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  1. Re:Alternative on ClamAV Forced Upgrade Breaks Email Servers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes. Especially when there was six months warning that it was going to happen.

    Also, I'd rather it stop working then keep working and not get definition updates.

  2. Re:Really? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    I always suspect teachers unions.

  3. Re:Holy shit on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok, whatever. The point is to take something critical. Take the monitor then. Or give them laptops and take the laptop.

  4. Re:so, spammers just need servers... on Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation · · Score: 1

    I suppose this is to say that Google is not the end-all be-all of search anymore.

  5. Re:so, spammers just need servers... on Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation · · Score: 1

    A lot of people will hate me for this, but I used Bing to lookup a problem I was having with my sound card and the first result was a blog post from a guy with the exact same issue and the solution. Google turned up a bunch of forum posts with tangentially related issues, but not the blog post that bing came up with.

  6. Re:physical access on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 1

    That worked for my dad. Flipping the circuit breaker for the room was also effective. No power = no computer, no video games, no tv...just reading.

  7. Re:OpenDNS on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 1

    This is fixed by either not allowing outbound traffic to alternate DNS servers OR using a transparent proxy like squid as an intermediary.

  8. Re:Holy shit on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Agreed. The whole project could be tackled this way: content filtering firewall of some sort + take away the power cords when the kids are in trouble.

  9. Really? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    "He got death threats, but he carried on."

    I mean, really? People got pissed because he gave money to kids and they did better? My first suspect is someone involved with teachers unions.

  10. Re:Bowel obstruction on Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I doubt it. It's not genetic...as in it has nothing to do with someone being Japanese. It boils down to people who eat more sushi have more of the related bacteria.

  11. Re:I feel sad. on IE9 Throws Down the Hardware Acceleration Gauntlet · · Score: 1

    Um...who do you propose is going to "clean up" those websites? The owners? Hardly...they're making money. That really doesn't leave anyone else.

  12. Re:Hey everyone, this is Microsoft! on IE9 Throws Down the Hardware Acceleration Gauntlet · · Score: 4, Informative

    >reducing the amount of computation we do in IE

    Apparently that's not working so hot for the other browsers in this case: "When you run Flying Images across different browsers you'll see that Internet Explorer 9 can handle hundreds of images at full speed while other browsers, including Internet Explorer 8, quickly come to a crawl."

  13. Re:I just posted this comment on TFA: on Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test" · · Score: 1

    Stallman is nothing more than a fanatical troll who lives in his own little fantasy land. The first link you posted is utterly ridiculous and laughable, and the second link doesn't prove anything other than that Amazon fucked up over a legitimate copyright dispute.

  14. Re:I just posted this comment on TFA: on Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test" · · Score: 1

    That doesn't have anything to do with the reality of the situation. IE was the internet standard for awhile.

  15. Re:Microsoft IS standards on Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test" · · Score: 1

    Apple will save us? LOL

  16. Re:and this is new news why? on Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test" · · Score: 1

    If everyone adheres to their "non-standards", doesn't that make them the defacto standards?

  17. Re:Alex Brown gets heart broken on Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test" · · Score: 1

    It's not hard to fail a test when you're not trying to pass it.

  18. Re:DRM coming? on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Why would you care if your media player supports some DRM scheme? Don't buy DRM'd media and you won't have to worry about it.

  19. Re:Listen to the police on Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology · · Score: 1

    I fail to understand how this system prevents or helps solve crime. So someone fires a gun and you know where they fired it. Alright...are they just going to stand around and wait for the you to come arrest them or something?

  20. Re:Failure on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    > Bing was supposed to be the DAvid that toppled Google's Goliath

    You living in some kind of alternate universe? No one thought that. Not even Microsoft.

  21. Re:Duh on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 1

    >For me, it started freshman year in college- attending parties and whatnot.

    You have automatically disqualified yourself as a smart person with this quote. Smart kids don't get invited to parties!

  22. Re:Duh on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could know a million "very smart" people who smoke. It doesn't change the fact that ON AVERAGE, more stupid people are smoking than smart people. God damn...learn something about statistics. Nothing in the article said "ALL SMOKERS ARE STUPID, LOL". It simply said that smokers tend to be less intelligent than non-smokers, on average.

  23. Re:Microsoft privacy policy on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Actually it sounds like he's a moron who's running high-volume mail servers off of a residential account and rightly got them blacklisted. He should try reading the terms of use for his Comcast account before filing meritless lawsuits.

  24. Re:Even satan can be true sometimes on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Could you be so kind as to articulate WHY this makes Google evil? I doubt you've thought about at all and this is your knee-jerk reaction.

  25. Re:Correct on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    >Pete LePage is spot on with this. The privacy intrusion by Chrome is outstanding. Every key you type to the address bar is sent to Google.

    I use Bing as my default search provider. What now Pete LePage?