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  1. Re:What's the deal... on Ageism in IT? · · Score: 1

    But not everybody will become starving third-world midgets

    Yeah, whatever Dude.
    I think the rest of us know that's not true.

  2. Re:Text mirror on A Model End Vendor License Agreement · · Score: 1

    12. When installing your software you MUST NOT put shortcuts for AOL, Real Player, or Gator on my task tray, quick launch toolbar, start menu, desktop or startup folder.

    Nor install them without any explicit permission.


    ESPECIALLY if you are the vendor of one of the above mentioned products.

  3. Re:We say this with love. on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC · · Score: 1

    So essentially, you seem to agree with me.
    The city subsides the farmers.
    The small farmer gets screwed over in this, in favor of large corporate farms which is SOP.

    ...such mechanisms as price guarantees...

    Which means prices are fixed higher than the laws of supply and demand would have them.
    So people in the city pay artificially higher prices for food rather than artificially lower as you stated.

  4. Re:We say this with love. on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC · · Score: 0, Troll

    Agreed and sending subsidized low-cost food to the cities is ludicrous.

    I'm not surprised that you posted such an ignorantly wrong statement anonymously.

    There is no subsidised low cost food sent to the cities. The government takes money from the city dwellers and gives it to the rural farmers to throw out the food they grow to keep the prices artificially jacked up.

    So this is another in a long list of ways that the urban areas subsidize your lifestyle. So essentially you are on welfare being payed by my dime.

    What a delusional rube you are.

  5. Re:OT: Re: Expanding on that... on Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness · · Score: 1

    The issue of Reagan's cronies is unrelated to the issue being debated, which is still unrelated to TIA (The subject of the article).

    Wow, what a short memory.
    Poindexter, cocaine dealer, giver of weapons to terrorists and official Big Brother database compiler, was one of Reagan's cronies.

  6. Re:cache - http://www.streamload.com/steve/gollum_ on MTV Movie Awards - Gollum's Acceptance Clip · · Score: 1

    Better get the latest codec. Why is it that these stupid codecs have to change every other week?

    Worked fine with Crossover and I haven't updated it in like 6 months.

  7. Re:remember when..... on MTV Movie Awards - Gollum's Acceptance Clip · · Score: 1

    Dude,
    you can't say pigfukr in front of Jesus.

  8. Re:Same comments in code? on Latest SCO News · · Score: 1

    Dear Mr/Mrs GigsVT,

    I didn't circumvent any access controls in determining the probable cause of the missing extra spaces in your comment. I am quite possible guilty of copyright violation by retyping your exact words though.
    When I posted my original comment, I put extra spaces between the relevant words. After submission I saw that the extra spaces didn't show up, remembered that I should have known that would happen and posted my second comment admitting my retardedness.
    I believe this would be called a "clean room reimplementation", and hence not an infringing activity.

    Hopefully we can work out the copyright issue in an amicable manner.

  9. Re:This is easy for Verizon on Cell Phone Number Portability Ruling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but the point of a corporation is to make money, not to help the customer.

    But you're forgetting that the only reason that We The People even allow them to exist is to provide a benefit to us. I think you might have drunk way too much of the kool-aid they're pumping out and forgotten that simple fact.
    We rule them. They have no right to tell us what we can or cannot do. If there were less roll over and bare your belly people like you around this shit would not be happenning.

  10. Re:I told you so... on Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    But that brings up yet another point - don't point fingers at corporations about how they have no loyalty to the US workforce, and then drive home in your fsckin' Honda or Toyota.

    Yeah, but keep in mind planned obsolescence. The reason American cars sucked so bad a while back was because the companies building them decided it would be more profitable to make the cars fail very quickly so that people would have to buy cars more often. They then tried to use the false patriotism bullshit argument to convince Americans to buy American cars when their last American car was a piece of shit.

    Seriously, if a company makes a calculated decision to fuck Americans then it isn't patriotic, good, nice, or anything but idiotic to do business with them again.
    Now they have cleaned up their acts somewhat, but how many of the corporate officers are the same?
    They certainly deserve no rewards for their criminal actions.

  11. Re:Alreay run into this... on Yet Another Windows Worm · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's your CU's IP? I'll double check your bro's work.

    295.261.301.955

    Thanks, I really appreciate it.

  12. Re:Same comments in code? on Latest SCO News · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doh! as it got stripped out in HTML. Please mod this and the parent (my other comment not his) down -20 retard.

  13. Re:Same comments in code? on Latest SCO News · · Score: 0

    Things like two spaces between certain words, mispelings, Weird Capitilization, etc

    You got the mispeling and the Weird Capitilization, but you forgot the two spaces.

  14. Re:I've had enough on Darl & SCO Overview · · Score: 1

    You can't just burn. You have to remember to salt.

    Nice. Very nice.

  15. Re:I've had enough on Latest SCO News · · Score: 0

    Dummy. Hemp ain't marijuana.

    Sure, but it'll give them a nasty headache and leave them feeling ripped off.
    Where's the problem?

  16. Re:pathetic on Chicken Run · · Score: 1

    I, myself have always been vegetarian simply because it is morally wrong to take the life of one being only to benefit yourself.

    So are we to assume that you eat only rocks?
    Plants are every bit as alive as animals, so you kill to live just like every other animal on this planet.
    All you are doing is drawing an arbitrary line.
    I draw my line at eating people (and dogs and cats and stuff), but this isn't an absolute moral thing.

  17. Re:Frustratingly typical day in the life of Micros on Yet Another Windows Worm · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well then, any admin who runs outlook (or any email client, or browser, or ANYTHING that could potentially be comprimised) on a production server that absolutely can't stand to have any downtime needs to be terminated as well.

    Perhaps you might be able to explain how to remove IE from windows then?
    Keep in mind, it loads at boot.

  18. Re:Blah, blah... on Yet Another Windows Worm · · Score: 1

    Patch, for the exploit in IE.

    Sure, that's the easy one.

    It exploits a user vulnerability (stupidity)

    But I guarantee that the first user (besides the inventor) that tried out the wheel would have won the first Darwin award had it been around at the time.

  19. Re:How to permanently disable HTML mail in Outlook on Yet Another Windows Worm · · Score: 5, Funny

    add the following value to the registry:

    HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Office/10.0/Outlook/Opti on s/Mail

    REG_DWORD: ReadAsPlain = 0x01

    Outlook will convert all HTML to plain text before rendering it, and turn all embedded images, etc into attachments.


    And people claim that Linux (UNIX, whatever) is hard to handle.

  20. Re:Alreay run into this... on Yet Another Windows Worm · · Score: 1

    Some people regularly receive attachments from clients and/or vendors with whom they regularly do business. Some of them might need these sorts of attachments (admittedly someone high up in the organization is retarded if they don't handle this via secure ftp or similar), so this isn't an absolute solution.
    I work at a financial institution (Credit Union) and when I saw this I called up my bro who handles that end of it just to make sure that all of those file types were stripped and we're fine. I was never a DOS guy so I didn't know what a .pif was but he did so that was a done deal.
    The point is that there are reasons apart from just being "behind in your patches" that might cause an issue.

  21. Re:Government Copyrights on Properly Contributing to Open Source While on Company Time? · · Score: 1

    those parts of the code that are BSD-licensed have to be singled out and mentioned.

    I thought the whole attribution clause was removed from the BSD license a few years back.
    Is this not so, or is something else going on?

  22. Re:Language implications on GPS Used To Monitor Continental Drift · · Score: 1

    Well that's all very well for you, but London is always "down" for me since I live in Edinburgh.

    Except you're making a very common mistake.
    Not really your fault though. All the mapmakers and such get it wrong as well.
    They always show the planet upside down. I mean look at it. The vast majority of the landmass at the top?!? That's just crazy. It obviously would have slid down to the bottom by now.

  23. Re:Damn... on GPS Used To Monitor Continental Drift · · Score: 1

    I knew the must be *one* good reason to live in Scotland...


    As if Haggis and deep fried Mars bars weren't enough?

  24. Re:Penny's can't kill. on NASA's Foam Test Offers Lesson in Kinetic Energy · · Score: 1

    If your 2 pence piece is twice the size, that means twice the mass,

    Today isn't your day ;-)

    a round coin twice the size (think radius) would have an area of pi(2r)^2 vs pi(r)^2 or 4 times the area. Assuming same thickness and density that's 4 times the mass.

  25. Re:Penny's can't kill. on NASA's Foam Test Offers Lesson in Kinetic Energy · · Score: 1

    And the empire state building is wedge shaped, with ledges ever couple of stories. There's no way for a penny to even make it to the ground.

    OK, say you throw the penny off of the John Hancock. 96+ floors with no ledges.
    terminal velocity or not, with a sweet tailwind off of the lake funnelled between the buildings it could probably do some serious damage.