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  1. Re:By Hand on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 2

    The name of the game is transferring the risk. ;)

  2. Re:By Hand on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    and get a reciept saying it had been accepting and what the consultant's responsibilities are in handling the data.

  3. Re:A must see... on Smithsonian Gets Military UAVs · · Score: 1
    I went to the one by Dulles a couple of years ago. They were actually having an air show at the time, which made it pretty cool.

    One of the things they were doing inside was putting together a UAV so you could see the packaging it came in and how quickly a team could get the thing put together and ready for flight.

    The museum is way cool if you have any interest in flight. There are a lot of historic aircraft there including a Blackbird, Rutan's first Cozy, adn like the poster above stated, the Enterprise. The Enterprise was never a fully functional SS, but it is cool to get the proportions of the thing.

  4. Re:PowerBooks have had this for a while.... on New Dell Laptops Give Users a Literal Shock · · Score: 1

    Interesting... I have a third party AC adapter that is only two plugs. I noticed that this would start to happen. I never lined up the two. It is really bad when I have my dell on my lap and then I touch the powerbook.

  5. Re:Is this different from an enthusiast overclock? on The Fastest Processor You Can't Run · · Score: 1

    3.2GHz is a pretty minor overclock at this point. Most of Intel's line will hit that. When you get about 3.8, you are pushing it. I believe that there are people getting close to 3.8 on air cooling as well.

  6. Reminds me of all of those spy stories on Google's Young Brainiacs Go Globe-Trotting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    like Alias where the kids are trained to be spies by playing games, etc.

  7. Re:Nice title on Bully vs. Harry Potter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that pretty much what the books are about?

  8. Re:FUD. on Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy" · · Score: 1

    I like Office 2007. But, I have had government clients (Office 2000) have issues trying to open documents I have saved in compatibility mode (2000-2003). Colors are screwy, text can show up in weird places. They finally installed 2007 on a couple of notebooks just to look at the source documents to finish the project. It wasted a lot of time and added a lot of confusion.

  9. Not the same thing... on Most Digital Content Not Stable · · Score: 1
    The examples used are comparing analog data on tape vs. digital data on cd.

    Who backs up all their data on CD/DVDs? I don't know of any enterprise who puts their long term backups on CD/DVDs. Everyone still uses tape. It is just in digital format vs. analog format.

    And like other posters have pointed out, there are more serious concerns such as DRM and equipment resources.

    And again, like other posters have pointed out, you can make perfect digital copies. You cannot do that with analog.

  10. Re:fsck'n ugly on Opera CTO Hits Back at Microsoft's Standards Push · · Score: 0

    As far as I know, and I may be wrong, there is no way to specify a page break in html or any of its varients. While I realize that this is a typesetting measure, it is still pretty needed.

  11. Re:Is this really new? on Halo 3 To Have 'Mute the Jerk' Button · · Score: 1

    I can block everything coming from individuals in UT2004. I usually don't unless it gets really bad because I have to stop what I am doing and then block.

  12. Re:Of course I do! on Do You Care About Race in Games? · · Score: 1, Insightful
    The funny thing is (and I don't play RPGs) is that was the first thing that popped into my head after reading the headline. Different races have different powers. It did not dawn on me that we were talking black vs. white (and why are no other races mentioned in the intro?).

    I guess this shows I don't care about race in the games. I just play whichever character gives me the advantage.

  13. Does anyone know of any opensource products on Netvibes May Give My Yahoo Run For Money · · Score: 1
    that allow for the same thing?

    I would like to host my own "portal" interally on my network. I would envision this to be a web page which is a collection of feeds and links to other services. Something like my.yahoo.com or personalized google.

  14. Re:It's IBM's policy not to settle on Portions of SCO's Expert Reports Stricken · · Score: 1
    The other weird thing was wasn't SCO's lead lawyer an ex-IBM lawyer himself?

    Maybe it became a bit personal for him which is why he took the case in the first place. Trying to prove something possibly??

  15. I think that part of the difference on The Ballpark Stadium of the Future · · Score: 1
    between the two models is that in the US, teams always threaten to leave the city.

    Many of the contracts are written such that if attendance and profit drops below certain levels, the team is free to shop elsewhere. Also, the city tends to own the stadiums, since they pay for it, not the owner of the team.

    Can you imagine Man U moving to Liverpool? Or Arsenal moving to Manchester to take their place?

    It happened in the NFL several years ago when one of the oldest franchises literally snuck out of the city and moved from Cleveland to Baltimore.

  16. Starting January 1st, you will need a passport for on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1
    any cruise that leaves the country.

    Passport Passport Requirements If you are planning travel for 2007 or beyond, please take a minute to review the passport policy below. If you don't already have a valid passport, be sure to avoid the rush and give yourself plenty of time to apply for one. Once you've got a passport in hand, the whole world is yours to explore.

    U.S. Citizen Passport Requirement

    Air Travel

    Effective January 8, 2007, passports will be required for all U.S. citizens flying to or from all international destinations. This includes all areas of the world in which our ships sail, such as the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Central and South America.

    Cruise Travel

    As early as January 1, 2008, subject to U.S. Government amendment, passports will be required for all U.S. citizens cruising to or from all international destinations. This includes all areas of the world in which our ships sail, such as the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Central and South America.

    http://www.royalcaribbean.com/beforeyouboard/passp ortGuidelines.do;jsessionid=0000kBVFJqoUxBesiUlnSf waVxz:10ktdmnut

  17. Who was the Iraqi Information Minister? on China - We Don't Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    Did he move to China?

  18. Re:EULA on Mac OS X Cracked For PCs Again · · Score: 1
    I agree about the EULA.. Every piece of softare has it.

    However, I dont' think that it will be an upgrade. I don't believe that the retail version of Tiger (for PPC) is an upgrade. But, I am still on Panther, so I don't know for sure.

  19. Re:EULA on Mac OS X Cracked For PCs Again · · Score: 1

    I am sure that there will be when Leopard comes out next quarter.

  20. Re:Bullshit! At least the editor(!) might RTFA! on iPod Cracked, But Does it Matter? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I agree. I was wondering what the hell I was reading there. The whole point of what he is doing is to allow say Microsoft to encode their files such that it is native to the iPod format. It is not so you can pull iTunes songs off.

    I believe that this is what real did several years ago without much success.

  21. Re:How many on Google Unveils Code Search · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but those projects have got to be miniscule when you compare them to all of the opensource C, C++, java, perl, php, python, ruby, language du jour that is out there... I have got to think less than 1%. Hell, I just checked Freshmeat.net and there is no category for software programmed in COBOL. And they even have LISP, REXX, BASIC, and ADA.

  22. How many on Google Unveils Code Search · · Score: 1

    Open Source projects that you know are written in COBOL? I don't know of any. It is a lot of legacy code. There is very few new projects being started in COBOL.

  23. Re:well this looks clear as mud on GMail and Sourceforge E-mail Bouncing Saga · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Been there as well. Our developers were using a old library that was compliant to the old SMTP RFC, but not that new one. When we switched firewalls from proxy (which was rewriting the smtp packets under the new RFC) to statefull inspection 5% of our clients has munged up attachments. It was really odd.

  24. Re:Wow. on Beautiful Wooden PC Cases · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't know.. It is slashdotted after 4 comments.

  25. First Post... (Read on) on Eureka! Archimedes Revealed · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, in other words, you could say that Archimedes had the first post. :) Sorry, could not resist.