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  1. Sadly on Net Marketers Worried as Cookies Lose Effectiveness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If someone has money, you have no privacy.

    Its a mircale that marketing firms are not claiming to 'own' the cookies and sue you if you delete them for destruction of property.

  2. Hack it and keep high forever on FDA OKs Brain Pacemaker for Depression · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how hackable they would be to send 'pleasure' signals... Kinda like a star trekkie thing that keeps your brain in extacy for hours upon hours... That would be the life... who cares about money after that implant.

    Seriously, Depression is a dissease that affects almost everyone at some point in our lives. Those who cant be helped with alternative methods could serously benefit from such. Whats needed now is a way to determine if someone is clinincally depressed even if they are denying it. This might have pain and suffering of a local 13 year old who tried to take his own life last winter, but only succeded in making himself worse off.

  3. Re:I tried this... on Pay-Per-Click Speculation Market Soaring · · Score: 1

    Tripple digits, my account was canned 2 days before the second check would have been issued, and it was for around $700. My ads were on 5 domains, each getting 2500-5000 unique hits a week. I did purposfully fish out higher paying ads, but it was still for ligimate pages. Kinda akin to somone selling sodapop for $2 a can at a football game, its legal.. only because people are willing to pay it.

  4. I tried this... on Pay-Per-Click Speculation Market Soaring · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually got one check from google, Sadly even tho all of my sites were ligitamte and had real content not just faked up content, they booted me and said that I was generating false clicks, and then refused to tell me from where... This area needs to have some laws made regulating companies and there policies so the end users, the little guys, have some rights.

  5. Quality of the OS on 400,000 Windows Users Switch To Mac · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I much, much preffer using OS X versus windows. OS X is so much more mature of an operating system than windows even attempts to be. The old addage of 'it just works' very much so applies. If Apple can come down in price a bit more, and bring in more software development, and market there machines a bit more agressivly, then Apple has a great chance to take over some market share.

    Add to the fact with the rumors of all the DRM lockup of longhorn, OS X has none of that expect with iTunes, who wants to use an OS that is crippled for media?

    I have purchased a Mac Mini, and a 17" top of the line Powerbook within the past 3 months. I was praying that OS X would at some point run on all intel/x86 hardware, but I doubt I ever see that.

    Mac has OS X going for it, and Its a very good thing indeed, no wonder people are switching over and dumping spyware, adware, drm crippled, and virus infested PC's that, never ever come close to having a realitivly bug free, secure operating system.

  6. Re:Better screens on New iBooks 'Any Day Now' · · Score: 0

    I have a 17" Powerbook and the screen is perfectly clear and sharp, very much more so than my old SXGA Dell. There is no problems with brightness, contrast, sharpness, or anything. Watching high action movies on it is superb also.

  7. With as much populatrity as linux has in.. on Intel Cutting Linux Out of Content Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the server domain, i find it very hard to ever imagine Intel doing anything with purpose to hurt linux. Intel makes hardware, I doubt they really care what OS the hardware runs, as long as they sell chips. Intel may hate AMD and program there compilers to hate AMD, but I seriously doubt they would maim there own hardware to knock down a OS that doesnt support DRM. Besides, who's to say they cant code linux to adapt to it?

  8. what do they want us to prepare for? on MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thousands of bugs? Just when IE 6 is getting to be bug free.. (hahahah) They pull a new version of the browser on us... Time to pack up the bomb shelter for the new viruses... its going to be a long haul maw..

  9. Honestly... . on Homeland Security Adds Cybersecurity Position · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We would never in a million years read private, innocent citizens emails. Why on earth would you think we would even want to?

    Oh Btw, your under arrest for sharing Peter Pan on Kaaza

  10. Re:Outstanding on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 1

    I havnt seen yet where apple forces me to constrict my divx playback? Or where it stops me from making MP3's. Or stops me from playing MP3's. I havnt seen where apple scans my hard drive for offending material and then deletes it (as rumored to be in longhorn)

  11. Re:Outstanding on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 1

    Sadly this is the type of materials that microsoft is going to be pounding on us, and the reasons why Linux and OS X will fly to the customers faster and faster than ever before. My last two computer purchases have been a Mac Mini and a Powerbook. Why? Because windows is going even further down the crapper. Who in there right mind would buy something, in which it restricts what media you can, or cant buy. Also, lets not talk about the media scanning devices that wont let non-drm enabled media play? hasnt that in itself been a rumored 'feature' of longhorn? Give me OS X anyday, and I will be much happier than ever having touched windows.

  12. What they dont understand... on RIAA Supporting Commercial P2P · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is part of the alure of P2P and huge p2p networks is not just getting free music. It is the ability to get ANY music you want. You are not limited to what they think might be the top 1 million sellable songs.

    I Might want to listen to Croatian rock... I might want to listen to some Russian heavy metal... I might want to listen to some South African Youth Choir... My chances of finding that on iTunes is slim..

    Until Ligitimate music services can offer a library of hundreds of millions of songs from every genre, from every language, from evey country of the world... They have work to do and ways to improve.

    Not to mention that frequently, the music you buy off iTunes is not FLAC quality, something that when I make my own portalbe music for my own portalbe plays I often use

  13. Re:What about the author's intellectual property? on DVD Decrypter Author Served With Take-Down Order · · Score: 1

    Obviously the author struck a deal with the bully company who is comming after them over this. The deal most likely said, you will render everything and anything that deals with your entire project to us, or we will sue your rear end off and keep you tied up in courts forever, bankrupt you and your entire family and then try to put you in jail.

    What right do they have? It would depend on the law, for a specfic reason... But, most likely no rights other than bullying him into giving up the source code in exechange for... a slap on the wrist.

  14. Death to site lic's on The Death of Licensed Enterprise Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These are some of the most annoying things ever invented, having to mass deploy software and then worry about ... we have 26 students and 25 lics.. Cuz it only comes in 5,10,25.... OMG time to run to the store and buy another one..

    Really, software should be lic'ed to an individual company based on the total number of deployments that they have used the past year. That way its fair to the developer, and fair to the end user. Flexable lics would be a very nice thing indeed, getting rid of them all together would be a boon of even bigger proportions!

  15. Banks ? Secure institutions? on Over Half a Million Bank Accounts Breached · · Score: 0, Troll

    Our banks are supposed to be some of the most secure instituions available to us. I wonder if they will reverse the charge on my credit card if I claim I didnt make it and it was caused by my personal information being breeched...

  16. Aol is dying on Time Warner to Spin Off AOL? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    AOL is a dying system. It was first used as a dial up connection with an interesting GUI. this is no longer what the end user wants. They still focus on dial up, versus the exploading broadband arena. IMO this is one of the first steps to its grave. Seperation of the company who's more or less holding it afloat.

    AOL? Hahaha you use AOL? damn dude.... I feel sorry for ya.

  17. They dont arrest them? on BusinessWeek on Hacker Hunters · · Score: 1

    Im surprised that the FBI doesnt arrest the hacker hunters... they tend to like to arrest everything they can see doing anything that might be something they dont like....

    Ive got my tin foil hat on again too..

  18. small colleges on Updating Free Software in the Enterprise? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unfortunatly I work for a small college in Maryland, our updates are all still done manually by hand. We still use norton ghost to do all of our mass deployments. Moving forward to something like this, that would ease my own burdon would definitly be a step in the right direction, however we have neither the budget or willingness to pay for such services. We make do with what we have, it works for us to this point, but things definitly could be better.

    We have aproximatly 550 PC's on two completely differnt networks (facualty and students)

  19. Considering mac mini's take less power than cpus on Green buildings, Green Server Farms? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Considering my mac mini takes less power than just my AMD cpu, let alone not talking about the video card, etc... Im really wondering if the push for massive cpu power at the cost of extreme electrical usage is really worth it.

    Green everything should be a good thing, but what if the cost of green than reclamation and regeneration?

  20. Re:Be careful on Subjecting Yourself to Experimental Meds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My mothers life was also saved in such a way, it was nearly 16 years ago and she's still living today. My father and our family lawyer signed tons and tons of papers releasing the hospital/doctors from malpractice and other legalities... But they finally got her heart started and... Thankfully, she's still with us today... 16 years later.

    As I said above, these drugs have to be tested on someone. When the time comes to say.. "Your dead.. but we can try this and see if you will be alive.. well, Lets try it!"

    I would rather be alive than dead anyday, even if I do go to the place above, and I still have my mother here today.

  21. If nobody voulnteers no cures will be found on Subjecting Yourself to Experimental Meds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Its pretty obvious... If nobody vols for these medications, then the results will never be determined. Once we leave the earth we goto a better place above anyway, or so a lot of people tell me. Its a good thing to test experimental drugs...

    Just not on me.

  22. Re:BSD on OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching · · Score: 1

    Even if they dont contribute anything back, I am sure that Apple would keep the core foundation of it alive, and not let it die. Who knows, apple may contribute back. I do not know that they dont, or do.

  23. Re:big development for this year ... on OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching · · Score: 1

    Isnt microsoft a troll? Practically the entire world runs microshaft... Again I say microsoft needs to hold these hacking conventions daily, maybee then they could finally release a OS with a limited number of bugs and security problems. If they did this, the major security problems would be addressed up front and without thousands of people being affected by there greed and stupidity.

  24. Re:BSD on OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching · · Score: 1

    Considering Darwin is most likely BSD, its far from dead. Probably the basis of the most significantly well designed OS yet to hit the market for personal computing. (OS X)

  25. great events on OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These things are really good... They can show serious flaws and direct programers in the areas needed to develop.. Microsoft should take note of these and have them weekly, if not daily :-)