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  1. Re:Duh on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1

    Only for employees and shareholders with double-digit IQs

  2. CIO's have a short lifespan at a company on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 2, Informative

    18 months on average. Gotta grab all you can while you can, I guess.

  3. A new merit badge on Hong Kong Using Children to Hunt for Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Rat Fink

  4. Re:The question I'm more interested in is.... on Lithium-Ion Batteries Linked to Airplane Fires · · Score: 1

    You are confusing elemental lithium with a molecule containing lithium. A lot like saying elemental sodium and sodium chloride are the same thing.

  5. Man bites dog! on RIAA Case Against Mother Dismissed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow! A clueful judge (even down to the deciding appropriate attorney's fees). Will wonders never cease?

  6. So tell me... on The Next Round in the Virtualization Wars · · Score: 1, Funny

    How much do houses cost on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams?

  7. Re:Once is ok, but twice is too much... on Debian Server Compromised · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Diverting attention from a problem by pointing out the flaws of others is not really helpful.

    Yeah, "we know what's going on", just as soon as somebody diffs a bazillion lines of code against a known-good repository. Until the Debian team announces that tidbit of info, the only security you have is the "false sense of" kind.

  8. Re:ISP's will start port blocking 53 on New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's only an issue for a very small number of people. How big was the revolt when port 25 blocking began?

  9. oingo.com is the source of much typo squatting on New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Note that a search on Google for oingo.com returns nothing. Try, say, Yahoo. See what you get back.

    Now why, do you ask, does Google not have any info on oingo,com? Well, whois tells us that oingo.com is owned by Google.

    Don't be evil. Yeah, right.

  10. ISP's will start port blocking 53 on New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service · · Score: 1, Interesting

    much in the same way that many now block 25. This will be in reaction to bots that start using a shadow/private DNS built into the bot. I don't see how OpenDNS survives this emerging trend.

  11. Re:Oh No Not $200,000! That'll sink Google! on Lawsuits Fly Over Google Founders' Party Plane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are assuming that no punitive damages will be awarded.

  12. Re:Just a keyword? on Cambridge Breached the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    #UCLA_alumni

  13. Re:Yeah, but what format? on iRex's iLiad E-ink eBook Reader is Now Available · · Score: 1

    Why? Does it do back flips and spit nickels? I've read over 200 ebooks on various PDA's in the past 3 years with eyeballs approaching their 5th decade of use. Not once did I find myself wishing for a better display.

  14. Re:Yeah, but what format? on iRex's iLiad E-ink eBook Reader is Now Available · · Score: 0, Troll

    So do they support Adobe Reader, Mobipocket or MS Reader, which, for better or worse, are the three most popular DRM formats available?

    Also, what's the advantage of this unitasker versus reading on my PDA?

  15. Re:End of Paypal ? on Google Launches PayPal Rival · · Score: 1

    That's a little bit harder than just writing a check. Ask Walmart.

  16. Re:Well, they had better get cracking on China Getting 'Serious' About Spam? · · Score: 1

    Not any more. China has recently overtaken.

  17. Well, they had better get cracking on China Getting 'Serious' About Spam? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Current estimates by Trend Micro show China responsible for over 14 billion spams per day.

  18. % without the underlying numbers are meaningless on Microsoft Workers Prefer Google · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Specmanship at its finest.

  19. UNIX Developers to SCO on SCO to Unix developers, We want you back · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bite me!

  20. Re:Let a military doc operate on my eye? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wrong thing. It burst while I was sleeping, so it was open for several hours without disinfectant, etc... I would like to think that if it were done in a medical setting that the scarring, if any, would have been reduced.

  21. Re:Let a military doc operate on my eye? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    Unless something has changed you can make a criminal case for malpractice, not a civil one.

  22. Re:Let a military doc operate on my eye? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    I'd be much more interested in knowing his success rate without complications than the sheer number performed.

  23. Re:Let a military doc operate on my eye? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Earlier than that. Almost Vietnam Era, but not quite. I still have a scar from where a doc at Keesler AFB decided to treat a rather angry boil with antibiotics rather than lancing it. It burst on its own the next day. What fun!

  24. Let a military doc operate on my eye? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe if I was in danger of losing it. Or maybe they've improved a lot since I was in many moons ago. The commonly held belief back then was these docs (and dentists... don't get me going on this one...) were only in the military because they couldn't hack private practice. No suing for malpractice if you're a GI and the doc screws up.

  25. Re:In New York City, we already have that. on Amazon to Launch Online Grocery Store · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's success is directly linked to the high density of the population in NYC.