User: thorkyl

Morals, Religion, Government

On: Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral

Morals are based on religion
Laws are based on morals
governments are a collection of laws

thus government is a collection of religious moral beliefs.

If you have no seperation of state and church you have a government run by the church.

Look back in history, all governments have some connection to the church.

Even the US was based on the christian church.

Now should a government enforce the rules of a non government registry?

Hell No

She got the 1's

On: IT and Divorce?

I got the 0's

I'm not divorced but that was the agreement we had when we got married.
We are both IT and it has always been an IM or a system message to let the other
know its dinner time. The best part about both in IT is the sex both cyber and regular

We have our "time". Its on Sundays, that's when we load the horses up and go riding
in the woods or on the beach.

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Old Glory, Love it, leave it, you burn it you die.

Re:Even better!

On: FCC Lets Wireless Devices Use Empty TV Channels

isnt that what /. is
a loss of big brothers control over what we say, think, see, and smell

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long live smell-o-vision

What about frankinmachine

On: Mandatory Hardware Recycling Coming To US?

I have a machine with a Proliant Main and back plane
It has IBM SCSII Hard Drives
Its RAM is from who knows where
Its Nic's... 3-COM, Intel, Winbond
It's Fans... Who knows

Who do I send it back to?
Or do I have to break it into its pieces and send it all back where it came from.

What If I want to keep it forever?
I still have my Northstar (and yes it still works)
I have 4 meg sims (actually sold 3 today to a client for the printer)

Re:MS shouldn't care.

On: IE Market Share Drops to Lowest Level in Years

With the loss of market share come the loss of development tools for that product.

If IE goes away then MS would loose .NET and thus a major chunk of it money

You mean I now

On: New Copy Protection to Make Playing DVDs on a PC Difficult

have to buy a dvd player?

I have never owned one, nor do I want one.

Ohh well, thank goodness for .torrent

A more effective approch

On: Jury Awards $11 Million for Internet Defamation

I had a situation with a national tire shop, I will not state which one.

When emailing their customer service center I CC'd my address book (all 600+ of them)

The next morning I received a call from the tire shop attempting to solve the issue.

I again emailed them and CC'd my address book with my response to their offer.

They then emailed me back with an acceptable offer.

I got my point across to them about how unhappy I was and at the same time I told 600+ people.

Now I got what I expected as service from them and 600+ people knew of the issue, and its outcome.

There was never any question of Liable as I was talking directly to them and just had 600+ people listening to the conversation.

FYI - The end result was an offer for a free alignment and the tires at cost (saved me $300 on my Dually).

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Power to the people does not mean that the people have the power; it means we get to choose who has the power

Upgrade or Spend lots-o-money

On: Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday

From: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupp ort.mspx

"Enterprise customers Microsoft will, under qualified conditions, make Custom Support Agreements (CSA) available for eligible enterprise customers. CSA customers are also encouraged to consider migrating to Windows Vista as part of their migration plan. Customers may qualify for a CSA if they have a current Premier support agreement, and a detailed migration plan moving them from Windows XP SP1 to the latest operating system. To learn more about Custom Support Agreements, contact your Premier support Technical Account Manager (TAM)."

MicroCra... is serving virus

On: IE7 To Ship With Windows Patches Tomorrow [Not]

Update your scanner and go to Microsoft IE 7 website and sit back and giggle as you are served a virus

My Solution

On: Tactile Passwords vs Shoulder Surfing

Let's just put small DNA testers on each PC.

Then all you have to do is stick something in the hole to donate a blood sample.

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Stupid people breeding has lead us to the current government

Do you GoogleTube

On: Google in Talks to Buy YouTube

or do youTube your Google

Everyone is doing it

On: Google Subpoenas Microsoft & Yahoo

So if they can show everyone is doing it, and thus get away with it, then all I have to do is show "everyone" is downloading mp3's and I can get away with it.

Ohh wait, im not a big company, different laws apply to me

I um

On: Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits

um dang, cant remember

me think tis a 3.14 somthing

Re:Why not a removeable PDA?

On: Twin-Screen Vista Laptops

Now there is an Idea.

Just allow me to choose the PDA / Smart phone.

Allow me to use the smart thingie-ma-gig as a modem / net connection

I would go for that.

mmm

On: Twin-Screen Vista Laptops

"and known officially as Windows Slideshow -- a Vista-only technology"

Bummer, can't run my non-WinBloz OS

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Don't need it, don't want it, don't care

Low Tech and Cheap

On: HOWTO Commit Corporate Espionage

Go to a garage sale and buy a TV put it on channel 13 with no antenna
    White noise generator

Defeat laser listener
    Place radio on window sill with sub woofer pointed at glass

Stop all eaves dropping
    don't talk us a #2 pencil and legal pad
      Shred the pad then burn the shredded paper then put the ashes in a bucket of water

Uranus Pun Charge

On: Hubble Discovers Dark Spot on Uranus

Ok folks,
      Everyone put a quarter in the pun jar

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Well i checked and its not on mine so it must be on uranus

This doesnt chang a thing

On: US Outlaws Online Gambling

"credit-card companies to collect payments for bets"

Now you just have to pay in advance, ohh wait we do that already.

My .02

On: Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs

Question that relates tho this subject.

How many of you are getting calls from Robert or Eric from India who want to know what your rate is?

These are companies are getting resumes, rates then using that information to undercut home grown developers.

I have actually taken to asking these companies how many U.S. developers do they have on payroll.

Not a one will answer.

So yes we are loosing our jobs to other countries.

As a DBA I have seen many a database designed, developed, and pre loaded by offshore companies.

I have to tell you, I am tired of it.

My comcast is no more

On: Comcast Lying About Vonage

I was a comcast customer.
I found that they blocked everything that was not thiers.
I also was able to prove that as soon as I connected a VOIP call my connection tanked
With the proof I was able to get out of my contract.

Take Responsability

On: Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides

for your actions.

Raise your own kids, don't expect to get rich over this

Microwave Ovens

On: RFID-Reading Passport Scanners Installed

Solve RFID tag issues.

But then again so do really large magnetic fields.

I have a big magnet just waiting for my new passport.

But then again, why are they doing it?
Are they just getting rid of mounds of paper?
or are they tracking you as you go around the world using black choppers?

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I hear voices in my head. Oh wait, thats just me talking again...

We the People

On: Traveler Detained for Anti-TSA Message

Lets have some fun,

Lets get 100,000 people to all go to the airport on the 5th of November at 10am with a lighter that has Kip Hawley is an Idiot writen on it.

Let them detain 100,000 people.

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It's time to put the people back in "We the People"

I doubt they could make it work

On: Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites

Try hitting a stop sign three blocks away with a laser pointer.

Now try to hit one 22,000 miles away

Im not going to do the math but move it a smidg and you missed by miles

Robot doctors

On: First Zero-Gravity Surgery a Success

"The next phase of the program is to carry out a remote-controlled operation using a robot whose commands are sent from the ground via satellite"

-- Just f****** great, now they are going to outsource surgeons jobs to non English speaking countries.

-- Please hold while i look up you appendix.