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  1. Re:New to the US on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 1

    Ya, very true. Yogurts that have a certain amount of active cultures display the Live & Active Cultures seal from the National Yogurt Association on the package. Most yogurts I have seen in the store carry the seal.

  2. Re:Russia is still independent on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    How much US debt are they buying?
    http://www.optimist123.com/optimist/2006/05/pie_ch art_of_wh.html
    They don't even show up on the list.

    According to the US State Dept, US exports to Russia $3 Billion, imports $11.8 billion.
    http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3183.htm

    In comparison South Korea had $309 and $325 billion in imports and exports with the US.
    http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_b usiness/181520.html

    The US as far as economy and trade does not NEED Russia now, if the energy supply becomes a crisis down the road that might change. In the recent past Russia has leaned a lot on the US while making its transition to a market economy.

    What the US would like to see from Russia is its continuing down the free market/democratic path. Russia has the potential with population and resources for the US to need them, but that has not happened yet.

    Now China, that's a different story.

  3. Re:People actually do this? on MS Fights Gmail With 2-GB Exchange Mailboxes · · Score: 1

    A couple years ago we stopped allowing employees from autofowarding. After one individual who forwarded their mail went on vacation and allowed their Comcast email box to fill up. So email would be forwarded, it would bounce back with a mailbox full message, that message would get forwarded then bounced back, then forwarded etc. The Exchange mailbox ended up around 5 gigs when I noticed all the traffic on the mail server. We usually limit mailbox sizes to 150Meg, but this individual was one of the 'important' people who couldn't be bothered with managing the size of their mailbox. Really the only reason we keep limits on the mailboxes is that it takes so freakin long to do mailbox level backups in exchange. The faster the backups can go the more space the employees can have.

  4. Re:Steam should be.. on Steam Should Be a Seperate Company? · · Score: 1

    Why cant you sell your account?

    Individual gives you cash, you change the account email address to his and give him the login.

    Not being able to trade games is a disadvantage to steam, but IMHO it is outweighed by the advantages.

  5. Not the answer on Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce · · Score: 1

    Open the gates to more foreign workers?
    It has been my experience that once you work through the language/thick accent barrier that the foreign workers I have dealt with are no better then the other IT workers with no experience but have a piece of paper saying they know stuff, certification or degree. It just takes a little longer to realize it.

    "Virtually every senior government official I met was an engineer,"
    Well there is your problem, virtually ever senior government official in the US is a lawyer.

  6. war is over? on The War Is Over, and Linux Has Won · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the 50 or so Windows servers I manage, many that will be around for years.
    All Wintel except one AIX box that will be going away within a year and my BSD box that wont be going anywhere. :)

    If you count the appliances and ESX servers that run some sort of imbedded Linux then sure we run Linux.

  7. Re:HOW did you clean it up? on Worst Security Clean-Up You've Performed? · · Score: 1

    BartPE
    http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

    Setup the McAfee commandline scanner and Ad-Aware plugins, create cd, boot to cd, scan system.

    Not sure how successful that would be with the rootkits, but thats what I use when I have to clean up after user.

  8. scantron anyone? on Diebold Demands That HBO Cancel Documentary · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why it has to be computerized.
    Just about everyone is familiar with scantron type forms from school.
    With scantron you have your paper trail that can't be messed with through software and a way to count ballots quickly.

  9. Re:International law? on Slashback: IceWeasel, Online Gambling, GPU Folding, Evolution · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When does any country care about international law when it comes to its own interests?

  10. why bother with datacenters at all? on Deprecating the Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    Yeah lets get rid of the datacenter. Put the servers/switches and routers in the department offices where they can get abused daily. retard

  11. Clonus on DARPA Sponsoring Limb Regeneration Research · · Score: 1

    Why not just create clones.
    When you need a body part just tell them they are going to 'America'.

  12. Monorail be better? on Robocabs Coming to Europe · · Score: 1

    How about some sort of monorail system with several 'trains' for the airport instead of using 19 separate cars. Looking at the pictures each car holds 4 people, with luggage that would be tight, totally of 76 passengers being moved at a time. People come in by the plane load much higher volumne than what the people movers can move quickly. The cars will be 'bumper to bumper' anyway when traveling. When the transport breaks down half way to the car park then what, get out and push? Hope someone is monitoring the transports?

  13. what I do on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1

    I put a hard drive I had upgraded from in an external enclosure with an USB connection.
    I use SyncToy from MS to synch my stuff to the external drive.
    Works well for me.

  14. battery life on Core 2 Duo Notebooks Reviewed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How does the battery life compare to the 'single core' Pentium M?
    Does battery life not matter in laptop reviews anymore?

    How is the lap heat, is it twice as hot? My current laptop gets limited lap time because of the heat.

  15. watch out when the food is free on Heroic IT Dept Less Likely to Steal... Lunches? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While IT doesn't steal food, if a department has food they want to get rid of without throwing it away they call IT.
    We love the free food.

  16. they get vacation on Repercussions of Reporting on Apple 'Sweatshops' · · Score: 1

    China mandates three "Golden Weeks" for its workers.
    But a third of American working women are given no paid leave, and a quarter of men get no pay from their employer if they take a week or more off for rest and recreation.

    At least thats what the media is telling me to think this week.

  17. textbooks are a ripoff on Ad-supported Textbooks Are Here · · Score: 1

    I paid $65 for a 100 level Western Civ class textbook. The book was used and looking at the stickers on the back of it I was at least the third student to buy it and it still cost me 65 bucks. What a joke. Bookstore isn't buying it back so I guess I'll try to get $15 for it on Amazon.

    Ad-supported textbooks are nothing more than another revenue stream for the publishers. If people were serious about making textbooks cheaper for students most textbooks wouldn't changed as often as they do.

    PDF's are like getting a gift that is if the gift is a 20 year old fruitcake.

  18. great for distributed computing on First Intel Quad Core Ready Desktop Mobo Spotted · · Score: 1

    For those who use their computers for finding aliens, cures for diseases or other distributed computing projects, quad core machines would be great.

    The amount of potential distributed computing power available has to be staggering, and its growing every day.

  19. pascal on Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video · · Score: 1

    No Turbo Pascal for .Net?

    so depressing

  20. what i do on How to Handle Political Telemarketing? · · Score: 1

    Don't pick up.

  21. Duke3D on Don't Go Down Memory Lane? · · Score: 1

    I have spent the past week playing Duke Nukem 3D, using JFDuke3D. It amazes me how much fun it still is. It also saddens me how DN4 has been constantly delayed if it will ever ship. If they would have just have taken the orginal Duke Nukem 3d and made it all pretty and network friendly it would have sold, well.

  22. Why it didnt take off on Why Beyond Good and Evil Tanked · · Score: 1

    The main characters 'assets' were not big enough to interest the male game player. The female game player market is not big enough to drive game sales enough to proclaim the game 'successful'.

  23. Re:Spice is life on Blue Crab Nanosensor to Fight Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Maybe the question should be when will Homeland Security proclaim crabs essential for homeland defense thus becoming protected leading to higher prices or severe rationing of crabbing. Overreaching security procedures fine, but I'd be PISSED if they mess with my crabs.

  24. Independence Day on Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    If the aliens can take it out, whats the point of having it under the mountain?

  25. ya seen it on Study Claims Men Play Female Avatars to 'Win' · · Score: 1

    Webguy at work does the same thing playing UT. He claims that since the female skins are skinner than the other skins they are harder to hit.
    Doesn't matter much he still dies quickly anyway.
    Aim for the boobs.