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  1. Re:One step at a time . . . on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    You can see how they take little baby steps. One at a time. In ten years imagine what will be happening.

    Which reminds me of this quote:

    How shall the new environment be programmed? It all happened so slowly that most men failed to realize that anything had happened at all.

    SRT

  2. Re:Microsoft Requested It on Microsoft Cancels EU Antitrust Hearing · · Score: 1

    ...orally lobby...

    I'm sorry, what?

  3. Re:contrary on Palm Kills Community Before It Begins · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, if Palm doesn't want a healthy development community for its products, then let them have what they want. It's the first nail in the coffin, and the product will be DOA. Fuck 'em.

  4. Re:What about the Google monopoly... on Cory Doctorow Draws the Line On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Didn't Google buy up all the dark fiber lines to build out a monopoly when the economy turns around?

    Labled as "troll", but what about it? Didn't Google buy up scads and scads of "dark fibre"???

  5. Re:higher pricing? on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    The price at the machine for Windows is irrelevant to me, I expect a gouge, if it wasn't for the pre-installed OS, it would be for something else.

    What gets me is the stand-alone shrink-wrap price for a Windows version other than the stripped down and useless basic "home" version.

    For me, having an actual Windows install disk, and not a "rescue" disk, is essential.

    In the old days there were two versions, home and pro, and home wasn't that bad.

    But I'm not paying 3 or 400$. I'll stay with XP.

  6. Good Grief. on Sophos Releases Klingon Language Version · · Score: 0, Troll

    Honestly, anti-virus and Web security in general is no joking matter. The days where you hired the goofy Trekie kid who hacked your system to do your security are long gone. Can these people be trusted to be on the ball while they are dinking around with porting their software to an imaginary Sci-Fi "language"? Not for my company.

  7. Re:Tired of crappy CMS' on Front End Drupal · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't use CMSes for the same reason. I write my own...

    I'm sure the hackers love you...

  8. Re:I could use this... on Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since the "editors" failed to include a linky to the actual product, here it is: http://www.curiosite.com/scripts/product/enproduct.php?idproducto=19126738

  9. Re:Only one way to be sure on US Military Looks For Massive Spam Solution · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It may be "flamebait", but it is also true.

  10. Re:I know where . . . on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting story. I grew up in the 70's. My parents where hippie ("radical") professors involved in questionable activities and known to associate with other hippie "radicals". My folks also knew a lot of people that used "reefer", and associated with leftist politicos. The cops watched us in a very similar manner, though I'm sure your situation was different.

  11. Re:Only one way to be sure on US Military Looks For Massive Spam Solution · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm convinced that the only real solution to spam is to find the people who are stupid enough to buy the products offered via spam and beat the ever living shit out of them. The spammers wouldn't keep doing it if people didn't keep buying their shit...

    Basically the southern US.

  12. Re:You Don't Own MY Works. on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 1

    This is my post. I wrote it. It is a creative and inventive work which benefits society at large.

    Debatable.

  13. Good Grief! on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 1

    $600 million for towers with cameras and motion detectors. Another slam-dunk pork contract for one of the biggest porkers of them all, Boeing. Can they do better on this than on the famous Dreamliner? Not likly, we might as well just pile up the cash and use it to BBQ hot dogs or something.

  14. Re:"restless leg syndrome" is quite real on More Fake Journals From Elsevier · · Score: 1

    I have NEVER ever heard of a "restless leg syndrome" up until now. Never. I actually thought that the original poster made the term up...

    It's a condition in the USA caused by taking too many meds.

  15. Re:Bad Feeling on More Fake Journals From Elsevier · · Score: 5, Funny

    Calm down Scott. Please take your meds.

  16. Re:So... on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Threatening" them with PHP4 server shutdowns only makes them go away to other hosting providers that will over PHP4 to them.

    That's hard to believe, both that there are any hosts still tunning PHP4, and that there are significant rumblings over upgrading to current technology.

    In a day and age where staying on top of the latest software upgrades to prevent hacking and such things is simply expected, who the hell are these people that can't live without php4?

    I trying to figure out what kind of troll the parent is.

  17. Yeah Right... on Australian Gov't Offers $560k Cryptographic Protocol For Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given Australian government's views on privacy, I wonder when the back door will be discouvered? Or is looking for it agianst the law?

  18. Re:Not surprising on Social Networking Sites Getting Risky For Recruiting · · Score: 1

    We're getting to the point where you won't even be able to give a reference because of how it might be interpreted.

    This is already the case. Most corporate HR departments will only confirm someone worked there.

  19. Re:How dare they? on Military Enlists Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    GDSS2 is pretty much all business app / presentation of data from other sources. Heavy on the GUI. So yes, VB made a great choice really.

  20. Re:How dare they? on Military Enlists Open Source Community · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since ADA was the language created for military code, mil-spec code looks a lot like an ADA program. Design by contract, for one thing.

    GDSS-2 is written in VB6.

  21. Re:Explanation needed ... on Papers Sealed In Class Action Against RIAA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    one probably has to assume that the proceedings touch 'national security'.

    But this is exactly the point the RIAA has been driving at all the time. You've just now grasped their entire motivation!

    Now, can a judge seal anything he/she wants? Or does something have to meet certain conditions? What sort of allegations in the plaintiff's motion might possibly result in this? Did the RIAA ask for it to be sealed?

  22. Re:Sounds familiar. on Judge Opens Hearing On RealDVD Legal Battle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That tool only let you make one copy i believe; and it lost the legal battle.

    Yes, but the DVDXCopy folks didn't have deep-pockets RealNetworks paying their legal bills. Real may be harder to take down.

  23. Re:Insurance Fraud Galore on Cops To Start CrimeTube To Report Offenses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like in East Germany (back in the day)... Spy on your neighbors, report back to The State!

  24. Re:WowWee Toys has a cheaper version. on Ugobe, Maker of Pleo, Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    So, what made Pleo so expensive? The WowWee thing looks not quite but almost as sophisticated...

  25. Re:Screenshots on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's nice, but there's no way it's even in the same neighborhood that the ballpark for OS X is in. I'm gonna light a small fire here, but I wish a super talented artist would redesign the widget set for Gnome...

    This is an interesting quote because it illustrates how much many users consider "eye candy" to be a critical component of "usability". If only the widget icons were more up-to-date with current styles, Gnome would be more usable?