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  1. Re:Just IT people? on Geeks Prefer Competence To Niceness · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know; If someone was competent, but enough of an asshole to sabatoge my work, I'd not be able to work around that, but I'd gladly pick up the slack for a slower (but nice) coworker.

  2. Re:Wait what? on Microsoft Aims To Cure Server-Hugging Engineers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I remote into my servers too, but do you really want to drive eight miles away to diagnose a potential hardware issue, or relinquish physical control to a dedicated hardware monkey?

  3. Microsoft Aims To Cure Server-Hugging Engineers on Microsoft Aims To Cure Server-Hugging Engineers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By installing some sshd by default (openssh comes to mind)? Pretty please with gumdrops? All the other operating systems are doing it. As nice as they are, psexec et al are just not the same.

  4. German Tmobile and "France" Tcom? on In the UK, T-Mobile and Orange To Merge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did they already extend into Poland?

  5. Re:Dangerous reading. on Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia · · Score: 1

    [...] events that supposedly took place and that would NOT pass scrutiny in this day and age. Immaculate conception, uh-huh. How about a DNA test first? :-)

    Because people of the first century didn't understand procreation? I'd say that people in this day and age would be more inclined to believe in a virgin birth, since there's a remote, crazy possibility of natural human parthenogenesis (maybe a 0.00001% chance). Back then, to believe in a virgin birth would have been to believe in something completely contradictory to their current knowledge (thus, a 0% chance in their view).

  6. Re:Scientology is a dangerous cult on Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A fundie who lived by the Bible would rape, kill, and enslave

    I normally don't respond to flamebait, but someone modded you insightful. A fundie* who lived by the Bible would live like Mother Theresa, _really_ turning the other cheek, and living for love. Maybe you were reading straight through and didn't finish until you got to the game-changing peace and love hippie stuff?

    *Assuming fundie means Fundamental Christian i.e. someone reliving the roots of Christianity, not Fundamental Pre-Biblical Reenactor i.e. someone reliving the historical time prior to when the Bible was written (when Israel was a wild and crazy, barely civilized place).

  7. Re:In the meantime... on Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users · · Score: 1

    Here's a page that checks your Flash version and lists the latest version for the different browsers/operating systems: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

    That's nothing, I know a lot of pages that will check your flash version for the different browsers/operating systems, *and* attempt to install software for you. They might even entertain you while you wait.

  8. Re:Millions of SDTVs still in use on MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    Especially considering they just shelled out $5-$20 (after government coupon) for a receiver that the government told them would be free (after government coupon). Another 5-8 years will have to pass before people are willing to even think of being forced to upgrade.

  9. I am Vengeance! I am the Night! on Symantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am Byteman!

  10. Re:Who is the customer? on MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    ...if your real customer is Dell and the *IAA, then you have a better hand. You can eventually cut the price of your product to zero, or lower, and still make money.

    Pfft, like Microsoft is going to do THAT.

    They do it in China. That's right, I went there.

  11. Re:Future Post on MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole · · Score: 3, Funny

    Subject: Re:New Setup

    posted by noodlesoupeaternoodlesoupeater (1093892093) * on 2060.09.04 9:10

    Splarg! u kinna spella wut-is 128 core processor? We use powers o 10 in CS, Mr anchent. roundup maths. u men 130 cor cpu! Splarg ina half! ROFLOLMAOWTFBBQSTWKKA!!1!!

  12. Re:why flash? on Intel's Braidwood Could Crush SSD Market · · Score: 1

    So why is an additional cache between memory and disk "redundant" ?

    Tautology, Definition. Additional Foo is Redundant Foo.

  13. Re:Easier explanation on Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid · · Score: 2, Funny

    -Peter

    Heh. Heh heh. He said "peter". Uh huhuhuhuh.

  14. Re:My TV is already 3d.... on Sony To Launch 3D TVs By Late 2010 · · Score: 1

    Well said. Of course, that means Sony has developed TVs that exist for the merest fraction of a moment. Imagine the space savings! I could own a TV that exists on the showroom floor at 15:30:31.908 2009-09-02, you could own the TV at 15:30:31.909 2009-09-02, and someone else can own the TV at 19:01:59.910 2009-09-03 that takes up space in my living room! It *seems* like one 4D TV, but it's really an infinite progression of 3D TVs!

    A more interesting proposal is that they've developed a TV with height, width, and time, but no depth. That would be awesome.

  15. Re:slow data on iPhone Straining AT&T Network · · Score: 1

    I would have had the first post, but I'm browsing from my iPhone.

    You lie! Want to know how I know? Because slashcode doesn't accept anonymous postings from iphones; it relies on some javascript that iphone safari doesn't support.

  16. Re:Oh joy... on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    As a LOOOONNNNGGGG time RedHat user, what is this "Dependency Hell" that you speak of?

    I ran into dep hell for the first time on RHEL4 (after years of running RH & Fedora machines) when x86_64 and i386 versions of something both got installed and confused rpm. I haven't seen dep hell in RHEL5 yet.

  17. Re:Disk replacement? on Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k · · Score: 1

    I agree with the ST3500320NS assessment. We're doing about 10% fail in one year too. One died in the first couple weeks. I'm almost absolutely certain it's in the controller boards. They look like they're arcing or something, so I now regularly take drives out for a visual inspection spot-check.

  18. Re:sooooo..... on Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin · · Score: 1

    Ask an actuary the monetary value of one human life. Prepare to feel sad (or angry).

  19. Re:It's humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbyt on How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You? · · Score: 1

    That's being bit 3.2*1024*8 times! Or 3.2*1000*8 times if you're into distinguishing between kibiytes/kilobytes. But that's still a lot. Imagine that many mosquitoes...

  20. Re:My door can tweet when I forget to lock it! on IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control · · Score: 1

    Having a sidearm tweet when discharged might be nice.

  21. Re:this should be easy on IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control · · Score: 1

    The reason this hasn't been done isn't that nobody could figure out how - it's that nobody cared.

    Advertisers will care. Oh, yes... they will care. This is almost as good as Eye-focus information.

  22. Re:Wow. on IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control · · Score: 1

    They think 'Everyone will want to know I watched Top Model tonight, and 90210 and Gossip Girl last night.'

    No, I'm pretty sure they think that only someone will want to know that, or at least will find it comment-worthy. I'm seeing the same thing in my 30yo+ friends (who have kids old enough that allow the parents free time); they'll tweet or FB status update about minutiae, and usually at least one person will write a "me too" type response.

  23. English Fail on Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you are outside the atmosphere, and not accelerating then you're basically in free fall.

    Err no. If you are in freefall then you ARE accelerating be the very definition of what freefall means. If you let go of a ball it will accelerate downwards and it is in freefall. Freefall means that you are free to fall i.e. that only force acting on you is gravity and so the force of gravity will cause you to accelerate.

    Sure, gravity is pulling you somewhere, but it doesn't really have an effect on anything inside the spacecraft (your reference frame is moving with you).

    Hang on a minute. How can you possibly say that gravity is pulling you somewhere and at the same time claim that it is not affecting anything inside the spacecraft?

    Orbit is just freefall around an object due to gravity. Yes, gravity acts on everything in the spacecraft, but not _relative_ to the spacecraft. Maybe English is not your primary language?

  24. Re:Sometimes you learn to live with it. on Woman Fired For Using Uppercase In Email · · Score: 1

    They leave the CAPS LOCK key on all the time as part of their professional work, and are so used to it that it doesn't stand out when they use it in other contexts. You learn to live with it.

    Indeed. Look closely at comic book text. All Caps.

  25. Re:Batman and Porky Pig on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    I'll take Porky, Bugs Bunny and especially Animaniacs over anything from Disney thanks all the same.

    Will you take them as edgy futuristic superheroes? I didn't think so.