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  1. Re:your problems on Where to Advertise for Open Source Job Openings? · · Score: 1

    She'll leave you.

    Better would have been to have her drop out. Mine did. I now have 5 kids, hot meals, clean clothes...

    You don't get the hot meals and clean clothes if she has her own career. Well, you might get them, but that's unfair and she WILL notice that she's doing twice as much work as you are. Splitting the chores is impossible because you WILL NOT have the same standards. What is clean to you may not be clean to her, so she ends up doing all the cleaning and gets resentful because you agreed to do half. Besides, even if you do split the work successfully and against all odds, doing 1.5 jobs each (career + half the housework) is a lot harder than doing 1 job each.

  2. Re:your problems on Where to Advertise for Open Source Job Openings? · · Score: 1

    The ones with "ASP" are disqualified, right?

    Well, I guess "Replaced legacy ASP system" would need to be rated highly.

  3. Re:probably not a cucumber on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 1

    Heh. It sure gives me the creeps, but:

    It treats diabetes.
    It impedes viruses.
    It impedes bacteria.
    It impedes tumors.
    It lowers blood cholesterol.
    It keeps you regular.

    That's at least 6 things to like! Heart disease and cancer are big killers. As long as you weren't planning to have the runs, have a baby, or catch a fungal/yeast disease...

    BTW, I'm sure your non-sexual sounds are unappreciated by the busy couple. Let rip a big one! (actually... you don't peek? Picture phone?)

  4. your problems on Where to Advertise for Open Source Job Openings? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First, you used PA Careerlink.

    Second, you left your resume sitting there. You need to direct it toward suitable matches.

    Third, you OWN A HOME without having the finances to back it up. Yeah, it's a better deal if you can sit there for many years and pay the higher rates, but you're in no shape for either. Don't bother unless there are plenty of good-paying jobs for you within about a 7-mile radius.

    Fourth, it appears you don't understand the concept of keywords. (though I only see a part of your resume) Your resume is wordy, yet lacking. Most of us take "functional code" to mean either that your code barely runs or that you use screwball academic languages like Haskell and Scheme. CVS is a revision control system, not a release system. You claim "cross platform", but never mention "portable" or "porting".

    Fifth... you live in PA. You probably need to move. Find some place cheap that is near a good tech area. Example: Lowell, MA.

  5. Dear my, fuck no! on Could Graphics Drivers be Included on the Card? · · Score: 1

    I can say little about VNC, ICA, or NX. The other two though...

    You couldn't be more wrong about your ranking of X11 and RDP.

    X11 is pretty decent, especially if you use the modern extensions.
    (the Xfixes, Damage, and font-related stuff)

    RDP is a joke. The sickest thing is that we tunnel it over
    TCP/IP. RDP already includes those layers of the network
    stack. To anyone with a clue about the behavior of network
    protocol congestion control and similar issues, this is an
    obviously bad thing to do. RDP has all sorts of crazy-shit
    features designed by a committee. Microsoft then tacked on
    some interesting extras to bring the "quality" below even
    that of the blecherous CIFS protocol.

  6. no, some kids want to be fat on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 1

    It's not usually something they are fully aware of.

    Being fat isolates you. Especially for a person who is uncomfortable with sexual advances, obesity offers an escape.

  7. probably not a cucumber on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 1

    I think you're eating bitter melon.

    Bitter melon is a bit more warty than the typical cucumber. It tends to be pointy on the blossom end.

    Bitter melon has all sorts of weird psyiological effects. From wikibooks:

    Bitter melon has some interesting effects on humans. It has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as a treatment for diabetes and to cause abortions. It impedes many things: viruses, bacteria, tumors... and the immune system. It lowers blood cholesterol. It is a laxative.

    Wild, huh?

    There is a picture there are well:
    http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Bitter_Melon

    As for the carrots: the bitterness has been bred out of modern carrots. Bitter ones are more nutritious and more poisonous.

  8. 18 is rather dumb on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 1

    Anything better would have to involve mandatory measurements.

    Example: If you go a year without gaining height, you're declared an adult.

  9. this can be rewarding on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 1

    Conversation with a 5-year-old:

    Me: I'm the big hungry daddy. I'm going to eat all the broccoli.
    Kid: Nooooo! You share! Little boys need broccoli too!
    Me: You eat ice cream.
    Kid: Mom! Stop him! He's eating all the broccoli!

  10. a good thing for certain corporations on Microsoft Adds Risky System-Wide Undelete to Vista · · Score: 1

    Maxtor, Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital...

  11. OK if the federal government gets the patents on Stem Cells - The Hope and the Hype · · Score: 1

    You want to spend federal money? Fine, as long as the government gets any patents (which you WILL file) and you don't keep trade secrets. BTW, it's not legit to suddenly discontinue federal funding and then file for patents.

    Don't like that? Fuck off. I don't want to pay for research that I can't use.

    (as for licensing: either the top 5 bidders or free to all US citizens)

  12. They do spread, don't they? on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 1

    If you think Bush and the christian fundies are bad, you just wait until there are enough muslims to start a serious call for sharia law. You have not yet begun to suffer.

    (unless you'd be one of the people calling for sharia law)

    It's damn easy to predict that islam will take over the world.

  13. sure on Could Graphics Drivers be Included on the Card? · · Score: 1

    DVI is a dumb protocol. It sends an uncompressed image with every refresh.

    Neither VNC nor X11 is like that.

    X11 is good enough to play 3D games over gigabit. You just send the OpenGL. Video works fine too -- you don't send it raw, and certainly not at your monitor's refresh rate.

  14. not an Apache at all - it's a Kiowa Warrior on Pentagon Monitors War Videos Online · · Score: 1

    The file is called OH-58D-JRTC-Fun.avi, with "OH-58D" meaning a Kiowa Warrior. It has a spherical (not disk-like) thing up top with "a gyro-stabilized platform containing a TeleVision System (TVS), a Thermal Imaging System (TIS), and a Laser Range Finder/Designator (LFRD)" according to Wikipedia. There is no gun, but a pair of missles can be carried.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OH-58D

  15. not much of a bomb on Pentagon Monitors War Videos Online · · Score: 1

    People came running out? It sounds like you got a second-rate bomb. Dud?

  16. I just watched both videos. Noting wrong. on Pentagon Monitors War Videos Online · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here is the AC-130 gun camera:
    http://www.militaryvideos.net/videos.php?videonum= 2
    (the people screwing are in video #7)

    If anything, the crew was being too careful around
    the suspected mosque. Well, given what people like
    to hide inside "mosques", the resulting explosion
    might take out the whole area.

    The site says "Viewer discretion is advised." and
    you ignored it. Your stomach is very weak.

    People kill each other all the time, usually with
    far less justification. Get over it.

    Besides, these assholes wanted to go directly to
    heaven so that Allah would give them 50 virgins.
    (sadly, I'm not joking about the virgins)

    As for the screwing... you can possibly be as
    innocent as you pretend to be. I'd sure tape them,
    and it'd be funny as Hell if somebody taped me.
    It's not as if the people are identifiable.

    Basically, you wanted an excuse to hate the
    soldiers. You were looking to confirm your
    hate for them.

  17. details, details... on Big Dig - One of Engineering's Greatest Mistakes? · · Score: 5, Funny

    So it has a few bugs to work out. So it was delayed.

    It beat Duke Nukem Forever and even Vista. It's probably better quality too, and will last much longer.

    Patch it up and it'll be fine.

  18. don't blame it on sex on Fedora Welcomes Women to FOSS · · Score: 1

    You were the first born.

    The first kid is always treated as older than they are. They get the high expectations and responsibilities, no matter if they are male or female.

    The second kid is somewhat ignored. They can get away with bad behavior more. The expectations just aren't there.

  19. shouldn't even need a card on Could Graphics Drivers be Included on the Card? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Run gigabit Ethernet from the computer to the monitor. Have the "monitor" be an X terminal that speaks X11 protocol. There, problem solved, and you can even put the computer in the server room or garage.

    Windows still doesn't speak X11 or even VNC.

  20. cry me a river on Microsoft Locking Out Anti-Virus Makers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Binary patching a kernel is just plain wrong. It's an unstable hack.

    You're supposed to patch the kernel source and recompile. Oh...

  21. Re:Increasing IQ's? on Modern Humans Far More Robust Than Ancestors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you sure they renormalize the test? This could have been set in stone in the 1960's, just like the specification for obesity.

  22. passing the cost along on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1

    OK, you're "willing to pay".

    Poor people have to pay too. Everybody does. Prices for everything go up.

    We have a name for this: inflation

    You might as well suggest that we just print more money to fix all our problems.

  23. It's not right to care. on Fedora Welcomes Women to FOSS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are in fact a number of female kernel developers. They tend to go by their initials rather than revealing their first names. There is no bias if people can't even tell.

    Not that it should matter! If they like being developers, cool. If not, oh well.

    There is also Andrea, who is male. It's an Italian thing, OK?

  24. Re:Something wrong with $5.15 an hour? on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1
    "But the lost jobs would quickly return, as a whole class of people has just gained some extra money.


    The extra money they have will be spent at places like Walmart (where the people who make minimum wage work), and since these retailers will see an increase in business, they will, naturally, hire more employees.

    That's an oversimplification"

    Damn right it's an oversimplification. We could as well say that more money for the rich will result in more jobs building private jets.

    A more certain prediction: inflation, and all the bad which comes with inflation

  25. doesn't match the facts on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1

    Look at the surge of Computer Science degrees in the late 1990's, and then the collapse soon after.

    If "people persue their calling", then... WTF???

    Clearly people follow the money.