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  1. Where's the pudding? on Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Do you mind posting anything backing up these claims? I've heard the exact opposite and that DU shells aren't a radioactive hazard.

  2. Re:Living the American Dream on Royal Bank of Canada Software Upgrade Goes Awry · · Score: 1

    Retarded math error aside, when I made 25k a year, my after tax income was about 70%. Currently, at more than twice that, my take home precentage is right about 70%.

    With the math done correctly, 30k is $1,750 per month.

  3. Re:Math correction on Royal Bank of Canada Software Upgrade Goes Awry · · Score: 1

    My shame overwhelms me.

  4. Living the American Dream on Royal Bank of Canada Software Upgrade Goes Awry · · Score: 1

    At 30k annual and assuming 70% take home, you're bringing in around $3600/month. Of this you have $3200 in bills or 89% of your income.

    You're living the American Dream, often refered to by financial planners as living beyond your means.

  5. Re:Security... on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1

    Yes, we all know that the grandparent was talking out of his ass, but he was bashing MS, so it gets modded up.

  6. Re:All your base! on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    Well, all the criminals we hear about aren't that smart. The ones they don't catch...

  7. Re:All your base! on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    I think the Supreme's said that it isn't admissable in court or cause for a search warrant. I'm sure the cops still do it and then flag the residence for followup. They like to do dumpster dives and trespassing with drug dogs to find evidence for a judge. High power bills and not taking your trash out at night seems to be enough in some areas.

    Why all the focus on grass anyway? I'm sure that crack, heroin and meth busts make for better headlines.

  8. Re:Not so fast, sir on The Windows Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Of course if they'd bothered to install the update BEFORE the worm was released then it wouldn't be an issue.

  9. Re:Fool me once... on E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of the Sony PS2 not Nintendo. Sony's the king of games with shitbox graphics and gameplay that let you unlock pre-rendered video. After the EA-XBoxLive announcement, I know quite a few people who've turned their PS2 on for the last time.

  10. Re:GEEKS! on Pizza From the Command Line · · Score: 1

    Right after papa john's makes quality pizza. Ba-da-dum... Thier breadstick kick ass though!

  11. Re:firearms manufacturers..... on Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard · · Score: 1

    Firearms control a small explosion that propels a hunk of metal that is intended to put holes in things (often violently). So I'm not sure their warranty (of a physcial machine) really relates.

  12. Re:Reverse FUD on Sasser Worm Disruption Growing · · Score: 1

    The April 13th security patches broke SP4? I think your apples to monster trucks analogy is crap.

    Like I said in the other reply, testing is good, we tested all our critical apps before deplying, but that meant the patches went out on the 15th not never.

  13. Re:Reverse FUD on Sasser Worm Disruption Growing · · Score: 1

    Well, since 0 of the 450 workstations we patched had the problem I can't say. Even if they had, it made IE kinda slow.

    I'm not against testing, but if a month isn't enough time, firewall the servers and patch the workstations.

  14. Reverse FUD on Sasser Worm Disruption Growing · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's bullshit and you know it. One of the April 13th patches funged IE, and within a week there was a follow-up patch, that still leaves you two more weeks to patch.

    What else did it break? Nothing?

  15. Re:it's war on MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE · · Score: 1

    Yea, but /. is a strange place.

  16. Re:Looks like this is the way it's gonna be... on Secret Repairs Preceded TCP Flaw Release · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea, the same users who don't install well known years old patches are going to search out and early adopt a patch from 'some guy'. Puhleeze.

  17. Re:it's war on MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, all assumptions are inherently wrong. All of the salesmen I've had experience with didn't care what the product even was.

  18. Re:it's war on MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The best salesmen actually believe their own bullshit. Doesn't make them any less slimey.

  19. Re:well... on MPAA Infiltrating Campus Nets with Software · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, if all you need is porn then why are you posting to an article about the RIAA stopping music sharing. They aren't looking for you and don't care what you're wacking off to.

  20. Re:well... on MPAA Infiltrating Campus Nets with Software · · Score: 1

    Ok, maybe. But you're still arguing that you should be allowed to fuck up the network for everyone else while you illegally download songs.

    BTW, keep dreaming that they can't search your room. If your RA smells something funny, you'll get the "let me search or we'll call the cops" speech, and they're not bluffing either.

  21. Speed Limits are Bullshit on Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment? · · Score: 1

    They can do this right after they go back to letting engineers set the limits. Way back before cities funded themselves with traffic violations, the limits were set by city engineers doing crazy things like site surveys, traffic monitoring and other such scientific mumbo-jumbo.

  22. Re:The most striking part of this on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Unless you only want 1 song, and then the comparison is stupid (and they know it). If you want the entire CD, you buy the CD and rip it yourself. If you want one track (like most people) you only buy what you want and pay far less.

    Look at it this way:

    But Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store has been charging $1.41 ($16.99/12) for one track off of "Fly or Die," while Roxio Inc.'s Napster service sells one track of the 12-song collection for $1.17 ($13.99/12). Both prices are less than the $13.49 that Amazon.com charges for the entire CD itself. The same pricing shifts are showing up on albums by a growing slate of artists, from Shakira to Bob Dylan.
  23. Re:Statistics on Mac OS X Trojan Horse Infects MP3s · · Score: 1

    although some trojans on Windows have exploited the OS/products to make themselves appear more tempting to the target users

    Note: This is exactly what this Mac trojan is doing.

  24. Bzzzzz... WRONG on Congress To Force Cable a la Carte Plans · · Score: 1

    You do NOT have to buy cable TV for the high speed internet, you just lose the 'bundle' discount so it costs $10 a month more.

  25. Re:They will fail. on Ballmer On Microsoft's Search Goofs · · Score: 1

    No. Balmer is a marketroid, so the actual quote is probably fairly close to the condensed. Although I do agree that quotes should be as unedited as possible.