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  1. Re:Really? on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 4, Informative

    So your kids are going to be able to go to college with the diploma they got at your home? I was home schooled and I found that mommy and daddy saying so doesn't make it so in the real world. I couldn't go to college because I didn't have the required courses like Math 30. I ended up in the trades so I can make enough money to hopefully be able to go to school one day so I don't have to work in a backbreaking enviroment full of cancer causing dust and fumes. And what about being able to interact with people, do you know what it is like to be 18 just started living on your own with absolutly no social skills? My brother is 26 and he can't even talk to a girl.
    If the schools are not teaching your kids enough thats what parents are for. School is the minimum if you want your kids to be better that the minimum show some interest and teach them some of the stuff you know. School teaches more than just math or english it teaches life skills like how to deal with people, scheduling your day, respect for authority, all important thing when they enter the job market. And most importantly there are life skills like how to meet a girl rather than to start learning in your early twenties.

  2. Re:congrats. on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 1

    Market share does not a good product mean.

  3. Re:congrats. on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean like the London Stock Exchange?

  4. This sound like the begining of a bad... on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 1

    sci/fi movie.

  5. In Canada I owned a small limited company. on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    In 2006 I dissolved to company got everything in order forgot about it. Then a couple years later Revenue Canada contacted me about a T-5 slip that hadn't been properly filed, turns out the accountant goofed. Well I got everything in order and it was determined that the gov actually owed me money. Well they went and instead of paying me levied a penalty for late filing, which I paid. Well when it was their turn to pay they said your company doesn't exist any more we can't pay you. Funny how I had to pay them from my own pocket for a company that didn't exist but then they don't pay me what they owe me.

  6. Re:What about live traffic updates on Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    My BB's GPS does that. And my CD deck has built in bluetooth so my phone calls come in on my sound system. All I have to do press one button on the deck and talk to my steering wheel. Only problem I have is the sound from the GPS app does not come in over the BT, just the BB speaker.

  7. http://www.dlink.co.za/support_pr.php on D-Link Warns of Vulnerable Routers · · Score: 1

    And as far as MS goes they NEED all the help they can get.

  8. Wouldn't the responsible thing be... on D-Link Warns of Vulnerable Routers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    to contact D-Link first? Maybe D-Link could have updated the firmware before this exploit became public knowledge. I doubt SourceSec cares about D-Links customers.

  9. Re:I actually like swine flu on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    And like Jared I lost weight with the help of my aides.

  10. They've done it before. on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    And don't you know they will do it again.

  11. Yay now we don't have to worry about a Borg attack on Nanowires Inject Molecules Into Living Cells · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    from outer space.

  12. Re:How fking hard is the dark side? on BioWare Targeting Spring 2011 For Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you wonder why everyone wants to join the darkside? Might have something to do with that wife.

  13. No Star Wars game will ever compare to TIE FIGHTER on BioWare Targeting Spring 2011 For Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cruising through space on my compaq 386 SX4 with 16 MB ram and 40 MB HDD. No spacecraft sim game ever topped it.
    And X-wing FIGHTER was a cheap rip off shame on you George Lucas.

  14. Re:Bad comparison. on Microsoft Pulls Office From Its Own Online Store · · Score: 1

    K you win I suck. I've never used OO more than a half a dozen times when I was to lazy to move my track ball 1/4 inch up to get to Abi word or whatever it is. [The origional thought behind my comment was to compare commercial app to commercial app...oo is oss therefore apples oranges kinda thing but whatever. I use a office program like twice a month. (It's not a part of my job...I draw pretty pictures and just fax them) Btw were did technology go wrong after the fax?

  15. Re:Bad comparison. on Microsoft Pulls Office From Its Own Online Store · · Score: 1

    Funny I just went into OO.org and it has a button that says spell check. But it doesn't work. I just misspelled several words and it found no errors. Which is why I don't consider it to have a spell checker.

  16. Re:Bad comparison. on Microsoft Pulls Office From Its Own Online Store · · Score: 1

    Doesn't support unix-like operating systems. Looks like I'm shit out of luck.

  17. Bad comparison. on Microsoft Pulls Office From Its Own Online Store · · Score: 1

    Star Office is closer to MS Office than Open Office is. Open Office is almost like Wordpad with spreadsheets. I need my spell checker damnit.

  18. Re:No duh on Airport Scanners Can Store and Transmit Images · · Score: 1

    So does male or female security anal probe the woman with the penis?

  19. Re:I think we can kiss this meme good night now. on Malware Threat Reports Are "Apples and Oranges" · · Score: 1

    I've been using linux without the dual boot to windows since 2001 when I decided windows wasn't for me. (I run way to many distos to be happy with one windows) But when I did use windows I never once got a virus that I didn't put there myself. (Strictly for testing purposes...hhmmm I wonder what this does?) most virus/malware is not really a problem for someone even remotely competent with a computer. Most leave clues and its kind of a challenge to figure it out. (Kind of like Kings Quest...oh no save/find my files...) And really most windows problems can be avoided by checking the file extension of what your executing.
    Now I used to run a second windows (dual boot) to test stuff I wasn't sure about. Kind of a little bomb proof room.

  20. Re:Try $14,000 on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    thats not the goal of this machine it trys to cut out the extra noise and give you a better picture inside the building. You will see a sort of gostly image of wiring etc if its giving off heat or a negative if heat is being blocked. (ie studs tend to block heat) There are plenty of much smaller size devices intended for the application you mention in the $2000 range FLIR has a scanner that almost looks like a cell phone (ant is the sensor, LCD is self explanitory and instead of a number pad there is a little controller pad and 2 buttons).

  21. Re:This is completely different on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    The cops can look at my home with a thermal imager all they want IF I can camp outside the cop shop with my own thermal imager and watch them. But it would be kinda silly to use a thermal imager on my house because I got huge windows everywhere and the blinds are always open giving people outside a view into my entire house. Unless its daytime and I want to watch TV and the glare is bothering me. And plus I got nothing to hide a cop could come and look though my house at any time but would they let me look in their houses/copshop or do they have something to hide? It's gotta be both ways or nothing at all.

  22. Try $14,000 on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 4, Informative

    we have this fancy thermal imager that can see through walls like they arn't there. It detects such subtle changes in temperature you can see the entire inside of the house with excellent clarity from a few hundred feet away. Mind you owning this device is illegal because of the potential for abuse we have exception because it is used for fire dept / search & rescue. But in the wrong hands its a scary device like cops cruising the neighbourhood mind you cops tend to break the law more than your average citizen especially when it comes to traffic violations ( one of our local cops constantly brags about taking 10 min to drive what should be 25 min at the speed limit just to go to the next town for a coffee)

  23. In the 80"s i was promised on Kepler Finds Five More Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    aliens and other planets to some day be visited and I want it all now damnit.

  24. Velcro on Freescale Unveils Design For $199 Tablet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Put velcro straps on it strap it to your left forearm and type with your right hand. And it would even give big dumb jock yet another excuse to beat up nerds.