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  1. Let Darwin do what it does best on Teens Actually Do Protect Their Online Profiles · · Score: 1

    People who are smart enough to explain how the intertubes work to their offspring will have a better chance to pass on their genes.
    The others will be exterminated in the process.

  2. Re:More than 20. . . on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    So why not give every Iraqi a gun and then we will see peace imiidiatly. Or is this idea of yours only appliable to Mericans and are other nations/people inferior?

  3. Re:Mixed views on Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    In Belgium there was a study that stated that the society as a whole made money (not counting fines) by placing those camera's. First and formost people would not run those lights. That resulted in lesser casualties. Wich ment less people on sickness leave and all the other costs that are involved with accidents.

    Also there is a realy neat trick to take away that money you think they are after. DON'T RUN THE RED LIGHT I have been fooling them for years with them. Ha! The joke is on them.
    Also the last time I ran a yellow light was because I was speeding at the same time.

  4. Re:They are supposed to obey traffic laws on Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    The do not "break" these laws. They are BY LAW allowed to follow an other rule. Those rules are exempts and are (or should be) explained in the law. it should explain exactly when these exempts are allowed and somewhere it should also be explained what procedure to follow.

  5. Re:You can have both on In EU, Internet Use From Work May Be Protected · · Score: 1

    I have not indended to take away your choice of working hours. If you want to take a 10 minute break each 5 minutes, then please do so. But don't use your working PC for that purpose. Use the PC that is placed somewhere for that purpose.
    If you do not use a PC from the company, then most likely you have a portable. Unplug the PC in the 'free surf zone' and plug yours in.

    This is not so much about policing your work. This is about standard network security. People can slack work by reading a newspaper as well.

  6. You can have both on In EU, Internet Use From Work May Be Protected · · Score: 1

    Forbit your employees the use of the network for private mail. This should not be too hard to enforce. By all means, you can't use the posting service for private use as well.

    Then as a nice gesture, you can put some boxen on a seperate subnet for people to use during their lunchtime.

    The next thing you can do is make a whitelist. Block all and everything and only allow those sites for those departments/people who actualy need it. Some people might need access to certain sites. Some even to all sites, but the majority does not need interentaccess at all, or only to very few domains.

    The way many companies go about it now is by blocking e.g. hotmail. When that happend with us, it took about 10 minutes till everybody had an account somewhere else.

    Anyway, I don't care, I just ssh home and run mutt. Andf the times that was not possible, I just waited till I was home and read my mail then. I say, block it. You are on a payroll.

  7. Re:the openSUSE team did the right thing on openSUSE Hobbled By Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Well, make one. It is not that hard to make a SUSE based distribution

            * Download the ISOs you desire
            * If you need extra RPM's, download them.
            * Run makeSUSEdvd -i [any other parameter]
            * Run rembrand -b "#FF00FF" -R /tmp/pink_rpms *.rpm
            * Browse through Branding Overview and check for any left-overs.
            * Edit, remove and change anything you desire.
            * Run makeSUSEdvd -C

    You can configure your YaST any way you like. Remove Mone (and GNOME) and have it work still as a normal SUSE installation with choices you desire. Add MPlayer and codecs to your DVD. Add all those programs that you would want and are not available by standard.

  8. Re:Reduced diversity. on Two Worm "Families" Make Up Most Botnets · · Score: 2, Informative

    It does not mean anything. The only thing it means is that those two families are more successfull then the others.
    If the remaining 20% is less then the remaining 26% in numbers, that could mean that some other families are faded out and/or that it is harder to remove those two families.
    If the 26% and 20% are the same, it just means that those two families are spreading faster then the rest.
    If the 20% is more then the 26%, then it would mean that in general we are winning the battle slowly.

    By itself it means absolutely nothing. Also you would need to know how they are being put out there. If there are just a few that are realy pushing those two families, then it is no wonder that there are more of them.

  9. Re:Well, of course they are... on Microsoft Opposing California Open Doc Bill · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The other 25% is most likely Outlook.

  10. Back in the days on Does the Windows Logo Mean Anything? · · Score: 1

    When 95 came out, I heard that to apply for a Windows logo, you had to do at least two things. First pay Microsoft and secondly to have your sodtware have tha ability to be de-installed.

    Even back then I don't know how the Microsoft applications were able to get that, because de-installing most Microsoft-made software was unpossible.

  11. Re:Who cares? on Does the Windows Logo Mean Anything? · · Score: 1

    I hope this image will work for you.

  12. Re:useless on Windows .ANI Problem Surfaced Two Years Ago · · Score: 1

    http://tinyurl.com/2r4rk4

    There, hope that helps.

  13. Re:a little anecdote... on Record Store Owners Blame RIAA For Destroying Music Industry · · Score: 1

    This isn't a family owned business, and I'm sure there are tons of places where the record store isn't the "two working people with families..."


    For those two people with families it doesn't matter wether it was family owned or not. They are still without a job.
  14. Re:a little anecdote... on Record Store Owners Blame RIAA For Destroying Music Industry · · Score: 1

    You say that as if free (subsidised) public transport is a bad idea.

    Also you seem to count like companies do and that is that each fake song/watch/whatever I have means that if there were no fake songs/watch/whatever that I would buy the real/legal version.

    I have a 10USD Rollex. I won't pay 1.000USD for a Rolex. They would not have made the sale in the first place, so they don't loose anything.

  15. yes two is better on Using Two Monitors Makes You More Productive? · · Score: 1

    http://houghi.org/shots/slides/dualscreen.php
    And then obviously use also several desktops.

    What I do is e.g. make a site in one and look at it in the other. Or just run something in the background that I want to keep an eye on, while doing something else on the other screen and see what the effect it has.
    http://houghi.org/shots/wmaker/index.php

    Unfortunatly I do not have two screens at my job, although I need to constantly monitor something. Not possible to do.

  16. Re:It doesn't matter on HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista · · Score: 1

    Sure you own it, otherwise you can't call it theft if you copy it illegaly. ;-)

  17. Re:Does Vista do anything right? on HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista · · Score: 2

    Why do you think it is crazy that people want to use Win98? There is one rule: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

    For many the only thing that was broke was the licence (and thus the support)

    If I see what I do now with my machine compared to several years ago, the difference is not that much. Perhaps gamers need 3D and what not. I just surf, write mail, do some stuff in a spreadsheet and occasionaly put together a slideshow for a presentation.

    Oh and all the rest is now web-based stuf, so I actualy should be able to do with LESS powerfull machines.

  18. As everybody I am happy on FCC Says No to Mobile Phones on Airplane · · Score: 1

    However from a technical point of view a person working in the Aircraft maintenance said to me that the only technical reason it is onnoying, is because it can sometimes screw with the logging system. Suddenly you get a peak of absurd highRPM for the engine for example.

    It is the same in hospitals where you are not allowed to use a cellphone, yet somehow the staff does have them and sms each other over the operating table for fun.

    What is it that people can't live without a cellphone anymore? I remember that we actualy went over to people and say hello. If you can't turn of your cellphone for a week, then you do something wrong.

  19. Re:And yet on French Train Breaks Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Which means that 1 in 10 IS by rail. Pretty much, I would say. Do you have numbers for other countries like the USofA?

  20. Re:I said it in the last DoubleClick rumor thread on Google In Bidding To Buy DoubleClick · · Score: 1

    They do have a hosts file that they can use. One that is pretty up to date is http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
    I update my hostsfile with it every week and I don't even run Windows.

  21. Re:All copyrighted works should be held on Linux and OSS to Aid the Library of Congress · · Score: 1

    It is good enough in most of the cases. I do not want to spend 45USD on a copyright, yet I don't want to loose that copyright. Or perhaps I don't want anybody to read it, yet I want to proove my copyright.

    Also what you talk about would only be good if you already knew what the other erson would be copyrighting.

    Asume I made something on the 1st of january and I send it to myself. You then find out about it and intend to harm me. How are you going to anti-date it?

    Obviously the sealing I was talking about needs to be done not by just one person. Indeed, if you are talking about something that will make you filty-rich, then 45USD is nothing. et asking 45USD for something that is already yours, is a bit like theft.

  22. Re:All copyrighted works should be held on Linux and OSS to Aid the Library of Congress · · Score: 1

    The proove part can be done in several ways. One of the cheapest ways is to send it in a sealed envelope to yourself with a proove of sending (registerd?) Then when proove is needed, you can just let the envelop be opend with the apropriate witnesses. Together with the proove of sending this will show who has the first rights.

    So unless the other party has something that clearly dates earlier, you will have the copyright rights.

    However most of the time the question is wether a derived work is a new thing or if it is a copy. To be copied used to be a compliment. Pity that now people are mostly not interested in flatery, but in money.

  23. Re:Your money are used to sue you or your friends. on RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the moment they stop recieving money, they will stop sueing peopl to recieve even more money. Just look at SCO. The moment their revenue dropped, they dropped their lawsuits.

    The one exists without any relation to the other.

  24. Re:Artists funding this action on RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is good to see Metallica is still one of the bands not named.

    Perhaps it is better to sum up the one you DO can buy. Or look at ZAPP and be happy not all are the same. Pitty he is no more, because he would certainly be shouting to copy his music now and would be a lout voice against **AA.

  25. Re:All copyrighted works should be held on Linux and OSS to Aid the Library of Congress · · Score: 1

    All works are copyrighted by default. That would mean that each and every letter I write to my mistress is copyrighted and if it would go your way, I MUST send it to the Library of Congress.

    Considering that copyright is an international law, I won't see how this is possible. I have no interest in sending anything to the US. Copyright is turned on by default, so unless you specify that something is NOT copyrighted, it is.