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  1. Rights attack on Officials Warn: Cyber War On the US Has Begun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FUD to steal more of our rights away. "FOR YOUR PROTECTION, we need to monitor everything, sign on the dotted line and everything will be ok. You Can Trust US" MEH.

  2. Family on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I find the problem is not so much age but family. I've got 2 kids and I can't spend as much time engrossed in tech as I used to. This is depressing, but I rely on my coworkers to understand as I grow as a person into, hopefully, something more than the straight tech I was before as I learn patience and other traits from having to deal with my life as a father and husband.

  3. Re:Agreed on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 2

    I don't agree with your thesis. I had a lot of fun with technology when I was a kid. Worse is the feeling I get that tells me Slashdot is one of the few "safe places" where I may actually get someone else to agree with me instead of just saying "hu hu hu sex is fun, let's make stupid jokes about it."

    signed,
    well adjusted 30-something male, job, kids, all the normal things.

  4. Re:Ockham's razor on US Security Services May 'Have Moles Within Microsoft,' Says Researcher · · Score: 2

    To further this idea, even if we were to have it confirmed, what would it change? The population is too pacified to really care.

  5. Re:Ockham's razor on US Security Services May 'Have Moles Within Microsoft,' Says Researcher · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only if it were to ever be acknowledged, something that has zero possibility of ever happening.

  6. Fascinating on The Numbers of a Life · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find this fascinating. What I find even more fascinating is how can the man sustain such a momentus amount of activity while maintaining a family? Seriously, he works every waking hour of every day, with no interruption of email activity except dinner and sleep... Where does his family fit in? In my case, my wife won't let me, so perhaps this is just my unique situation. Anyone else have commentary on family life vs work/passion life?

  7. Re:Still continues to be an asshole on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 1

    He has the typical east coast bravado and dismissive atitude. I don't mean to stereotype EVERYONE from Boston/New York area, but that whole area is infused with people who are just mean. The only way they are equipped to work with other people is through a method of communication that involves a complete lack of tact and understanding.

    Ok that is not entirely fair, but it is fair to say that the east coast is where I usually find people like this. Pushy, dismissive, self centered etc.

  8. technically unfeasable on Steve Jobs Wanted an iPhone-Only Wireless Network · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This would not have been feasible, which is why it didn't work. the idea of a carrier pushing through a wifi network with enough coverage space is laughable. The 3g/4g wireless spectrum operates entirely different than wifi because wifi is limited in many ways..

    The point is, we can all sit around and throw ideas and himhaw back and forth, but if things don't pass engineering/financial spec the don't get done. Applauding Jobs as a visionary for an idea that failed on technical and financial merit is kinda stupid.

  9. rDNS bad on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    Many email servers do not have rDNS, therefore it is not advisable to filter based on a lack of rDNS alone.

    It can be argued that it should have an rDNS, but if they don't, you have no control over that since it's their system. Then you'll be spending way too much of your time tweaking spam filters and creating white lists, contacting the sending company's administrators...

    It's just a bad idea, don't do it.

    That said, I prefer SaaS email spam filtering like Symantec's Messagelabs. (Disclosure, I am an ML partner)). I like this service because I don't have to worry about managing it. It saves me a lot of time.

  10. Re:Federal Sales Tax on Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not only that, but yet another tax to collect for the feds, thus creating an operational barrier to entry for new enterprise.

  11. Re:sure looks like she was misinterpreted on The Mythical Tunnel Between CERN and Central Italy · · Score: 1

    From the italian press release: "Alla costruzione del tunnel tra il Cern ed i laboratori del Gran Sasso"

    It seems the word "tunnel" is shared between English and Italian. That said, the cultural context and definition /could/ be different, meaning instead not a literal tunnel but ... ahh whatever.

  12. Re:turnkeylinux on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    I came here to recommend turnkey linux also. They have a PHPBB turnkey linux, and their backup solution to Amazon S3 ROCKS. So cheap to keep a backup.

  13. Re:BIG Mistake on Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business · · Score: 1

    Why would they have to split into 2 different brands to show content providers that statistic? Doesn't make sense to me.

  14. Re:$150k per year!? on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 5, Insightful

    $150k a year goes very far where I live. Correspondingly, though, there are no jobs which pay $150k a year here so the point is moot.

  15. Free OSS for lawyers? on Open Source For Lawyers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just what lawyers need, free software because they don't bill enough to pay for software and the jobs it supplies.

    Typical lawyers, want to charge you $$$ (250+ an hour) and yet spend NOTHING on the backend. They do not know the value of other people's time while over-valuing their own.

  16. never happen on Vint Cerf Says Fix the Net With More Pipe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    unfortunately there is no way this will happen. There are too many important competing interests which act at the beaurocratic/governance level which are anti-bandwidth.

    MPAA/RIAA don't want people to stream quickly because they fear content being stolen
    CIA/FBI don't want increased bandwidth because they need(or think they need) to be able to monitor and index all communication (TIA)
    ATT/Verizon and other telecoms don't want to because it represents a cost that will interfere with their milking of customers
    Comcast doesn't want it because it will interfere with their control over content

    Everyone just wants to stay status quo or worse. This will never happen.

  17. Re:master password on Google Releases Chrome 12 · · Score: 1

    Strike all that. I was wrong. I'll have to check out the chrome/keepass integration. I think that's new since last I checked, thank you!

  18. Re:master password on Google Releases Chrome 12 · · Score: 1

    I appreciate you taking the time to look, but not really. Near as I can tell, the only password storing/saving mechanisms available for Chrome are in the form of "online services" which I've no interest in being a part of.

    I just want my passwords saved, securely encrypted with seed, to my local hard disk. I don't want to create an account with a service, because I don't trust them to safeguard my passwords, nor have any interest in them knowing which sites i save passwords to or any other number of things online services have access to when you use them.

  19. master password on Google Releases Chrome 12 · · Score: 1

    does chrome have it's own local master password yet? until then i am never going to use it.

  20. Re:Not anti-intellectualism on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In order for the statement "college is a waste of time" to be anti-intellectual, one has to presume there is intellectual knowledge to be obtained exclusively from college and nowhere else.

    I find a vast majority of students (these days or perhaps any other) treat college more as an extension of high school and a social/networking opportunity more than raw pursuit of exposure to academics.

    I do not like the way the question is posed. It seems to make assumptions that are not necessarily true in order to posit that "geeks are becoming anti-intellectual".

  21. Liberia is a US offshoot on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 2

    The interesting thing about this is that Liberia is comprised of US ex-pats; slaves who populated the country when "Back to Africa" was embraced by ex-slaves. It's really amazing to study this area of history. Even their flag is Red White and Blue. It's weird that they share the same addiction to imperial measurement also.

  22. Non-identifiable? on AP Adopts Firefox's 'Do Not Track'; Others On the Way · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "but aggregate consumer data for those with DNT in a non-identifiable way.'"

    hmm. Haven't we had many stories about how "non-identifiable" is still identifiable in some cases? It sounds like "Do Not Track" may mean actually "Might track less". As with all voluntary things though, the implementation is completely up to the company implementing it. There's no reason for them to do anything different. I might think it would even allow another layer of tracking since if you have "DNT" on then all that means is yet another flag could be used as a unique identifier, and now they can infer that you're tech savvy and paranoid enough to flip that flag.. What is the point of this again?

  23. Re:Can someone explain the appeal here? on Groupon Could Challenge Google's Record IPO · · Score: 1

    The attraction is not to people who can figure out why it's not a deal. The attraction is to people who can't.

  24. Re:Heh... on Google Introduces Domain Blocking To Search · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we subscribe here and I've found many solutions to problems using our account. I find it an easy to use resource and worth the subscription. I'm not sure what the aversion is. It's just a knowledgebase. Can anyone enlighten me about why people here seem to not like EE?

  25. Master Password on First Look At Chrome 10 · · Score: 1

    Does it have a master password yet? Until then there's no way I can use it.