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  1. Re:Maybe they *can't* upgrade on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No thats the failing of an admin too. A lot of this stuff can be traced with filemon and other tools. Then just update GPO to give them whatever rights they need. Then bug your vendor so they sell you software that fits your security model.

  2. Re:Maybe they *can't* upgrade on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 1

    >Furthermore, we've spent so much time training users to ignore messages that say "Your $FOO is out of date! Click here to install

    If thats such a huge problem, then why are you letting them have local admin rights?

  3. Re:Good movie on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    You have to shoot it in some real city if you want real architecture. Or would you prefer another craptastic CGI background where everything looks fake and the actors are looking at random things because there's no point of reference on a giant green screen?

    I'll take some nice Chicago backgrounds over the CGI junk in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

  4. Re:Oh yeah! Interference FTW. on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My favorite is the coral reef some geniuses made out of... used tires.

    Its now considered an ecological disaster.

    http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/18/news/tires.php

  5. Re:How many years for the morals? on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 0

    He's also a borderline psychopath. The idea of vigilantism is loved by children but in the real world all vigilantes are just as bad as criminals. They dismiss your civil rights and take matters into their own hands. The idea that someone can 'determine right and wrong' on a fair level like this is silly. Who do you petition for legal recourse while receiving a beating? Like most comics the premise is fantasy.

    A real batman would quickly be imprisoned and we'd be happy to see him there.

  6. Re:Why!? on Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC · · Score: 1

    >I am having trouble suppressing my anxiety.

    What I do is I look at the flight crew and pilot and think "These people have been on hundreds if not thousands of flights each and they are still alive and uninjured. I'm just a beginner compared to them." That kinda kills the drama right there.

  7. Re:One thing Google could do about incoming spam.. on Spammers Choose GMail · · Score: 1

    Why shouldnt it? If the originating IP is in a foreign netblock then trash it. Its 100% doable.

  8. Re:One thing Google could do about incoming spam.. on Spammers Choose GMail · · Score: 1

    Or how about providing this option "I dont expect email from senders outside of the USA. Put all foreign mail into junk."

  9. Re:Oh that tears it. on Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users · · Score: 1

    And its in the form of firstname.lastname@gmail.com right?

  10. Re:Translation of PDF on SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier · · Score: 1

    Right, because no mentally ill people have ever gone to prison!

  11. Re:Display bugs on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or why the heck is the 'Reply to This' button so fricking huge? Seriously think about shrinking it.

  12. Re:Watt?! on The Pirate Bay's Plans To Encrypt the 'Net · · Score: 1

    Why would they care? If youre the kind of person who is pirating movies (after this is the pirate bay) then youre probably leaving machines on 24/7 to finish the downloads. Whats a little more wood in the bonfire?

  13. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! on Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks. · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, actually the latter will be lost for a few months until the former reveals its location but the retrieved data will be pretty corrupt.

  14. Re:HOWTO install AVG without Search Crawling on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    Thats what bugs me. The UI shouldnt be warning me if one component was disabled on purpose. I think AVG needs to rework this version of its popular app.

  15. Re:Harmonics on Wood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret · · Score: 1

    What about "learned" harmonics? I imagine violin players grow up listening to recordings of strads and have internalized their timbre. They may not sound better than a similiar instrument, people have accepted the differences and flaws as superior.

  16. Re:I actually thought of doing this back in the da on NSFnet — 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight · · Score: 2, Interesting

    BBSs did this back in the day. Hell, I cant remember what it was called but there would be 3am BBS to BBS phone calls which exchanged forum posts, emails, etc. Worked well, at least in the Chicago area BBSs.

  17. Re:Webb, Richardson, or Clark are better choices i on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    Even powell said "this is bullshit" but he read the Anthrax line and portable chemical factories lines with a straight face. He's an unelectable pariah at best and a war criminal at worst. His doubts never stopped him from helping to wage war for false reasons. A higher crime I cannot think of.

  18. Re:Webb, Richardson, or Clark are better choices i on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    Powell lied to the UN to help start the Iraq conflict. Remember the vial of anthrax? Hows that war going? How much WMD did the US find? He's unfit to be county dogcatcher let alone VP. He's going down in history as Bush's lapdog.

    I love how bad these prediction systems are. Its hilarious. Even more hilarious when people agree.

  19. Re:Hope on The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding · · Score: 1

    No one is "built" for anything. We sure as heck werent built to farm nor to work in offices. Either society adapts or it dies. The anti-aging change sounds less stressful than the caveman to city-man change.

  20. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    They werent any gun control laws passed by the nazi government (aside from one aimed at jews). The Weimar government had some but werent enforced and the nazis managed to get armed quite easily, thank you very much.

    Saddam allowed one AK-47 per home btw.

  21. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    >The people can only overthrow a tyrannical government if they have weapons which enable them to do so.

    Yes, just like in Saddam's Iraq or Hitler's Germany. Oh wait.

    Your pistols are worthless against a mechanized division. The overthrow argument is a kiddie fantasy and not applicable to the modern world and modern military technologies.

  22. Re:Typical Discovery Channel... on The World's Nine Largest Science Projects · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least theyre not watching the history channel. I believe the current lineup is:

    5pm: Jesus vs Bigfoot. Which one is hiding in the wilderness?

    6pm: Rare Sighting: Hitler's Ghost. Does it have a message for us?

    7pm: Random "Weekly World News" articles turned into TV shows.

    8pm: Some random thing about Rome with lots of gladiatorial combat and boobage.

    9pm: 9/11 conspiracy theories.

    10pm: An Atlantis "documentary"

    11pm: Another Atlantis "docuentary" this time with quotes for certified "researchers."

    12pm: Something else about Jesus, Hitler, or 9/11. Or all three at once (Hitler planned 9/11 when Jesus was sleeping.)

  23. Re:Then STOP releasing the product! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    We'll never know the true author of that email, but I could see someone at Bill's level purposely thinking like a typical end-user and asking typical end-user questions for usability criticisms. I think Bill knows that if he keeps coming up with technical excuses for everything then nothing will get done and the product will suffer because a non-technical audience will be confused.

  24. Re:Coolest? on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its incredible a university would let this kind of equipment go to waste. If people arent clamoring to run things then you either have a non-existent (or terrible) CS department or too much money that should have gone elsewhere.

    Regardless, there are tons of grid clients out there. There's always something to run.

  25. Re:My first post in a long time. on Man Selling His Life On eBay · · Score: 1

    I'm certain this kind of thing happens all the time. People restart after divorces, sickness, or just being tired of the grind. You dont hear about it. They just move and start again somewhere. Its human nature.