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  1. Oracle DBA on Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought Oracle DBA's were all uber-brilliant? Everyone I have met has told me so.

    Anyhow, you never give end users direct access to tables. Never. Users who create nice cross joined tables will bring your system down to a crawl Create data dumps to ancillary database -- one per company in this case. And that is if your management won't back you up in just saying "no". I know this much, and I am NOT a DBA.

  2. Re:Cult. on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I realize this will get your statement will get you to +5 Insightful, but it is incorrect. A cult is defined by its secretiveness. Scientology definitely qualifies as both a religion and a cult. However the two terms are not mutually inclusive.

  3. Re:Security not just about encryption. on Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP · · Score: 2, Funny

    207.46.232.182

  4. Re:Troll on The Physics of Zero-G Whipped Cream · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess my question is why this cannot be studied on a vomit comet instead of waiting very precious resources on a space shuttle.

  5. I knew it on ISO Miscounted Cuban OOXML Vote · · Score: 5, Funny

    As soon as they bought the Diebold voting system, I knew we were screwed.

  6. Re:Fingerprint scanners suck. on Fingerprint-Protected USB Sticks Cracked · · Score: 4, Funny

    Passwords are much more secure at this point. No one is going to steal your password off an old soda bottle.

    My password is "Dr. Pepper" you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:My pick on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    Physically staying 27 until I die from something other then natural causes.

    Death by grammar Nazi.

  8. Re:Y2k300! on Stored Data to Exceed 1.8 Zettabytes by 2011 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ZIP the ZIP'd file for even better space savings.

  9. My homeopathic message (+5 insightful) on Drugs In Our Drinking Water · · Score: 4, Funny

    a.

  10. Re:Perspective on Drugs In Our Drinking Water · · Score: 4, Informative

    For example, are antibiotics getting into the water and, if so, might we start to develop immunity even if we've never taken them directly?

    You do not develop an immunity to antibiotics. Bacteria do. Whether or not you personally get a mini-dose of antibiotics has not bearing on that.

    On the other hand, if we are all getting a mini-dose, then those bacteria that are antibiotic resistant will proser all the more. Also consider that it isn't only humans that would be getting these mini-doses.

    Yet another example of the "no man is an island" truism.

  11. Re:Challenge? Why on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 1

    Guantanamo

  12. Re:Zonk, get a clue? on The Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition Preview Books · · Score: 1

    Is this you?

  13. Re:Really? The go daddy ad? on Top 10 Most Memorable Tech Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    A woman with large breasts is all it takes to be memorable? Didn't realize /. had been purchased by fark.com.

    I'd hit it.

  14. Re:As soon as they're interested on When Are Kids Old Enough to Play Videogames? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it'll probably do more for their brain and development

    I think the key to both activities is adult interaction. With my 4-year-old, he plays some strategy games on the computer, and I explain a little about what is going on and why. When I am at work, he will play around and show me what he has come up with, and sometimes I am impressed what his little mind comes up with. I think if he were just left on his own mashing buttons, he'd get little out of it (now when the little booger can beat me at the games, it won't be so cute ). Same with TV shows. If you find educational programming and spend time discussing and applying it, then it can be useful. You don't even want to know how many life lessons you can get from Thomas the Tank Engine!

  15. SEVEN!? on When Are Kids Old Enough to Play Videogames? · · Score: 1

    First, I started programming before I was seven. BASIC for the TRS-80 Model I, and it only warped my slightly.

    Second, My kids started Flash based games at 2 and 3-years old. For my older, I think it is good to teach him decision making, and giving him a desire to read (so he doesn't have to ask daddy which button to push each time he starts a new game).

    I will not allow them to play a game with violence to people (or animals).... I steer away from them myself (usually ). A five year old playing Mortal Kombat is not cool.

    So, basically, it comes down to the kid and the type of game.

  16. Re:environmental friendliness on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    The savings is that there are no discs OR electricity used if someone doesn't want to access the data. The "environmental friendly" disc will be thrown away by the vast majority of the recipients.

  17. Re:Unbelievable on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is more unbelievable is that you'd take an article summary like this as being the gospel. More often than not, it is someone who hasn't really read the whole article, but wants to see his name on the front page of Slashdot. Dispense with a few facts, create some sensationalism, and the crack Slashdot editing team puts it up without fact checking.

  18. Re:In all seriousness on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    I am not sure you know what a straw man is. A straw man is where I set up a bad argument for my opponent, and then knock it down. My assertion is that to appease everyone who wants to destroy America, we would have to transform into a Muslim nation. I attacked the original poster's "let's stop doing things that would make them want to knock down our buildings". This is NOT a straw man argument.

  19. The World on EU Launches Yet Another Antitrust Probe Into Microsoft · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    China protects its own by keeping its currency undervalued.
    Europe protects its own through litigation and trade restricting laws.
    The Unites States rapes its own through outsourcing, overspending and reducing taxes on the rich.

    Which one do you think will be a world power in 50 years?

  20. Re:In all seriousness on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Quit doing things that make other people want to knock our buildings down.

    So you would pass the 'Let's All Become Muslim' Bill? Now, I think our foreign policy is a mess, and we have given ourselves a black eye with our military. But there is a sizable group of people that won't be happy until our men all have beards, and our women are wearing burkas.

  21. Re:My top 10 on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    It would also stop all this bullshit that people spew about gun control. I'm tired of all that.

    Yeah... the Constitution is bullshit.

    Dumbass.

  22. My List on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    1) Create a balanced budget over next four years.
    2) Insist China float its currency, or stop trade.
    3) Withdrawal of troops over four years. The immediate pullout is insane, even through we truly have no business being in Iraq in the first place.
    4) National Health Insurance. Having companies in charge of your benefits makes no sense.
    5) Seriously fund head start.

  23. Re:832? on BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, that's an odd number

    No. It is even.

  24. Re:hmm. on BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now tell me why anybody should want this outside of the media/video industry...

    We've found Bill Gates' Slashdot user account.

  25. Re:Non-relative time measurment please. on Mars Rover, Spirit, Turns 4 · · Score: 1

    How would a base 10 system resolve Mars Years vs Earth Years?