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  1. Re:2 Bright Sparks' SyncBackSE on Small-Office Windows Based Backup Software? · · Score: 1

    I'll second that. SyncBack is top notch and dead simple. The price is well within any small business budget, and simple enough for just about anyone to set up for manual backups or scheduled.

  2. Re:Selfserving Article on Study Finds Linux 'Ready For Prime-time' · · Score: 1

    Why not? They did it to the tomato.

  3. Re:Since this is a Roland P. Slashdot story on What's Hidden Under Greenland's Ice? · · Score: 1

    iPods... with nanotechnology!

  4. Re:AV incompatible? So? on Now Is Not the Time for Vista · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd feel about as comfortable as Michael J. Fox playing Operation as I would running Microsoft Windows without anti-virus software.

  5. Don't forget... on Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids · · Score: 1

    ... the helmets, kneepads, and elbow pads. Might as well surround them in bubble wrap while we're at it.
    Add a permanent carry-along douche too, since we're raising a nation of pussies.

    [/end grinch]

  6. Re:Yet another. . . on Republican Aide Tries to Hire Hackers · · Score: 1
    ...Professional politicians are power hungry sociopaths. How do we solve that problem?

    There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty:
    soap, ballot, jury, ammo.
    Use in that order.
    Starting now.
          -Ed Howdershelt
  7. Re:Dumb Editor on Debian Delayed by Disenchanted Developers · · Score: 1
    ...I don't see why Debian doesn't get more respect for focusing on stability.

    It does by those use it.

  8. 2020? on Another Small Step Before the Giant Leap · · Score: 1

    Call me crazy, but I think 20anything is waaaaaaaaaaay off the mark. I can't imagine how long NASA would take to assemble something as massive as a mining/base operation on the moon. It takes a shuttle crew a 7 hour procedure to remove and replace an IC board in space, how the hell are they going to get anything built on the moon?

  9. Re:Man is this going to be expensive on Near-Complete Cure For Diabetes In Two Years? · · Score: 1
    ...Everybody complains about greedy drug companies, but except in rare cases, the folks complaining aren't taking 2nd jobs so they can donate the extra income to support medical research...

    No, but some are taking on second jobs so they can use the income to pay for their meds. I have a Type 1 diabetic parent. With the diabetes, along comes it's associated coronary disease, and kidney dysfunction. The 15 pills a day, insulin, glucose testing supplies, and doctor visits/testing cost around $2000 per month, and that's just the copays. An older person on a fixed income is _fucked_. Unfortunately, that's what happens when our elected representatives allow the pharmaceutical industry to write Medicaid laws.

    And don't laugh about those aged greeters at Wal-Mart.
    Chances are, they were born in the 1930's and 1940's and raised to believe that Social Security and Medicare would be there for them when they retired - they were lied to. Now they're 70 years old, and have abhorrent medical bills piling up and have had to get back into the workforce to pay them or end up losing their homes just so they can pay $8 for one 5mg Valium(TM).

    Perhaps your insurance plan rocks. Unfortunately, others aren't as fortunate.

  10. Re:clean != free of "critical" updates on Patch Tuesday — IE7 Clean · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So... every single web site you browse is monitored by a Microsoft server? Yipe. I bet DHS _loves_ that "feature". Can you turn it off?

    Even sounds a bit like spyware...

    [adds another layer to tinfoil hat]

  11. Re:its not just McCain on Bill Would Extend Online Obscenity Laws to Blogs, Mailing Lists · · Score: 1

    Mostly because it's not just us from New York that know Schumer's nothing but a do-nothing blow-hard schmuck.

  12. Re:hahaha on Bill Would Extend Online Obscenity Laws to Blogs, Mailing Lists · · Score: 1
    ...Could someone name some of Kerry's liberal positions in 2004?


    To be honest with you, I can only name one of Kerry's positions, liberal or otherwise:
    "I'm not Bush".

  13. Re:It's funny? Laugh? on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1
    ...From ER you can actually LEARN stuff...

    Like the fact that Dell(TM) and Purdue Pharma paid $HUGEASSLOADSOFCASH for product placement.

  14. Who needs a knife? on TSA Now Investigating Boarding Pass Hacker · · Score: 1

    All you need is a couple of Christmas presents.

  15. Re:First thing that went through my mind... on Silly String Goes to War Against IEDs · · Score: 1

    It could be done, but the licensing fees to Marvel Comics would make it cost-prohibitive.

  16. Re:This was on The Daily Show 2 days ago on Silly String Goes to War Against IEDs · · Score: 1

    Even better would be to use marketers. Marketers aren't capable of telling the truth, whereas a lawyer can at least try.

  17. Re:Inquiring Minds Want To Know... on Windows Vista and XP Head To Head · · Score: 1

    Shilling by a pundit?
    I am SHOCKED!

  18. Re:It's bad enough that the police can do this... on MPAA Kills California Anti-Pretexting Bill · · Score: 1
    ...We've got a huge percentage of our population in the prison system...

    One in every 32 U.S. adults it would seem.
    "Land of the Free... offer void where prohibited by law."

  19. Re:from 30-0 to 27-33? on MPAA Kills California Anti-Pretexting Bill · · Score: 1
    ...This means the MPAA and others argued for the right to make "false, fictitious or fraudulent" statements...


    Why not? Fox news already sued and won to have the right to lie.

  20. Re:Big time! on MPAA Kills California Anti-Pretexting Bill · · Score: 1

    I say that "pretexting" should be ILLEGAL...


    Last I heard, it was.
    Why is this even a debate?

    If you or I posed as someone else to get their phone/financial/what-have-you records, we would be arrested and prosecuted without question.

  21. Even simpler... on Fighting Claims That Open Source Is Insecure? · · Score: 4, Informative

    One word:
    botnets

    Then you can explain how it's actually the closed source OS that is the most damaging.
    Hell, just show them some apache logs that are still constantly being hit by things like IIS servers still infected with Sasser, years after it should have been eradicated.

  22. Re:Let me guess... on John Dvorak On Vista's Launch · · Score: 1

    ahem...

    * Read More... * 202 of 243 comments


    It would seem that the /. crowd actually likes these articles, considering all the comments they generate... even if 50% of those are bitching about Dvorak.

  23. Re:Hands up, everyone who DIDN'T see this coming.. on Trusted Or Treacherous Computing? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are a lot of good reasons to do the things...

    Sorry, but I happen to think that's crap. Much like the government, whenever a controversial law/license is proposed, and its supporters, when confronted with an egregious abuse it would permit, use a phrase along the lines of 'Perhaps in theory, but the law would never be applied in that way' - they're LYING. They intend to use the law that way as early and as often as possible.

    Stolen laptops, Malware, Leaked confidential information (think patient records, social security numbers, etc..)

    Those situations would fall under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, not Microsoft.

  24. Re:Is it just me? on Sony Finds Defect In Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    What does the division of sony that does music have to do with the division that makes camera? or TVs?

    The name perhaps?

    The Sony namesake is quickly becoming a pariah across the board.

  25. Re:Is it just me? on Sony Finds Defect In Digital Cameras · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh, how soon you forget eh?