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  1. Re:Whack-a-mole on Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima · · Score: 1

    You've drunken the cool aid? There's been close to 0 public money in nuclear since `86 and massive amounts into solar. You should be forced to get energy from just solar and wind and see how well you'll handle.

  2. Re:Learn VBScript on Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? · · Score: 1

    True, but every other admin uses VBscript i am afraid.
    I used to be all about JScript until I started at a larger company. Now, VBScript doesn't seem all that bad anymore.

  3. Re:Why do we need to care about a gender gap? on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    Also a lot more women work part time, which is usually not taken into account. Man wanting to work part time are laughed at by their boss.

  4. Re:PC Gaming Alliance is a Joke on PC Gaming Alliance's New President Talks DRM, System Requirements · · Score: 1

    Steam, Impulse and Desura - probably by now some further services.
    Yeah, these include 3rd party DRM sometimes too but they're clearly labeled as such and can be avoided.

  5. Bandwidth concerns. on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Maybe the deal means that any Netflix streaming wont be measured into the 250GB a month cap that comcast enforces?
    Could also mean that Comcast caches the content on their own servers.

  6. Old hat on Software Finds Plagiarism In Research · · Score: 1

    My English prof back in 2000 had this software already.
    However, my final paper was "borrowing" quiet heavily and he didn't find out. Maybe this version works better? :)

  7. Imperial War Museum on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    What's more geeky then Enigma machine, V2 rocket and Tanks?
    It's easily reachable in the center at Elephant and Castle Tube station.
    Entrance Free with vol. donations as usual for London.

  8. Re:Also: on TSA Changes Its Rules, ACLU Lawsuit Dropped · · Score: 1

    2000 (switch from D to R president)

    The 2000 election was at the height of the dot-com boom (with Gore taking credit for it).
    The crash followed shortly after that, with the ultimate catalyst the 9-11 attacks.

  9. But UAC works perfectly fine at frustrating me! on In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just recently had to edit the Host file. (Local DNS file).
    Could not save it because of UAC, and didn't get a UAC prompt either, had to give up and disable UAC first.

  10. Re:Well.. on Is Valve's Steam Anti-Competitive? · · Score: 1

    Steam always tags 3rd party DRM. I never buy them and I am sure at some point they can proof to customers that removing DRM increases sales.
    Looking at you Crysis!

  11. Re:Its true everywhere on When Do You Fire a Headhunter? · · Score: 1

    Be aware that a lot of Headhunters ask candidates on the phone/in person tests you were doing, if any at all and start preparing/feeding their future candidate the answers.
    I find it best to mix questions up or just discuss the tech items broadly, and trip "brain dump" people up.

  12. Re:Give them what they want. on Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled · · Score: 1

    I fully agree, street view is valueable and saves time & gas for drivers. (I guess the Swiss don't want to be seen as green).
    Block it for 1-2 years with the message, so other goverments think twice.
    I am a swiss in the US, and fully appriciate Street View before any trip.

  13. Re:Oh really? on PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message · · Score: 1

    Fully agreed, it's only "shocking" because people remove themself from the dirty part.
    No regular media shows slaughterhouse footage, when PETA does it it's SHOCKING to be hit with how factory like with no compassion lives are destroyed.

  14. Re:Peta out of control on PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message · · Score: 1

    I disagree with "shock theater"
    It's not "shock theater" - it's reality that is just never ever shown on any media.

    If every meat eater has to kill his own animals there would be a whole lot more vegetarians.

  15. Not *really* funny on China Launches First Willing Manned Mission Into Space · · Score: 1

    Funny is usually when there is some degree of truth behind. Cannot see any in this clip.
    The China Space program is the pride of the nation and queues are as long as everywhere to sign up.
    China has money in abundance (real money not debt!)... so making them look like a south park episode of the mexian NASA makes it look double stupid.

  16. Re:Email is the best on Why Email Has Become Dangerous · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Same here, I need to focus and often do not check my email for an hour or two.
    Any phone call complelty kills my focus.

    Stupid studies like this that do not consider the impact of alternatives just make my bosses encourage others to call me instead of writing me a well structured Email.

  17. Re:Rotational Media is so 20th Century on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    In addition flash drives are more rugged

    Really? A lot of flash drives are so cheap they stop working by themselfs (no touching/using needed) after 6-12months. I have gone through three in this year alone, granted all three are free drives I got at some events.

  18. Re:COBOL. on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Funny, I got rejected from a position because "we have some candidated with 10+ years of expirience".
    For Active Directory, Widows 2003 etc.

    I bet all those lied, they can have these suckers!

  19. Yes, this is what they have to do. on China to Deploy Secure GPS by 2010 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No way around it, too much military equipment needs this these days. No one in China doubts that the USA would shut them out of the GPS at the slightest confrontation and the EU is a weakling and would crawl under American pressure. Unfortunatly that will mean that soon India will need it's own system as well since they also don't trust the USA very much. (USA has been funding pakistan through all the wars they had)

  20. Re:exactly like hong kong and macau on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 1

    Obviously my comment was sarcastic. The precedence for a re-union with Taiwan is already present. So why should China *NOW* give Tibet special rights. (They already get some benefits; Ethnic Tibetans may have three children for instance)

    Tibet had much more far fetching autonomy already from 1950-1959 but the Dalai clique didn't want it then, he probably does not want it now. (He was for instance allowed to keep the slave system intact)

  21. Re:The reaction should not be surprising on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 1

    this might even pave the way for china to prove to the world that the absorption of taiwan would proceed smoothly too

    Like Honk Kong and Macau? Ohh right there the communists are killing and "assimilating" there RIGHT now. Please quit your stupid bullshit.

  22. Re:Racist on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 1

    And yet Italy has left a huge cultural impact on Europe, while the Chinese have left Tibets culture and language be. The 800 years are CONTINOUS with a brief quasi independence 50 years ago.

  23. Re:Racist on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 1

    Then they are awefully slow with this assimilation. Considering Tibet has been part of China since 800 years. A western nation would have killed the natives 10 times over by now!

  24. Re:The reaction should not be surprising on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 1

    I can tell you that very clearly the opinion of the vast majority of Chinese is currently very anti French and western in general.
    And I agree with them; the western media has truly failed on an epic scale to bring unbiased information and can be blamed in part for allowing the rioters two days of unhindered murder and looting. //I am Swiss with lots of contacts in China and also expat Chinese.

  25. Where the data is saved. on Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users · · Score: 1

    To this day I find the programs that save their data in their directory the best, I just Xcopy them when I move my computers. It's always a fight to find where programs save their info, is it \documents and settings\localdata and appdata right away? How about in all users\appdata instead? Or maybe in my registry... friggin stupid and now MS punishes devs to have the data in the program folder with UAC.