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  1. Re:Huge waste of money on Presidential Inauguration Hardware and Other Challenges · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of calls of "traitor" had something to do with China, Missiles, and Money. Nothing illegal, but something that riled a few.

  2. Re:Always the dutch .... on Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects · · Score: 1

    define "worst" colonizers

    Doesn't Afrikaans derive from Dutch?

  3. "Downloaders" buy more stuff. on Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects · · Score: 1

    Ignoring that "downloader" is being used in a derogatory way, I believe it. I'm the music companies' worst nightmare; I don't listen to their music. Since I don't know what the latest band/song/blond-bimbo is, I am far less likely to buy a CD or MP3 of the music.

  4. Re:No passwords on Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware · · Score: 1

    New popup: "Username or Passkey invalid, please try again."

  5. Re:It's just about everyone's policy. on How To Suck At Information Security · · Score: 1

    [CxOs] aren't interested in learning about it. They want to have it provided the same way that electricity and water is provided.

    Instead, it is a set of actions and processes we follow that can be described easily, simply. If someone knows the technologies and vocabulary, you can direct them over the phone.
    With this in mind, why COULDN'T you have a set of checkboxes?

    Because delivering security isn't like delivering electricity; true security requires that the CEO/CFO/CIO actually _do_ things, and remember not to do other things, things that even the CIO doesn't want to be bothered with.

  6. A Hollow Voice says, on Zork Returning As a Browser MMO · · Score: 1

    'Fool.'

  7. Re:It is dark here. on Zork Returning As a Browser MMO · · Score: 1

    All I need is my rusty knife and bearskin rug.
    rub rug;g;g;g;g;g;g;g;n;kill monster [with rusty knife]
    ZAP!

  8. Re:Easy fix on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    An emotionless and efficient one, apparently.

  9. Re:Easy fix on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    I'm completely serious. Google: IRIX Jurassic Park
    This is the first link: http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/movies/jpark.php

  10. Re:No passwords on Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware · · Score: 1

    This attack still works. The attacker/script notices you're logged in, attempts to log in to bank.co.nl, sends you the code from the website, you enter you PIN & the card, then give the attacker/script your card reader's response. The criminal uses the response to access the website (this one time) as you.

  11. Re:It's a rare game... on Zork Returning As a Browser MMO · · Score: 4, Funny

    You just defined the internet.

  12. Re:Easy fix on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    You're looking for SGI IRIX, a little behind it's time, and a real *#%#@ to install.
    Feature/Maintenance streams, needing intermediate update CDs... bleh.

  13. Re:This is why Windows should be banned. on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    No, He's a True American Patriot, keeping America's Independence. ;)

  14. Re:XSS on Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware · · Score: 1

    It doesn't take them any more time to "ping" the top 20 banks than it would just one. It's all done by your browser on your machine in response to a web page. It's just the difference of 20 img tags or just 1.

  15. Re:Upgrades? on PC Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis · · Score: 1

    I would wager more than four cores is probably a waste on a consumer PC.

    Unless it's being used as a media pc, game pc, file storage, etc, all in one package. "consumer" doesn't mean just hobbyist, err, writing letters in wordpad to print for snail mail, err, gaming, err, email & web ... anymore. As shown in the previous sentence, consumer PCs have had many principle uses over the years. I know a few non-techie families that are seriously looking at getting family servers.

  16. Re:This is a real problem on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    Once upon a time, you had to learn how to read a Book to use it. This was an inherent prerequisite to using a Book effectively for school and/or work. Nowadays, any bonehead thinks that a Book needs to do it all for them, and if it doesn't, it is a failing of the Book.

    "That book doesn't talk!"
    http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58795

  17. Re:Humor? Entertainment? on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    As simple as college classes have been made these days (insert comparison of highschool-level classes from progressively older timeperiods), I'm surprised they're not to the "for everyone" level yet.

    My publicly funded university made a Math class where _fractions_ are taught. The number is 010 because the _pre-algebra_ class already had the number 001. So many jobs require college degrees when the really aren't needed...

  18. Re:5:38 pm on The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital · · Score: 2, Funny

    The camera's firmware didn't include the leap second.

  19. Re:Now THIS is obscene: on South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity · · Score: 1

    They just outlawed everything to make everyone (in their state) an outlaw.

    All too easy. </JamesEarlJones>

  20. Re:Definition on South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity · · Score: 1

    Ferrengi, your culture intrigues me. Please continue.

  21. Re:This isn't out of the realm of possibility. on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    Or even more annoying; when I'm overly tired (stay up all night long), it's my cell-phone ringtone. Thankfully, that part of my brain doesn't update too quickly, so it's using my old ringtone. I still reflexively reach for my phone though.

  22. Re:Three cups? on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    So now it's one man and three cups? I thought the hallucination was about two girls!

    Read it again; three cups means it's a hallucination of that mutant chick from Total Recall.

  23. Re:Seriously... on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Worse scenario: You go to sleep at night after some heavy drinking, punk kid goes on a joyride with your car, hits a pedestrian, _returns_ your car before you wake up. Cops wake you up. It sounds unlikely, but...

    You go to sleep at night, punk kid uses the latest SMB vulnerability to get into your 'doze box that you use for itunes. He copies all your music, and shares it with his 1,000,000 myspace friends. Oops, your name is attached. Okay, so maybe your machine is secure...

    You go to sleep at night, punk kid replaces his email address in his itunes song file with your email address before he shares it with his 1,000,000 myspace friends. It happens to be a song you own from itunes, so the RIAA are certain you're guilty.

  24. Re:Just a thought on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking about this a lot lately, who's making their gear ready for this sort of thing besides the U.S. Navy?

    The Chinese Navy?

  25. Re:Can I be the first to ask on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 1

    Now there is a company I would like to see go out of business. Unfortunately, Adobe appears to be doing just fine.

    Agreed; I'm pulling my hair out trying to get their automated silent deployment of CS4 to work predictably.