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  1. Re:It's easy on US Research Open Access In Peril · · Score: 1

    randomocraty is the solution
    rotate a third of the now elected representative each year, select them randomly from the pool of eligible voter from that particular region. If the person selected refuse, remove his citizenship and grant him a permanent visa.

  2. US Research Open Access only in Perl on US Research Open Access In Peril · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read that as: US Research Open Access only in Perl

  3. Re:... well that's one reason open source is super on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    I would not be so sure about this... Look at this APU specs : http://www.stericsson.com/products/u8500-novathor.jsp

    It emulate a modem for the phone OS to control the radio but it also use a bus in the SoC to move the data between the radio and the Soc for performance reason.

  4. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1

    and I forget to add that ash is carbon rich so a part of the CO2 in the air gets permanently (at our scale anyway) removed after each cycle

  5. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... on New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air · · Score: 1

    CO2+earth+bamboo cutting+sun+water----->Bamboo tree
    Crushed Bamboo tree+flame+O2--->CO2+ash+heat+O2
    Heat+? in CO2 as a catalyser ----> CO2 using, electricity producing polymer

  6. Re:Oracle and Java on Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire · · Score: 1

    Here, they are looking to move away from java

  7. Re:Oracle and Java on Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire · · Score: 2

    Write once, curse (and debug) everywhere

    Here, we have written a shit ton of java applications running on windows and mac os X. We always have coded to the spec, we had about 2 portability problems in about 10 years and they were both solved by raising a PMR with IBM who told SUN to fix it's jre as it does not behaved to the spec. The java platform is one platform with one of the most detailed set of specifications, but those spec are almost always unread by developers...

  8. Re:Not optimistic. on Do Online Educational Badges Threaten Conventional Education Models? · · Score: 1

    the difference between a good programmer with a CS degree and a good programmer is in the depth of the theoretical knowledge.
    The one with the CS degree should be able explain when the radix sort is the best choice , the one without a CS degree from a good U might not even knows about the radix sort.

  9. Re:... well that's one reason open source is super on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    what if the backdoor was in the unaccessibe radio cpu

  10. Re:Retaliatory action? on Israel Says It Will Treat Online Credit Card Theft As It Would Terrorism · · Score: 2

    I will cite myself, with some emphasis added, citing Nietzsche in-another unrelated thread.

    Re:Subcaste (Score:4, Interesting)
    by JonySuede (1908576) on Friday January 06, @07:15PM (#38616880) Journal

    the ubercast Nietzsche is talking about is not the one the Nazi understood...

    From Beyond good and evil:

    What we nowadays call a “nation” in Europe is essentially more a res facta [something made] than a res nata [something born] (indeed sometimes it looks confusingly like a res ficta et picta [something made up and unreal]—), in any case something developing, young, easily adjusted, not yet a race, to say nothing of aere perennius [more enduring than bronze], as is the Jewish type. But these “nations” should be very wary of every hot-headed competition and enmity! That the Jews, if they wanted to—or if people were to force them, as the anti-Semites seem to want to do —could even now become predominant, in fact, quite literally gain mastery over Europe, is certain; that they are not working and planning for that is equally certain. Meanwhile by contrast they desire and wish––even with a certain insistence—to be absorbed into and assimilated by Europe. They thirst to be finally established somewhere or other, allowed, respected, and to bring to an end their nomadic life, to the “Wandering Jew.” And people should pay full attention to this tendency and impulse (which in itself perhaps even expresses a moderating of Jewish instincts) and accommodate it. And for this, it might perhaps be useful and reasonable to expel the anti-Semitic ranters out of the country.

    They were poked for so many years by the Muslim world, and by the western world as the worst interlude ever, that it is only normal for them to strongly react when they are specifically attacked by people of a specific religion.

  11. Re:Yea... teach them history... on Want To Get Kids Interested In Programming? Teach Them Computer History · · Score: 2

    I forgot to suggest something: mix history with doing fun thing with programming.

    Ex,
    Talk about the Von Neumann Machine, then do a small win32 asm program like those: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut4.html
    Talk about the history of encryption, implement a simple Cesar cipher in python. Talk about the history of code breaking and break his cipher with him...

  12. Re:Yea... teach them history... on Want To Get Kids Interested In Programming? Teach Them Computer History · · Score: 2

    Then you must suck and you probably are a grunt...

    You probably do not know what came before you therefore you are bound to repeat some historic mistakes.

    Knowledge of history is almost as important in science that it is in politics. Sadly, in both case it is way to frequent to encounter someone with your: "history is boring, let's see some bling" discourse...

  13. Re:Subcaste on Ants Turned Into 'Supersoldiers' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the ubercast Nietzsche is talking about is not the one the Nazi understood...

    From Beyond good and evil:

    What we nowadays call a “nation” in Europe is essentially more a res facta [something made] than a res nata [something born] (indeed sometimes it looks confusingly like a res ficta et picta [something made up and unreal]—), in any case something developing, young, easily adjusted, not yet a race, to say nothing of aere perennius [more enduring than bronze], as is the Jewish type. But these “nations” should be very wary of every hot-headed competition and enmity! That the Jews, if they wanted to—or if people were to force them, as the anti-Semites seem to want to do—could even now become predominant, in fact, quite literally gain mastery over Europe, is certain; that they are not working and planning for that is equally certain. Meanwhile by contrast they desire and wish––even with a certain insistence—to be absorbed into and assimilated by Europe. They thirst to be finally established somewhere or other, allowed, respected, and to bring to an end their nomadic life, to the “Wandering Jew.” And people should pay full attention to this tendency and impulse (which in itself perhaps even expresses a moderating of Jewish instincts) and accommodate it. And for this, it might perhaps be useful and reasonable to expel the anti-Semitic ranters out of the country.

  14. Re:For me, this begs the question on Canadian Gov't Considers Plan To Block Public Domain · · Score: 2

    Why does the SQ, the SPVM and the OPP all wants a copy of this useless boondoggle ? and by the way the goal was not to catch anyone but to reduce risk in case of domestic violence and mental health issues...

    Which it has failed to do completely. In canada the vast majority aren't firearms, they're physical assaults. And the vast majority of gun offences are with hand guns. So, why do you want to use something that has done nothing but cost money? And has done nothing but to track lawfully abiding citizens who were already abiding the firearms laws on non-restricted, restricted, and forbidden weapons?

    You do not hear about non event. You can only look at statistic and Edmonton is the city with the highest murder rate in Canada. And they have the one only police chief oppose to the register. If I was looking for efficiency in policing I would be looking at Guelph city and Quebec city and avoiding the western style of law enforcement like the failure it is... http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2011001/article/11523-eng.pdf

    Equality before the law is....

    Already exists. What you're looking for is exemption outside of the law.

    Do I have to remind you that marriage is part of the civil law and that there are no laws to propagate this obligation to religions.

    Agreed, the HRC should be dissolve and existing laws and tribunal used instead...

    I'm guessing you don't know what you're talking about. Since that's exactly what the HRC has already done. Go read up about s.13, get back to me.

    Since when did the HRC (are we both talking about the Canadian Human Rights Commission) disband ?

    I you ask me we should vitrify that place and just forget about it and never try to create a state using force again!

    Balfour.

    It is called dark humour, not every one likes it... Who would be stupid enough to detonate enough material to vitrify the whole middle east, it would provoke a nuclear winter ;)

    Just like your post and mine !

    Right...

    It's called honesty...

  15. Re:108? Typical /. bull on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Sometime you have no choice...

    I did fell at sleep in car once, many years ago when I was 20. It was after a service call to a place located one hour from the home-base. It was also my last service call at the end of a 70hr on-call week from hell (30Hr paid over, yay!, or so I thought), back at the shop, and it was someone else turn to wear the bonding gear from hell known as a pager.

    So I stepped into the car and I was not drowsy, I filled my bureaucratic form, put on a black metal CD, and went on the highway, as usual. About halfway home I felt an uncontrollable drowsiness. I fought it few second then the last thing that I remember, is that I said to myself: I will take the next exit and take a small nap. I was lucky to be wake by the sound of the grinding on the railing so only the car paint was damaged and I got my overtime pay but it could have easily turn out differently...

    But what should I've I done differently ? I said I was not feeling tired nor drowsy, in fact, I was enthusiastically thinking about the overtime pay and the
    transfer of the device from hell..

  16. Re:Engineering on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    My new car has a feature called ambient noise cancellation. If the temperature control kicks in or if I increase the motor RPM, the volume and tone of the music adjust itself to compensate for the added noise so I don't even need to turn up the volume !

  17. Re:For me, this begs the question on Canadian Gov't Considers Plan To Block Public Domain · · Score: 1

    The 5 billion dollar liberal boondoggle that has done nothing but cost tax payers money, caught no one, and hassled no one but farmers, and hunters.

    Why does the SQ, the SPVM and the OPP all wants a copy of this useless boondoggle ? and by the way the goal was not to catch anyone but to reduce risk in case of domestic violence and mental health issues...

    The HRC, who's done nothing but turned around and hassled citizens who give their opinions on things and run them through kangaroo courts parallel to the legal courts, with no due process? Tell me AC, how is it fair to go on 'trial' but have no legal recourse in defense. It only gets more fun, when you have someone who works for the HRC who deliberately posts inflammatory martial, and works for the HRC, then sues the person.

    Agreed, the HRC should be dissolve and existing laws and tribunal used instead...

    Same sex-marriage is not a human right.

    Equality before the law is....

    Kyoto is a scheme to suck money from wealthy nations. Europe figured it out. Japan figured it out, too. Canada was simply the first nation to pull out of it.

    While I don't agree with the usefulness of concentrating our anti-pollution effort on the CO2, once you get into an international agreement you stick to it or you will loose your credibility...

    Oh as for Israel and the palestinian thing? That's about the right of it. After all, how does one support a non-entity that technically doesn't exist in the first place. Remember. Israel was supposed to be all of israel+jordan, but ended up as jordan and israel. And the only reason why there's palestian refugees in the first place, is because they sided with arabs, when the arabs launched their first war to commit genocide against the jews(aka israeli's) and lost, and then a second time, and a third time, and when arafat tried to overthrow the kingdom of Jordan, and got his ass tossed out.

    I you ask me we should vitrify that place and just forget about it and never try to create a state using force again!

    eh. There's enough to debunk in half truths and half claims I can go on. There is some truths, but like all politics, half is bullshit, and half is truth.

    Just like your post and mine !

  18. Re:For me, this begs the question on Canadian Gov't Considers Plan To Block Public Domain · · Score: 1

    go read on Chomskian Linguistic you might have a different opinion after yours lectures.

  19. Re:Figures on Feds Now Plans To Close 1,200 Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Go read about Buddy Roemer
    From an outsider perspective this guys seems to be your best hope.

  20. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    Dismissing the possibility that invisible undetectable pink unicorns are pushing everything to the ground

    That is why religion and science are orthogonal: you could not sincerely hold that belief after a correctly designed experiment while you could believed in a creative force that reside outside the universe, no experiment could change your mind with the exception of the creation of a universe outside ours.

  21. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    They are orthogonal concept if both are done right.
    Agnosticism is the only true logical position.
    Atheism is only logical under the Occam razor and the economy principle is a special form of pragmatic axiom that can be reduce to a simple belief using an Anti-razor device from the probability theory.

  22. Re:NASA is the world leader in what? on Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Astronaut? · · Score: 1

    +42

  23. Re:I cant wait to taste that pi on Raspberry Pi Beta Boards Unveiled · · Score: 0

    you are my hero !
    Someday in my 50's I will switch from prescribed amphetamine to alcohol.
    When that inevitably happens, I wish to be as aggressively manly as you are.

  24. Re:Uh, oh... on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 1

    Oh and more importantly I totally agree with the rest of your post !

  25. Re:Uh, oh... on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 2

    Sorry to sounds like a monopolist apologist but Microsoft does it for pure CS. THE paper on monad from ms research is purely theoretical and yet F# and linq are influenced by it. The series of papers on UI from the team that made the courier experiment are top notch but it will take almost decade for them to percolate into production.