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  1. exactly on Biotech and the Environment · · Score: 1

    As scientist are beginning to see, there are not enough individual genes to make up for the characteristics. The logical next step is a stacking of definitions. All of the sudden a minor change could have ramification FAR beyond those intended. Whether that be in the breeding or in standard maturation, the point is we don't know and if we count on the corporate mentality they will be making a profit selling to you and I LONG before any saftey study could be completed.

  2. two edged sword, like everything developed on Biotech and the Environment · · Score: 1

    of science. GM plants can grow in harsher conditions, with less water while producing greater yield.
    The flip-side is ArcherDanielsMidland and seed that does not produce seed. They sell it MUCH cheaper to cash strapped farmers. The catch happens next season when the farmer is 'hooked' on buying seed.

  3. and no, on MSDN Subscriber Forced to use Passport · · Score: 1

    only in certain specific and noted instances is it a crime to offer up a nom de plume. I regularly purchase using a pseudo. If you try and get around an age or geographical restrictions there is always a crime involved.

  4. Ummm think again on MSDN Subscriber Forced to use Passport · · Score: 1

    I give my work email as my msdn registered email, and believe me if my employer starts seeing SPAM from M$ because of this, you can bet OUR lawyers will be talking to their lawyers, and guess what M$ WILL NOT jeopordize enterprise class business with worthless spam. I am on every M$DN mailing list in existence and I get ZERO spam generated from them. Of course the actual email from M$ almost classifies as SPAM but every now and then there is a usefull bit amongst the dross.

    On a side note M$ does have a hightened security option on EVERY PASSPORT site, (they all suck) but it will REMOVE the logon cookie if you specify 'shared or public' computer.

  5. Not to knock Google, on Google Plans an IPO · · Score: 1

    but I get more dead hits from them than ANY OTHER engine. This may just be because the have indexed more than anyone else...

  6. Don't think her nationality has anything on Judge Sues ISP for Poor Service · · Score: 2

    to do with it...IT IS IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT, there is a financial cap on damages.

  7. Are you really looking forward on Piezoelectric Shoe Power · · Score: 2

    to drinking your own waste ?

  8. required spam on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    check out 50megsfree.com. They have exactly the program you are speaking of. Use our service, receive our approved mailings, opt out and your site is deleted. Is easy enough to block the mailings and 50 MB is a nice size free site :)

  9. Whjat legal right to contact me ?? on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    My no solicitors sign at home gives me the legal right to refuse to admit them. Of course the 1/4 mile driveway and 3 big dogs might have something to do with it also. With a little work you can return the favor to any spammer, have auto-responder will travel. Just take sometime to find the legitimate source and respond with 2 or 3 thousand remove requests :) Hard to do business with an email account over quota :) This assumes of course you got a handy T1 to use :)

  10. Re:countersue? on Roxio Countersues Gracenote · · Score: 1

    "You miss the critical point - as well as selling the CD data as a product, they removed it from the public domain. This is something they had no right to do, since the data was contributed by the community, on the understanding that it would remain in the public domain." -
    Not to support Gracenote but if it was just an issue of them assuming public domain code then WE would have NO recourse as that is perfectly legal, if highly unethical. That's why the GPL, LGPL, BSD and other licenses were created, to afford SOME measure of protection to software authors.

  11. some sort of genetic cross on What Actually Makes Up "Linux"? · · Score: 1

    between a Penguin and a YAK :)

  12. I've just got my hands on an Alpha machine on Compaq Readies Solaris-Linux Migration tools · · Score: 1

    so I guess I'll shut up until I learn some more. I was judging it by the amount of commercial software available, and my buddies' experiences within Compaq. Hopefully I will learn differently
    in the near future.

  13. reminds me of a trip to Ireland... on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 1

    The regular police are unarmed and jolly fellows, then comes the 'wish I could remember the name' of the National police who monitor the borders and airports, who sport fully automatic weapons and a very business like attitude.

  14. Well...there are more than some GNU on What Actually Makes Up "Linux"? · · Score: 1

    tools, but you have a point. If this keeps up it could be GNU/BSD/GPL/LGPL/YADA/ETC/Linux, with you favorite distro's name and splashy release name added in to boot.

  15. Bottom line is... on What Actually Makes Up "Linux"? · · Score: 1

    the more devices that are supported the greater number of lines. But think about it, re-compile the kernel with only support for devices you have installed, drop the alternate desktop packages, and you have a LEAN MEAN FIGHTING MACHINE.
    This means that in order to draw in the 'uninitiated' some distro's have opted for a bloat of support. Next thing you know RH will be PnP :)

  16. Well of course..DUH on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 1

    we ALL know that VICTIMS have NO RIGHTS, ONLY CRIMINALS HAVE RIGHTS. This country has gone so far to ensure the rights of the criminal are observed that the VICTIM is often left out to dry.

  17. Re:what about... on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 1

    A K-9's perception has been by precedent accepted as probable cause to generate a valid search warrant. You present a very good question..a robo sniffer thing (near future) would blur that dotted line beyond comprehension...

  18. Re:what about... on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 1

    how does that square with the fact that a police officer cannot climb my back fence to get a lookk into my yard ? I fully understand the plain view doctrine and even fresh/hot pursuit or entering based on a possible medical emergency etc, but this camera is DUPLICATING exactly what the officer is denied the right to view first hand ? seems odd to me...

  19. U.S. FEDS are like that... on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 1

    so be careful on Indian reservations or govt. property. Your rights are MUCH more limited under federal jurisdiction. Your vehicle IS subject to search under FED law, and the MP's and reservation police are NOT shy about exercising that CLUB.

  20. please forgive my poor on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 1

    grammar skills. This will teach me to reply and sit in on a con call at the same time.... :(

  21. Not pissed about that, just upset about them on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 1

    that NOW they can look at things that were able to access what was protected before, they do not need a search warrant to scan your property down to the sq. inch from orbiut but need a writ to climb my back fence ? There is some legal discrepencies here that need to be resolved. The remote recon at that level is THE SAME as climbing MY FENCE and walking my yard in person and should require a writ in the first place. Now of course IANAL but does anyone with any actual experience have a comment ?

  22. Re:Frightening possibilities.... on Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers · · Score: 1

    I've seen recon photo's, they were not from orbit but, VERY, VERY HIGH UP, and we could read the brand of cigarette the guy in a cab was smoking...VERY EERY.

  23. small form factor PC's on Authentication is the Key · · Score: 2

    are what we are placing for admins and tellers, COMPAQ makes a case smaller than a VCR that mounts easily just about anywhere. In a corporate environment the PC lifespan is short anyways, and with long term (10year) deal with the PC vendor for 2 year replacement, it is cheaper to replace 20 PC's than 1 decent server that could support 20 working thin clients. Give me a entire giga-bit fiber network and some uptime agreements from M$ and maybe it will make some headway.

  24. you can get that on Authentication is the Key · · Score: 2

    from a 2000 single domain forrest/tree set-up, without giving all your data to M$. Single signon can be managed thru Tivoli also on a multi platform environment. Only Solaris presents real problems in the password intercept area, Aix/Tandem/M$/TRU64/VMS and of course LINUX all work well. There are also products out there like ControlSA that handle single signone and multiplatform access well.
    None of these are opens source but they are M$ controlled either....

  25. Who has MS convinced ?? on Authentication is the Key · · Score: 5

    I work for the 2nd largest M$ exchange implementation worldwide, and our management along with several other fortune 50 companies told M$ to stick .net where it was safe...Ballmer's deep dark hole. Data security is PARAMOUNT and M$ would not pony up the $$$'s for insurance and bonding nor would they provide ANY sort of IRON CLAD uptime/access agreement. With VPN and broadband so prevalent these days we are going the exact opposite, to the hardware vendors' delight, and deploying PC's everywhere with VPN clients to access our data on our OWN SAFE and SECURE machines. If I were a sales business or some such heavy travel industry I MIGHT be able to see 'some' value in a .net structure but otherwise...NOT.
    Can someone present an argument PRO .net beyond M$'s security and uptime smokescreen ?