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  1. Re: Windows Policy Editor - could it be any worse? on Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux · · Score: 2

    It's amazing how difficult something can be when you do it wrong. Try loading the MMC, then add local policies, no regedit needed. After it's locked to the Nth degree, load the same tool from a remote box and connect to your secured machine.

  2. Probably not... on Quark Matter Blamed for Paired 1993 Seismic Events · · Score: 2, Informative

    If this were the case, then a bullet would only leave a bullet sized hole in things. Even shooting an empty paint can with a .22 leaves a MUCH bigger hole on the way out.
    I'd guess with that amazing amount of mass (F=M*A) it's mess you up pretty bad. Like gooey pile of what used to be you bad.

  3. Re:University is not Earth... on Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I've worked in both worlds, currently at a Universtiy. It's amazing. The type of government waste you think are jokes (color laser printers every five feet), ZERO accountability, it might as well be unionized. And once you're firmly afixed to the government teat, you really start to loose touch. (one professor said he'd prefer to raise taxes than raise tuition; unfortunatley he doesn't realize that the state taxpayers are not the students)

  4. So sad... on Ellen Feiss Interview · · Score: 2

    Huh? Yes, she used the word bombard, but she used it incorrectly. It's a verb, not a noun (unless she was referring to an ancient cannon).

    ef:"When we get back two weeks later, it's like a bombard, it was so big."

    Read it context, she probably meant to say that it's like being bombarded.

  5. University is not Earth... on Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do not think that any experience from working in any Institutional environment maps to the 'real world'.

  6. Re:No wonder they call us "consumers". on High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads · · Score: 2

    Fill the form out like you do an on-line form, creatively. Now all they know is that the wallet carrying store card number 764839201 buys coke and steaks every time he comes in and only buys the chocolate milk when it's on sale.

  7. Re:Punish those responsible... on US Busts Military Network Hacker · · Score: 2
    Maybe you're misunderstanding what he had access to and what professional means? Supposedly anything really juicy isn't connected to the internet anywhere and professional means he's getting paid, that's it.

    That doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of profitable data on the connected network. My pops works for a company that does about 80% of its business with the military. I'm sure that if the Brit got one of their proposals off a network share, there's a rival firm with a slimy exec out there who'll buy it to undercut the contract.

    That seems a lot more likely than him selling troop movements and materials checklists to the Iraqis. Also seems that they'd be willing to track this activity long enough to make a strong criminal case rather than simply disappear you.

  8. Bad Analogy on RIAA Seeks Summary Judgement Against P2P Services · · Score: 1

    P2P networks are more like UPS. If I ship a pound of dope and send it via UPS, the feds might show up and make a bust at delivery, but they wouldn't shut down UPS.

  9. Re:EULA In General Are User Hostile on The Day The Music Died: Windows Media and DRM · · Score: 2

    Run it from the command line in unattended mode, no pop-up box, no eula. It's running on a couple hundred boxes here and no one has agreed to a damn thing.

  10. Not All Laws are Correct... on California Tracks Everyone Using Toll Transponders · · Score: 2

    nt

  11. Re:Well I wouldn't buy a DVD for extra footage... on Extra Scenes in FotR Special Edition DVD · · Score: 2

    Usually you can get around this crapola by stopping the disc (you may have to physically touch the DVD player) and then firing up the DVD menu or picking an advanced scene number.

  12. Re:Bill Gates' reply on The True Story of Website Results · · Score: 2

    If you actually believe that driving faster than the speed limit kills people, get a bike. Perhaps driving too fast for the conditions (120MPH at night, in the rain, on a curve) is dangerous, but usually it's a lack of attention that causes accidents, not speed.

  13. Re:Sim City on Mysteries Of The CDRW and Backups Revealed · · Score: 2
    Ah, memories. Funny thing is that this only worked on black and white copies. They came out solid black. But a color copy worked just fine, and only $5 a sheet back in the day.

    As long as we're on memory lane, I remember tweaking my city to the hilt until I had to go to sleep, then checking in the morning to make sure it survived the night alone and then after school revamping and expanding the place with all the money and population it racked up while it was running all day.

  14. Re:Just say NO on Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales · · Score: 2

    While I don't think the RIAA has any rights to do such a thing (and hopefully this is so obviously wrong that it will fail), your analogy comparing books to cds doens't even start to work.

    #1: "All you have to do is rip out the binding"

    #2: "There will be mistakes, of course"

    As to the first, you can no longer resell the book (I believe you can't even sell paperbacks missing the cover). For the second, a cd copy is exactly the same (minus liner notes).

    :)

  15. Re:Speaking of Feng Shui... on Sanyo Solar Ark and Giant LED Display · · Score: 2

    It's like most Chinese folk science; the rationalizations are borderline insane, but they are based on a wealth of empirical evidence.

    Case in point, new building sites are inspected and all kinds of crazy nonsense is done to select sites, but quite surprisingly they knew not to build on formations that us westerners commonly build on that just happen to leak radon gas.

    As with acupuncture, explaination loco, results unquestionable.

  16. Re:Actually, courts don't have that authority on Supreme Court Overturns Festo Decision · · Score: 2

    I enjoy your enegry, but fail to see how anything you've said relates to what I said. To 'strike down' is the correct term and was used in the correct context.

  17. Not as bad as all that... on Supreme Court Overturns Festo Decision · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Supreme's sent it back to the Appellate court to try again. The Appellate court's ruling didn't interpret the law or enforce the law, it changed it. This is something reserved to the legislature, thus the ruling.

    Best the courts can do is strike a law down, they can't change it (even to fix it) or make new laws.

  18. Not quite yet... on X-45 Makes Debut Flight · · Score: 2

    This machine doesn't make decisions, it's still told what to do, when to release and what targets to destroy. Think RC war plane, not autonomous fighter.

  19. Re:Try a new method! on Sometimes, Microsoft is Right... · · Score: 2

    Ok, third try. Comments.pl keeps eating my reply. /. must know when someone is posting on how to make a MS product mroe useful. ;)

    The tool you'll need is the Web Accessories for Internet Explorer 5. It says they won't work in IE6, but the tool we want does (Web Search).

    After you install the tool, go to your links folder and fire up Quick Search.exe. There's a lot of built in stuff, but no google. To add google, click New, Shortcut: gg, Search: Custom URL, URL: "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" (no quotes). Click OK and then Save.

    Now you can type gg whatever on the address bar and you'll get a search on whatever. From here you can build whatever searches you want, so get out there and be creative!

    NOTE: If you don't want to install all the other crap, you can simply open the .exe with winzip and pull out Quick Search.exe, not sure if it matters where it lives, but the installer places it in the links folder of your favorites.

  20. Try a new method! on Sometimes, Microsoft is Right... · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Write a browser plugin. Now you no longer need MS and if you're crafty you can write something that works in Netscape, Opera, etc.

    I bet if you wanted you could tell people how to build a custom search in the QuickSearch.exe that's part of the IE powertools! I built a custom search so 'gg term' searches google and 'dict word' brings up the dictionary.com page. Wouldn't be hard to build a 'RN whatever' to go to your site and redirect. All this from the address bar.

    Stop whining that the powers that be destroyed your horrible business model (all eggs one basket) and be creative and do something else.

  21. OK on Distributed Computing World Climate Simulation · · Score: 2

    choas is a relatively complex behavior which is strictly governed by a mathematical algorithm, but, is nonetheless unpredictable due to sensitivity to initial conditions.

    I'll give you that, but in weather it still doesn't matter. Given the uncertainty priciple it's impossible to know the inital condtion for a system such as the weather. So even if they have the right mathematically model (which I doubt) this is still all futile.

  22. Initial conditions don't matter... on Distributed Computing World Climate Simulation · · Score: 2

    That's what makes weather choatic. If you start with the exact same conditions, you still don't get the same answer at the end. That's why the weather predictions for tomorrow are so often wrong. (i remember when they said 'there's an 80% chance of rain tomorrow', but now they just tell us it'll rain tomorrow).

    Now this is a climate model and not a weather model, but I fail to see how the hell that's anything more than a labeling difference.

  23. Fuck Appple (read it anyway) on Apple Announces the Fate of Shake · · Score: 0, Troll
    If our favorite software monopoly bought a company and supported every platform except one, we'd scream bloody murder. As long as it's the only actual monopolist (sells the hardware, software, upgrades [ha], and such) on the block it's ok. Fuck Apple and their crappy wanna be newage looking crap.

    **I've had a few drinks, but I still think it's at worse rendundant. :)

  24. You forgot an option... on Science a Mystery to U.S. Citizens · · Score: 2

    There isn't an answer for everything. Maybe there never will be. "I don't know" is a valid answer sometimes. That doesn't mean I make something up to fill the gap, it means that we accept that we don't know how something works.

    Calling on faith every time there isn't an answer from science is a cop out. Don't know why? God did it.

    Modern religion has constructed themselves very intentionally to avoid making scientific predictions, that's why they're still around. How many people you know that worship Jove or think that that group of bright lights in the sky control the oceans?

    Good thing that there are curious people (even quite religious people can be curious) that stive to know. They look for the answers.

  25. It's compression... on Star Wars Digital Projection Theaters · · Score: 2

    Your jaggies are coming from the compression of the image, not just becasue it's digital.