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  1. Re:What a secret! on id CEO Claims PC Hardware Manufacturers Love Piracy · · Score: 1

    >None of what you say is true for OS X development.

    Didn't DTrace on OSX come with an artificial restriction to keep it from tracing iTunes?

  2. Re:Are we talking about the same library? on Boost 1.36 Released · · Score: 1

    >The shared_ptr class is one example that nobody thought to include in STL for some unclear reason.

    Thread-safety/performance tradeoff.

  3. Re:CREEPY! on Using Photographs To Enhance Videos · · Score: 1

    If *that* creeped you out please don't print out/assemble one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBri21uXF-k

  4. Re:Fix it at home on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    Tell that to education majors.

  5. Re:Did Obama study throwing US Constit. out window on McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments · · Score: 1

    All I mean to say is that immunity isn't banned on under the ban on 'ex-post-facto' laws; that ban only applies to punitive laws, not beneficial ones.

  6. Re:I'll keep an eye out for you on Electronic Eyeball Uses Curved Image Sensor · · Score: 1

    at least you saw it coming

  7. Re:Did Obama study throwing US Constit. out window on McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: retroactive immunity has nothing to do with Double Jeopardy, Ex-post-facto, or the first amendment.

  8. Re:WTF is this "education" worship going on? on Gates Issues Call For "Creative Capitalism" · · Score: 1

    "i spent 2 weeks in university on this stuff, while 14 year old Korean kids who can't speak English know their theirs."

    Is "theirs" the correct word to refer to all three of them?

  9. Re:no encryption that YOU didn't write is safe on Is Hushmail Still Safe? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesn't have to be anywhere near that elaborate: just assume lawmakers have about the same level of information as us, so they think (rightfully I believe) that encryption is sound, and therefore they need that law.

  10. Re:Good Point on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    >If you want to really motivate students, tie their future "social benefits" to a diploma. No diploma, no benefits. None. Zero. Until they earn a diploma, that is.

    You know, the retard girl at my school needed those benefits the most, and yet would be least likely to earn a real diploma.

  11. Re:Celebrating Science on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    >So quit pretending there was ever a time when scientists were envied and lauded above all others.

    Maybe it wasn't above *all* others, but have you ever read the accounts of Einstein's first visits to the US?

  12. Re:Vouchers on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    You'll be charged with assault in both cases. And you would be fired in both cases. What is your distinction again?

  13. Re:Fix it at home on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    Median starting salary for people with a B.S. in Computer Science is over 55k. Not exactly minimum wage.

  14. Re:Al Gore has some good ideas on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    >For instance, have you considered that jobs will be lost in the non-renewable energy job markets while they are created elsewhere?

    In the long term yes, but during the spending period new jobs there would actually be created (research/production of new tech requires energy believe it or not, and in the development phase all this new tech will actually be a net drain on our current energy availability).

  15. Re:An excellent web site on Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet · · Score: 1

    You've got to be kidding. Unless you dose up all these travelers with Ambien, many of them are going to sleep very poorly. Even the best luxury cars aren't noise-free and vibration-free enough to provide a decent level of comfort rivaling a standard bed in a quiet room. Coming close is going to require a really massive vehicle, which even with electric drive would require a lot of energy to move around.

    The sleeper cars could travel at say 45 MPH; that would be completely tolerable and still give you a range of 360 miles.

  16. Re:Wrong - GSM max power output is 2W on Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks · · Score: 1

    They cut the power you jackass.

  17. Re:Old Vs. New on Did E3 Just Gasp Its Last Breath? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    >The fact it's probably the only indutry that can't seem to hold a major business event without turning it into softcore porn should concern people.

    Uhh, cars, motorcycles, and boats aren't made by industries? News to me.

  18. Re:Can't Wait For Virginia Heffernan's Edit Of ... on To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who gave you access to my ssh key passphrase!??

  19. Re:Why are they allowed to drive in the first plac on GM Researching Windshields For Old Drivers · · Score: 2

    >(Hint 2: it's the one who's allowed to vote, because politicians wouldn't dare take his driving rights away.)

    And yet most 16 year olds can't vote and can get a license.

  20. Re:Iron Man == "perfect A" ? on Movie Review, Hellboy II · · Score: 1

    >It also didn't try to cram any sort of simplistic, cloying "message" down our throats

    I could really go for a good American cheeseburger. Mmmm, this Burger King cheese burger will fit the bill!

  21. Re:I owe him my life as well . . . on Michael DeBakey, Consummate Medical Geek, Dead At 99 · · Score: 1

    Seeing as that is just the number of operations, it might be much less (failed operations, "repeat" patients). But, if you consider the techniques and technology he pioneered, it is much much *more* than 50,000.

  22. Re:XML is a crappy format on Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Too far on Stallman Attacks Gates, Microsoft, & Charity Foundation · · Score: 1

    Yes, because doing drug research for diseases that are ignored by big pharma (because there is no money in curing them), yet which affect large portions of the human population is really really selfish.

  24. Re:This has been known for years on Wood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret · · Score: 1

    That Joshua Bell experiment wasn't double blind either: Joshua Bell could have had (consciously or not) a result in mind before he started playing. Quit spewing the same bullshit you complain about.

  25. Re:Some additional info on The World's 10 Dirtiest Cities · · Score: 1

    We are instructed daily to be firm believers in neoclassical markets, in which isolated individuals are rational wealth maximizers. If distortions are eliminated, the market should respond directly to their "votes," expressed in dollars or some counterpart. The value of a person's interests is measured the same way. In particular, the interests of those with no votes are valued at zero: future generations, for example. --Noam Chomsky, afterword to Hegemony or Survival