Why are we not on VoIP over 3g? Seems like the industry is fighting that. My VoIP connections sound far better than any other connection, land line or cell.

Since your the ISP if your sharing, how do the p2p lawsuits work?

Well you could get a new drive and put the old platters in it. The clicking is a power issue I believe. But I wouldn't RMA it myself. Drives are cheap. Next thing you need to do is start using some form of encryption, if you have financial information and other important docs. Further, you should have a backup scheme that lets you walk away from almost any failure other than your house falling down. Some will say use the offsite consumer storage companies, but I have dealt with many and many of them plain old sucked. If your comfortable with ssh, just get a cheap shell account somewhere that allows backups, avoid the GUI backup terd companies.

Space shifting I believe is illegal since the dmca, therefore by ripping your cd's you did break the law. Prior to the dmca, what you are doing was legal. [quote] the court also rejected space shifting, stating that consumer protection or convenience was not paramount in copyright law, but rather protecting the rights of the copyright holders.[/quote] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shifting There are still some court disagreements however.

We'll level the place. We still can't figure out how some of his projects worked and much of his work was seized after his death, according to the History channel. Might as well level it and trash any chance at learning his knowledge while we're at it. Brilliant man.

We all to some extent have information on the net. Your argument is not special or new. By googling your candidates you are screwing yourself more than your potential candidates. You are showing your weakness as an interviewer by handicapping your judgement with preconceived notions based on how you interpret some ASCII and some picture. Congrats. Would suck to lose a potentially great employee because they went to a party you didn't agree with.

So anyone who has hired is googling their employees? What company do you work for so I can suggest people do not apply? I don't google my people.

State wide bank as far as I know. Always treated myself and company with respect. Glad to hear they have made this decision. Been with them since they started small as Southwest Bank of Texas. If I'm not mistaken, they are the largest independent in Texas.

You mean like Merck? I agree, we can't trust them. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/25/1626200&from=rss

I hope those get funded. In all seriousness, I've thought we have been lagging. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. But then again.

Sorry, should have said it is terrible as a protocol and program.

Tor is far overrated. I'm surprised it has any notoriety. Last time I used it, which was a few months ago for a research project, it was quite easy to set your self up as an exit router and capture clear text information for mail, telnet, ftp, etc. It only protects to the extent of the knowledge of the user (like most systems/programs/features). Frankly if your not encrypted end to end and only using IP addresses I would avoid it completely. The added latency of around 19 seconds for just google.com to load from the word go makes it suck even more, however that is not a Tor issue directly, that is from people loading down the network with p2p traffic. In summary, use only if encrypted end to end and no DNS is utilized, to protect yourself....and order a latte, because your going to be there a while. Don't believe me? Look at some of the research the Uni of Colorado and Washington have done. Mine was based on their great work.

If I dressed up like Quark, could I get my ears rubbed?

I didn't think Bill Maher had a Slashdot account. Sweet.

I'm amazed how many of you actually think this will pass. Makes me question your education level. :)