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  1. Re:good article on the reasons behind this on All Solid State Drives Suffer Performance Drop-off · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And it already hit slashdot. I was about to post this link.

  2. Re:One Resource on Classic Books of Science? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check these and a whole lot of other Arab scientist treaties. They are truly ahead of their time (as kept by western civilization of science advcance, and pearls of an age where the Muslins were the scientific lead.

    Ibn al-Haytham's - Book of Optics

    Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi - The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing

    Disclamer: I'm not Muslim but I do think we need to give due credit where credit is due

  3. Re:two ways to solve the tax "scam" on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a third way.

    Do both

  4. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Replace 'African-American' with 'poor' and you've a much clearer metric.

    Which although it is true, do not mind when the PC-corp comes knocking calling you a hater.

  5. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    I used to work in a public hospital here in Brazil (the fiftieths biggest in the country). Coding the software that dealt with the selection exams and dealing with the new hires.

    There are 2 types of professional we hired the Nursing Technicians (second grade level with specialized course), and the Nurse (college-level). ON the last exam while I was there, we had 3000 prospects taking the exam. It was an easy group of 40 questions, with the "hardest" math question been how to calculate the correct amount of medicine to give a patient.

    With my high-school knowledge of chem and bio, I scored 35. But only 63 got passing grades. With most of them zeroing the math part of text. And when I was together with the ones that passed, I decided not to send my kids to that place.

  6. Re:Serves the same function as Fairy Tales on FEMA Removes 9/11 Coloring Book For Children From Website · · Score: 1

    We're so fucked when the response is to just shelter kids from everything. Shelter them from nothing. Expose them carefully and they will learn.

    That is called parenting, teaching personal responsibility and caring for your kid. And that's completely out of fashion, sorry. Try maybe Next Autumn

  7. Re:Observe and learn on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 1

    He only banned federal level funding for it. The States and the private sector were free to do as they pleased.

    Which given the amount of funding an university needs to try this type of research, basically equals to project termination.

  8. Re:Risky move on Ford Bets On Social Media For Fiesta · · Score: 1

    But if the marketing drones an GM or Chrysler can actually locate these blogger cars and sabotage them, then Ford is going to have a Public Relations nightmare on their hands.

    Wait, you are saying that if their rivals business need to sabotage their cars that is a problem?

    New Ford Campaign: New Ford Fiesta, so good the competition had to sabotage it to make it fail.

  9. Hmmmm The Secret Anyone? on Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking · · Score: 1

    Or even, "What the Bleep do we know?". Since when does pseudo-science gets on a peer-review journal?

    Oh yes, Cold Fusion. sorry, carry on.

  10. Re:What is up with the extreme locations? on James Bond Villain Data Center · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't cheaper to just build a building than to refurbish some of these locations?

    Since we have seen a lot of this refurbished locations, a smart guess would say 'no'.

  11. Re:C API yet? on Android 1.5 SDK Is Released · · Score: 1

    If they wanted sandbox they should have coded it in LUA.

  12. What Will Canonical do? on Microsoft Won't Vouch For Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So a company is giving training on their platform, and this is wrong how? Specially, if I understood correctly, it will be "free" (as in, neither the state nor you will pay with money for it, and not the "but they will be brainwashing the masses" type of cost)

    What about Canonical try to partner with a state to offer training vouchers statewide and train people on the ways of Linux? That would be sweet, and awesome. Only think would be try to get Linux users with teaching skills for the non-technical. After all, your public wouldn't be grad students.

  13. Quality? What's that? on Google Losing Up To $1.65M a Day On YouTube · · Score: 1

    "Researchers from HP Palo Alto studied videos uploaded to YouTube and found that popularity has little to do with quality or persistence

    No shit sherlock. What next? Water is wet? Come one, anyone who know even just a tiny of pop culture knows that is not about quality, it has never been. Come one, hasn't this people been to school? From childhood we are taught that "quality" and "knowledge" are to be shunned, and "cools", "looks" and dumb acts should be praised.

  14. A Salute to You on D&D Co-Creator Dave Arneson Dies of Cancer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rest in Peace, and get yourself a good rest. You earn it very well. If you find an Archons though, give them a swiftly kick on the butt for us.

    To the family and friends. He did good in his life. And has a name plate on the history of RPG. I mourn the pass of the creators of my main hobby for the last 15 years.

    Now, where did I leave that Blackmoore set?

  15. Re:Seriously? on Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers · · Score: 1

    The same way the government is the pimp for us all. You make money you got to pay your taxes.

  16. Re:What a great thing. on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably yes, and still don't matter. You were the invading force. Searching for WMD that didn't exist. Or you really believe you were invading Iraq to give them freedom? And if that is the truth, why hasn't America invaded Sudan, North Korea, Israel, and any other very violent regiments?

  17. Re:What a great thing. on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like how "defending your country from a foreign invading army" suddenly becomes "insurgents that needs some killing".

    War sometimes is a necessity, invasion, hardly.

  18. Re:other potential things on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points to mod you informative.

  19. Re:I smell a huge lawsuit on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    Bloody hell, I need to get my proof-reading skills in better shape, so many spelling mistakes again.

  20. Re:I smell a huge lawsuit on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not sure I do either... I'm going to guess "rogue employee playing April 1st joke". The company would have to be pretty damn retarded to actually go through the normal decision channels and approve this.

    I'm going with the "April's Fool" not followed to the end. Someone at IT screwed it up and forgot to route the transactions with that money to an "Ah-ha page". Someone at finance forgot to put safe places to flag really strange movements. And someone at marketing screwed it up thinking about this.

  21. Re:First of all... on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now, when you have a brokerage account and are trading stocks, you should know what you are doing and be responsible for your actions. So, when you see several million in you account, you should know as much to not start investing them.

    Unless of course you see the date, think that it is a joke and start bidding with it to go along with the prank. If you go with the company "it was a mistake, sorry.", you can't blame the costumers for going along and pretend they had that money.

  22. I smell a huge lawsuit on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let me see if I get this straight (understanding that the summary has a typo and should read they shouldn't have on the second statement. Or, and this is the link to the consumerist story.

    You log in your account and find a huge sum of money in their. Or, I hit the jackpot you think. Now you go and start using it for trade. TFA is a bit lightly on the details, but looks like this trades were go, meaning basically, market fraud. Not, to add some salt on all this, they go out to reverse the money, sell the stocks people bought at a loss, charge than the loss and ask for a commission??? I see lawsuits coming from so many points it gets ridicule.

    From the consumerist post: "west: ummmm, this is ridiculous. so i thought it was an april fools joke, put in an order for SKF, and it went through then Zecco just sold it â"-- more than likely making me take the loss please let me know if any of you experienced this! lol....and they charged me $19.99 for commission". So basically they did an April's fool joke, it went wrong, and they are trying to make people pay for their mistake.

    Impressive. They do get credits because you need a lot of balls to joke with the market after all it went through recently. And no, I don't buy the "honest mistake" line.

  23. Re:It can be taken down much faster now. on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your Internet maybe, not mine. At least, not because of that.

  24. Re:I just hope on Achievements and Optimizations · · Score: 1

    Can't you get Firefox Portable? I use it at my company since the TI here DON'T WANT to move away from IE6, since it is the "only one that works" (their words...). I got Firefox Portable and sent to me through email, unzip on My documents and there you go.

  25. Re:He should have seen that coming. on Columnist Fired For Reviewing Pirated Movie · · Score: 2

    As once said on Fairly Oddparents:

    Chester: Something newsworthy is happening with Timmy, and the First Amendment gives us the power to invade his privacy and discover it.

    That is something that makes me sick with some journalist, an ilk that I mix with lawyers too often. Then can claim Freedom of Press to violate a number of laws, and if you don't like it, they accuse you of been a repressor (sp?). I get sick too many times with that.