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  1. Re:McCain or Obama? No-freedom or no-security? on McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance · · Score: 1

    What does saying that a small third world country is 'as dangerous as cold war USSR' do to their status? Especially among their neighbors?

  2. Re:What's wrong with you people?! on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    What makes you so sure that it was hacked by an American? Look in the mirror...arrogance.

  3. Re:Aging Engineers on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I would much rather deal with well written procedural code than poorly written OOP.
    I have found that instances where 'true' OO need to be used are few and far between.

  4. Aging Engineers on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think many people fail to recognize that the average age of software engineers has gotten higher and that many have realized that most of the pitfalls in software development have little to do with the language chosen. I would rather concentrate on good engineering practices and refining familiar modules I have developed than learn a new language.

  5. Re:DSL can work. on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    I vaguely remember something about an unused leg in the phone wire used for alarm systems.. you can tap into this and do some level of networking using this wire.

  6. Re:Don't send it to a consultant who would ask ... on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    I would just tell the consultant that they have to do it on-site and on my companies hardware.
    It really isn't clear what the circumstances are behind hiring the person, perhaps a compromise like I illustrated would work.

  7. Re:"in real time" on Supernova Birth Observed From Orbiting Telescope · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be precise we don't see anything in real-time.

  8. Re:Eating out on IT Workers Are Getting Fatter · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. IT workers have the market cornered on stress. Find someone else to go stroke yourself with.

  9. Re:Eating out on IT Workers Are Getting Fatter · · Score: 1

    How about the well know correlation between age and weight gain? Perhaps IT workers are just getting older. Let't think of the easy/obvious anwers before making stuff up.

  10. Re:Why is this a surprise? on Nanotubes "As Deadly as Asbestos" · · Score: 1

    Anything that hastens cell death and cannot be removed by the body can be considered cancerous. Each generation of cells has shorter and shorter telomeres and eventually become cancerous.

  11. Re:Actually... on Nanotubes "As Deadly as Asbestos" · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about Byssinosis or lung disease caused by cotton fibers? We still use cotton textiles though.
    My point is that any small particulate (look up silicosis) does not belong in the lungs. Nanotubes will most likely be encapsulated in some kind of epoxy matrix which would entail little or no hazard.

  12. Re:Good to see on Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope · · Score: 1

    Not really because if you use this (piss poor) reasoning the FSF are a bunch of hucksters.

  13. Re:Good to see on Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ms could cure AIDS and release the patent to the public domain and people like you would still bitch about it.

  14. Re:not hard to guess on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    You forgot APL, which was invented in 1957 and was widely used in the finance industry. I wouldn't be suprized if there are still APL programs from this era running today.

  15. Re:Yup... on Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the burden of proof lays on the outrageous claim, not the reasonable assertion.

  16. Re:The usefulness of textbooks on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Forget about books. He should get a breadboard kit and start monkeying around, if you fry something you are out of a dollar or two. I thought he wanted to have fun?

  17. Re:If you saw your friend again on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    This is a nonsense hypothetical argument. All that is missing is an automobile analogy.

  18. Re:That explanation smells like bullshit on Bluetooth Surveillance Tested In the UK · · Score: 1

    The tracking algorithims would be the same, abit with a different input.

  19. Re:FUD review on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 1

    Gimmie a break!

    "It is 2008 and never has so much been spent in information security. Year after year, more and more security hardware and software is purchased, more and more security professionals are hired, and more security is done; yet things are not getting better. Every indicator, every pundit, everything points to more security breaches, vulnerabilities and incidents. Large amounts of proprietary data are compromised on a daily basis. Obviously something is wrong, yet the entire industry goes along thinking things are getting better and more secure.

    And this book will save us......

  20. Re:Things are not getting better? on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 1

    Security is not some end state but an ongoing practice. Nobody will every 'solve' the security problem.

  21. FUD review on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 1

    Far too much of the security industry has its roots in FUD.

    And so does this review.

  22. Re:I am an unhappy customer on PayPal Plans To Ban Unsafe Browsers · · Score: 1

    I use yahoo mail, which warns you when you get a mal-formed email. There are more ways to avoid pfishing attacks than just the browser.

  23. Re:Tags on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    Billions to prosecute people with thought crimes-- in the meantime thousands of children are being brainwashed and molested by polygomous cults.

  24. Re:Where's the math? on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    What do 'math rankings' really mean? Which would be more desirable, having the largest number of people in the top 1 percentile or the entire population being slightly more math literate than anywhere else?

  25. Re:Well actually on Dealing With an IT Bully · · Score: 1

    how about the other option- let the bug sit till monday and let everyone enjoy their weekend