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  1. Irrevocable is irrevocable. on Legal Counsel Advises Against Accepting OOXML Pledge · · Score: 1, Interesting
    I'm in agreement that OOXML is a lousy "standard" and the "pledge" is questionable at best. But this

    While technically an irrevocable promise, in practice the OSP is good only for today.
    doesn't make a lot of sense. If it's "irrevocable" than it's *not* "in practice ... good only for today". Irrevocable is irrevocable.
  2. NEXT! on FTP Hacking on the Rise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but if when setting up server services the admin "forgets" to lock down FTP, they need to be canned. That is all. NEXT.

  3. Re:Get 'em while they're hot on Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is no way to suppress this even if they were to somehow take down all of wikileaks.
    They can't take it down completely, Wikileaks will always be availuble by IP address, but like the bank people, they will go after the domain. Wikileaks really needs to transfer the domain to a "safe" registrar.
  4. Living Wage on IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth · · Score: 2

    "This whole concept of shortages is bogus, it shows a lack of understanding of the labor pool in the USA."
    Yes, the lack of understanding that resident U.S. IT workers wish to make a living wage.

    The IT labor "shortage" is a profit issue.

  5. Re:Use Registrars in a Neutral Country? on Wikileaks Calls For Global Boycott Against eNom · · Score: 1

    so stop trolling.
    You first.
  6. Re:information versus action on Wikileaks Calls For Global Boycott Against eNom · · Score: 1

    Somehow their active stance makes me more wary of the information on the site.
    A lot like IndyMedia. Good info, but everyone has a bias, me and you...
  7. Re:Not a good idea on New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could some criminal organization figure out the method of re-locking it?
    Which government agency are you thinking of specifically?
  8. Re:I wonder if... on Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What legal expenses? The reason for the injunction in the first place was that they did not answer the case.
    Not entirely accurate as to how it transpired. But in any case, the key words in your quote are: The reason for the injunction in the first place...

    Clearly as the case progressed there where legal expenses. In the end, it turns out Baer had no case, at least to where they filed their legal action. So it was "frivolous", yes? Therefore they should pay the legal expenses.

    IANAL.

  9. I wonder if... on Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can Wikileaks recover any legal expenses?

  10. Re:Slashdot on Moore's Law Is Microsoft's Latest Enemy · · Score: 1

    100 years from now. Do you thing proprietary software has a chance in hell? It just is not sustainable to have every business, school, and government paying 1 provider of software for an operating system.
    Holy Mother of Gary Gygax! Are you for real? Proprietary software will be around as long as smart coders figure out they can live higher on the economical ladder by commercializing ("charging for") their creations. We don't live in a socialist utopia, and we will NEVER live in a socialist utopia.
  11. Whaaaaaa? on Underground Freight Networks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did someone get ahold of an old Popular Mechanics or something?

  12. Re:Sounds like on AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network · · Score: 1

    They are desperate to not lose any more market share to Yahoo, MSN and Google Talk (among others).
    Gotta be honest here, I didn't know Google Talk had any "market share". I really don't see it widly used.
  13. Re:Bullshit on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The "screeching Cuban expats" are American VOTERS. Democracy works this way.
    A very small minority. Vocal, but a minority non-the-less.
  14. Bullshit on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Of course it's bullshit. But what is eNom to do? They are in the same spot as any other American company. What we should be doing electing politicians that have the sanity to ignore the screeching Cuban expats in Miami, and scrap the embargo, which if anything only keeps the Castro Brothers in power.

    But, this travel company has learned another lesson: Don't buy domains from eNom, they suck in so many ways....

  15. Re:Bizarre and hysterical rant on Google Street a Slice of Dystopian Future? · · Score: 1

    But Google street view is hardly a "live view" where neighbors snoop upon each other. It's just a one-time snapshot of a spot.
    For the time being. Technology marches on...

    How shall the new environment be programmed? It all happened so slowly that most men failed to realize that anything had happened at all.
    - THX1138
  16. Re:They won't go for it? on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    Board late in first class (assuming an aircraft boarding through a door forward of that cabin) and you're likely to find a fraction of the overhead bin space occupied by F passenger bags, and the remainder occupied by coach passenger bags.
    I can assure you that coach baggage is not stowed in First Class. It certainly would never displace First Class luggage. Never ever. When I pay a $1000 premium for my seat, you can safely bet my carry-on is stowed directly above my head (except my jacket, which is hung on a hanger in the coat closet).
  17. Re:Holy crap! on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That research lab at Alberta is know for releasing under-researched findings before complete testing is applied.
    Is it? The parent is "insightful" for making unsubstantiated accusations of acodemic impropriety with their research, yet provides no links or another kind of support, yet it's "insightful"?
  18. Re:Jurisdiction? on Mayor of Florence Sues Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    The question is rather like those proposed by ./ readers who wonder if "Slashdot" is not being inconsistent when there are multiple, often contradictory, opinions offered - by slashdot users - on various topics (patents, copyright... ).
    Not at all. Wikipedia is an on-line encyclopedia, which to be taken seriously as an on-line encyclopedia needs to be strictly NPOV. Getting involved in local politics is not NPOV.
  19. Re:Jurisdiction? on Mayor of Florence Sues Wikipedia · · Score: 1
    Something I haven't seen here and will probably be wildly explained away, is: Is it Wikipedia's place to be a forum for news reporting and political social change? Is that outside the scope of an "encyclopedia"? Is this type of content really relevant is an encyclopedic article on Florence?

    Obviously it's a conflict of interest for the mayor of Florence, but how is it relevant in an encyclopedic article on Florence?

    If Wikipedia wants to include this type of political activism the will have to accept the consistences.

  20. Re:Already in, how can I help? on Ask the Air Force Cyber Command General About War in Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    I ignorant of the organizational relationship, but a friend of mine is Washington Air Guard, and attached to these people at McChord.

  21. Jail Time? on Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    British television featured a demonstration of the attack on BBC Newsnight."
    I'll bet that would land you in jail over here (USA) ...
  22. Re:Same as letters home on Military Steps Up War On Blogs · · Score: 1

    But the summary goes a little far. The soldiers aren't limited to what blogs they can read. It simply limits which ones they can register for and/or post info.
    Here at McChord, that's not true in a practical sense. They filter for key words in the URL such as "blog" and "webmail" and several others. Also, spacific sites *are* blocked, while "friendly" blogs may not be. Also, well known proxies are blocked, as are most p2p, torrent, mp3, and other media sites.

    At least that's my experience here.

  23. Re:Ah, irony... on Military Steps Up War On Blogs · · Score: 1

    From what I can tell here at McChord, the filter for key words in the URL. "blog", "webmail", and so on.

  24. Hmmm... on Military Steps Up War On Blogs · · Score: 1
    I guess this new dictate hasn't reached us low peons.

    I work for the Air Force, both state-side and at deployed locations, and have not seen any message traffic on this at all...

  25. Re:Quite likely on Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How you could earn your keep trying to submit advertising links to pages all day long, I have no idea.
    "Third World" countries.