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  1. Re:Just Deserts on Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs · · Score: 1

    That's when the peasants are supposed to rise up in a revolt and as the punkster's said in the 70's, 'eat the rich'.

  2. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    A woman taking off to her homeland, with a plan to frame her husband with murder and getting her kids back? Sure. I could see that. It's plausible.

    Hans's excuses for why the 'threw away' the passenger seat in his car with the blood stains, within a couple days of his wife going missing? Those weren't so plausible.

  3. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Yep, a few spots of blood isn't real evidence of murder, or even good evidence of anything by itself. The fact that he 'threw away' the passenger seat from his car (and can't remember where) is a bit more damning when tacked on.

  4. Re:Really short periods on Trio of Super-Earths Discovered · · Score: 1

    We know a planet is there by watching a star wobble as the planet orbits around it.
    If the planet is out at the distance Saturn is from the sun, the planet only orbits once every 29 years. We'd be waiting more than a lifetime to verify the wobble is happening. Doesn't sound like fast progress, does it? Detecting close in planets is the most you can expect until our instruments get much better, or we've looking at them for a lot longer period of time.

  5. Re:Bunches of small drives on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Do them all at once, and to DoD spec: boot nuke http://dban.sourceforge.net/

  6. Re:Bunches of small drives on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who has time to do that on almost 100 drives?

    Probably a guy who is trying to figure out how to hook up 100 ide drives into a backup system.

  7. Re:Partially right... on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Great. Of course you realize since no one in a smaller vehicle has a chance of seeing through the windows of that huge thing you are driving in, you are effectively blinding them to what is on the other side of you, which could lead to accidents (which might also include you).

  8. Re:But were they smart, or stupid? on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    An important part of the backup process is to occasionally test the backups to make sure that they can be restored properly. corrupted backups suck, but do happen. I test my personal ones pretty regularly. I test my work ones on a set schedule. You should too.

  9. Re:GIT? on FreeBSD Begins Switch to Subversion · · Score: 5, Informative

    Subversion has an Apache/BSD type license. GIT does not.

  10. Re:What a stupid article on GPLv3's Implications Hitting Home For Lawyers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only that, he goes on to basically color all open source software as GPL3 software later in the article. There is lots of BSD and other licensed software out there basically free for companies to take and use as they wish as long as they abide by simple rules like keeping the attribution.

  11. Re:Pay for the article? on Doughnut-Shaped Universe Back In the Race · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of my old mentors was the editor of a journal. He had a secretary who was paid by the journal because there is a boatload of work to do in managing submissions, finding reviewers, sending copies of submitted articles out to them, bugging them to get in their reviews, sending out critiques to submitters, checking rewrites, resending out answers to criticisms,etc, etc, etc. Editors also get pay, because it sucks up a LOT of time. Much more than reviewer time, which can already be a lot for some folks.

    So there are defiantly costs involved. There's also the salary for the folks working the presses making the dead-tree copies. Magic faeries also rarely run the journals website. I know I'd want to be paid for running it. Wouldn't you? So there are lots of costs involved. The publishing companies also want to make a profit on top of that. Now I won't argue with you about how much profit the publishing companies should make off it. Just wanted to point out that there are very real expenses involved in making a journal, even with free reviews.

  12. Re:Pay for the article? on Doughnut-Shaped Universe Back In the Race · · Score: 1

    It's not strange if you are viewing it from a university or other institution that is already paying for a web subscription to the journal.

  13. Re:Well, for one thing.. on Why Buy a PC Preloaded With Linux? · · Score: 1

    It does send the most specific message for me. I want OpenBSD.

    I don't want to buy the Linux version and I don't want them to think that's the OS I prefer.

  14. Re:Agreed on Cisco CSO Says Antivirus Money "Completely Wasted" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Personally, I'm not trying to harden every single desktop I have against all possible exploits. It's simply too much work to tempest-proof everything.

    I have a air-bag in my car as well. It doesn't guarantee I'll live in all car crashes. But it will save me in some. And the risk/benifit is enough that I like to have an airbag in my car.

    I'll also continue to run an anti-virus scanner on my computers. I know full well they won't save me from bad behavior and many/most nasty root-kits, etc, but they will save me from some.

  15. Re:Whats the difference? on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    As others have said, cult/religion usually has to do with the number of followers.

    Scientology, however is neither. It is a *SCAM*.

    Name one other religion/cult that requires you to pay to read their 'holy' documents.

    It's a SCAM folks. Please don't try to give it any religious legitimacy by calling it a cult.

  16. Re:It will be fixed on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    Yeah. It would have a beautiful change for someone who sells certs for a living to make. All that extra $$$ from folks who have to buy new certs.

    I wonder what the cost from this screw up will be for certs alone, let alone man hours changing keys on machines and distributing them to the appropriate clients, and whatever hacks may have happened in the past two years.

  17. Re:Ya $200 bucks and... on Screen With 180 Degree Field of View · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A larger monitor fills more of your field of view, making you feel more immersed into the scene.

    Personally I got a big monitor so I could see a lot of code and a few different windows together on the same screen. A more engaging game play experience was just a big side benefit.

  18. Re:Deeper understanding on NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed · · Score: 1

    I think this is exactly right. They are trying to (with the unfortunate limitation of being located on earth) determine the lowest G rating which will keep the body health long term.

    If it's .5G that the outside of the spinning hull will have to take, that's going to requires a lot more engineering (and hence, weight that has to be lifted into orbit) than if it's 0.1 G

  19. Re:You didn't read the article. It's ok on Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income · · Score: 1

    It's nice how the post of the article fails to mention where most of the charge comes from, isn't it?

    "one big reason may well be Microsoft's punitive pricing, which exceeds 20 percent of Gross National Income for businesses in Brazil "

    That's not Microsoft's pricing. Microsoft's is about a third of that. It's a troll article.

  20. Re:20%? What are the customs duties? on Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shhh, if you tell folks the Brazilian government is the one that's hiking up the price so much, Microsoft might not look as totally evil!

  21. Re:What is Twitter? on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1

    You get to tell people you are out for the weekend passively as well with email. It's called a vacation message. Most email servers support the feature. If someone emails you while you are away, it emails back with your message saying you are on vacation/etc.

  22. Re:What is Twitter? on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1

    So you don't give business contacts or friends your email address, but you do give them a url for your twitter page. I find that... odd.

  23. Re:What is Twitter? on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1

    I'm really just not getting it. For the example provided, contacting 10 people about being out of town, I see absolutely no benefit of it over email. I can already get email on my phone if I want to. Via webmail or SMS.

  24. Re:What is Twitter? on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1

    Because you can't have your email sent to SMS messages on your phone any other way already if you wanted to. Oh wait, on Google you can find about a million ways to do it already.

  25. Re:What is Twitter? on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Instead they are tied to a twitter site. imagine that!

    6 of 1, half a dozen of the other. Sorry, I just don't see any amazing reason to use twitter over email for that kind of stuff.