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  1. Re:At the risk of sounding sexist on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Right - circumstantial which otherwise wouldn't really have amounted to squat if Lacey Peterson was old fat ugly and not incredibly white bread.

  2. Re:At the risk of sounding sexist on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    But that's not the same thing as the legal definition of irrefutable guilt. There were 26 men on death row in Illinois who were later released because of irregularities in the guilt that 12 sane men and women found utterly common -sense believable in every single case.

  3. At the risk of sounding sexist on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 0

    A man in California runs the risk of a death sentence whenever his high profile wife dies mysteriously. I bet Scott Peterson is chuckling now. After all he was convicted essentially on the dazzling smile of his heavily pregnant wife. No other facts were really needed, except for the taped conversation of a lying adulteress who sold her story for millions of dollars.

  4. It's not a datacenter it MONITORS datacenters on Data Center In a Shoe Box · · Score: 1

    The devices are designed to monitor other devices like surveillance cameras, vending machines, data collectors, VPN servers, simple NIDS appliances, even firewalls and whatnot.

    It's very similar to industrial SBC computers, onboard car computers and the devices that are stuck on telephone poles, cell phone towers for remote C.O. management. SBC's, PC104s, pico-ILX form factor devices that use boot from flash with memory card storage are pretty common. What they've done here is bolted that spec on to common PC I/O ports e.g. USB and left the power supply unhardened for cost purposes.

  5. Lotus Symphony is still a work in progress on IBM's Inexpensive Notes/Domino Push Against MS · · Score: 1

    We're testing it and it won't work well/at all in under 1GB. Which is frightening high for an office suite. And since it's OO with bells and whistles and some extra file formats it's hard to see what the value add is.

    But I've never understood what all the gripes about Notes is. It's stable it doesn't crash. After it starts up it runs quickly enough. If you're using it JUST for mail, yeah, that's a waste. It's an application hosting system. We run big chunks of our business apps in Notes and it's fine for that purpose.

  6. he Russians have killed their share of astronauts on Further Details From Soyuz Mishap · · Score: 1

    The first 3 man crew was killed when the capsule depressurized on reentry. The Soviets took a 2 man capsule, shoved a third seat in which left no room for pressure suits. Soviets lost 2 2 man crews as well. The other fatalities are still classified. Also their moon rocket the N-1 exploded on liftoff and killed the flight crew and the ground crew. And in the early days of the ICBM program a launchpad explosion killed more than a hundred people on the ground.

  7. Re:Gee everything else works, why is that? on Windows Update Can Hurt Security · · Score: 1

    Actually no. They queue up and rarely install themselves. I have 10 different machines on 3 networks that do this.

    Wasted bandwidth? 50MB? Asian font support in Acrobat was 32MB by itself. iTunes is nearly 60. 50MB is nothing. Stop worrying about bandwidth until you get into the 500MB range. A why is it that FIXES to .Net are in the 38-60MB range and they take 20 minutes to install? Does that sound working as designed to you?

  8. No more than 10% of an oursourcing deal on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 1

    I've found in the commercial world that security in all of its flavors makes up no more than 10% of any outsourcing deal no matter how large or complex either the outsourcing deal is or the security requirements themselves. 8% is closer to the norm with some deals in the 3-4% range. That cost represents the total cost over the entire lifecycle including all labor and hardware. So I'm left wondering what people mean when they complain that so much money is being spent on security. If you're spending 1.6 million a year on an 80 million dollar deal, is that a lot?

  9. How else are you going to sell Blu-Ray? on The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? · · Score: 1

    The laptop is becoming a toy to play games, movies and music. Of course it has to be wide screen.

  10. Re:A few things to note on IBM's Pilot Program For Internal Use of Macs · · Score: 1

    It's what we use standard in IBM, T60/61 and 1GB is a fight with management. And we're on a 4 year update cycle. I have a January T40 that will have to keep me through this year. Paid for extra RAM out of my own pocket.

  11. Everything old is new again on NBC to Create Programs Centered on Sponsors · · Score: 1

    This is how TV operated in the golden era 1948-60.

  12. Re:Gee everything else works, why is that? on Windows Update Can Hurt Security · · Score: 1

    They do but the problem is it inserts the user into the process and then makes you fiddle with it and use up your time. I have never met a single ordinary user who didn't have that yellow shield in the system tray waiting for you to tell it to 'run' the updates that were downloaded. And then, when or if they ever do, something invariable goes wrong or it takes forever or both. Windows Update is profoundly broken.

  13. Re:I believe this because I think it's already rea on Microsoft "Albany" Offers Office and Security as Subscription · · Score: 1

    On the same machine, MS Office, which loads a bunch of gorp at boottime takes 2-3 seconds at most to open the first blank Writer page. OO will take up to 10. I think if I used the fast start option I'd see something like parity though.

  14. Re:A few things to note on IBM's Pilot Program For Internal Use of Macs · · Score: 1

    A $1200 MacBook has a 13" screen vs a 14 or 15.4" TP R61i which costs about $720 or perhaps as much as $880 for CPU parity. Unless you have personal knowledge of Apple discounting 60% then there's no comparison in a corporate environment.

  15. Gee everything else works, why is that? on Windows Update Can Hurt Security · · Score: 1

    Avast (AV scanner), Apple software like iTunes, QT and Safari, as well as Acrobat, Sun Java, Real, Winamp, Limewire, my Comodo firewall, Weatherbug, Paint.net and about 20 other packages all seem to have managed to figure out the 'call home' feature so they know whether there's an update or not for me to decide to pull down. And then low and behold I grab one big binary that executes and installs itself.

    Funny how MS hasn't figured that out yet. As it is the last 13 patches I installed totalled only 2x the size of the ginormous Adobe updates I get regularly. And those MS patches included some huge chunk of .NET.

    So here would be my recommendation for MS. Give me a widget that looks at the current build, constructs a detailed version datefile, compares that to the latest and greatest at Casa De Redmond, then gives me an arbitrary bundle with ALL of the patches even if I already have a few of them. Then when I execute that single binary it tells me the same thing that DLL installers already do which is "The version you are installing is at the same or prior level as the one you have installed" and automatically skips it by default. It performs the same sideways installation for locked files in the process tree at that time, and cues me for a reboot to finish installing the locked objects.

    You know, like everyone else does.

  16. I believe this because I think it's already real on Microsoft "Albany" Offers Office and Security as Subscription · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a legitimate fully paid for version of MS Office 2003 that absolutely will NOT install a single MS Update, ever. And it hasn't for more than a year. I suspect this is a stealth version of something like that where MS determines who gets what and when.

    I'm not thrilled with the snappiness of the performance of Open Office but clearly this is the way I will go the next time around.

    Other than XP, MS Office and some tools related to scanner and digitizer tablet hardware (which is essentially free once you buy the hardware), I have cost free software on all my machines.

    Freespire (Ubuntu) here I come!

  17. For the same reason I pay a sales tax surcharge on Lockheed Martin Tests New Spacecraft Prototype · · Score: 1

    For the RBC Center stadium in Raleigh, NC which is owned and operated by NC State for the benefit of NC State and any and all public and private venues operated there.

  18. A few things to note on IBM's Pilot Program For Internal Use of Macs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IBM Research Watson is an entity unto itself. It has its own IT support infrastructure and runs according to its own rules. They rarely if ever want for funding.

    IBM has been non-supporting Apple for years by allowing clients to run VMWare and similar tools to host the IBM apps that don't run natively.

    IBM has been attempting to roll out an 'open' client on Linux for years. It's progressed very slowly, considering. It appears to lack funding and focus.

    IBM is aware of the MS software licencing costs which is why there is some effort to rollout an OO based Lotus alternative to MS Office.

    It doesn't serve anyone to replace MS licencing costs with Apple hardware costs. So the probability that IBM would roll out lots of expensive Apples is nil. More likely they will offer a client CD you can use to build your IBM standard client on Mac.

    The most common client rolled out today is a Thinkpad T60 or T61.

  19. I ban PayPal on PayPal Plans To Ban Unsafe Browsers · · Score: 1

    Because it's a criminal enterprise.

  20. Quick embed your kiddie porn somewhere else! on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right Joe, all P2P traffic is used to propagate kiddie porn and allow those child raping Mooshlum terrorists to convert your virgin daughters to abortion-having car bombers.

    I'm really starting to hate this fucking country.

  21. Ubuntu and Linspire/Freespire do a good job on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 1

    Actually Linspire/Freespire are based on Ubuntu..none the less Ubuntu (and its derivatives) do a very credible job of that. There's no reason for RH to do what they're not interested in or very good at.

    Speaking of which, isn't OSX a desktop OS based on the even more user-hostile BSD?

  22. Haven't you learned Rule #1? on Dealing With an IT Bully · · Score: 1

    The customer is ALWAYS a fucking GENIUS no matter what. All their ideas are straight from the mind of God Himself. I can't tell you how much time I waste on the phone listening to customers berate me for not being as superfuckinghuman brilliant as they are.

    I don't care, billed hours are billed ours.

  23. Cash crop farming of all types does this on Monsanto's Harvest of Fear · · Score: 1

    In India there was a massive movement away from subsistence farming to cash crop farming, mostly rice. When the rice market collapsed there were suicides as a result.

  24. Good, the sooner the better on In Australia, Bosses May Get Power To Snoop On Emails · · Score: 1

    They ARE anyway, legal or not. So the sooner we simply all agree that employers have unrestricted rights to do whatever they like and it's patently clear, the better. We'll all know where we stand.

  25. Sue your own customer base? on Monsanto's Harvest of Fear · · Score: 1

    You mean like the RIAA/MPAA?