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  1. If you can't beat 'em in the real world... on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...you can make some pathetic attempt to hold 'em back in the virtual world.

  2. Re:Spyware filing a lawsuit? on No Honor Among Malware Purveyors · · Score: 1

    Or calling the cops to your house to teach your kid a lesson when you've got illegal substances and weapons strewn about the place.

  3. Grand Prix Legends 3 Monitor Example... on Tom's Hardware Reviews Multi-Display Gaming · · Score: 1

    ...here.

  4. Sounds familiar.... on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    "...An especially interesting feature in this new version is tabbed browsing, which allows you to have multiple web pages open at once in one window, which you can view using a tab-based MDI."
    ....like Opera?
  5. Re:what's wrong with clones anyways? on First Human Clone Eight Weeks Along · · Score: 1

    So....to get a clone that might have a decent chance of getting the same fresh start as the original -- a "time-shifted identical twin" -- perhaps taking the DNA from the individual to be cloned _at_ _birth_ and using that "young" DNA might work.

  6. Uhhh....... on Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    .....it still amazes me that so-called educated people still dispute who "discovered" lands already populated by humans for THOUSANDS of years -- as if their existence and lives don't "count" for anything.

    ...all those formerly pristine frontiers just quietly awaiting their future deforestation, mass flora/fauna species extinction, genocide, colonialism, and natural disaster events.

    Whew -- on second thought, I guess "America" is lucky all those folks were "racing" to discover it. Those natives sure weren't doing much with it. If not for that race, it would still be an unspoiled, underpopulated, wild, undeveloped, unpolluted, useless area. Only lately has it begun to realize it's full potential!

  7. Distance Learning on Fast Track to a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    One way to maximize your time and effort: take advantage of so-called distance learning, where the vast majority of the classes are taken via the web and/or by correspondence.

    My old school, University of Maryland University College, offers many undergradute and graduate degree programs online to students regardless of location, including an undergraduate Computer and Information Science (CMIS) degree. Not quite a CS degree, but it's something.

    Check 'em out here:

    http://www.umuc.edu/distancelearningdegrees.html

    UMUC isn't the only school that does this, but they have one of the most varied and time-tested distance learning curricula around.

  8. First Iridium, now Globalstar... on U.S. Army To Develop "JEDI" Soldiers · · Score: 1

    ....so, they're going to depend on the whims of a commercial satellite network for "vital" components of the JEDI system? Iridium going belly-up should have given them a giant clue, but i guess not.

  9. Re:I seriously doubt... on Jordan Pollack Answers AI And IP Questions · · Score: 1

    ....and a lot of creative people spew forth what is often called "art" or "music" or "literature" not out of any conscious motivation, but simply because they have to. The fact that others become aware of their creations can be as an interesting after-effect.


    So...."marketable" human creative output will continue regardless of other changes, as long as folks are folks.

  10. Re:BigBrother on RoboFly · · Score: 1

    As long as they're making them out of steel and mylar, magnetic countermeasures would work nicely, especially inside one's home. You could have magnetic "bug lights", and magnetic protection around the major openings in your residence to nab
    'em when they fly in.

    Of course, sooner or later someone would develop predatory flyers to hover on station over a given zone and take out the nosy little nasties.

  11. Perl lets me get things done... on Perl Domination in CGI Programming? · · Score: 1

    ...without taking too long to do it.

    I use Perl simply because it's easier for me to program in than C or C++. With just a little effort, I can screen and process user input from forms, interact with MySQL, return HTML to the user, etc. There are probably a lot of folks out there like me who wouldn't get as much done without Perl as I do with Perl. For low volume sites, the performance trade off is more than offset by Perl's utility.