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  1. Give it time on Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama might not always be right.

    Bush might not have always been wrong.

    There just might be a valid reason for this (then again there might not be).

    They guy has been in office less than a week. Progress has already been made.

  2. Re:Um...freudian slip? on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >> proud motherland of the apes, chimpanzees, macaques, baboons

    Not to mention humans.

    PS Crack a dictionary, read the definition of "niggle." But then again a mind that operates at your level is easily distracted by shiny objects and rhyming words, I suppose.

  3. Linux doesn;t do annoying things? on How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? · · Score: 0, Troll

    [sarcasm]

    Like one day all of a sudden mounting your root file system as read only simply because you commited the horrible sin of gracefully shutting down one night and powering up the next day?

    Things like that?

    Linux? Never!

    [/sarcasm]

  4. Re:What? on Obama Edicts Boost FOIA and .gov Websites · · Score: 1

    Then release the pictures/videos in 7 years or so.

    At the moment all they will do is inflame more hatred.

  5. What? on Obama Edicts Boost FOIA and .gov Websites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >> Can we get all the ugly in the open so we can start to earn our respect back?

    Yeah. That worked so well with Abu Ghraib.

    Help the victims. Heal them physically and mentally. Pay them. Acknowledge wrongdoing. Admit guilt. State the facts. Do this all extremely publicly.

    But burn those goddamn pictures. All they will do is piss people off, no matter how hard you try to make things right.

  6. Ping pong, air hockey tables, and barber chairs on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Remember what that was deemed appropriate must have office equipment for the hip IT company?

    Why don't they sell some of that crap?

    If Ballmer and Gates chipped in half a billion each, that would pay 1000 employees a hundred grand for a year.

  7. Proves nothing on Where Automakers Stash Unsold Cars · · Score: 1

    Port of Baltimore would have cars packed like that in huge parking lots during the boom years.

  8. Re:Could have been worse on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Was one requirement of the dumbass's job that he be psychic, and be able to locate radioactive materials in office supply dumps simply thru sheer concentration?

  9. Re:the messages aren't new on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 1

    I remember when Klingons were vaguely Japanese.

    Also they didn't have nearly as long hair, and had no forehead ridges, not that this is relevent.

  10. Re:Un huh. on Do Nice Engineers Finish Last In Tough Times? · · Score: 1

    Lot's of fun... and I don't have some gay assed obstruficated email address either.

  11. Re:Why..? on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Pretty much the same in some other countries... except there the ceremonial cannons are pointed at the outgoing leader.... and aren't firing blanks.

  12. Re:Hail to the new chief.. same as the old chief. on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Well crikey, I didn't vote for the guy either, but I sure hope he succeeds in fixing this mess. Give the man a chance.

  13. I, for one, am tired... on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    ...of needing a pilots license to drive!

    And me me tell you something bucko, I also like knowing who uses deodorant BEFORE boarding, thank you very much.

    Not that this will help if flying Air France.

  14. Re:Welcome back, America on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 1

    Are we expected to take someone who has both French and British ancestry seriously?

  15. Re:While Stuart sounds cool... on Do Nice Engineers Finish Last In Tough Times? · · Score: 1

    Take responsibility, yes.

    Take the blame, no. Subordinates are not grated some sort of immunity for thier actions.

    LIE about who was at fault - never!

    Hell Stuart should be canned just for lying.

  16. Un huh. on Do Nice Engineers Finish Last In Tough Times? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Aside from the fact that your post is a load of horseshit, I suppose that you didn't step up to the plate by telling management what you witnessed.

    And, incidentally, once the youngster took his car to the shop to be repaired, the tampering would have been discovered, and your fictional coworker would have been thrown in jail (hmm just where did this after market valve and regulator come from anyway?). In most states tampering with an automobile is a felony.

  17. While Stuart sounds cool... on Do Nice Engineers Finish Last In Tough Times? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...telling his boss that mistakes that his employees made were his mistakes was not very smart.

    Atleast that is how I read his actions.

    Stuart should have been 100% honest. Lying to his bosses about who screwed up didn't help anyone in the end.

    Well, it helped Doug.

    Not saying throw the employee under the bus. Be cool, be honest, and tell it like it is.

  18. Not only is QWERTY superior.... on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    ....but it makes a great password.

    Atleast it served me well on /. for 10+ years.

    (Now sit back and watch the ankle biters try to log on as moi....)

  19. Re:They can start with our powerplants on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1

    This would quite possibly yield less energy while producing more CO2 than simply burning the stuff. Not to mention the upfront costs.

    To hell with coal.

  20. Worm attack is for pussies on 1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SNAKE attack... now that is scarey.

  21. CNN, VLC on Streaming the Inauguration In a School? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Watch it on CNN.

    Or, download it and UDP stream to your.sub.net.255.

       

  22. Re:Signals? Slots? on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    Really? I guess someone should tell that to trolltech as they refer to these and other constructs as "C++ extensions"

    http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/moc.html

    Additionally, the list of what you can and cant do in a signal/slot block is quite extensive. Even MFC, abortion that it is, is not nearly so screwed up.

    I especially like the quote, "Less importantly, the following constructs are illegal. All of them have alternatives which we think are usually better, so removing these limitations is not a high priority for us."

    Translation: we are not up to the task of fixing our crap, so screw it.

    Like I said, I'll stick with ANSI C++ and let you ankle biters muck about with the moc.

  23. Re:and food coloring to produce jam on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    It does, actually. Or atleast the person eating it is fooled into thinking so.

  24. Signals? Slots? on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    I'll stick with ANSI C++ thank you very much.

  25. Wrong on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 2, Funny

    Real astronauts eat'tang.