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  1. It's the benefits, stupid on Would You Take A Paycut for More Interesting Work? · · Score: 1

    Benefits are worth more than salary to me. It sounds like you are loaded to the hilt with benefits, in a great environment no less. You don't know how good you have it. At the very least, try to take on newer more exciting responsibilities first before looking outside the company.

  2. Re:Damned if they do, Damned if they don't on No Anti-Virus in Vista · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the number of programs that won't run in non-Administrator mode is staggering. They are not the exception, they're the rule. In fact, one of the items in my queue at my "real job" is make our product (which has been out for six years or so) run correctly under a non-Administrator mode. Another example is Adobe, almost none of whose products run under anything but Administrator.

    IT staff can't reasonably force users to run in non-Admin mode if the software they use can't function.

    Another problem is that the security levels on Windows are so nebulous. Off the top of your head, what does a Windows "Power User" have permission to do versus Admin? Who knows! At best you can look it up somewhere, at worst it's been custom-defined.

  3. The Real Story on Pixar Eaten by Mickey Mouse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    More like "Pixar buys Disney with Disney's money". This is very similar to how Steve Jobs got Apple to buy Next, and the Next people took over.

  4. Re:Broadcast Flag on A Look at Google DRM · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The Broadcast Flag is a great example of governmental checks and balances in action. The courts struck it down.
    Here's how checks and balances work in this case:
    • The courts struck the rule down
    • Checks come in from large donors who are afraid of fair use.
    • Congressmen look at their contribution balance sheet and see that people who support fair use are greatly underrepresented monitarily.
    • Congress passes a new law to do an end-run around the court's decision.

    Unfortunately, this is not really a joke but what is actually going on right now.

  5. Re:Save SEVEN ($7) Bucks! FIXED REFERRAL LINK on Core Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL · · Score: 1

    It was supposed to be a joke. I "fixed" the referral link. Then I went out on a limb and I included this new thing called a smilie...
     
    :-)

    ...that all the cool, hip, and with-it kids are using to convey humor on the Internet. It's brand new, so you may not have heard about it yet.

  6. Re:Wait on Testing Drugs on India's Poor · · Score: 1

    I so wish that "People Eating Tasty Animals" could have maintained the rights to the peta.com domain. They had as much right as the "real" PETA. But big money won out like usual...

  7. Re:Save SEVEN ($7) Bucks! FIXED REFERRAL LINK on Core Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL · · Score: 0

    There, much better. :-)

    Save yourself $7 by buying the book here: Core Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL. And if you use the "secret" A9.com discount, you can save an extra 1.57%!

  8. Re:Kate on Torvalds Says 'Use KDE' · · Score: 1

    Seconded! I am a GNOME user myself, but there is no GNOME equivalent to Kate, and believe me I've looked. That is the only KDE app that I use.

  9. Re:Mercury Vapor on DIY LCD Backlight Repair · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mourner 1: Jimbo died young, didn't he?
    Mourner 2: Yea, but he saved a bundle on that LCD repair right before he passed on!

  10. The new Coke I would pay money for on Coca-Cola's Coffee Soda · · Score: 1

    I don't drink Coke or any other soft drinks because of all the corn syrup in it. I think a Coke with actual, real, honest-to-God, sugar in it would sell like crazy. Supposedly, Coke bottlers in other (i.e. non-US) countries actually do make such a product. I've even heard that there is a kosher Coke sold at Jewish holiday time that has real sugar, but I've not seen it in Florida where I live.

  11. Re:Pole Reversal? on North Pole Heads South · · Score: 1

    We really need a need moderation option called "Factually Incorrect -1". "Overrated -1" is the closest we're got, but it really doesn't accurately describe this (all too common) situation.

  12. Re:WTD does *next* January mean? on Apple Planning Intel iBook Debut for January? · · Score: 1

    You must not be from the South then. I would interpret that as "What the devil?", which while not common these days, is not exactly obscure either.

  13. Re:Exactly! on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    While his style is way over-the-top and probably offensive to many, I didn't find anything in that tract that goes against what I've read in the Bible. There is nothing wrong with examining ourselves and seeing where we stand with God, in fact the Bible commands it.

  14. Re:What's the point again? on Printing Wikipedia · · Score: 1
    A static version of Wikipedia obviates all of its advantages
    No, for this purpose its most important advantage is intact. It's FREE. In a culture where people may make cents per day, you can't underestimate this advantage.
  15. Re:method... on The Mathematics of a Trip to Mars? · · Score: 1
    Gravity from lets say Jupiter stops at the asteriod belt right?

    No, it extends infinitely, propogating at the speed of light. It just gets immeasurably weak after a while...

    P.S. You're Fired!

  16. Re:I'll give you price on No DRM for Apple in Intel-based Macs · · Score: 1
    I came home from college about a week ago and decided to sue my mom's computer.

    Wow, America is becoming more and more litigious every day...

  17. Debian... that name rings a bell on Debian Addresses Security Problems · · Score: 1

    Aren't they the organization that was obsoleted by Ubuntu?

    <ducks>

  18. Congratulations! on Wink Chosen to Receive Noble Piece Prize · · Score: 1

    Mr. Martindale has deserved this honor for some time, in recognition of his fine TV work.

  19. Re:Here's a way to avert a crisis: on Is Ubuntu a Compatibility Nightmare for Debian? · · Score: 1
    In the wake of Red Hat's withdrawl of a viable free linux distro, Debian should be thriving right now. Instead its fading away.

    I don't know if that's sour grapes or what, but I would say that Red Hat's free linux distro is probably the most viable out there. Say what you will about Red Hat, but they have a lot of momentum and money right now. I'm using Fedora as my main desktop OS right now at the large-corp-whose-ads-you've-seen-on-CNN-that-I can't-name-here. We are looking at RHEL 4 as our official "supported" Linux platform for software distribution. From my perspective, there's not really another game in town at the corporate level.

  20. Never is a long time on When Would You Accept DRM? · · Score: 1

    I would never accept DRM in any product that I perso... an iPod... for me? Wow, I've always wanted one of those! Thanks Dad, what a great gift!

  21. Re:Proofread please! on Holy LEGO Blocks, Batman! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, now we know conclusively that hellfire is Mark Hamill. Some people can't help but blow their own cover...

  22. Re:Legal? on Can Reverse Engineering Help In Stopping Worms? · · Score: 1

    It's just a clever sting operation to get the original author to come forward and file a DMCA claim. Then whammo, they slap the cuffs on...

  23. Parent is plain wrong on Linux-only POWER5 server From IBM · · Score: 1

    MacOS X does not use ROMs.

    Only the classic Mac OS up through version 8 used onboard ROMs. Mac OS 9 (and maybe even 8.6) used a "software" ROM that was loaded in the filesystem. MacOS X does not use ROMs at all.

  24. Re:questions have been raised on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Please, then - offer your explanation of why the "Felon Purge List" had over 20,000 African Americans, but less than 50 hispanics (I assume you're talking about Database Technologies and the purge list).

    That would be because, at the time, Florida inexplicably had no checkbox on the felon ethnicity form for "hispanic". This has been widely reported and re-reported here in Florida since the new felon list came out a couple months ago. There were probably thousands of hispanics, but they were not listed as such. Perhaps the 50 were the ones who bothered to fill in the blank next to "Other".

  25. Re:I decoded the signal on SETI Researcher Quashes Signal Rumors · · Score: 1

    Warning! Your planet is broadcasting an IP address!