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  1. Sooooooo, Your Ed.Program Sucks on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    If you're serious, I'll continue this thread.

    I'm a third generation educator. I not only know what it is now, but by the stories handed down to me, I know what it was then.

    There are three groups of people involved with educating children; Educators, Students, and Parents. All three have to be involved, one group cannot do it alone.

    Trade schools have a place, after secondary education requirements have been met.

    Parents that don't get involved with their childs education are only fooling themselves, and create a burden for the rest of us to support. Teachers that teach behind a podium, or a desk are not teaching, its not the students fault. Children that never apply their knowledge in the community in which they live in never get an intrinsic value of their knowledge, they need that chance to acquire constructive feedback of what they have learned.

    I would suggest an elementry course in bio-statistics; It will help put your future results into perspective.

  2. Badges? We Don't Need No Stinking Badges! on 'Operation Site Down' Closes 8 Warez Servers · · Score: 1

    I think I find this action questionable:

    American can sleep better tonight, knowing that those lowest of all low lifes, (the downloader in super hero underweaz), is now being actively persued by Barbie's version of the law enforcement. Consider, a twenty-plus year vertern F.B.I. agent having to decide between arresting Bin Ladin, or a 14 year old that just downloaded "Raze of Nations, the Hackers Edition".

  3. Re:The perception of security on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1

    Killing is bad for business, no repeat customers. I wonder how the holier-than-thou would react if certain Halliburton types moved to the Hydrogen Dollar?

  4. Re:zero on Alex, The Brainy Parrot Who Knows About Zero · · Score: 1

    I guess the next step is, to test an autistic parrot?

  5. Re:QWERTY not QWERY on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the submitter should use the Columbus Method of typing? "Discover, and Land"?

  6. Re:More info and analysis on Microsoft Denies Claria got Spyware Exception · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see two definitive observations here:
    1. I now know where Michael Jackson's legal staff works.
    2. Beware of the federally convicted baring gifts

  7. Re:Better Quesiton on GTA Sex Game Leads to ESRB Fracas · · Score: 1

    Its good to have games only your grand father can buy. But the state's struggles to bring money in are more important, could the elected ones focus more on this?

  8. Re:Uh huh. on Form Filling Through Office 12 · · Score: 1

    Doc. Moller is still trying to get his up, I hope he's successful soon. As for waiting for the convicted of redmond? They should be painted orange, and charted as a navigational hazard.

  9. Re:It's nothing to fret about! on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1

    I couldn't help but notice that the engineers ignored the all those extra Frets, I guess it's not important?

  10. Re:Minor Details on Municipal WiFi Costs Outweigh Benefits · · Score: 1

    My thinking is that a city could make this a utility like 'fire', 'law', 'trash', 'sewage', 'water', 'electricity', and other similar type serviecs.

    As an option, the city could 'sell' the network interface card; Or the citizen could find a good price at some place like pricewatch-dot-com.

    I am also thinking that if the city wanted to know the opinion of a local issue, then it would be very easy to ask all of its citizen subscribers. If citizens did not wish to reply; then would be a good time to start knocking on doors, with hat in hand, asking, "what went wrong?"

  11. Re:go read history on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Anybody that can listen to President Bush Jr. for more than 2 sentences most likely has vapor locked with the only question that makes any sense, "Do I tear my ears off first, or do I tear out my hair?" I think it would be very sadistic to invite a bald person to listen to our nations leader.

  12. Re:Error! on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1

    In other related news, tomarrow's sun rise is planned to be early in the morning; Dress accordingly.

  13. Re:Microsoft is now irrelevent on Ballmer: 'We'll catch Google' · · Score: 1

    Something is not right here...

    The convicted of Redmond are currently pushing SQL Server 2005, and Windows Server 2003, and Visual Studio 2005. Granted, there is still the same old functionality of old products, there is some new stuff that should have the likes of Crystal Reports, and Rational Rose investors starting to think its time to sell short.

    If its "creativeness" that has this hack worried; I do not understand this either. Nothing new has come out of Redmond in years. These people buy new ideas, then apply them to the windows product; And as public record can show, sometimes without the inventors permission.

    I just wondering, does this guy want some cheese with is wine?

  14. Re:Are we using them to make the ring? on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Wellllllll, we get this ring up there, and damn, it worked just fine. So, ummmmmmm, how do we remove it?

    I've talked to some expert type folks, and they're amazed at the climate because we're supposed to be heading for another ice age, their fear is that instead of a gradual shift, that we just might have a really good cold "snap".

  15. Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific on Send Email to Utah, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    You know, If I were Michael Jackson, this would not be a funny joke.

  16. When Does One Have to Do Anything? on BitTorrent: Sysadmins to face the music · · Score: 1

    Ummmmmmm, funny; The last time I checked the law, it pretty much stated that one doesn't have to do anything, unless a judge orders it. I guess those judges of the land down under; Are wrong? I also guess business managers of local yoderlers know the law better than the rest of us.

  17. Now for MS. RSS Feed Today on Microsoft To Extend RSS · · Score: 1

    And in a related news story, "Corn seen growing in Nebraska; Film at 11."

    And this just in, "Doctors make a startling discovery; If you are color blind, then the BSOD is a lie!"

  18. Re:Good book recommendations? on Home Networking Simplified · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a many exampled web page on IPChains, and IPTables be useful here?

  19. Re:Indeed, this is the free market at work. on DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers · · Score: 1

    It looks like Bennie Smith is more concerned with Bennie Smith, than an ananlysis of the internet. Given:

    1. The internet existed long before "Popup Ads".

    2. Clients pay to use the internet; this existed long before "Popup Ads".

    3. Server Sites pay to use the internet; this existed long before "Popup Ads".

    4. The people that advertize Popup Ads on the net do so because of the cost per address is far cheaper than junk mail.

  20. Sharpie - Sony CD Award Goes To... on Microsoft Genuine Advantage Cracked · · Score: 1

    Camera opens to a busy office site with meetings meeting, conferences conferencing, and engineers engineering, all with the air of determination to keep this secret from ever seeing the light of day.

    Next scene; a bored indian software engineer reading /. and has a few minutes to kill before the wife servers dinner...

    By the way, where could a disinterested person download a copy of the source so as to "verify" the authentiscity of the minor discovery?

  21. Re:Hey, it's a smart move on Microsoft Cuts Anti-Virus Support For Unix / Linux · · Score: 1

    I really pity the workers in the trenches of Sybari. I can just hear it now......

    Worker: Hi Daddy, I work for a bunch of convicted bad guys; Aren't You Proud of Me!

  22. Re:Update from the Plantery Society on Solar Sail Launch Failure Confirmed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Talk about mixed emotions. I'm reading about a Russian ICBM choaking with its first stage; AND it is carrying a really neat science package with it!

  23. Re:Usability is a good thing on OpenUsability and KDE: Cooperating on KPDF · · Score: 1

    I know I am preaching to the chior about this. But if Al' really wants to see this "usability" work, then PLEASE have a web page "mini how to" on how to make KDE act and feel like Windows so that my boss will not know any better. The benefits of that one web page would be like a shot that could be heard all over the world.

  24. Re:no sense of irony on Vietnam Courts Microsoft and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    A person listens to a conversation that involves a combination of murder, theft, and fraud. What is the "right" action to do? It is clear that there are bad people on both sides of the Al Kida platforum. What I find even more troubling are people that would profit in the name of the Profit.

  25. Re:Theories (asinine) on Japanese Agency Plan for Robot Lunar Base · · Score: 1

    Well, I for one bow to our Lunar Real Estate Development Robots; But can some of their duties be directed to creating habitable areas for those of us who are not so, "shiny"?