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  1. Re:An article without proof on Web 2.0 Threats and Risks for Financial Services · · Score: 1

    web 2.0 doesn't refer to a particular technology. It just means using the web for two-way applications, interaction and sharing instead of one-way presenting static pages. Web as application platform instead of billboard.

  2. Re:please buy my security solution .. on Web 2.0 Threats and Risks for Financial Services · · Score: 1

    It's already too late. In-person bank robberies typically net only $10,000 or so, online robbery is doing far more.

  3. Re:Too late on Sony Takes on YouTube with Video-Sharing Site · · Score: 1

    First is always best. That's why when we think of search engines, we always think of Lycos and AltaVista.

  4. Good idea on Sony Takes on YouTube with Video-Sharing Site · · Score: 1

    This will make it much easier for Sony to sue most of the people using the site for posting Sony-copywrite files.

  5. Re:It's just politics, no justification on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    Go read Jefferson's letters to Adams. Grandparent is right on the money that founders favored allowing the general populace to be armed to the teeth. They just got through a war getting rid of an overbearing government and weren't about to impose a new one. Whether a limit on types of arms is constitutional or not is totally beside the point. The framers' intent was exactly to have an armed citizen.

  6. Re:It's just politics, no justification on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    Russert: "What, specifically has he [Saddam Hussein] obtained that you believe would enhance his nuclear development program.

    Cheney: "what we've seen recently ... that he now is trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium to make the bombs."

    Interview with Tim Russert, Sep 8, 2002

  7. Re:RIAA tactics to catch spammers? on Major Anti-Spam Lawsuit To Be Filed In VA · · Score: 1

    First off, you can't educate zombie PC owners. By definition, all they want is BRAINS.

    Second, it's going to be tough to interest law enforcement in a $200 purchase of harvested email addresses. Linking that to the botnet or webscrapers is going to be difficult, and CAN-SPAM did not create any mandate or provide any funds to law enforcement. It was a joke played on the gullible by Congress.

    Third, project Honeypot has a major problem if they think they can fund their organization by selling these to geeks. And I'm a little disturbed by the ad in the top right corner.

  8. Re:no PPC? on Wikipedia Releases Offline CD · · Score: 1

    Kiwix software features:
            * history
            * print
            * x86/Windows, x86/Mac & x86/Linux
            * search engine
            * skins

    Admittedly, everything could be browser+JS with a little effort.

  9. Re:Monkees, Partridge Family, Milli Vanilli on Spinal Tap to Reunite for Live Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only things that can be verified clearly, scientifically and uncontroversially like WMDs, global warming, AIDS caused by HIV, etc.

  10. Re:I can hear it now on India's Successful Commercial Satellite Launch · · Score: 1

    Hope you realize that my original joke was not meant as a slur against any nationality. Some of my best friends are ... er ... never mind.

  11. Re:Breaking News on Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly. There's been a 5-year expansion of the economy. Business is thriving. Labor costs haven't changed. Executive compensation is soaring. It's a great time to run a business, especially an oil company.

  12. I can hear it now on India's Successful Commercial Satellite Launch · · Score: 2, Funny

    ISS: Houston, we have a problem.

    New Delhi: Hello, please spell your name and give me your complete customer ID.

  13. Re:Not Invented Here!!!! on Intel Opens Its Front-Side Bus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dress warm.

  14. Re:What is "push email"? on RIM Offers BlackBerry Service Without the BlackBerry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seems like that ought to also reduce the server load considerably. It means there is at most one conversation per email, instead of all clients connecting and checking for new mail every X minutes like in normal pop and imap.

  15. Re:Why Upgrade at all? on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 3, Funny

    but, but, under specs it says Vista is

    "Most secure Windows® ever"

  16. Re:How many friends??? on Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS · · Score: 1

    I remember a TV newsperson at a blood donation center talking about how safe it is. Then they accidentally reused the needle from the previous person on her. She nearly fainted she was so terrified. It did not make a very good impression on viewers. There are lots of ways to get infected, some more likely than others.

    Anyway, what good does it do to say that a disease is theoretically preventable, when in actuality it is an out-of-control pandemic? We have to live in this world.

  17. Re:The LAPD is already trying this on Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought helium was holding them up.

  18. Re:How many friends??? on Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS · · Score: 1

    It's not difficult at all. According to the wikipedia article, 570,000 children died from AIDS in 2005. Bad choices on their part?

  19. Re:How many friends??? on Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "I don't mean to be insensitivity"

    you failed

    "HIV and AIDS are very easily preventable diseases."

    So is the common cold, and the method is pretty similar, just never touch anybody else.

    "even if it is their fault they became infected"

    The real reason that you don't want to see money spent on AIDS research, your basic belief that they deserved what they got. Good thing you're never done anything stupid in your life.

    Lung cancer and diabetes are also due to lifestyle, but nobody is blaming the victims they way they do with AIDS.

  20. Re:Only thing to understand... on Learning More About Linux? · · Score: 1

    That's because you can't open the ethernet device for reading/writing. If you could, it would have a /dev/node.

    The people trying to ruin Linux are the Gnome folks doing gconf, which is basically a rehashed Windows registry.

  21. Re:What do you mean flawed? on Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed · · Score: 1

    You are correct. Conspiracy isn't for thinking about committing a crime, it is for talking about committing a crime.

  22. Re:If selling ink doesn't work, how about the prin on HP Stops Selling Printers, Starts Selling Prints · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All printers are sold at a loss. Money is made on ink cartridges. This decision just carries it to the logical extreme.

  23. Re:What do you mean flawed? on Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed · · Score: 1

    Then how about people who are pro-war or pro-death-penalty? Those people are in favor of real people being killed. If the thought is enough, then they should count as murderers.

  24. Re:Wikis are a poor choice for documentation layou on Fragmentation in Linux Documentation? · · Score: 1

    "Wikis are the lazy or uninterested programmer's way of doing documentation."

    I think most packages have good installation instructions, OK usage instructions, and no troubleshooting information. The problem isn't that the programmers don't want to write docs, it's that they have no more idea what to write than you do. Take a look at Linux sound. The ALSA wiki is the only place to go to try to find what people have done to get specific cards working or problems solved.

  25. Re:Look at a map for your answer. on The World's Longest Tunnel · · Score: 1