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  1. Re:Whats the problem? on Consumers vs. IP Owners: The Future of Copyright · · Score: 1

    Maybe different copyright lengths for different things. Take tax software. That stuff is technically good for about... a month :P Once you've done your 1040/a/ez and all your buddies have done theirs too, the software isn't needed. The rules will change next year anyways. 1 year should be fine. Of course, the company can release the software to the public domain. They wouldn't, but in a respect it wouldn't matter.

  2. Re:Brilliant!!! on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    naw, make a really fatty raid inwhich each hd duplicates the others for excellent redundancy

  3. Whoa on Americans Using Internet 'Just for Fun' · · Score: 1

    Let's not go crazy now.

  4. Seriousness on Has World Oil Production Passed Its Peak? · · Score: 1

    Dude, this is serious news. I studied anthropology and found out that it takes more calories to produce our food than we get out of it. If we run out of oil, there will be massive starvation.

  5. Re:It's an artificial need. on Computer Addiction or Just Modern Life? · · Score: 1

    Well, actually, it's apart of culture, and culture is so complicated that if you got to know it, you would hold on to your A+, your CSS degree, or your CS degree like a security blanket. Culture is three parts: Infrastructure, structure, and super-structure. Infrastructure is the technologies and methods that gain food and the needs such as agriculture or hunting and gathering. Structure is the distribution methode for these resources such as our economy, or in egalatarian socieities, how they split the food. Super-structure is the beliefs that control the culture and reinforce the cultural values and such. The super-structure is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and structure. The Internet plays key roles in our culture, we can order stuff online, which replaces brick-n-mortar stores. You can manage your finances online and all sorts of things. The Internet is making a huge impact on our culture and it's going to make Anthropology so convoluted that people going insane to suck their thumbs for the rest of their lives.

  6. Error 404 on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: 1
    Error 404: Object not found.
    This is likely due to the fact that you have not paid your phone bill. You may, using our new PayNow feature, pay your phonebill online right now!

    Please enter your full name, phone number, credit card including name on card and expiration date, as well as the last 3 or 4 digits on the back in a reply to this post.

    Thank you, and have a great day.
    Phone Company.

  7. Re:Why Internet Companies? on US Lawmakers to Keep Google Out of China? · · Score: 1

    As if Walmart had anything to do with humans rights. They are bringing down the average pay, most employees are on subsidised insurance. When people work, they should be able to support themselves from that pay, but not any more :(

  8. Re:Front side bus on Quad Core Chips From Intel and AMD · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I'll get an AMD system then.

  9. Creepy on RFID Injection Required for Datacenter Access · · Score: 1
    This is creepy, for starters. My real point is that couldn't you just:
    1. record the signal that activates the chip.
    2. Drug one of the guys and drag him in a secluded room somewhere, or incomapasitate him in some means.
    3. Play that signal back and record what his chip respons with.
    4. Play that signal back to the machine when it sends its signal that you recorded in the first place.
    Viola, access granted.

    Or a nice EMP, which wouldn't be too hard for things this small, and just disable all those chips and be a real pain in the arse?

  10. Re:The cure for bullying? on Bullying Affects Social Status? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you're right. Except that one bully was a 250 lb weight lifter all muscle. He wasn't interested in fighting, just being a jerk. As soon as I challenged him to a fight, he was like, "Ah, to hell with this." and left me alone from then on. I was serious about fighting too, and I was totally convinced I would win. My friends wouldn't stand up for themselves, so they just got picked on. I guess he was nothing more than a jerk instead of a bully, if a real bully would fight.
    I never really cared about a pecking order. I was happy so long as I was spared from any drama or crap. Once I had to be involved, I was angry. What I decided was that bullies prefer an easy pick rather than someone who would fight back.

  11. Front side bus on Quad Core Chips From Intel and AMD · · Score: 1

    Is it not the front side bus that chokes the whole system?

  12. Re:Maybe we should look into what Norton AV does on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Norton products are a tab "Big Brother" in a sense.

  13. IT and the way they do things on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 1
    When I worked for an IT department, I was responsible for setting up and maintaining a bunch of users computers, though we didn't do a very good job of maintainance, though we knew how to set them up. When we got a new machine, we'd install Windows and then do all the updates. After about 20 reboots or so, we'd then install some other software and be done. The deal is that you just need to just install everything just about from MS update. If you don't update it, you get lots of nice and friendly spyware, adware, virii, and all sorts of goodies.

    Malware is a big problem. When I first started working there, I would be sent to troubleshoot, assess, or whatever. I also was responsible for certain projects of my own as I was assigned. Near the end, I was always sent to clean up a nasty malware infection. The clean-ups would go for hours and hours, reboots and reboots (you have to run the thing several times to get all malware, and then install updates, which Automatic Updates were not set). If I didn't have to clean up so much malware, we'd have me do other things.

    It's really tempting for a corporation to use whatever malware-cleaner they can. People think M$ is going to know the most about their products so they can make the best antispyware (which is funny, they should make a product that's immune to spyware like Linux or OSX). So companies think, "Let's get M$ antispyware and be done with it!"

  14. Re:The cure for bullying? on Bullying Affects Social Status? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, a little ol' can of whupass seamed to do the trick for me. I've had a few bullies in my day, but then I would get pissed at them and take them on. I've had bullies try their stupid intimidation techniques on me (walking up to me and glaring). Not one bully has ever laid a finger on me. It's when you challenge them to a fight that they back off and bug someone else...
    I've also heard of prankster approaches to the bully issue. My friend shared a locker with a foot ball player who was a jerk. The football player always had a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew. My friend once drank the last in the bottle, and put mineral oil in place of it.
    But yeah, a quick cure for bullinitis is a swift kick to the testicles or something.

  15. Re:One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's Interface on One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's Interface · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, zero of my computers (today and future) will ever run Windows.

  16. Alternative: Superbar on EFF Warns Not to Use Google Desktop · · Score: 1

    You could just get Superbar which is an alternative.

  17. Re:Dumb. on Early Puberty Often More Hazardous · · Score: 1

    What I was thinking of is a child getting caught up in a sexual affair with an older person. This would be child abuse actually. The mature body doesn't exactly mean a mature mind. Though puberty does help the mind mature.

  18. Google on Google Delists BMW-Germany · · Score: 1

    It is their search engine. Nobody owns their search engine except for Google Inc.

    Now people have manipulated Google so that their sites are favored above others. Everyone knows that when you search for "The worst President Ever" on Google you find George Bush's biography. I've never thought of it as immoral, but silly. Google does have a right to protect their search engine and keep it producing the fast and accurate results. When one manipulates Google, they damage Google's reputation. If Google does nothing, it is fair to say they don't have a reliable search engine when it's manipulated, but if they do fix the problem, it's fair to say they are a reliable search engine.

    another search to try are "French Military Victories" (click on "I'm Feeling Lucky")

  19. beauty on Retina Blood Vessels Predict Common Fatal Diseases · · Score: 1

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... If you're driving, don't stare at beauties on the road. If there is beauty in a drivers eye, he might suffer from daim bramage or something.

  20. Re:Amusing advert on WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000 · · Score: 1

    Damn, I noticed that too, and then posted before I read all the way down. Now I'm going to get modded down as redundant :'(

  21. M$ ad on /. on WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000 · · Score: 1

    How funny. I just saw an ad from M$ "Know The Facts" right under the summary. Kinda' hard to believe the ad. Why is M$ advertizing on /. anyway? Is /. not own by the same company that owns freshmeat? Does this not have anything to do with the benifeit of Linux?

  22. Pain prioritized? on Thirsty People Feel More Pain · · Score: 1
    ...perhaps a survival method so that pain is prioritized over thirst.

    I call bs.

    If one's thirst was satasfied, then pain reduces. Then there is less urge to take care of the pain. This is in contrast to the idea that pain is to be prioritized over thirst. What it sounds like to me is that water has to do with pain management, or in healing.

  23. Re:Taxachusetts? on Romney Continues ODF Support With New Appointee · · Score: 1

    If they went all out OSS they wouldn't have money problems :)

  24. Speaking of statehood... on Romney Continues ODF Support With New Appointee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I live in Washington State, you know, the land of Redmond. It's nice of our Eastern fellow state to take a look at ODT format. However, you must pitty us. We're never going to see the light of OSS in our lifetimes...
    I guess the sun sets in the West and rises in the East. I guess evolution obeys time zones too.

  25. Re:Two possible reasons on No Anti-Virus in Vista · · Score: 1

    Dude, I've downloaded all kinds of stuff, never once have I gotten a virus, except for those java virii you get in IE. I was always behind a firewalled router, and I'm refering to the time I wasn't. I do find it funny when my friends complain of like a virus or something...never hapened to me.