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  1. Re:Note to Bill Gates on Apple Dumps Most of Aperture Dev. Team · · Score: 4, Funny

    In related news Microsoft has fired 60,994 employees leaving 6 people working at the company...

  2. Re:44.1KHz == so so quality on Capturing Multi-Track Raw Audio? · · Score: 1

    isnt that basically oh, 99% of all audio data...

  3. Why does it need to change? on The Time for Women in Games · · Score: 1

    Women have the oppurtunity to join the IT workforce but have chosen not to. For a while there was a big push to get women in IT, I have to ask why?
    Why promote a sex into a certain field. Women have obviously chosen that IT is not a field for them. In a very generalized sense women do not dig IT. So what? Many women do not appreciate that field while many men do. Is this a problem, no it is not.

    Women and men are different, maybe it is how they are raised, but in the broad sense the case can be made that men typically gravitate towards some things, while women gravitate towards other things. That isnt a discouragement for crossover, it just how the chips fall.

    The oppurtunity exists, but the demand by women is simply not there. As long as people have the oppurtunity, why should anyone be encouraged to go into a certain field simply because of their race/sex. Equal oppurtunity means the oppurtunity to not choose something also.

  4. Re:MS is right. on Vista Firewall to be Crippled · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah. you have to jump through hoops for something rather simple, but MS lets you automatically install a rootkit by putting in an audio cd.

  5. Re:MS is right. on Vista Firewall to be Crippled · · Score: 1

    I have wondered that, I would thank it could be automated to change the setting, unless their is a watchdog preventing that? Anyone with insight of how it determines those settings and protects them?

    How about if a rootkit was included to over ride certain checks etc. It gets to be a real problem very quickly.

  6. MS is right. on Vista Firewall to be Crippled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever I install a firewall that will block outgoing applications, and make sure everything needed is allowed already such as IM, email etc. The first thing a user does when they see that screen is click "Yes always allow Trojan.I.Steal.Credit.Card.Numbers.and.kick.puppie s.Trojan"

    Atleast the incoming is blocked like it should be, it would be nice if there was a way to flash bright red so obnoxiously, and make the user think for a second. Like how firefox makes you wait before clicking yes. Possibly by moving the yes button around and saying "YOU PROBABLY DONT WANT TO ALLOW THIS" and then repeat. "ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE"
    then deny it regardless of what the user says :)

  7. Re:Doesn't need to be mandatory on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 1

    You are correct, they cannot arrest you. They can take you into custody to determine just who you are... Small difference, you will be released as soon as they figure out who you really are, and if you are a prick about it, that could take several hours...

  8. Re:When "voluntary" is mandatory on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 1

    I live in Wisconsin, we are pretty heavy drinkers. The bars experienced a 40% drop in sales in the Madison area and that has remained over a year later. We smoke and we drink at very high levels.

  9. Re:Doesn't need to be mandatory on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 1

    Um actually a drivers license is dual purpose. It works for driving, but just as importantly it is a form of ID. If you have a drivers license, you will not bother with a State issued ID (of the nondriving kind) Many people rarely ever drive, but still have a drivers license because it is used frequently as an ID for just those two purposes I pointed out. Other reasons include, ID checks for magazines, movies, soon voting (in the state of wisconsin), getting fishing/hunting licenses, it goes on. The actual driving portion of a drivers license is just one use of it. It is the most common form of identification for a reason.

  10. Re:When "voluntary" is mandatory on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 1

    IF they are a good batender they damn well better be drinking with you otherwise they will be pretty disappointed when it comes to counting their tips. The market has decided, smoking needs to be allowed in bars otherwise they will be forced to close because you cut down the customer base pretty substantially. Hell even nonsmokers will smoke when it comes to being ou at the bars. You ever notice how few bars voluntarily ban smoking, a very small portion.

  11. Re:When "voluntary" is mandatory on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which actually reminds of the idiotic smoking bans in wisconsin currently happening... They are trying to ban it based on worker health reasons...of course those people are now out of jobs due to the massive loss in business bars have been experiencing. They no longer have to worry about second hand smoke, they dont have a job. Those bans may be repealed in certain areas. and there has been talk of a ban in Milwaukee, but the brewery industry will never allow that one to happen thankfully. Restraunts and such I can understand, bars should not be held to those restrictions since you go to a bar to drink poison. Or how about Cigar bars being basically shut down, you cant smoke a cigar in a cigar bar?

  12. Re:Doesn't need to be mandatory on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ahhh, but that is meaningless... Wisconsin had to change their licenses because it would not meet federal regulations as a valid ID for a number of services. So it may not be expired, but when the law says you cant even use it to buy a lottery ticket or a pack of smokes, it is pretty useless.

  13. Re:What rush hour? on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 1

    Um we have these new inventions called cellular telephones...

  14. Re:leaving *really* early for work. on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 1

    Was he productive the rest of the day? Maybe he was doing his slacking all at once instead of spreading it out throughout the day like the rest of the staff

  15. Re:What rush hour? on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    WOW, you couldnt be more wrong. a boss only needs to be around to solve problems, If there are no problems, he shouldnt be around interfering... My boss was gone for over a week this month and the entire office managed to run smoothly without him. A boss needs to be aware of what is going on, if that takes 1 hour a week so be it. he needs to be aware of problems, hopefully with some insight in the future. and most importantly, he needs to leave you the hell alone.

  16. Didnt this end like 5 years ago? on New Internet Regulation Proposed · · Score: 1

    Seriousely, I cannot even remember the last time I stumbled across porn when I wasnt looking for it.

    People used to say this was sooo common like 5 years ago, yet it never ever happened to me. Maybe their kids were looking for porn and then got caught so they claimed they just "stumbled" upon it.

    Remember, porn companies want subscribers, not kids wasting bandwidth.

  17. Hmm and what about the consistent higher profits on Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts? · · Score: 1

    that the music industry posts year and year.

    Every year they bitch and moan about how they are getting screwed, and every year they post a higher profit than last year.

    Makes you kind of think they are all liars...oh wait they are.

  18. Re:Bandwidth is Not Free! on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1

    Moral superiority? what the hell are you talking about? oh that is right, you are a troll that doesnt bother to make sure an insult even makes sense before posting.

  19. Re:Bandwidth is Not Free! on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1

    If you are gonna make up numbers atleast get them to be sort of acurate. There is absolutely, postively no way that a page would even cost 1/10 of a cent I calculated it out, and most pages would cost in the range of maybe a 1/1000 and even 1/10000 of a cent. kind of shoots your 10,000 dollar number to shit doesnt it.

  20. Re:Bandwidth is Not Free! on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1

    Bandwidth is practically free. It is soo goddamn cheap nowadays it might as well be free. So dont start with some bs about paying bills, they make plenty of money through clicks, and not the views, clicks, aka people that block shit, arent clicking.

  21. Re:Why the fuck would a gay person on Slashback: OpenSSH, Falwell, OpenDRM · · Score: 1

    because most christians dont really give two shits about homosexuality. it may not seem like it, but really most christians dont care or at most think it is "wrong" (the quotes are important to understand that)

  22. Re:ssh donation on Slashback: OpenSSH, Falwell, OpenDRM · · Score: 1

    No actually a lot of companies do just give money to be good corporate citizens. no it has nothing to do with making them look good or for taxes. Many companies feel the obligation to give back. In fact, MOST companies are that way.

  23. Re:I don't believe it... on Facebook Raises Another $25M · · Score: 1

    No, actually facebook is rather pointless. Oooh I add my friends to my list...oh wait I see these people every day anyways so why in the world would I bother messaging them (email equiv, nonrealtime) Facebook, is handy occasionally to get in touch with people and see whats happening, the other 99% people are just wasting hours on it. It is pretty damn pointless.

  24. Re:interesting article on Working at Microsoft, the Inside Scoop · · Score: 1

    Why would he need permission to publish that? This is a bit different than that article laying into sony a while back (that guy got canned) This is about personal experience (and not even that negative either) not just making bs up so you can get ad revenue like that Sony guy.

  25. Re:Devil's Advocate... on U.S. Governments Advised to Use Open Source · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    well your general rule is simply wrong.