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  1. Re:Okay, so now there are statistics..... on Deconstructing a Pump-and-Dump Spam Botnet · · Score: 1

    "if you owe the bank $10,000,000,000 dollars and you're late, the bank is in trouble."

    Actualy  no the bond holders ie the banks own you! company gets restructured (all the chare holders and employyes get screwwed) ok its taking a while for euro tunnel but thats the French Pujadisam for you.

  2. Re:Even more power savings on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    Going to DC only realy make sense if you have large server room - and going to the 48v standard use by telcos makes more sense - may be Google has a badcase of NIH.

    Ther are advatages in using 48 vs 12 (construction of buss bars and saftey) - ive heard some amusing stories about acidents in exchanges (central offices)

  3. Re:When your only tool is a hammer on Google Envisions Free Cell Phones For All · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its so cute when Americans try get to grips with this mobile malarkey (cue stifled Nordic giggles) Must be a big change from  having a slave^h^h^H^H lad carry the messages around in  cleft stick;

    Eric Have you actually used a modern mobile phone I don't look at the screen when I'me making a call I just you know punch the damm number in  and wait for it to ring.

    They already tried mobiles funded by audio adds which failed so why is video going to work.

  4. Re:Spoken like... on Should Online Stores Be Subject To ADA? · · Score: 1

    Quite

    And I speak as some one who I has worked on high profile accessible sites (and is partially sigted). I remember discussing this with the Officer responsible or Disability rights in Connect (the Union That represents Managerial and Professional Grades in the IT/Telecoms Industry). They commented that it wasn't worth producing say brail versions of the literature it would be more efficient to physically go and talk to the Member concerned.

    And JK rowlings site is not that Accessible you cant adjust the font size, colour or contrast on the text only version , not all the content is on the text version.

    A help line would be the best way of serving  blind users for online stores - both in terms of  cost and flexability

  5. Re:Hire telecommuters on Hiring (Superstar) Programmers · · Score: 1

    Yeh but its the 1% that kills you.

    Tightly integrated co-located teams with agile development is the way to go.

    Why do I say that beacuase I help'd a small team do in 1 month what the corporate hirarchy
    quoted 2 YEARS!!!

  6. Re:Engineers ? on Hiring (Superstar) Programmers · · Score: 1

    Testify! Brother Testify!

  7. Re:You just won a ricer's car? on Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip · · Score: 1

    well thers a hell of a diference in being fired and being layed off/redundant

  8. Re:Pink Slip Part II on Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip · · Score: 1

    Cunning

    Your could imagine Catbert/PHB Hireing Dogbert to spam the company so he could fire people for breaking the company's acceptable use policy.

    I know one HR guy I wouldn't put that past

  9. Re:It should not happen. on Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip · · Score: 1

    I take it you ment emails purporting to be from inside coming from outside - a literal reading of what you saiod would block all emails :-) I suspect they just faked the headers

  10. Re:It should not happen. on Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip · · Score: 1

    Unless they had an infected machine inside the firewall

  11. ooh sub domain spam on Optimizing Page Load Times · · Score: 1

    Isn't using 4 subdomains going to confuse the google algoritem (abuse of subdomians has beeen adressed in a few updates) let alone duplicate content - or is it just for iamges and objects.

  12. Re:Obligatory on Reporter's Story — How HP Kept Tabs On Me · · Score: 1

    if they where on her property Cound't she have just shot them :-)

    "soory officer I though it was a crim that was planing to break into my house and attack me"

    :-)

  13. Re:YouTube Is Not Censoring Dumb @ss! on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    Hmm

    I think the origional poster for got to include the <irony> tags :-)

  14. Re:Reboot the router on Limiting Bandwidth Hogs on Public Wireless Nets? · · Score: 1

    Or

    maybe forceing all the Stations to reassociate might do the trick not sure if bit torent waits for reconection in that state.

  15. Re:Title is wrong! Article is apples vs. oranges on Copper Wire As Fast As Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Quite ...

    It also ignores the crappy joints and all the other problems in the local loop.

  16. Re:Microsoft new slogan on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You can also get the home/student version of office which has a licence for 3 pcs for around 100 quid in the uk.

    Thats 33 quid per licence.

    Want to bet the "help" line is going to be on a premium rate number

  17. Re:It All Depends on Their Maturity on Would You Hire a Former Black Hat? · · Score: 1

    I think amobas right.

    Just because a country turns out loads of coders - doesnt mean that they would be good for this sort of role - rightly or wrongly they would be "percived" as a higher risk.

    And for any moderatly "interesting" security job I would imagine it's that countrys natioanls only when I started work there where tons of Civil service jobs where not olnley did you have to be uk nationals but ALL your gradparents had to be as well.

  18. Re:It All Depends on Their Maturity on Would You Hire a Former Black Hat? · · Score: 1
    mmmmm

    so this generation of teenagers are shit out of luck then if they have downloaded pirated music of video then :-)

    Still more work for use oldies then :-)

  19. Re:Meson Gun Question on Mesons Flip Between Matter and Antimatter · · Score: 1

    The Traveler meson gun theoreticaly worked by timeing the decay so that it occured inside the target.

  20. Re:What is it with tacking things onto bills? on Online Gambling Not Banned Yet · · Score: 1
    That aspect of the US system is very strange.

    In normal debate (aka citrine) trying to ammend a motion with totaly unrelated stuff would not be allowed on the order paper.

    Sounds like you need a new article to the constitution to stop this.

  21. bbs JUnkies on Tales from a BBS Junkie · · Score: 1
    Not the first bio about BB's indra singh's cyber gypsies did this a few years back the book is a fictioanlised version of events on FIDO PRESTEL and Telecom Gold.

    Though i know the real story behind some of the incidents - I used to work for PRESTEL/Telecom Gold doing billing systems (I had L6 on all the Telecom Gold systems) and still see some of the PRESTEL people ocasionaly

    oh and I got a mention the dedications to the book

  22. Re:Thank God on The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat · · Score: 1
    I think the USMC Hariers can do this they apply reverse thrust and let the target fly past then wack them.

    Aparently this tactic (vifing) was pionerd by the RAF in some NATO wargame and the USAF compained that they where cheating ;-) - the USMC presumably said "we will have some of that mate"

  23. Re:Open source schematics ??? on Linux Powers Lilliputian PCs · · Score: 1

    I think you missed http://pubs.gumstix.org/boards/

  24. Re:Oh for the love of..... on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1
    >If you could prove the auto makers hid research on the dangers of car >exhaust, or produced fake research showing it to be harmless, you may have >something, but even then if they abided by emissions standards I just can't >see the problem.

    Quite:

    So are they going to sue farmers next - Cows and Pigs produce Green house gasses too.

  25. Re:Moo on University of Virginia Student Graduates in One Year · · Score: 1

    Yeh if hes that hot a student why didn' he go to a better UNI and do it in a longer time - but make better conections?