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  1. Re:I stopped reading... on A Gates Foundation Education Initiative Fizzles · · Score: 1

    Yes, because forcing a child to pass through an education process that values social injustice, favouritism, bias and that it's ok to just screw the entire community if it fits my personal musing is a great way to found a society.

    And the education community is surely willing to give it a try.

  2. Re:When the going gets tough... on Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown · · Score: 1

    the problem is minimum wage isn't enough to live on already.

    So it's your position that people who don't need to live on the wage shouldn't have jobs, then.

  3. Re:Right, growth is bad. on Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown · · Score: 1

    It's not growth that's been destructive.

    Yes, it has been. Google on the term "creative destruction" some time. All growth requires destruction.

  4. Re:When the going gets tough... on Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gonna mandate that public construction be done with US steel, even if the cost is a little higher?

    It'll help american companies and american jobs, sure.

    No. No, it won't. That's the problem. It'll help American *steel* companies and American *steel* jobs, but the higher cost paid for steel will result in more companies and more jobs harmed elsewhere. The problem is, the benefit is concentrated and obvious. The cost is diffuse and difficult to see.

    And, incidentally, once US steel no longer feel competitive pressures from outside, that "little higher cost" won't stay so "little" for long.

    Free-trade arguments don't need to be based on retaliatory protectionism from other countries. Protectionism is bad nobody *what* the other country does.

  5. Re:when does a stone become an axe on Stone Tool 1.83M Years Old Discovered In Malaysia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But it's very hard to explain a whole bunch of tool-like rocks together in one heap as anything other than people making them. And that's what they found here.

  6. Re:Nature, red in tooth and claw. on Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned · · Score: 1

    So it is your stance that humans are not natural, but instead...supernatural?

  7. Re:Nature, red in tooth and claw. on Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned · · Score: 1

    Because the regular procession turns the species into something different. And what it was before has died out, because its descendants aren't the same thing.

  8. Yeah, I see their point on Moblin 2 First Impressions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Being able to boot quickly really, really sucks. It's so much better when you have to wait 10 minutes for your box to boot.

    Wait, what?

  9. Re:From TFA - $20 actually on India Will Show Its $10 Laptop Prototype · · Score: 1

    What happened?

    Sam Walton died.

  10. Wonderful... on Scientists "Teleport" Quantum Information One Meter · · Score: 1

    but today's article in Time is better reading than the abstract anyhow.

    Indeed. Why read the article written by the guy who understands it when you can read the article written in someone's spare time when he's not covering Britney?

  11. In further news... on Offline Gmail Launched · · Score: 1

    Google also announced their *off*-offline mail. But first they have to find somebody to print the stamps.

  12. Re:I've got a better idea on Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 3, Funny

    (1) Yeah, more of a prequel than a reboot, but watch: The cannon will be altered by this installment.

    But the Enterprise doesn't have cannon. Maybe they'll alter the photon torpedoes instead.

  13. Re:Survey says.... on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then why don't they call it "Windows Netbooks"? If "Windows Starter" is supposed to be the netbook edition, then they've managed to give it a name that actively misleads you as to what it's intended for.

  14. Re:You forgot one on Linux's Role In Microsoft's Decline · · Score: 1

    Republics of Ex-Yugoslavia had the right not to join the federation after the WWII. Once they joined the federation, they had no legal rights to leave.

    And Lord knows THAT worked out...

  15. Re:Halo makes me cry on Microsoft Brings Back DRM · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was originally a PC title that had been under development for 3+ years

    PC *and Mac* title. Bungie was known for their excellent Mac support...before. PCs eventually got Halo.

  16. Re:ObTomLehrer on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    One notes that when Tom recorded those lines, it had been 46 years since Versailles in 1919. It is now 63 years since Germany surrendered in 1945.

  17. Re:Oblig on Boat Moves Without an Engine Or Sails · · Score: 1

    Run Linux? no.
    Glide Linux? perhaps.

    But I don't have any 3dfx video cards...

  18. Re:Great... on KY Appeals Court Nixes Seizure of Gambling-Linked Domains · · Score: 1

    This isn't interstate commerce.

    Of course it is.

    Telling a company, "You can't create a website at www.gambling.state.ky" is no different than telling a company they can't build a gambling house in Louisville.

    On the contrary, it's very different. Prohibiting a gambling house in Louisville is regulating commerce in Louisville. Websites are accessible from anywhere in the US (and, indeed, anywhere in the world). Trying to control one is attempting to regulate interstate commerce.

  19. Re:Great... on KY Appeals Court Nixes Seizure of Gambling-Linked Domains · · Score: 4, Informative

    If it passed, the law would get struck down in the Federal courts as unconstitutional. States don't get to interfere in interstate commerce, and that includes trying to regulate internet domain names.

  20. Re:No. Microsoft Goal is unchanged. on Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? · · Score: 1

    Anyway, this model really isn't all that different than what you're doing now. You don't own software now, you own licenses.

    That's what the software vendors tell you. The legality of this position is, to put it mildly, dubious. They want to make sure you're in a position where you can't argue it any more.

  21. Newest memeber of the X-Men on One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease · · Score: 1

    Heart-attack Boy!

  22. Re:I use dvorak not for the speed on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, in the real world, we measure words per minute by dividing the number of characters we type by five. Otherwise, your measured "typing speed" varies proportionately with the length of the words you are typing, even when you are in fact typing at exactly the same speed. That makes no sense.

  23. Re:Service? on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    I generally know what I want or can read the back of the package

    I want service people who know more about the products than what's printed on the back...

    I wish you luck in your quest. Me, I want a pony.

  24. Re:Main mistake they made? on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    I go with EEs these days; you'd have to be crazy to put your money in stocks right now.

  25. Re:You aren't looking at it from the right POV on The Zen of SOA · · Score: 1

    Now, imagine you are in charge of the entire enterprise-wide information processing activity and architecture of a very large corporation. one which is global in scale, has possibly 100's of facilities, dozens of lines of business, and 10's of thousands of employees.

    You aren't, of course. The overwhelming majority of system implementers are working to create something for an outfit with dozens of employers and maybe two or three sites. But use SOA and you can pretend you are!