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  1. No big deal. Foreign spies operate with impunity. on The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted · · Score: 1

    This is why spy agencies co-operate with each other. If the CIA/FBI/NSA/??? want some information and they cannot get it legally, they can always get it from a foreign agency.

  2. I feel a class action lawsuit coming... on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 1

    I hope one of the annoyed readers is a lawyer.

  3. Re:Exploit (FX3.5) on Attacks Against Unpatched Microsoft Bug Multiply · · Score: 1

    Nope, doesn't work: Firefox 3.5 Vulnerability Firefox 3.5 Heap Spray Vulnerabilty Author: SBerry aka Simon Berry-Byrne Thanks to HD Moore for the insight and Metasploit for the payload

  4. English on Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    Of all the programming languages, English will serve you best, followed by Marketing Speak.

  5. Re:No! Don't tell us! on Military's Satellite Meteor Data Sharing May Soon Resume · · Score: 1

    Yup, we sure don't want any incoming enemy meteors to figure out how our detectors work and deploy counter measures.

  6. People change jobs all the time on Developer Stigma After a Bad Or Catastrophic Release? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bad programmers move on to do other things. A guy may suck at programming and be perfectly fine in IT doing maintenance, or in an over priced big box electronics store selling some new electronic pieces of shit.

  7. Window gunk on Researchers Enable Mice To Exhale Fat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh man, imagine all the condensate on the furniture, computer screens and keyboards, windows and the like. Fortunately a typical geek lair doesn't have windows.

  8. All phone systems have back doors for wire taps on Apple To Sell Wi-Fi-less iPhone In China · · Score: 1

    All major phone systems have special back-door capabilities built-in. I used to design and build phone systems for small company. One day we got a visit by a nice man in black and following that, our systems had the standard back doors too. This is not secret at all, it is just not well known amongst the public.

  9. LCDs don't use any desk space. on Small, High-Resolution LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    This guy is using a CRT and he is concerned about desk space??? A 26 inch LCD will use less desk space than his present screen.

  10. Re:Crowdsource it on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    That is an amazing observation.

    The Bible is the world's oldest Wiki. People have been making corrections to it for 1500 years.

  11. IE 6 support for Ajax is bad on Is IE Usage Share Collapsing? · · Score: 1

    IE is bad with Ajax sites for example Citadel email.

  12. Re:Next step on Gaikai Drawing Interest With Low-Key Demo, Believable Claims · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will buy them.

  13. SPAM volume patterns on A Look At Google's Email Spam Prevention · · Score: 2, Informative

    What I find telling is how my SPAM volume rises and falls according to the American holidays. Whenever the Yanks have a holiday, SPAM drops to a trickle.

    That to me is a clear indication that most SPAM originates in the US even though it mostly gets relayed through Asian proxies.

  14. Re:Their costs are your costs. on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, $150 per book is cheap. Where I went to school, text books cost the equivalent of about $500 each. So we made extensive use of 2nd hand book stores and illegal photocopying.

  15. NTFS + External USB disk + MS SyncToy on RAID Trust Issues — Windows Or a Cheap Controller? · · Score: 1

    There are a number of reasons why not to use FAT: 1. Unreliable 2. Doesn't support large files 3. Doesn't support advanced permissions Since you are running Windows, use NTFS, an external USB drive for backup (also NTFS) and the free Microsoft SyncToy to make periodic backups to the external drive.

  16. 2nd Hand book stores on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    2nd hand book stores are common in poorer countries. At the university I attended, most students bought and sold their books at 2nd hand stores. It may be a new concept in the (formerly) rich USA...

  17. Aristotle on The Laptop, Circa 1968 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even Aristotle commented 2300 years ago, about how men and things were always purported to be bigger and better in the distant past. It really seems that geeks must have been much bigger and stronger in 1968.

  18. BING Is Not Google - Brilliant! on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Thank you, you made my day!

  19. Main cause of liver failure on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 1

    Acetaminophen (a.k.a. Paracetamol) is the main cause of liver failure. It should be handled with care and only available by prescription, not over the counter as is currently the case.

  20. Hash tables, caches and time sequences... on Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed · · Score: 1

    I must be getting old, but there are many types of simple table based systems around and they used in things like sendmail, postfix, squid-cache, round robin database, look aside tables, computer instruction caches and so on. This istuff is nothing new. It is a matter of using the right tool for the job without the need to consult an oracle.

  21. Foiled again on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 1

    This plan can be easily foiled with a car tinfoil hat.

  22. Robocopy on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Robocopy is commonly used for this problem. Otherwise Cygwin and rsync.

  23. Who will be incarcerated longest: Madoff of Lenin? on Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years · · Score: 1

    The Russians have kept Lenin incarcerated for one heck of a long time now - Will the Americans outdo them with Bernie Madoff?

  24. Hey this is 2009 already - story is from 2003 on The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    What is this, time travel?

  25. Most of the Apple distribution is Free on The Open Source Design Conundrum · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is only a small part of the Apple Mac software that is non-Free and you could even run Darwin which is Free. The bulk of the software on any Apple Mac is GPL.