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Comment Re:Compatibility (Score 2, Funny) 492

  • If we're not coming up with something new and innovative we're stuck making outlook clones. People don't like writing software like that.

What are you talking about?? Writing clones of commercial software is the prime directive of open source! I'm going to go out on a limb and say that actually there are quite a lot of people who like nothing more than doing exactly that.

Communications

Expectation of Privacy Extended to Email 161

An anonymous reader writes "In a 6th circuit court decision [PDF] today 4th amendment expectation of privacy rights were extended to email. 'The ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio upholds a lower court ruling that placed a temporary injunction on e-mail searches in a fraud investigation against Steven Warshak, who runs a supplements company best known for a male enhancement product called Enzyte. Warshak hawks Enzyte using "Smiling Bob" ads that have gained some notoriety.'"
Security

Journal Journal: Unwanted Program?

My employer is doing me a favor. They are keeping me from doing my job. All in the name of computer "security."

They've installed McAfee Virus Scan and ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). Both good ideas, in theory. Ya don't want virii getting into those corporate computers and ePO lets them enforce a consistent policy across all of the computers. Then they lockout the end user from changing the Virus Scan settings.

Television

Journal Journal: The blind leading the....

Accessibility isn't one of "my" issues in television or computing. Where it is convenient, I do my part to help things out. I'll admit I don't go out of my way, but I don't do things that will hinder accessibility. Certainly, at work I do my part to help with closed captioning and video description.

Microsoft

Journal Journal: That New Math?

C:\>ping -t XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

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Ping statistics for XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:
Packets: Sent = 25, Received = 18, Lost = 7 (28% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 100ms, Maximum = 121ms, Average = 76ms

Ummm. Am I missing something here?

Spam

Journal Journal: As Bad as the UBE

Everybody these days seems to be adding X-headers to their messages when the process it checking for spam. Even SourceForge does it for the listservs it handles.

Sometimes the headers duplicates most or even all of the message.

Sometimes the headers are longer than the message.

I thought the point of spam filtering was supposed to be to reduce bandwidth and reduce the junk a person has to read?

Games

Journal Journal: I'm Irked

I guess it's really my own fault. I didn't read. And I know I should do that.

Acutally, it all started because I wanted to read. I checked out Learning Java from my local public library. Unfortunately, I got it on inter-library loan and that meant it was non-renewable. I doubt I could learn a programming language in two months, let alone in 28 short days.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Ban the SUV

Sport Utility Vehicles have been bothering me for a while. The recent car related /. polls reminded me that I should start my Ban the SUV campaign.

It's not like I'm an environmental nut. I don't hug trees. I bathe. I don't have 12 vDC running to power appliances so I can eliminate unnecessary draw from wall warts. I just don't like SUVs.

User Journal

Journal Journal: I need a vent

I need to vent, so what better time for my first /. journal entry?

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