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  1. But they LOSE more money on corp sales on Computer Makers Cater to Big Business, IT Depts. · · Score: 1

    How can that be? I'll tell you. Coporate customers come with all sorts of custom demands such as custom software builds preinstalled, asset tracking and even custom hardware builds. Corporate customers also tend to want support for hardware and software as a static entity long after the reseller wants to support it.

  2. If you're a video editing mobile ninja, yeah ok. on Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 Laptop Reviewed · · Score: 1

    This unit has a purpose albeit a narrow one such as someone who has to lug around their own video multimedia editing-mastering studio with them. I mean people wondered what the massive Apple notebook with a screen larger than most people can easily fold out was good for, but it's good for something.

  3. I am spying on Americans. Suck it. on RIAA Bullies Witnesses Into Perjury · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I mean telling everyone you're breaking the law, will continue to break the law and everyone can get in line to suck your dick worked for President George Bush, didn't it? The RIAA is just trying the same kind of legal tactics as the leader of the motherfucking free world, bitches. You watch, the RIAA will have people killed and will admit to it in court soon.

  4. RIAA/MPAA agitprop on 2005 a Bad Year For Security · · Score: 1

    I'm sure most of that figure is made up by the **AA in terms of 'pirated intellectual property' and has nothing directly to do with security at all.

  5. Re:@ IBM they're Yellow Badges, BFD on Orange Badge Culture At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Not in RTP ya don't. We got rid of most of yall.

  6. The Anti Porn League is victorious!!! on Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' · · Score: 1

    This will be the main vector for spreading this, obviously.

  7. @ IBM they're Yellow Badges, BFD on Orange Badge Culture At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    No one really cares - of course since most of the contractors have been let go over the years it's quite rare to see a yellow badge. Usually it's someone involved in a VP's pet project or someone maintaining code that no one else can.

  8. Not Re:Not quite on Hot Tech Skills For 2006? · · Score: 1

    I'm on the other side of the table and the reason that auditors are in hot demand is that SOX is making people insane to the point of performing CONTINUOUS audits. A typical company that outsources their operations is up to 2-3 audits per year which means that as soon as you wrap up one and start to fix things a new audit comes along. Audits have become our full time job to the detriment of our actual service delivery.

  9. Highly skilled slaves in high demand right now on Hot Tech Skills For 2006? · · Score: 1

    As always, someone willing to work for less than a receptionist, move halfway across the country for a job that's 80 hrs a week of unrelenting grind while requiring 7 years experience in a technology that's only 3 years old will be in high demand next year.

    But in a serious vein - I'm in security and have been for years and I can't honestly see that demand for those jobs is increasing. I think what they're talking about is network admins who are familiar with the security aspects of the hardware they already are expected to run.

    On the other hand auditors are in demand because it's a burnout job. Auditors are like low paid management consultants. They live out of a suitcase and travel 260 days a year. There are two kinds of auditor employees: early career types who want to 'see the world' and late career types who are already divorced. So this is why they are in demand and why their salaries tend to be slightly higher.

    As far as govt work is concerned it's a catch 22. No one will hire you w/o clearance and the only way to get one is to be employed by a contractor. So the same community of SCI clearanced contractors rotates through the pool of jobs. It's almost impossible to find an employer who will keep you on for the 6-18 months it takes to get clearance depending on the level.

  10. If you don't care, that's fine on NSA Data Mining Much Larger Than Reported · · Score: 1

    You cryptofascist libertarians who don't care, even secretly cheer this, that's fine. You can welcome it, in fact I see no reason why you should donate all your privacy to the government in order for them to make it cheaper to do and therefore save you your holy sacred tax dollars.

    Me? I'm not thrilled by it, I think it's dangerous. So what we should do is have two societies in America:

    One that's opaque, secretive but prys open the secrets of all its individuals.

    One that's transparent and leaves individuals alone.

    I'll stay in mine and you stay in yours. I'm totaly fine with that. That I think is totally in line with the Libertarian screw you I got mine ethos.

  11. Sounds like MS lobbyists at work on Symantec Restricts Crypto Export · · Score: -1, Redundant

    For a paltry few hundred thousand dollars you too can have professionals write whatever laws you want passed. Call 1-888-ABRAMOF

  12. MS should suspend support each day on Microsoft Set To Be Fined $2.4M a Day · · Score: 1

    Each day they are fined they should stop support operations in EU countries. Just send all those people home for the day and stop answering the phones.

    They want to play who blinks first? OK let's do that.

  13. It's about accountability on Digital Universe a Wikipedia Alternative · · Score: 1

    The problem with Wikishitia is not that it's tremedously wrong, it's that it's tremendously fragile to agendas and spamming. If you don't make it accountable then it's critics are right and it's shit.

  14. Wow! eMail on 3 Email Chiefs Come to Dinner · · Score: 0, Troll

    Holy.fucking.shit. eMail. It's like mail but it's electronic and shit and brings you a zillion times more useless shit than regular mail.

    As I said. Holy muthafucking celestial shit. eMail. They should erect a 1000 foot tall gold statue to these guys.

    Ok we can all give up and stop all human progress. eMail is here. Which is better than God.

    Wow I am blown away. e fucking mail.

  15. Let's review on Juniper Sues Message Board Posters · · Score: 1

    At Paramount pictures - it was openly acknoweldged that you could trade sex and drugs for jobs. Good Jobs.

    At Merrill Lynch the one of the director of applications development was married to the president of the consulting company hired to do the development.

    At GHI people literally did sleep their way to the top. Plus the data center chief ran off with millions of dollars. To a foreign country.

  16. Pile up that bale of straw and torch it on New Consortium to Push UDI and Include DRM · · Score: 1

    Or, in the real world consider it might actually be important and if you're that thin skinned maybe you need to stay home in your bubble. See it works both ways.

  17. Just rent me my PC for $12/month on New Consortium to Push UDI and Include DRM · · Score: 1

    Really that's where we're going like the AT&T of yore. We're just going to pay for the right to rent a PC and software that the **AA owns and can do with whatever they want anyway.

    We need to just quit fighting and give in and give up and move on to the next technology they can't kill yet.

    Oh and make sure you make it Federal law to disable my cellphone when I'm watching one of your piece of shit movies in the movie theater, because well you know, you own my right to talk as well.

  18. so do platters on Seagate buys Maxtor for $1.9B · · Score: 1

    Platters have mis writes all the time. They're just smart ergo S.M.A.R.T. to be able to re write to new sector. Seems to me a rather minor technical obstacle that can be overcome.

  19. Flash Drives? on Seagate buys Maxtor for $1.9B · · Score: 1

    I was in the orthodontists office today and there was a Gamerz PC mag on the table with a sidebar about 16GB flash drives from Hitachi coming out next year. Now at $400 it's pretty damn pricey but the cost will obviously drop with time. Seems to me you could bundle a few of these together, put them in a small package and have a relatively sturdy non mechanical drive that could replace most platter drives.

  20. You have to train them young on New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys · · Score: 1

    If any of these efforts have a prayer of working they have invest tons of money in the schools and trade schools to teach people to use them from an early age and then position the devices in the marketplace so that they can be easily accessed.

  21. Repeat After Me on Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio · · Score: 1

    Wiki is a bunch of self involved nerds who don't understand the propaganda value of information.

    Wiki is a bunch of self involved nerds who don't understand the propaganda value of information.

    Wiki is a bunch of self involved nerds who don't understand the propaganda value of information.

    Wiki is a bunch of self involved nerds who don't understand the propaganda value of information.

  22. So why are the computer companies doing blehhh on The Future of Tech And NSA Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    I mean with requirements like "Fill an area the size of Rhode Island with servers and drives" one would think the hardware builders would be doing better.

  23. A girl robot on New Possible Record Prime Number Found · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this'l be the best prom evuh.

  24. Wee need a MONORAIL! on Texas to Get Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    Right here in River City!

  25. George W Bush monkey of the year on Bill Gates, Time Magazine "Person of the Year" · · Score: 1

    Because he's fucked up the country so badly there's no where to go from here but up and everyone else is a hero in comparison.