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  1. Dudes, yer slipping on Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme · · Score: 1

    Where are all the Prof. Wang jokes? I am disappointed in y'all.

    qz

  2. Re:The `threat' on Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme · · Score: 1

    The game is Risk.

    [roll dice]
    Two for you. One for me.
    [roll dice]
    Two for me. One for you.
    [roll dice]
    Three for you. Zero for me.
    [roll dice]
    Three for me. Zero for you.

    Don't make me play my cards! Ugh! I have to. I have too many.

    [army buildup]
    [roll dice]

    And so on.

    I have seen my position change in one turn of those friendly cards. Don't take this lightly.

    qz

  3. Re:You're abusing company property on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1

    How do you sync only company data? How does it know the pics are of her kids and not work related? A profile is a profile. If you save it you save whatever is in there, personal or not.

    qz

  4. Re:So? on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1

    I work for the govt. and we have different rules. Our banner states we may be monitored by any number of agencies and our computers searched by said agencies. It's not so bad. We have an acceptable use policy. No porn (duh!) and don't make any money with it. We can buy at eBay but don't post stuff for sale. We can check stocks but not buy or sell. No streaming unless it is work related. We can read online newspapers during breaks and lunch. Common sense stuff.

    Pretty simple. Keep work at work and home at home. They do find the occaisional person running a business from work. If you are a contractor you are shown the door. If you are an employee it can vary.

    qz

  5. Well, might as well pack up my VCR on XM+MP3 Going to Trial · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I subscribe to cable.

    "It is manifestly apparent that the use of a radio-cassette player to record songs played over free radio does not threaten the market for copyrighted works as does the use of a recorder which stores songs from private radio broadcasts on a subscription fee basis," she said.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines /D8MOFEGO0.html

    qz

  6. Re:This is a case... on XM+MP3 Going to Trial · · Score: 1

    Ya think? Where did the judge state this? Surely not in the article. Which you read, of course.

    And I determine what is broadcasted on XM? I don't determine what is broadcast by Tivo. How is this different?

    qz

  7. It was founded by spammers on Inside MySpace.com · · Score: 3, Interesting

    MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson had previously founded an e-mail marketing company called ResponseBase that they sold to Intermix in 2002. The ResponseBase team received $2 million plus a profit-sharing deal, according to a Web site operated by former Intermix CEO Brad Greenspan. (Intermix was an aggressive Internet marketer--maybe too aggressive. In 2005, then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer--now the state's governor--won a $7.9 million settlement in a lawsuit charging Intermix with using adware. The company admitted no wrongdoing.)

    In 2003, Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act to control the use of unsolicited e-mail marketing. Intermix's leaders, including DeWolfe and Anderson, saw that the new laws would make the e-mail marketing business more difficult and "were looking to get into a new line of business," says Duc Chau, a software developer who was hired by Intermix to rewrite the firm's e-mail marketing software.

    Fancy that.

    qz

  8. Re:Examples of horrible MySpace design? on Inside MySpace.com · · Score: 1

    Consider yourself lucky. I'm on a modem.

    qz

  9. Re:I've seen similar ~3 years ago on Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives · · Score: 1

    Note to self: don't leave blank writable CDs in drive. Yeah, I noticed this to. qz

  10. Re:I've seen similar ~3 years ago on Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives · · Score: 1

    Why did they look at it?

    My system seems hosed.
    Ok.
    [reimage]
    Here ya go.

    qz

  11. Re:Fake Guilt? on MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents · · Score: 1

    If they create it then, yes, they do own the copyright. It doesn't matter what one creates. If you create a blank screen then you own it but someone may come after you for a violation claiming they did it first.

    Heh. I love it.

    The battle for the blank screens has begun

    qz

  12. Lucas wouldn't... on Harrison Ford Turned Down Han Solo Role · · Score: 1

    ... let him shoot first this time.

    qz

  13. Re:Software has HYSTERICAL complexity. on What Makes Software Development So Hard? · · Score: 1
    For instance: The RPM input to the spark advance was computed by two weights on pivots, with springs and stops, rotating a sleeve on a shaft. The shaft was driven by the camshft through a gear and the sleeve carried the cam driving the contact points or (in an electronic ignition) the starwheel that passed the sensor coil. Adding this computation (compared to no RMP spark advance) added five moving and four stationary parts, to be assembeled, and a test stand the volume of an office cube to test the result, and allow a worker to adjust the constants by bending the spring supports with a screwdiver.

    What about the crankshaft? It is needed for the piston movement. I like how you added the camshaft. Now how about the cooling system to make it all run without locking up? How many part are in a carb? That is another essay in itself.

    So it is not so easy when you start breaking it down. Each part becomes infinite, or finite in a big way.

    Heck, trace the gas pedal to the carb with the cable and springs and cotter pins to hold it all in place.

    Complexity builds quickly.

    qz

  14. Re:Theres ways to secure windows on NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products · · Score: 1

    Wow! Do you give them a checklist so they don't forget any steps?

    qz

  15. Re:It's too late to make a difference. on XXX Top Level Domain May Still See Use · · Score: 1

    So the kids put in .com instead.

    Problem solved.

    qz

  16. Re:Real Photo ? on Second Life Mogul Challenges Press Freedom · · Score: 1

    Can't find the article right now but it stated she started off as a sex hostess of some sort before gaming the real estate market.

    qz

  17. Did I miss something? on YouTube Blocked in Brazil · · Score: 1

    Where in TFA does it state Brazil blocked Brazil? Or did I miss that line?

    qz

  18. Re:I've been using vi for so long... on The Birth of vi · · Score: 1

    GoldEd. Man, that one rocked more than any other editor I have ever used. It could be modified easily with macros, modify the menus, set up environments depending on the file suffix, size gfx in html mode. I used to do a lot of html stuff (won't call it coding) and was doing a lot of table stuff at the time. Highlight, F10... done. Highlight, F11... done.

    It did everything. I still miss it. No editor has ever filled the gap.

    The author eventually released it to the wild with a free key.

    qz

  19. Re:Wait for Vista on How to get a Refund on Your Unwanted Windows · · Score: 1

    Apple does this too.

    I sent my daughters iBook to Apple for a MB exchange. The RAM went south. They reimaged it as well without asking. When I asked at the store that sent it about the data they choked big time. I had backed it up before it went out so no real harm was done except my time to rebuild her account.

    So thanks Apple. You reimaged a iBook I had not asked you to do so and now I have an iBook I can't reinstall Tiger on if I have to because I don't have the install DVD. To reinstall I have to back up the data and drop back to the disks that came with the machine. Or buy Tiger.

    If you are going to wipe out my machine and give me a "free" upgrade you could at least give me the install DVD.

    qz

  20. Re:There's that free market stuff again. on RIAA Admits 70 Cent Price is 'In the Range' · · Score: 1

    As it should be.

    qz

  21. USB? on Movie Studios OK Download-to-Burn DVDs · · Score: 1

    Some burners can be updated, Sonic said, and companies such as Plextor, a Qflix partner, are expected to market Qflix-enabled DVD burners that connect with a USB cable.

    Yeah.... buffering... that wor... buffering...ks for.... buffering.... me

    qz

  22. Re:Favorite Darwin Award Classic on Darwin Awards 2006 · · Score: 1
    Wired has another good story about the JATO car. Actually sounds feasible.

    qz

  23. Text adventure games on Questions for Entry Level PC Techs? · · Score: 1

    Have you completed Zork? If so hire them.

    qz

  24. Re:Not convinced this guy is truthful on Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking? · · Score: 1

    All the pages are the same. No wonder he is dropping like a lead balloon.

    qa

  25. Re:30 Comments and nobody asking about Mike? on Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking? · · Score: 1
    Wouldn't every body here want to see a blog by Mike Hunt?

    I once worked at a place that was going to use first initial last name for email addresses. I pointed out we had an employee named Karen Hunt. Once it soaked in the view across the meeting table was priceless. I don't remember how we resolved it. It was long ago.

    qz