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  1. Re:virgin install on How Much Harm Can One Web Site Do? · · Score: 1
    Well, jesuz krist in a handbasket - why don't you configure your network switches properly so that you have port to port security? Ever heard of VLANs?

    If your servers are clean, then there is no reason why individual PCs would send crap to each other and if your servers are not clean, then you should be fired.


  2. Re:Taxes on Switching to Contracting? · · Score: 1

    As a corporation, you can get a small business deduction (depends on your state) which can bring your tax down a lot. Furthermore, you DON'T earn a salary, but rather gets paid in dividends, which is typically partially tax free in your own hands. So as a small corporation your tax burden will be about half of what it would have been if you were a sole prop.

  3. Re:Is Windows fit for the internet? on Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Windows is reasonably secure only if it is behind a Linux firewall...

    If Windows was secure, then Linux would have been behind Windows firewalls and all the little Linksys and Dlink firewall routers in Best Buy would have been running WinCE.

    Nuff sed.


  4. Re:Countermeasures? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    Incentive? Nothing - until one day when a very friendly and nice man in black wanders into your offices and kindly asks you to please change the design of the printer/PBX/camera/telephone/whatever gizmo according to these simple, voluntary government specifications...

    Well, then you do it of course, since maybe the next guy will not be so nice and maybe you won't get that next order and maybe you may get a tax audit and maybe your credit rating may go to hell and maybe the bank may foreclose on your mortgage...

    That's why...

  5. Re:Linux as a Christmas Gift? on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1
    Yeah, one should at least include a nice bottle of Scotch and Weinbrandbonen...

    The disc alone would be rather lame indeed.

  6. Re:What does linux have to do with Christmas on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If one of my friends would use the Winter Solstice and Saturnalia to evangelize *anything*, they'd be spending the night in the manger... ;-)

  7. Make it yourself on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    That way you can customize the CD exactly the way you want it. You can even use it as a means to advertise your consulting business.
    You need to create a separate 10GB partition on your hard disk and install Mandrake 10.0. For those who are adventurous, here is a link to a Google Cache of my LiveCD Howto: http://tinyurl.com/6k2ll
    Please, please, DON'T visit my web site...
    There are a few other howto guides on the web as well, go there, go anywhere else, just don't go to my site, it is just a poor baby Celeron.

  8. Re:I'd love a cheap, mass produced 200 mile electr on 230mph Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe 200 miles is OK in Japan or Europe, but it sure won't get you anywhere in North America. The next town is 300 clicks away...

  9. Re:AdBlock is unethical on Worm Exploit Distributed by Advertising Network · · Score: 1

    I suppose your living room has 500 TVs all tuned to different channels and you watch them 24 hours a day, just so you can't miss any adverts...

  10. Re:Easy solution on Tech Reporter Pursues Spammer · · Score: 1

    No, bullets are too humane - Vlad Dracul's method is better - 20,000 spammers with stakes up their ying-yangs and all spam will stop...

  11. Re:What if... on Tech Reporter Pursues Spammer · · Score: 1

    Yes, they will go away once Cisco makes spam rejecting routers and all ISPs use them to drop spam packets in /dev/null.

    Spam and viruses only works because the majour ISPs are stupid and don't give a hoot.

  12. Re:I have a slightly better version. on Tech Reporter Pursues Spammer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Eventually MS will probably have compromized the whole 3 letter permutation and we'll have to block .???

  13. 500 channels of shit on Anti-P2P Law Looms over the Horizon · · Score: 1
    on the TV to choose from...

    So, do they plan to force people to watch all 500 channels that they subscribed to, all at the same time 24 hours a day?

    ...and will the FDA bust down your door to see what you are watching and not flipping channels?

    Stupid idiots...

  14. millions more.. on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1

    If you compare the 2004 election results in Florida with the 1804 elections in Western Samoa, then George Bush clearly got millions more votes than he should have...

  15. Nuts... on RF Connector Chess Set · · Score: 1

    My brother built a chess set with nuts and bolts, many moons ago, it is probably still at the cottage - Marines with too much time and not enough pay for real chess sets...

  16. Re:amazing programing in 256k, and no serious bugs on Apollo 12 at 35 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Plus an occasional extra burn so the earth doesn't drag you back in." Nope, they accellerated beyond escape velocity, so they only did a couple of small burns for course corrections and a final burn to slow down for moon orbit. The earth couldn't drag them back in.

  17. Re:Drug Store Tube Stands on Happy 100th To The Vacuum Tube · · Score: 1

    Hey, ever used a CRT Monitor, a TV or a Microwave Oven?

  18. Re:Aah, vacuum tubes on Happy 100th To The Vacuum Tube · · Score: 1

    So what would be the point of having a few tubes survive a nuke war if everything else is fried and all the people are dead?
    However, there are devices that can absorb EMP - called tranzorbs. All half decent electronic devices have them. That is why things don't go pop from lightning activity anymore.

  19. Re:Voip will be a flash in the pan. on The Continued Advance of VoIP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Got news for you - most long distance phone traffic is VoIP. The large Telcos all use the technology for their backbone systems, they just don't advertise it much.

  20. Re:If only on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    You mean, we gotta stop using The Internet???

  21. Re:Awww, Microsoft is so sweet on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    The bugs are spreading very fast - you'll get tomorrow's exploit yesterday...

  22. Re:Why? on pcHDTV Card Available, Legal for Now · · Score: 1

    Heh, the parties may differ, but this time around the candidates were both war mongering imperialists and even the nice American people could hardly tell a difference between them so they got almost the same vote. 'Nuff sed.

  23. Re:Transfers are between your own accounts. on Fishing for Phishers · · Score: 1

    In Canada, you can send money by email from your bank account to almost anyone else in Canada. Most banks subscribe to this service.

  24. Russia and Canada on U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty · · Score: 2, Interesting
    stand to gain a lot from global warming. We could use the northern passage and we have millions of square kilometers of tundra to farm.

    I don't care about global warming. It is global cooling that would be a problem.

    Anyhoo, before people worry about manmade greenhouse gases maybe they should first try to cap all the volcanoes...

  25. Re:Well... on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1

    These things have been around for a long time - more than 20 years. See this: http://www.defense-update.com/topics/topics-uvs.ht m