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  1. Re:Never sign anything on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    I got a Quebec judge mad and adding to my sentence just for trying to speak english and also objecting to my lawyer pleading guilty (I was framed). Quebec law in practice is different from quebec law in the books.

  2. Re:Idiot. on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1
    Actually, common flaws of Canadians in general.

    We follow rules because they're rules. You'd be suprised how many people get run over in Canada just because the signal told them it was time to walk.

  3. Re:Idiot. on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 2
    He's not an idiot, he's Canadian.

    The two might look the same for USians. You see, in Canada, we don't sue you for getting hurt while robbing you. Don't even sue you for not saying sorry after you bump into us. In fact, lawyers are almost mythical creatures here, less direct spawns of satan.

    Canadians also don't expect people to act completely irrationaly, or aggresively, because we're a pretty decent people to begin with. We aren't extremely paranoid and cautious, mainly because we aren't constantly trying to surpass the joneses nor do we step on others to get ahead.

    So, yes, Canadians are a bit naive when exposed to they type of stupidity that has been rampant in the US for decades.

  4. Re:Time to go to the press... on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    This is Canada.

  5. Re:Time to go to the press... on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 3, Informative
    I think it has less to do with the school and more to do with Canada in general. Most of Canada's networks run on security through obscurity and we don't pay decent wages to software people.

    As an example, I got let go from a government job because they considered me a security risk just because I asked what servers they were running! Most of the software was badly programmed VBasic, then what do you expect when you hire a programmer for $30k/annum? The absurdity is that the manager of the office overode my dismissal because they couldn't get anybody else to fix their corrupted databases. Something not one of their system administrators could fix as they had absolutely no experience outside of school.

    Might just be governments being clueless about software. Canada did pay millions to use a search system, developed by the US gov't, that doesn't actually search the content of pages. Brilliant.

  6. Re:Ridiculous on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    This is Canada. We saved the black people.

  7. Re:Ridiculous on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    Ah calling somone a pedant for not agreeing with your made up statistics, nice.

  8. Re:i have purchased the affected products. on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1
    I'm sure there's a joke in there about wives.

    But probably around the same time a cat did.

  9. Re:i have purchased the affected products. on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    I don't see any ethical or moral difference between eating a cow and a human, you are consuming something that had awareness, whether it be a little or a lot, it is still awareness. However, I would object based on how I've seen humans feed themselves. That and purpose.

  10. Re:I have an idea on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 1

    Truth always seems ridiculous to the ignorant.

  11. Re:And in other completely unrelated news on Canadian Court Rejects US Demand For Full Access To Megaupload Servers · · Score: 1
    You know what? Try actually reading the bill, like I did, it's very enlightening.

    Let me spell out the basics for you. It's called the Navigable Waters Protection Act. It protects Navigable Waters, that is waterways which can be navigated. There are no environmental protections in the act, it's concern is with keeping waterways navigable by restricting obstructions.

    Yes, a large majority of lakes where rich conservatives live are still protected by this act. That doesn't mean that there is any more environmental protection for their lakes. What it means is that when rich cottage owner wants to build a dock out onto the water, he'll have to go through a hell of a lot of red tape. Now, even though the cottage owner who lives on a lake no longer covered by the NWPA doesn't have to go through all the red tape to build a dock, he still has to follow all the environmental water protection acts. Misinformation like this is what builds voter apathy.

  12. Re:I have an idea on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 1

    Ah, modded down by the ignorant who know nothing about the neuro-protective role of endo-cannabinoids nor their directed role in neurogenesis.

  13. Re:Poor young people on Edward Tufte's Defense of Aaron Swartz and the "Marvelously Different" · · Score: 1

    Have you read his manifesto?

  14. Re:Poor young people on Edward Tufte's Defense of Aaron Swartz and the "Marvelously Different" · · Score: 2

    Oh, I'm sure you were. Just as I fondly remember breaking into a top secret, guarded, military facility, to take out some rogue agents. ...though an outsider might just have seen some kids rolling around in the dirt at the local airport.

  15. Re:Poor young people on Edward Tufte's Defense of Aaron Swartz and the "Marvelously Different" · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's a bit more like JSTOR is trying to cover up the underlying wrongness, sure makes academics feel better about themselves though.

  16. Re:I have an idea on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 0
    There is such a molecule. It comes from cannabis. Unfortunately it has to be directed by awareness.

    The real problem is that people are just too lazy to accomplish great things, they'd rather be handed a solution on a platter that requires no input from them.

    For example, people could learn how to use their eyes properly, or they can stick with the same viewpoint, ignoring the physical world, and buy a pair of glasses that supports their inflexibility.

  17. Re:i have purchased the affected products. on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    um, nobody was talking about quality of meat or bioavailability of what's consumed. As well, if you think pigs are so full of disease you really need to realize we don't live in biblical times anymore. Garbage in, garbage out. Unlike, of course, some humans who can't process context. Feed in some perfectly logical relevant conversation and out comes so random garbage from left field.

  18. Puzzle games, even older ones. on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 1
    Mist, 11th hour, Siberia, etc... Hell, even the old text zork games can be fun with two people.

    Start off with co-operative things with minimal computer interaction and work your way up to blowing each other up competitively. Maybe some emulators? Who hasn't played SMB all incarnations with two people?

  19. Re:Do your part on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 1

    Try not to confuse your monitor post-its and your slashdot posts in the future.

  20. Re:Poor young people on Edward Tufte's Defense of Aaron Swartz and the "Marvelously Different" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course you're comparing two stupid young kids fooling around and someone working towards a reality where knowledge is freed.

  21. Re:i have purchased the affected products. on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 2

    Horses are very rarely pets, only for the very rich. They are usually just living tools. Just because you can care about something doesn't mean you can't eat it. Or are you a vegetarian? Anybody who thinks there's any difference between eating a cow and eating a cat or dog has some serious cognitive dissonance going on.

  22. Re:Easier for hate groups to find local victims, n on Facebook's Graph Search Is a Privacy Test For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    Are you knowingly posting lies or are you not aware that what you say is false because you don't use facebook?

  23. Re:Take Control on Facebook's Graph Search Is a Privacy Test For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    Wow, fake and proud of it get's a +5!

  24. Re:I don't get it. on Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Storage Site Arrives · · Score: 1

    and if you're traveling for months or have no fixed address? Also, what a waste of energy, you should be ashamed of yourself.

  25. Re:HDPE, LDPE, ABS, NYLON... on The 3D Un-Printer · · Score: 1

    Yes.