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  1. Re:If women are so smart . . . on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 0, Troll

    Try finding room at a shelter if you're a man that's been abused in general, especially so if the abuser is a woman

    Woman on man abuse is extremely rare.

    Or having to wait in line after the women have had their shot at the local homeless shelter

    Those shelters are for women with children. Quit trying to cut the line in front of children.

    Good luck getting the police to protect you from an abusive woman.

    In either case, all they do is file a report and tell you to get a restraining order. It's the same procedure for both sexes.

    Or how mysteriously 1/5 of boys being sexually abused is conveniently rounded to virtually nothing when 1/3 of girls being molested is rounded up to most. Here's a hint those numbers are probably almost identical, women just don't admit that that happens to men as well.

    I guess you don't watch daytime talk shows.

    Men are subject to conscription when there's a draft, women aren't.

    And who will take care of the children left behind? Can you breast feed babies?

    Men don't get any say in how a pregnancy turns out, but are still required to pay up in full, even in cases where the woman intentionally got herself pregnant

    Men get a say where they stick their dick.

    Blaming men for things like female insecurity over looks, is just bigoted, that's not something that has anything at all to do with men, that's something that women do to each other.

    I suppose men have nothing to do with the porn industry.. do they?

    The bias isn't going to go away until, women as a group decide to grow up and take responsibility for the crap they do to men.

    You are a blistering idiot. And, probably a drooling pussy of a man who's socially incapable of having any sort of normal relationship with women.

  2. Re:this is brave on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    Who's talking about US highways?

    I am talking about US highways because that is where my driving experience is.

  3. Re:this is brave on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that lane is not for fast traffic, it is for passing. if someone wishes to pass YOU, they must do it in the left lane, therefore YOU'D better move over when you can and let them go.

    Your point does not hold for every case or scenario. Although an acceptable rule, it's not a hard and fast rule because there are many left side off-ramps on US highways. Not as many as right side, but they exist and I happen to drive by them 5 days a week. If someone is driving in the left lane intending to turn off the left exit ramp, they will not nor should not be expected to move over for you to pass.

    Also, your point does not hold during bumper to bumper rush hour traffic, which is fairly common. I hope you're not the type who whams on the horn during that case. It'd be like blasting the horn at the car ahead who's blocked by a big truck. Nothing anyone can do.

  4. Re:I haven't had great luck with CFLs on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    Well, when the package claims it'll last 10+ years.. you tend not to save the receipts. (I bought a bunch in one go).

  5. I haven't had great luck with CFLs on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    At my old house they burned out a lot on me. Back then they were $5 a pop and it was rather irritating replacing the same bulb 3 times in a row during a several month period.

  6. Re:look at the growth of disk space for $100 on EU ACTA Doc Shows Plans For Global DMCA, 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    Nobody was making a statement about the format of video that will be in use.

    Odd reply.

    In fact, I said, "...it will be more than enough to hold more media of whatever format will be in use in 2025 than a person could reasonably consume in their lifetime."

    Odd again considering you pasted back the exact line I was responding to.

  7. Re:Big Plus! on G-WAN, Another Free Web Server · · Score: 1

    So you won that argument by appealing to the ignorance of your managers. Great job.

    You said the PHP, Drupal, and Joomla codebases are poor. How do you know? What are you basing that on? I have to presume you've never looked at or used those packages because you failed to provide any detailed insight as to why they are poor from a technical standpoint. All that you mentioned was change logs, so that must be what you're basing your opinion on.

    An active change log means the project is being maintained, which is a good thing because the last thing you want to support is a production website based on a framework with little or no updates. The length of the change log has no indication on the severity of the bugs. Sometimes you will see very large bug counts after housekeeping sprints, but low bug counts after fixing the critical security bugs. Sometimes an entry will roll-up several bugs, sometimes there are no bugs but consist of general software improvements. You can't use change log size as a heuristic relating to code quality. You generate that metric by scoring and tallying the individual bugs (discounting the general enhancements) and factoring in the size of the codebase. That requires stringent analysis and I guarantee you've not done that.

    It seems your responders have been ripping you a new one and I have to say that I agree with them. You're arrogant and critical, yet you apparently misunderstood how normal software development works. There is nothing wrong with being critical, but when you criticize something or someone you're expected to support your argument and provide an alternative (particularly if the targets are high profile), but you didn't--during your meeting or in your post here.

    I suspect your motivation was more about posturing and scoring points with your managers by shutting someone down at a meeting. I've worked with those exhibiting that personality type before, and I'll say they are quite unpleasant to work with. They tend to slow things down by throwing out road blocks without providing support. It's just too bad the contractor didn't have the debating skills to counter your unsupported points because it was very easy to do so.

  8. Re:look at the growth of disk space for $100 on EU ACTA Doc Shows Plans For Global DMCA, 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    I think the data storage will still be consumed. In the future home movies will be in full wraparound 3d with much higher resolution to support zooming in on details.

  9. Re:Big Plus! on G-WAN, Another Free Web Server · · Score: 1

    I've deployed hand written C web servers, not as an Apache plugin, but as a standalone server so I've seen what kind of performance you can get by cutting out all the bloat you don't need. For example, you can get a huge CPU boost by not fully parsing the headers and picking out only what you need. The server was difficult to debug at times (valgrind helped) but in the end it worked out pretty well because the needs at the time required a centralized solution. We were able to run a fairly high volume website on a single multi-core box. That's unheard of in enterprise level dev shops.

    It worked because the architecture was centralized and the software deployments were super simple. When the requirements need an decentralized architecture that scales with IO or scales to astronomical numbers, it becomes impossible to make that work. It's been my experience that IO is generally the problem, not CPU. There are physical limitations with scaling IO on a single node so you're forced to go with a fleet of nodes. Maintaining C/C++ business code on a fleet is a LOT more difficult than doing the same with platform independent languages.

    Part of the problem is that a C/C++ server is interacting directly with the OS and its libraries so dealing with the slight differences that always come up gets to be a huge time drain. It's a lot easier to develop, test, and deploy with a scripting language. Regardless of the underlying kernel and libraries, you can be reasonably assured your script will "just work" when the kernel and libraries vary. Also, C really is harder to get right the first time. Having built in memory management is a huge time saver because "sloppy but correct" code won't cause downtime. Be sloppy in C, and the website goes down hard.

  10. Re:Well on New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    or life really transports across space

    Humans are generally considered a form of advanced life and we've transported ourselves and microbes across space. The thing I don't understand is why it's such a wild and crazy concept to consider the possibility of advanced life traversing space from Mars to Earth millions or billions of years ago.

    Either way is much more compelling arguments for the habitable zone actually being habitable than a theoretical zone based on temperature.

    If it isn't already, the habitable zone should be stratified into layers indicating habitable for humans down to microbes. Some people are only interested in discussing habitable for humans while others think more expansively. Thinking in layers would clear up any confusion.

    I propose using alphabetical labels. An "A" class for single cell organisms, "M" class for humans, "Z" class for .. hmm.. not sure yet.. maybe beings requiring hot conditions under high pressure.

  11. Re:The original article? on CIA Manual Thought Lost In 1973 Available On Amazon · · Score: 1

    You have to click through on the image to get the answer to that. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/CIA_illusion/

  12. Re:Amazon Prime on Wal-Mart, Amazon Battle For Online Retail's Future · · Score: 1

    That's a guaranteed money-loser for them

    Not likely. Mail and package carriers discount on bulk shipping and large, heavy, expensive items are a small percentage of the total order volume. Most of the volume is with the cheap lightweight stuff: books, dvds, computer games, clothing, etc so the average will skew toward the lighter end. Plus not every customer will consume $80 worth in shipping. Even if you personally consume $300+ in shipping, there will be many others who consume far below $80. It operates similar to insurance--averaging the cost over a large population.

    Also, there would have been a lot of research and market testing. No cost conscious company would roll that out without first being confident in the cost projections.

  13. Reservations? on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1
    You will want your laptop to make reservations over the net... unless you enjoy paying double. Other reasons to bring the laptop:
    • Search for info on things to do: clubs, museums, restaurants, reviews...
    • Checkout where you're going with google maps, street view, photos, etc.
    • Hookup with local yocals (assuming you're single)
    • Internet phone
    • Keep your family updated with your doings in a foreign country
    • Pre-check-in on your flight, making changes
    • Handling stolen wallet/credit card/passport/cell scenario
    • Easier to use than a crackberry-iphone

    Also, I would not bring my personal or work laptop in case it gets stolen. I would pickup a $300 netbook because it's easier to carry and there's little impact if it's stolen. A new machine will have much less of your personal info on it.

  14. Re:History on New Microsoft Silverlight Features Have Windows Bias · · Score: 1

    XHTML? dude... welcome to 2000. Try HTML 5.

    You smack of cluelessness. People who do actual work, do so in the real world--not in your fantasy land that ignores IE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML5)

  15. Re:Easy solution on Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come · · Score: 1

    I'm having difficulty deciding whether you're an idiot or a jackass.

  16. Re:Easy solution on Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come · · Score: 1

    Jeeese. It spoils it if I have to dumb it down. Plane + wacky terrorist = ICBM

    der

  17. Re:Who gives a rip? on Second Life To Remove Free Content From Web Search · · Score: 1

    Maybe none of your friends are fat people with addictive personalities. Fat people are big Second Life fans. They can create a thin and sexy avatar for socializing as if they were thin and sexy while munching on burgers pecking away at their keyboard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01OSKJwXuDM&feature=related

  18. Re:Easy solution on Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Call me when they have a reliable ICBM

    What's your number? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Story.crash.sequence.jpg

  19. Art Bell - Coast to Coast on Patent Issued For Podcasting · · Score: 1

    Art Bell was podcasting in 1998. Even by then there were several years of archives so the starting date was probably closer to 1995. http://archive.coasttocoastam.com/gen/podcast.html

  20. Re:Not sure on Patent Issued For Podcasting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Recorded vs live. CD vs radio. Finite file vs infinite stream. Podcast vs shoutcast.

  21. Re:Cheaper = Worse? on Netbooks Have Higher Failure Rate Than Laptops · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe it's because Netbook motherboards have holes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MSI_Wind_MB1.jpg

  22. Re:lol @ 'finally standing up' on Xbox Live Class Action Being Investigated · · Score: 1

    Chairs are expensive, eh?

    Aeron's are, yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeron_chair

  23. Re:*First post.. on Public School Teachers Selling Lesson Plans Online · · Score: 1

    How about this... go fuck yourself. Fuck twit.

  24. Re:Hmm... on New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests · · Score: 0

    What, the same movie where people get printouts of their DNA and it covers a few pages, not several crates of phonebooks? Yes, ultra-realistic, wasn't it? Perhaps

    All you'd need is the deltas from the common baseline, which is a fraction of a percent of the whole.

  25. Re:*First post.. on Public School Teachers Selling Lesson Plans Online · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If teachers were paid on performance, they'd be earning zero per year. But hey, if you think they should be earning $100k/year for 9 months of work while your kid learns nothing, then you pay for it. I certainly won't.