tingling... on Global DNA Project to Study Human Ancestry · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    So IBM, a HUGE world-wide conglomerate, wants a DNA sample from everyone ion the planet?

    I can see now that all the puzzle pieces fit: their involment with the Nazis, Building large supercomputers, Backing the communist "open-source" movement, and now a DNA database.

    Next we'll discover that IBM has discovered Thule and wants to open "new" corporate offices there.

  18. Free Mumma! on Spammers Sue Spam Victim For $4 Million · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or at least charge him less, geez.

  19. Re:Novell's attitude towards Linux desktop on Bounties for Gnome Optimization · · Score: 1

    They are being "desktop neutral". by trying to lift GNOME's memory footprint to the same level as KDE, both products end up using the same amount of resources. Then, Novell could sign up _both_ KDE and GNOME fans.

  20. Two Protons in the Pink... on Double-Slit Experiment in Time, Not Space · · Score: 1

    And an Electron in the stink.

    Talk about your charmed spin!

  21. Re:Everyone has their 'one feature'... on Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released · · Score: 1

    Your sister could cross over to Linux today if she really wanted to. Crossover Office supports Word, and the rest of the MS office Suite quite well. But, if your sister and her colleges are willing, it is also a trivial matter to set up a perscript that goes through the file and seds/awks every shorthand note into long form.

  22. Re:Gore Vidal's solution to dirty words on FCC to Fine Curses More Than Nuke Violations · · Score: 1

    The "sequel" to the Illuminatus trilogy, Schroedinger's Cat also continues this fine tradition. One of the characters has his Rehnquist go on a Odyssean journey of sorts.

  23. CowboyNeal Zonked? on Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva · · Score: 1

    Folks, at least scan the front page. You had me hitting my refresh button in 14 different combos before I realized that it was YADA YADA YADA (Yet Another Dupe, Again... Yet Another Dupe, Again... Yet Another Dupe, Again...)

  24. Re:*Sigh* I love and hate reading these stories. on Hacking Classic Video Game Systems · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's easy to play old SNES games on a plane. Get yourself a Gamepark GP32. It looks like a GBA, but has tons of freeware apps and emulators. I picked mine up on Ebay, dirt cheap.

  25. Re:Unpossible to Clean SpyWare? on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ad-aware and BartPE won't detect spyware that's rewritten your crypt32.dll or dllhost.exe to the same size and header. The only thing would be a antivirus tools that does hash checks with known good DLLs.

    And that's not available yet. Thin kof all the different systems with different versions of DLLs. This is going to get ugly.