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  1. Re:ridiculous. on Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? · · Score: 1

    The difference? Old men pictures (including hillary) vs young hot babe pictures. Yeah, that's about the only difference. Besides that both are scripted very very badly. Porn does have better music most of the time though.

  2. Re:Not to be rude... on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All you need to do now is go back three to four years and see if the search results come up with anything then.

  3. Re:You CAN end a war with weapons on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    That's not a war, its a controlled conflict. If it was a war, the maps would be changed to Israel surround by the glass-lands.

  4. Re:Sleep/Wake Doesn't mean "Off" on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 0

    Hehh... I wonder if you're one of those guys who always complain about how expensive medical treatment is, since you're suggesting older, inner city hospitals completely refit all their electronic medical sensors.

  5. Re:Saddam on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 1

    First off, whoever modded me a troll is a chicken fucker.

    Next: Wow, they are in different religious factions. Sometimes they even fight. Northern Ireland has fights between Protestants and Catholics, so world wide they must be in constant struggle, and no Catholic would ever hold the door open for a Protestant in downtown USA ever. All because they're different factions. Idiots...

  6. Re:Saddam on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually what I find most amazing about the 9/11 Saddam link myth: The ONLY people I have ever met that believes it are liberals. Not that they believe it themselves, but they constantly repeat it over and over and over and over (such as in this story) that conservatives believe the link exists, as "evidence" of liberal superiority.
    No conservative I have ever met has ever repeated this myth as truth. Most conservatives have asked why do the liberals constantly repeat this tired mantra when no one believes it?
    I mean, each group does enough stuff that is incredibly stupid without having to resort to lies.

  7. Re:Refactoring on Comparing Visual Studio and Eclipse · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, because it is so damn hard to right click on a variable name, select Rename, and type in the new name. And then it does it all for you.

  8. Re:Huh? on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    Except it was Richard Armitage who told first Bob Woodward and finally Robert Novak about Valerie Plame being CIA. But since he is a favorite of the left in the State Department, why has he not been charged?

    Lets look at who Clinton pardoned:
    NAME: Luis Rosa

    The President commuted the sentence of Mr. Rosa from a total effective sentence of seventy-five (75) years' imprisonment, to a total effective sentence of imprisonment of four (4) years, seven (7) months, and fifteen (15) days.

    Offense: Seditious conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. 2384; interference with interstate commerce by threats or violence, 18 U.S.C. 1951; possession of an unregistered firearm, 26 U.S.C. 5861(d); carrying firearms during the commission of seditious conspiracy and interference with interstate commerce by violence, 18 U.S.C. 924(b); interstate transportation of firearms with intent to commit seditious conspiracy and interference with interstate commerce by violence, 18 U.S.C. 924(c); interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, 18 U.S.C. 2312

  9. Re:Spelling . . . on Graduate with Bad Grades or Repeat a Year? · · Score: 1

    In the past 3 months I've been on the interview team to hire several contractors to work with us. I am usually the first person to grab a stack of resumes and pre-filter out the ones not even getting a call back. Spelling errors, bad formatting, inconsistent use of first and third person, and your resume is in the trash. That took care of 9 out of 10 resumes when we counted the stacks of paper at the end. Considering that our group does true engineering (not admin) for one of the largest telcos in the world, things like this are deal breakers. We do a ton of documentation in addition to monkey coding, and if your resume can't show that you know how to properly document things, then you're not who we want.
    Back to the topic at hand, one of the three people we brought in had one semester of college total. Several had wonderful degrees but nothing to say they have "done" anything at all. More than likely they would have worked out fine. But with the response we got, that isn't good enough.
    In fact, the topic poster would more than likely make a better candidate. We'd probably give him an interview. Work experience plus time working on an open source team environment is more useful in 95% of the available jobs than simply pure grades.

  10. Re:Please reconsider on TiVo Says It Could Suffer Under GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Sorry but your analogy is pretty crappy. For it to work that means that they removed Linux from everyone else.
    More like they copied the painting from the museum. Everyone else still has access to the original. And then they painted a mustache on the subject of the painting. And now everyone is bitching because they think that this new version must be in the museum also.

  11. Re:Find someone local you can trust on Dell or HP for Small Business? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every time I go in to do a bit of work at a non-profit or the like that has had the "local guys" do their support and computer sales, I cringe. Most of the time the boxes are pretty much ghetto crap that when I see the invoice, I'm ready to call the cops and report a robbery.
    While buying very high end parts makes a good home built PC, no company can make money selling quality components locally and compete with the Dell or HP model. So you are either charging too much to the customer or using substandard/refurbished parts.
    Having a local company that does service, that knows what they're doing, well, that's something else entirely.

  12. Re:Discuss it with Human Resources on Would You Install Pirated Software at Work? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. As an independent software vendor, I have a serious problem with someone pirating my software. Shooting people who do it could be kinda fun!

  13. Re:What do you know on Sunspots Reach 1000-Year Peak · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Bah... just remember: the same people who sport bumper stickers saying "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" and are proud about getting their news from Comedy Central, they're the same ones writing letters to the editor in all the papers saying the debate is over, blah blah blah.
    While I myself believe the planet is changing its climate, well, people like that just bug the hell outta me!

  14. Re:Physics is a bitch isn't it on French Train Breaks Speed Record · · Score: 1

    OMG! Think of the global warming this thing produces just to be fast. Your Euros should be ashamed of yourselves.

  15. Re:My First Thought on Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler · · Score: 1

    I myself wrote an "AJAX" enabled website in 2001. Using Lotus Notes! Well, the Domino stuff at least. A popup page would appear on a web page form, to look users. The Javascript would make calls to the Domino backend pulling XML version of the address book. You'd have your typical go back and go forward buttons, all working without reloading the page.

    However, is that what this patent is for? I manually built the javascript for this. The patent seems to be for down-compiling high level code like C# into javascript. So it doesn't seem anything AJAX is bad, only an AJAX "compiler."

  16. Lawsuits... on Paint Provides Network Protection · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone is going to sue, either because they painted all the inside walls like a dumbass and wireless won't go room to room, or else they'll get cancer, and swear the paint magnified and reflected all the microwaves into their body.

  17. Re:How? on Do You Allow Webmail Use on Your Network? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not really a good argument. Just because security isn't perfect doesn't mean its useless. You might as well be arguing about removing all antivirus and firewalls, because someone has a USB port in their system.

  18. Re:brief review of article on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    Somehow I don't think having a "Low on Alcohol" light is a good idea for many drivers...
    Whups, that light is on. I'll stop at the next bar and "Fill me up"...

  19. Business Model on The Economist Magazine Looks Outside For Insight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Man, that rules as a business model.

    I'm hired to come up with new ideas. Paid who knows how much $$. So rather than do any actual work, I'm going to let the internet schmucks do it for me! I just have to pick which ideas are best.

    Man, I'm in the wrong job...

  20. Re:Alternatively, you could face facts on Improving Operations in a Small Helpdesk System? · · Score: 1

    Good answer but it doesn't seem appropriate to this case.
    You just simply don't take the next call until the current call is logged. The call queue times will increase, but that's to be expected. If they're too busy, charts and graphs isn't going to help them staff up. But a VP waiting on the phone an extra few minutes will. Thats the point where you need to have the numbers to back things up. If they're not so busy that the queue times rise, then they're not too busy to log calls.

  21. Re:Freedom on Choosing Your Next Programming Job — Perl Or .NET? · · Score: 1

    Or, you could work in a large company without any of that crap. I'm in a 35k person division of a 200k person technology company. And while the default image was pretty crappy, I simply wiped it and put Win2k3 on with all MSDN software. Guy next to me runs about 4 different linux distros.
    We go out to lunch sometimes for a few hours.
    Senior manager took us all to the shooting range one day after lunch for the rest of the afternoon.

    Its not the size of the company, considering I've also worked for small 100 person shops with completely locked down environments. The management style is what is important.

    There are banks out there where the workstations cannot even be internet connected. Then again, I worked at a bank where they wouldn't even put any internet blocking in place, and production batch jobs fought for bandwidth with streaming media.

  22. Re:Here's my question on Global Warming Debunked? · · Score: 1

    Even worse. It becomes a religion to everyone. People here are stroking themselves over the thought that Ted Haggard is playing gay rodeo feel. It helps them to feel so superior vs the fundies. But then they can't believe that scientists would have a political/financial agenda.

  23. The worst part on Finger Pointing Over iPod Windows Virus · · Score: 1

    The worst thing is how long ago they were warned about it. Posts in Apple's forums were within a day or two of when it started happening. I posted about it here http://www.pirate-king.com/episode/1436 weeks before it hit the major news outlets.
    I even talked to the editors at The Register about the story.

  24. Re:So Remember Parents on McDonalds Japan Distributes Infected MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    Oh big deal. IPod's now come with their very own virus (W32/RJump.worm) too! http://www.pirate-king.com/episode/1436

  25. Re:That really sucks on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wonder if you'd change your tune if it was your wife or mother or daughter that was killed.

    And no, people with normal value systems do not believe that it makes the state or them "just as bad".