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  1. Re:PDF of the decision on the FSF France website on GPL Wins In French Court Case · · Score: 1

    Thanks, AC. Very informative.

  2. Re:Absolutely... on Court To Scammer, "Give Up Your House Or Go To Jail" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hey, it could still happen. The judge in the case, Stephen Limbaugh, Jr, is Rush's cousin.

  3. Re:Where is the controversy? on Secret GPS Tracking Now Legal In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    In New Zealand, apparently you can try.

  4. Re:Hadoop on Google File System Evolves, Hadoop To Follow · · Score: 5, Informative

    This NY Times article includes a photo of Doug Cutting, Hadoop's creator (and now Cloudera employee), holding his son's toy elephant, Hadoop.

  5. Seriously, $5000? on Boston City Government Discovers Email Retention · · Score: 1

    City officials estimated they would charge $5,000 for six months worth of e-mail for each employee

    How can it possibly cost $5000 to retrieve six months of email? Does this include hiring scribes to transcribe the mail onto parchment scrolls?

  6. Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready.... on First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered · · Score: 1

    You're begging the question. You come up with a proposed definition of botnet that doesn't include the compromised systems, then use that definition to say they're not a botnet.

  7. Re:You're not kidding, check out CNN's take on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 2

    Sorry. Atonement for hasty moderation.

  8. Re:Intimidation on Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs · · Score: 1

    How so? Would a witness in a case like this expect to testify anonymously?

  9. Re:Okay... on Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is an earlier Chronicle article with >300 comments. Decide for yourself how many of them show inside knowledge.

  10. Could there ever be a view camera version? on Open Source Camera For Computational Photography · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This looks promising. But optics being optics. a version with swings & tilts would be really exciting for landscape/architectural/product photographers.

  11. Re:Hate speech serves no purpose on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like beauty, hate speech is in the eye of the beholder. What I find hateful, you might find insightful. When I can ban publication of that which I find hateful, you have a problem.

  12. Re:Wish I had mod points on How To Hire a Hacker · · Score: 4, Informative

    Childs is an interesting case. It seems he's a victim both of his own hubris and of sloppy management.

    I'd like to think that a skilled interviewer could determine whether a person like that would make it in a given organization, but I just don't know. I do think that articles like this help in identifying factors that might help in deciding

    (And who the hell modded you Troll?)

  13. Re:In fairness on How To Hire a Hacker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder how Terry Childs would have done if the guy who hired him had read this?

  14. Re:Sick of this on Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd be happier if it had an upper bound.

  15. Re:Overrulled by the telcos on FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week · · Score: 1

    You need to talk to your friendly neighborhood telco. I'm oversimplifying a lot, but basically there are two types of caller id - one is CID, which is what you as a consumer can get, and which can be easily spoofed or blocked. The other is ANI, which you can't get unless you have an 800 number or are an e911 service. ANI can't be blocked, and is difficult to spoof.

    Why the difference? Some call centers may use the same line to return calls for many different businesses, and may wish to set the CID appropriately so the callee will see the expected number/name instead of the center's generic number. Or some people (doctors returning calls, e.g.,) may wish to block their number.
    Why can't you get ANI delivery at home? Ask your friendly neighborhood telco. Or you could pony up big bucks for an ISDN PRI/BRI setup.

    But there's no technical reason you can't get real caller id.

  16. Asterisk on FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week · · Score: 1

    Call me? If I know your number, cool. Else if you know the extension, either my permanent one for friends, or the throwaways I use for business purposes, cool. Else you had better be listening closely enough to hear the digit you must press to even leave a message.

  17. Re:Hackers can be pen testers on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1

    You're annoyed because some people confuse hackers with crackers. I'm annoyed because some people confuse begging the question with asking the question. Let's both just let it go, we've lost.

  18. Re:Hackers can be pen testers on Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD · · Score: 1

    You're really hung up on language issues. So why do you say "Which begs the questions..." when you mean "Which raises [asks] the questions..."? To beg the question is to commit the fallacy of petitio principii.

  19. Re:Probably for the best... on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    Harris and Klebold began shooting at 11:19 AM. SWAT teams entered the school at 1:09 PM, an hour after the two were already dead. I'm guessing that the armed teacher could have used that hour to figure out how not to get shot by the cops.

  20. Re:Probably for the best... on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    I think "Teacher kills Harris & Klebold" would have been a pretty spiffy headline.

  21. Please ignore, sorry on How an Online-Only TV Series Stays Successful · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Undoing an infelicitous earlier moderation.

  22. Re:Didn't this happen not too long ago.. on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 3, Informative
  23. Re:Are you telling me ... on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1
    Life expectancy had better decrease. According to the Social Security Administration,

    Social Security's financing problems are long term and will not affect today's retirees and near-retirees for many years, but they are very large and serious. People are living longer, the first baby boomers are nearing retirement, and the birth rate is lower than in the past. The result is that the worker-to-beneficiary ratio has fallen from 16.5-to-1 in 1950 to 3.1-to-1 today. Within 20 years it will be 2.1-to-1. At this ratio there will not be enough workers to pay scheduled benefits at current tax rates.

  24. Re:Blame my linear algebra classes for this joke.. on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    No, but after you leading-zero fill that you won't mess up some poor woman's credit rating.

  25. Re:Question about Pi and circles. . . on Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've constructed a perfect circle, with a circumference of 1 meter. It's the diameter I'm having trouble with.