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  1. Re:Verified, and will continue on Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise · · Score: 1

    That is not how money works, though. When that programmer wants to go back to Mexico with his $5, he has to buy Pesos from someone. He has to find someone with Pesos who wants dollars and make the trade. Different currencies aren't fungible.

    And if someone can do the same work as you for half the price, then you are overcharging. That's how freedom works. If you want to charge twice as much for your services, you'd better be at least twice as good.

  2. Re:Verified, and will continue on Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise · · Score: 1

    How is GATT and NAFTA not free-trade? Or at least freer than what previously existed?

  3. Re:Verified, and will continue on Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise · · Score: 1

    Unless they are in Afghanistan.

  4. Re:power corrupts on Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise · · Score: 1

    That fucking nutjob Ross Perot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992. 33% is not implausible. Especially if you imagine someone like a Barack Obama running as a third party candidate in 2008 against weak candidates like McCain and H. Clinton. I won't say he'd win, but he would have certainly made the Obama party a legit organization.

  5. Re:IPV6 == no security on Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    Yes, it matters what ISP you are using. If you change ISPs, you change IP addresses. That's how routing works. However, you wouldn't need to change internal addresses because ipv6 allows an adapter to have multiple addresses. You can have private IPs for private use that stay the same, and public IPs that change based on ISP.

  6. Re:CBG on AOL: Outdoor Server Huts Are the Future · · Score: 1

    Just because something is common doesn't mean it is acceptable. "There is coils" is wrong.

  7. Re:in 3..2..1 on Chicken Vaccines Combine To Produce Deadly Virus · · Score: 1

    That is not how vaccines work, dipshit.

  8. Re:Vigilante circus. on NVIDIA Kills Online Store In Response To Hacker Claims · · Score: 1

    Two wrongs don't make a right.

  9. Re:RMS thinks giving other people's shit away is g on RMS Responds To NPR File-Sharer's Blog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Being a proponent of eliminating the right an author has to control the distribution of their works IS forcing them to share.

  10. Re:Or ... change the "defining characteristic" on Scientists Resurrect 500-Million-Year-Old Gene Inside Modern Organism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These are generally people who can't conceive of really big things, really small things and really long times. They think that light speed means "instantaneous". They think the WTC towers should have fallen over on their sides. They can't understand that lighter than air isn't necessarily weightless. They simply cannot imagine the timespans necessary to understand evolution. In their minds, it's an ape giving birth to George Washington.

  11. Re:This project is not cost effective on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    I'm betting it's more like stations once every half mile or so.

  12. Re:The only answer for the USA on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    "maped my homos"? Failure.

  13. Re:Why? on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    Gravitational slingshots.

  14. Re:Inertia on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    That's just the sort of thing Apple would screw up. Attention to detail!

  15. Re:This isn't good versus evil on Kim Dotcom Offers the DoJ a Deal · · Score: 1

    That's kind of what you get when you attempt to use (for legitimate purposes) a filesharing site called "megaupload" that pays users for uploading stuff. That's not how a legitimate service works.

  16. Re:In-house staff do have advantages on General Motors To Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. "Makes" and "uses" are also included in the law. "...whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent."

  17. Re:In-house staff do have advantages on General Motors To Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Based on what I've seen with this exact sort of arrangement, IBM and their subs can feed that institutional knowledge back until they are blue in the face, and the internal staff will just start drooling. There is a reason why orgs outsource, and it isn't because their internal folks are super capable.

  18. Re:In-house staff do have advantages on General Motors To Slash Outsourcing In IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    The one thing IBM does for that "middleman" premium is guaranteeing service. If their sub fucks up or goes tits up, IBM will get someone else there. Depending on the size of the organization, that sort of redundancy may well cost more than 25%.

  19. Re:incorrect use of "anymore" on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Anymore is correct in this usage. It means "any longer". Something did happen, and now it doesn't. "You don't need to wash the car anymore, we are getting a new one soon." There is a comparison to the past. The philly usage, on the other hand, is using it to compare with the future, or as a simple time indicator, like in place of "now" or "lately" or "from now on". "You need to start washing your hair anymore." or "Is grammar irrelevant anymore?"

  20. Re:It does - within limits on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    is/are: in this particular perversion of language, collective nouns get "are" even though the word is singular. "The Home Office are working on that."

  21. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Of course, using the word aliterate proves that one isn't.

  22. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    But the "wrong" grammar to us is correct grammar to them. It isn't that they don't care about grammar, rather that they just have different rules.

  23. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 2

    You'd think autocorrect would at least correct to the most used word, not the least used one.

  24. Re:My Brain Just Exploded on Ask Slashdot: Documenting a Tangle of Network Devices? · · Score: 1

    He probably assigns static IP addresses and only lets specific MAC addresses through the switch. That way, nothing can happen without him knowing about it.

  25. Re:Anything that involves a human updating a docum on Ask Slashdot: Documenting a Tangle of Network Devices? · · Score: 1

    Anything that involves a human updating a document ... Will be out of date the moment they hit save file.

    Only if you are a terrible manager.