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  1. Logic error on The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security · · Score: 0

    How do you get "nude pictures of barely clothed females"?

  2. Re:So what's Apache's problem? on Windows Incompatibilities Frustrate D.C. Schools · · Score: 0

    Yeah, in my experience, IIS works fine. It's compatible with Windows, PHP, Perl, Oracle, MySQL, etc. and doesn't have the stupid systray icon like Apache. Or,... Yeah, in my experience, Apache works fine. It's compatible with Linux, PHP, Perl, Oracle, MySQL, etc. and doesn't have the stupid operating system like IIS.

  3. Re:EULA on Windows XP In Your Pocket · · Score: 0

    It legally does not apply in reality. On the box it says "by using the software inside, you agree to the EULA. If you don't want to, take it back and return it." But few if any stores do software returns. And as a sidenote, old ones said "by opening this package, you agree to all the terms inside that you haven't seen yet."

  4. Opera on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 0

    Can't Opera change its browser string to look like 'Sploder?

  5. Re:Going to die? on Lessig - Public Domain Dead in 35 Years · · Score: 1

    Nope...I can't use that exact post as my own work... /. won't let me :(

  6. Re:Finally..... on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the Soviet Union, first you ignore them. Then you laugh at them. Then you fight them. Then you win anyway.

  7. Re:Finally..... on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe someone in the govt. is sane for once.

  8. Think a little, people... on Mazda Switches To USB Keys · · Score: 1

    Change a couple bytes in a file (maybe, just maybe, a little bit of dd work) and you just got into someone's car.

  9. Re:Why are they called 'Creative?' on Creative Has MP3 Player Interface Patent · · Score: 1

    Of course...providing the USPTO existed when we invented God :)

  10. Re:Wrong Way on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    good at work and stuff, or where people think Internet Exploder is more secure. To quote my employer, "Open source is the worst source of viruses! Anyone can go in and put anything they want in." My response: "So get the source and look through it. Or use a program called a virus scanner." His response: "So you're a competent enough programmer to find virus writers' practices?" I work at a programming company.

  11. On another note... on Scientist Says Most Scientific Papers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    A recent study shows that research causes cancer in laboratory rats.

  12. Re:Why are they called 'Creative?' on Creative Has MP3 Player Interface Patent · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, it's copyrighted by God. He's got prior art on humans.

  13. Re:Kind of a stretch... on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    you may not use the Software on any non-PC product or any embedded or device versions of the above operating systems, including...closed system based service Let's see...closed system...so that means...Window$? You may not use the Software on any...closed system based service.

  14. Re:BIAS ALERT! (was: Re:Anecdote time) on Five Reasons Not to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    Yeah--with slight hacking, it supports full tables and anything else in the RTF specification. BTW, this article was also posted on OSnews, although they didn't like the article NEARLY as much as us.

  15. Re:Correlation on How Can Tech Help Fight Education Costs? · · Score: 1

    I never said that education was useless. But if lesson 1 in a college level math class was "forget everything you have learned so far", that clearly shows the use it has. High school is busywork. It's set for the lowest common denominator. And I don't think education only has value if it's "directly marketable." I just don't see the point in reading a bunch of Greek poems. Or that "high" school "math". BTW, I agree with you on the use of math. The entire universe is math. The entire universe is not a quadratic equation.

  16. Re:Correlation on How Can Tech Help Fight Education Costs? · · Score: 1

    No matter how hard the teachers work, the material is still useless. Unless you're a historian, politician, or archaeologist, history doesn't matter. Chemistry--you have to work in CSI or medicine for any well-recognized function. Same applies to biology. English, sure we need it, but the English classes I've seen are mostly reading translations of old Greek stuff. Math these days is sheer memorization. The teachers do their job well, but their job is teaching us stuff that we don't need.

  17. Re:What a ridiculous beatup on Microsoft Infected by Virus · · Score: 1

    Quit stating the obvious. What has /. become, with parent getting +5?

  18. Re:wow on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 1

    when you use the md5sum script on the site, it adds that value.

  19. Re:what cpu? on TI Calculators Play Movies · · Score: 1

    i had to relearn how to cod for my reciprocal function problems on a ti84. but for some reason for me, i think in an rpn mindset. even a conlang i wrote was an rpn type grammar.

  20. Re:Is 40GB the smallest you can buy now? on Toshiba 40GB Perpendicular Magnetic Record Drives · · Score: 1

    yeah, that gives me a setup idea. a bunch of these small drives in a raid array. nice, fast, reliable, and cheap.

  21. Re:Boston Patent Party! on Epicrealm Uses Vague Patents to sue Web Sites · · Score: 1

    But that still doesn't take care of "A Method of Respiration Via Inhalation and Exhalation of Oxygen Through Human Lungs." Looks like we're all breaking the law.

  22. Clickety Clack on FCC To Require Backdoor Network Access for Feds · · Score: 1

    (Goes to change /. profile location and actual location to somewhere in Canada, Finland, or some other peaceful, happy, content country that no one would even want to attack)

  23. Re:Some other (more useful) comments. on Hacking Hotels 101 · · Score: 1

    You want wide open? One of my friends has a son who got into his school network. The student password for every class: "student". Yes, this means messing up other students' assignments. And the teacher password: "techies".

  24. Re:Are you kidding me? on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    Stating the obvious...we write the code, they find reasons it doesn't work then come whining to us. This is the purpose of Sysadmins.

  25. Re:Fat Finger Problem... on World's Smallest MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    But it doesnt explain the grammar error's...