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  1. Danger on A Space Junkyard · · Score: 1

    If Dave Masten of Masten Space is buying his parts at a junk yard, perhaps I'll avoid flying on his spacecraft...

  2. No Compelling Reason on New Vote on .xxx Internet Address Nears · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's just a real estate grab that has little or no practical use in managing porn on the Interweb. It's not like all these sites will give up their .com / .net / .org names, and I'll bet within 24 hours (probably a lot less) of .xxx going "live", there will be no names worth buying left. Land grab, pure and simple, there is really no compelling reason to have the .xxx TLD.

  3. Re:In the US Air Force, this has already happened on White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows · · Score: 1

    We have a custom image - Comm approved, of course - that installs the SDC as well as all the apps we normally need. But the machines do seem slower. This, however, should resolve itself in our next hardware buy, as the new machines will be Vista ready (even though we don't run it), so they are "loaded".

  4. In the US Air Force, this has already happened on White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the US Air Force, this has already happened in the form of the Standard Desktop Configuration Image that we install on all PCs. This started the middle of last year.

  5. What horseshit. on New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster · · Score: 1

    How is the parent Flamebait? Honstly. There ARE different grades of swabs, and I don't really see how communicating my personal experience that swabs have caused me no problems is considered Flamebait. What horseshit.

  6. Re:Punk on Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting · · Score: 1

    The key word was "most", and indeed "most" metal is produced by "the man". So is "most" punk.

  7. Re:Ink on New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fibers from the cotton will snag and destroy print heads.

    Doesn't bother my cartridges all that much. They have a limited lifespan anyway. Maybe you're using the wrong kind of swabs...

  8. Re:Ink on New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster · · Score: 3, Informative

    But if you went more than 2 weeks without printing anything, you were headed to clogsville.

    Nothing that a q-tip and a little alcohol can't fix.

  9. Re:Punk on Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Other cynical parts of me want to say they are also smart enough to be able to recognize the top 40 drivel that is being disseminated by the recording industry.

    Really? Isn't most head bangin' heavy metal disseminated by the recording industry?

  10. Re:"time to time"? on Microsoft Tracks Down Mass Fake Web Pages · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have never seen results that bad. You must be searching for porn, where spam is to be expected.

    I beg your pardon... "Erotica" is a perfictly legitimate subject.

  11. Re:Why? on Microsoft Tracks Down Mass Fake Web Pages · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it really cheaper to use Page Ranking companies instead of just well, PAYING for an advertisement on Google or MSN or something?
    Yes, or they wouldn't do it.
  12. "time to time"? on Microsoft Tracks Down Mass Fake Web Pages · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While most of us have run across them from time to time...

    Time to time? For mee it seems like more than 50% when I scan the search results. Maybe less, maybe more, but certainly more than "time to time". For many of my searches, I may not find anything truly relevant until the second and third page. People have learned how to play Google to the point where more and more Windows Live is starting to give better results (scary!).

  13. Re:What about Patrick Naughton? on Q&A With James Gosling, Father of Java · · Score: 4, Informative
    He kind of was written out of the story after this (Wikipedia):

    In September 1999, a FBI sting operation netted Naughton on charges related to the alleged solicitation of inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor. Disney immediately fired him shortly after his arrest in Santa Monica.

    He got caught in one of those chat room stings, trying to set up a little get-together with some way-underage female.

  14. Re:MySpace's Microsoft-backed infrastructure. on April to See Month of MySpace Bugs · · Score: 1

    According to Netcraft, MySpace uses IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003.

    You may be right about MySpace using Windows, but remember, all Netcraft can really tell you is what technology they use to face the Interweb. What really runs the MySpace machine may be quite different. Could be squirrels, for all Netcraft can really tell. But you're probably right...

  15. Re:Priorities? on Dogs Trained to Sniff Out Piracy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    More money and effort is going toward finding copied disks than in finding Bin Laden?

    What makes you think we don't know where Osama is? The thing to understand is that operationally, Osama has no power anymore, he's only good for PR. GWB and his boys are simply waiting until it's closer to the election to spring him a la October Surprise...

  16. Re:SOP on Chinese Hackers Waking up to Malware · · Score: 1

    How does one find what IP ranges Russia and China use?

  17. SOP on Chinese Hackers Waking up to Malware · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Reinstall... Nice to have the real discs and not the useless "restore" disks...

  18. Re:Political Issue on Registerfly's Accreditation Terminated by ICANN · · Score: 1

    Wait till you accidentally forget to renew your domain. Each one is held hostage by an $89 "Redemption" fee.

    That's why I have auto-renewal. It's a business, there to make money. NetSol is worse, but yes, I'll agree $89 is steep. On the other hand, if I forget about my domain for so long that I'm out of the grace period, who's fault is that?

  19. Political Issue on Registerfly's Accreditation Terminated by ICANN · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A lot of people don't like GoDaddy because they gave up to pressure from some corporation or another and killed an offending domain. But I've had nothing but good luck with them. Their management tools are leaps and bounds better than many of the other services I've used, and just 100's of miles ahead of most of the free DSN joints. I've transfered dozens of domains without issue.

    Your dislike of GoDaddy for political reasons may be valid, but functionally, they aren't bad at all.

  20. "Reasonable" people? on ISPs May Be Selling Your Web Clicks · · Score: 1

    If the EULA enforces things that a reasonable person wouldn't expect to find in a contract of this type, the unreasonable elements of the EULA may be found unenforceable by the courts.

    Where have you been the last 5 or 6 years? This sort of thing is well established in EULAs, and "reasonable" persons who are suppose to read their EULAs, can be "reasonably" expected to know that this sort of thing takes place. I don't think your argument will float.

  21. Re:SCO stock on The Score is IBM - 700,000 / SCO - 326 · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much sco.com will be sold for.

    Depends on if they own or lease their digs in Utah. Usually used office furniture usually goes pretty cheap in lots. Recyclers may be interested in all the shredded paper...

  22. Re:fuck the military on Military System Offers Worldwide Cell Access · · Score: 2, Funny

    so when are you people going to overthrow that corrupt to the core government of yours?

    Scheduled for 2008 time frame.

  23. Speed Tape on NASA Optimistic About Fuel Tank Repairs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The funny thing about that is that the Air Force uses something they call "speed tape" to repair minor body damage on their transports, the C-5 / C-17 / C-130's (and before it was retired, the C-141). Speed Tape is just macho duct tape.

  24. Re:lucky guy on EFF Forces DMCA Abuser to Apologize · · Score: 2, Funny

    He got off easy. The original settlement required that he be sodomized by a Clydesdale.

    I thought it was the CowboyNeal option...

  25. More Michael Crook Fun on EFF Forces DMCA Abuser to Apologize · · Score: 1

    Here's some Michale Crook fun at Fark: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2390696