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  1. Re:Perfectly Legitimate on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    I'm looking through your example and can't help wondering, how about running some test cases?

    Guess who wouldn't be flagged as a terrorist:

    Timothy McVeigh

  2. Re:Does this mean we'll get to see on Hollywood Courting the Gaming Industry · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am soo sorry to actually know this:

    CounterStrike the movie

  3. Re:I'll believe it on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Non no no....that's just the demo.

  4. Re:Don't you mean... on Linux the Tortoise to Microsoft's Hare? · · Score: 0

    No no no! MS is Multiple Sclerosis.

    Search on google for ms and you end up with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society page.

    Maybe we can say MicroSoft causes MS type symptoms.

  5. Re:Good read, but whats the point? on Indian Techies Answer About 'Onshore Insourcing' · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course you can apply for a job in India. It's the same as indians who want to work here
    in the US.

    Guess what though, the wait times for visas is much shorter. You have a much better deal in terms
    of an american getting a job in India than an indian getting a job here.

    You are right its not as easy as moving jobs from Texas to Oregon, but its still doable.
    Straight from the Indian embassy:

    EMPLOYMENT VISA: An appointment letter, contract letter, applicant's resume and proof that the organization is registered in India are required. Duration of visa would depend on the period of the contract.

  6. Re:Why do we need people? on Europe Joins Race To Send Humans To Mars · · Score: 1

    humans can do almost anything reasonably.

    You haven't met many humans have you.

  7. Re:SolMark as a benchmark on Creator Of Solitaire For Windows Interviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    On an NT machine it is alt-shift-2

  8. Re:One small company against the world... on SCO Lobbying Congress Against Open Code · · Score: 1

    Good riddance SCO, you're bound to loose. And you, Darl, will go down in history as the sorriest idiot ever to run a company.

    I soo wish this was true but I dought it. Darl will maybe retire/quit before it all falls apart. Best case he goes down with the buring ship but nothing will happen to HIM.

    CEOs have done worse things (Enron, WorldComm etc.) and haven't had to be tried at all.

    Sadly nothing will happen to him, I hope I am wrong though

  9. BOFH on Sharing IT Problems with Executives? · · Score: 1

    Now you could do it in style as this story suggests?

  10. Re:Great Acronym! SFU! on Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge · · Score: 1

    I really thought this meant:

    Stupid f#*king user

  11. Hopefully when you pay for the software on When Is A MMORPG Beta Not A Beta? · · Score: 1

    Seriously shouldn't a piece software (be in MMORPG or OSes) be out of beta once it is on shelves collecting money from users.

    As the article says there is quite a lot of beta stages:

    * Development Beta

    * Playtesting Beta

    * Scaling Beta

    * Load Beta

    but these should not be an excuse for using users as guinea pigs (esp. paying users).

  12. Re:I'm so sick of hearing "if you are innocent..." on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats right...if you are innocent none of this should worry you

    Go ahead search my house, I'm innocent

    Look at my bank records, I'm innocent

    preform an anal cavity search, I'm...woah there!

  13. Beware the... on U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In Airports · · Score: 1

    terrorist with no fingers!

  14. Re:Easy to bypass. on U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In Airports · · Score: 1

    Oh crap! All those illegal aliens now have to get fingerprinted.

    When will this insanity stop!!

  15. Re:say good bye on Google Chooses An Underwriter For Upcoming IPO · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean like the search term miserable failure.

    If are to lazy to look it's dubya's page

  16. Re:Statistically on Lonely Planets · · Score: 2, Informative

    all we know is intelligent life occurred once. there's no way to extrapolate from a sample group of 1

    Thats the beauty of statistics, you can extrapolate from a sample group of one but your error bars are pretty large (bigger than your data point prob.).

    Of course this does not stop market surveys.

  17. Re:HE doesn't speak for us..the U.S. on UK National Archives Divulge Secrets · · Score: 1

    God bless the british. God bless the us.

    How come no one ever says "god bless everyone"?

  18. Re:It's called compare and contrast (ie, not OT) on China Releases Cyber Dissident · · Score: 1

    How are they mistreated? Have any proof of this?


    OK fine some ppl might think this isn't mistreatment but playing Barney the dinosaur music all day long is definately cruel and unusual torture. (The actual story is about half way down under the title "Please, I'll sign anything, just no more Cliff Richard".

  19. Re:Jeeves on Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines · · Score: 1

    So if MS did buy ask Jeeves would that then be...

    ask Clippy?

  20. Re:I'd have hoped the /. crowd would know better on Europe Vs. North America in WiFi growth. · · Score: 1

    You are right no one knows the future but we all attempt to predict it via certain methods (magic 8 ball, tea leaves, simulations, past experience). It's like saying heavier than air flying machines by 1910.

    What most ppl are bringing up are points to consider, usually referred to as a discussion.

    Note that the paper references previous trends and then uses these trends to model future behaviour. Just in case you are wondering yes the US is lagging behind, cell phone use has been taken up in other countries much more rapidly then in the US. Most of these countries leading in cell phone use don't have convulated rules regarding cell phones (i.e. you pay for incoming calls, sometimes).

    Anyway this is a model as to what may occur in the future and what we are doing is called a discussion!

  21. Re:Read into it what you want on Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for Security · · Score: 1

    Don't rely on someone else to keep your computer secure. Take steps yourself.

    But it is not the responsibility of users to compensate for bad design. I agree you ahve to lock your car etc. But if the car design is so bad that locking the door means you can't put the roof on your convertible, then its not the users fault, this is a design problem.

    Fine it may not be perfect code but that is no excuse for bad design and implementation.

  22. Re:James Gleick on Take Back Your Time! · · Score: 1

    UInfortunately I haven't read the book. But most of the PDA stuff etc. is mostly what someone else is telling you that it will save time.

    Obviously there are some time saving devices (microwaves) but some are just sold to us as a pretense that this will save us time

  23. Re:Legal? on Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook · · Score: 1

    Only the old testement

  24. Status meetings on How Do You Manage Requests in Your Organization? · · Score: 1

    Status meetings on the hour every hour....

  25. NO! Sony is a computer not a game console... on Sony Lose Out - PS2 Not a Personal Computer? · · Score: 1

    Seems the court interpreter or something got it wrong:
    Get the latest here!