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  1. Contradiction? on Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They pose a greater risk because of unauthorized software, yet they are more security aware. Am I missing something that would otherwise make this sensical?

  2. ARRRR! on IBM Optical Chip Zips Huge Files Using Little Power · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's just hope the pirate bay doesn't get a hold of this puppy.

  3. Really now? on Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    If universitites actually enforced their network access policies (academic, non personal business only blah blah), I would never be able to post this comm

  4. Adverts on Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories · · Score: 0

    As long as we are advertising disk recovery companies, may I say that Microsoft's ScanDisk is wonderful. \sarcasm

  5. Flamebait on Leopard as the New Vista? · · Score: 0

    This whole rant reeks of a troll. It is just one user's experience. And he seems to have the delusion that Apple is perfect. Nothing is perfect. And comparing it to Vista is just further trolling IMHO. It's like saying Ford sucks because they have the same problems as Chevy and Chevy sucks.

  6. What is it? on PlayStation 2 Game ICO Violates the GPL · · Score: 0

    Why have I never heard of this game? And in a related question, why do I want the source code for a game I have never heard of?

  7. Re:TeX on Stix Scientific Fonts Reach Beta Release · · Score: 1

    I am not sure what you mean by "consistent outlook". If you mean a consistent appearance, that is what TeX is for in the first place.

  8. TeX on Stix Scientific Fonts Reach Beta Release · · Score: 0, Informative

    Umm, we already have a perfectly good standard solution. It's called TeX.

  9. I can testify on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 0

    I happen to live about 14 miles from the southern border of the Hanford site and I can testify to the amount of radiation. I have lived here my entire life, and I now have a nice healthy glow from drinking the water which comes from the nearby Columbia River.

  10. Still need broadband on Amazon EC2 Open To All · · Score: 0

    Ok, IMHO, for this to be true cloud computing as I see it, it requires every dumb terminal in the country (one per person for argument's sake) to have a big fat pipe to the internet or cloud for data. The bandwidth available inside a stand alone machine can be into the multi-gigabit range for moving large amounts of data, such as for audio editors, video data etc. A 1megabit dsl line just aint gonna do it, and broadband isnt even available to all in the US yet. While I agree this is a step in the right direction, we can't have true cloud computing until we get bigger tubes!

  11. Wholesale backups on Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files · · Score: 0

    On my computer (granted its a mac, but bear with me), I nightly mirror my home directory to an external drive. My home directory has well over a quarter million files in it. 16,400 files at a time is completely unacceptable from a backup standpoint.

  12. Private sites on Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court · · Score: 0

    Ok, well I run a forum, and even though anyone online is allowed to access it, I as the site's owner, have the right to ban anyone I don't want there. It is a private site. As an analogy, I own a house. And I let anyone who wants to come in to discuss things come in, but if I don't like someone I can kick them off because it is my private property. I don't see how this law can even be enforced, and if it somehow does go through, I like others in this thread, will just block all users in California, and if that is made illegal descrimination based on IP address or whatever, then I will simply take my site offline and send all my pissed off users to the California government websites to complain.

  13. Re:Wrong purpose on MPAA Chases Uploads, Ignores Open Sales of DVD-Rs? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well given that Sony thinks everything (including remembering a song) is piracy, perhaps the MPAA wants DRM all the way into your occipital lobe (Vision center of the brain for your non-anatomy savvy people)

  14. Borehole Fetish on 2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault · · Score: 0

    Oh yeah, I love boreholes. Damn that just sounds so dirty, it sounds like a really weird sexual fetish.

  15. PR stunt on The New Moon Race · · Score: 0

    A PR stunt for the US is all this would be. Mark this as flamebait or troll if you want, but I think the only good this would do is put some faith back in the US government.

  16. Obligatory on Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hackers will circumvent this whole thing again in 3...2....1....

  17. Draw attention. on Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, now I have to go find some other way to draw attnetion to myself. *Logs into Facebook*

  18. Re:end p0rn to save the earth. on Ohio Net Censorship Law Struck Down · · Score: 0

    Depends. Does fchan count as pr0n?

  19. Novel Idea on New Bill to Clarify Cellphone Contracts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many people actually read the contracts? I actually read my entire contract and understand it, and have nothing to complain about. People need to actually read and understand their current contracts beofre they can complain about them.

  20. Definition of life on Team Claims Synthetic Life Feat · · Score: 0

    I don't really know if I buy their "synthetic life" term. IMHO, life is not something that can be made by man. All they are doing in TFA is a bunch of fancy chemistry. True life is not made by one of life's own evolutionary steps, which is all that man is. All we are doing is showing that we can do what mother nature and father time (or whatever you believe in) did.

  21. Re:Sounds Good, But.... on Team Claims Synthetic Life Feat · · Score: 0

    I think that is what ant farms are for. Cause famine, flood, fire, and the apocalypse (aka, the ol flusheroo), right in your own home!

  22. Messing with NYPD? on Permit May Be Required For Public Photography in NYC · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see this if it actually is enacted. 1. I should take me Finepix S2 and run around NYC taking hundreds and hundreds of pictures of buidlings and things, maybe wearing somewhat shady clothing, and then when the NYPD stop me and want to see what I have on my camera, open it up to show that no memory card is installed (Yes, this camera can operate in test mode, basically shooting but not saving.). 2. And then when they arrest me for supposedly taking photographs, I can sue them for holding me without evidence. 3. PROFIT!

  23. Corvair on Winnipeg Demands Immobilizers on High-Risk Cars · · Score: 0

    My car is its own immobilizer. No self-respecting car theif would steal a Corvair. Unsafe at any speed? Only with an idiot driver.

  24. my phone is not an ATM on Bank on Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My phone is not an ATM, why are they trying to make it like one? Sure, I can transfer balances on a whim to different accounts, but who really needs to do this on a regular (i.e. more than once a month) basis? And for those transfers like credit card payments, i'm sure you sit down in front of your computer at least ONCE a month.

  25. Re:Down or Up? on University of Washington Will Aid RIAA · · Score: 0

    D'oh! Obviously I have spent to much time at Washington State. I should transfer to the UW right away. Oh wait, i'm not a pre-med major. Never mind.