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  1. Re:I don't want this on Mixed Reception To AT&T's New Data Pricing Scheme · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I propose to use token ring for all our mobile networks XD

  2. Re:Joomla is great! on Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    What Joomla really needs is a reference diagram view between its components. Because it is annoying to track down what component is connected to what menu on what view linked to what piece of content. If you look at the ER diagram and then the front-end interface, you find Joomla has the bad habit of having multiple items refer to this one component, but component never refers back to any of the items. If you want cookie cutter sites quick then Joomla is a good way to go about things. However if you have to maintain the site, you better have the site creator on speed dial. Because odds are, your content monkey with their excessive html and javascript knowledge will screw it up, and debugging with Joomla is just not pretty.

  3. Re:I.D. is not a theory, it is dogma on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I.D. is a valid scientific theory.
    Case and point:
    http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5981/958

    I.D. by "GOD" may be dogma, but synthetic life forms created by human beings are by all accounts intelligent design.

  4. Re:I have news for you... on The Rise of Nanofoods · · Score: 1

    it's franken-food regardless even if you grow it yourself. you honestly think that miracle grow plant food you use as fertilizer doesn't change the taste and modify the property of the plant?

  5. Re:I already had my revenge 10 years ago. on Revenge of the Cable Customer · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our verizon overlords.

  6. Re:Ask the intelligence community on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 1

    People think respect should automatically given. I disagree. If you are not worthy of respect, your kids will not respect you. After all, in reality it is something earned. If a kid is disrespecting you, do you honestly believe being "grounded" have any positive effect? No, you would be the authority that they fight against. They wont appreciate you feed cloth and shelter them, they just think you take away what's rightfully theirs. So obviously two easy way to approach that issue. Either they are smart enough to get around your punishment, or they destroy your property and have you live through the punishment with them. Even when they hunger for approval and live through the punishment without much struggle, you still wont get the respect you want. I think disobedience and disrespect are symptoms of deeper issues when it comes to failure in parenting. A previous post made a very good point when it talked about the soviet union. The policy of the Russian government was to punish those who do not follow rules and do what they were told. Obviously it didn't work for adults, I cannot seriously consider it to be a viable option for children. Reasoning, bargaining, and positive reinforcing would make a better overall strategy when dealing with children since it worked well with adults.

  7. Re:Easy on US One Step Closer To Electric Grid Cyberguards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um... Ok, you have a closed network over hundred miles of wires, what stops me from doing a "on the wire" attack? Just because something is not connected to the internet does not make it physically safe. unless you wrap your communications wire with high voltage power wires... then, it would be rather difficult to perform a physical attack.

  8. Re:Testing is a bad path on Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    These employers are idiots. if money is the primary motivator for a person, then it would be a lot easier to keep the said employee happy. When money isn't a motivator, the employer loses a very clearly defined edge when negotiate with the said employee. Basically instead of:
    "Do this better or we will cut your pay"
    "OK, I'll improve on it"

    you'll pretty much get:
    "Do this better or we will cut your pay"
    "Go fuck yourself I'll go work for your competitor, they offer an office with a better view"

    It also creates less problems in the office since if you give the said employee special treatment, then everyone else would want that too.

  9. Re:Be careful what you wish for on P2P and P2P Links Ruled Legal In Spain · · Score: 1

    Yes, some of the best people ever lived are lawyers, such as Sir Thomas Moore or John Adams. The problem is the materialistic culture makes it hard to be a lawyer and an upstanding citizen. Yet there are plenty of lawyers out there still manage to keep their ethics. I think NYCL is a prime example of such. So obviously lawyers aren't the cause of problems in the societies today, but rather, a symptom.

  10. Re:Be careful what you wish for on P2P and P2P Links Ruled Legal In Spain · · Score: 1

    I'd rather see copyright destroyed than having 97 years worth of copyright cartel for all creative works.

  11. Re:Least possible *cost*, not *reward* on Professor Ditches Grades For XP System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's how accountants are. They are strictly process based, difficult to deal with, and stick with numbers. The reason why they seem to be good as managers is because they can play number games with metrics easily.

    I am sure they all understand long term forecast keep employees happy is cost efficient. However it doesn't concern them as it doesn't affect their budgeting in any way shape or form. They are in a medium to large size company taking salaries, saving the company money that is difficult to quantify, can't be plotted into charts, and has no direct correlation with their performance get tugged down the bottom of their priority list.

    Although keep an employee for a period is cost efficient, keep them forever is not. In management, it is best to keep people for around 4 years. The reason behind it is because keep employees for more than 5 years has its own cost. Employees demand raises as well as contribution to 401k retirement. On average a new employee will cost the company about 10 grand to bring on board. But, the same employee stays for more than 5 years will cost the company around 30 grand to keep. So at that point it is all about if the employee is worth it or not. So don't be surprised if your work environment suddenly become bad after couple years.

  12. Re:sheer leveling? on Professor Ditches Grades For XP System · · Score: 1

    really? as a male mmorpg player who strictly roll female characters, i don't see any of that going on in the games i play.

  13. Re:First job internew on Professor Ditches Grades For XP System · · Score: 1

    hahaha i would love to work for a company if they had a hr department that cool

  14. Re:This is still no remedy... on Professor Ditches Grades For XP System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but in the real world those who do nothing just get promoted and manage people with real skills. After all, it makes no business sense to promote programmers to become managers, that's just a waste of talent.

  15. Re:This is hilarious on University of Wyoming Studies Video Games · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this study would actually increase the quality of story lines in RPGs today. There are plenty of games that have incredible graphics, but the stories behind all those graphics are so horrendous that we just throw our hands in the air and rage quit.

    Script writing for games are very different from writing books, that is obvious. However, those scripts are also very different from movie scripts, and game developers do not get that. I see plenty of games with cheesy third rate action flick movie scripts that they bring down the over all experience of games.

    Presentation is also important. I see plenty of games use self-coined terms out of nowhere, then throw you a gigantic codex so you can dig through walls of text just to figure out what the hell they are talking about. That's like failing composition 101 where the professor requires you to write introductions. You don't just throw key details into the bibliography and call it a day.

    So yes, hopefully this study can improve these points.

  16. Re:So, class, what have you learned? on University of Wyoming Studies Video Games · · Score: 1

    If you are able to achieve the same goal solo in a game where others have to band together as a team, that also trains you in a different manner. You would be more than likely to think "outside of the box" when presented with a problem and explore all none-intended options.

  17. Re:Article is wrong. on MIT Scientists Make a Polyethylene Heatsink · · Score: 0

    huh? surely you kid. How does one way heat removal break laws of thermodynamics? We already have such technology, and it is called a water tank. You connect a heat source to the bottom of a water tank, as it heats water on the bottom, the density of water in vicinity decreases and flow upward in one direction.

  18. Re:What happens in Vegas, stays on facebook on On Social Networks, You Are Who You Know · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's when you face punch the ass who tagged you, since you can find out who they are and where they live from facebook via the algorithm in TFA.

  19. Re:OpenGL on par with Direct3D11 on OpenGL 4.0 Spec Released · · Score: 1

    Can you explain then why jogl supports full screen AA while lwjgl doesn't? Shouldn't they be supporting the same OpenGL feature?

  20. Re:!MMM on "Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup · · Score: 1

    yes, but instead, i would like to start a yale cs students/projects bashing thread :D

  21. Re:OpenGL on par with Direct3D11 on OpenGL 4.0 Spec Released · · Score: 1

    or jogl, but AA is a pain in either, and literally crawling in jogl. in lwjgl, it's rather corse. You can still see pixelated edges.

  22. Re:Isn't bittorrent good? on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    Due to Net Neutrality, ISPs are not able to implement priority routing. Thus, the only other option left is force hard bandwidth limits. This however does not sit well in a market place where most ISPs claim they offer unlimited internet access. Please note upgrading does not make business sense. Just because you obtain some arbitrary amount of bandwidth does not mean the heavy users will not soak these up as well. All it takes is word of mouth and the number heavy users grow from few and far between to a good portion of your user base. There is no real scalability with upgrading. What we really need is a better understand of the problem and a feasible way to approach it, instead of shouting the same old quick response from ages ago without even bothering with proper research.

  23. Re:Not Necessarily on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are assuming that there is actually competition and not localized virtual monopolies. The reality however is that cable and teleco have divied out service area plots and hardly ever expand into each others' "turf". Even in one of the richest county in United States - Fairfax, VA. Depends on where you live, you either get Cox, Verizon, or Comcast. Areas where you may choose between the three service providers practically don't exist. So what happens when you want to drop your ISP? Well, the alternative is 56k dialup.

  24. Re:It's the freeloaders time on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    Time to include dom object name regex in adblock, URL based blocking is stone age technology.

  25. Re:Note: Apache ON WINDOWS on Serious Apache Exploit Discovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apache has to run as root at some point or else it can't bind to port 80. What you see from ps is after apache had setuid and forked. You can do the same thing in windows, but don't you agree it falls upon apache to do spawn processes as an unprivileged user? If you remember back in Apache 1 days, it was the same way in Linux, you had to run as root or load it as a plugin for inetd if you wanted to run it on port 80. I remember back in the days when we were using ipfwadm to forward all packets with server port 80 dest to port 8080 just so we could run Apache as a regular user. And even then it didn't work right all the time. In this specific case, I really don't see any reason to blame the OS.