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  1. Like it or not, we really are all in this together on Computer Science as a Major and as a Career · · Score: 1

    ... and the proof is in open source projects like linux and FSF, which does not descriminate upon where you live.

    Why in the hell is there such outcry in outsourcing?

    Or are there really that many people who feel they need to keep others suppressed economonically?

    Not only is the outsource cry wrong but computer science has yet to get Abstraction Physics right.

    I bet you could overlay the reasons for the 300 year delay in converting from roman numeral mathmatics to the much easier and more powerful hindu-arabic decimal system with its zero (nothing has value) place holder, over onto this evolution of computer science.

    The arrogant and unfair drive to hold onto some social position and high pay, when in fact easier and more powerful means we can open up new values to all of us. (Note: Computer technology could not have been developed with the roman numerial system of mathmatics!)

    Maybe the real reason there is a decline in interest to pursue "Computer Science" is due to the underlying feeling that there is something fundamentally wrong the way its being done today. And I suspect such issues as software patentability, or not, battles is a very good indicator of this faultiness in computer science today.

    You can make the tying of a shoe sound so complifabucated that even a multidoctorate can't understand it. But doing it, not so difficult.

    Its just Abstraction Physics. http://wiki.ffii.org/IstTamaiEn

  2. Not any time soon, but eventually this will happen on Cringely Predicts Apple to Ship OS X for Any PC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The reason is simple. Linux is shaping up to be better and better at being user friendly and desktop quality. Apple will have to compete with that.

    I'm actually interested in getting a linux box up at work, as an introduction to what office software is available on it..

  3. If Apple can buyout Disney than what are the MS .. on Microsoft Buyout of Ailing Sony Possible · · Score: 1

    ....followers gonna do?

    The same thing MS does, boast about something that ain't.

  4. To-get-her together its a matter of value to who?. on Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its a matter of what you do with what you find on the internet and with technology.

    This was done in genuine #2 pencil by a human hand http://www.threeseas.net/pencil-nude.jpg
    This was done to try and correct bad caring for the artwok http://www.threeseas.net/pencil--nude.jpg

    But today technology can take a photo from a cell phone and make it look like pencil.
    So only to a collector might such work be of value.

    Then there is the talent in photography to produce the original photo.
    Honestly, a student genuinely interested in the media of pencil by the human hand, then they will pursue it.

    So what it means is that we simply have more interested as collectors or at least observers.

  5. What this is evidence of is also unexpected.... on Sun Research Yields Unexpected Results · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... and even more amazing that nobody has yet posted this obviousness...

    There must be intelligent design in making this universe. I men, WTF is it made of if not same as what the rest of the universe is made of?

    Man, when the faithful said son of god.... they must have ment sun of god.

    So now what? Do we burn the bush?

  6. Better to be Addicted to online Pr0n than .... on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1

    ... to be addicted to rape and STD spreading...

    But an addiction is not a pr0n problem, but rather a personal problem that if not pr0n, would be something else.

  7. Because we are the founders.... on Idea Stock Exchange · · Score: 1

    we own all of our employees ideas and we have a large legal team of patent experts....

    To sum up our business, its to play teh lawsuit game, to sue any and everybody who uses any of the same ideas that the brains we employ come up with first. Or licenses those ideas to any who want to do them.

    Since the USPTO is leaning towards the patenting of not just ideas but the thought of an idea......

    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0321-05.ht m

  8. Re:you can make a tooth pick out of a 2x4,,,, on Homeland Security Okays Closed Proceedings · · Score: 1

    correction -- usps to put 3.1 billion into escrow, which still has yet to be defined as to what it is to be used for...

  9. Re:you can make a tooth pick out of a 2x4,,,, on Homeland Security Okays Closed Proceedings · · Score: 1

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stock market.html

    This was the wrongful draining of south east asia, including Indonesia which by the CIA data, is 88% muslim.

    News agencies such as ABC and CNN did stories on the damage being felt by the people of Indoensia. Mothers couldn't afford to buy baby formula for their babies. The indonesian people knew they had a corrupt government but knew it was the Americans draining their economy, theu just didn't know how. Probably because the money was vanishing from their economy and the local governemnt, no matter how corrupt, wouldn't degrade it own living standard.

    Of course the world bank stepped in with an offer to loan them money to over come this drain, but at an interest rate, which is considered by all four major religions as usery. Not to mention the fact that the world bank is run by the US and the drain was wrong. The offer from the world bank didn't go over well at all.

    Read the transcript and you learn moe, but during the war drum banging ABC removed their story from the web. CNN however, did not. You might still be able to find it.

    It wasn't just Indonesia but all of south east asia and reprocussions were felt world wide with the exception of one major country, China. The proof the world economic problems were in fact cause buy this nickle and dime thieft. You see China wasn't playing this stock market game, so they were uneffected (but gained insight from Britians lease on Hong Kong ending).

    Look at the timing of events! The World Trade Center was attacked once before 9/11, but it was a failure. Certainly there was enough real reason to retailate, to promote and gain followers, etc.. WTC, Pentagon, white house targets.... wrongful manipulation of world economy politically controlled military backed.

    Ted Turner publicly said 9/11 was an act of desparation, but then later retracted that, said he was sorry. But then even later he said the human race, as we know it, will distroy itself in 50 year, given the insanity of what been going on.

    He was probably threated with anthrax, like the rest of the media. By of course the us military, or more precisely the non-conspiracy act of only one high enough ranking military official to obtain the anthrax without question (from that us military base), know how to handle it and have an address list. Plausable deniability for teh rest of the government, but who is stupid enough to not know the bush administration would fall all over themselves using that for war drum banging? Getting th media to do as they were told to do, or else...

    A trillion dollars, that way to much to write off as appearting out of nowher and vanishing into nowhere. We know where it came from, but where did it go? To know the answer Read the transcript. three and a half years of pure success followed by threes and a half years complete failure, and the billion dollar requirement and terms.

    The ones who benefited included investors who dumped easy come into the dot com boom that eventually busted (easy go). Some of the losers includes the likes of enron, worldcom, etc... and taxpayers who's money was used to help cushion the fall.

    Iraq, it was just a public distraction from the real issues, attacking a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

    Of couse there are other lessor but related timeline facets, one being the dropping of interest rates. Even still you can find 0% interest rates for credit cards but teh second option is beginning to go up, the low rate for the life of that transfer amount.

    Even still there are reprocussion being felt. Postage stamps recentlty went up, not because USPS needed it, but because the US governemnt wanted the USPS to put some 1.4 billion into escrow taht the governemnt was supposed to define how they would use it within 18 months (whaich is way past that now, and they still haven't defined its use - they should put it into social security a

  10. you can make a tooth pick out of a 2x4,,,, on Homeland Security Okays Closed Proceedings · · Score: 1

    ... by widdeling away at it little by little.

    just like what is happening to our freedom...

    The more important questions are in regards to why is there such an huge apparent expectation of attacks on the US?

    Try a google search on "Trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript.

  11. I'm stupider than dirt.... on Online Test Measures Speed of your Brain · · Score: 1

    ....oh wait, I'm on earthlink dial up....and not running windows....

  12. Consumers have the power... on Germany Accepts Strict Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    ...to not buy or steal....

    Where whould that put the movie industry?

    Need movie entertainment? look for used tapes and dvds that you don't pay the industry for.

  13. Whas aunt martha gonna do now? on FCC Backs a Tiered Internet · · Score: 1

    I'z suppos to call aunt Martha five time a week cause she can't afford cal me. but now, eben with me paying my phone bill they want to make who I call also pay..aunt Martha can't afford dat... what we gonna do now?

    I red som wherzs dat telco are using VOIP digital instead of analog for long distance cause it cost dem less, so why is I payin more?

    But if sites get to much traffic and they gotta pay, does that mean I get free service?
    If so, who gonna pay mostly? Google or the porn and online gaming industry?

  14. problems for older hardware??? on Changes in HDD Sector Usage After 30 Years · · Score: 1

    so long as this new format is transparent, built internally in the drives and doesn't effect older hardware or software, there shouldn't be a problem. It also should not contain any DRM junk.

    All to often an advantage in speed improvements and such are more than countered by adding overhead junk.

    now maybe I should RTFA...

  15. Several years ago a co-worker ripped.... on Canadian Record Industry Disputes Own P2P Claims · · Score: 1

    ....a CD of 80's music. To my supprise his tastes was very similiar to my own, as all the songs were ones I liked.

    I considered asking him for a copy so that I might remember which groups (and I'm really bad about remembering names and titles, etc..) so that I might buy the albums (this was before itunes and such). Here if I couldn't figure out the artist or album I would have had something I could let someone at the music store hear, to help me pin it down (good for more than just my memory).

    But then the music industry piracy flap began and I figured the music industry really didn't want me to remember, and even less wanted me to have anything that might help me find the music to purchase. So I said fuck you RIAA!!! You'd rather call me a pirate than to see me as a customer.... I'm not going to pay you squat for that attitude.

    If I buy at all today, I try to not have the RIAA in the transaction at all, but instead buy directly from the artist.
    Obviously I don't buy hardly anything at all.

    I also grew up helping garage bands out, where some of the musicans have become professional musicians.I've also seen others make it to some label, only to fail the industries financial machinery. So I have a good idea what the struggle is and how important it is who you know, more than how good of an artist you are, and that unless you become really successful, you are pretty much at the mercy of the industry's financial machinery and who you know.

    This is not the sort of thing that helps one focus on their music, but rather promotes more mediocer (middle of the road) music, such as we have plenty of today.

    But there is this new internet technology and advances in home recording and for any artist(s) that pick that up and runs with it, they can promote themselves thru it as well as the traditional method of live performances. They can build their own following, or in cases of failure, be more able to mix and match with other musicians to find that "sound" that they want, be it music or music and money.

    Its by developing their own following that they also increase their bargaining prower with the labels. No more at the industry's mercy, but a player with weight. And this also helps the industry, as the failures don't have to subsidized by the successful artists monitray generation (thus making the theoretical payoff for the successfull signed artist, more)

    But it is the story of the RIAA dog, with a fat juicy steak in it mouth, that crossing over a bridge, sees it reflection and its greed causing it to go after the steak in the reflection, resulting in dropping the steak it had, losing it in th e water.

    It really is a time to eliminate the old music industry business model. For the benefit of the artist, and let real competition in to bring the consumer better music.

  16. How come there seems to be a trend... on Chinese Bloggers Stage Hoax · · Score: 1

    ... in the promotion of pro-censorship direction, as of late?

    Now if two bloggers can fool the media who in turn fools the people....

    Don't the Governments do this too?

    So who the hell needs censorship if you have so much misinformation out there?

    Or is it that mis information is the only allowed informatioon?

  17. I know the answer, I know the ANSWER!! on What Would You Demand From Your IT Department? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you own work, or get replaced.

    Do I win, Do I win? Huh? Huh?

    If not then how about:

    Hey, IT person, aren't you like takin this job security a bit to far?

    Now do I win? Huh, Do I, Huh?

    Ok how about....Give the IT department the money they need to upgrade the hardware and software.
    And talke away their free soda's if they don't.

    Well? Do I win now?

    Hmmm, damn if I do, damned if I don't...

    Ah, their I go... I win....

  18. So what would patterns in human stupidity .... on Music Based on Fibonacci Sequence and Stock Market · · Score: 1

    ...sound like?

  19. Open source works/improves because its open.... on States Pass Thousands of Info Restriction Laws · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Shutting down information access is contrary to that.

    Do a search on "Trillion Dollar Bet" read the transcript. Realize that much money doesn't just appear and then vanish into nowhere (if you do that you are smarter than those involved in the trillion dollar bet).

    Look at the time lines of things like dotcom boom and bust, Worldcom, Enron, etc..creative financial hiding, and realize the WTC had an attach on it once before, that failed.

    Look at the time lines.

    Ted Turner once said that 9/11 was an act of desparation, then he was probably threated with anthrax by the US government.

    Wake up people. People don't do things for no reason, and the nuts certainly wonm't be able to gather up much of a maintainable following without some connection to evidence.

    Don't want to be fearful of terrorism? Then remove the cause of it, stop screwing others over so badly.Stop giving them a reason to retailate.

    Ben Franklin and I believe it was either Truman or Rosevelt (sp?) who said in essence, a country willing to sacrifice freedom in exchange for security will have neither and deserves neither.

    Are we not seeing the evidence of this being true?

  20. You know what this means don't you?.... on Internet Searches Reveal CIA's Secrets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .... it means they are trying to take more of our rights away.

    whether or not the story is true, it is in fact presenting the public with this idea that the freedom of research and press are dangerious to the government that is suppose to be protecting these rights.

    There seems to be another story on slashdot at the moment along this same line.

    Next thing you know we won't be allowed to talk to our neighbors without government approval.

    When are enough people going to wake up and realize 9/11 was a direct result of US wrongful manipulation of world economy.

    Do a search on "Trillion dollar bet" Read the transcript and realize that much money doesn't just appear or vanish into nowhere.

    CIA employee information????? Huh? What?

    Don't do others wrong and you won't have reason to be parionoid of retaliation.

  21. "We just stick to the facts"...yeah buddy.. on Symantec Rethinks Firefox vs IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    RTFA....then think about it. Then ask which set of facts are they sticking too?

    Maybe they should do a security software resource usage comparison!

    There is a difference between "truth" and "honesty" where truth is about "a point truths" where you can be selective and deceptive. But "Honesty", thats full scope.

    They are not very honest.

    It does seem that one of teh things they do to help secure your system is to be having your system so busy running their software that it doesn't have time to run anything else. There is a less expensive way to do this. Just unplug your system. Hell you'll even save electricity, while being absolutely secure.

  22. Do you think there is only one way to solve this? on PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever' · · Score: 1

    An Implant in you hand or your head?

  23. to bad this doesn't work for .... on Mozilla Raking in Millions? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .... other open source software.

  24. silliness...Re:No. on Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language? · · Score: 1

    "Writing scripts for a Turing machine is an intellectual challenge
    sometimes quite complex. The goal is not to write real applications.
    It would be too difficult, and the results would be dramatically
    inefficient.

    The real interest is the fact, as stated in the Church-Turing thesis,
    that any computable task (compilation, text processing, calculation...)
    can be written on a Turing machine.

    While emulating a Turing machine in a Sed script, we proove that this
    language is sufficient to perform any computable task !"

  25. There is this thing called..... on Does Using GPL Software Violate Sarbanes-Oxley? · · Score: 1

    .... consumer choice.

    Ever heard if it?

    From the programmers creating F/OSS to the users who chose to use it...

    Now what would we have if that weren't so?