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  1. Re:What are the channels doing? on Sony DVR Useless After Rovi Stops TV Guide OnScreen · · Score: 1

    But what is the TV sending out?

  2. Re:Why not? on A Year After Thailand Flooding, Hard Drive Prices Remain High · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because the equiibrium was lower. Now one of the few players would have to charge less, but they have no incentive to do so. Game theory at work.

    Exactly. When their costs went up they all had to raise prices but when costs go down they can all wait for someone else to lower prices first. No collusion or cartel is required.

  3. Re:Insufficient information on Canada's Supreme Court Tosses Viagra Patent For Vagueness · · Score: 1

    mod parent ... er ... up!

  4. Re:What is Jenny McCarthy going to say? on HIV Vaccine Safe Enough To Pass Phase 1 Human Trials · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Along with the anti-vaccine nutters?

    Clearly using real HIV viruses must be very risky and dangerous

    Is that your informed opinion or just baseless fear and nonsense? What makes it dangerous? ..and what makes you think you're smarter than the genetic engineers who are developing it? the Internet just sucks sometimes because stupidity spreads just as fast as logic.

    Wow, since AC knows that its safe, I wonder why they are even bothering doing safety trials on already infected people. Why not just jump directly to mass inoculations?

  5. Re:That NOT what I said. on Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty · · Score: 2

    Graphical programming has been attempted before. It turns out there's more to programming than just connecting boxes together, although it did find some uses in audio processing and such.

  6. Re:Career on Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty · · Score: 1

    Senior Software Engineer for a new grad? I guess your first employer had no standards.

  7. Re:40: I'm 55... on Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My experience is that I started as a hardware engineer, then spent 25 years as an engineering manager. I now have a job as a programmer, work sane hours, and am a lot more productive than the "one-year-out-of-college" kids who are generally creating as many problems as they're solving. Some of my code is now in the Linux kernel and I'm a lot happier going to work.

  8. Re: Oh No! Global warming is wrong! on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    As a former Fiat owner I can speak about how low my fuel costs were. The damn thing was always in the shop.

  9. Re:Did I miss something? on Boeing 787 Makes US Debut · · Score: 1

    also the latest oxymoron "midseason premiere"

  10. Re:Awesome on Boeing 787 Makes US Debut · · Score: 5, Informative

    From United's Q3 financials:

    Net profit margin 0.06%

    but having just flown SwissAir and Lufthansa, I have to agree about food and service being better in Europe.

  11. Re:Get out of Greece now. on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The ads are to hold the price up long enough for the early purchasers to convert to dollars.

  12. Re:South Carolina on South Carolina Department of Revenue Hacked, 3.6 Million SSNs Taken · · Score: 1

    The classes with less than one student per teacher don't do well.

  13. Re:"Only" 16,000 credit/debit numbers at risk on South Carolina Department of Revenue Hacked, 3.6 Million SSNs Taken · · Score: 1

    I wonder where the decryption key to the rest of the numbers where stored ...

    This could explain the break-in and theft of over 200 Post-it notes.

  14. Re:Avoid learn by doing on Ask Slashdot: Is Going To a Technical College Worth It? · · Score: 1

    Avoid any school with a learn by doing methodology. Make sure they teach the theory before you do something.

    Also avoid any school that is totally abstract and doesn't give you practical training. As long as you avoid those two extremes you will be fine.

    Seriously, though, if you know enough to recognize that you aren't getting the most thorough education, then you are good enough to go to a real 4-year college.

  15. Re:Tank it on Researcher Develops Patch For Java Zero Day In 30 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's weird because he's Alec Baldwin.

  16. Is it mounted on gimbals? on Huston Huddleston Wants You To Help Save the Star Trek TNG Set · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope whenever it is hit by a blast from enemy weapons everybody can fall over to the left and then to the right.

  17. Re:If AMD Dies... on Is Qualcomm the New AMD? · · Score: 1

    That include the -64 part. It didn't hurt Intel to have AMD do all the heavy lifting to get that market going then Intel just included it since it was previously licensed.

    Umm.. you are forgetting the money Intel spent developing Itanium.

    Intel is a great company, but AMD did better on 64-bit, better on integrating stuff into the CPU, and better on selling low-cost CPUs that hit a certain market segment. They really only started falling behind when Intel forced them out of socket compatibility. Now the new mainboard features show up on Intel platform first, and AMD later. Intel is selling tons of boards.

  18. Re:Maybe it was correct? on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    Of course the sun rose this morning. I read it in the Iranian Journal of Homological PDE.

  19. Re:Python 3 and its use on Python 3.3.0 Released · · Score: 2

    For some reason I can't get "yum install python" to work.

  20. Re:Babylon 5 on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 2

    Arthur C. Clarke was probably the most concerned with "real" science in his works. 2001 turned out pretty good.

  21. Re:so i can't make a clock with no numbers? on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 1

    You live by the sword...

    No you don't. I have a design patent on two-edged handheld weapons with jeweled hilts and a finger guard.

  22. Re:so i can't make a clock with no numbers? on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think that's Peyton's other brother.

  23. Re:so i can't make a clock with no numbers? on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 2

    I guess UPS owes them royalties from the shape of boxes I get.

    Wish I had mod points.

  24. Re:Mine --- on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow. Good thing we reined in the Robber Barons. Think how bad it would get if corporations had the same rights as people, or were allowed to make unlimited political donations! Oh, wait...

  25. Re:99.999% on Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware · · Score: 2

    I got hit by malware on Redhat years ago (the L10n worm) so it does happen.

    Anyway, I have a corporate Win 7 desktop with Sophos now and got this bug. Every few minutes it popped up a warning that I had been infected with malware. Very annoying. By the end of today it had stopped, so either IT had fixed it or it had managed to commit suicide. The one time I did get infected with malware on this PC Sophos didn't catch it and I had to download Malwarebytes and fix the registry myself.