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  1. The Next Dr. Phil!!! on Sun-isms Debunked · · Score: 1

    Save if for the Oprah crowd buddy.

  2. He's Held Up the Highway Bill on U.S. Congress Poised To Vote On Internet Tax Ban · · Score: 1

    These new-wave republicans have the penchant for spending as their democratic predecessors. Highway Bill has gone nowhere and is now on a renewal at the old funding rate.

  3. Pennsylvania's Woes on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 1

    Pittsburgh deserves public transit funding. The road network is a nightmare due to legacy issues with the infrastructure and obviously the terrain.

    Philly has no such problems and its road network is light years beyond Pittsburgh. I say let Philly rot and give the money where it can be used wisely... Pittsburgh.

  4. Re:It Was HIS Mistake... not the Health System on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1

    You have touched upon one of the real issues with doctors in general. They assume you know nothing.

    When I was a architect for major university's pharmacy department online formulary, I could walk into the hospitals urgent care and the doctor (who I did not know) would sit down, pull out her prescription pad and ask me "so... what can I get for you?". My primary care physician who've I have seen since I was 19, will leave no stone uncovered.

    But, I have gone into "Urgent Cares" and basically have told the doctors what to prescribe. I've found you need 1) medical history to back up your claims. 2) Power of suggestion. Let him ask the questions, but KNOW the right answers. One wrong answer... and forget it.

    It's all about relationships.

  5. It Was HIS Mistake... not the Health System on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1

    Why in the hell would anyone self-medicate themselves with cipro? Antibiotic abuse is bad enough among physicians, let alone some guy self-medicating himself.

    But he learned a hard lesson. 1. don't self-medicate and 2. research yourself when in doubt. take your findings to your primary care physician whom you have a relationship with.

  6. Pre-Mades are OK on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because, at least with my kids, the end in the huge box along with the other sets and are re-used with their own creations.

    I've always just bought the packaged sets. I kinda wish they had those when I was a kid.

  7. Re:Apple's way: on How Do You Handle Home Media? · · Score: 1

    I just bought a cable to plug into my AUX-In on my stereo from the Line Out of my iPod doc. Simple and effective.

  8. This IS the Truth... on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    I remember working for a software company in the 90's... everyone around me had English or History degrees from these no-name colleges.

    They could talk-the-talk, but that was about it.

    Now... they are all gone. And we are suppose to feel sorry for them???

  9. Re:Kennedy... right.... on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Like I said... that was a different time and I didn't even mention the huge population shift.

    Check the south state-by-state. Kerry lost in most by double digits. And you're right, he came awfully close, if he had just taken ONE southern state he would be President John Kerry in January.

  10. Kennedy... right.... on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Oh, let's see... just go back nearly 45 YEARS!!

    Alot of things have changed since then. West Virginia was the Ohio/Florida in those days and Kennedy had to promise the state a new interstate (I-79) and countless things to the United Mine Workers.

    And I won't even go into the crooked shit he pulled.

  11. Re:Just like he ran his campaign on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    You are dead-on correct... but it's no like the democrats have been clueless forever, unless you forget Bill Clinton. And he was the perfect democratic candidate. From the south ("aw shucks" factor), he was a moderate, engaging, and resolved.

    They definitely *lost* the election.

  12. Blame the Democratic Party!!! on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    No democrat has EVER won the presidency without winning a southern state. A senator from the northeast had NO chance!!

    Only a SOUTHERN democrat will EVER win.

  13. Yeah... Listen to the gov't run media outlets! on What's Going On in Canada? · · Score: 1

    Please. CBC... BBC... no thanks! The government has NO business being in the media business.

  14. I Know One Bug That Needs Fixed ASAP... on Why IBM Open Sourced Cloudscape · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sometimes on re-start the db process just hangs and you can't connect.

    You have to blow away the dbcache directory to get it to start-up. It doesn't occur frequently, but it has happened more than once in an otherwise stable environment.

  15. People don't know this feature!!! on Yahoo Shuts Down Their PayPal Competitor · · Score: 1

    A merchant is anyone capable of receiving electronic or non-electronic funds.

    It wouldn't surprise me at some point BofA moves into PayPal territory. My assumption is more players would be there now if there was money to be made.

  16. Re: Sorry. Don't Agree. on Rob Pike Responds · · Score: 1

    IP and it's rabid use today is a valid question. But when you mix hyperbole to the question, you are asking for a response like he gave.

    You come across as a zealot who probably wouldn't care what Rob Pike has to say, YOUR mind is already made up. And yes... Rob probably doesn't feel the same way *we* may feel.

  17. If You Want a Serious Answer... Don't Get Cute on Rob Pike Responds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    C'mon... comparing corporate IP/Patents to the nuclear arms race? That kind of flawed reasoning works on slashdot, but not with anyone out in the real world.

    He gave an appropriate response to a STUPID analogy.

  18. Re:Whoa! Behind the times! on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    A compnay I used to work for uses a interesting combination of offshoring. They keep the "core" product developers happy and well-paid in this country. There are just a handful of them... less than a dozen.

    In India (and surprisingly Vietnam), they out-source the UI development - the actual screen development. This is .NET work and the forms are VB or C#... work that WAS done by US developers who weren't really Computer Science grads, but History/English majors in college who jumped into programming for the money.

  19. Re:Not The Same! on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 1

    Gee... Oak Ridge Nuclear Labs spouting the safety of nuclear power. What a big surprise.

    Show me some EPA statistics and I will listen. Otherwise... this is spin. And since the coal industry (versus the auto industry) is relatively defenseless... spin on!!!

  20. Not The Same! on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 1

    He said radioactive WASTE. That assumes disposal issues. Burning fossil fuels may emit trace amounts of "radioactive" elements, but this is NOT a concern versus the issues with NO2, Sulfur Dioxide, Mercury, etc.

  21. Modded Interesting?? on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 0, Troll

    Give me a break! Coal power plants do not produce radioactive waste.

  22. "Steel Belt"??? on Global Air Pollution, From Above · · Score: 2, Informative

    Huh? Like have you been living in a cave? The steel industry in WesternPA and Eastern Ohio imploded in the early 80's. Given this fact and the fact of the massive population migration, I doubt it's being caused by automobiles.

    The Ohio River Valley is a chemical belt and my best guess would be these plants that run from Louisville/Huntington/Parkersburg/Wheeling.

  23. "One Person"... "One C# Developer" on Java 1.5 vs C# · · Score: 3, Insightful

    opinion. broken link... poor grammar... this guy is a joke. He pulls out 7 new features!! What about built-in queue support?

    Only thing I agree with is generics has been long overdue.

  24. Re:connect the dots on Goodbye SNMP? Hello, WS-Management · · Score: 3, Informative

    I agree with the original poster. HTTP/Web Services seems a bad idea as a replacement for SNMP. SNMP is solely the domain of servers... but routers, switches and other network devices. And your laying this additional layer of abstraction onto something that is an extremely critical piece of network management. In other words... just something else that will fail.

    I use Web Services too, within the context of Web Logic. There are so many unknowns and reliability issues under the hood. For simple http requests... no issues... but for something so critical, not yet.

  25. Re:Bundling Soft Synths on Apple Releases Logic 7, New Jam Packs · · Score: 1

    Yeah... I noticed on the MOTU-MAC forum yesterday users were moaning about MOTU not bundling. Maybe it's time for a switch!