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  1. Other words... on How To Get a Job At a Mega-Corp · · Score: -1

    Funny, I was wondering how he'd pull off an 8 to 5 job when he has the 4 kids from 7 to 3.Talk about a forgiving schedule or a kid-friendly work environment, and doesn't that interfere with their school. or does the megacorp handle their education too.... now that's inducting them into corporate culture early!

  2. Re: on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: -1

    But rather than being alone to state his opinions, he was there with representatives from three other political parties.

  3. Re:Why fear terrorists... on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: -1

    I'm not sure I understand the concern. This man is simply advocating a policy that has been in place on a national and state level for decades. Since the level of outrage never reached a dull roar, I'm sure they just assumed everyone was ok with the practice.Or is this one of those "first they came for the blacks and the anarchists" moments for you.

  4. Re: on What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology? · · Score: -1

    Absolutes and ignorance are not a good mix. There are plenty of iPhone and Wii games that make very effective use of accelerometers.

  5. Re: on What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology? · · Score: -1

    Yes, Apple may be first in the broad market, but there has been multi-touch for a very long time in many electronics, but generally it faded out by the start of the '90s. On the other hand, eye tracking isn't used hardly at all, in anything. Basically, Apple revived dead technology (Captive touchscreens and multi-touch) to make their phone.

  6. Re: on Twitter Hackers Take Down Baidu · · Score: -1

    Iran VS China in an contest to out censor each other?Whoever wins, we loose![/joke]

  7. Re: on Twitter Hackers Take Down Baidu · · Score: -1

    No, you got older and your view of the world has changed significantly. Teenagers, especially boys, just love to see the world burn. As we get older and have more invested in said world, the fires tend to lose their luster.

  8. Mozilla Developer Center crash reporting on Mozilla Starts To Follow a New Drumbeat · · Score: -1

    Firefox on Linux drags along at a speed slow enough for you to think someone is intentionally sabotaging it.

  9. Re: on Mozilla Starts To Follow a New Drumbeat · · Score: -1

    Firefox has been much better on memory management since FF3. Everyone talks about Chrome being lean and fast, and FF being this bloated piece of crap.You do realize that using current builds of both, Firefox uses less memory? The UI will likely never be quite as fast due to XUL, but Firefox's memory management is pretty dang good. They could probably take a page from how Chrome handles garbage collection with their V8 Javascript engine, but that's another story.

  10. Re: on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: -1

    In order for this to be a bad deal for Adobe, you need to assume that this company would grow, overnight, to consume 100x the licenses. In addition, since the probablility of corporate growth is less than one, it's an even better deal for Adobe. And the longer the company might take to grow to consume 100x the licenses, the better off Adobe would be for forcing their hand now, as opposed to waiting for them to grow to get more money. I see no error in what Adobe did, unless you think that a vast uprising

  11. Pants are overrated. on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: -1

    My wife has been using the 21" Cintiq for five years now for her graphics work for her job. She uses it all day, every day, and not only finds it the perfect tool for art, but also finds it vastly more intuitive for regular use than a mouse or trackpad.Even I, who have no artistic talent whatsoever, find it easier to draw on a Cintiq than on either paper or a separate drawing tablet.Maybe you just aren't all that good at using it?Dan Aris

  12. Re: on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: -1

    This isn't a bug. If it crashed when changing the theme then yes, that's a bug. Her using a given option as it's intended though is not. The worst you could say is that there was no root-settable option to lock the desktop to a single theme, but that's more "lack of feature" than a bug.

  13. Re: on Ubuntu "Memberships" Questioned · · Score: -1

    Absolutely. If you'd read the book, you'd know that the military in Starship Troopers had extensive and fairly balanced civic and political education.

  14. Re: on Ubuntu "Memberships" Questioned · · Score: -1

    We're here to determine whether you might be worthy of receiving a free t-shirt. I hear you get access to the Ubuntu Awards First Class Download area

  15. http://scentlogix.com/ on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: -1

    How about YOU realize that that is only true because of all of the resources the government prevents to prevent terrorism, you insensitive clod!~

  16. Re: on INTERPOL Granted Diplomatic Immunity In the US · · Score: -1

    I was mistaken regarding the mission of INTERPOL. However, it is only because the INTERPOL constitution specifically prohibits "undertak(ing) any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character (...)" that this is a non-issue. The act does grant judicial immunity to people carrying out their "job" under this act. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1497072&cid=30649000

  17. What? on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: -1

    How can you be sure that methicillin would not exist? After all the famous antibiotic penicillin came from bread mold.It's not just humans that want/need to kill undesirable bacteria.fungi, bacteria etc have been killing each other for the past billion years or so.

  18. Re: on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: -1

    My understanding is that the problems with feeding animals antibiotics is the same as with giving it excessively to humans - i.e. it causes antibiotics to appear everywhere in nature in small doses through waste - which is the perfect environment for bacteria to develop resistance. If we eliminate its use in animals at least part of the problem is solved.

  19. Re: on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  20. Re: on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: -1

    This is about flights that are only traveling through US airspace, not landing in the US, so they are already not going there.

  21. Re: on Technology Changes To Kill Netbooks? · · Score: -1

    I'm not sure which is more annoying - people saying "Micro$oft" or people saying "MSFT".Talk like humans, would you?

  22. Re: on TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive · · Score: -1

    Your biggest problem here is that you're assuming a base desirable (malformed babies are bad)

  23. Re: on TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive · · Score: -1

    I doubt a majority of totally informed people would act against a minority in a punitive way, as this would leave each individual open to punitive acts from a different majority. Doesn't need a majority. You misunderstand people and vindictiveness. Given ease of information mining, some idiot will single out some other person, just because.

  24. Re: on 5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open · · Score: -1

    Someone who works at any major airline can just submit the real production code they use for luggage routing and win the contest for sure!

  25. Re: on Uniforms For the Help Desk? · · Score: -1

    I would have to see the uniforms before passing judgment. ...