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  1. Re:All admins on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    In a case at our local Army post, Lt. Ehren Watada refused to deploy to Iraq, claiming that the war was illegal. (Whether he was correct is not relevant at this point; I'm not talking about that.) In his court martial, he was banned from using any defense on that ground, only being allowed to defend himself on the "I never refused" ground (which was obviously not the case).

  2. Re:idiots who don't know the law on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    Traffic violations are "preponderance of the evidence", at least in my state.

  3. Re:Idiots on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    d) on teleconference with a handful more, whom he obviously could not see

  4. Re:He was in a catch 22 on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 3, Informative

    And the original request was done over a teleconference. Bad idea. Of course, all of the passwords then found themselves in a public court document. Oops.

  5. Re:All admins on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 2, Informative

    Said authorised individual should have already had access to those passwords. This guy was more interested in not giving them up to parties that he could not see over a teleconference, or at least that's what his defence will say.

  6. Re:The FBI is lying. on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 2, Informative

    Note that many modern file systems use journaling or copy-on-write, both of which have the effect that writing to the same file does not necessarily write to the same block. DBAN takes care of this problem, though.

  7. Re:Windows 8.. on Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010 · · Score: 1

    Bless you.

  8. Re:Could you please reboot xatl0as36? on Microsoft Aims To Cure Server-Hugging Engineers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IPMI is your friend. You can mount ISOs on bare hardware, and remotely push the power button.

  9. Re:Yes, but on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So it would run Gentoo, then?

  10. Re:too easy on Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin · · Score: 5, Informative

    In fact, the "bizarre meeting" was actually split between two physical locations, so he couldn't see who was demanding the password at the other end. Even if you're required to give a password to another person, doing so in such a situation is a Very Bad Idea and that's why he wanted to give it directly to the mayor.

  11. Re:Schedules are important. on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, no, no. On the internet you must say "your a moran". It's like a natural law or something. Get with the program!

  12. Re:what was this about? on 3 of 4 Charges Against Terry Childs Dropped · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Remember, when asked for the passwords the first time it was over a teleconference with a large group of people whom he did not know. I don't care who's on the other line and what they're threatening; you don't give passwords in such a situation. That is why he wanted to speak with the mayor.

  13. Re:back in my day on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    Ballmer?

  14. Re:How about a garbage collector appreciation day? on 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1
    Obligatory...

    Sheesh. I wasn't expecting some sort of Spanish Inquisition.

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  15. Re:Peace on CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL · · Score: 1

    No bleedin' mod points.

    http://epiconeliner.com/

  16. Re:As usual, marketing was the problem on Negroponte Sees Sugar As OLPC's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 2, Informative

    Added to all the other problems you said, OLPC should have realised that putting a damn computer in the hands of some country's kids is completely missing the point when the kids have probably no electricity, not even basic healthcare, no sanitation, little or no education, and perhaps barely enough food. Forget the computer ---- there are far bigger problems to solve first.

    This objection has been raised several times, and is still wrong. OLPC isn't meant for the countries where feeding one's children is the largest problem. They're meant to target populations where (for example) food and clean water are generally available but the education is poor.

  17. Re:Pepsi points on Lawyer Offers $1M For Proof His Client Could Have Done It; Oops · · Score: 1

    What the reasonable person would think here depends on the income that this attorney pulls in.

  18. I work IT. on Repulsive Force Discovered In Light · · Score: 3, Funny

    I already knew that light repelled me.

  19. Re:I'll go ahead and say it on US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan · · Score: 1

    Er, slight factual inaccuracy. They make you pay a penalty each year if you're not enrolled in insurance.

  20. Re:I'll go ahead and say it on US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um....in Massachusetts, on your state income tax return, they ask whether you are enrolled in either the state program or private insurance. If the answer is no, then your taxes go up by the cost of the state program and you are enrolled. No choice---unless you want to perjure yourself, of course.

  21. Re:Are you aware of what "Fatal" means? on Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm having trouble parsing your sentence. Mentioning RIAA lawyers and honor in the same sentence confuses me.

  22. Re:Why are we deprived of this in North America? on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I recall correctly, the API:s that expose browser components (e.g. to Windows Help) were designed with the intention of making rendering engines pluggable. Thus, Windows Help could at some point in the future use Mozilla to render if Mozilla wrote a bit of code and Microsoft finishes this API.

  23. Re:That's a lot of patches on Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article here explains that you can either have a secured FTP repository or one grabbed by SSH.

  24. Re:That's a lot of patches on Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    An APT repository is just a directory exposed by HTTP. You might be able to .htpasswd it but I'm not sure whether it would work.

  25. Re:-1, Flamebait on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    Um, perhaps it would be beneficial to read my post before screaming. I said basically what you said. In fact, the majority of my post was describing the security features that jails have and chroot does not.