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  1. Re:Go easy on France on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    Nope kyoto caps their CO2 pollution growth. Besides its UNITED states that has taken a freeride not in kyoto but otherwice. China is a bad example. China has REDUCED its CO2 production while USA has increased its own.

  2. Re:Where are the IP lawyers when you need one? on Microsoft Sues Spammers · · Score: 1

    And that patent would be expired...
    14 years and expiration.

  3. Re:I'm waiting for the comethuggers... on NASA's Deep Impact · · Score: 1

    Don't worry there will be a mission for them too. Next time they will be send STRAIGHT ahead to hug a comet in space suit...

  4. Re:Expensive launch mass? on NASA's Deep Impact · · Score: 1

    Thats not bathtub its soup plate, and if you come at right time, it has some meat in it with some funny tasting spice in it.

  5. Re:Just Engineering Taken to its Logical Conclusio on The Economist Tackles Complexity in IT · · Score: 1

    I used to agree that 2-3% thing and I did hate object oriented programming but that modularized abstraction can be made use off...
    Its when you start using the class structure, so that you won't have to write lots of code again and again in the structure. Too bad those things are not supported well in the language. Or it looks more or less cludge when I did so, but still ended up getting LESS lines of codes than doing it the way we where taught to do. One of tricks, is that in a interpreter I was writing to there was a class to handle the namespace, that class constructor simply looked all the classes inherited from operator class so that the parser, and evaluator code didn't need to know what operators there where nor how they looked for. They simply got them from the class structure and used what was in the operator class, instead of hardcoding them in the interpreter or parser ;)
    I extensively abused the class structure and the assistant loved that. BTW: There is function pointers in java so that you COULD use them but language is made it HARD to use them ;)
    I hated object orientation BEFORE I started abusing class structure as much as possible ;)
    Now I must tell you object orientation is really usefull abstraction if done right. If done like we are taught to do in universities its terrible.
    Of course that was mostly optimized for impressing the assistant who is religious about object orientation, not optimized for speed and TRUE object orientation is not for code where performance is nr1 consideration.

  6. Re:Killing USA:s president is trivial, but... on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 1

    Well. Thats option too. But its far easier to block THAT kind of assaults that require to be too close with line of sight. BTW: The God I believe, would reward me with eternal suffering for that...

  7. Killing USA:s president is trivial, but... on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Getting away with it these days is nearly impossible...
    [Trivial, with money and manpower inside united states, and with some time for preparitions.]
    Quicklist:
    Someone inside does it with poison or something: blackmail, bribe, personal hate towards president etc...
    Longrange rifles and explosive bullets 2 kilometers away from target...
    Mortars 8 kilometers away from target... Best would be if you could get enough firepower to take down a building, if not then in the street right in front of it.
    Bazooka trough a wall...
    Burry explosives before hand to a location you know president will be at sometime future....
    Best location would be a large bridge. Feed the sharks below the bridge before hand just to make sure...
    Navy/airforce insiders... Well get missile, zero it to a building where president is. Hit the fire button. Or better yet. Use insiders to get it from armory, deliver it withing its range to the president and then fire it at the target...

    Now none of the tricks are something you could get AWAY with actually, so there has to be something more important than persons own life for a motive to do it. Doing it isn't going to make anything better, you just get another dumb polition that does same mistakes, perhaps few additional mistakes os it won't solve a thing.

  8. What!!!!????? on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh no they killed Kennyde.

  9. Re:How many geeks.... on Screw-in LED Floodlights · · Score: 1

    What two? the bulb is definetely screwing around.

  10. Re:Best long term interests? on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    Could someone please take a hit now so that rest of us would be saved.
    [And have a full scale nuclear war with united states right now.]

  11. Re:FAIR? on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    Every lawsuit increases GDP. Crashing a car, and handling it for repair increases it. Shooting people and taking them to hospitals increases it. Making lots of rubbish, and having a corporation to move it to the dump increases GDP. So using more wastefull packaging increases GDP. Abortions increase GDP.
    Having higher price on food increases GDP. Having more expensive housing increases GDP. Reduction of CO2 could be done quite easily, and without LONG TERM cost on your economy.

    Your argument don't hold any stand against EU which is number 1. Economy of world and producing 17% of CO2 emissions.

    Why per capita pollution should be unfair? Why you should have more rights than anyone else to pollute?
    Of course there is option of enviromentalist of rest of the world if united stated won't reduce its per capita pollution. A forcefull reduction of the other side of multiplication so that overall pollution will reduce ;)
    I'm not much in favour such acts, but I wouldn't weep, if someone released some deadly disease in united states 50 largest cities. [Some thing that any enviromentalist group could easily do.]
    You have no idea how important this is for europe. Lets make it certain.
    In europe alone failure of handling the CO2 reductions worldwide is going to end up MORE destruction than exploding nukes in 100 largest european cities. Now think what european enviromental groups would be willing to do in order to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide, since some are really fanatical about it ;) (Not me, I'm moderate enviromentalist here ;)

  12. FAIR? on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    So what if we all would agree that every person would have 80% of allowanse of what was in 1990 by average of *entire* population of earth. So that USA would need to cut to 1/10th their carbon dioxide emissions. Hey if you would sign kyoto your per capita allowance would be double compared to europe!
    You are biggest polluter of entire world 1/4th of CO2 emissions. Russia and china combined are as large polluter as you are. USA pollutes 50% more than EU while EU has 50% bigger population so think about fairness, when kyoto would give americans a far bigger share of the CO2 allowance than anyone else. Think about fairness.Your per capita allowance is ten times any developing country.

    Besides china HAS reduced its CO2 emissions levels. And what you could say about its ECONOMY has it grown or reduced during the process?

  13. Hey there is one thing missing in Kyoto ... on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    5% mandatory import tariff by every kyoto signers to *ALL* imports of nonsigners.

  14. REASONS FOR AGP VERSIONS SPEED. on Reviews Arrive For nVidia GeForce 6600GT AGP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fast low latency chipset?
    Probably biggest reason for AGP version to beat the PCI-E version
    Drivers?

  15. Re:If this is true... on FCC Claims Regulatory Power Over Home Computers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sure we heard this freeBsd thing is used by authors of those, so we have decided to BAN ALL USE FREEBSD OUTSIDE GOVERMENT ORGANIZATIONS!

  16. BLAH.... on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 1

    You windows users go back for doing what ever windows does best.

  17. WHAT A COINCIDENCE! on Half-Life 2 Finally Activated · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now it has taken ALMOST 2 hours since this came online, and no other stories in slashdot coming. Is this coincidence, or is there some correlation between those too.

  18. Re:Peak of eternal light on Ion-Propulsion Craft Reaches The Moon · · Score: 1

    SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB.

  19. A GREAT TIP on Art Tips For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Edit postscript file yourself by hand. That way you use more of your real talent in the work.

  20. At a dance club... on DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber · · Score: 1

    Drool, beatiful women....
    look at ground: come see my very cool BED. It has some leds on it that make it a look great.
    Droooll, stare her breast...

    Definitely a good hit line. Definitely.

  21. Re:Hacking inthe heartland on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    Yes kansas city is VERY rural, it doesn't even have triple only over double the population of capital of european union ...

  22. This thing gave me nice little idea.... on Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    1. Grow long hair.
    2. Marry a lawyer.
    3. Get in EA and record their promises.
    4. keep a recorder always with you.
    5. First month do as long hours as management makes you.
    6. Get T-shirt where in your back reads, (under your hair so that no-one sees it)
    MY WIFE IS A LAWYER
    7. after that 40-50 hour weeks if management starts shouting at you, well that why you have the recorder. Best thing would be talking to a mobile phone while walking away. Let manager shout at you.
    Say him that your wife needs you at home. And she heard EVERY SINGLE WORD HE SAID and has recording device always on her phone just in case. Then pull your hair in front and turn your back at boss and walk away.

  23. In other words: on AOL Dumping Some Broadband · · Score: 1

    AOL buys time warner-> AOL kills its internet business...

  24. The obvious answer: on When Is A Good Time To Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    When you need, is bigger than the financial cost relative to your wealth...
    I used 366 celeron until january 2004. Since at that point I was able to build 4 as fast computer for a relatively low costs, and the old one seemed to be slightly too slow, and HD was too small and every peace was below what I wanted, except sound card.
    Yes I'm a student and barely afford to buy stuff... Next such thing I'll probably buy is PDA, MP3 player and digital camera, and upgrade to my mobile phone and in one package. Its just that I carry mobile phone everywhere, and I need PDA and MP3 player should be nice, and digital camera is extra but still... Yes, its expensive, but I'd rather have expensive ONE device that does everything I need than purchase hundred devices that I don't use.

  25. Nope. on MS Indemnifies Customers Against IP Threats · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is just a case where instead of both customers and MS as target. MS says that customers are not the target its only MS. Also they probably think they could counter sue any big player suing them.