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  1. Re:It's all relative... on Indian Call Center Employees Hack US Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Remember the German currency back in the Nazi days? Totally worthless. You would burn the money rather than buy fuel with it.

  2. Re:There's a good side to everything... on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is not a benefit of Daylight Savings Time. It's miscommunication that could happen due to different time zones, languages, or a bad cell phone connection. Now go into you corner, dork.

  3. Re:Great idea. on Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the US government is going to be doing Microsoft's QA work from now on.

  4. Re:Problem on Novell To Ship Xen in Next Version of Suse · · Score: 1

    This is not a new problem. If you use multiple copies of a fee licensed product on different physical hardware, you would pay for each copy. What is the difference between using copies on "virtual" server instances? If you use free operating systems, this won't be a problem for you. Take a look at the netbsd/xen port. Or Solaris Zones -- you get charged once for the OS and can create as many zones as you want.

  5. Re:Here is my question?? on Making Money Using Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    Opening everything will allow others to use the technology. Combined, everyone else has more money and resources than one company. What this 'someone' really means is that they want to be the only company that can alleviate pain, because doing so makes money. They are not healing for the love of healing, but for money.

  6. Cancel your accounts on Wells Fargo Web-Enables ATMs · · Score: 1

    I'm going to be cancelling my accounts at Wells Fargo if I find their new Windows ATMs suck.

  7. exercise a little bit on Staying Healthy When Working 12 Hours a Day? · · Score: 1

    My hands used to hurt a lot and I would not be rested from a night's sleep. Then I started eating better and started going to the gym for some weight lifting. Went once a week, taking protein supplements. The exercise and extra muscle eliminated my hand pain and I feel full of energy every day. It is that easy. My gym sessions are only 30 minutes.

  8. Re:I think it's still premature on Red Hat EL 4.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Every RHEL major version is supported for five years at least. This is why you go with RHEL.

  9. Re:I am not a lawyer on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1

    Owning a patent does not mean you own any invention created that uses that patent. You'll just end up paying a licensing fee, which may or may not eat up any commercial viability of your product.

  10. Lisp on Which Compiler to Extend for a Small Project? · · Score: 1

    Use lisp. Lisp has been called the programmable programming language. Think XSLT for code. You can define your own mini languages that work your way but are themselves valid lisp and can use all the cool lisp stuff.

  11. Re:Also consider on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 1

    I had someone do that to me once. I beat the tar out of him one night at a party under the pretense of a drunken brawl.

  12. Re:What about false positives. on DSPAM v3.2 Released · · Score: 1

    that is why you should use whitelists to make sure mommy know you are all right. hell, call the woman who gave you birth to let her know you are all right and your email is perfectly fine.

  13. Re:Someone call... on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene · · Score: 1

    You mean some new XXX-Men ... er, no, that was a movie I watched last night.

  14. Do it the old fasioned way on What are My Rights Against Video Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Just get one of your friends to beat the tar out of the suspect. After you are sure, of course.

  15. Re:Bad analogy on Would You Hire A Hacker? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More like hiring a quack who was convicted of illegal cloning experiments that he implanted in your body without your permission, causing all sorts of malfunction, to work on alternatives to organ transplant.

  16. Re:Good use of $1 million? on Speech Recognition in Silicon · · Score: 1

    If you spend $10 million helping feed the world it wouldn't make a damn difference. They would be hungry after the money ran out or the local warlords sold the food.

  17. That was how the CIA was infiltrated on Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices · · Score: 1

    In the movie "The Recruit" the agent snuck out data using an external storage devices. That kept me awake for days.

  18. Everyone boycott saavis on Savvis Grudgingly Get Savvy About Spam · · Score: 1

    Don't buy their services! I will not be satisfied until their entire company goes down the tube.

  19. Re:America as a fascist state? on Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret · · Score: 1

    I guess we should all be goose stepping to the American anthem from now on, then, eh?

  20. Tracking kids on Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS · · Score: 1

    Parents should use this to track the whereabouts of their children. Define alert perimeters and voila, no need for adult supervision.

  21. Re:U.S Patent Office and IE on Mozilla Usage Doubles in 9 Months · · Score: 1

    Bah, who cares. Let your patent lawyer run Windows and IE on his computer when he deals with the patent office. I don't see this as problem for the average linoox user.

  22. Uses Apache license on APR 1.0.0 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    And I won't be using APR because the Apache license suxors.

  23. Too complicated and confusing on Delta Compression for Linux Security Patches? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Delta compression requires the vendor to create a delta for each older version that you can upgrade from. So if a package has had ten updates, the next yupdate will need to have eleven deltas. I don't think so. Unless you want to do something like Windows Update where an agent scans your binaries and compares the difference with the update and then downloads individual files ... but that's a lot more complicated and isn't justified by the bandwidth savings.

  24. Re:Ok, so... on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    Bah, theories.

  25. Re:Sendmail what is your move now?? on Apache Rejects Sender ID · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sendmail has to make money so supporting Sender ID is a good thing for them. They are packaging it as a seperate download so as to not encumber their main product with Sender ID's problems. This is how real vendors should deal with real problems.