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  1. Re:No change on ODF on Trimarco Confirms Mass. ODF Support · · Score: 1

    Here are some actual examples of poor grammar that a grammar-checker might help:

    "We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you."

    "The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who's spending time investigating it."

    "It means your own money would grow better than that which the government can make it grow. And that's important."

    "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"

  2. Re:Of course on Bluetooth SIG Attacks Linux Bluetooth List · · Score: 1
    According to http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.ht ml">the wayback machine the devies that were listed as NOT compatible were:
    • Digianswer chipset
    • Sphinx PICO Plug dongle
    Everything else is listed as either working or not tested. Of course, it could have been a mfg. of one of the working devices who just didn't want to get Linux support calls.
  3. Re:but doesn't the constitution forbid the taxing on U.S. Ecommerce To Be Broadly Taxed? · · Score: 1

    In an ecommerce transaction with purchaser in state A, web server in state B, order database in the Cayman Islands, shipper in Mexico from company with headquarters in state C, where did the sale take place? How do you know whether its an interstate sale? For extra credit, if I order a Toyota at my local dealership that will be shipped from Japan, is that an out-of-state sale?

  4. Re:Hard Drive Voodoo? on Seagate buys Maxtor for $1.9B · · Score: 1

    "What I'd like to ask slashdot readers is for a good way to measure drive quality other than throwing down chicken bones and looking at them or reading tea leaves? "

    The drive quality from Maxtor, Seagate and WD are all much better than the cheap PC packaging they go into. Drive failures are caused by too many Gs and too high a temperature. Drive shuttles in high-end RAID storage also worry about vibration. We used to shock mount drives in Unix workstations. These days, most drives are bolted directly to a metal case. Every shock to the case is carried directly to the drives and causes the heads to smack against the platters. I also don't see many fans forcing airflow over the drive bays so the drives get a bit toasty.

  5. Re:USA! USA! USA! on The Future of Tech And NSA Wiretaps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kind of depends on who you think are the domestic enemies of democracy, doesn't it?

    If we believe that we can defeat terrorism by reducing privacy, maybe the first place we should open up is the nation's largest employer, and no, it isn't Walmart. Perhaps if we had greater openness on the part of this group, it would lead to a stronger democracy and less terrorism. Isn't democracy defined as public understanding and participation in government?

    I think the Patriot Act would be fine if it worked both ways. I should be able to find out what my representatives are doing the same way they can with me. What deals are they making with the energy lobby? What deals are they outsourcing on no-bid contracts? Surely if giving up privacy makes us safer you have no problems with that.

  6. Re:Graduates versus Engineers on U.S. Engineers Undercounted · · Score: 1

    About 65,000

  7. Re:Why emacs? Because it's great on The Future of Emacs · · Score: 1

    The point to remember with emacs is that when a user starts a sentence with "emacs lacks..." what they usually mean is "I haven't found..."

    Today's tip:
    ^h h - how to say hello in many different languages.

  8. Re:Metrics slightly skewed on Most Home PC Users Lack Security · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Missing security component on Most Home PC Users Lack Security · · Score: 1

    Good software has tested installation on systems running NAV, etc. and tell the user to turn them off if necessary. If you didn't do that then it IS your problem. A little prevention can save you a lot of calls. And, yes, I do customer support for a living.

  10. Re:Not as far as I know on A Spell-Checker for Scientific Terms? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wouldn't the simple way to do this be to take the indexes of a few of publications in a given field and process them into a list? You aren't looking for definitions or anything, just correctly spelled words.

  11. Re:Advertising? on IBM Stresses Importance of OpenDoc to MA · · Score: 1

    You're right. They should have let the highest moderated /. poster write their letter.

    Dear n00b,

    U have been pwned by Micro$oft. ...

  12. Re:HUH? on Linux Desktop Email Key to Success · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's wrong with Connector? Evo seems to work as well with Exchange servers as Outlook. I use meetings/calendar all the time.

  13. Re:Since nobody's actually answering your question on Testing Different Mail Server Configurations? · · Score: 1

    For a set of test users, sendmail can duplicate messages using the aliases file. Give each of those users two destinations. There may be a way to wildcard all users, but I'm a sendmail novice of only 5 years.

  14. Re:Learn from Juno / Netzero? on Would You Use Ad-Supported Windows? · · Score: 1

    I've had Juno's free email since they started their dialup service. Even tho you get the Juno ads, they do a pretty good job of blocking other spam. I have even bought things from the Juno ads, so they have made money from having me as a customer. Its a better service than Yahoo.

  15. Re:I'm beginning to wonder... on DVD Jon's Code In Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."

  16. Re:Accessability on Open Source Accessibility · · Score: 1

    $99 is the UPGRADE price

    Windows XP Home Edition Eligibility according to MS

    Windows 3.1 - NO
    Any Evaluation Version - NO
    Any Server Version - NO
    Windows 95 - NO
    Windows 98/Windows 98 SE - YES
    Windows Me - YES
    Windows NT 3.51 - NO
    Windows NT 4.0 - NO
    Windows 2000 Professional - NO
    Windows XP Professional - NO

  17. Re:No Refund on Bad Day To Be Sony · · Score: 3, Informative

    All well and good? I downloaded Service Pack 2 and looked at it:

    strings -n 5 Update071105.exe |more

    1.2.1
      deflate 1.2.1 Copyright 1995-2003 Jean-loup Gailly

    Then I went and took a look at the zlib site http://www.zlib.net/

    "zlib 1.2.3

    July 18, 2005

    Version 1.2.3 eliminates potential security vulnerabilities in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2, so all users of those versions should upgrade immediately."

    Sounds like Sony needs to trot back and have a whole nother look at those "security concerns"

  18. How could you leave out... on Open Source Engineering Tools? · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Not only it is Lame, it contains.... on California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can I use LAME in my commercial program?

    *** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
    The decoding functions provided in LAME use the mpglib decoding engine which is under the GPL. They may not be used by any program not released under the GPL unless you obtain such permission from the MPG123 project (www.mpg123.de).

  20. Re:Birds... on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 1

    "On a per-turbine basis, cell phone towers kill more birds."

    I would think so.

  21. Re:Sorry... on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 1

    Patent applications are public information. Open source in this case means anyone can generate energy, not just the utilities. Nothing to do with "free".

  22. Re:FreeBSD 6.0 = good on FreeBSD 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Are you running ATA disks? Its crashing here unless I turn off DMA.

  23. Re:What about federal labor laws? on Amazon's Mechanical Turk · · Score: 1

    You aren't an employee. As a contractor, you make whatever you agree to. Personally, I'm going to give up making shoes for Nike and do this full time.

  24. Re:Save The Walking on Reining in Google · · Score: 1

    Don't be rediculous. Nobody walks to the library. Everyone drives their SUV or minivan. The oil companies are behind this whole thing, mark my words.

  25. Re:Link crashed Firefox on The Impact of Memory Latency Explored · · Score: 1

    %7C = vertical bar, so that's one weird cookie:

    "CA|NA||||||||||"