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  1. Re:Salaries? on Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security · · Score: 1

    Anyway I would think you have a right to willingly tell other people what your salary is.

  2. Re:Why the Government Dislikes Those Phrases on Researchers Warned About AIDS Grants · · Score: 1
    I agree with people knowing the risks. If you care about yourself and your future, you won't sit around waiting to be educated (and ignoring what you are told anyway), you find out the risks on your own. And once you know the risks, its your choice whether you still have sex (or whatever).

    Really now, how many people these days DON'T know about HIV at all? I can't believe its that many.

  3. Re:Privacy for criminals? on U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers · · Score: 1
    Actually heres a bottom line for you:

    This would make it easier for the RIAA to force YOU to prove your innocence, instead of them having to prove your guilt. It doesn't matter if you follow the law or not, you are now a suspect.

    The law is supposed to be a representation of the will of the people, not of the biggest corporations. This is being blatanly abused and I believe it will lead to unimaginable trouble in the decades ahead.

  4. Re:In cahoots on U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers · · Score: 1

    Indeed, its nigh impossible for a non party backed presidential candidate to win. All to blame on the pathetically archaic voting system we use today.

  5. Re:Errm... on ILM Now Capable of Realtime CGI · · Score: 1
    You're right! I don't know anything about anything.

    But obviously YOU don't either.

  6. Re:This hit us. on Corporations Suffer Microsoft Activation Bug · · Score: 1
    There's nothing that can touch you, but my experience is that then the boss will tell you to help the user recover anyway, even after you told them a million times to save on the network.

    Of course in an ideal world you could just tell the users to fuck off, but that usually isn't great for keeping a job.

  7. Re:Sweet. on Corporations Suffer Microsoft Activation Bug · · Score: 1

    I also have worked in a manufacturing plant (in my case an investment casting company). Wouldn't trust Winblows for anything important, client computers used it, but everything else was PLCs and OpenVMS on Alpha systems (incredibly stable btw)

  8. Re:I second that thought on 3-button Optical Mice? · · Score: 1

    Umm yeah I use a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer, and have from about when they came out. It has 4 real buttons and a wheel. The two side buttons are incredibly convient as well.

  9. Re:Moving targets on HP Drops Gnome 2 Efforts · · Score: 1
    No I DON'T expect you to rip up your system. I'm sorry you must have misread...because I didn't say that. I think the major distros should trash the shitty RPM standard and move to something like Debian, FreeBSD, and Gentoo have already done.

    For the record though I'm not a Gentoo "zealot"...my router runs FreeBSD, which also has a great system (although I don't get to install many packages on a router)

  10. Re:Errm... on ILM Now Capable of Realtime CGI · · Score: 1

    Weather report people are standing there talking, dumbass. These are actors who are moving and must adopt the expression and feel of their character. It would not do to have them distracted.

  11. Re:Moving targets on HP Drops Gnome 2 Efforts · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I've compiled gnome from source before. Here's what I did:

    emerge gnome

    I really love Gentoo's portage, in fact I wish every distro including something like it or Debian's apt (another great package system).

  12. Re:I said this before... on HP Drops Gnome 2 Efforts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And when you aren't getting paid for developing, you probably won't give a fuck what the deadlines are.

  13. Re:No Pre-Flight Alcohol! on Singapore Using Thermal Imaging to Check for SARS · · Score: 1

    Actually thats a common trait in Far Eastern races. But I'm not sure thats actually a fever, which is what this system detects. It just might be blood vessels dilating and allowing a lot of blood in (which could give heat also, I am no doctor)

  14. Re:Apple as a software company on Interview with Jordan Hubbard About DarwinPorts · · Score: 1
    I think that would be cool, but here are some reasons why it would fail miserably:

    1. MS would take it as a threat and possibly stop developing Office for Mac (bad thing for the platform even if you don't like Office)

    2. It would take Apple years and years to write hardware drivers for all the PC hardware out there, and if they left it up to the manufacturers of the devices, it would take even longer and those drivers probably would bring down the stability of Mac OS.

    3. Yes they make that much money from their hardware business.

  15. Re:For those who are opposed to logging in... on Nanotechnology: Nanoscale Particles A Health Hazard? · · Score: 1

    For those avoiding the NYTimes, change the URL to say archive at the beginning. Its not really that hard.

  16. Indeed on Analyzing the Microsoft Tablet PC · · Score: 1
    That is most certainly not a tablet pc. The concept of the tablet pc is not bad in my opinion, but they are quite expensive (or at least they were last time I checked). The real tablet pc is more akin to a fully functional computer, and most of them are convertible into a regular laptop form-factor.

    Besides being a cool little toy, I don't see much use for them. After all if you're going to write, why not use a note pad? If you want to type, better go with a cheaper laptop.

  17. Re:time to "switch" on Is Rendezvous Sharing More Than You'd Like? · · Score: 1

    Except SMB is just as bad. Oops...

  18. Re:Passwords on Is Rendezvous Sharing More Than You'd Like? · · Score: 1

    Probably because they don't know better.

  19. And guess who pays for the fiber going in. on Building a Town-Wide LAN? · · Score: 1

    ...thats right, the taxpayers!! This wouldn't be a bad idea IF 1. The speed was decent and 2. the tax rate didn't go up to much. However unless they limit bandwidth, 1 is out the window. And knowing how municipalities work, they will jack up the taxes sky-high.

  20. Re:Get an Accountant on Tax Tips For Small Folks? · · Score: 1

    And if he is, he should be an LLC (if available in your state, I think they are everywhere but I am no tax pro) not a corporation. Its considerably less hassle and you still get your liability protection.

  21. Re:Sun is NOT probably doomed on The Economist on The Rise of Linux · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind using alphas.

  22. Re:This is not 1990! on Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux) · · Score: 1

    Don't pay for a browser then. Go to here and download a nightly build of phoenix. Its a very nice browser, I tried the 0.5 version which needs some work, and then tried the nightly build which is not only stable but fast and with good features.

  23. Re:Technology on Intel Demonstrates 220Mbps Variant of UWB · · Score: 1

    Good thing no one is standing over you with a club telling you to always be bleeding edge. (Well maybe some people have to deal with that but I don't.) I look at all these new shiny toys and think, thats great but my 802.11b still works for my purposes. My 2 year old computer is still good for my needs. Until they aren't, I'll stick with the old stuff.

  24. TOS on Have You Really Read Your ISP's TOS? · · Score: 1

    Actually I have read my ISP's TOS in detail, it wasn't all that long and I thought it was reasonable. I would think (at least here in the US) the legality of not being allowed to say bad things about your ISP would be questionable.

  25. Do something about it on Pinnacle, Online Grades, Skipping School and More · · Score: 1
    Don't block the host name or IP of the server, thats much too easy. If you read /. you should have no problem programming a java applet that looks the same, throw it on a local web server and change the hosts file. Parents type in info and get perfect (just not too perfect that they get suspicious) grades. Problem solved.

    Of course if you don't know java, spend your obviously wasted time in high school reading up on it ;)