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  1. Re:As soon as they ... on Why 'Cyber Crime' Should Just Be Called 'Crime' · · Score: 1

    Then we can turn them into "biofuel".

    It's people. Biofuel is made out of people. They're making our fuel out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!

  2. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    I don't agree with my mom. She won't let me install my own HVAC system in the basement.

    VOTE YES FOR HVAC!

  3. Re:Interested party on Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent up for most succinct analysis. Not that I know of these things or anything in the DoD field, but it's as if Contractor Bidder works directly with the Gov't Bid writer to ensure a win. Again, no direct knowledge of this happening. (Meaning... I didn't directly do it :) )

  4. Re:Obviously these would have been resolved in BTT on The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    Do you write for DC Comics?

  5. Re:Back in the days on Where Are the Original PC Programmers Now? · · Score: 1

    Where is "here"?

    It's where you are.

  6. Re:Tornado Strength? on Giant Lab Replicates Category 3 Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    While I agree chances are small to be hit by tornado, even in a active area (I live in one - North Alabama). Building to minimize damage with something like ICF has other benefits as well. And tornado shelters make great meth labs! Wait, did I remember to ventilate mine ....

    ******

    ICF -insulated concrete forms. I was tempted to leave it .. just to see what people interpreted it as.

  7. Re:Tornado Strength? on Giant Lab Replicates Category 3 Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    Yea, well ... my dad's a tornado and he could rip YOUR house down!

  8. Re:Middle Age Universities now?? BAD IDEA on What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    Too true. If anything, soon we'll have specialist/tech degrees in personal data management. Sort of like accountants, but for organizing your pictures/videos/music, tracking calendar/appointments/bills, updates/virus checks/backups, whatever you can think of you either forget or don't have time for or seem to keep putting off. That and more people would have personal assistants. People already pay to have virus cleaned for them. And of course, people pay to have their houses clean for them and food prepared for them. You get the point...

    The same is true for work as well. Think programming alone. What I know about Web technologies and AJAX I could fit in a thimble. I am "mostly" a graphics programmer and OpenGL at that. I read stuff on game coding forums asking simple (to me) questions from obvious programmers of other fields (e.g. GUI or database programmers). Actually, I think language has too much focus on a resume for some people. To me, area of expertise is more important (Networking, Database, Graphics, System Controls, Real Time Simulation, etc...) That said, I would prefer to see you've learned 2 languages - one which is Object Oriented (though OO may not apply to all fields .. YMMV)

    Continuing the programming model mentioned above .. with specialization .. and teaching of that ability. Think of how a program evolves .. and classes are added that do one simple thing. How nodes are added to a network/graph that a "dumb" in all areas except one.

    Persons are nodes of the community, and our area "knowledge" has by necessity grown more "tight and deep". Seems that specialization should start earlier .. except that half of freshmen don't even seem to know what they want to do.

    META content="tight, deep, oil, area, pictures, video, graphics, personal assistants, freshmen"

  9. Re:It doesn't sell. on DoD Study Contradicts Charges Against WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    That would assume that something was added AFTER the Flight VCR download (a possibility). The source is obvious to those involved which Apache it was (and which pilots where flying, who the ground crew was when it landed). The pilots could have copied it themselves because they thought it would be cool addition to their personal library (seems to happen a lot). Then there is the tech/maintenance crew. And then anybody able to get access to a device holding the video file (including a pilot or maintenance person's copy).

    However, in this case, I could see it being reviewed internally and then deemed highly sensitive and compartmentalized information (i.e. above Top Secret). -- I am not informed about what rating the "typical" flight video gets. Though a lot of it obviously gets downgraded to declassified and FOUO since you see a ton of it on TV (but the TV stuff is usually "Pro".)

    The point being, that video could have been marked somewhere in the pipe due to its nature. However, that does not rule out Wikileaks got the "pure" form off of the flight box itself.

  10. Re:Medieval units on Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones · · Score: 1

    So, stand more that 40 feet away from a wedding. Good advice!

  11. Re:X? X!? on DoD Study Contradicts Charges Against WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    by mdma42 (244204)

    Don't you worry about X. You let me worry about X!

    FTFY

  12. Re:Smart water? on Putting the Squeeze On Broadband Copper Robbers · · Score: 1

    googled that, those look pretty nice. I am somewhat of a plastic enthusiast.

    (googles "plastic enthusiast")

    Um.. maybe I should rephrase that.

  13. Re:Smart water? on Putting the Squeeze On Broadband Copper Robbers · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the plus side, Smart Water bottles themselves are a great size/form factor with heavier plastic than most brands - I bought a case for that reason. Sort of like "disposable" Tupperware.

  14. Re:I read the TFA on US Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country · · Score: 1

    I notice viruses don't cross over into Canada. The border guard is doing a great job not allowing export of a military grade infections. That, or the mounties and socialized medicine are doing great jobs at protecting computers.

    And that is amazing since MS is so prevalent in Canada.

    http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/09/18/f-multiple-sclerosis.html

  15. Re:How Long... on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 1

    Yes, clearly they need to wipe first. That's the kind thing to do.

  16. Re:Taking Apple's side on this one... mostly on iPhone 4 Screens Break 82% More Than 3GS · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, the phone is in between your work blackberry holster and leatherman/gerber multitool on a fanny pack belt. .. Wait I think I found your picture!

    http://www.youjustmademylist.com/?p=1656

  17. Re:Guess he never saw the Creation museum... on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    ...mod fix...

  18. Re:Bleeeechhhh on Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe · · Score: 1

    Damnit .. now I am stuck on tvtropes.org. Do you routinely leave needles full of heroin laying around?

  19. David Freer symantec on Spammers Using Soft Hyphen To Hide Malicious URLs · · Score: 1

    Submitted by strelaoz on Thu, 10/07/2010 - 6:50pm.

    David Freer (VP, Symantec Consumer Business Units - Norton, APJ) is a BIG LIAR! He lied to me for more than two and half years for my true feelings, time, and money. Also kept saying I am the only one in his life. Even this year on Feb. 2, he used company line to lead me to have phone sex with him. Until I found out there’s some other woman, he made up another lie and finally admitted he’s been living with her for a year. Later, I realized they were all lies. He actually has married March 2009. And now he just totally disappeared and not answering any phone calls, acting like “hit & run” irresponsible baby. Can you trust someone like this, with no ethics and integrity? The more unbelievable things are David Freer newly-wed wife - SUZY WALSHAM, she shamefully admitted she was the third person who broke up David Freer & his ex 12 years relationships, and mocking at me as the 3rd "unsuspected" person, as she agreed with his husband’s behaviors!!!!!! SHAME ON both of you, DAVID FREER & SUZY WALSHAM!!!!!!! (THEY BOTH WORK FOR SYMANTEC).

    esides, do you know how hurtful it is? I've been thinking about committing suicide everyday and every second. Not to mention, crying all the times. 30 pounds loss. can hardly walk to the outside, and all the humiliation & harshness I have been taken behind the scene. I can survive till now, only because I took lots of medicines everyday. Can you understand the suffering?

    And I have no ideas how he can get pastor wife's email address? through hacking into my email account? Did he sound sorry? or threatening? How dare of him to talk about God now. And what a sneaky liar! "IF I FLIRTED?" What does that mean? He said "I am hard. Are you wet? I like to use my tongue to lick you ..........

    And I don't even have the chance to slap him or yell at him on the face or through the phone. They are the ones who made the mistakes, also the ones yelled at me and threatened me. There are no three of us needed to pick the pieces of the mess. ONLY ME. He totally recovered and has been doing lots of publicities. It seems like he's doing this to @#$%&! me off or to hurt me more by saying "see, I am OK. The company didn't mind. Suzy didn't mind. If you wanna die, it's not my business."

    Apple is the best! Symantec shall look after their own shit business. Oh, right. Symantec is launching Norton everywhere for smartphone users. No Wonder. But what if the rumor is true that

    IS IT TRUE THAT A SECURITY COMPANY IS ACTUALLY A HACKER COMPANY?

    : David Freer
    : RE: this is the way you say sorry?
    : lily
    : 2010216,,2:20

    Firstly I apologise to both you and the pastors wife for having dragged you into a very large mess in my life.

    I again very sincerely apologise for the hurt and damage I have done to you. I understand that your trust in men and your feelings are destroyed.

    If I flirted with you on February 2nd then I did not mean to do that, I also apologise – it was never my intention to do that.

    David

    From:
    Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:00 PM
    To: David Freer
    Cc: lily
    Subject: RE: this is the way you say sorry?

    Have you thought from the beginning all i want is a sincere apology? but you wouldn't give it to me.

    If i want a revenge, i would do it a week ago - to tell suzy, to tell janice, to tell people who work at symantec.

    AND HOW DID YOU GET PASATOR WIFE’S EMAIL?

    --- 10/2/16 ()David Freer
    : David Freer
    : RE: this is the way you say sorry?
    :
    : lily
    : 2010216,,6:14
    God talks about compassion, if you have any it is time to allow all three of us to pick up the pieces of this mess and move on with our lives.

    David

    From: Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:34 PM
    To: David Freer
    Subject: this is the way you say sorry?

    i don't know what you told suzy about to let her believe you & even say @#$%&! off on me. it shall

  20. Re:Just do it on Best Education Path To Learn Video Game Programming? · · Score: 1

    piss off'd spelin/grammer nazis

  21. Re:Just do it on Best Education Path To Learn Video Game Programming? · · Score: 1
  22. Re:200 year old technology on Inventor Creates Flotation Device Bazooka · · Score: 1

    Yea it's a dupe. I read it on slashdot back then too. Course then we called "Ye Bellman Boarde". I had a 2 digit id back then as well (everyone did, the hundreds place hadn't been invented yet), but when the community did away with florins -- I swore I wouldn't come back and went to a pig trough called Digge'. I finally came back to slashdot when the swine flu came around in the 70s (the board at that time was called Static Track. The moderator was, of course, Clu Gulager).

    Keep on Truckin!

  23. Re:Lenna (Karma Whoring with Naked Pic!) on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    Sorry for replying to myself (That's ok otherself), but I guess Playboy just doesn't "pursue" cases, (WTF does that mean legally?) Still, lame cop-out by Google.

    Wired:

    Playboy helped track down the Swedish native in Stockholm, where she helps handicapped people work on (non-networked) computers. Although Playboy is notorious for cracking down on illegal uses of its images, it has decided to overlook the widespread distribution of this particular centerfold.

    Says Eileen Kent, VP of new media at Playboy: "We decided we should exploit this, because it is a phenomenon."

  24. Lenna (Karma Whoring with Naked Pic!) on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Famous classic images such as Lena, the Baboon, etc., often used when doing compression comparisons, are unfortunately not free of copyright.

    I thought Playboy relented (just said the hell with it), and released Lenna (the head shot version) to public domain for research purposes?

    Anyways, what people use to consider porn linked (now it seems like tasteful art :) ).:

    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/

  25. Re:Past His Prime on Hawking: No 'Theory of Everything' · · Score: 1

    Hey may only be ten years older than you but his illness is getting pretty bad, I think this has to do with all his recent talking and slow down in hard core output. His assistant that researches with him has admitted things are taking a lot longer than they did when he first started.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/20/stephen-hawking-ill-hospital