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  1. Re:While RFID tags have anti-theft applications, . on RFID Leaders Talk Privacy · · Score: 1

    Its the "slippery slope" argument. You dont get from point A to Z overnight, you go in increments.

    Picture a Minority Report scenario with you walking around the mall and getting voice ads targeted at you based on what tags you have. You have a coke in your hand with an RFID tag? Maybe Pepsi will pester you to try a Pepsi, etc..

    Personally I like some targeted ads. I use yahoo and gave them accurate information for where I live and I get ads based on my location.

  2. Re:Getting around it... on Will Providers Provide Equally? · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be most effective VOIP needs low latency, small packets, and low packet loss. It works best when you use QOS to to help the traffic have a higher priority.

    If comcast uses QOS for there own VOIP service then they will already have an advantage over anyone else on that same network. Calls will sound better, have less dead air and less echo. Using QOS also means you can still run your bittorrent session or ftp download and your voice packets arent going to be dropped.

  3. Good news? This is slashdot on SPF To Be Integrated With MS 'Caller ID' System · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anything M$ ( ROFLMAO!!!) does is bad.

  4. Re:How to tell? on Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies · · Score: 1

    Ill assume windows... type "netstat" at the command prompt. You will see a lot of connections to remote systems on port 25 (smtp).

  5. I feel the same way on 13 Energy Drinks In 3 Sessions · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After I smoke a bag of crack.

  6. Answer: on Google Experiments With Local Filesystem Search · · Score: 3, Funny

    No

  7. Re:Question on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 1

    How many mail servers will let you send messages bigger than 10 megs? I dont bother to send more than 2 or 3 megs messages because of the frequency of rejected messages.

  8. Forget 3.42 an hour on Economics of Online Gaming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) Start playing these games when they first come out.

    2) Build up a bunch up high level characters and items.

    3) Sell them on ebay, or other RPG auction sites.

    4) Profit!!!

  9. Re:Abu Musab alZarqawi shown slaughtering an Ameri on E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    www.ogrish.com for all your gruesome video needs, including this one.

  10. Re:Yeah! on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How much did XP service pack 1 cost?

    How much is XP service pack 2 going to cost?

    You had to pay to be a beta tester for 10.0. Even hard core zealots admit it wasnt ready for release. You then had to pay for service pack 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3.

    I dont think thats anything to brag about, and I have a mac.

  11. These are really for large environments on Cisco, IBM Announce New Partnership, Network Device · · Score: 1

    If you have a bunch of servers and a bunch of blade server containers you split the servers. If you have 2 web servers you split them into different containers and racks, and ideally different uplink switches, etc.. You use a load balancer for HA / Failover.

    If your customer has 15 servers and no redundancy then you need to see if its even worth it to split servers up. If one of those servers fails and nothing else will work (for that customer) anyway it doesnt matter if everything else is down the the whole chassis dies.

    If your in a large environment you should have a spare chassis already racked and cabled to the network. If a chassis dies it will take a few minutes to move everything over.

  12. Re:why on New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It must help or they wouldnt keep paying for them. Kinda like spam.

    Yeah we would all prefer TV without commercials but we have them and they influence some people enough to make them worth buying. Its the same with web ads.

    I personally dont block any ads except pop-ups, they dont bother me that much and I understand that sites need ads the generate revenue. If I was on dial-up though I would be blocking left and right.

  13. Re:What Linux needs is VB on Linux Programming by Example · · Score: 4, Funny

    I agree. I tried to import the 2.6 kernel into a VB project and couldnt get it to compile despites hours of trying to tweak the code.

    I did manage to get it to compile with C# but I got some weird errors when running it with the .NET runtime.

  14. I got another idea on DCC2 Protocol for IRC file transfers · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about an IETF standard for warez serving bots. I hate learning the different commands for the different bots.

  15. Helper reply... on Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Yeah but, don't worry. on Cisco's LEAP Authentication Cracked · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well Cisco does have some of the best HA hardware available. I think that qualifies for self healing. They also have 4 hour turn around on hardware repairs if you want to pay for it.

    Cisco also has IDS software that will detect intrusions and update access lists on the appropriate routers on the fly. I think that qualifies for self securing and defending.

  17. Your missing out on Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced · · Score: 3, Funny

    Part of the fun of going to see these movies (Matrix 3, Star wars 3,etc..) is joining in the rants about how bad they sucked.

  18. Queue up the zealots on New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Since this is Apple its wrong.

    If it was Microsoft or some other company ITMS users would flaming it up and laughing at how bad they suck.

  19. Re:OK my first thought - Open CPU on IBM Plans Collaboration On Power Architecture · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As far as I know x86 chips already work well with F/OSS apps.

    The instruction set is also well documented, you can even get books for free from AMD and Intel. If you had enough money Im sure AMD would make you a custom Athlon 64 but why bother?

    The problem is making chips costs money. You need to design it, test via software, fab it, really test it, and repeat until you get what you want.

    My first though was trying to lure some of the other "RISC" vendors like Sun, SGI, and Fujitsu (sparc), into considering the architecture. If they pool R&D it could help all of them.

  20. Whois Tyranny? on The Web Won't Topple Tyranny · · Score: 1

    Any why do you want to topple him/her?

  21. Re:Java is Suns last trump card on McNealy Answers: No Open Source Java · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) You can make your own java compiler.

    2) You can make your own JVM.

    3) You can make your own libraries.

    4) Your java code can be open source.

    What does making java "open source" mean? It means making the standard open. Why does the core java standard need to be open when you can write your own open source libraries? Sun already has a community process for adding features.

    I know some distros and die hard GNU people dont like it just because its license but most people dont care about that and dont even ave a problem buying software when its warranted.

  22. Obligatory on In-Depth Look At LinuxBIOS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it run linux?

  23. Re:Yes, you may have to upgrade... on AAC Chosen For DVD-ROM Section Of DVD Audio Discs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whats even stranger is my dual opteron 2ghz has 2 MFM hard drives!

  24. Google uses pop ups? on Man Accused of Attempting to Extort Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I havent seen any, I do use the google tool bar though.

    BTW, I have also devised a program to simulate fake activity. Use any of the windows based graphical macro programs, load google, search, click the ad, save macro, repeat it in a loop. You could do this in multiple VMWare sessions if you wanted to increase your "productivity".

  25. Re:Maybe they're right on Rent A Bit Of Weta Digital · · Score: 5, Informative

    Xeons only go up to 4 megs of cache and those were just recently released. At the time these were bought the max was 2 megs.