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  1. Re:It isn't just 16 year old girls that can crack. on Slashback: Sale, Secrecy, Lasers · · Score: 0
    Are we not using their potential as we should?


    I've had some frustrating times teaching and working with autistic children. Using their potential is easier said than done. Realizing their potential was difficult because it was very hard to keep their attention. In most cases, if they were not on medication beforehand, they became completely uncooperative. Obviously I am only speaking from my experiences, but I took that article with a grain of salt...

  2. actually... on The Ultimate Cubicle · · Score: 1

    What I find more important than having a comfy cubicle is if your monitor is facing the gen pop, or if it's faced to the back wall. Hey, if my monitor isn't facing the crowd, i'll obviously have higher scores in solitare and snake because I won't be as nervous.

  3. Re:This is a damn shame. on Sklyarov Indicted · · Score: 1
    "If someone volunteers to be a test case for the FSF or others, that's fine; he did not, and is a unwitting victim of our police state."


    He obviously has to play by US rules. Unwitting? most likely, however that's often a poor excuse. Expect the same or possibly much worse if you were indicted in a foreign country. The point of making him a test case is not to his benefit of course... It's the way our "police state" flexes its muscles, makes an example...

  4. Re:Abuse of power on Keyloggers Now Classified Technology · · Score: 0, Troll

    they should be able to classify whatever they want. figure it out yourself! trade secrets are often the recipe for success. may the best man win (in this case, the man).

    Don't be the kind of person who sits in class asking everyone what they got for #12 on the homework...

  5. Re:Of course Covad will go dark... on Covad Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    Actually, Covad already dumped me off to another service. There were a lot of billing problems during the transfer, but the connection never went dark. I think they will try and pass off what they can.

  6. Re:Did you expect any differently? on $1200 Cheap! · · Score: 1

    well put. one thing to note is that companies always put bundles together because it's a wise marketing scheme. the reason everyone is arguing against it is because the bundle is very expensive and it makes affording *any* part of the products difficult and more of an investment than lets say, bundled pencils (even if you only wanted one pencil). a majority of the people these boxes are targetting are younger (under 18), and a half grand pricetag hurts.

  7. sell it on When Personal Projects Start To Conflict w/ Work? · · Score: 1

    why don't you sell it to both?
    you keep saying that the product isn't your companies, but you don't sound like it's your product either! make it yours, sell it. if you aren't confident about it, you'll need to get over that.

  8. well? on Linux 2.4.0-prerelease is Released · · Score: 1

    what's new/changed/fixed?

    i think you can have the bandwidth to yourself on this one.

  9. apples and oranges... on Are The Benefits Of Technology Waning? · · Score: 1

    different people, countries, genders, races, species all come together via today's technology. digital phones, the mangled internet, satellite technology has just begun to expand our horizons and let us connect quickly and inefficiently to answers, while things like plumbing and lightbulbs are more into who we see and smell every day.

    baselines are set, and expanded upon. true that without the invention of light, fiber optics would be a bit tougher, but without that internet, we'd never have a chance to discover the secret monitor glow attribute that allows us to live 100 more years.

    the same thing annoys me with calanders. people tend to compare the months and days, because they look the same. little annoying squares on bigger squares on squares of paper. we should use timelines.

  10. Amazon.waste on Lord of the Rings and Hype · · Score: 1

    "Also, Tolkien recently won the Amazon.com's "Best of the Millennium" award. (Which I have to admit is a crock, given every single book in the top ten was writen this century). "

    what's worse: amazon.com coming up with a half-baked, piece of crud list of "Best" things, or those who sit around and debate over it.

    amazon.com just sells the damn books, i couldn't care less about what they think is quality literature. i'm sure some underpaid, overworked goof came up with the list before his week vacation. If you saw "Harry Potter" in the list, and you didn't stop wasting your time looking at it, then shame on you!