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  1. wireless sucks on Permanet vs. Nearlynet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Having used wireless for 4 years or so because
    i am in the boonies, i can wireless sucks. Weather
    does effect your connections, no matter what they
    say. And they don't like to roll out the trucks
    when there's a problem. Stick to the umbilical
    cord.

  2. Re:Finally on The New Face of Global Competition · · Score: 1

    The knowledge to be in biotech is much
    higher than for computer science. Even
    fewer people are capable of working this
    area. Each new boom requires more and more
    knowledge which makes for fewer and fewer
    workers.

  3. excellent book on The Art of Deception · · Score: 1

    I loved this book. It showed in detail the
    application of social engineering in ways
    you might not have thought possible. It didn't
    show a lot of heroic hacking, which was part
    of the point. There were some good bits
    on how to install trojan horses though.

  4. Re:Help on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1

    A frontal assault would be the perfect
    distraction to cover frodo to get in
    and destroy the ring. As this is what
    sauron expects he wouldn't be expecting
    an attempt to destroy the ring.

  5. Re:It was great! Period! on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1

    I want to see a good movie. I don't care where
    it is in a series. It must stand on its own.
    I don't think TT did stand on its own. It was
    good. Interesting. Stunning. But it wasn't as
    good as the first movie.

  6. Re:Let's skip them, and do it ourselves. on Longhorn Server Scrapped · · Score: 1

    Why would i want to virtualize everything as a file system? File systems have almost no useful behaviour at all.

  7. They Are Just Fucking Cells on Embryonic Stem Cell Research Legalized in California · · Score: -1


    If you understand how this works it's just
    a very elaborate machine based on the building
    blocks of elements. At some point there's a
    being worth protecting, but it's weeks or months
    later, not when there a few dividing cells.

  8. how about decent meeting maker? on German Government Commissions KDE Groupware System · · Score: 1

    Outlook has the worst interface for making
    meetings that i can imagine for such an
    "advanced" product.

  9. Re:Could we use this to better estimate.... on Virtual Genetic Evolution · · Score: 1

    And what is the probablity of a god arising?

  10. it was hume who said on Possible Evidence of Martian Bacteria · · Score: 2, Informative

    'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' not carl.

  11. you are old when... on Schmidt Predicts Digital Sky Is Falling · · Score: 1

    you are more afraid of the downside than
    excited about the upside.

    This doesn't mean stick your head in the
    sand, but jeesh...

  12. Re:Nope on US Army to Test Laser Based Mine Clearing Device · · Score: 1

    I believe they will use tactical nukes
    to power the lazers.

  13. how can any government or corporation use MS on Microsoft Media Player "Security Patch" Changes EULA Big Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When it will become or already is one big
    backdoor for the NSA and CIA and music industry?

  14. beginning of the end on The Ideas Behind Longhorn · · Score: 1

    This could be the project that signals the
    end of microsoft. It's like you know a company
    is going to croak when they build/lease a
    new huge building. Nobody really gives a flying
    fuck about file system integration. Anything
    they want to do they could do now. What they
    are doing things is an internal rearchiteture
    which is usually a similar sign of the end.

  15. we actually want to keep them on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 1

    We make counter offers because we actually
    want to keep people. Yes, it would be better
    if management asked if people were happy
    and it would be better if people asked for
    raises, but people are busy, shy, etc.
    If your company was going to screw you you
    would know it and should act accordingly. If
    you trying to change the work you are doing
    then leave because it's not about the money.

  16. Re:fortuitous news for Linux? on FAA Pushes Air Traffic Control Systems Into Service · · Score: 1

    Yah you are crazy. If the software doesn't
    work it's probably not the OS, it's the
    application in which case linux won't make
    a difference. BTW, mozilla still crashes.
    So does linux. Not so good for air traffic
    control.

  17. waste == cost on Cradle to Cradle · · Score: 1, Informative

    Any waste produced means the you are being
    inneficient with resources which means you
    are losing money. This type of design can be
    cheaper beacause it is far more efficient
    in the use of resources.

  18. if i'd only known on Google Programming Contest Winner · · Score: 2, Interesting

    they wanted such boring submissions.
    The winning idea was cool, but the rest looks
    like free development for google rather
    than something novel.

  19. Re:nail .. on .. the .. head on XML Namespaces and How They Affect XPath and XSLT · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It's way complex for not much gain.
    All the namespace crap makes it impossible
    to read or write. And what good is it really?

  20. Re:Long-term terraforming. on NASA Probes Reveal Vast Stores of Martian Ice · · Score: 1

    In that time frame we are supposed to
    get creamed by a supernova. We don't have
    time. We need to use mars as a stepping
    stone to get some of us somewhere safe.

  21. distributed programming != OO on Bitter Java · · Score: 1

    It's not clear what "nicely wrapped" objects
    have to do with distributed programming. OO doesn't make distributed programming any easier or harder. They are separate issues. If it
    didn't work it's because they didn't solve the
    right problem.

  22. won't be buying it on Star Wars Episode II: The Book Review · · Score: 1

    I love the star wars books. Except the books
    written around the movies. They suck because
    they are only meant to tie together events
    rather than be the source of the events in the
    first place. Any of the other books would make
    an interesting base for movies. Books just
    for movies apparently don't work at all. They
    are soul-less plot for plot's sake wastes of
    time.

  23. Re:Not even 2 week salary liquidity? on "Industry Standard" Paycuts in IT? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The american consumer isn't the great
    economic engine because we save money!
    We spend. We go in debt to spend more.
    We are good americans!

  24. We are simple on Simulating Societies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not just that the simulations use
    simple rules, but we humans use simple rules
    too because we are simple minded and are usually
    driven by simple heuristics. It's not suprising
    that the simulated behaviour closely matches
    real behaviour. Fot it to be otherwise would
    take a level of intelligence we don't seem
    to have.

  25. Re:it's all in the design on A Unified Theory of Software Evolution · · Score: 1

    You'll blow a lot of time in refactoring
    and testing. Don't confuse appropriate
    design with BDUF. Appropriate design is
    not only not impossible, it is done all the
    time.