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  1. Re:How the hell... on Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying the Bible is just an old newspaper that has gotten some facts wrong just like modern news agencies do.

    I can live with that.


    I could consider that to be a reasonable view, too, but most Christians (or at least Protestants) insist on the idea that every word in the bible is factually correct, along with the idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent (The Problem of Evil notwithstanding -- and no, Free Will doesn't clear it up because that's incompatible with omniscience). I don't understand why people get so caught up in the infinite ideas, but it's just silly.

  2. Re:Hmm on Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars Films · · Score: 1

    It took me a minute, but I think that was the bad picture that appeared in the article.

  3. Re:Hell? on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 1

    IT is surprisingly strong in Detroit, at least for now.

  4. Re:Move to Paradise on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 1

    Why not say "administration". What most people mean by at least the programming side of IT used to be called Information Systems, and that covered it pretty well. Information Technology, on the other hand, s so vague that it includes IS, CS, math, solid state physics, the Nyquist-Shannon Theorem and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.

  5. Re:Possesion on DMCA Takedown Notice For a Fake ID · · Score: 1

    I would think that anything that belongs to me, no matter how legal it is or not, still belongs to me no matter who has it in their possession.
    Yes, but if you press the issue and call the police (if it really is fake), they're going to report your attempt to buy alchohol illegally and that you forged a government document. It's basically blackmail.

  6. Re:But on Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing · · Score: 1

    You could say that just as well about people.

  7. Re:It IS a good point on Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing · · Score: 1

    To the extent that there's no reason to think animal pets have "souls" or any some such, how are they any different from robots? Because if the only answer is they're made of soft gooey parts and robots are made of hard metal and plastic, then I can't see why that should dictate that an emotional attachment to them is reasonable but one to the robot is not.

    That isn't the only reason. I'm not sure about other animals, but mammals, at least, have emotions of their own.

  8. Everyone is missing the point on Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are genetic tests under development (and a few already available, like Huntington's) that will allow much earlier detection of some diseases. In many cases, this will allow earlier treatment, extending lives and probably reducing overall medical expenses. However, no one is going to be willing to take the tests if they're going to become uninsurable because of it.

    This isn't so much about discrimination or allowing actuaries to do a good job as it is about letting new tests become useful at all. After all, the insurance company has no more useful information if you don't take the test than if they're not allowed to use the results.

  9. Re:Crazy Soap Opera's on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 1

    They were already getting divorced. You'd still rather that didn't happen, but it's not on the level of a happy marriage ending that way.

  10. Re:Could someone please patent code comments? on Breakpoints have now been patented · · Score: 1

    Visual Basic has had this for years. It's called Stop. When running in the IDE execution breaks at the Stop command just as if you had a breakpoint defined. The command does nothing when running outside of the IDE.
    No, that's what they should have done. The actual Stop command (at least in VB 6) turns into an End in the compiled version.

  11. Re:"Free" Press on PC World Editor Resigns When Ordered Not to Criticize Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Want a $250 leather jacket for free? Well, you should see the ones we got for the last of the Harpoon series, they kicked ass.
    Damn, I miss Harpoon. The original version crashed every 20 minutes, though, and Harpoon 2 never worked in the first place.

  12. Re:studios ... plowed through ... entire backlog?? on Vudu Set-Top Box Weds Legal P2P and HD Movies · · Score: 1

    Here might be an actual legitimate application for DRM
    The applications of DRM are not the problem (Hell, I even would support some of them). The problem is that it can never work, and attempts to force it to work are damaging other things.

  13. Re:Deteriorating? on Vudu Set-Top Box Weds Legal P2P and HD Movies · · Score: 1

    I've walked out a couple of times and got my money back after almost an hour of previews and ads.
    Have you tried showing up later? Around here, those slide shows are dying off, but they never went past the announced start time of the movie. Previews do, but those are more interesting.

  14. Re:5,000 videos of rubbish on Vudu Set-Top Box Weds Legal P2P and HD Movies · · Score: 1

    Ever sat on the front row?
    Yes, I always do when I go alone. Well, the second row, anyway; I like to scoot down and rest my knees on the backs of the front row. For the last few Harry Potter and Star Wars movies, I've gone with my wife shortly after it opened, and then again by myself a week or two later -- usually on a Sunday morning before she's awake.

  15. Re:Reminds me on Blizzard Confirms New Product, May Be Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    That came from Richard Feynman in something he wrote. I don't remember which essay it was, but it was while he was working at Cornell, which is only a range of a few years shortly after World War 2.

  16. Re:This is just in! on Blizzard Confirms New Product, May Be Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    No, no, "FOO" is a prequel.

  17. Re:Wasn't it his computer? on Student Attempting To Improve School Security Suspended · · Score: 1

    Do your rules include installing a webcam they're not allowed to turn off? I'm starting to think college network administration could be a pretty nice job...

  18. Re:People are scared on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    He's not the one who took it out.

  19. Re:Well there you go... on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    Maybe they were wrong, and you're a nice guy apart from your tastes in music and movies and clothes and your violence fetishes and...\
    Those are all just matters of taste. Many, many people have dark tastes without that telling you anything else about them.

  20. Re:TexMex is USian all right. on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    I'm seeing a couple of places where he's listed as "Cesare Cardini", but "Caesar Cardini" seems to be more common. I'm not sure if this should be considered authoritative, or not: http://www.marzetti.com/ourBrands/products.php?pid =7

  21. Re:the internet in a nutshell on A Succinct Definition of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    The only problem with that analogy is that it doesn't differentiate between a circuit-switched network (phones) and a packet-switched network (the Internet).
    Most of the newer telephone infrastructure is ATM, which is also packet-switched.

  22. Re:TexMex is USian all right. on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    Caesar Salad was invented in Tijuana, which is in Baja California, a Mexican state.

  23. Re:Oh, great on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    If we must find something american, I believe that the hamburger/cheeseburger would come close.
    Didn't hamburger come from chefs in Hamburg Germany cooking Steak Tartar?

  24. Re:You got it wrong on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    DX10 games are why I would avoid paying for a new copy of WinXP now. For now I'm holding off on Vista, too, but I have my laptop from school to tide me over. I graduate and turn in the laptop in December, and I'm hoping the Vista driver situation settles down by then. If not, I might get a Mac and plan on getting a Vista PC later to plug into the TV for games and BluRay/HD-DVD.

  25. Re:Serious issue on Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    because men are not exploited thru sexist / patriarchal stereotypes that force them to look after their children.
    Well, yes, but that's not something companies are responsible for.