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  1. so what's the license? on MS Releases Open Source Alternative To BigTable · · Score: 2

    is it mentioned anywhere? I can't find it.

  2. train station parking fees? on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    you're doing it wrong

  3. it's only "startling" on Al-Qaeda Used Basic Codes, Calling Cards, Hotmail · · Score: 1

    if you think movies and tv shows like "24" are real life. grow up.

  4. No. on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's not name a possible pandemic after some local celebrity of yours. It was funny (to you) when it was some NASA space station, but really, nobody knows (nor cares) who Colbert is ouside of US and Canada.

  5. Re:True story on Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss · · Score: 1

    I don't get it.. how did they even find out that the value gets replaced? don't you just do "hash[key]" and the value "magically" reappears again? why would they even go into the debugger after that?

  6. you could make that argument on The Circus Widens In Aftermath of Pirate Bay Verdict · · Score: 1

    If a judge is a member of a group that is against murder (for example the catholic church), he can still preside over a murder case. Of course on a murder case you have a dead person, and the person who is suspected of the killing is put on trial, and not the maker of the knife used for the murder.

  7. Re:It's were we learned how the internet works. on Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities · · Score: 1

    that's probably after my time, I never saw any templates or ads covering anything. maybe after yahoo bought them? in any case, get off my lawn :p

    the RFCs where there, but my point is that, no being in college, I didn't have access to any server to try any of that technology, until services like geocities started showing up.

  8. It's were we learned how the internet works. on Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who cares about the ugly designs? They were "ugly" because people actually had the freedom to upload whatever they wanted, and who goes to the internet to watch "pretty" things anyway, especially 15 years ago, when you couldn't find 2 browsers that would show a page the same way?

    For the younger generation (I was 13), who hadn't been to college, we only had a dial-up connection and no way to know about ftp, gopher, usenet, etc; geocities gave us a way to experiment and learn how the internet worked.

    Today everything is trapped inside something else (facebook, myspace, blogging platforms, news sites), does anyone understand what happens with their data after they publish it? where does it go, where does it come from when it shows up on their browser?

  9. Re:The Neighborhoods on Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities · · Score: 1

    Paris/1830
    pretty nice addres, just a place to dump my ms-notepad authored crap (not that my html was bad; it was great, but the content was just crap).. I remember discovering how to hotlink images, javascript, on-line bookmarks..

    I wonder if they relocated those pages when the dropped the "neighborhood" structure.. those files might still live somewhere.

  10. yeah, those lucky bastards at nintendo on Piracy and the PSP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    with their nintendo DS wich is absolutely undefeated in terms of piracy.

  11. yes, tennis is fascinating on Hands-on With the Wii MotionPlus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so is bowling and golf. Where's my lightsaber?

  12. quick, to the xerox machines! on A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama? · · Score: 1

    wow, "convene an international Board of Advisers", that is some proactive thinking. Are you sure you don't want to form a comitee to consider this first? maybe draft some resolutions? that sounds like such decisive action!

  13. Re:"outing" a student? on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    wouldn't it be easier to argue that there's nothing wrong with being gay, so "Libel and Slander" doesn't apply?

  14. "outing" a student? on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    since when is it illegal to call someone gay?

  15. what EULA? on Chrome EULA Reserves the Right To Filter Your Web · · Score: 1

    isn't Chrome open source? just get a build from someone else if you don't like their EULA.

  16. No big deal on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Just reverse the polarity of the plasma manifolds and re-route power from the shields relay, and it should hold up fine. It's so easy a vulcan child could do it.

  17. Uh.. we do on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    In my experience, academics are the only ones that still need to understand this. Most "real programmers" learn everything from english books, but a lot of kids coming out of public universities here use all kinds of weird spanish translations that nobody understand for technical terms. They learn quickly tho, once they go into the "real world".

    English is pretty easy to learn, lots of short words.. That's why the whole outsourcing craze wasn't that surprising for most of the world.. we can buy the same cheap computers, and we can learn from the same books.

  18. Re:35 is too old on With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35? · · Score: 1

    I didn't say "management". Managers are also hired by someone, and are pretty much somebody's lapdog. I mean more of a supervisor role, but doing "real work".

  19. 35 is too old on With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35? · · Score: 0, Troll

    35 is too old to be asking for a job. Whatever you do, don't worry about who will hire you, star worrying about who will YOU hire, because that's what you're supposed to be at 35. What kind of qualifications do they have?

  20. Re:So on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 1

    those are some fancy acronyms, but if the australian govenment was already on to them and they stayed up, I don't see how any of those other agencies could do any better. they probably already share information anyway.

  21. So on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    any good child-porn links?

  22. an API designed by a congressional comittee? on Congress Mulls API For Congressional Data · · Score: 1

    will they use Perl?

  23. Re:GCC compatibility on High Performance Linux Kernel Project — LinuxDNA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why don't they improve GCC to have a 8-9 to 40% performance gain? it's not like intel has some kind of secret magical piece of code that lets them have a better compiler.

  24. does this thing even compile yet? on The Future of Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    last time I checked, it was a long way from even building properly.

  25. Solution: Grow up on On Game Developers and Legitimacy · · Score: 1

    and stop looking at other people to validate you.