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  1. Re:Cheaped out on Teachers Give ERP Implementations Failing Grades · · Score: 1

    That wasn't clear which story I'm referring too (as there appear to be three separate issues in this article...)

    I'm referring to the School attendance system.

  2. Cheaped out on Teachers Give ERP Implementations Failing Grades · · Score: 1

    It looks to me like they didn't buy enough equipment to survive peak usage, and they knew they didn't.

    so it didn't work on a peak usage day, um surprise?

  3. Re:North-South Divide, nothing new. on A New Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Maybe just maybe the high distribution is due to the project being entirely in English?

  4. Re:Japanese will beat US any time on Japanese Stealth Fighter Announced as 'Return of the Zero' · · Score: 1

    And they'd still just get nuked.

    Really no major countries are going to be able to fight a conventional war ever again due to nuclear weapons.

  5. Re:Well on Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data · · Score: 1

    The receipt. See I maybe wrong on this but isn't the signed receipt with the transaction (not the cc#) the audit trail?

    The receipt is an audit trail that can:

    1) Verify the card owner is who used it (signature)

    2) Keep track of a specific transaction (transaction #)

    3) Keep a list of items sold

    What else do you need for an audit trail?

  6. Re:Gotta wonder ...... on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 1

    Schwarzenegger is republican

  7. Re:Interesting on D.C. Commuters to be Scanned With Infrared Cameras · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um how about heated dummies?

  8. Re:Rock on on Carnegie Mellon CAPTCHA Digitization Project Now Underway · · Score: 1

    Preforming a garbage attack is still possible so long as some information is shared between attackers.

    All that is necessary is that a hash of the image is stored and the same garbage is sent both times the image appears.

    Once more the more images are attacked in this manner the faster the attack would progress as more of the known images would be absolutely known to the attacker as well.

  9. Re:ghey on Halo 3 Causing Network Issues · · Score: 1

    yeah i know i just couldn't help but poke fun at the poorly named program.

  10. Re:Advance of Ignorance on The Soldier of the Future · · Score: 1

    Is there something wrong with Islam? or am I missing something?

  11. Re:ghey on Halo 3 Causing Network Issues · · Score: 1

    How hard is it to run a tcpdump (or IOS's equivalent) on a core router to see what type of traffic is saturating the network? And why the fuck is there a need to post this on /. like it's a big deal?
    Because it was UDP traffic?!
  12. Advance of Ignorance on The Soldier of the Future · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What scares me far more than the advancement of weapons technology is the advancement of ignorance...
     

    Captain Jack Moore, the commander of the 4/9's "Blowtorch" company, peers into his Land Warrior monocle. Inside is a digital map of Tarmiyah, a filthy little town about 25 kilometers north of Baghdad that's become a haven for Islamists.

    Islamists, are not the problem it's the crazy ass people with guns that are the problem.
    http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/when-the-soldie.html
  13. Waves of Mass histeria on EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see it now... waves of people returning their "broken" computers....

  14. Re:Spying on Owning a Wireless Camera, Its User and Its Network · · Score: 1

    on slashdot..?

    ever... ooh boobies

  15. Re:Windows in China on Microsoft Seeks Another OS-Level Adware Patent · · Score: 1

    Most countries have patent agreements with the us, including China. They just don't ya know... enforce them....

  16. Re:Of course the obvious solution... on Time Running Out for Public Key Encryption · · Score: 1

    Great so now all we need is a million dollar quantum computer and a few PhD's.

  17. Windows in China on Microsoft Seeks Another OS-Level Adware Patent · · Score: 1

    This would be a good alternative in places where people cannot afford windows.

  18. Re:Double Standard on Lenovo Looking to Buy Seagate, May Raise Political Concerns · · Score: 1

    Of course there is a double standard.

    The United States government's main objective is to look out for the poeple of the United States (or it should be...)

    The same people who say that government should be minimized and removed entirely from that market (complete free economy) also know that it is not to there advantage to do so.

  19. Re:Facinating and legally brilliant on Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights · · Score: 2

    This is quite possibly the most brilliant legal maneuver I have ever seen.

    But it is doomed to fail, simply because the US government is not going to pay him and they don't actually own the IP that is being handed over.

    Frankly if Antigua becomes a major exporter of goods made outside of patent agreements there would be significant consequences to there economy (they obviously aren't cuba).

  20. Re:Bandwidth is not a limited resource on Will Internet TV Crash the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Having available fiber doesn't mean anything. What is expensive is lighting up dark fiber.

    As an example my entire schools was wired for fiber in the 90s but we don't use it. Why? Because it would cost about $200,000 to buy all the networking equipment compared to about $100,000 to rewire the school with cat5 and buy the networking hardware for that (mostly consumer grade routers).

  21. Re:But what if youv got the AIDS? on HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials · · Score: 1

    'Junk DNA' is not junk it is padding. Mutation occurs, the more padding the lower the chance that coding sections of DNA are effected.

  22. Re:Moot on How-Not-to-Hire-U.S.-Workers Law Firm Fires Back · · Score: 1

    You make the language barrier seems like it is something to joke about but it is not.

    It is becoming more and more troublesome by the day to live in California and not know Spanish.

    Why should I have to learn another language to communicate with people who are here illegally and stealing jobs from me?

  23. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually genius the cotton gin prolonged the oppression of blacks.

    You see picking cotton just wasn't as profitable as growing other things, until the cotton gin made it more profitable.

    Sure it saved some work, but it created much more.

  24. Very Cool on Brain/Machine Interfaces Approaching Usefulness · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm looking forward to being able to write simply by thinking, typing slows me down soooo much.

  25. Automated Addition? on Microsoft Was Distributing Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    This would appear to be an automated audition to the windows marketplace.

    The download.com page for Ubuntu Desktop places it in the same category as the windows marketplace page does.

    Google cache of windows market place page

    Download.com Ubuntu Desktop page

    Notice how similar the categories are.

    Download.com: Windows > Utilities & Drivers > Device Drivers > BIOS & System Updates

    Windows Market Place: Downloads > Utility Downloads > System Downloads > Driver Downloads> BIOS & System Update Downloads