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  1. Re:Overtaxed on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 1

    I agree but you can be sure that it has been allocated for future health care, social security, etc costs whereas in the United States....

  2. Native negotiation tactic on First Nations Want Cellphone Revenue · · Score: 1

    Give me more more more more, when will it ever end. I mean if we give them every claim they have there will be no more Canada. Face it, you lost a couple of centuries ago, I mean its not like Germany is saying give us back what we had in the 1940's....

  3. Re:EVE Internal affairs statement on Yet Another EVE Online Scandal? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As someone who knows CEO Pyrex in game, that POS bug storyu is lies. DS1 has 3 POS' and all of them are functionning perfectly. yet another lie from CCP to help Band of Developers. I have cancelled my account it is the only thing CCP will listen too.

  4. Re:Reinventing the wheel? on France Launches Anti-Spam Platform · · Score: 1

    I worked in France for six years and it suffers from one of the worst 'not invented here, sucks' attitudes I have ever seen. Co-operation is not in their chracter. Just look at their politics and strikes :)

  5. Bad idea on Co-Pilots May Sim Instead of Fly To Train · · Score: 1

    I am not a professional pilot, but I frequent aviation boards and most everyone (except the accountants) are against this training. Just imagine an incapacited captain in a 747, with this co-pilot only trained in a sim having to do a no visibility, one engine out go around in a bad african airport. Long thread but worth reading for those interested at http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2441 14

  6. Re:Don't some military ships use this? on Future Ships Could Float On Bubbles · · Score: 3, Informative

    Believe you are taking about the Prairie-Masker system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie-Masker

  7. Re:You never see pictures inside the Soyuz... on Space Shuttle Gains Remote-Control Landing Capability · · Score: 1

    You conveniently forgot to mention that the restricted space part of the Soyuz capsule is the half that comes back down to earth. Once in space, the cosmonauts go into the living section which has 9 cubic meters if space, not huge but certainly decent. They did this to minimise the weight and so made the smallest re-entry capsule they could so they could save on shielding weight. The living section is jettisoned before re-entry.

  8. Re:We will see what China has to say about this on US Government May Not Approve Sale of IBM PC Unit · · Score: 1

    Quick comment, debt is not equity, it does not give you any control per se, although having a large part of someone's debt obviously makes them listen to you ;)

  9. Re:Can you still get the original trilogy? on Return of the Jedi DVD Detailed Changes · · Score: 1

    Video and audio were remastered to THX standards (of the day) for the Laserdisc editions. These Laserdisc versions are, IMHO, the definitive versions of the movies.

  10. Re:Respectfully dissagree on Updated Information On Columbia Shuttle Tragedy · · Score: 1

    The Shuttle program manager stated that even if that would have helped, the Shuttle is already coming in at the shallowest possible angle, to save on wear and tear

  11. Re:No the problem is... on MandrakeSoft Files for Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree with you 100% I believe it has to do with the fascination with which school you attended that is prelavent in France. Basically, where you go to school determines your whole career! There are elite universities called Grandes Ecoles that produce great theoreticians, but piss poor implementors. One of the guys, Francois Bacilhon there has written three thesii (SP?)! Great, but how does that qualify him to run a business. Plus he comes from one of the most prestigious universities in France. The only guy that knew what he was doing was the creator, Gael Duval, who never went to one of those big schools.

  12. Re:For the last time..... on The Culture of CD Burning · · Score: 1

    I agree 100% with you. People are tired of shelling out 20$ (Weren`t CD`d suppose to bring down the price of music, lol) for CDs with one or two good tracks

  13. Re:What is ZDNet trying to pull? on eWeek: Apache 2.0 Trumps IIS · · Score: 1

    That is totally wrong. The MS Security bulletin clearly states that these are 10 NEW vulnerabilities in IIS that this rollup sixes, as well as all the previous ones. Learn to read the bulletins next time.

  14. Doesn't Surepay store the CC numbers? on Responsible Handling of Billing Information? · · Score: 1

    I just had a thought. I know that with Cybercash at least, they store the CC numbers on THEIR servers once you have done a transaction. You can query their database (using the original order number) and get the credit card numbers, manually enter a PO and charge the credit card. I also know that you can script all this so it you can automate it.

    This is all done through SSL, and you never have the CC numbers on your system. The responsability is out of your hands.

  15. Re:GNOME is dead on Solaris 9 Will Be Updated WIth Gnome 2.0 · · Score: 1

    [QUOTE] Perhaps you've exercised poor grammer or a conspictuous lack of research in your posts? [QUOTE] And he probably didn`t spell very well either... This place cracks me up. Self-Sufficient people of the world...show your superiority on Slashdot.

  16. Give it a chance on Matsumoto/Daft Punk Videos Online · · Score: 1

    I thought a lot like some of the first replies to this topic:"Man, they have gone to sh*t, the first album was SO much better" Please, give the songs on this album achance. It really does grow on you. They are just as brilliant on this one as the previous one. Digital Love is BRILLIANT song, keeps bringing back Welcome Back Kotter in my head. Isn`t that what music is all about! :-)

  17. Re:Not Really on Structural Damage to the Financial District · · Score: 1

    Well that would make sense since the media is now so concentrated in the USA, as AOL Time Warner owns CNN and Time, and god knows what other news `sources` I have been watching CNN here in Europe and it is sometimes scary to see CNN becoming the propaganda network.

  18. Re:Hurray! But have you read the FAQs in the docs? on Laserdisc Arcade Emulator - DAPHNE · · Score: 1

    QUOTE: Q: Why should I have to put up with being flamed just for trying to get some information? Short Answer: Because you're a guest asking for free technical support for a free product. Long Answer: No one is forcing you to visit the site, send any email, post on the message board, or use the emulator. One of the perks of running a free project is that you answer to no one and do things in your own time and in your own way. True, it can be frustrating for end users, but that's just the way it is. END QUOTE And then they wonder why corps are leery of open source projects. Nice mentality there guys

  19. Re:Slashdot's coverage on More On Tragedy · · Score: 1

    I would just like to give kudos to ArsTechnica`s Open Forum. While the news sites were bogged down, people updated threads in the lounge in a fairly responsible manner, and I got most of my info that day from there. Never hit F5 so much

    I think it has been viewed 83000 times. The Internet pulled through as a news medium, but maybe not in the intended way. Maybe in a better way.

    My thoughts go to my American friends. The Great White North is with you, eh!

  20. Re:Microsoft should just give up on IIS on Code Red! All Hands to Battle Stations! · · Score: 1

    We run IIS servers. We keep said IIS servers patched. We have had no probs with code red. Keeping our boxes current has turned out to be the right choice

  21. Overblown media hype on Code Red! All Hands to Battle Stations! · · Score: 1

    Please... According to various security lists that I receive, once the worm goes into its dormant stage it does NOT wake up again. However, the risk is from new variants of the worm, or crackers finding a way to reactivate the dormant worm. Anyways, if people haven't patched their boxes by now (and they should have done it at least one month before Code Red erupted when MS released the security bulletin, even longer if you follow their IIS security checklist), I don't know what we should do with these people. If you don't patch your boxes, they will get compromised. How much time did it take to compromise the Honeynet project's Red Hat default install, 13 minutes or something? Not just an MS problem folks, it's a stupidity problem

  22. Re:So is this now a legit benchmark?!?!?!? on Linux Grabs World Record For TPC-H Benchmark · · Score: 1

    QUOTE: If you justify hype like this, then you are no better than MS's FUD teams And you didn't know this already ?

  23. Re:Uhh, not helpful. on Building Big Sites on a Budget · · Score: 1

    Our website handles about 90000 hits a day. It is a dual P2/450 with 512MB of RAM running Cold Fusion/Mysql. I agree that without hit statistics, this is more of a gee whiz article than anything else

  24. I love submitting to Slashdot on Security Issues For Many Alcatel DSL Modems · · Score: 1

    2001-04-10 11:17:17 Alcatel SpeedTouch ADSL modems have backdoor (articles,Privacy) (rejected)

  25. Not much of an issue on Security Hole In TCP · · Score: 1

    Like the article stated, this is as old as the hills. I think all of the major O/S` have some kind of patch that improves the randomness (NT 4.0) or it has been fixed in the kernel for a while (FreeBSD) So as usual, if you haven`t been keeping up to date, you are at risk