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  1. Re:arrogant bankers on Officials Warn: Cyber War On the US Has Begun · · Score: 1

    ^ THIS Worked for numerous banks around the world, and doesn't matter how good their security guys are, the users don't listen and leave holes wide enough to drive a truck through in the security. Add to that lots of the security guys are cowboys at work and out of work and if I was so inclined have enough dirt on them to create security concerns too.

  2. Re:Let's kowtow! on Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission · · Score: 1

    Agreed, problem is with the government's big guns, they need to be able to aim them somewhere. Anonymous if they're smart can do A LOT of damage from the shadows; banks and infrastructure don't need to be bombed anymore to stop them, just kill their systems and they're equally useless.

  3. Re:Proper sleep for studying on Poor Sleep Prevents Brain From Storing Memories · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People are different, but I'll need a few million in grant money to be sure.

  4. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 0

    This ^ x 1000 Stuffed around in HS and my marks weren't good enough to go to university. My parent's weren't badly off, so my dad said, you have 1 year more year, so I did A-Levels to try and get into a U.K varsity. However I stuffed around again, so that was it and had to start working. Worked at a Help-desk doing 12 hours shifts as my first job, then came home with my first paycheck and my dad promptly took it, saying thank you very much, here is your money after rent and your contribution to expenses. Wasn't a negotiation, it just was. Best thing my dad could of done for me.

  5. Re:And still no death penalty for rape on Anonymous Helps Find Evidence In Gang Rape Case · · Score: 0

    Sorry, but I find your position contemptible. QUALITY of life is what is important, not JUST life. I've gone through the harrowing experience of seeing loved ones die from cancer, and if I could I would of helped them when they asked me to end it. Yes I've had a few people, my own grandfather, a bloke who survived Nazi POW camps ask me and his daughter ( my mum) to kill him. A terrible life is FAR worse than no life. When you're dead there are 3 options depending on what you believe; Go to hell - That's because of something you've done to deserve going there. Nothing - absolutely final oblivion Go to Heaven, - live in paradise with no suffering what so ever. So you're saying nothing and nirvana are worse than living a life of pain and misery?

  6. Re:And still no death penalty for rape on Anonymous Helps Find Evidence In Gang Rape Case · · Score: 0

    In someways rape is worse than murder. With murder the people left behind suffer, with rape the people left behind suffer and that includes the victim.

  7. Re:How is this gasping news on Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail · · Score: 0

    Late last year I bailed a mate out of jail. He was stopped at a roadblock and blew .01 over the limit. He had just 2 beers, the same amount that he has blown under the limit before. The difference - he had the last beer 5 minutes before having to dash off somewhere, he wasn't planning to leave then, but something came up and he had too. The process here is they breathalyse you then take blood for the court proceedings. He thought he'd be fine with the blood readings but forgot he also donated blood that day, so he wasn't. Luckily the Judge listened to him and he had proof about the blood donation and let him off on with a warning. Now he doesn't drink a drop if he's driving, it's called being an adult and learning from his experience. Should he have gone to jail, lost his job and been ruined for life because of what was a mistake?

  8. Re:How is this gasping news on Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail · · Score: 0

    If they're prepared to drive drunk, what makes you think they'll stop driving because a piece of paper was taken away from them?

  9. Re:It's not dead. on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 0

    "Windows XP and Windows 7 are rock solid, do not bluescreen" Meh, I guess my Windows 7 laptop didn't get that memo, bluescreens all the time.

  10. Re:Was Jesus riding Nessie? on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 0

    Well apes do already.

  11. Re:Was Jesus riding Nessie? on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 0

    It's a bit difficult to have a respectful debate with people who stick their fingers in their ears and just shout "GOD DID IT - YOU'RE GOING TO HELL" at you. We tried the education and respectful route already, that didn't work, how long would you spend arguing with someone with no evidence and no facts to back them up?

  12. Re:Medicine in America... on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 0

    Yeah, and a foreigner in a stressful situation, is immediately going to think, hold on a sec; this is a America a first world country, I need to check which hospital I can go to. Instead of Oh shit, I need to go to a hospital, then get turned down by the first, get even more stressed, start panicing, then after the 2nd one you're even worse, and thinking holy shit, I need help and soon. Then you finally get helped, you're so relieved that you're getting attended too that take what ever you can get, only to be ripped off and misdiagnosed.

  13. Re:dodging anti-science? on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 0

    "No. It has to do with the FDA making absolutely positively sure that a treatment is safe,” And yet they appear to still get it wrong, as per a recent article in Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110917082746.htm And plenty of other examples over the years, I think it has more to do with the very litigious society in the USA, than with anti-science.

  14. Re:Can't wait for the "NOOOO! Censorship!" crowd.. on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 0

    Why? Not saying that repect for the dead is a bad thing, however I have a huge issue with respecting the dead more than the living. Should be at least equal or respect the living more. IMO.

  15. Re:This should not be a crime on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 0

    Free speech does and should protect sadism, what it doesn't and shouldn't protect are actions arising from sadism or anything else. I personally think this guy went beyond the realm of mere speech when he started making videos etc. Therefore he should be punished and it is not a free speech issue. If he had just posted comments on the wall, then it would be different. But his actions went further than that.

  16. Re:Really? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 0

    Maybe 18 weeks of supervised community service would of been better. Somewhere where he can see the damage that actions like his do.

  17. Re:Carbon taxes etc... on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 0

    Just for arguments sake, let's say the climate scientists are right, and that if we don't stop doing what we're doing, we all die (or at least life as we know it and civilisation crumples and 95% of us die and we live in small pockets around the globe) Would you still say, why should we stop if the other people aren't?

  18. Re:Enough Already on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 0

    Science matters, especially to Nerds.

  19. Re:real vs fake on Fusion Garage Going After Lower-Price Tablet Market · · Score: 0

    Here you go, from experience, I think Android works better than IOS.

  20. Re:Slackers on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 0

    Or maybe just invest the millions you made in something other than bling, hookers and blow.

    Once you've made 10s of millions of dollars off your music, neither you nor your estate should have to worry about making more money of the same music. If you do, you're either greedy or an idiot.

    If you haven't made 10s of millions, then I doubt extending the copy right would make much difference.

  21. Re:I wish we could *find* grads for my work.. on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 0

    If I had mod points I'd mark you up as much as possible.

    Gone are the days where an I.T. person can sit in a corner and play with code or the latest system. I.T. and computers are no longer a form of "black magic" that business must give money too.

    Business now knows that if they don't get want they want from you, or can't understand you, then they'll go to someone who can give them what they want, or what they think they want, and they can understand.

    IF you want to be successful in I.T. or as a CS grad, you need to be able to communicate clearly and succinctly with Business (I.E non techs) and Techs. Otherwise don't be surprised if the person who knows less than you, but is able to explain to business why his ideas are good and how it will benefit them, or actually be able to see what they require, and explain it to them, will be promoted above you.

  22. Re:Proxy wars on HTC Sues Apple Using Google Patents · · Score: 1

    Put the 2003 and 2009 pre iPad ones in to the same position as the iPad, and I suspect the only major difference would be thickness.

  23. Re:the reason she failed is that . . on Carol Bartz Is Out As Yahoo's CEO · · Score: 0

    Depends on tense, lie down is current, lay down is past, which is correct in this context.

  24. Re:I started to lose my hair when I was 17... on Hair Growth Signal Dictated By Fat Cells · · Score: 0

    No, no it's not.

    Self image in kids is far different to self image in men who should of learnt enough by the time they're going bald to be comfortable with who they are. If they still put that much stock in having hair by the time they reach the age of going bald, then they have issues.

  25. Re:I started to lose my hair when I was 17... on Hair Growth Signal Dictated By Fat Cells · · Score: 0

    Oh way to go, comparing baldness in men to a psycological disorder in kids. Yeah apples with apples that is.

    Is anorexia, a genetic trait? Or is it a manifestation of deeper more serious problems.

    Is Alzheimer’s the same as a unibrow in your world?