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  1. Re:Bad analogy. on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    D'oh! It's like when I was 16^?^?21 and had no car...

  2. Re:Bad analogy. on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    It's like when I was 16 21 and had no car...

  3. Re:20 second explanation on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying, is that my 3 year old is really trying to teach himself advanced programming?

  4. Re:City officials need to learn from RTS on Interview With Alan Feng of Starcraft College Class Fame · · Score: 1

    I'm more of a fan of Dawn of War for its ability to accurately reward the player for ground taken as a metaphor for continual progress.

    This also fosters your battle as part of a larger effort and explore the link back to the larger force. Instead of mining things on the spot, you have to show your mettle to get more resources from the Thunderhawks dropping in buildings into your burgeoning forward outpost.

  5. Re:Life - what life? on Interview With Alan Feng of Starcraft College Class Fame · · Score: 1

    "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
    - Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts

    Pragmatic approaches to ending suffering have always worked better than empty dreams, even though it never won anyone a Nobel Peace Prize.

  6. Re:Tiny effect on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 1

    The transmitters are tuined to not be absorbed by anything it passes through. Collectors on the ground are 3x the efficiency of solar panels and are easier to manufacture (metal grid-work versus silicon/nanotube substrate). Doubting Thomas is doubting too much. Time for another space race...

  7. Re:These things work...sometimes...if you're lucky on 5 Powerline Networking Devices Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, her twin won't even remember her after the electro-shock therapy regimen is complete.

  8. Re:Seriously? on 5 Powerline Networking Devices Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Methinks the new one would also force compliance, unless you swing the other way, NTTAWWT...

  9. Re:Seriously? on 5 Powerline Networking Devices Reviewed · · Score: 1

    You might even be able to have him foot the bill or give you a break on the rent. it makes the place more attractive to have it pre-wired and it cuts down on claims upon check-out.

  10. Re:THANK YOU on Review: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin · · Score: 1

    Wow! I finally found out what the crap Adam Sandler was playing obsessively in Reign Over Me. Crap, now I've got Billy Joel stuck in my head...

  11. Re:hacking? Huh? on Researchers Hack Biometric Faces · · Score: 1

    Lock picking kits have been hard to obtain for years too. I'm not usually a fan of mistrusting "the monied interests", but bringing charges due to demonstrations and speeches just rubs me the wrong way. It is akin to SLAPP suits and authors claiming unfair reviews of their work.

  12. Re:Culture on China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain · · Score: 1

    How did Zhen He travel the world in leviathan sized ships and even left traces in California then?

    Ummm, he didn't?

  13. Re:Good on China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain · · Score: 1

    Presumably, the cost of living would decrease and people who, historically, had to work to help society reach that point would then be relieved of that need by lack of economic pressure: a parent could stay home with children in more families, for example.

  14. Re:DeLorian problems on The Science and Physics of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    NOT PRESENTLY?!!? When are they going to oust those freakin' GERMANS anyway?

  15. Re:Is there a way to get this with Alltel? on Get Out of Sprint Free · · Score: 1

    When AT&T Wireless changed to Cingular, they kept plans as is. We still had people on the "Your state ONLY" plans with national roaming, even (plan start dates of 1995 or earlier). The user never left the state, so it wasn't a big deal. I would assume that AllTel's merger will follow a similar pattern. Let sleeping dogs lie.

  16. Re:Uhh no... on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    Somebody explain to me how retailers went along with BlueRay after Sony screwing consumers with BetaMax with the same format revision shell game?

  17. Re:Distributed crime on Interview With an Adware Author · · Score: 1

    Because the ease of scaling an operation up from 1 stolen minute to 1 million in the telemarketing world, no. Circumventing caller ID, being annoying, threatening, having manipulative pitches, etc? Sure.

    In contrast, you have to feed a guy in a basement as well as make the room he's in imperceptible to the outside world (think of all the trouble Fritz had to go to when he hid his daughter). These are non-standard and thus more horrendous crimes. People have to actually THINK about it.

  18. Re:That sucks on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 1

    Oh, so now he's a POLYGAMOUS Not-really-black African Muslim Terrorist?

  19. Re:In a related move Toyoda.... on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 1

    The Toyota and Toyoda reading depend on the family that uses it.

    On another note, Mazda is actually Matsuda, but they thought it would sound better shortened. Datsun (when it was around) was an attempt to get a credible name.

  20. Re:Slow down... on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    So you say that complaining about Brine Shrimp is a fatal failure to understand the interconnectedness of things? Even a poor detective could see that the brine shrimp are feeding the Salmon of Doubt...

  21. Re:Conservation of energy on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    Exactly. My wife works in a metal factory that uses electron beam melting for their products (talk about cool: energy weapons in the factory!). The arcs in the article are also a well known and widely used way to melt stuff (metal, scrap, wahtever) and it can be controlled well. You can vary your arc amperage to melt different grades of stuff almost like distilling alcohol. Easy to control, and the burning off of the low-melting temp stuff produces enough energy to power the factory.

  22. Re:So here's the question ... on Scientists Discover Proteins Controlling Evolution · · Score: 1

    Wow! Science in action!

  23. Re:Pyrolysis may be more useful on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    People, people!

    No private spats on /., please! I'm sure she's a nice girl and you're just saying that because you're angry.

  24. Re:No surprise on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but hoover was the one who proposed most of the deficit spending that FDR implemented. EG: HOOVER Dam: proposed by Hoover but shelved for lack of support. FDR green-lighted it as one of the first works projects. A fight ensued because of Hoover's legacy to rename it Boulder Dam (it is not in Boulder canyon, but was part of the Boulder canyon assessment that found the suitable site). It went back and forth for about 30 years until it was finally settled by Congress.

  25. Re:No surprise on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    Just as there are degrees to liberal media in TV and print, there are degrees on the radio. Independents like Jerry Doyle on one extreme are in opposition to xenophobic types like "Borders, Language, Culture" Michael Savage, the shock jock of talk radio.