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  1. Hey - I'm an oldtimer ! on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't my post show up ?

  2. Ban screensavers on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    And disrupt wireless. And phones. And regulate the height of screens. Miss something ?

  3. Can't I just amass my billions in piece and quiet? on Apple Forces Steve Jobs Action Figure Off eBay · · Score: 1

    People have the right to parody. Even if it makes them money. I can't see how this would stand up in court.

  4. Re:Depends on what language you use on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 2

    The problem lies in the mentality 'I'm a java programmer, *therefore* I use an IDE with autocompletion'.

  5. Unwatchable on Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane · · Score: 2

    The guy may understand flying, but he sure as hell doesn't understand cutting footage into a comprehensive, watchable piece of film

  6. Re:Shakespeare? on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 2

    When the GP says that the sins of the people of Sodom were never made very explicit, he means that the particular translation of the bible that you're linking to, has generally been translated too freely. The original says something like 'so that we may have them' or something, I seem to remember.

  7. Re:How about... on Statistical Analysis of Terrorism · · Score: 2

    You forgot the words 'moon worshippers'. It is vital that next to every mention of 'death cult', you have at least one 'moon worhippers'. Get with the program ! No dessert for you.

  8. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, it just doesn't add up. First he gets charged, then he doesn't. Then he gets permission to leave, then they charge him again, send out a warrent of the highest possible order for his arrest, for something they would never do that for if it was anyone else, then they fuck that warrant up, then he just calmly tells the English police 'look I'm staying at this address', then they issue another warrant, then the English police *don't* pick him up immediately (even though the priority of the warrant would warrant it) and then he has to just walk into a police station himself.

    It's a farking soap opera, man.

  9. Or, in analogy on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1

    Lalala ! I can't hear you ! I've got fingers in my ears ! Lalala !

  10. Re:Not Phosphorus-Free on NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA · · Score: 1

    Yeah but wasn't arsenic one of those poisons that you could grow accustomed to ?

  11. Obvious follow up question on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    Are there any more arsenic lakes around the world ?

  12. Probably on Was There Only One Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    It would make sense, given that all its sub structures behave in that way. The universe as one huge-ass string.

  13. He should've walked away on Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job · · Score: 1

    I was once hired for a job that didn't exist. I quit on my own a year later.

  14. Re:Java Community approval on The Details of Oracle's JDK 7 and 8 'Plan B' · · Score: 1

    The Java community consists of Oracle (databases), IBM (mainframes) and Apache (tomcat), like it has done for a few years now. You can't alienate the Oracle and IBM people, because they're paid to be loyal (i.e. they're employees at banks and stuff). The only people it alienated, are the tomcat people but then again, they are the only ones that truly benefit from java's one and only killer-feature, and that is that is runs anywhere.

  15. Re:My personal view: on Why Tablets Haven't Taken Off In Business · · Score: 1

    It's not about it being a prison. It's about it not having a single (white collar) business purpose AT ALL. It's not like we formed our businesses around that what the IT industry gave us - it's the other way around: we HAD phones, we HAD typewriters, and we HAD spreadsheets, and then IT came along and gave us computers and mobile phones to make it easier to do the same things. There is no historical functional business equivalent of the ipad, save for that thing with the paper and the clip that Mr FedEX holds when he wants you to sign off on something.

  16. Re:Steal the market? on Why Tablets Haven't Taken Off In Business · · Score: 1

    You *type*, professionally, on an ipad ? Wow. How many miles from any other terminal with a real keyboard do they drop you in order to force you to do this ?

  17. Re:Wasn't there a desktop friendly scheduler rejec on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    With a treatment like that, it's a miracle he didn't call it the 'Up Yours' scheduler.

  18. Re:You know why? on The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater · · Score: 1

    "And in the end, only kindness matters"

  19. Re:Distance? on Dutch ISP Demos Symmetric 100Mbps DOCSIS3 · · Score: 1

    Why ? Can you not design a concentrator that shapes traffic intelligently, based on MAC addresses ? TCP will bring itself down usually.

  20. Not good. on Sophos Researcher Suggests Password 'Free' to Spur Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 1

    It's better to just accept any password.

  21. Re:Hang on... on Considering a Fair Penalty For Illegal File-sharing · · Score: 1

    There are four reasons for punishment: revenge, as a deterrent for others, as a deterrent for yourself, and to protect society. Your reasoning doesn't take into account, the 'deterrent to yourself' factor.

  22. Re:Hang on... on Considering a Fair Penalty For Illegal File-sharing · · Score: 2, Funny

    To be fair, the public you're dealing with, is supposed to be good at programming and stuff.

  23. UEFI ? on Swedes Show Intel Sandy Bridge Running BIOS-Successor UEFI · · Score: 1

    Is it going to need the sacrifice of a megabyte of my harddisk - just like EFI ? Or will it be content to live in its own solid state somewhere. Didn't RTFA by the way, it probably shows.

  24. Re:Would it be less tedious to have 10,000+ keys? on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 1

    I worked for a bank once, that would force _programmers_ to work with smart keyboarding - you had to type a space every time you did a ' or a : for example. I gave up that job very quickly. Not everybody is a business man in your organization and if you can't recognize that, you're not doing your managing very well.

  25. Simple on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 1

    I have a paper agenda.