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  1. Re:A good idea with one condition on Should Cops Wear Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    I agree with that a lot more. As Sherlock Holmes once said: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
    But I don't think that it's the best approach to equate one person's personal experience with data. Otherwise we are just analysing anecdotes.

    What irked me the most was saying people who have experience and pairing it with a negative label of the police such as "criminals wearing badges". It kind of destroys the whole idea of keeping bias out of the analysis.

  2. Re:A good idea with one condition on Should Cops Wear Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    seems like a good idea to me!

    "You are too biased to judge, let this other extremely biased person do the analysis."

  3. Re:How about that! on Database and IP Records Tie Election Fraud To Canada's Ruling Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Canadian Politicians know most Canadians would never vote for anyone threatening their healthcare.However, I think there is more to this, and it's about the Canada Health Act itself:

    The Canada Health Act is all about money.
    Failure to comply with it means that the federal Government will not give any money out to the Provincial Health Authority.
    Canada Health act on Wikipedia

    PURPOSE
    Marginal note:Purpose of this Act
    4. The purpose of this Act is to establish criteria and conditions in respect of insured health services and extended health care services provided under provincial law that must be met before a full cash contribution may be made.

    Canada Health Act

    tl;dr
    I think that The Alberta Wildrose Alliance stance on Healthcare is more because they are catering to a Canadian population and making sure they continue receiving Federal Funds rather than whether they lean Left or Right.

  4. Re:BLECK! on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    A Few More Tricks:
    ctrl+click on an icon in the favourites section --> Opens a new instance of the application in the workspace you are currently working in
    middle-click on an icon in the favourites section --> Opens a new instance of the application in a new workspace

  5. Re:For you, maybe. on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    What really bothers me is that the generations before them at least made an effort to learn from the engineers who came before them. But this new generation is just going to repeat all their mistakes, because they don't seem to have made that effort. Or seem to even have a desire to.

    What comes to mind is the ageism trend in the technical community.
    I always think about how fast the next generation of technically minded people will come up out of nowhere and immediately begin disregarding the perceived 'obsolete' members of their own community.

    Maybe a reason the young generation doesn't seem to make an effort to learn from the older generation is that there isn't anyone in their workplace capable of doing the teaching?

  6. Re:Obligatory on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 0

    Or like this this,
    only with less horses and more jailtime.

  7. To all you nitpickers: on DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First you make it possible,
    then you make it practical.

  8. Re:Hmmm on CEOs of RIM Step Down · · Score: 1

    in the office or on the streets, you're still be paying to get a RIM job...

  9. Code Hero: on Code Hero: Play and Learn · · Score: 1

    Making it even easier to shoot yourself in the foot.

  10. Re:Wow, when you can't trust CNET on Download.com Now Wraps Downloads In Bloatware · · Score: 1

    I had an urgent need for a piece of software and downloaded it from C|Net late on Friday night. I stupidly did the very thing that most uses do, the thing I almost never do -- I "fast-clicked" through the install process. I ended up with a BHO search toolbar promoting Bing that I had to figure out how to remove[..]

    Typical /. user.
    It's a late Friday night, and the only thing that got intoxicated was his computer...

  11. Re:Does everyone on /. live alone?! on Comcast's 105MBit Service Comes With Data Cap · · Score: 1

    If it's 11pm, and all my roommates are in their rooms alone, I think the sudden slowdown in download speeds are definitely on my end.

    I just don't know how to bring up "watch less porn" at the dinner table.

  12. Does everyone on /. live alone?! on Comcast's 105MBit Service Comes With Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Whenever I come across the weekly article on slashdot that brings up the data cap debate, I always see the same comments:

      "Ohh, who would ever come close to this cap of x? I never come close!"

    That's great, it's difficult for one person to reach that cap alone... but what happens when there are more people in the house using the internet too?

    I'm a student that lives with 5 other students, and with all the youtube we watch, online games we play, and other things we do on the internet instead of homework or sleeping, I'd say that we could easily exceed that limit, and that's with minimal p2p use.

    Although, I can't wait for internet that fast to be offered. 105mbps / 6 means that video streaming speeds won't take a peculiar dip at 11pm.
    I have yet to discover the root of this problem.

  13. Re:Not news on Gaming the App Store · · Score: 1

    Of course, if the people at Reverb had an ounce of sense, they'd template their reviews to be similar to the ones for the three wolf moon t-shirt on amazon.com

  14. Here at wikipedia on Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval · · Score: 1

    We believe all editors are equal. Just some are more equal then others.