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  1. WWDC 2K8 predictions!!! on iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games · · Score: -1

    iPhone--3G (duh). Hardware GPS. Flat headphone jack. Only ONE camera, facing front. Video conferencing, video recording. (More of a wish--actually, the same camera but w/ video recording and no conferencing). 16G, 32G--$399/$499, $100 rebate on both with activation. Battery life same, 10% weight reduction with some size reduction.

    No other hardware.

    SDK (duh). 3-5 game announcements.

  2. "God" is loaded. on Rubik's Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down to 23 Moves · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just don't use it. Barking may be useful for dogs, but we don't bark either.

  3. Confusing charge with gravity on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 0

    Antimatter relates to electric charge. What you may be thinking is negative mass--which models predict to not exist.

  4. It's inevitable on Kurzweil on the Future · · Score: 0

    Sort of like a perfect playoff run in the NBA. You can be for or against it--it will happen either way.

  5. Rapture? Let's compare on IEEE Special Report On the Singularity · · Score: -1, Troll

    Religious rapture people are confused about what an atom is (water into wine?). Scientific rapture people are steeped in science. The religious people might as well be monkeys flinging poo--can we just ignore the flying poo?

  6. Posthuman:human as human:dog on IEEE Special Report On the Singularity · · Score: 0

    It's as simple as that.

  7. Gnumeric on Programming As a Part of a Science Education? · · Score: 0

    Even better than open office.

  8. Re:buffer overrun .. on Samba Hit By 'Highly Critical' Vulnerability · · Score: 0

    There is the NX bit, but you'd have to know about how far the buffer can overrun.

  9. Re:CVE-2008-1105 on Samba Hit By 'Highly Critical' Vulnerability · · Score: 1, Informative

    You wouldn't find this by static analysis. The constant in the key comparison is presumably fixed, but the variable "len" is not.

  10. Slashdot... on "Evolution of the Internet" Powers Massive LHC Grid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Facetious. To. The. Core.

  11. Re:Need more specs on "Evolution of the Internet" Powers Massive LHC Grid · · Score: 0

    Speaking of bots--this has to be one. The facetious bot?

  12. I subscribe. And I vote in pennsylvania . on "Secure Elections Act" Coming Up For Vote · · Score: 0

    3.5 mil democrats, 49.1% Obama, 48.2% Clinton. 2.2 mil Republicans, 70% McCain, 20% Huckster.

  13. Wikipedia doesn't count!!! on CS Degrees Low in 2007 But Bouncing Back · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please remember this.

  14. Careful with the cheering on Analog Cell Phone Network Shuts Down Monday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Digital is not the end-all solution. Notice how your digital broadcasts take longer to change channels--deltas must be accumulated in the compressed stream. Notice how long your cellphone takes to connect. I like binary as much as the next geek, but I think the elegance of the bit can be slightly overrated.

  15. Adolescent boys. on Videogames Doomed for a 'Comics-like Ghetto'? · · Score: -1

    Where does beer fit in here?

  16. Fines are just as bad. on Microsoft Pushes Copyright Education Curriculum · · Score: -1

    In jail you have health care, for example.

  17. Shouldn't it be in Epcot? on Disney Takes Another Stab at the House of the Future · · Score: -1

    Epcot has some really cool stuff that would go great with this. "Spaceship Earth" and all that.

  18. The ideas can remain interesting. on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    Concealing the ideas does not make them less interesting or true. It does just the opposite--perhaps makes them seem more suspect. A sort of 'truth through obscurity' is no way to promote what you think is a reasonable worldview. Still, whatever is in those talks in dark rooms may be reasonable.

  19. Psychiatric labels on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    Psychiatry only deals with what is normal. Most religious people would be described of as normal according to DSM. This is despite believing in obviously inconsistent events. One who is schizophrenic does have real issues in occupation or social functioning (as the DSM specifies). A schizophrenic may still have a more accurate view of the world.

  20. Re:Balanced view. on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    I meant that it would follow from the plausible reasoning of reincarnation. Taken out of context, it seems like I'm asserting something that I am not.

  21. Balanced view. on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've tried to take an objective look at Scientology. I am not a theist (atheist), but do think reincarnation is plausible. Something must be retained from death to birth, so that might as well be called a thetan. Much of the rest of Scientology seems like reasonable psychology as well--dualist, but without the supernatural. Certainly no obvious fairy tales, like Christian, Jewish, or Islamic miracles. I think the antagonism to psychiatry is the result of wanting to know what we don't yet--this aspect leads to unfortunate incidents such as this. If you strip away the secrecy and celebrity, there are some interesting ideas there.

  22. Reassign to "fiction". on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    It's such bad fiction that it'll go away anyway.

  23. Good to have more search engines on Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As much as we all love Google, I think there needs to be a variety of search engines. Microsoft-Yahoo might have been a bigger player, but we'd lose the variety. Ask.com almost doesn't count.

  24. Recession overrated. on FCC's Spectrum Auction Approaches $20B in Bids · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The economic cycle of boom and bust is based on traditional theories of static job types. It does not take into account productivity. These auctions came out of thin air due to technology--the ability to squeeze far more into digital streams. Likewise, technology will raise the living standard of all. House crisis? Not when you have robotic builders.

  25. Great news on One Step Closer to IPv6 · · Score: 1

    As we keep hearing in other circles, "change" is in. As a software engineer who doesn't want to slow down for IT support, I have to do my own wrestling with the network. The more I can focus on the real job, the more productive I'll be.