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  1. Jack Bauer vs the Amish on Crowdsourcing Big Brother In Lancaster, PA · · Score: 1

    My money is on the Amish... but atleast we will now have it on video.

  2. If I were the thief there'd be legos on my stool on Tracking Thieves With 'Find my iPhone' · · Score: 1

    No way in hell am I not smacking down the Lego platoon.

  3. Re:US School System compared to Europes School Sys on A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education · · Score: 1

    The public schools I attended in the US were set up very similarly to the way you describe European schools - sections based on performance levels.

    Incidentally, they stopped this about two years after I graduated high school.

    I come from a small rural town in western Maryland. Redneck city. Many of the kids I graduated with left town, went to college are all over the world doing all kinds of things. I currently design airborne hyperspectral sensors for instance.

    The kids afterward? Much lower college attendance. Many of them still living with their parents. A lot of unemployment in that group.

    Oh well.

  4. Re:Cat 3 on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Definately not a HD furnace. It sounds like someone tossed a toolbox into the cloths dryer every time it kicks on.

  5. Cat 3 on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Cat 3 wiring is still usable for various LAN applications - home automation being one.

    Unless if course your furnace NEEDS 100 Mb/sec connectivity.... 10 Mb/sec will probably do. I find mine gets by with zero actually, but it is controlled by an oh so boring programmable thermostat.

  6. Well if she is hot, OK on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    other than the the answer is no.

  7. Didn't Sagan think of this first on Pulsar Signals Could Provide Galactic GPS · · Score: 1

    On that plate he had welded to Voyager?

  8. Satellite is nothing on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Wait until Argus hits the skies.

  9. I farted in bed and it sounded like a dolphin on Wolfram|Alpha's Surprising Terms of Service · · Score: 0, Troll

    Naturally, I asked WolframAlpha about it.

    Wolfram didn't know what to do with that input.

    I have no use for such a shoddy search engine.

  10. Re:Not news. on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    Flight time to camp David is about 20 minutes. From CD to Hagerstown Maryland Regional Airport is about 10 (recent runway extentions there can handle a 747).

  11. Re:Not news. on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    The installations in the federal ring are only about 50 miles out (300 miles puts them well past the mountains not to mention makes them useless in time of war as it would take too long to get to one) and are far from secret: Cannonball, Cannonball 2, Corkscrew, Mt Weather, Raven Rock, Site R, Camp David, the list goes on. You can Eyeball then, and find lots of info about them in the web.

  12. Re:properly written C++ does not use memcpy on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    Fool. Don't worry about us embedded developers who oftentimes need contiguously allocated storage and cannot have their storage fragmented all over fuck and dale.

  13. So in other words... on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 1

    ...you didn't back up your server.

    Atleast not in any meaningful way.

  14. I own a 64GB Patriot xPorter Magnum on Flash Drive Roundup · · Score: 1

    It is aluminum. Red. A nice thumb drive.

    It is a little large, but all in all OK.

  15. They give 4GB USB drives away at trade shows on Flash Drive Roundup · · Score: 1

    with the corporate logo on them, most of which end up in the trash.

  16. Birth rate in Central american and Mexico on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 1

    seems quite high according to a quick Google search that I just did.

    Interesting point however, since S America does seem to be in a decline.

  17. Re:Most migrants don't want to be US citizens. on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 1

    I doubt it. Certain hispanic immigrant advocacy groups fight sales tax increases tooth and nail... incidentally one tax that their "constituency" cannot avoid.

  18. Re:"Tear down this wall" on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 1

    Come now, surely you can come up with some smart as rejoinder to the below post for me to eviscerate?

  19. Re:Phd or don't bother on Go For a Masters, Or Not? · · Score: 1

    That is not true - MS will definately get a salary bump (will have to change jobs to get the bump) not to mention get your resume through HR much easier than with undergrad alone.

    In government contracting your resume will be bid at a higher rate thus earning the company more money: this alone makes the masters desireable and is quite frankly why many contractors will subsidize it. If you are going for government employment directly masters will bump you to a higher pay band or substitute for x (usually one) years of experience.

    My experince is that a PhD in CS is utterly useless in industry. They don't get paid more, they don't get any preference over an MS, and honestly they don't perform any better. However this is true of a masters-bachelor comparison as well... two former bosses were college dropouts and quite frankly better developers than anyone degreed that I have yet to meet.

  20. Re:"Tear down this wall" on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That wall was meant to keep people captive.

    This wall is simply meant to make people use legal means of immigration, which incidentally will continue to exist.

  21. Fence? Forget it. Tax them. on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since illeal immigrant are getting health care, police protection, (add a number of government supplied services here) anyway.. just take the plunge, make them citizens... and then proceed to tax the bejesus out of them.

     

  22. Does Japan or France have any? on NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    They have large nuclear programs. Perhaps they might want to get rid of some of this stuff if they have it.

  23. Suddenly everyone's a lawyer on Windows 7 Users Warned Over Filename Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Spouting off about "moot" this and "moot" that.

  24. Re:Drepper in a rant vs RMS on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> I'll immediately walk away from glibc...

    Promises, promises.

  25. Contractor drive, not military on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    For all anyone knows it could have been stolen.