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  1. Re:buying the false argument on How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure? · · Score: 1

    excellent notion

  2. Re:Fight back on How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure? · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could just send your customer a link to a Google search of "Microsoft" and "security vulnerability" and then send the same search on your product.

  3. maybe they should listen to their critics on On Game Developers and Legitimacy · · Score: 1

    Green makes some interesting parallels to the early movie and comic book industries, I once heard a psychologist compare Grand Theft Auto to Birth of a Nation as technically brilliant and psychologically poisonous. Ideas have consequences.

  4. Re:When will Slashdot book reviewers learn... on Managing Online Forums · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That one specific example is worth a hundred vague statements? preach it brother

  5. Yes, it needs a book on Managing Online Forums · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In fact, I am surprised that more books have not been written on this subject. This book is going right on mt reading list.

  6. Don't think so on IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time, but coming at this time, this is the sort of decision that can ignite an explosive backlash. Part of the art of public relations is understanding when the rules are changing.

  7. I can't believe on IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that this is going to go well for IBM. Management is openly admitting that their present American workforce has the skills they need; it is just a question of cheap labor. This is not the time for a company to be picking this sort of fight.

  8. Re:Blacklisting registrars on KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List · · Score: 1

    I am with Register.com, so I certainly don't want all of its URLs blocked. There is too much innocent third party damage with that system.

  9. negligence on Data-Breach Costs Rising, Study Finds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With 88% of all data loss cases for 2008 being traced back to insider negligence It is getting harder and harder for me to dismiss the possibility that some of this is the result of inside jobs.

  10. wont read/write times be longer on "Magnetic Tornadoes" Could Offer New Data Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    Good question. Truthfully, even though I read the post several times, I still don't understand how it works. On the other hand, I can't wait to market tornado technology!

  11. not really on Tech Publisher O'Reilly Slashes Jobs · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I think their model of communism is better than our capitalism. Why? Because they potentially can now control our government's priorities. We go down, we take them with us. That is really the only reason that China didn't call the mortgage years ago.

  12. iPhone SDK training on Beginning iPhone Development · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a company in Reston VA that trains iPhone developers http://www.aboutobjects.com/iPhone-SDK-Course.do

  13. Re:Lexus has promised to make the messages relevan on Lexus To Start Spamming Car Buyers In Their Cars · · Score: 1

    I thought Japanese auto companies were smart and customer oriented.

  14. meanest comment ever on Lexus To Start Spamming Car Buyers In Their Cars · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If the lexus buyers are compensating for something... what sort of spam do you think would be relevant? seriously, I really did laugh out loud.

  15. Re:Emerging Solutions on All of Vietnam's Government Computers To Use Linux, By Fiat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also knowing what is in the source code helps identify potential threats to national security. I have been thinking the same thing, that has to be one of the biggest selling points of open source.

  16. mod up! on Green Is In At CES, But Is It Real? · · Score: 2

    exactly what I was going to say

  17. big fleas feeding on little fleas on Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job · · Score: 1

    I always thought that spammers were all scamming each other more than the rest of us. It must be a very sad world.

  18. good catch on Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    So, did Amazon have their best ever holiday season? Maybe: but we're unlikely to know enough about the metrics used to make this claim to know. well said

  19. mercenaries in the war on customers on The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead · · Score: 1

    It does not matter how many allies the RIAA has, they will never win a war with their customers.

  20. Re:AIG could learn from Google on As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" · · Score: 1

    I saw that; it was a brilliant move.

  21. AIG could learn from Google on As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" · · Score: 1

    How many would like to see Wall St Execs take their bonus in the form of dog food?

  22. Re:I can't support this use of tax dollars on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I dunno, it strikes me as shake-down financing. If it is commercial viable, they should come bleating to government.

  23. Edge Caching on Network Neutrality Defenders Quietly Backing Off? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wired has a good summary of the controversy.

  24. Agent Lawless? on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1

    Why do all these controversies keep having names like something out of a Sheridan play?

  25. language abuse on Botnets As "eWMDs" · · Score: 1

    precisely so. Equating botnets with WMD is an insult to everyone who ever died of poison gas or nuclear bombs.