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  1. Re:rewriting of history on Star Wars Takes Over Harvard Commencement · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gates isn't stupid, but, in the end, it's extraordinary ruthlessness, not extraordinary brilliance, that has given him the edge and allowed him to succeed. And, as far as I'm concerned, that makes him a bad role model.


    He makes the perfect role model for a greed-driven, hedonistic, capitalist society. At least Rome had the virtue of being honest about its.
  2. Linux, Latine on Star Wars Takes Over Harvard Commencement · · Score: 1

    A bilingual post in the spirit of the thread.

    Lingua latina tamen vivit, etiam in mondo computatri. Opus Ubuntu unam sectionem habet pro translatione in latinam. Ecce hic! Ea non est mortua. Multi in mundo linguam latinam discunt, e.g. in plurimis universitatibus, aut in schola secunda (AP Latin?). Etiam, quisque studentus in Italia discere linguam latinam debes. Ea lingua universalis est, quidem hodie, et paene ubique ab aliquo locuta est.

    The Latin language yet lives, even in the computer world. The Ubuntu project has a section for translating into Latin, you can find it here. Latin is not dead. Many in the world study Latin, for example in most universities, or in secondary school (AP Latin?). Furthermore, each student in Italy must learn Latin. It is a universal language, even today, and is spoken, by someone, almost everywhere.

  3. Re:antennae/antennas on Wi-Fi Hack Aids Boarding Parties · · Score: 1

    That may be a possible way of discerning the plurals, but there's no formal definition, be it in a dictionary or anywhere else, saying those plurals work in that way. I'd be very wary about thinking that's what they mean in the future.

  4. antennae/antennas on Wi-Fi Hack Aids Boarding Parties · · Score: 1

    Actually, antennas would have been the correct spelling even in Latin, since it is the object of the verb in the summary. So much for pedantry.

  5. What a waste of food. on "Jericho" Fans Send Over Nine Tons of Nuts to CBS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously.

  6. Re:John Carmack on New DX10 Benchmarks Do More Bad than Good · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess that would be his short answer, wouldn't it?

  7. John Carmack on New DX10 Benchmarks Do More Bad than Good · · Score: 4, Interesting

    John Carmack used to be pretty good at cutting through the marketing crap and telling it like it was. Let's ask him.

  8. Re:One week away? on Google Bans Ads For Essay-Writing Services · · Score: 1

    Here in Canada, oral thesis defences are the norm. This is either good or bad, depending on whether you prefer your dressing-down in person or on paper.

  9. Why not for this one? on Robot Submarine Maps World's Deepest Sinkhole · · Score: 1

    Why didn't they use a bathyscaphe for this descent, then?

  10. Uhh on The Palm OS Ends With a Whimper · · Score: 1

    I have a Cassiopeia E11, Windows CE from 2000 right beside me, and it has a 320x240 display.

  11. SETI is a joke on Extrasolar Planet Could Harbor Life · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SETI is looking for a ridiculously-strong, directed signal. Basically someone would have to have a transmitter with unheard-of wattage pointed right at the earth for us to detect it with the Aracaibo telescope.

    Basically, if the Aracaibo telescope were on Gliese and were pointed at Earth, it wouldn't detect us. Until the SETI project gets a better telescope, the fact that we didn't detect anything coming from Gliese when we pointed one of our ground-based radio telescopes at it only means they aren't stupid enough to spend a billion dollars to build a 20MW directional transmitter, point it right at the earth, and leave it blasting for thousands of years hoping we'd give a listen.

  12. Re:Huh? on Hilf Claims Free Software Movement Dead · · Score: 1

    Are you from Lanys by any chance?

    "Those statements are full of half-truths and misinformation..."

  13. Telecommuting = positive social change on 7 Things the Boss Should Know About Telecommuting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Telecommuting has the potential to reduce pat/maternity leave, reduce the amount of time kids are left in the hands of babysitters away from their parents, and keeps parents at home during the day. This would represent significant beneficial social change. I'm surprised it's not mandatory.

  14. Passion and money on Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion? · · Score: 1

    Passion and money can coexist for a time, but one eventually kills the other.

  15. Re:Obli... on Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted · · Score: 0

    The odds of those bits coming together by chance in a movie file, in that exact order, are the same as your odds of guessing another of the MPAA's hex keys completely by chance, out of thin air.

  16. Re:Don't worry... on Earth Bacteria May Hitch A Ride To The Stars · · Score: 1

    While it's sterile when it comes out, bacteria will grow in it if it lingers and they can get to it.

  17. Thus, ever higher on Proposed Legislation Is Mooninite Fallout · · Score: 1

    Thus, ever higher do the jail sentences creep.

    Soon, the difference between a normal sentence and life will be one of title only.

  18. Sad on Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's been common knowledge for years that Howard is Bush's lapdog, but if his government isn't even willing to protect its own citizens from foreign prosecutions, how can you really say Australia isn't just a puppet state of the US?

  19. Re:BASIC MEDICAL NEEDS ARE COMMUNISM!!!!11 on Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US · · Score: 1

    Well, for certain genotypes, phenotypic expression is pretty much a given. If the promoter on both alleles of your hemoglobin gene gets broken in utero, you're in big trouble.

  20. Re:OTOH on Longevity Gene Found · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As long as there are gene sequencer machines on the market and people like me studying cell biology, don't worry, it'll be done in private residences. Switching on genes isn't so hard.

  21. Re:Couples? on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Except when all the media attention turns their relationship into a 'celebrity marriage'. No relationship lasts long without basic privacy.

  22. Re:Credibility on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Had I modded you, I'd not be able to post in this thread. Check up on the moderation system.

  23. Re:Credibility on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Most people's political views are in fact based on what would be best for them. That's always how it's been.

    You need to wake up to reality.

  24. Re:Investing money in the young Earth on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, "Faith" has a positive connotation that I'd prefer not to see ascribed to such intellectual laziness.

  25. Re:Investing money in the young Earth on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 1

    "Faith" is too kind a word for what their ilk resort to. I prefer "willful self-delusion".