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  1. Re:IPv6 addresses are overly complex on Windows 7 May Finally Get IPv6 Deployed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Off-offtopic, but I'd much rather you typed in example.com. Don't refer to what might be a real URL as an example when you've got a name reserved by RFP for that purpose.

  2. Re:The Onus Should Not Be on the Nerds on The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The mean annual incomes of professionals in the fields of computer science and football might call into question the "monetarily rewarding" part of that statement.

    No, they don't, because you're skewing your data. You're looking at the entire comp sci profession and comparing it to those who play football in the NFL--in other words, the general field of one against those who made it to the very top in the other. You need to compare the average per capita income from IT jobs of those who took a computer-related degree against the average per capita income from football of everybody who played varsity football in college. Who wins that contest? Or reverse it--compare NFL players to the likes of Bill Gates, who are the IT field's equivalent of NFL players. Again, who wins that contest?

  3. Re:Her Constituent Status Is Only Part of It on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not true. Democrats have stood idly by for too long while Republicans get up in the House and make hyperbolic speeches about 'death panels' and 'socialism' while the Dems have just tried to be Mr Nice Guy in the hope that the voters will reward them.

    Yep. I mean, something like comparing opposition to a bill to being in favor of slavery. A Democrat would NEVER do something like that.

  4. Re:Oh, the irony on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    She's not a blogger but a former republican party official trying to raise funds to unseat Grayson.

    It strikes me that she's both. I mean, that certaily looks like a blog to me...

  5. Re:obligatory on The 87 Lamest Moments In Tech, 2000-2009 · · Score: 1

    A decade is any ten years. It depends on how you define them. Surely it is nonsensical to say that the '90s were anything but 1990 to 1999 (or 1890 to 1899, or whatever). However, the 200th decade would be 1991 to 2000. We don't often speak of decades in those terms, but we do say the 21st century, which, by the same logic, began in 2001.

  6. Re:obligatory on The 87 Lamest Moments In Tech, 2000-2009 · · Score: 1

    And I envision possible off-by-one errors if your work has to track dates over a large range, since you apparently do not realize that there is no year zero. 1 BC is followed by 1 AD.

  7. Also free... on The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn · · Score: 1

    ...of Falun Gong, Chinese democracy advocates and other such irritants. I'm sure everyone will be relieved.

  8. Re:economies of scale on Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? · · Score: 1

    I don't think that argument holds water. After all, the parts that go in thin clients are the same parts that go in PCs, so that can't be the difference.

    I don't see where the parent poster even mentioned the cost of the parts as being part of the cost difference.

  9. Re:round round, I git around on PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    All the interstellar spaceships in H. Beam Piper's Space Viking were also spherical.

  10. Re:What a stupid excuse. on Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men? · · Score: 1

    Any men worth the name should be doing soul searching instead of trying to find excuses for the unacceptable low amount of women in certain careers.

    Sorry, no time. Way behind on my oppressing. Got to meet the weekly quota, y'know.

  11. The communication channel between a combat UAV... on $26 of Software Defeats American Military · · Score: 1

    ...and ground control is NOT ENCRYPTED? That's simply unbelievable. I'm speechless.

  12. Re:Do not want. on Building a Global Cyber Police Force · · Score: 1

    Hey, it worked for Mal Reynolds....

    For a while.

  13. Re:I Don't Worry on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    the enemy gates are down.

    What the heck, I'll be the grammar nazi: The enemy Gates *is* down.

    And so the enemy Ballmer. This is Slashdot, after all.

  14. Re:Nothing you can do... on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 2, Informative

    because you're going to report the fact of the arrest anyways on the application, right where it asks you.

    Applications I've seen don't ask you if you've been arrested; they ask you if you've been *convicted*. I'm not sure it's legal to ask if you been arrested without a conviction.

  15. Re:obligatory on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since the LoC is traditionally pegged at 20 terabytes, this would be 1.66 milliLoCs. Or, to put it another way, the person consumes a Library of Congress once about every 20 months.

  16. Re:"EA released Pandemic Studios' final game" on Saboteur Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards · · Score: 1

    There's definitely value in having the product work at launch - if there wasn't value in that, why develop the game at all?

    For God's sake, don't give them any ideas!

  17. Re:Silly on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    Strapping C4 to a real limb would produce a noticeable bulge. An artificial limb could have C4 *inside* it, making it much less obvious. Real limbs are rather short of hollow spaces to stick stuff into.

  18. Re:Silly on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    A working canine?

    One assumes that the TSA does hire the blind. Not discriminating is part of the ADA, after all.

  19. Re:Use what they give you! on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, sir, we're only serving lunch items now.

  20. Re:this means nothing on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 4, Informative

    In more than one case, the US forces playing the "enemy" side, if they defeated the "friendly" side, had their capabilities reduced and the game re-run until the friendly side won.

    Absolutely false. Read up on the "Red Flag" exercises. The "enemy" is an elite unit whose *only* duty is to perform as the enemy in these exercises. They almost always win, since this is all they do. This is expected, and desired, as it's expected that the training unit will learn much more from having the crap beat out of it.

  21. Because, of course... on Hearst Launching Kindle Competitor and Platform "By Publishers, For Publishers" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...the publishers are the reason it all exists. Long live the middleman!

  22. Re:Applies elsewhere too? on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I hear NASA has a real need for tritanium miners.

  23. Re:DVD Sales Gap on Why Movies Are Not Exactly Like Music · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For instance, take trying to download a movie from Sony's PS3 store. You'll only ever make that mistake once. You could have a 10 petabyte internet connection and it would still take you 16 hours to download a TV episode from them because they won't send you the file at anywhere near a reasonable speed.

    You must have a different PS3 store than the one I use. Mine gets me a 30 minute TV episode in about 10 minutes, max. And I can start watching it as soon as I start downloading it. Very nice.

  24. Re:It's not the death of journalism on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's just the death of journalism as we know it.

    And I feel fine!

  25. When asked... on Google Tries Not To Be a Black Hole of Brilliance · · Score: 1

    ...for the names the people they had decided not to hire, Horowitz replied, "I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am."