Slashdot Mirror


User: rabbit994

rabbit994's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
347
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 347

  1. Re:No idea where the child actually is on Verizon to Launch Mobile 'Chaperone' Service · · Score: 1

    Most teenagers will not want to be without their phone and while they can get it forwarded, I'm sure this system will come with the ability to turn off call forwarding or simply note that their phone is being forwarded so the parent knows. Second, if the parents are smart, they will not even tell the child monitoring is turned on. Biggest problem I can see is this probably just use GPS and in many places, GPS coverage is spotty esp if teenager keeps the phone in a pocket or such.

  2. Re:Impossible to Read on Blizzard's 'Secret Sauce' · · Score: 1

    While your at it, can you explains the mess that your page looks like in firefox 1.5.0.4/Win XP?

  3. Re:WTF? on Fraud in Internet Dating Prompting Regulation · · Score: 1

    Because Republicans and Democrats are working oh so much better....at least libertarianism realizes that government by it's nature is completely useless and works to get rid of as much of it as you can. However, if you are conservative christian who cares what other people do in privacy of their own home or one of those liberals who thinks the world would be a better place if we all just sang kumbya and gave all our money to government to do with it as it see fits, you might have an issue with libertarians telling government to butt out.

  4. Re:ohhh ... EULA on Site Says 'Go Away!'; Federal Court Says No · · Score: 1

    Most "Make my day" laws simply remove the requirement to retreat when confronted with deadly force. Like when a robber pulls a knife on you, you no longer have to run. None of those laws would let you shoot anyone for just stepping on your lawn or even your porch. Now in many states, TX being one of them as well as VA. Someone breaking into your home who knows he's not allowed to be there (like a friend who commonly lets himself in wouldn't count) is fair game the second he comes in the window or door.

  5. Re:EULA nastiness on SiN Episodes - Emergence Review · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, many gamers (not the slashdot reader type) generally don't mind steam because it keeps everything up to date. I have to find with the exception of when I lose my internet for extended period of times (extremely rare) that Steam does a pretty decent job of keeping everything up to date and playable for me.

  6. Re:Standards on Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention most screen readers for the handcapped rely on that ALT to describe the image on the screen.

  7. Re:Standards on Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant? · · Score: 1

    And they will follow the up 2 with 1 "Why didn't you test it?" and then 3, "Fix the problem, standards be damn, most of the world runs on IE 12."

  8. Re:So the UN is relevant now? I'm confused. on UN Broadcasting Treaty May Restrict Speech · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it's extremely benefitical to bring in someone who hates your product/organization to figure out any problems. Bolton does that now for UN instead of just sending a bunch of fanboys. Many Open Source projects could learn this.

    Neitherless, UN is corrupt, mostly worthless organization who would should kick out of New York and put all the diplomats back on boats and send them back to where ever they came from.

  9. Re:Stealing Ad Revenue on Microsoft's IE7 Search Box Bugs Google · · Score: 1

    Considering that IE is still the most popular browser used (80-85% of market) but Google is still doing fine, something tells me this isn't going to effect much. I imagine this is just a case of Google bitching because Google can. Most users I know who use IE either download google toolbar or set google as their home page, I doubt that will change with IE7 unless Microsoft changes it to active block google toolbar and not letting google.com be set as homepage.

  10. Re:oblig troll on Apache Now the Leader in SSL Servers? · · Score: 1

    Answer is no, IIS 6 is still better then Apache 2.x when comparing them on Windows servers speed wise. Considering PHP 4 and 5 run on IIS 6 without issues (unless php apps themselves do funky stuff), running Apache on Windows is retarded. If your going to run Windows, might as well just run IIS 6 and at least let Windows Update take care of the patching.

  11. Re:The Sims2 AI on EA's E3 Lineup · · Score: 1

    In the Sims you don't have to be a money grubbing bastard per say but it's hard to live on welfare (something that similar to real life) or social security. I haven't played Sims 2 so I'm not sure if you can transfer money between people but I bet the answer is no. Anyways, I doubt the desire to play those two paths is high anyways.

  12. Re:Possible blunder? on Viacom Buys Xfire For $102 Million · · Score: 1

    It's really not that complex. There is a guy out there who created something similar to XFire but it runs over Jabber. You can find it at http://goim.us./ My only complaint about the software was it was created in Java which is a pain for RAM usage but if your C++ programmer you could piggy back on top of jabber and just have to create game monitoring system. Just no one has done it yet.

  13. Re:Well, at least Linux is more secure. on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 1

    Warning, link is to something you don't want to see if you eaten this morning.

  14. Re:I have used a PC for 2 weeks on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    .DLLs on Windows are complied libraries. However, for a while, developers used to complie different version of libraries using the same name instead of different names. They also used to stick them into a folder on Windows for every program to use because many programs share libraries (just like program on linux do) to save disk space which used to be more limited. When one program overwrite another program .DLL with a new or older version of the library, it obviously broke stuff. XP fixed this problem by monitoring .DLLs installed by programs and switching them in and out as need for different programs. Also, due to disk space being so cheap these days, many developers have gone back to containing libraries in program's folder so it didn't matter what other programs did. Microsoft also helped by putting .Net libraries into different folders based off their version.

  15. Get out of school and get into police agency on Recommendations for Graduate Programs? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most police agencies require you spend time in the field doing police type activities (catching criminals, dealing with domestics, etc) before you can move on to other things. I imagine Foresnics is probably something that is more OJT then degree taught. My recommendation, get your BS and apply to FBI, DHS or state police departments.

  16. Merak Mail Server on A Web Based Solution to Replace Exchange? · · Score: 1

    Merak Mail Server is what I use for a much smaller deployment, support SMTP, POP3, IMAPv4 and comes with built in Webmail piece and support calendaring and all that good stuff. Can get pricey but your talking about 6000 users so pricey is something you should be used to.

    http://www.merakmailserver.com/

  17. Re:You don't know what you got till it's gone on What Would We Lose From a Regionalized Internet? · · Score: 1

    Actually, when you compare Murder Rates in Wild West with murder rates of today, Wild West is lower.

    Besides, 1000 yards is extremely hard for anyone with modern day weapons but 200-300 yards is easily attainable with weapons of back then with average amount of practice.

  18. Network admin should be able to handle this on Organizing Your DNS? · · Score: 1

    Assuming by the nature of your question, you have multiple sites each wanting control over their DNS. You should simply delegate control for individual zones to their admins. Say you have hq, la, dc and ny offices. You should have example.com being top level, only thing in there are web entries, and maybe the mail servers. You then have hq.example.com, la.example.com, dc.example.com and ny.example.com and you put all the machines in DNS zone respective to their location. I recommend using Windows 2k3 DNS if you have access to it since it comes with a pretty GUI, AD zones can be delegated to individual admins and it works extremely well. This type of question is generally answered in most Administator training. I remember covering this in Windows 2000 Network training (70-216). Most of information could have easily been ported over to Linux environment as well. Maybe you should ask your boss for some training $$$ and find some DNS specific classes.

  19. Re:Blame the operating system on The Problems With Game Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Actually WIndows XP has Dll Cache where it swaps DLL in and out for different programs. However, for most programs, the shared libraries are about 16 MB or less and I would pay that HD space for them just to install them locally then scatter them everywhere. I encourage every Windows programmer keep everything in the same folder as the application or sub folder of the application just to make life easier.

  20. Re:Hackorama Windows on U of Wisconsin's Mac OS X Security Challenge · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm sure Microsoft has held competion to do so as well. Windows 2003 is pretty secure out of the box as well considering almost no services are in the ON state and it comes with a GUI firewall in SP1. Microsoft has a long way to go but you can't fault them for not trying.

  21. Re:Nope on What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have? · · Score: 1

    Attachments are not stored against users, they are seperate entries and user emails point back to this attachment entry. If I sent you an email with .ppt document, Exchange would put that attachment in SIS and put a pointer on your email that says if you want to see this attachment, reference SIS Attachment ID 6544356868958
    Even if you purged my email, that SIS reference would still be valid. If everyone deleted all emails referencing that attachment, SIS would purge it but not till that happens.

    At least that is my understanding of it, I'm not sure if it works as advertised.

  22. Re:It's not Star Wars, it's Planetside 2! on Washington Post on Star Wars Galaxies Changes · · Score: 1

    Come play in Red. Everything looks better in Red.

    TheRabbit
    TR Emerald
    Black Widow Company

  23. Re:not anymore than any browser on Google's Cache Ruled Fair Use · · Score: 1

    However, adding a quick robots.txt to your webpage root can fix this cache problem right up. Heck, you can just add meta tags as well if you want. I used to do that with my web pages and guess what, google obeyed the request not to cache.

  24. Re:Ignoring the Facts: defining "authoritarian" on Both Parties Ignore the Facts · · Score: 1

    I'm sure your feel good solution makes you all warm inside but your solution is going to leave the weak in the hands of the strong and besides, governments have killed 170,000,000 people in 20th century alone. When you disarm the government first, I'll consider it.

    Besides, that 2nd, 4th and 5th Amendment don't mean much to you obviously. (If your not a US citizen then they don't but /. is American site so I'm assuming that you are)

  25. Re:Ignoring the Facts: defining "authoritarian" on Both Parties Ignore the Facts · · Score: 1

    Sure why not? Places like Vermont have very few laws on guns. In fact, concealed carry is legal there with no permitting. They don't see the need to change it either. Most people from Vermont doesn't see the problem with it.

    New York City on the other hand has pretty strict gun laws and they want more. So they are working on getting more gun laws. However, what bothers me is Mr. Bloomburg trying to convince the rest of the country to get on board with his NYC gun laws which wouldn't work (or be needed) in a state like Vermont.

    Personally, I believe blaming guns for violent crime is simply moving the problem from people to inanimate objects. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. I would agree guns can help. The solution to crime is not just one thing, it takes a bunch of different things however locking up violent offenders seems to help solve the problem. I think the libertians have it right.