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  1. Re: on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: -1

    they will be looked after by companies hiring security guards.

  2. Re: on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: -1

    You missed the fact that both types of comments are relevant to the situation.I doubt that TW & Comcast would be jumping on the charge/per/kilobyte model so quickly if they hadn't monopolized and divided the market.What are our options for alternative providers? Any suggestions for the LA Westside area?

  3. Biz connection on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: -1

    You should have answered in this manner...

  4. Crunch Time ALL THE TIME Is Evil... on IGDA Split Over "Crunch Time" Development · · Score: -1

    As they used to say, "The first 90% takes 90% of the effort, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the effort". Crunch time is just the expression of doing that last 90% effort in the last 10% of the schedule.Mind you, my current employer states that they'd prefer we to not have to crunch, given the chance. I get a talking to any time I come in and work on the weekend. ^_^Then again, I quite like crunch, as long as it's not overly extended. It's a bit of a rush, and it can be fun unless you're the one who's h

  5. Crazy Thought! on EFF Lawyer Calls YouTube ContentID Worse Than DMCA · · Score: -1

    Well that's justifiable - they don't want to be YouTube so they set up a niche (that, in my opinion, has led to a very good collection of videos). If you really want to post videos yourself, you can always host them yourself.

  6. Re: on Boxee Launches New API · · Score: -1

    What BS. They only do this to make money. They think (and probably rightly so) that by opening the floodgates they can make a crapload of money. Either now or later when Google buys them out. I hope it works, but don't try to scam me into thinking it's for the good of the community.

  7. Re: on No More D&D PDFs, Wizards of the Coast Sues 8 File Sharers · · Score: -1

    >>>a company's true customers are it's stock holders and board members. The consumers are just raw materialWell of course. Hence the change in name from "Personnel" to "Human Resources" which not only applies to employees, but also customers. Makes us sound like cattle on a ranch: "We have 1000 head at the branch office." "Send 500 to the slaughterhouse." "Aye sir." HR embodies how we are all viewed by the corporate.Down with soulless corporations. Restore proprietorships which are led by a

  8. Re: on Microsoft Warns of Copycat Conficker Worm · · Score: -1

    I hope you're not trying to imply that it's impossible to be safe on Windows without anti-virus. Being careful about where you browse is stupid, as any site can get hacked to spread malware.Using common sense, like not blindly opening attachments, being behind a NAT router and/or firewall and using a web browser that isn't IE that gets updated regularly goes a long way towards being malware-free. You can go even further and implement a whitelist for programs (instead of the anti-virus blacklist, which is on

  9. Goldeneye Cardtidge Tilting on Strange Glitches In Games · · Score: -1

    Windows 2000? Might be pushing your luck there. Compatibility mode in WinXP generally works though (You have to use it on setup.exe). Although you lose LAN I think.

  10. Re: on Strange Glitches In Games · · Score: -1

    I remember going up into the vent in the bathroom on the facility multiplayer level. If you hold down the "r" right shoulder button, the right "c" button and spun to the left while on top the toilet that was located right under the open vent, you would all of the sudden levitate after a few spins and if you backed up, you where the vent with a weapon. it was great!

  11. What? on Finally, Sadomasochism Gets Its Own Scientific Study · · Score: -1, Troll

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  12. Re:Moving parts are the main problem on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: -1

    As someone with experience with hardware support for a large company, I can attest to the assertion that SSD's fail pretty often. We use the HP TC4400 tablet, which has a 40gig SSD in it, and we seem to get more of them in with dead harddrives than we do the TC4200, which uses a typical SATA drive.This may not be true for all SSD's, but it's my experience so far.

  13. Re: on Coders, Your Days Are Numbered · · Score: -1

    A whole hell of a lot of managers are managers because they can kiss ass, and not because they can manage. If and when their boss realizes this the #2 ass kisser then becomes managers..rinse and repeat..news at 10.

  14. Re: on Coders, Your Days Are Numbered · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  15. Re:Investigate an iphone on Group Pushes FCC To Investigate Skype for iPhone · · Score: -1

    Doesn't sound all that inconvenient...

  16. Prior Art? on How Do I Put an Invention Into the Public Domain? · · Score: -1

    At $110 to file for a small entity, a provisional patent only costs a little bit. If you can't afford it and these are potentially useful medical devices, just go to a patient who would have benefited from it and ask for a little help, or go to a good doctor or med student and offer to let him or her write up the journal article *After* you file the provisional patent application. For that matter, I'm sure you can get five hundred or a thousand bucks from an undergrad in the sciences for the chance to wri

  17. What? on FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center · · Score: -1

    This government has totaly grossly exceceded its mandate. I am already longing for the Bush years.. I say we tar and feather the entire Legislative branch and all the officers in the Executive president included.. Who is with me?

  18. Re: on Clearwire Plans Silicon Valley "Sandbox" WiMax Net · · Score: -1

    Just out of curiousity - my understanding was that WiMAX was about 3mbps (yes bits/sec). I don't doubt the speeds you report but it struck me as odd. Does Clearwire use something besides WiMAX? Love Portland by the way. Only been there once but loved every minute of it. Hell, I love the entire Pacific Northwest, hope I can get back up there sometime soon.

  19. Re: on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: -1

    Google seem to be being perfectly reasonable. They They are doing enough to keep the carriers happy, but only that. In addition, AFAIK, the platform is more open then Apple's so you can obtain the application from elsewhere and install it without jail breaking.

  20. Re:meme tag stole my post on Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Shrinking · · Score: -1

    No the red spot is shrinking due to wind cut backs.

  21. Re: on Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? · · Score: -1

    1. Drink excessive amounts of liquor 2. Too drunk to drive 3. Less CO2! 4. ??? 5. Profit?

  22. Re: on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: -1

    You can find those people everywhere, not only in Finland.No conversation at all unless some vodka (or whatever with some strength) is added, and then you get conversation without meaning instead.

  23. Re: on Locating the Real MySQL · · Score: -1

    Is there a decent postgres clustering solution that doesn't force you to lock out all client access when adding a node to the cluster (e.g. pgpool)?

  24. Re: on The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts · · Score: -1

    Actually I sorta stole it from a George Carlin bit. His estate's lawyers are at the door now!!!

  25. Re: on Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? · · Score: -1

    None taken.Thanks for the reference, looks interesting. Especially the 'more mathematical' part.