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  1. Re:No. on Congress Made Wikipedia Changes · · Score: 1

    It is ethical for them to try to live a life that doesn't need censoring.
    You must lead quite the boring life.

  2. Re:Slogan... on Linux Powers Military UGV · · Score: 1

    "Nothin' waddles like a penguin."

  3. Scarier and scarier on U.S. Plan To Fight The Internet Revealed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For a long time I had dismissed the idea of the military-industrial complex as being a mythology of overly paranoid conspiracy theorists. I don't any more. The more I learn about the Psyops program makes me wonder what else they're right about. Maybe there really is no such thing as enough paranoia when it comes to the government.

  4. Re:Crazy idea! on When Should You Stop Support for Software? · · Score: 1

    That's a developmental strategy, not a support strategy. It's quite orthogonal to the subject at hand.

  5. Re:Depends... on When Should You Stop Support for Software? · · Score: 1

    Would you be happy with a 39% pay-cut? How about a 15% pay-cut?

    Alienating 39% of your target audience isn't exactly pennies for most business. Imagine if Wal-mart turned away 39% percent of all its customers.

  6. Depends... on When Should You Stop Support for Software? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Depends on if you consider x% of the interweb population to be valuable to your business.

  7. Misinterpretation on The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looking at just the title, I was wondering about how one would go about stopping the explosion of a star, then I read the blurb.

  8. Re:My person of the year... on Bill Gates, Time Magazine "Person of the Year" · · Score: 1

    So what? That doesn't make the good thing he did automatically bad.

  9. I'm thrilled, but... on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    Bush admitting to going to war under faulty intelligence, and now this? I'm not unhappy about it (in fact, I'm thrilled), but when did the ball drop? When did he change his mind and decide to take the blame? How did this all happen?

  10. Re:well i think on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Honest question: Where's the ethical dilemma in humanizing something?

  11. Re:Bill's always whining about American CS... on Competing to Work for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Funny, though, I've never seen the American - or Canadian, or British version - of the Code4Bill contest.
    Hey, don't encourage him. It's bad enough that he decided to place Microsoft headquarters here.

  12. Re:What the fuck? on First Cell Phone for Dogs · · Score: 4, Funny

    > I saved a bundle my just giving my dog a quarter.

    I saved a bundle by switching my dog to Geico.

  13. Re:MSFT and AOL on Microsoft and Time Warner Team Up Against Google · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mortal enemies? AOL was using Microsoft's software even when they had other options. The rhetoric between the two had no substance.

  14. Silent Scope on Reflections On The Revolution · · Score: 1

    This would be the first home system that would adequately have hardware support for that game.

    Someone must see this, and come out with a proper sniper game.

  15. Santa Claus on Forbes Fictional 15 · · Score: 2, Funny

    His elves are on strike. Mr. Claus responded by saying, "I assure you that this year's quota will be reached." He would not respond to questions as to how this will be done.

    (Since I'm fairly certain that my friend will kill me if he found out I /.ed his server, some mirrors: Coral Cache.)

  16. Re:Global Warming! on Failing Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age · · Score: 5, Informative

    Global warming is a bit of a misleading name. Yes, the average temperature of the planet will go up, but that does not mean all places on the planet will increase in temperature. Before this, many scientists speculated that global warming would result in far colder, harsher winters for the United Kingdom.

    The one thing about global warming that people must understand is that it will throw all the climate regions into chaos, and change them, which will change the local fauna and flora.

  17. Re:A Polite Request to the Nintendo Community on The Real Revolution Comes May 9, 2006 · · Score: 1

    Do you go to Mac fanatics and tell them not to hold out hope for Apple's next hardware/software release?

  18. Re:who's to blame? on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Environmentalism shouldn't be about saving the planet. It should be about saving ourselves. Maybe any climate change will be reversible, but it will most likely be reversible on geological timescales. Not human timescales. That's by far long enough for us to go extinct.

  19. Re:Chicken and egg experience problem on Recruiting IT Students? · · Score: 1

    I read a post like yours, and wonder why I'm living where I'm living. I could pass your test with flying colors, but can't find a job worth a damn around here.

  20. Chicken and egg experience problem on Recruiting IT Students? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know a lot of students that are stuck in a chicken and egg experience problem: all the jobs they're looking require X number of years of experience on the job. Well, they haven't really had a job in their particular field (usually they've just been working at a restaurant, the college itself in non-field related work, or a department store).

    I would bet you almost anything that you'll have students flocking to you if you state that you have entry-level/new graduate positions open.

  21. Slashdotted! on Austrian Town Sees the Light · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't seem to read the site. It seems to be slashdotted.

    So, does anyone have a good...umm...mirror?

  22. Re:It's not about stopping the signal on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 2

    It wasn't that at all. He willingly took the foil off to be identified at entry-ways. He doesn't want to be tracked without his knowledge.

  23. It's not about stopping the signal on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stallman wanted to make a point, not actually stop the signal.

    To him, the message was more important than what it actually did.

    People more immediately understood the significance of wrapping it in tin foil than anything else.

  24. Inconclusive on Linux? on Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't have a HT-capable proc (AMD Athlon XP 1700), so I don't know anything from personal experience.

    I decided to check out how PostgreSQL did with HT.

    The first link (1) was suggesting to someone--who was having performance problems under FreeBSD--to turn off HT. Of course, that may not be related to PostgreSQL itself, but rather FreeBSD. I really don't know.

    The next thing I found showed some mixed results with ext2 under Linux (2). Somethings showed gain with HT, but not others.

    Another link (3) commented that HT with Java requires special consideration when coding.

    I didn't come up with anything useful under PostgreSQL, so I checked out Linux.

    According to Linux Electrons, Linux performance can drop without proper setup.

  25. Oops, forgot this on First Xbox 360 Reviews Hitting the Web · · Score: 1