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  1. my eyes, they burn on Nothing To Fear But Fearlessness Itself? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You lost me at 'clueless about the implications of their work'. the crooks at AIG, JPMC et. al. lied about their involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis. many of these guys hold advanced degrees in finance, economics, etc. and they knew what the hell would happen. Come on now, not only does Congress need to stop enabling these Criminals by looking the other way (granting them a covert opportunity to recoup their loses), it's time We demand they prosecute them under the laws which match their Crimes- RICO. It's not just been Fraud and embezzlement- it's been extortion. Not just against their own 'customers', but against the entire citizenry of this country (and others) which taken in it's totality equals Economic Treason. They've not only endangered the US & World economy, they've been trying to cripple them by busting our knees to get the rest of the money out of Us all. In fact, Wall Street makes the 'Teflon Don' and the Gambino Crime Family look rather quaint, in retrospect. It is Cringely that is clueless yet again, not the other way around

  2. Fear Mongering on Windows 7 Users Warned Over Filename Security Risk · · Score: 0

    The original article is here: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001675.html George Ou has "debunked" this "fail" here: http://www.formortals.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=180 This is nothing more than FUD IMHO

  3. Re:Hong Kong is facing the same problem on Some Of Australia's Tubes Are About To Be Filtered · · Score: 0

    your English is better than most.

  4. not a big deal on Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0 · · Score: 0

    ...in fact, I would *expect* Google to do this before implementing OpenID. The fact is, OpenID has some security issues:

    http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/hijacking-openid-enabled-accounts/
    http://drupal.org/node/280592
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Aug/0123.html

    What do you know, the last one was submitted by Google's own Ben Laurie of Google's Applied Security team. They have obviously been assessing the security of this product and we can conclude what the results were. There is no way Google will implement vulnerable code, if OpenID 1/2 is insecure (it is) and needs to be redesigned in order to become secure then so be it. The real problem IMO is that Microsoft *did* implement a system that is flawed.

    When Google releases their (hopefully) secure version, I predict everyone will move to that and like it.

  5. The real article... on US Responsible For the Majority of Cyber Attacks · · Score: 0
  6. Re:Why it doesn't matter on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 0
  7. facebook is a datamine on Facebook Removes Firewall from Applications · · Score: 0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwnTWZ1-UWY I recently deactivated my account, and have read concerns from several sources that facebook has strong ties with DoD and CIA investors.

  8. how is it controlled on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics · · Score: 0

    if i am thinking about the breasts of a woman sitting next to me will the arm grab it? If I did everything I thought about I would probably be in jail or worse.

  9. Re:The "firehose" reference... on Introducing the Slashdot Firehose · · Score: 0
  10. Re:So if the this is completely free of charge.... on 1-800-Google Launches · · Score: 1, Funny

    .... just how does Google plan to make money from this? Sure it takes away business from traditional directory based searches, but I still fail to see how the cash that those services would get end up in Google's pocket. I'm sure that if I'm missing something that /.'ers will point out what that something is. Similar Quote, from 1998 regarding google search:

    .... just how does Google plan to make money from this? Sure it takes away business from traditional directory based searches, but I still fail to see how the cash that those services would get end up in Google's pocket. I'm sure that if I'm missing something that /.'ers will point out what that something is.
  11. Re:You have *got* to be kidding me. on Circuit City and the American Dream · · Score: 0

    CC lost their top people several years ago when they switched from commission to hourly. I worked at CC at the time, and they made us all watch videos about how the new pay structure was going to net everyone more $$$. This was obviously not the case, and they lost a lot of good people.

    Over the course of my employment at CC, they also introduced a "Awesome new scheduling application" that will "optimize everyone's schedules." Basically they had everyone write down their availability and the computer automatically generated our schedules. Doesn't sound too bad, right? Wrong. I wrote that I was not available on Sundays. The manager came to me concerned that the computer may reduce my hours, since I am not offering full availability, so basically everyone in the store was forced to write "Full availability."

    The end result is people no longer got paid commission *and* could never request to have an afternoon off for personal reasons, we were told "No. The computer does the scheduling, we cant change it." I know now that the computer optimized CC's bottom line, not the Associates schedules. I was about to start college so I knew it was time to leave.

    Now they are doing the same thing over again. Not that it's a big suprise, but make no mistake - CC cares about dollars, not the well-being of their associates. I don't think I will shop there anymore. (Disclaimer: I am not saying that Best Buy, et. al are any better.)

  12. Re:Not surprised on PC Makers May Be Left On the Shelves · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >But most of the software that came with my computer was designed for FAT32 windows and not NT.

    Yeah I hate it when that happens. Oh wait, not. Do you mean NTFS? Either way this doesn't make sense.

    >If I wasn't a relatively prudent computer user, I would have been completely stumped.

    Yeah, good thing. Just upgrade to FAT64, man, haven't you heard that fixes all those problems?
    -D