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  1. Re:Do many companies really do EFM recovery? on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 1

    If a disk drive was encrypted, then you DON'T have to overwrite it. That is the whole idea with proper encryption. All you need to do is hit yourself upside the head with a brick so you forget the password...

  2. Re:Another Asian outsourcer? on Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories · · Score: 1

    Factories will come back as soon as the Dollar devalued another 75% or so.

  3. Re:Needs an HD option on Dell Begins Selling Inspiron Mini 9 · · Score: 1

    Speed. The real SSD devices are much faster than USB or Mini SD cards.

  4. Confused on Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off · · Score: 0, Troll

    So is the arctic ice getting more or less when an ice shelf breaks off and floats away without actually melting? Anyhoo, global warming is good - it snowed last weekend.

  5. Re:cockroaches on Coating a Motherboard In Thermal Resin? · · Score: 2, Informative

    A bag of moth balls in the equipment would have been cheaper to guard against roach piss.

  6. USB scratch remover on Ghostbusters Is First Film Released On USB Key · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can sell you a can of high tech USB scratch remover. For only $19.99, this spray will remove scratches, improve picture quality and cure your herpes, but wait, now for a limited time offer you can get TWO cans for only $39.99...

  7. Re:How can you tell if a box is zombied? on Zombie Network Explosion · · Score: 1

    Spybot Search and Destroy is not difficult to run, though I would not recommend PS tools or Hijackthis to common folk.

  8. Re:This surpises anyone? on Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...and with the arctic ice cover increasing 30% in one year, the whole globe will be covered in ice a mile thick in about 10 years... Let's start writing a new set of global cooling books - the warming hullabaloo is getting stale now.

  9. Global Cooling Warning on The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 · · Score: 1

    Let me be the first to warn of impending global cooling. The increase of Arctic Ice by 30% in one year and the spotless sun, shows that the whole earth can be covered by ice sheets a mile thick in less than a decade. Everyone should run out and buy large SUVs to be able to negotiate the worsening road conditions for the few years we have left before glaciers destroy everything.

  10. Don't need two sets of books on Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Only one (modified) set of books is required. Cooking the books has probably never been easier considering the widespread use of bookkeeping programs like Quicken, Quickbooks, Simply Accounting, all of which can certainly be cooked without any trace.

  11. Re:My domains start with a on Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks · · Score: 0, Troll

    I haven't encountered a clever hacker yet. All start at 'a' for 'absolutely retarded'.

  12. Re:Damn on Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks · · Score: 1

    Brute force attacks also start at 'a' - always. I have never seen one that starts at the end of the aphabet. So make sure that your user name and password are from opposite ends of the spectrum.

  13. My domains start with a on Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and yes they get tons of spam, about 99.999% of connection attempts are spam, but a couple of RBLs and Spam Assassin takes care of it. If I turn the protection off, then I get about 10,000 spams per hour, which seems to be a limitation of the server. If the server was faster, then it would probably get more spam. With the filters on, I get about 1 message per hour, which is more acceptable. I don't like the idea of RBLs, but I see no other way to handle the problem - if you are a spammer, then I don't want to talk to you - ever. Stupid idiots. It is also interesting that all brute force attacks that I have observed start at 'a'. So the best passwords will start with 'z'.

  14. North Shore on Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you look at the whole area, you'll notice that New Orleans is just a small suburb of a much larger inhabited area. There are cities all around Lake Pontchartrain. The north shore is much higher and safer. In the greater scheme of things, New Orleans is not important and can easily be abandoned to the sea. There is no good reason for anybody to live there and I suspect that the only reason they do, is because the accommodation is cheap. So, yes New Orleans keeps getting the news attention, but it really isn't important and should be abandoned.

  15. Re:Not surprising on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, that is a very old myth. Most routes are static.

  16. Re:Edifying on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 1

    Godel's argument basically says that god is everything - god is the universe and everything in it. I don't agree with that, but if you want to believe that you and I, the planets and stars, are all part of your god - fine - whatever gets you through the night, but I'm happy with the name 'universe' instead of 'god'.

  17. Re:Edifying on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmm, all religious reasoning is circular. It is a kind of proof of religiosity. Of course, it all goes back to Circ, the original Greek religious wizard. Her name also lives on in the Dutch (and Scottish) word 'Kerk' which is Dutch for Church, which also means Circ. So the sad joke is that the very word 'Church' admits to circular reasoning - sigh...

  18. Dead sea confetti... on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    These scrolls are so fragmented, it is more like confetti or corn flakes, than scrolls. However, I wonder whether a computer aided puzzle solver could put them together better. Not that it matters much, the Church has never had a problem with writing new fairy tales. The old ones don't really matter.

  19. Re:Has happened before on Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug · · Score: 1

    Hmm, now if you are able to do all that yourself, why exactly are you paying for a support contract?

  20. PC decrapifyer on Bloatware Removal Threatens PC Industry Profits · · Score: 2, Informative

    So they charge $30 to run PC Decrapifyer? http://pcdecrapifier.com/

  21. Why is he using RH anyway? on Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If he can fix his own problems, then why exactly is he paying RedHat for 'support'? I have filed and fixed numerous bugs in my distro of choice. He should do the same.

  22. Shh, don't tell that to Asus... on SSD Won't Make Sense In Laptops For Two Years · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm afraid they'll want to take my Eee PC back if they hear that.

  23. 25 years isn't long on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    Just put the stuff on a shelf in a library.

  24. The grid is a series of tubes... on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    So the grid is a series of tubes and they are getting full?

  25. He must have been very famous on Ray Bradbury Turns 88 · · Score: 1

    because I have never heard of him and I read lots of science fiction...