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  1. Re:I would. on Are Job Perks Coming into Vogue Again? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, I wouldn't want employees to be motivated by beer. But I would want employees who appreciate a sense of community and who feel they are truly valued. By providing perks at work you get employees will want to reciprocate the treatment they received back to their employer and will feel a pride of accomplishment and a loyalty to their employer. This will translate into increased productivity and profits.

  2. Re:Bear this in mind. on Apple Not Too Harmonious with Real · · Score: 1

    Vote for whomever you want. My only point is that the libertairian won't win but voting for your candiate will help Bush win. Since you think Bush is better than Kerry, your Libertarian vote is reasonable for you.

  3. Re:Sombody please explain it.. on Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On E-voting · · Score: 1

    With our current system of punch cards and optical scans the voter can see that their choice is recorded correctly. Then they put their ballot in a box that they can see. While it is true that someone could throw the box away, physically discarding votes is harder to get away with than invisibly re-writing the data in an e-voting machine where there is no physical object to have to steal and throw away.

  4. Re:Hold on a second.... on Publisher Renames 'Katie.com' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the discussion was as reported it is quite possible that KatieT's lawyer was trying to goad Katie Jones into asking for money. If she did, KatieT's lawer could have used that as trumped up evidence that Katie Jones was trying to illegally profit from the trademark "Katie.Com" and try and get the WIPO to award the domain to KatieT. I think the lawyer's call was even more insidious than it appeared. Remember, tricking the website owner into an offer to "sell" a domain was used to get Mike Rowe who had MikeRoweSoft.com

  5. Re:Electronic Voting Needs a Paper Trail on Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On E-voting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A piece of paper by itself does nothing. The paper has to show the voter how they voted in a human readable way and a way that can be verified against the machine. However, if no audit is conducted, the paper does absolutely nothing but give voters a false sense of security.

  6. Re:Sombody please explain it.. on Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On E-voting · · Score: 1

    Electronic voting is very difficult to do secretly for two reasons. The first is that it must be anonymous, which makes verifying who voted difficult. Next, it is difficult to prove that an anonymous person voted one way or another because the data can be intercepted and changed at any point between the voters fingers (assuming the vote machine even bothers to verify a real voter) and the final tally. So, the question is how can you know how an anonymous voter voted for sure? Not an easy task. Plus, how does the anonymous voter know his vote counted and counted the right way? Those issues have to be sorted out.

  7. Re:The Power of Slashdot???? on Publisher Renames 'Katie.com' · · Score: 1

    I'd say blog power won out... No question.

  8. Finally!A way to play Polo that costs like a Horse on Segway Revolutionizes Polo · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't want Polo to get any cheaper. Thank god the price of Segways will still keep out the riff raff.

  9. Re:Bear this in mind. on Apple Not Too Harmonious with Real · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I really can't blame Real. Apple's claims are like saying putting files on a hard drive is hacking the hard drive. BTW, a vote for a 3d party candidate is a vote for Bush. You'll get real change, a total police state.

  10. Re:Catching them on the subtleties-NOT a valid tes on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1

    I also got 90% by being too cautious. I thought the microsoft one looked funny. But this wasn't a valid test since we couldn't see the target URLs

  11. This guy is violating copyrights! on P2P Leaks Surprises · · Score: 1

    It's pretty clear that this Astroturf hitman for Orin Hatch has it in for P2P even though the real problem he has found is unsecured networks. As much as he claims he is trying to "alert the military," his motives are as suspicious as the I'm "30" years old claim One thing is for sure, he doesn't own the copyrights to the photos he's posting. All photos are automatically copyrighted by the person taking the picture. Blurring our someone's eyes doesn't give you clearance to post the photos for your own uses...