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  1. Re:then you're not a real developer on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    He was referring to the article, not a post.

  2. Re:It's about social status... on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    Don't know if this was the case for you, but in my college the math department had calculus as a prereq for Sets & Logic, which is perfectly reasonable for a requirement for CS.

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

    This isn't a new thing, they've had that particular power for a long time now.

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

    Of how powerful he is or of how dedicated to his stated position he is?

  5. Re:Business is business on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    "We didn't know anything about it, it's all the IT grunt's doing."

  6. Re:My job used to be like this.... on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    This is a decent solution, but it only works if you can convince the person in charge that there's actually a problem.

  7. Re:Bide your time on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    However, with the way peer to peer networks work, downloading and distributing a copy are nearly the same thing.

  8. Re:Wasn't the MPAA who shut down the network on MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download · · Score: 1

    It's a service provided to the citizens by the county in exchange for taxes, I think it qualifies as municipal WiFi.

  9. Re:What the bets the first release will be... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Alongside such works as Principia Mathematica?

  10. Re:This should've never come out of the firehose.. on MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download · · Score: 3, Informative

    I suspect that you are mistaken, the wireless hotspot was capable of handling more than a hundred users at once and the county is considering purchasing filtering hardware and software so they can bring it back up.

  11. Re:Geneva Conventions on MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download · · Score: 1

    War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Filesharing, War on common sense.

    I wonder which one is closest to being "won".

    Definitely the last one, the other three would have trouble even showing their progress.

  12. Re:Wasn't the MPAA who shut down the network on MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are one and the same, the 300 block is the only section of the town serviced by the municipal WiFi.

  13. Re:Other fields... on Mimicking Materials and Structures In Nature · · Score: 1

    Just remember, both sides are evolving their arguments over time, its not the exclusive domain of the religious.

  14. Re:Biomimetics on Mimicking Materials and Structures In Nature · · Score: 1

    But would you expect them from no designer or have we constructed a theory that causes us to expect what we already know exists?

  15. Re:Biomimetics on Mimicking Materials and Structures In Nature · · Score: 1

    It doesn't make sense if the creator's objective is to fill the niche, but what if the objective is to occupy himself by creating a creature that fills the niche?

  16. Re:Biomimetics on Mimicking Materials and Structures In Nature · · Score: 1

    Kind of like Blizzard not intentionally designing the evolution of battle tactics in Starcraft, but creating a system where it will happen. (If this sort of creator is in existence, we might expect periodic nerfing of exceptionally successful forms of life, and buffs applied to the losers of life.)

    Like for example, causing the temperature of the planet to drop for a period of time to nerf cold-blooded animals?

  17. Re:Penalties on Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior · · Score: 1

    It is totally different, now you don't have to try to figure out which accounts you need to break into.

  18. Re:Obligatory George Carlin Quote on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Median is another form of average.

  19. Re:Obligatory George Carlin Quote on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Your link is only applicable for things that follow a Gaussian distribution. That said, averages do work that way. The word average doesn't apply only to the mean, but also to various other forms of average, such as the median.

  20. Re:Well played. The noobs think they got something on EU Telecom Deal Finished — No Three Strikes · · Score: 1

    I think most people are missing the point. Yes, you'll obviously contest the one that denies you internet, but if you don't contest the two before it the system essentially becomes a one strike system with the two previous counts being used as evidence to make it seem more likely that you also committed the third offense.

  21. Re:didn't 3-strikes get striked out in... on Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA · · Score: 1

    The answer is that people don't want to use 20Mbit/s 24/7, they want to use it for a limited amount of time at any time of their choice. Given that people generally tend to have similar schedules this means that people will often want to use their bandwidth at similar times.

  22. Re:also have to be made law? on Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA · · Score: 1

    There is no law higher than the U.S. Constitution. Therefore if the treaty said, for example, "the right of free speech shall be revoked" and the Senate okayed the treaty, this portion of the treaty would be nullified by the Supreme Law's first amendment. (Or possibly the second.) It is as if the lower law never existed.

    Unfortunately that wouldn't prevent people from being tried and convicted under the treaty's law.

  23. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    The problem is proving that nothing else remains possible.

  24. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    In so far as dark matter is concerned, you are incorrect. Experiments like the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search are attempting to detect dark matter particles directly, we've got neutrino detectors looking for evidence of annihilation events... Particle accelerator experiments attempting to actually synthesize dark matter candidates.. To claim that there isn't a way to test the dark matter hypothesis would be grossly inaccurate.
    Disclaimer: Physics isn't my major but I did study quite a bit of it in high school and college.

    When you start getting successful results you can start using it to make your theories work when they otherwise wouldn't.

  25. Re:Zero-day viruses aren't what they used to be... on In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses · · Score: 1

    Two of the viruses were written before Vista was released.