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  1. Re:Huh? on Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me know when you find that one guy that likes clippy, he needs the crap beaten out of him
    No matter how inexperienced the user i have never EVER heard of anything but curses when it comes to clippy.

    It was an idiotic idea then, it is an idiotic idea now, the developers should be banned from the industry and the managers should be all fired.

  2. Re:Brownouts. Right. Egads. on Will Vista Overload the DNS? · · Score: 1

    It is called "Scaling" you obviously are not familiar with it...
    If it were your choice you probably would just say. "Just add another digit, that will take care of the problem" (for a couple of years)

  3. Re:Why any different than Linux or MacOS X? on Will Vista Overload the DNS? · · Score: 1

    Well there are already 10's of millions of Linux and MacOSX machines 10's of millions of each.

  4. Re:Why any different than Linux or MacOS X? on Will Vista Overload the DNS? · · Score: 1

    A couple hundred million more? You act as if suddenly everyone with XP will instantly have Vista. It will take years to replace even half the machines running XP.

  5. Re:RBLs and not getting your mail on How To Fight Spam Using Your Postfix Configuration · · Score: 1

    Basically, most businesses are willing to lose one email that is important if it means saving hours a week...Because anyone I have dealt with in business, understands the fact that email is not a reliable form of communication. They follow up with a call if they send something critical.

    99% means losing one legit email per 100, in all likelyhood it wasnt important,

    I use ASSP, automatic whitelists are built as people send emails so email has become useable for my organization. They understand if an email is blocked, the sender is notified, the sender calls the office (that has happened twice, and the sender would complain about it, trust me)

    99% is good enough, period. I keep a seperate account so that if something isnt received that should have been, it will be in that box and I can retreive it, that happens maybe once a month.

    People always clamor on about how "what about losing that important email" well the way it works in the real world, if it is important, the person simply doesnt put their full faith in email to begin with.

    If someone expects email to be reliable, they will learn soon enough, spam filter or not.

    You can and should run the risk of blocking your customers, with a proper whitelist system that hardly ever happens, coupled with a content analysis system you are set. End users in a business should not have to sift through crap deleting an important email because they want to get rid of the 100 junk emails. (I used to see them do that regularly)

    The important thing to remember is, they were already deleting important emails on accident. Now they just dont have to delete junk. The whitelist makes it far more effective because in all likelyhood, the email will be delivered without problems.

    I am sorry, but anyone who bickers on about "that one important email" obviously doesnt live in reality, or doesnt live in the business world (or will quickly be exiting the business world) by trusting a system that is inherently unreliable.

  6. Re:Well, doesn't Gnome have some nerve? on GNOME 2.16 Released · · Score: 1

    I prefer the simplicity, I dont like KDE because I dont want to mess with a dozen different settings to get it to feel simple. I have personally outgrown my days of fiddling with everything to get it to work just right. Simple interface with a few annoyances is better than wasting my time trying to get it 100% right instead of 90%

  7. Re:That's A Rather Inconvenient Truth. on Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data · · Score: 1

    You are in idiot and completely missed the point.

    I dont feel a need for humanity to survive that it requires us sending ourselves to other planets because we know we are going to fuck up this planet so badly we will not remain.

  8. Um why? on Commodore 64 Confuses Austrian Police · · Score: 1

    Seriously, the guy is dead, why are they investigating the kidnapping now. She is safe, will need lots of therapy for years. but the investigation is a complete waste of time for everyone involved, HE IS DEAD.

  9. Re:That's A Rather Inconvenient Truth. on Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who cares if humans survive, honestly. why does the human race need to survive when it obviously cant maintain it's own planet properly.

  10. Re:You forget the FA on GPL Gets Its Day in Court in Israel · · Score: 1

    and the poster before was correct, under standard copyright law this person would STILL be wrong because under that law he has no right to take the code and merge it either.

    The GPL gets struck down, this guy is still breaking copyright law then.

  11. Re:This is not news. on $600 PS3 Ships Without HDMI Cable · · Score: 1

    because those were all last generation devices.

    the PS3 is trying to push HDTV and how great it will be for gaming. Shouldnt they make an attempt to make that a fact...

  12. Good. on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    He reminded me a lot of the Xfree86 crew. holding back true innovation.

    His cdrtools is pretty much garbage. alot of good foundwork and ideas, but he always wanted to control the what.

    In all honesty he lacked the complete talent aspect of Keith Richard, and totally unlike the control and organization of Linus, or the FreeBSD engineering team.

    Finally the little bitchfest of "who was right" of how to do something is over.

  13. Re:America's Watergate 2004 on Sweden's Watergate · · Score: 1

    why oh why does that watergrate seem soo incredibly boring when compared to a real live break in...

  14. Re:You've totally missed the boat. on When Is a Con Not a Con? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They are willingly engaging in a game where scams are not only allowed but actually encourages it. You are not signing away your rights anymore than you are giving away ownership of money when you put in on the roullette table in vegas.

    It all comes back to this... It is simply a game, where this type of activity is encouraged.

    in another game where this is against the rules, you could atleast make the claim about ownership and giving up rights, but not here

  15. Re:You've totally missed the boat. on When Is a Con Not a Con? · · Score: 1

    It still was a legal action in a game that allows for exactly for these types of schemes.

  16. Re:U.S. Supreme Court Already Ruled On It, dodo bi on State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry · · Score: 1

    I will restate myself, because it bears repeating. it sucks, it is stupid, it will be taken to court and it will be thrown out as an unjust law.

    at 3:00 am i can think of atleast a dozen legal concepts that this bill can be destroyed with

    prediction, 3-6 months from now, the fist guy that got put on the list will not only be genuinly innocent (like he didnt do anything in the first place, no that legal style of not guilty) he will have never done anything wrong, including parking tickets...he and some ACLU type groups will bring suit, win, destroy every idea of this type of thing coming up again, be rich forever with millions upon millions of dollars of cash money and be happy.

    this is a bullshit law designed to "protect" (i use that in quotes because it wont protect anyone) i live in a county that is the dumping ground for the true molesters and rapists. they let them go free, never serving their true debt to society. why dont they execute the 5 time pedophiles. and stop worrying about the peoople that havent even committed a crime. Or for the people that dont like the death penalty. 5 time offender never ever gets out of prison, whether they are 16 when it happens or they are 90, they never ever are released again to commit their crimes (and they can always be found they were wrongly convicted...chicago knows a thing or two about wrongful convictions)

  17. sad, but strangely ironic on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 1

    I mean that guy has been going for the ironic style toe tag for a decade.

    take risks, live (or dont) with the consequnces. from the articles I read he sounded like a genuinely passionate person and lived his live right and pretty damn hardcore.
    Feel bad for the family that has to deal with the loss. he certainly was a dedicated animal lover and showed that to millions of peoples. Seems odd seeing a guy thats taken on the most dangerous animals in the world, go down by a searay. He tought a lot of people a lot, and really dedicated himself to what he cares about, in all honesty, can you possibly ask for anything more...better to burn out than fade away.

  18. Taken to court, on State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry · · Score: 1

    over turned and done with.
    Not a single person will ever be put on this list...

  19. Re:Exercise in futility on LDAP Authentication in Linux · · Score: 1

    It seems that every other post is quite to the contrary...

  20. Re:Nope on Not As Wiki As It Used To Be · · Score: 1

    Well that flies in the face of what has been hammered into every students brain for the last decade.
    which is: CITE EVERYTHING YOU USED.

  21. Re:Peak of Eternal Light on SMART Probe to Crash Into the Moon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You win the award for being the most anal person every...
    I am willing to bet you are single.

  22. Re:Wow... on Radio Shack E-Fires 400 Workers · · Score: 1

    The last one would be great...from the employees perspective
    get "lost" in the middle of nowhere and then tell the manager to get the fuck out of the car.

    bonus points for making it an area with known bad cell service

  23. Re:Still I really dont like it. on Misconceptions About the GPL · · Score: 1

    Neither it is straight from the GNU...

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequir eSourcePostedPublic

      Does the GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public?
            The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization. But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL. Thus, the GPL gives permission to release the modified program in certain ways, and not in other ways; but the decision of whether to release it is up to you.

  24. Re:Still I really dont like it. on Misconceptions About the GPL · · Score: 1

    Let me know when you find a user that is concerned with that...
    ie, I have never heard of anyone saying "well i could let you use that cd, but that would be against the license"

    Unless it is in a business, which is a totally different matter then.

  25. Re:Still I really dont like it. on Misconceptions About the GPL · · Score: 2, Informative

    Absolutely not.

    It requires the person you hire to change the code, to give you the code.

    You never, under any circumstances have to give changes back to the original project or for that matter, anyone that didnt recieve the binary. The only person that the binary was distributed to was me, which means I must also recieve the code changed code. Obligation met.

    If there is only one person the modification is "distributed" to, there is only one person that code must be given to.