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  1. Re:didn't ask the right people (was: Re:Yes) on Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens? · · Score: 1

    Actually I spend alot of time coding. I do it from home, the road, on airplanes, hotels, etc.

    The downside of this is keeping the screen clean. Matte screens pick up just as much gunk as glossy. But with glossy its easier to get it completely clean. Granted the glossy screens tend to be much brighter and therefore fingerprints and gunk show up right away but at least it can get it clean. Now with my personal workstation its differient. There is no-one stupid enough to suffer the wrath of my baseball bat and touch my workstation screen. No fingerprint issue so my workstation uses a matte screen.

    Regardless, for anything that is going to leave the control of my personal office its glossy screen all the way.

  2. why is anyone surprised? on Talk On Chinese Cyber Army Pulled From Black Hat · · Score: 2, Informative

    When you do a billing and explain exactly what sensitive information you are going to be talking about far in advance of the event. How is anyone surprised when the people to whom are actually sensitive to that information object. If your going to drop an informational bombshell it needs to be a surprise.

    If your not dropping an informational bombshell then likely you are just trying to get attention and wasting everyones time.

  3. Judge needs education regardin teh intra-web-tubes on Canadian Judge Orders Disclosure of Anonymous Posters · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Me thinks that this judge and or the attorneys involved in this exercise in stupidity; need to be re-educated.

    Basically if someone exercises their right to free speech and anonymously posts lies about you on the internet they are a TROLL. If someone exercises their right to free speach and anonymously posts an unfortunate truth about you on the internet you will just have to live with it. It's not something that anyone needs to sue over.

    I dont know which this is, but I truely do not care. If I post that your mother intimately cosorts with farm animals and it isn't true then I am a TROLL. If it is true then it is unfortunate but hopefully nothing more.

    This crap only makes the news because of how retarded it is.

  4. RE: Sat Phones on India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes but there is already infrastructure in place to combat CC fraud. Granted in India its not a good or reliable system but its a system none the less. And sat phones can be tracked whereas IMEI-less cell phones are not especially trackable.

    Basically they are just forcing all their cellular networks to refuse connection to phones lacking IMEI numbers. This is hardly an international crisis. It just means that people are going to have to pay for their phone calls or pay to call in their bomb threats. No more free rides.

  5. THREE RULES OF ROBOTICS ERR RELATIONSHIPS on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    Female geeks tend to be more intelligent and more independent. Their relationships frequently go sideways because their independence causes to refuse to compromise.

    There are only three important things to consider.

    First. Think of this like programming with ramming with rules. Together you create rules. Dont break them.

    Second. Compromise. Successful relationships with independent women fail unless you can compromise. Always establish that you are compromising when it happens. It should never be assumed.

    Third. Sex. Never compromise on sex. Humans are hardwired the associate sex and partnering up. When you stop having sex either you are your partner start looking for a new partner. Especially if she is independent. This is Hardwired. If you have friends that are new parents. You can observe this bug in the wild. Offspring tend to end ones sexlife for a while for various medical reasons. If both partners are extremely faithful the only perceived result is some sub-conscience guilt about considering sex from other sources; when they are less faithful its a little crazy how fast they start looking.
    There was a female author who wrote a book about how having sex every day for a year had a near miraculous resurrection effect of her almost completely failed marriage. Sex = Not just important to men. Women tend to assume that after you are hitched that sex isnt that important. Maybe that was true in 1920 or 1950 but in 2009? Not even close to true. Any woman who believes that has a divorce to look forward to.

  6. scams and profit on Reasons To Hesitate On Zer01's Unlimited Mobile Offer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Rarely do fake pyramid scam companies collect real income in a recession with the increasing number of sufficient savvy consumers increasing. Therefore they must get their employees to pay the company instead of paying their employees. Its a law of reverse proportions scams (I made that law up).

    Step 1 Create fake miracle product.
    Step 2 Hire employees as product advocates swearing by the awesome majesty of imaginary hardware/service.
    Step 3 Convince employees to pay employer instead of being paid themselves.
    Step 4 PROFIT!!!!!!!!!! and Create a new identity to hide from the multi-state angry mob of rightfully vengeful customers.

  7. I wish these lawyers were argueing common sense on EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    I hope this gets modded up enough that people read it. An important point occured to me while read some earlier replies. The border issue is one of import control. The data on a laptop should be exempt. There is nothing there that the border has a right to search. Here is the simple and strangely not obvious reason why. The internet. There is no data on a laptop that they could possibily prevent from entering or leaving the country even if they searched each and every laptop or ipod and cell phone. Anything on your laptop could be sent through the internet. The only thing that giving them access to your data does is allow unwarrented and unreasonable access to your private life or the trade secrets of your company or business that the government cant legally get any other way. If they cant stop the data from entering or leaving the country anyways then there is no point where they actually have import control. If you are crossing with illegal drugs that is an import control issue. Drugs can physically stopped at the border if found. Data cannot be import controlled so they cant stop it or control the flow of it. Data lacks a neccisary physical component required for the flow of it to be controlled at the border. And it definetely lacks the physical component that makes a search of your bag acceptable. Bottom line. They want into your life. They want access to your medical info, your family info, your private life, your financial info, your company data. There is a huge untapped data market that the domestic spying programs would give their left eyes to get their hands on. And they know they dont have the right to the info which makes them want it more. Its also likely that there is a border agent out there that has a person collection of comondeered private photos copied off unsuspecting travelers. How do you feel about border agents copying perfectly legal private naked pictures of your girlfriend or wife? What checks and ballances are available to make certain there is no abuse of the system?

  8. upcomming headlines on Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause · · Score: 1

    I dying to see the headline where the ghost of Jack Thompson sues God for allowing people to get old and become inept geriatric drivers that confuse the gas and break pedal resulting in Jack being run down by some grandma in a 1979 Buick. The ghost of Jack Thompson also sues the caveman who invented the wheel and anyone else who contributed technology to the invention of the automobile - along with every person who worked at rockstar games and contributed to the creation of GTA just to make sure he didnt miss anyone.

  9. Punitive damages on The $54 Million Laptop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The thing about the term "Punitive" is that it means to punish. Now if she were only sueing for $100,000 that wouldnt actually qualify as punishment for an international megacorperation like BestBuy. On a good week a single bestbuy store could easily bring in $100,000 and completely swallow the loss. So as punishments go thats akin to sentincing a three time convicted car thief to a week of comunity service. 54 million is alot closer to something that would actually punish them. Clearly she thought this out and from reading her timeline I feel that she gave them more than ample time to properly rectify the situation.

    If you think it thru she started by being quite reasonable and not getting any response. Then the response she got was close to criminal. And now they are trying to make her the badguy. I hope BestBuy gets p0wn'd.

  10. Fewest Users = Fewest Flaws on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It has the fewest flaws found because it has the fewest amount of people looking for them.

  11. Re:no immunity? on Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Corporations are immune from crimal proscecution it is only civil charges that can be filed against them which bears financial penalties. IANAL But I am fairly certain unless you murder someone or steal something on the behest of your corperation your pretty much free and clear; its the corperation that is responsible for your actions that they dictate. The only people who are harmed by making corporations copable for their own actions are the shareholders which hopefully will encourage shareholders to only promote people with better ethics or better common sense in regards to covering for their lack of ethics with pseudo ethical behavior. To the telco employee's concerned about criminal issues repeat these words "They forced me to do it. I didnt want to spice that fiber but the well-being of my career and my family was at stake. The CEO MADE ME DO IT." Unless a tech/installer/engineer starts using stated unconstitionally installed wiretaps illegally on their own they are in no danger of proscecution.

  12. If ya havent done wrong why ask for immunity? on More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs · · Score: 1

    It just common sense that if you need immunity its because you have done something wrong and dont want to deal with the concequences. And why is it that the system of checks and balances only allow the telcom companies to be punished for wrongdoing. The NSA cant be forced to make reparations.

    Its funny how THIS:

    NSA guy: Well we realize its against the law and all but we would like you to do it anyways.
    Telephone company CEO: I am pretty sure that what you want me to do is illegal.
    NSA guy: Im with the government. I wouldnt ask you to do it if it were illegal.

    Sounds alot like THIS:

    Child molester: Listen kid I know your parents told you not to let people touch you there but I think you should let me do it anyways.
    Small inocent child: I am pretty sure that you shouldnt do that.
    Child molester: Listen kid I am an adult. I wouldnt ask you to do something if it were wrong.

    I agree that the telcom companies need feel some heat for allowing the NSA to violate peoples rights but its a bit like punishing the child instead of the child molester.

  13. The problem on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 1

    Tasers dont kill people. Cops with tasers kill people.

  14. Re:Example of trivial taser use on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 2, Informative

    I live in BC not but perhaps 10 miles from the airport where the polish man was tased to death. An the thing about what happened to him was that they tased him between 3 and 5 times while standing on his neck and chest(RCMP refuses to release exact information about the number of taser hits he took) and after he clearly had no life signs they didnt bother to recessatate him. And they did this because he was holding a stapler and looked agitatied(red swingline anyone?). Tasers incapasitate by administering high voltage with little or low amperage. When you use two the amperage doubles. High voltage is dangerous but if you give it a little more amperage it kills. A single taser hit is safe. Multiple parallel hits kill. Either the RCMP were incompetent and poorly trained or they were trying to kill the polish man. Idiots or Murderers; Take your pick.

  15. The actual goal on Houston Police Test Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft · · Score: 2

    Currently police departments collect revinue by rader,laser,redlight camera or aircraft speedchecking. What they obviously want is a pilotless solution that will mindlessly, relentlessly, "tax" motorists from the air. And because its a drone aircraft its innerworkings cannot be challenged in court like they can be with a radar/laser/redlight camera/normal aircraft speedcheck. If I get a ticket for speeding by airborne speedcheck I can request the pilots flightlogs. But because the drones could potentially be used in homeland security applications makes it "top secret" you most likely can request any information. Basicly they are looking for limitless capactiy to "tax" motorists without the ability for motorists to challenge the validity. As an added bonus with the computer enhanced optics required to properly perform airborne speedchecks surveylence and tracking of anyone outdoors can be acomplished electronicly and recorded by computer for your future harassment. This occuring in texas means that the only way this isnt going to happen is if the first one in the air malfunctions and crashes into a gunshop. Then public outcry would shut down the project. But nothing will stop this from branching into the other 49 states.

  16. Wired article with an interview on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a link to a wired article about the same issue. However wired actually bothered to contact the Hushmail and got a response from the CTO Brian Smith. Apparently it is not a clearcut as the OP and TFA suggests. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai.html

  17. Re:Well guess what fellow Americans? on Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000 · · Score: 0

    AFA? Top google results: American Family Association Air Force Association American Finance Association Association of Flight Attendants American Fastpitch Association American Fence Association Amateur Football Alliance American Federation of Astrologers They probably aquired the membership rosters from these groups for the list? Shit. Ive put up a fence before. I better not try to get on a plane.

  18. nothing to see here move along on FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" · · Score: 0

    Not that anyone will bother reading this but the reason that they clasify stuff like that is because the CIA and FBI cant legally torture anyone. But they can and DO send people to nations that CAN legally torture people. And making it publicly obvious that they outsource their torture needs would be a huge humanrights issue. The US cant be the champions of human rights and huge human rights violators at the same time its a conflict of interests.

  19. Re:CCTV on Thieves Hacking Security Cameras? · · Score: 0

    I did alot of security work specificly with Security DVRs of a variety of brands. 3 things to consider 1. It is not hard to scan for the dvrs with a port scanner. Same with ip cameras. 2. Most people think that the default login/password is ok to leave in place(idiots). 3. If you watch a video feed long enough you can probably figure out where you are watching and then look up the phone number. These guys if they are cracking into video surveilence. It does not take any kind of genius. It barely takes a 5th grade education. The same sort of high class intelect that 419 scams are based on. Be afraid of 5th graders claiming to be exiled royalty needing assistance to secure hidden assets on a video feed in a grocery store with a bomb.

  20. thats just crazy on Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing · · Score: 0

    Sueing microsoft over windows vista capable stickers on machines not truely capable is like sueing an auto manufacturer over advertising an automobile as being forward motion cabable and then sueing the manufacturer because the car has a max speed of 10 miles an hour and doesnt have any brakes.

  21. WTF on Paypal Won't Release Funds To Slain Soldier's Family · · Score: 0

    An "exclusive relationship with the united way"

    That sounds dangerously like theft. If a bank pulled that crap the treasury department as well as the justice department would be getting involved.

    Your accepting money for a charitable cause. Specificly set up as a legal charity or not you accept the money like a bank. It tecnically belongs to owner of the account. No matter how you set the account up. If you refuse to release the funds to one relief organization but your willing to give them to another. That sounds alot like conspiricy and colusion to defraud.

    This definetely falls under the catagory of illegal. Why cant the corperate officers be arrested?

  22. So Obvious it hurts on Study Says 2 In 5 Bosses Lie · · Score: 0

    Many employers and bosses have irrational and unreasonable demands. No one with a IQ above 80 is going to perform those demands without some incentive. A paycheck is an incentive to meet reasonable and rational demands. for the unreasonable demands a little extra is required. Hense the broken promises (lies) begin. The boss offers some incentive for the employee to meet the rediculus quota, performace metric, complete the project in half to alloted time. Its a wonder that more companies dont suffer huge internal financial losses from disgruntaled employees.

  23. welcome on Hollywood Says Piracy Has Ripple Effect · · Score: 0

    I for one welcome our new mpaa mandated pirate overlords

  24. Its the price we have to pay.... on House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 0

    "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)

    There is another good one about how evil triumphs when good men do nothing I dont remember who said that one though.

    I think everyone isnt so much afraid of warrantless surveylence and illegal torchure and taking away the right to be lawfully tried for your crimes.

    I think that the thing everyone is afraid of is that we know with zero doubt in our minds that these new policing options will be abused with zero repercusions.

    I think that if there was any kind of penalty for instances of abuse that there wouldnt be quite so much outcry. Our system of government is based on checks and balances. These new illegal laws are to my opinion illegal because lack any check or balances and are specifically designed to create imbalance and remove american citizens rights.

  25. I have the solution!!!! on Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping · · Score: 0

    Fire the incumbants. All of them. Both sides. Show them that everyone means business and that our rights are not for sale; not for lease and certainly not on loan to a fairytail land somewhere. If this was majority voted-in then we have a simple issue of too many bastards and the few folks in congress doing their duty and protecting our rights arent working hard enough.