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  1. Re:"Incite" on MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs · · Score: 1

    Possibly, however "incentivize" got me over 50,000 hits on the google....

  2. Re:Doesn't really tell them where I've been on UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel · · Score: 1

    It is called airline reservation and ticketing systems. Amadeus et al. Also whenever your passport is scanned or that little piece of paper you filled in is input, there it goes. They all cooperate in a scratch backs scenario. If it moves it is tracked.

  3. Re:Uhg on RIAA Threatens Harvard Law Prof With Sanctions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, the old fogies as you call them are really quite young the biggest of them being Edgar Bronfman, Jr son of a booze smuggler in prohibition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman,_Jr.

  4. Re:Legal language and strength of case on RIAA Threatens Harvard Law Prof With Sanctions · · Score: 1

    That was indeed a memorable moment and one I would like to see repeated often.

  5. It is not supported on OpenID Fan Club Is Shrinking · · Score: 2, Informative

    It would help if the players actually had spent any effort to make it work. Try using Verisign's site and it is horrible. It times out when validating. The others while rich in graphics are no better, nothing to see here .....

  6. Re:I'll take the risk then! on UK Government Says More Spying Needed · · Score: 1

    You seem to think that the reason is to protect You. It is them that they are worried about.

  7. When do the US folks wake up ? on Voting Machines Routinely Failing Nationwide · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You have been totally screwed. While you worry about your credit rating, saftey and all, your freedoms have been stolen. Thank God that there is 3000 miles of ocan between you and us. If only the distance from UK was the same.

  8. Re:Oh, my. on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    HP via Tandem, many systems were written in Tal. The old settlemet was Tallisman....

  9. Re:Legal consequence? on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    Ask Barry Bonds.

  10. Re:Truth: on The Electronic Bastille · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just as Capitalism only work when there are sufficient number of poor and unemployed. Democracy is the same ... Carrot and Stick ....

  11. Re:I don't on Pitfalls of Automated Bill Payment · · Score: 1

    You could always just pay for the year/Quarter etc in advance and have done with it.

  12. Re:tier? on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bush went to Yale.

  13. Re:Slideshow on Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Boardroom · · Score: 1, Funny

    This must be one of the most obnoxious sites I have been linked ionto in a very long time. .....

  14. Re:because on Cell Phone Encryption Exploit Demonstrated · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the pass phrases are generally use once and discard. They are generated on demand or pre arranged.

  15. Re:It keeps being said on Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? · · Score: 1

    Yep ... Like Jello Biafra once said "Give me convenience or give me death"

  16. What gear you got at home ? on California Utilities to Control Thermostats? · · Score: 2, Informative

    And I'd almost rather have the power drop than have someone significantly raise the temperature in my home if I had a computer running there

    What the hell you running in there ? California, with the exception of the Central Valley and a few deserts (not all that populated) is not all that hot. I have run almost all forms of workstations sans AC in 40C + weather with no adverse effects.

  17. Re:Educated Educators!? on 12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions · · Score: 1

    ... and besides isn't thinking a little suspect in America anyway these days?

    It's downright unamerican ....

  18. Re:talk about crappy risk assessment on Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    Do we detect a pattern of utter stupidity here?

    only on the part of the voting public...

  19. Re:well.. on Batcave Home Theater · · Score: 1

    Mabey she just wants to enjoy the house being retired and all.

  20. Re:What's next, background checks to get into a ba on Flawed Online Dating Bill Being Pushed in New Jersey · · Score: 1

    I suppose that I have never really thought of risk analysis for dating, also gave never dated by internet so perhaps it is not so far fetched for the US/Internet dating. Just seems strange and somewhat clinical/cynical. But hell, like the Clash said "This is the Modern world"

  21. Re:What's next, background checks to get into a ba on Flawed Online Dating Bill Being Pushed in New Jersey · · Score: 1

    That said, I think the problem is that people too stupid to do their own background checks actually increase their chance of reproducing through these dating sites.

    Do you credit check all of your dates as well? This seem really fucking stupid. Why on earth would it matter to you. Do you really want to know everything about someone prior to even meeting them? Remember, a very large percentage of US citizens have criminal records and or previous messed up credit histories. Must be why so many here on /. have no dates, wives et al.
  22. Re:Waste of time on Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    How the hell is this insightful ?
    The third world knows all about agriculture, many have been in the field long before the Europeans came out of the caves. What they have only recently begun to learn is how dumping heavily subsidised US and Euro food into their markets makes it impossible for the average person to compete. Laws that make it difficult to export even as collectives and World Bank rules that make progress nearly impossible, and least not we forget the great aid packages which line the pockets of despots, oh, and lest we forget the requirement that they use a lot of this so called aid to buy defense for their countries from the donor country(s).

    As has been stated so many times in this thread this is not about laptops, but to provide a tool for use in educational projects. to provide educational materials which can not be affordably provided in another form. ie. Country which has many languages, books do not work out well here in terms of mass production and the list goes on.

  23. Re:All the "piracy" is digital, sure. on The Pirate Bay Facing "Old Fashioned" Pressure · · Score: 1

    Sheesh - and they call the US "land of the free"!
    I certianly have not heard anyone say that for a long time .....
  24. Great for DB indexes on Solid State Drives - Fast, Rugged, and Expensive · · Score: 1

    Back around 1998 we tried using 1GB SSD's for database indexes, with the rest of the DB using standard drives. Was pretty good, however very expensive. Normal drives are much faster now, and in-memory databases like Polyhedra and Times Ten are pretty good for the same function at a much lower cost, but glad to see them comming in now.

  25. Re:ask a lawyer on Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In many industries such as advertising often the only reason you get the job is the clients you can bring. This has always been the case in sales, marketing etc.