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  1. Re: on Teacher Laid Off For Telling the Truth About Santa · · Score: -1

    I think we (the non-homosexual majority) are actually more sick of you "innocence stealers" than you are of us "child nurturers." Who the **** do you think you are that you think it's your business to shatter the innocent dreams of a child?I believe it is people like you, far left winger (probably homosexual) liberals that are to blame for so many of the problems the world has today. A child has no business worrying if Santa is a real person or a mythical character. Children are supposed to remain children

  2. Re:more of a sign they need to improve their proce on Is MySQL's Community Eating the Company? · · Score: -1

    IMO good things have happened to VirtualBox since Sun bought it... I agree that Sun keeping a proprietary version is suboptimal, but nevertheless Sun have done many great things... - And I'd hate to see them go away...

  3. MIT's lab on Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Cornell does have a very good engineering library (I've used it myself for research.) Most student work nowadays is done at a computer, at 4 AM, though, which doesn't lend itself to looking through the stacks for a book. For projects like this, it doesn't make sense to go to the library unless there's no available reference on the Internet (including the online reference materials and articles provided by the library). For serious research, the libraries are of course where you need to be still.

  4. Re:good! on The End of Individual Genius? · · Score: -1

    Don't bother to mod me up, but the parent should be modded down. Newton is the perfect example of an individual genius, and he changed the world drastically, irrevocably and all by himself. "Everyone still credits" Newton because the calculus wasn't even his biggest accomplishment. He invented classical mechanics by himself. There is no dispute about it.The greatest minds in the rest of the world were decades behind him, so it's hard to imagine what group he should have been working with. It wasn't just the case with Newton either. Gauss discovered non-Euclidean geometry 30 years before it was published anywhere else.Before you claim that Newton and Gauss were lying, consider that they didn't have any reason to. Without claiming credit for calculus, Newton would still be the most influential physicist of all time, and there was no peer to Gauss.I'll admit that for all the rest of us, working in groups will help immensely, but let's not shackle the few truly exceptional people that exist to the mediocre. The solution here is for us not to pretend we're geniuses. Just because it's encouraging to pretend that Newton is just like the rest of us, doesn't mean we should be so dishonest as to pretend it's true.

  5. Re: on World of Warcraft, the Restaurant · · Score: -1

    "The Zerg Rush All-You-Can-Eat Special"kekeke

  6. Re:How to make enemies and alienate people on Ubisoft Testing PC Prince of Persia Without DRM · · Score: -1

    One of the reasons I got those Windows DVDs from the pirate bay is mainly because of the older (hard to find) versions, e.g. pre-2k so I wasn't really pirating it

  7. Flex Plan fixes this.... on Android Susceptible To Apps That Turn On Roaming · · Score: -1

    I'm going to assume you're talking about a standard mobile contract, rather than a pre-paid phone. Mostly because I don't know how pre-paid phones deal with roaming.So, under that assumption, you paid 75 cents because you chose the option where your minutes per month were higher. But you couldn't use them outside of your region. To use your example, your bank probably doesn't offer you additional (or better) service for using a particular branch.In other words, your minutes were cheaper because you agreed n

  8. Re: on Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data · · Score: -1

    I have lots of cool images in my head for comics and wallpaper, however I lack the artistic talent to bring those images from my mind to paper/photoshop. Maybe soon I will be able to compensate for my lack of artistic ability.

  9. Re: on Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary · · Score: -1

    Down on the basement I think you have just discovered how large corporations and governments have become organized in the last couple of decades.

  10. Re: on An Open Source Coffee Machine · · Score: -1

    I'm at work and can't access the site, and TFA is mighty short on details. Coffee makers are pretty generic for the most part, and have been around long enough that any patents on their tech would have long ago run out.And coffee makers are decidedly low tech, even moreso than the old fashioned percolators that you can brew coffee on a stovetop or camp fire with. It's simply a heating element that heats the water which runs through the coffee.So would someone with access to the site please tell me what I'm

  11. CMYK is not a legit need on iPhone App Pricing Limits Developers · · Score: -1

    But does Linux come in pretty colors?

  12. Re: on Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? · · Score: -1

    They never tought functional languages at all in our course (if I'm getting your meaning of functional language correctly, anyway.. I can't even understand what the first sentence of the wikipedia page actually even *means* FFS). It doesn't look like a good starting language IMO - these are beginners not professors.We learned Pascal, Ada, Cobol and 68000 machine code. All apparently chosen because nobody would know them before and would probably never use them again (except maybe cobol, although that's ge

  13. Re: on FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering · · Score: -1

    Here in .au the government is scaling back it's plans for filtering due to being laughed at by anyone who knows anything about the internet.In a recent call for ISPs to participate in live tests of their system the biggest ISP here said no, it's stupid. The second biggest said OK, but we won't block all that you want us to, and the third biggest said we'll participate fully just to show you how dumb you're being.It seems that the point was finally driven home and now the government is trying to back down without losing face.

  14. What? on Learning To Parent · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  15. Surely that depends on how functional it is? I didn't read the article (it's a console game, not a real computer game) but "matchmaking issues" is entirely different to "no online play at all".

  16. What? on Learning To Parent · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  17. Re: on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: -1

    I use that stuff all the time in the shower. It's real multi-purpose. I love the bottle though. I can take an epic constipated **** and still have stuff left to read on that bottle.

  18. Re: on Amazon Fights Piracy Tool, Creators Call It a Parody · · Score: -1

    I think the catch would be that it's the owner of the browser who's modifying the way it displays Amazon's pages. These guys just made it slightly easier to set up. Not that logic ever kept a company from spooging lawyers all over some random person.

  19. What? on Learning To Parent · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  20. Re:Convince your boss. on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: -1

    As the power of a chip grows, the heat consumption grows much faster

  21. Re: on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: -1

    "There are more, but this is a family friendly site"At last, a use for the old cookie cutters I found under the sink.

  22. Re: on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: -1

    So blame Microsoft for the confusing use of virtual memory and paging fileI'm no Microsoft fanboy, but I don't think you can blame them for this, especially when "virtual memory" originally did mean what the OP thinks it does. I'd like to know when the definition changed.

  23. Re: on Who Protects the Internet? · · Score: -1

    There are several mesh networking schemes to do exactly what you are talking about. In remote areas, mesh networking often becomes the only way to get network access. Try Netsukuku http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/ Batman https://www.open-mesh.net/batman [open-mesh.net] Netsukuku has as a project goal to explicitly facilitate creating the equivalent of the internet, with DNS-like name services and the like. As for pringles can antennas, try a bi-quad, a yagi or a waveguide instead, you'll get far superior performance.

  24. Re: on Valve's Gabe Newell On DRM · · Score: -1

    No, the goal is to increase revenues by decreasing piracy and preventing sale of used games. No, the goal (for the DRM peddler) is to PRETEND to offer increased revenues by PRETENDING to decrease piracy and prevent sale of used games. However the only revenue that is actually increased is the "security" company's. No one wants to buy ****ty games. The good games are cracked usually within hours of release with few exceptions. However good games still make money. I

  25. Re: on Optimizing Linux Use On a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: -1

    It might be that the poor performance occurs when you're on a computer that only has USB1 support. On Dells this was added later than you might expect.You might find you got better performance if you were to use a CD to hold most of the static software and the USB for just your home directory.