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  1. An Idea on SCO Assets Going To October Auction · · Score: 1

    Some sort of a phallus along with a note that says "Thanks for all your hard work guys. For that we are giving you this award! Turn this note over to find out where you can shove it!"

  2. Re:Simple fix? on Misconfigured Networks Main Cause of Breaches · · Score: 1

    That's not a misconfigured network. Also Postini is pretty good at that problem. Not perfect, but pretty good.

  3. Simple fix? on Misconfigured Networks Main Cause of Breaches · · Score: 1

    Buy an ASA from Cisco. It come preconfigured to drop all traffic. Configure the local subnet and leave everything else alone. Use hosted solutions for email, file sharing, applications. Pay the money to make sure you get solution providers who know their shit. Force SSL over all of those connections. And Done.

  4. Re:How is this news? on Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine · · Score: 1

    Budweiser does kind of taste like piss.

  5. Re:A close call but we made it this time on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    Plus, the H2 fuel cycle is just so inefficient.

    Well then please tell me how you can use CLEAN, RENEWABLE electricity to make SOMETHING which will allow my car to drive 300 miles before I have to refuel.

  6. Re:The U.S. imprisons about 6 times the % of citiz on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I actually knew that already. However two things factor in here. The first and by far the most important is the illegal immigration issue. No other country has so many illegal immigrants per capita and illegal immigrants are more likely to commit crimes. Nevermind the fact that they are commiting a crime just by coming into the country illegally.

    The second is the drug war. The citizens are to blame here as they keep USING. If the demand fell, the problem would subside. However the problem extends into South America and most recently Mexico with most of the people involved in the trafficing of illegal drugs never seeing the inside of a jail cell. This is a failure of their goverment and police and not a reflection of any magical rehabilitation program they have. By the way, all drug users should be rehabilitated and then have to check in FOR LIFE. Addiction is hard to kick and we should recognize that.

  7. Re:Already used in the UK on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    While I agree that those who seek out positions of authority might be more prone to phsychosis, the experiments you are talking about do not apply. The experiments relied on our willingness to obey authority. Hence, if somebody who held a position of higher authority then the operators told them to zap the convict then they would do it. People however did not zap the subjects at random and for laughs. Also, the importance of the experiment is often over hyped. It points more to a problem with group think and lack of critical thinking skills in society then to a societal problem with wanting to inflict pain. Other studies showed that a majority of the population is altrustic as well. Look up those.

    Now what I will agree with is that any system would NEED checks and balances and oversight to prevent fraud and abuse because the system makes it so easy.

  8. Re:Mind-boggling? on iFixit Moves Into Console Repair · · Score: 1

    http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-Xbox-360-Cooling-Fan-Duct/3336/1
    The fact that ANY air flows through this mess of plastic and metal is amazing! You actually DO need to take it apart to get the dust out.

  9. Re:Planned Breakage... on iFixit Moves Into Console Repair · · Score: 1

    Actually most Xbox failures result in warranty replacement. Also there is not a new console out. The New version of the 360 doesn't add anything useful.

  10. Re:No. on The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science · · Score: 1

    Obviously you have never been on the Tube in London. It looks just like this.

  11. Descartes and Pascal on The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science · · Score: 1

    Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal were both also philosophers in addition to being mathmaticians. I don't know why the paths diverge there and do not include them in both.

  12. Re:Only One Half of the World Covered in This Map on The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science · · Score: 1

    Ya, seriously. What was Carl Sagan doing on there? Have you ever gone back and looked at his videos. The amount of wrong information is astounding and he lived in the last century!

  13. Re:speaking of Xibit on GMail Introduces Priority Inbox · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that is a flash plug in. Also, its Youtube which... ah damn, they own that too. Ok, I guess it IS their fault

  14. Re:How about good subject lines? on GMail Introduces Priority Inbox · · Score: 1

    I actually banned an email address from our entire company network because the user would not stop marking every single email as "Urgent"! The funny thing was she was pissed and tried to email the CEO. The email just went into quarantine where I read it, laughed a lot, and then trashed it.

  15. Re:Backward compatibility... on Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Actually the semantics is completely wrong. It should read "On the plus side, you will be able to plug USB 2.0 devices into the USB 3.0 ports on your new computer, but you won' get the speed advantage."

  16. Re:Still vulnerable on Pentagon Confirms 2008 Computer Breach — 'Worst Ever' · · Score: 1

    The exploit doesn't run in Windows.

  17. Re:Like there's never been a GAS STATION fire on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    I seriously cannot stand the group think on Slashdot and the fact that anybody wasted their mod points on you to mod the comment up shows how embedded that group think is.

  18. Re:Another brick in the wall... on Sit Longer, Die Sooner · · Score: 1

    The good news is that both eating nuts and drinking beer REDUCE your mortality rate.

  19. Re:Like there's never been a GAS STATION fire on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Keep drinking your kool-aid there buddy. People say that bottled water is just tap water or that tap water is safer but neither is true. I have my water bottle here. I know the source is tap water in San Bernardino. So the source is safe according to you. Then they filter the water using "Ozonation and Reverse Osmosis" which removes things other filtration cannot. So my bottled water IS filtered. Go parrot your wrong information to someone else who is to lazy to do some fact checking.

  20. Re:Still vulnerable on Pentagon Confirms 2008 Computer Breach — 'Worst Ever' · · Score: 1

    Congrats because we take business from Geek Squad every day. They suck for business support. We specialize in SMB clients and provide real service.

  21. Re:A close call but we made it this time on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    People said that about CNG too and yet you don't hear expose's on how unsafe that is. You are just basing your argument on conjecture. You have no proof that is is less safe then say a full tank of gasoline.

  22. Re:What is the idea on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    with calling Hydrogen "renewable fuel"? It still has to be generated - and most of the energy we use to extract Hydrogen comes from burning fossil fuels.

    Now let me stop you right there. That is not true in California. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/400733.html Note that this data is from 2002 and renewables are up since then.

  23. Re:Like there's never been a GAS STATION fire on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not really. They just store it below ground. This results in it seeping into the ground water. Also its not just gasoline but additives like MTBE which cause cancer at phenomenol rates. And people wonder why I only drink filtered or bottled water.

  24. Re:A close call but we made it this time on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    Actually everybody knows it burns. How else would there be such a thing as a hydrogen powered internal combustion engine? What the point was with the Hindenburg is that the Hydrogen had been odorized with Garlic so they could detect a leak.

  25. Re:A close call but we made it this time on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    And yet Hydrogen still stores energy more densely then batteries. So you make no valid point.