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  1. I can't believe. on Goldman Sachs Trading Source Code In the Wild? · · Score: 1

    Is bash history admissible in court? really? does the 5th amendment apply, it might be considered testimony against ones self.

    fun....

  2. Why not.. on You, Too, Can Learn Echolocation · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Instead of relying on sound made from ones own mouth, why not rely on a simple emitter around your neck making the clicks for you? sounds silly but resolution would become a problem pretty quick.

    still, very cool.

  3. Wow.. on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    Hopefully their data retention rules for job applicantions is to destroy immediately; my banking is done via a website on which I hold an account to which I have a password. Suddenly the most powerful person in Bozeman is the HR director for the city.

  4. Re:When did Apple promise ZFS? on Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS · · Score: 1

    Apple downplayed the inclusion of ZFS in leopard in what appears to be an egotistical tit for tat, Sun spilled the beans early to gain some publicity and Apple reacted in typical fashion;
    as for promote, look at the google cache link I provided, scroll down to the bottom and see them promoting it. Just in case you missed it in the initial post:

    http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:xc6veOk_OTQJ:www.apple.com/server/macosx/snowleopard/+Apple+ZFS&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

  5. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    Excellent.

  6. In other news. on iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy · · Score: 1

    Crack cocaine users are upset that their local dealers aren't cutting them the same break they got for their first rock.

  7. Re:Two Ends of the Cable on When Your Backhoe Cuts "Black" Fiber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At&t

  8. Under pressure... on When Your Backhoe Cuts "Black" Fiber · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having seen lines ran in pressurized pipes (pressure drop... alarms) and break location by reflection it doesn't shock me at all to see this; being spooks you would think they would use easements or dig deeper than usual
    to secure such things, but like most work I bet it was contracted out to the cheapest labor they could trust.

    I will say though, not listing the location suggests much; if they are afraid that someone could tap into fiber without detection it most likely means they are already doing so, sometimes the thing you fear the most reveals much about your current state.

  9. Only mistake.... on Couple On the Run After 'Stealing' $6 Million · · Score: 1

    If you intend to keep the gains from a mistake, don't take the money and run, transfer the money to an account they can't access, hire a lawyer offer him 1/3 on success, hope for the best.

    Running only makes you look like your trying to get away with something, what I am curious about is how they managed to withdraw and transfer to a bank that would protect them, or if they
    pulled cash how they managed to travel with it.

    On a side note, if were a customer to this bank, I would certainly not be so for long, if they're able to make mistakes of this magnitude its not if they fail, its when.

  10. MPAA, RIAA.... on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 1

    What do these folks have against education?
    First they go after the students, now, they go after the teachers?

    This brings up another point that someone further up mentioned as a joke, I've always thought that using a camcorder to record a movie would be and/or should be fair use, Its obviously an inferior copy (even the best shaky cams have some serious problems, mostly they point out just how $h!tty the theatre experience is, people get up, down, coughing, talking, etc); when it comes down to it I suspect the only way we will be rid of these folks is if we just stop buying movies and CD's which, I find somewhat ironic.

  11. Canadian Bacon. on H1N1 Appears To Be Transmittable From Human To Pig · · Score: 1

    So if it mutates and crosses back to humans should we call it the Canadian Bacon Flu ?

  12. My solution is the best. on Competition Seeks Best Approaches To Detecting Plagiarism · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not only will my solution find those rascally cheaters in record time, it will also determine that all others in the competition have copied my work.

  13. Yummy..... on Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wow, I suddenly want a job at the Swedish Tax office doing *cough* research.

  14. After testing failed... on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 1

    Bat adhesive, Gecko adhesive found to stick well in space.

  15. South Park Movie Officially Torture.. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 5, Funny

    I recall watching this movie in the theatre, in some strange life imitating art moment a grandmother brought her grandsons and apparently their friends in for the wonderful cartoon..... Making it through the bribe a drunk for movie tickets and the earthen root heart transplant she decided it was just too much when Saddam and the Devil had their musical bit with a floppy dildo...

    Up until now I felt that nothing would top that in regards to this movie.....

  16. Re:they already cost less per gig than some SAS dr on MS Researchers Call Moving Server Storage To SSDs a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    I was thinking along the same lines; when I converted my laptop to an SSD I found that I had to do a number of things to my Vista install to get it to match my Mac OS X install, stutters, pauses and other problems continue to plague the windows boot on this machine while the OS X side just runs (and fast) the biggest gains I saw with this weren't in the sustained MB/s or IOPs, it was its ability to service multiple IO streams with none of the effects I typically would see with a single spinning disk, (i.e. running multiple VM's with multiple virtual HD's) I can see from a storage perspective why MS might claim this is a non-starter, but from a server perspective (laptop, desktop, server) using them as a boot device and application device is brilliant. What I take from this is a concession that SSD's don't work so well as a M$ boot, and don't make a lot of sense for storage that would typically be served via a large disk array with very large ram caches.

  17. A Judge issued a warrant for this? on Phoenix Police Seize PCs of a Blogger Critical of the Department · · Score: 1

    Wow, so let me get this right, he is in a lawsuit against the Phoenix PD for harassment, they seize the computers that contain the harassment evidence for 'unrelated' reasons; I wonder if this is more than retaliation, a quick sneak peak at his sources, evidence, etc...... talk about stacking the deck. I'll bet there will be goat.se or alter boy photos found somewhere on his system.

  18. Re:Relax on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 1

    ....Outsourcing make the economy more fair. That screws everyone currently on the top. Ethically we should be OK with fair systems..

    WTF?

    Fair economically ?

    By this definition supply and demand wouldn't be fair, there should be enough for everyone.

    Atlas Shrugged seems more and more appropriate these days but if that doesn't hit the spot I recall a Dilbert where the company outsourced to India; who outsourced to Hungary, who outsourced to Brazil who then outsourced back to the folks who were being outsourced in the US..... This 'economic' fairness is already in play, prices in India have gone up (supply, demand) so they subcontract and subcontract and subcontract; I have one mid grade contractor working for me who literally has 5 temp agencies, his original followed by 4 more each getting a cut, after its said and done we are paying for him slightly less than we would pay locally for a junior grade worker....

    This simply isn't as effective as some would think, he would be much happier if he had the pay we are paying for him rather than for him;

    One of the things that made the US great was the idea that you could come here with nothing and make something of and for yourself; if we follow this to its logical end we will dilute this in such a manner that the brightest will want to move elsewhere, we will no longer be in the lead or on top and its then that your 'fair' economy will show its true nature.

  19. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    I am really surprised by this each and every time I hear it; if I provide a torrent to someone, I am not the violator, though the **IA argues that making available is a copyright infringement it is more a case of being an accessory to a copyright infringement; the funny part to me is that in trying to prove their case they pull files from said 'violator' and use that as proof; If they argue that they aren't violating the copyright because they are owner/agents the accessory charge is also null and void, if they argue they are, well, accessory is nearly always treated with less prejudice than the actual crime (excluding suicide, which is some cases means the only one punished is the one left living). If I have a legal copy of Pirates of the Caribbean that has been scratched to hell0 by my kids and I use a torrent to get a playable version, I could/would argue fair use, there really isn't a remedy other than re-purchase provided by the folks selling this garbage; if everyone hitting the torrent at the same time as I find that I have great bandwidth and pull from me, again the violation isn't mine; argue as they its not a violation its accessory potentially during or after the fact.

    IANAL but I am pretty a lawyer might actually make a similar argument.

  20. Funny naming scheme. on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    We had a fun naming scheme, servers were 14k peaks, switches were mountain passes and Tape Silos were named after mines in the mountains (getting the theme?) well all was good until some smarty named a new library 'glory hole' and a new server Kenny (yes, there is a Mount Kenny, and yes, we killed Kenny a lot).

  21. Re:Oh great! A planetary scandal! on Mars, Mercury May Have Formed From Earth and Venus · · Score: 1

    DOG demands that you believe without question.
    DOGMA requires you to follow without sight.
    DOGMATIC insists that you do it by ritual.

    When followed none of these allow you to question the nature of things, you should accept them blindly, with faith and tolerance for those who do not.

    Anyway, when whatever you believe proves wrong, just rephrase it.... We didn't mean that the earth was flat and the center; we meant that the earth is so great that it seems flat and its the theological center......

  22. Thinking about this makes me laugh. on Capitol Records Flooded Internet With MP3s, Says MP3Tunes CEO · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. The links work.
    2. Several of us have used them.

    thinking about the suit (providing links to music)
    this document is nice piece of work, in writing it, reading it,
    linking to it, we have all taken part in the supposed violation of
    EMI's rights.

    many words come to mind but the choice of mad world as one of the linked songs, well thats enough for me.

  23. Re:Free != free to redistribute on Capitol Records Flooded Internet With MP3s, Says MP3Tunes CEO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which might lead to a point about providing links;

    I checked the links on this doc, most work and only one asked me for any personal information. No click through, no shrink-wrap 'license' just the song presented in my browser. This might be the only complaint EMI might/should have with MP3Tunes, they are circumventing (theory) the presentation/context of this music. The larger gripe, and where EMI should be aimed, but for what ever reason they're not as they (the RIAA) seem to enjoy attacking customers and folks that make finding things easier (index services) are the non EMI folks also providing the music. I hate to put it this way but scumbags or not, MP3Tunes or Google, where does this kind of harassment end? I can find 'filez' just as easy with google as I can with any of the search sites.

    IANAL (sounds like a new apple product, no?)

  24. Well Well, Excellent. on World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found · · Score: 1

    So my only question is was this Bill or Ted? Time Travel and George Carlin come to mind :)

  25. There can be only one. on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 1

    2 in, one out? lunch?