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  1. Re:Not Acceptable? on 1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack · · Score: 1

    What if my mission was handling your money and my mission crashed because of a patch that I didn't have an immediate fix for? Its easier to fix a system in a state you know than the state a patch potentially puts it in.

  2. Re:Regarding the desktops on PC Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis · · Score: 1

    My sparc runs openbsd as well. I have a freebsd router behind it. I love how well pf works on the bsd's.

  3. Re:Regarding the desktops on PC Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So true. I have a Sun Sparc Station 5 running an vital role on my lan and it does its job day in and day out with no complaints. I also have a 2 dual p3 1.4 systems with 4GB a piece that same as the sparc run day in and day out. I got each machine for between 50 and 80 used. Why should I buy new when they work perfectly fine for use?

  4. Re:I know the solution on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    If it came down to a large scale problem over an elapsed time, you really think the current government would maintain power? We live in an age where military movement and political decisions happen quickly because of technology. Any break down in that would most likely result in anarchy. If not nation wide, locally through the country. And yeah, you can get guns, but how do you stop a mob with guns? I hope you planned an underground bunker with hydroponics too, and provided yourself with at least a 1K geothermal generator.

  5. Re:I know the solution on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What do you do when people with guns realize this and force you off your land? I had the same thing at my last place, including 4K of windpower and 2K of solar backed by enough batteries to last me through 3 days. Everything that could be gas was gas. 800gal propane tank. What was I to do when that ran out? Someone would find out I was living comfy and then more people would decide they need what I had more than me.

  6. Re:I'm in favor of the Apt Tax on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: 1

    Reading that link, it seems a person could be charged on the same $ 4, 5, or maybe even 6 times depending on how he allocated and then later spends. An even simpler tax would be a global tax on purchase of goods. Everyone needs them and everyone buys them. You would get taxes on what you buy and not what you earn. That way, invested income would be safe from taxes until you drew it out later, and guess what spent it on a good.

  7. Re:Damn on Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons · · Score: 1

    Here where I live we c_n't type a cert_in letter. You know, the first letter of the _lph_bet.

    D_mn, I'll be p_ying for my sig.

    Here where I live we c_n't type "[a] FAIL" cert_in letter. You know, the first letter of the _lph_bet.

    D_mn, I'll be p_ying for my sig.

  8. Re: new acronym! on Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK · · Score: 1, Troll

    I Wank Freely And Laugh Faggotly?

  9. Re:Bzzzzzt! on Telecom Rollouts Raise Ire Over Utility Boxes · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the pole itself falling would bounce off someones head with no damage?

  10. Do they run linux? on Red Hat, Fedora Servers Compromised · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have ran a secure OS like vista.

  11. Re:Worth it. on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's not expect site maintainers to actually keep their ssl certs up to date. Oh noes. We want customers to not trust ssl certs so they may fall victim to a scam.

  12. Re:Old fashioned way on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In a school system like grade and high school, could this not lead to cheaper operating cost for the school? Maybe this could allow higher wages to the teachers and more activities for the students to partake in. The books don't have to be e-books, but it would be nice as the books could stay at school and the students could view them online at home and or print out the portion of the book they need for that week.

  13. Re:Net Worth... on Man Selling His Life On eBay · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My father in law does outside construction. He own's a tow behind camper, 16' bass boat, 2 jetski's, 2 chevy 1500 HD trucks, a lincoln town car, and a $450,000USD house and a camping property on the Missouri river. I'm pretty sure people who budget early in life can afford nicer things later on if they make enough to initially subsist on and a little extra.

  14. Surveys... on 1 In 3 Sysadmins Snoop On Colleagues · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of those 2 out of 3 left, 4 out of 5 were found to have lied on the survey. Of those that lied, it was found that 2 out of 3 only snoop on those they think they have a romantic connection with and considered it not snooping but pre-mutual love investigation. Of those that act and are rejected, 50% continue to snoop to plan murderous intentions that later end in the woman of said attraction kicking said admins ass. Makes you wonder where all these stats come from really though doesn't it..

  15. Re:But who is actually the Master of Orion? on US Court Orders Company to Use Negative Keywords · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many people get the MoO ref?

  16. Imagine... on Fujitsu HDD with AES 256-bit Encryption · · Score: 1

    An encrypted raid volume on these.

  17. Re:Oops on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn YOU!!!!

    I try to be a somewhat law abiding citizen. Thanks for my first criminal act of the day I didn't even mean to commit.

  18. Time line.... on Ye Olde World Charm · · Score: 1

    This story is about as old as the genre of the articles coverage itself.

  19. Makes sense on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 1

    From a time issue along. Left turns usually require red light wait, whereas many right turns just a stop, count 3 and go.

  20. Re:Just great! on AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones · · Score: 2, Funny

    How the hell am I supposed to get out of the Matrix and back to the real world if they take away half the hardlines that tie into the matrix.

  21. Re:the other Coke on Spam Lawsuit's Last Laugh is at Hormel's Expense · · Score: 1

    Coke at one point in time had cocaine in it. It caused headache's in many people and the FDA forced them to take it out and reformulate. It maintained the name and the same great taste though.

  22. Re:just taking care to take care. on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    Education will soon be seen as a threat to. Maybe we can still keep school age children in school though and teach them things about "government thinking and how we should not question it 101", "home economic and your role in taxes to promote higher wages for your elected officials", and of course, "The truth about global warming theory terrorist".

  23. Re:I'm entirely happy with Comcast. on Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast · · Score: 1

    I'd test my upstream bandwidth, and I would put a cheap router that can do QoS and guarantee vonage so much bandwidth. Otherwise, p2p will compete, and usually win the bandwidth war that it wages with other things trying to share it. Also, what kind of ping latency do you get to some random server and then the vonage server? Test this on a couple non vonage ports and then test it with the vonage ports to see if you can tell a diff..

  24. Re:I'm entirely happy with Comcast. on Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast · · Score: 1

    I hear and see this complaint a lot. I had the same complaint for a long time. In my case, it was the cable going to the modem. It had to many splitters in line. It was split just before it came in the house with one end capped off, once it came in it was split with one going to the TV and the other fed into the house, it was split one more time so I could feed the kids room, and still one more time so it could feed the tv in my room and then to the computer room. I was in an apartment at the time but I rewired a lot of things and managed to get the cable modem to be behind just one splitter. I knew I had bad latency, but I never knew how bad the splitters were until I started to investigate the problem more. Didn't help that the distribution box that Comcast serviced on the side of my apt had (counted em), 8 splitters for who knows what in it...

  25. RAID!! on 640gb PCIe Solid-State Drive Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Imagine a RAID6 of these. With a parallel interface between then for parity calculations..