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  1. Re:Garbage on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    How much would it cost me to get a decent desktop with all of this? You've gotten my attention.

    For that matter, actually, how much for a decent laptop with it?

    (by decent I mean not extreme, but capable)

    The last time I used a Mac was an Apple Color Classic... I'm a little out of the loop.

  2. Re:Military applications, not NASA on New Production of Plutonium 238 · · Score: 1

    Espoinage (earth-facing satilites that use optical,infrared, or radar imaging that are in the government's name, pretty much) would be considered a military use. They can't use Russia's Pu-238 for them.

  3. Re:brains.... brains.... on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1

    You must not have met the right dogs. I have never had a stupid dog, most have been extremely intelligent in their own way. They definatly developed a personality.

  4. Re:Complete Ruling Online; Read for Yourself on Cable Internet Service Not Common Carrier · · Score: 1

    Pardon me for having a key stick. Like it matters.

  5. Re:Complete Ruling Online; Read for Yourself on Cable Internet Service Not Common Carrier · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not when you consider they no longer have common carrier protection when it comes to things like illegal content flying around on their network. Now they have to spend the money and blood actually trying to stop that. And if the measures against it get too obtrusive, they will loose customers.

    ** Did not read the ruling... assuming the protections went away with the status

  6. Re:closer still... on Windows Users Ignoring LUA Security · · Score: 1

    One of my biggest annoyances is that I have to explicitly allow user modification to the programs folder, and usually a couple of other spots. "Documents and Settings" exists for a reason. I wish more windows devs would use it. I know that if I use programs ported from *nix, THEY use it (and I love it).

  7. Re:And cool sounds on Greatest Beams In Movie History · · Score: 1

    Well, games and movies would be very dull if you could only hear sounds that conduct through the hull.

  8. Re:Not surprising on Software Piracy Seen as Normal · · Score: 1

    Keyphrase, "for one's own profit".

    I am not selling it, and I would not have bought it it I didn't obtain it. No money of any sort has been involved.

  9. Re:Article Content on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 1

    Well, after I made it clear to them I would not voluntarily serve the armed forces under the leadership of Bush's administration... they stopped calling me. Give it a try.

  10. Re:Indeed, this is the free market at work. on DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But at the same time, if you hadn't seen the logos on other cars, or seen at least a couple advertisements, would you even know that the Ford/Chevy exists? You may or not buy a car in the future. But you can't buy something you don't know exists. I know there is word of mouth, but that may not be enough to cover most cases.

    The trick is to not annoy people with the advertisements, but still get your name in people's heads.

  11. Re:Frankly.. on AOL Hopes to Change Image With Services · · Score: 1

    Botnets of dial up users are near useless. Sure, there is AOL for Broadband, but the bot would be doing its own thing without AOL. That may also explain why the bot percentile for AOL is relatively low.

    I admit I have never tried or even examined the anti-virus, anti-spyware, ect. from them, but I would be very hesitant to rely on it.

    Parental controls, while a good idea, are inherantly flawed in my opinion. I'm not going to get into that unless someone replies and wants to debate.

  12. Re:Microsoft release version == pre-pre-alpha on Next-gen Windows Command Line Shell Now in Beta · · Score: 1

    No, the origional post was in the correct spot. At least it seemes like it to me :D

  13. Re: No Thanks on Next-gen Windows Command Line Shell Now in Beta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this is going to be the next big bug. IE move over.

    Really, it's new territory for them, they have a poor track record, and this has "lots of hooks into the Windows kernel and various low level functions". Sounds dangerous.

  14. Re:Distubring stuff in chat rooms? on Yahoo! Closes User Created Chat Rooms · · Score: 1

    Easier to make secure software than to monitor and regulate internet chat. But I wouldn't trust ypager.exe myself either.

  15. Re:Clock Technology & Chinese Military on Digital Clock as Thin as Paper · · Score: 1

    Dammit, I just wasted my last mod on a +1 Funny that was only a little funny. Could have been better spent modding this trash down.

  16. Re:DLL on Spyware Floods in Through BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Well, it appears similar to HIEW, which wrote over a DLL that windows wouldn't let me touch.

    I know that it does allow editing on NTFS, but I don't know if it ignores the normal file attribute settings (like read-only) or windows' "file in use" protection. Worth a shot, right?

  17. Re:Turn turn turn ... on Zombie Report By ISP · · Score: 1

    Which is next to useless. Tell me, if you have broadband, why do you need to pay AOL for internet access? For the email address? Instant messaging?

    The email @aol.com incurrs an automatic negative respect and trust, usually.

    Instant messaging - GAIM (or AIM, if you are mental)

    I have never really understood why people pay for AOL for Broadband.

  18. Re:DLL on Spyware Floods in Through BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    To expand, what happens when you use something like biew and write all noops to the file? Pull the power cord immediatly after writing, and it should have no chance to save itself. Last time I tried, biew bypassed windows and wrote directly to the file.

  19. Re:After 3 years... on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (r0a) Quick Tour · · Score: 1

    OK, but whats the difference before the GUI?

    This "new installer" doesn't look any different to me. Is it only new under the hood?

  20. Re:Tor on Web Proxies for Anonymous Scientific Peer-Review? · · Score: 1

    Works for HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS4. (HTTP/HTTPS are best used in conjunction with something like Privoxy)

  21. Re:Ideal solution... on Who Isn't Paying Attention to ROBOTS.TXT? · · Score: 1

    All that is fine and dandy untill you get a curious user, like me, who either sees the ghost link (move the mouse over and your cursor and status bar will reflect there being a link) or views the HTML for some reason and sees it. But then again, I can just pull out tor or something if I get banned.

  22. Re:Hushmail ! no, GPG! on 63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email · · Score: 1

    In which case you are screwed anyways, because they would know what you typed in hushmail.

  23. Re:Hushmail ! no, GPG! on 63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email · · Score: 1

    Or you could use PGP. You know, with gnupg, through something like enigmail.

  24. Re:Anti-Virus on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 1

    Problem with your statement. Simply opening the window that contains the infected file can cause it to be executed. Windows reads the EXE file for file attributes, icon, etc.

    I've had many viruses attempt to spread simply by browsing their parent folder. Usually required me to scroll over them first, but not always. Depends on the virus, and on your windows version/settings.

  25. Re:Of course they're going to deny it! on Intel Claims No DRM · · Score: 1

    Switching to AMD will only delay it. AMD is part of the Trusted Computing Group.

    Look at the top of the content area of this page:
    https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/about/member s/