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  1. Re:Misleading pretense on Handling Flash Crowds From Your Garage · · Score: 0

    Agreed. To this day, MySpace still works less than 50% of the time. Of course, they are using SQLServer and Windows...

  2. Re:And we wonder why people are paranoid? on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 1

    >> Believe it or not mental illness means nothing in Florida.

    How do you think Jeb Bush made governor?

  3. Re:That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever hea on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 1

    Well, strikes can be effective in a fight against an novice opponent, but the situation in a boxing ring is nothing like a real life fight. Furthermore, real life fights are almost always over within a few seconds, always end up on the ground, and frequently occur against multiple opponents. How is boxing training going to help you avoid being the victim of ground & pound? Against an experienced opponent throwing a punch is just going to give them an opportunity to break your arm. If I had to bet on fight between someone with 6 months of training at a Gracie school and someone with a black-belt in kung fu who had been studying for 20 years, I'd choose the Gracie kid every time.

  4. Re:That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever hea on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 0, Troll

    Boxing is not a martial art. Neither is fencing. And neither is Tae Kwon Do. In order to be a martial art, it is supposed to have a practical purpose in warfare or self-defense. Neither boxing nor fencing have any practical purpose for self-defense since the dumbest thing you can do in a fight is throw a punch and you're not likely to be in combat with a 4' metal toothpick. Learning how to properly fire a can of pepper spray is more of a martial art than boxing.

    Here is a list of sports along with a corresponding martial art:

    Sport: Fencing
    Martial Art: Close Quarter Combat Knife Defense

    Sport: Tae Kwon Do
    Martial Art: Karate

    etc..

  5. APT Label on G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy · · Score: 1

    "International Pirates" is exactly what the members of the G8 are.

  6. Re:Try some other things first on Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? · · Score: 1

    Yawn... I saw that movie too. Maybe you should watch this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3y8uwtxrHo

  7. Try some other things first on Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? · · Score: 1

    The number one health problem in the United States today (after the toxins in vaccines) is fluoride lighting. Chances are that your headaches are probably caused by the flicker and abysmal spectrum of light that they emit. Unfortunately, LCDs these days operate off fluoride.

    Change your habits:

    1. Try to work in natural sunlight if possible or at least get outside several times a day to get some sunlight to counteract the damage that is being done by the fluoride.
    2. Prefer incandescent bulbs to fluoride bulbs. They are better for you, and when they are disposed of, they don't leak toxic waste back into the environment like fluorescent bulbs do.
    3. Correct your posture. Good vision begins with good breathing and proper circulation.
    4. Correct your diet. Make sure you get some bilberry, lutien, and b vitamins.
    5. Spend more time in an alpha brainwave state instead of a beta.
    6. Pick up some programs for improving your vision and maintaining good eye health. These are the best ones I have found:

    http://www.bettervision.com/

    7. Inform others about proper eye health and fight the international fluoride conspiracy. Your grandchildren will thank you.

    If you do these things you will find that not only will you feel better, but your vision will return to 20/20 (or better) and you won't need glasses anymore either.

  8. Re:Let's Face it on Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable · · Score: 1

    Yeah until you try to write JS of your own and realize that the thir part AJAX library you are using has radically modified the DOM. Actually, JS and HTML probably would have been fine if JS was really object oriented and it weren't for Microsoft. We would never have had any problems if the w3c had done the same thing that Sun did with Java: provide a TCK and trademark HTML, that way when Microsuck subverted the standard, the w3c could have sued the fuck out of that Nazi weasel bill gates. Java works beautifully everywhere across platform and that's because Sun had the foresight to act not only out of charity but with a little god damn common sense as well.

    Anyway, we can take some comfort in the fact that there may be a hell, and if there is Bill Gates will certainly burn there.

  9. Let's Face it on Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable · · Score: 1

    While Flash/ActionScript sucks it doesn't suck nearly as much as trying to write rich user interfaces in the abominable JS and HTML, and at least there is some attempt at object orientation and you can get similar behavior across browsers and operating systems. But yeah Flash still sucks big fat rhino cock, as anyone who has ever tried to use a/v other than the built in codecs will tell you, and open-source support for flash is non-existent. This is good news however if it inspires Java content to do the same thing. Maybe then we can write rich web interfaces in a language that doesn't blow goats and HTML, JS, and Flash can all receive the horrible death that they have deserved for so long.

  10. Re:If Bell actually cared. on Bell's Own Data Exposes P2P As a Red Herring · · Score: 1

    >> If bell is really that good then they will have no problem making ends meet other wise oh well

    And they wouldn't need a government enforced monopoly.

  11. Re:surely that is a little harsh on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1
  12. Re:There will be some good from this. on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or his mom

  13. Re:Submission needs -1 Troll on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    >> Enterprise Computing = combinitorially explosive numbers of possible adverse reactions. We've got at least 150 packages in the system, many of which have to interoperate with code which has not seen the light of day since the mid-90s.

    Now try to imagine it written in a language like Ruby or Perl. You're problems would be 1000 times worse. You generally tell the students and academics who have absolutely no real world software experience, because they're advocates of platforms other than Java(Ruby, Perl, .NET).

    Not really sure why your post got modded as a troll seems dead on to me.

  14. Re:surely that is a little harsh on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Of course Java doesn't matter. That's why it's on so many BILLIONS of devices including NASA missions to Mars.

  15. Re:Interersing trend... on Higher Oil Prices Are Starting To Bring Jobs Home · · Score: 1

    Why? This is a nightmare. A strong dollar is the key to high standard of living for Americans (see: The Wealth of Nations). I don't see any benefit in this country returning to the standard of living that we had at the turn of the 19th century. Manufacturing jobs suck. When the dollar is falling through the floor, it means that you can buy less imported goods, and the standard of living is dropping dramatically, as the price of everything is jumping through the roof.

    The jobs america wants are the high-end, high paying jobs, not the shit that pays $10 an hour. If Americans want to make more money then they should get off of their lazy asses and:

    1. Learn to read
    2. Get a Bachelor's degree.
    3. Learn a valuable skill that people will pay good money for.

    There is no shortage of demand for doctors, lawyers, SAP developers, electrical engineers, biologists, etc. Let the Chinese pump out plastic products at $.10 an hour.

    When you wake up poor, everything in the United States is owned by foreign wealth funds, and you are forced into an even greater state of slavery than you are now, you won't have anyone to blame but yourself, for supporting a corrupt monetary policy:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
    http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10533866

  16. How about when on When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    When neither you nor your customers want to deal with annoying pop-up messages stating that you are not a ca.

  17. Re:Words to live by on George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that."

    That's actually a quote from Robert Anton Wilson (see: the Secret ov power), borrowed by George Carlin. Not surprising though since the two were friends and Wilson frequently referred to Carlin as his favorite comedian and Carlin referred to Wilson as his favorite author.

  18. Re:Don't hate the player, hate the game. on Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It's simply the cost of defending yourself in a marketplace that is completely corrupt. In a free society, patents would not exist and neither would the government. So if youre, going to point your finger, at least point it at the people who are to blame.

  19. Bye, Bye Amazon Hello Dark ages on Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill · · Score: 1

    Well, if this passes I won't be purchasing anything off of the internet. Does anyone know if Amazon is trying to fight this?

  20. Re:Mono needs a similar testsuite. on IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... I don't think Mono or anything else will ever be a competitor of Java. Even if you discount Java's superior performance, security, stability, superior APIs that are decades ahead of anything at microsoft, and vast amounts of open-source libraries, the Mono project if it wants to maintain compatibility with .NET will always be held mercy to the whims of Microsoft.

    The real benefit of Mono: .NET is going to Microsoft. Once all Windows applications are written in .NET, why would anyone want to use Windows?

    Factoid:

    Did you know? The term "Microsoft" was originally Bill Gates' pet name for his penis.

  21. People are waking up on Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? · · Score: 1

    The "cutting edge of government" is just a euphemism for the "point of a bayonet". As intelligence increases, people are less likely to engage in anti-social patterns of behavior (like supporting government). What DARPA is witnessing is that the human race is evolving, and thus is starting to do things that make sense, as opposing to engaging in the idiot primate acts of aggression and status on which the survival of the state depends.

    "Dominance is a game played by apes and other primates" - Barbara J. King, Biological Anthropology (paraphrased)

  22. Terrible, but not really news... on Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual · · Score: 1

    This is a standard field manual that has been used for special forces training for almost two decades. I read it on a lunch break nearly five years ago while attached a unit that wasn't even special forces. It's also posted on the internet:

    Here: http://www.counterinsurgency.org/doctrine/31-20-3/31-20-3.htm
    Here: http://www.geocities.com/tominelpaso/armymanual.htm
    oh and on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/FM-31-20-Operational-Techniques-Department/dp/1581605463/

    Also, Anyone who is familiar with the School of the Americas, the United States history of engaging in false-flag terrorism, or the CIA's cocaine trafficking business should not find any of it a surprise.

  23. Re:Hard to read on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 1

    Web developers supporting HTML and CSS standards? That's just crazy:

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/idealism

  24. Re:The Geeks Can't Do Marketing on Even Before Memex, a Plan For a Networked World · · Score: 1

    The Vatican.

  25. Re:Hard to read on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> Sorry, the font on that page is so small I can barely read it.

    Try it in firefox