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  1. Re:Also... on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 1

    No, but they make very popular, very compatible, very SUCCESSFUL things.

  2. Re:Also... on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 0

    One might also note that the mainstream industry makes orders of magnitude more money (a measure of success) than the "bedroom produced" music and talent scene that you belong to.

  3. Re:Tap and die on Space Station Spacewalkers Stymied By Stubborn Bolt · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you want tiny pieces of metal wandering around in an electrical system located in a microgravity environment. It might be fine if they had some sort of magnetic or adhesive system of sequestering or containing these.

  4. Re:R&D on What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? · · Score: 1

    One such project that focuses on R&D into detecting, avoiding and withstanding IEDs is JIEDDO. Joint (as in, multiple branches of military) IED Defeat Organization. Worked on it for a while, they have very smart people working on that program, trying to save peoples lives every day.

  5. Re:Legal response on Swedish Court Orders Detention of Wikileaks Founder Assange · · Score: 1

    Except that it wouldn't be rape in that case. Rape in most modern legal systems has a very well-defined, specific meaning which includes factors that contribute to the rapists intent and actions. While I am not an expert on Swedish or International Law, it doesn't seem logical that a progressive country like Sweden would allow such a claim to stand. Also, please understand that I'm not saying that in this hypothetical case, that the person who was HIV+ was in the right. In some states in the US, sexual contact with someone without informing them of your HIV status (if you know or suspect you are HIV+) is a very serious crime.

  6. Client Page. on Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? · · Score: 1

    The client page says exactly what the client will do when it's installed. Nothing about sniffing traffic, scanning your hard drives, etc. Perhaps you could voice your concern to the HelpDesk or network engineers?

  7. Re:Maybe Microcenter will fill the CC void? on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Funnily enough - the Rockville MicroCenter is in what used to be a CompUSA store, years ago.

  8. Re:What we need on US Cybersecurity Chief Beckstrom Resigns · · Score: 1

    Their is indeed a national focus (mandate, really) to implement DNSSEC on all internal DNS mechanisms in the .GOV domain by some arbitrary date. Unfortunately, it's one of those famous Bush unfunded mandates. A deadline with checkpoints and costs, but no money to cover those costs. I'm working at one of those 3-letter-agencies that is helping lead the way on DNSSEC in the government space, but their is SO MUCH RED TAPE and so little time to negotiate it.

  9. Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It certainly made it illegal for two parties to sell liquor to one-another in the early 1920's. That's a private-party transaction if I've seen one.

  10. iPhone? on New 20" iMac Screens Show 98% Fewer Colors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm curious - and completely ignorant of how to find this information. What type of screen does the iPhone use? The WikiPedia entry doesn't give that much detail, or I don't know what I'm looking for. Thanks!

  11. Re:No tears here... on CompUSA To Close All Stores · · Score: 1

    Rockville, MD, by chance?

  12. Re:Have to get away from the "patch" concept on Microsoft 'Stealth Update' Proving Problematic · · Score: 1

    By doing this, unfortunately, you will also reduce the interoperability of the systems or introduce great gobs of bloat. These interoperability hooks assume certain things that can only (easily) be ascertained by precognition of the sytem at hand.

  13. Re:who does this affect? on Comment Deadline For NYC Photography Permits · · Score: 1

    Just a quick note - having insurance for $1M does not cost 1 million dollars. :) Actually, it's quite affordable at around $500 / year.

  14. Effects? on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    Aren't most ships made out of metal, these days? What would be the possible side effects of such a strong magnetic pulse in proximity to, let's say, hull plating? Magnetized ships seem like a bad idea when you think about the composition of land mines (metal) and other munitions. Anyone more of an expert in this area?

  15. Re:Ignorance Related on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 1

    I take issue with item 12 - "aligns the data on the hard drive correctly"? Unless your drives electronics aren't functioning appropriately, your data should be aligned properly? Could you care to elaborate?

  16. Re:Try no TV or Internet on Disconnecting Completely While On Vacation? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Minerva, N.Y.

    //local Upstate NY'er. ;)

  17. Make Some Noise. on Stolen Laptop Calls In! - Will Police Act? · · Score: 4, Informative

    First, try and verify that the police department isn't doing anything about it. Talk to a supervisor in a day or two and see where this case is going. Then, if nothing is being done, consult an attorney and ask what your options are. I know that most police forms have complain forms to fill out if you want to start making a stink. Work your way up the ladder, their IS a chain of accountability and if you're persistant and cause enough pain, someone will make the phone call to Verizon or whomever and get the name and address on the account.

    If that fails to produce justice, follow up with the attorney and file civil suit against the police agency. You handed them about 3/4 of the case when you produced an IP address, they should have been willing and capable of filling in the missing paperwork and whatnot.

  18. HPOVSD on Support Desk Software for ITIL-Based IT Department · · Score: 3, Informative

    Suggestion: HP OpenView Service Desk Has great MS ActiveDirectory integration which can be used to pre-populate tickets with user information, email conduits for setting up a "help@domain.tld" style interface and also support self-service webpages. The client is very easy to use. It also supports CI databases, problem tracking, incident tracking, etc.

  19. Re:They job is to collect money from on What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do? · · Score: 1

    Best Buy does not want you to do this, as they've started populating databases with customers identification information who they consider "poor customers". These databases get used to clean up mailing lists (I.E., take you off of them) in the hopes that you won't buy things and then return them.

  20. Re:Fishy? Yeah. on Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer · · Score: 3, Funny

    "You don't know the history of meat processing like I do, Matt. I've researched it. You're being glib."

    With appologies to Tom Cruise. *wretch*

  21. Re:Grinning from ear to ear. on Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court · · Score: 1

    That women is now a LEGEND. I have a capture of both episodes of that on my webserver and it's one of the most gobbled-up peices I've shared over the Internet.

  22. Ah, Privacy. on The Ethics Of Data Brokers · · Score: 1

    As a person who recently had a background check done by "BackChek" (a ChoicePoint company), I can speak with first-hand of the experience.

    Without mincing words, it was botched. My name turned up two other criminal records with a similar name. I assure you, this was quite a suprise to me as I've never been detained, charged, arrested or incarcerated before by any authority.

    So, after being informed by my recruiter that my background check had "turned something up", I was quite upset. You see, I had already turned in notice to job #1 (I was extended an offer before the criminal background check was completed) and was winding down at that job and preparing for job #2. After much scrambling around and research, I managed to secure a copy of one of the accusatory instruments.

    They had matched my supposed 'criminal record' with this other criminal record on NAME ALONE. In terms that more of you might understand: Select * from Criminal_Database where NAME equals "$myname";. I am a full 7" taller than this person and weighed approximately 50 pounds more. I also had different color hair and different color eyes. I live at a different address in a different county. I am of a different race. Wouldn't you think that data integrity of a company like ChoicePoint would be of a slightly higher quality? Rather than costing me DAYS of

    The biggest problem that I had with the entire experience is that the ChoicePoint company was very unwilling to research the problem further, even with me giving them the case #, the court's contact information and other such information. I even faxed them a copy of the actual report, but they were unwilling to review it. I am still awaiting their final disposition, some 3 weeks later.

  23. Re:We are making language way too simple...it's no on Can Your Mouth Become Multilingual? · · Score: 1

    As a Mandarin and English speaker in the US, I'm not sure I completely belive the part about intonation not affecting English. Take for example, my ... er... example:


    We're going to the store.
    We're going to the store?
    We're going to the store!


    In example one, it is common to give what would map to the "falling" tone in Mandarin on the last word. In the second example, it wouldn't be unheard of to use the "rising" tone. In the last example, one could use the "flat" tone to express excitement. In written English, it's perhaps a bit easier to see the difference between these sentences, but in spoken English, it's the intonation that really conveys the differences between the three examples.


    "Ma" as you're probably using it isn't a word, by the way. It's more of a modifier to the preceding word to indicate a question. It's honestly more like punctuation.

  24. Re:Pre-emption a severe move with these weapons on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 1, Troll

    You seem to be under the erroneous impression that the current administration gives a radioactive rat's ass about "the world community as a whole".

    I'm not saying that their stance is correct, just calling it as I see it.

  25. An Interesting Fortune. on Protecting My Daughter's Notebook? · · Score: 2, Funny

    An interesting fortune from Slashdot at the bottom of my page in this story:

    "A girl's conscience doesn't really keep her from doing anything wrong-- it merely keeps her from enjoying it. "