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  1. Re:You kids and your newfangled slide rules on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    try linuxmce

  2. Re:The real winner is the retailers on Broadcom Crams 802.11n, Bluetooth, and FM Onto a Single Chip · · Score: 1

    The mini-pci atheros radios I use don't have integrated antenna, neither does the CF FM radio I've got. I'm perfectly happy with my own antenna, I just want an AM radio chip!

  3. Re:The real winner is the retailers on Broadcom Crams 802.11n, Bluetooth, and FM Onto a Single Chip · · Score: 1

    I'm right there with you. Who says time-shifting radio programs is for the FM stations only!

  4. Re:Not Fair on Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Damn, you beat me to it. I'll elaborate for you though:

    Simpsons started in 1987 as a spot on the Tracey Ullman show. Barts character has always been 10. That would make him 31 years old now, and it would make Lisa a LEGAL 29 year old. Heck, even Maggie would be a legal (at least) 21 year old.

  5. Re:What about heredity? on Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun · · Score: 1

    I'm more inclined to believe that the herpes simplex virus, being mild, easily transmitted and having the ability to "hibernate" has been spreading through your family.

    Ever had a cold sore? Your mom? Your dad?

  6. Re:Opportunity on $1M Reward Offered To Nab Data Breach Extortionist · · Score: 1

    all your sins are likely to be discovered if you turn them in

    $1 million would make me care very little about my own sins or who knows about them.

  7. Re:OMGITSSOOOOOSHINY on Study Finds iPhone Twice As Reliable As BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    This is along the lines of my immediate thoughts after reading this article. I own a Blackberry and haven't had a single issue with it.

    I won't own an iPhone for reasons I won't detail here, but one of them is price.

    I'm less likely to care about a phone that costs me $30 vs my Blackberry that cost me nearly $300

    Now, when they detail failure rates, are they referring to actual failures or user ineptitude?

  8. Re:That juicy t-bone steak on Frozen Mice Cloned · · Score: 1

    I think we should toss this cloned meat thing out the window and start eating free-range vegan.

  9. Re:No Contest on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    We have one candidate that opposed the Iraq war from the beginning

    WRONG! FALSE! DECEPTION!

    We had several candidates that were opposed to the war, but the public is so in love with the two party system that all other candidates are ignored and marginalized. (Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney)

    this isn't even a contest.

    You're right, it's been rigged by the two parties. They agree on one thing, two party politics must rule. All others must be silenced.

    I'm registered republican because I believe in conservatism. Unfortunately, my party doesn't believe in that any more. The party of small government and fiscal responsibility is now the party of big government and record deficits.

    When will the American people wake up and realize that the two party system isn't what they think it is. It's a party in your house, drinking your booze, on your dime and you're not invited.

  10. Re:It's good to see. on US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search · · Score: 1

    I'd like to be the first to say WTF!

    The person who authorized imaging a system without a warrant needs to be prosecuted. Incompetent bastards like this are losing cases that should be easily won. Now someone who should be getting what he deserves will be set free.

    4th amendment violations like this are happening more often. Why do law enforcement officials think they can make it up as they go along?

  11. Re:Improper disclosure? on Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depending on the system you're accessing and the facilities available to that type of connection and system, it may not be possible to determine the contents of a file without obtaining a copy.

    If I've compromised a password and access a remote system using SSH, I have full control of the facilities available on that system. I can view the contents of files without transferring the files to my own system.

    On the other hand, if I'm accessing a remote system via Windows networking, I have few options. I can move, copy or delete the file limited by permissions set on the remote system.

    The police should be more interested in HOW he obtained the password. It's likely that he didn't guess it, but that someone told him what it was. He decided to do the right thing and notify the school administration. The police should attempt to work with the boy to determine how many other people have obtained copies of that file and were not noble enough to do the right thing.

  12. Re:You're Right, Of Course on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    I have a special page on my website with this very purpose. Anyone who ends up on my $#!+list quickly finds that all pages alias a page full of nothing but a "don't do this" statement.

    The largest abuser is (was..hehe) Cyveilence searching for copyright infringement, followed by the russian search engine yandex.

    To your statement, yes it is possible, yes it is easily done (with .htaccess), yes it is effective. They don't come back, of course, I don't remove them from the .htaccess list, so why would they?

  13. Re:How do people learn it? on Cobol Job Market Heating Up · · Score: 1

    I learned it in college....well...actually, my parents started teaching me when I was very young.

    Many who have never seen COBOL might be interested to know that it closely resembles the english language. With completely and correctly spelled words, sentences, paragraphs and punctuation, COBOL is a language of the highest order. It's practically natural speech. Because of COBOL, I pay close attention to the syntax, spelling and punctuation of my everyday writing. I always end my sentences with a period.

    This is good news for me. I might find a new side-job writing in my first learned programming language.

    Someone slap the original poster, COBOL is an acronym, not a name. It should always be capitalized.

  14. Re:Yeah right. on Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source · · Score: 1

    and I'll bring Graham Crackers, because nobody likes Gram Crackers, they're too small to make s'mores with.

  15. Re:bailout / rescue on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    This isn't the first time we've heard "wolf" called by this administration.

    This administration has proven itself a collective pathological liar. It's easy to know when they're lying - their lips move.

    Watch this for a graphic representation:
    How to create an angry american

  16. Re:Natural device? on Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently · · Score: 5, Funny

    How exactly do trees generate jobs?

    Well...people could be paid to plant them. Yeah, I know that trees can do this on their own....but can they do it in nice neat rows?

  17. Re:This is also in the works in Texas on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    Allow the "fundies" to raise children that are incapable of functioning in the modern world. More power to them. There are perfectly suitable careers in landscaping and fast food to take care of those people.

  18. Re:This is also in the works in Texas on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right. By the state's action of effectively changing its mind, unless you have teaching credentials from the state, you're a criminal.

    FTA:

    The decision stunned parents of the state's roughly 166,000 homeschooled children. While the court claimed that it was merely clarifying an existing law and not making a new one, the decision leaves the parents of homeschooled children at risk of arrest and criminal prosecution.

  19. Re:This is why America will fail. on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    whether you want it or not.

    Don't forget abdicating authority as well.

  20. This is also in the works in Texas on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 4, Informative

    Much like the current economic crisis, shouldn't failure be allowed? As some banks should be failing for bad investments, some students should fail to allow them to do-over.
    I blew off a year of math and I went to summer school, once. I'm not proud, but it was a motivational experience. Summer school sucks.

    SMU Dean David Chard In support of DISD's new grading policy

    On a more frightening note, public education now seems to be king, in California at least. Homeschooling Banned in California

    Does anyone else notice that things are going downhill? And they're speeding up?

  21. Elaborate Marketing Ploy on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 1

    Think about it:
    1. Issue cease and desist to web developer for linking to your website.
    2. Web developer responds by removing, then replacing link and asking everyone else to link to it. Hires a lawyer
    3. Get national attention by counter suit and claims of "first of its kind"
    4. increased backlinks boost rankings

  22. Re:Research shows ratings would have inverse effec on Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the use of terms like "conservative" and "liberal" should be used less. In conversations I've had recently, I've been called "liberal" when my position was clearly "conservative". Because I don't back down, I forced the name caller to define liberal, and she couldn't. After defining it for her, along with conservative, she consented that she was just parroting something she'd heard on TV.

    Unfortunately, terms like these no longer mean what they originally meant. Certainly, the dictionary gets it right, but people who don't know the actual definitions accept the common usage and infer the definition. Now being used like an expletive toward people with whom you disagree, I'm forced to make an Orwellian 1984 reference - these words are now newspeak expletives.

    Donkey or Elephant? Liberal or Conservative? Democrat or Republican? None-of-the-above, I am a free thinker.

  23. Re:not a manager job...sort of on Fire Your IT Boss · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, a lot of managers I've worked under are also responsible for project planning, scope and execution. One of my previous managers managed to turn a simple customer address input form into a 15 page, tedious, complex and confusing web fiasco.

    This manager put together a big powerpoint presentation for upper management, for which she received applause. As the developer assigned to accomplish this task, I was given the opportunity to voice my opinion and suggestions.

    My manager was not happy with my comments pointing out the many shortcomings of her plan and praising upper management for promoting her out of my hair.

  24. Re:Slackware on Server Optimization For Newbies? · · Score: 1

    Or you can run Gentoo, and really do everything yourself. Like most other Linux distros, Slackware is a package based system - still kind-of user-friendly. By comparison, Gentoo is user-hostile.

  25. Re:Virtualization on Server Optimization For Newbies? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While your advice is good, it's off topic and not directly related to his question, which was optimization. You can run an unoptimized VM just as easily as you can run an unoptimized real machine. Furthermore, the VM host can benefit from optimizations and must be at least stable to run VM's in the first place. This guy is new, lets not ask him to run 2 servers (VM Host + VM) on 1 system right out of the gate. It's all in a days work for some of us, but this guy is new and wants to learn.

    That said, I'll drop my 2 cents onto the original question. One of the problems with learning to run a webserver is that traffic doesn't happen overnight. What runs great when you're browsing your websites may not run so great when 10 or 100 people are simultaneously viewing your website.

    Setting up LAMP is fairly well documented, but writing and running efficient applications is not. You should look into methods of traffic generation to simulate real-world loads (stress testing). I'm not talking about a looped wget --delete-after, maybe give a few stress testing articles a read