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  1. Re:Online free curriculum? on Let Them Eat Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    Or you can translate it an other way.
    (i) How to communicate effectively - You actually know a lot about stuff let people know that too so they can make an informed decision. Pissing someone off while may make you feel happy in the short term, it rarely ever gets you way.
    (ii) Socializing Skills - If they are willing to help you out when you need it that actually sounds like good friends.
    (iii) A sense of pride in your work. Which allows you to focus harder on your work and get better results.

  2. Lisa! on The Challenges of Tapping Blood Flow For Power · · Score: 1

    In this house we obay the laws of thermal dynamics.

    The energy used to power the pacemaker will either cause the heart to pump harder or reduce the flow of blod.

  3. Re:As seen in another Slashdot sig... on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not really,
    Linux key strength over windows isn't stability or security. It is the fact that it is hugely customizable and great for making pre-packaged virtual machines that do one or two things and does them well. For the most part the office could be nearly all Microsoft and its administration staff are windows administrators and they treat that random Linux VM as just as an other application. Vs. the inverse of having to deal with a Linux system and each windows VM as its own OS that needs administration. Because Windows isn't customizable to an appliance as well as Linux can be.

  4. Re:does anybody really use hyper-V? on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well that is the answer to his question. Windows is actually quite stable now, on par with Linux. Especially if you set it up correctly so the Hyper-V system is the only thing running on the Master and use the other Virtual OS's as the systems that can bomb.

  5. Facts and References and Facts on Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In order for this to work. We will need all the facts who said what and when. Every data point of some statistics, what questions were asked and where. There are a lot of truths out there you can come up with many of them with some correct questions as many people are actually complex individuals you can bring up a lot of truths out there that arn't necessary true.
    Lets use Abortion as an example I hear from both sides and they say they are in the majority.
    Now the Anti-Abortion people will direct questions that will focus more on Late-Term abortions, and giving stereotypes of undesirable people getting them.
    Now the Pro-Abortion people will direct questions that will focus more on Birth Control and giving stereotypes of the poor woman who lost everything and wasn't her fault.

    Now most people are rather complex on the topic, A lot of them are against abortions with exceptions or For Abortions with exceptions. Most people agree when it is a medical necessity (The actual reason for the Row vs. Way) that abortion are necessary. As well most people agree that abortion as a form of birth control is a wasteful and unethical (although on different levels)

    This Fact Agency would be powerless to prevent this type of stuff from going on. As each side is reporting on factual results, however the nature of the facts gather are one sided.

  6. Re:Kudos to Japan on Japan Says No To PlayStation Network Restart · · Score: 1

    What is with the link between profit and slavery issue. When ever someone has a political stance that government interaction on the average will have more of a negative impact then a positive one they bring up this lame 150 year old slavery debate as "Proof" the their idea is wrong.
    Extremes on either side is bad and Evil will occur. If you want to twist your logic around the reason for slavery success was because government supported it and enforced slavery laws. I can see if there were no slavery laws for or against, that slavery wouldn't be an issue as the people if they felt they were treated unjust they will just walk away. As the government would enforce capture and return any runaway slaves.

    That said, I would like to agree with the rest of your comment, however there is an old saying "You can't please all of the people all of the time" A business cannot run selling a product for less then the market price and paying their employees above their market price. Also the cost to be 100% sure is often astronomical while 99.9% sure is affordable. These choices are not not of Evil, but trying to obtain the right balance.

  7. Re:they should force them to readd other os! on Japan Says No To PlayStation Network Restart · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yea right, If anything that probably has strengthen Sony's resolve to keep "Other OS" out. Not that I support Sony having removed the option. But if you make a choice to do something then you get a bunch of criminals pretending to be activists attack you from the choice. It is a strong message that that feature was used by the wrong sort of people, who they will be better off in the future not come back.
    If they were true Hactivists they would have hacked their playstations to support the feature once again and posted how to to it to the public.
    The latter is Civil disobedience. The first is just criminal.

  8. Re:beer cap? on Newly-Discovered Arm of Milky Way Gives Warped Structure · · Score: 1

    It may be a large cap. But the container could be shallow asymptotic approaching 0. So in theory it may not be much more then a normal bottle.

  9. Re:What was the series... on Translator Puts Us Closer To Dolphin Communication · · Score: 1

    Because the talking dolphin idea was one of those obvious gimmicks to make the show appeal to a larger audience you combined that with him being friends with the local kid genius. Having random kids and/or talking animals in plots where they are supposed to be in danger is quite stupid but they do it for ratings. As for the most part the adults will just ignore them and the kids would like them.
     

  10. Re:Business 101 on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    You can get greeting cards with more power then those computers. Don't blame apple, Blame the other manufactures for not making a product that can compete with Apple.

  11. Re:Business 101 on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    Well if you are doing ebooks you could have used Amazons kindle. Then just use the Kindle App for iPhone/iPad. Never bet on a platform. Bet on the more open solution.

  12. ALL DATA on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    Any data can be used good or bad. For example for good it could be used so we pay more during peak time and less for off hours. This would normally be good for home users as most people are out to work during peak times thus are paying less. Also a lot of this data is not really too useful, as it doesn't prove anything. Do you take a shower at 6:00 or is your thermostat on a timer and you heat rises at 6:00 so when you wake up at 7:00 your house is warm and toasty.

  13. Photoshoped on NASA Satellite Snaps First Image of Target Asteroid · · Score: 1

    This is obviously Photoshop. I mean if it were real we should see a 5% whiter pixel in the top left.

  14. Re:"Creative" on Is Process Killing the Software Industry? · · Score: 1

    Over the past 10 years I realized something about software. While it hasn't been too much innovative it has gotten a lot more stable and secure. I think most of us has forgotten the hazards of computing during the 80's and 90's. Perhaps we need to enter an era that we need to innovate more again, but it will come at a cost of stability.

  15. Re:Racism on NASA Banned From Working With China · · Score: 2

    Well this is institutionalize racism not individual racism.
    Why is it as a culture we accept immigrants from Europe much more favorably then from China or India?
    I have seen commercials where they say in pride they they got some guy from Europe to work on this.
    While if they are from China or India, they give them americanized names and make sure their accent is a clean as possible, as well as people debating if we should let these people immigration or not.
    Done fool yourself racism is still here. It has changed but it is still there.

  16. Then in 25 years. on World's Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year · · Score: 1

    We can carry that much information in our cellphones. We go back in history see this article and laugh at their puny attempt to impress our future selfs on the amount of data we once processed.
    I remember back in the late 80's people were talking about the amount of data that can be stored on 3.5" Floppy. And was impressed they could fit the text of an encyclopedia onto it.

  17. Re:I WANT IT!!! on Worldwide Night Sky Stitched Together In 5 Gigapixel Image · · Score: 1

    "MAN!

    I am Zaphod BEEBLEBROX!"

    The resolution wasn't high enough, Unless you are in some artificial universe designed for you as to capture some ship you stolen. Well my I am feeling a little down and I need new Shoes.

  18. Re:It was only a matter of time on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    But both ideas a key to attract undesirable people (Which is different then saying all the people who have these ideas are bad)
    Bad people like the idea of no rules or laws, why because it make it easier for them to continue to be bad without any consequences, this idea can't last long as the strongest people will join together to control the weaker threw force and start to punish the people who break their laws. Then as time increases their laws will become more controlled and we are back to where we are now.
    Bad People also like the no privileged class idea as they can start out on equal footing as the rest, they can use their Bad methods to get a quick heads up on everyone else then they will form a privileged class.

    Human beings are social animals and laws and rules normally help them cope with living together.

  19. Re:Translation on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    I think the translations is. Cable Companies supply the ISP for most of our viewers with more then adequate speed. Meaning if we compete too much with the cable companies they will go out of business and thus loose the infrastructure they need to operate. And with Net Neutrality laws it may cause some additional fight back from the cable companies. Netflix is probably right in their statement just showing the older stuff and keeping new releases and this season shows is a good deal, as those are the cable companies big money makers, While the reruns are just there to fill space.

  20. Re:How is this possible? on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    You are under the false assumption that hackers are smart. Most of them are just smart enough to find some good keywords and search them on Google or wherever and download the tool and do the hack. They often have very little idea on how they are hacking in, just that they are and they are a "Big Man" because of it. The danger from hackers is that they are so many of them, most of them failing until you got one who got in then they share the info with the rest then they all break in.

  21. Re:It was only a matter of time on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    Absolute Freedom is great until someone uses their Absolute freedom to hurt you. When you join an organization there is a false idea that everyone has exactly the same goals in mind or all want the same thing with the same priorities. Criminal Organizations no matter what their original intent is, attracts a lot of the less then honorable people. And shortly there is problems.

  22. I declare the browser war to be OVER on In Indonesia, a Winner For Now In the Browser Wars · · Score: 0

    Under the authority of myself, I declare the browser war to be over and the victor is No one!
    The Great Netscape vs. IE of the Late 90's was was a completely different dynamic then it is today.
    It was the case the both browsers were trying to push their version of the standards. CSS vs. Layers JavaScript vs. VBScript. Java Applets vs. Flash vs. ActiveX. To the victor the rights to use their technology to the looser having to pay license fees and 2 to 3 months of extra development which could have been put towards improving the product. For the most part IE won the first browser war but not without concessions. JavaScript and Flash and a bunch of open standards survived. ActiveX technology was a failure, as it predictably was a huge security problem, and shortly relegated to corporate intranets as just an easier way to deploy you VB applications.
    As Microsoft was the declared winner by the release of IE 5. They pushed out IE 6 to keep IE and windows in sync. Then it lingered without much competition to too long. Becoming a sap for Mal-Ware partially due to the fact that there were some poor design decisions and partially just because it has been out for so long that crackers have found many many holes to use, and its wide usage makes it an easy target.
    So after a bunch of failed attempts on the Netscape/Mozilla side. (Netscape 6, Mozilla...) a group decided to make a lightweight browser, except for the heavy all purpose one, Firefox. Being small light and fast, made it easy to put on those new fangled USB drives and installed in no time on a lot of computers. Combined the timing matched when Windows XP with IE 6 are being heavily crippled with malware, Firefox was a savior. Thus its rebirth (of the "Netscape" Browser)
    As Firefox grew it reached a point where Web Developers needed to make sure their code was compatible and they found out that Firefox suppored the standards much better then IE did. So Firefox shortly became much more of a joy to code for, and IE became their bane. But that allowed more Standard Complacent pages to come up, with opened the door for other browsers, Like Safari where Apple took and modified Konquers code. then Google Chrome, and Opera even made their product as a free (as in cost) download. Now Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome really stopped competing with IE 6 (as it was so out of date that it wasn't worth it) and competing amongst them selfs to see who is faster then the other and who supports the standards the best.
    IE 7 came out but it was tied to the stench of Vista, IE 8 as well, Although still the largest in market share it has been loosing a lot of ground to the others. Now Microsoft released IE 9 which supports open standards and runs rather quickly.
    So the war has been over we are now in an area of increasing competition and improvements. Browsers are no longer fighting for the rights to push their standards they are all going trying to push the best use of the open standards and better performance, and this is a good thing

  23. Re:Lower Taxes & Cut Regulations. Poison the E on White House Explains Transport-Energy Future · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey don't let facts get in the way of a good liberal rant. If you backup their claims with facts they will look dumb and uneducated. Thus hurt their primary claim that I am liberal because I am smarter then the conservatives.

    if you didn't like this post try parsing it like this (I am a bit out of practice on my regular expressions).
    s/liberal/OTHERGUY/g
    s/conservatives/liberal/g
    s/OTHERGUY/conservatives/g

  24. Re:winter? summer? on Signs of Dark Matter From Minnesota Mine · · Score: 1

    Dag Nabbit I had to wash the Boes-Eisenstein condensate off my car again.

  25. Re:winter? summer? on Signs of Dark Matter From Minnesota Mine · · Score: 1

    And what seasons do you have there.

    Most of the populated area just has summer year around.
    Or if you are at the south pole you have a full year of winter.

    For the rest of us who live in the correct Hemisphere (North) we have areas with seasons. Where when we say winter we mean it. and not just a cool summer day.