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  1. Re:Posix and security on How Vista Disappoints · · Score: 1

    So ps shows you a list of roles? I'm confused.

  2. Posix and security on How Vista Disappoints · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm not going to belabor the point, but Linux has been doing this since it's inception. UNIX has been doing this for 30 years. Programs can run under whatever user you create for them using whatever permissions you give them. This has nothing to do with SELinux.

  3. Hello false pretense on Lowering the Odds of Being Outsourced · · Score: 1

    Not to rain on your parade, but your logic depends on a system with no rules.

    Fortunately for everyone, the system is full of ways to keep all the jobs from being outsourced. The only rational reason in pure economic terms to outsource a job is a wide disparity of resources. So wide that it makes up for the enormous infrastructure costs of exporting it.

    What we have here instead are a set of artificial rules we've set up that make stuff from one place much less expensive in tokens than stuff from another place. This is called a trade imbalance.

    It's not that your pure laze faire system does not hold truth. It does, but it would never really work on a large scale, because large scale systems depend on order, something that system is woefully incapable of providing.

    Now in today's imperfect world the best thing to do is to take a good look at a situation and make some hard calls about what rules we need and want. Want an efficient system for IT? Keep it local unless there is no one who has the skills required and needs a job. Then you allow the jobs to go to the next country over.

    We really would benefit immensely from some logical tariffs. The word sounds bad, but then so does global depression, a term we are becoming more and more weary of.

  4. Re:Australian Voting Systems on OSS Election Systems Desired, but Not Ready · · Score: 1
    "Don't go touting the Australian system - it just doesn't work. Look at who is in power in Australia at the moment!"
    Ahh, but look who's in power over here in the states with our shiny new closed source system :)
  5. Australian Voting Systems on OSS Election Systems Desired, but Not Ready · · Score: 1

    Another interesting note; the Secret ballot system in place in most republics today, including the US, was first called the Australian ballot.

    IMHO it seems ideal to continue this tradition and look into the Aurtralian solution to electronic voting too.

  6. Re:Nope on What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ye gads, I just realized that I'm in the Exchange Tech Speaker group. Not exactly my finest hour, but I digress. (Do I get some sort of a fan club membership or something? Maybe an anti-penguin jacket or cap?)

    I do think you'll find that exchange uses SIS to limit the number of replications of a particular message, not it's attachemnts. Changing this would be a welcome change, but for now forwarding = new message = replication.

    As stated, SIS does limit this to 1 instance per message per storage group, but most large sites have tons of storage groups with users almost randomly peppered across them. Your chances of finding a large group you mail in one of these environments all on one store are quite small.

  7. Nope on What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have? · · Score: 1

    SIS only saves you if it's a single email to others on the same storage group. If its sent to others on different storage groups it replicates, if it's moved or forwarded it replicates.

    The worst part about attachment management is calendar attachments as far as I'm concerned though. One 5 MB attachment sent out to 100 people created 100 problems. What do you mean my calendar is too big?

  8. Ubersecret? on Google Copies Corporate Data to Google's Servers? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you trust your employee base with docs that can't be leaked or copied into the wrong hands, why aren't you training them on software best practices and using filtering and scanning to make sure they aren't taking it off network?

    Really, Isn't this a bit of an amature hour effect here? If your security is that lax you probably also let people connect USB mass storage devices to your desktops as well. This is unlikely to be your greatest security hole.

  9. Re:Certified Spam on Opposition to AOL's 'Email Tax' Growing · · Score: 1

    You email them. This is about group mail. Individual emails are not a problem. Also, this is 2006, you probably have a web page you could post this on as well...

  10. Re:Source? on New York Times sues DoD over Domestic Spying · · Score: 1

    What does that have to do with wiretaping? I'm lost.

  11. Source? on New York Times sues DoD over Domestic Spying · · Score: 1

    Please provide links for FDR's domestic spying program. I'm not sure anyone has heard of this before now.

  12. Congrads on Firefox Memory Leak is a Feature · · Score: 1

    You failed to understand either the article or the post you are replying to. Your problem has nothing to do with the issue at hand here.

  13. So? on Fired for Solitare At Work · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really now, don't you know that what you do at work WITH COMPANY RESOURCES is up to the (shock) COMPANY?

  14. mod up. on Pittsburgh Professors Challenge Darwin · · Score: 1

    Best comment ever.

  15. Re:Why? on Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn · · Score: 1

    That's what I was talking about. Effective punishment.

    However, you should prove your statement. People do not think about punishment when commiting most crimes. They may think about the fact that it is a crime, and the chances of being detected, but they do not consider the degree of punishment, especially for crimes that involve some term of incarceration.

    The victoms matter. In fact, that's why we have these laws in the first place. The victoms that matter most though are future victoms. Prevention is the key here.

  16. Re:Why? on Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Really, the flaw in that logic is the idea that the Death Penalty has any measurable deterrent effect. It doesn't. If it did, that would indeed be a cause for great debate about the use of the practice, but in the real world most western states have either disposed with the practice or put severe limitations on it.

    The reason we use it here is that we feel good to know that bad people are removed from us and punished to an extreme degree. We also take pleasure in gladiation, war, snuff flicks and all kinds of other socially unacceptable practices.

    Let's take a look at your AIDS claim too. The fact is that most of your claim is unproven. These states have aggressive laws preventing all kinds of sexual practices, and therefore also discourage coming forward with diseases evidencing these 'crimes'
    Also worth noting is the fact that the nations themselves control the very numbers that you refer to.

  17. Why? on Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do you care about the message the punishment sends? Is the punishment a deterrent for the commission of the crime?

    In this country we have a judicial system that is based on the prevention of crime, not retribution.

    The question we should ask here is what punishment is the most effective in preventing future acts, not what is 'fair' in relation to other crimes.

  18. 1993 called on Intel Dropping Pentium Brand · · Score: 4, Funny

    and they want their joke back.

  19. Really? on NTP Pool Project Reaches 500 Servers · · Score: 1

    I think you mean 1000000000 NTP servers, right?

  20. Video News Release on Crossing America on a Segway · · Score: 1
    That's what they are called.

    VNR's are really common, and the big deal here is that they appear to be news but are really pushing an adgenda. Funny how the administration is using them so much.

  21. I hope you know on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 5, Informative
    Encrypting your communications like this will just cause you to be a target. The NSA can most likely crack whatever you can throw at them, and even if not they will not hesitate to use some more creative methods if they want to listen in.

    Personally, I just assume that whatever I write or say is being listened to. It sucks, but that's the world we live in. Don't like it? Vote for a non-fascist next time.

  22. Glad I'm not the only one on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 1
    I really liked this part:
    While designing optical computers, he also developed the Resonant Field Theory, which picks up where Einstein left off, and unifies quantum mechanics and relativity into an intuitive, easy-to-understand model of the universe. Resonant Fields are the fundamental mechanism of physics from which all things in the universe are constructed. Thus, the Resonant Field Theory is a practical, working model of everything, and Dr. Hait is the leading expert in the field.
    Pretty impressive stuff!
  23. One point of clarification on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 2, Informative
    EPR does not allow communication because the states of the entangled matter in question cannot be known prior to measurement at the end points and is completely random.

    EPR does suggest (and this has been proven in tests) that states measured at one side of the entangled matter are exactly opposite of those on the other side thus enabling a method of distribution of random sets without comprimise (as measuring in transit violates the sets).

    So, if you want to call it teleportation, go ahead, just understand that you are just "teleporting" randomness.

  24. Hmm... on New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Dvorak keyboards are expensive simply because there is lower demand.

    Not too sure this is true. Most keyboards have removable keys you can rearrange. The key assignments are in software if I'm not mistaken. Just pull the keys and rearrange them, or better yet just learn to touch type in dvorak. (Not that I've done this, I'm just suggesting it for those of you who insist on this form of masochism.)

  25. Fuck You. on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1, Interesting
    So, where's the grand plot here? A guy has information that is new, shocking, and reveals a blatant violation of the constitution, and just because he's also an author of an up-coming book he shouldn't come forward with it?

    Just one question. Why do you hate your freedom?