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  1. Re:Looks like a duck, walks like a duck on Should You Trust Website Customer Reviews? · · Score: 1

    Hey, she probably thinks like an ad, too.
    She may be totally shallow, easily amused, undiscerning, and in all other respects exactly identical to hundreds of thousands of conspicuously consuming bored women all over this great big country of ours. O, she is real, all right!
    Personally, I would attach the likely monetary value of her sugarine pronouncements to Amazon's bottom line at about 7 cents before taxes.
    So no, she doesn't work for them.

  2. Re:Is this really realistic? on SETI@Home Revisits Its 100 Best Signals · · Score: 1

    I would think that anyone interested in compensating for the Doppler Drift would pick some relatively logical place to *target*. Probably some graviational center of whatever they thought they could communicate with. Like the center of their galazy, or some such. For instance.

  3. Re:When is this useful? on Microsoft Hypes XP Tablets · · Score: 1

    That is a gross overestimate! Also, v. likely to decline precipitously over the next decade

  4. Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us! on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 1

    Stop it! Not True! My government wouldnt gas me!
    Lies, all lies! .... i want my mommy........

  5. Re:Amazing Gullibility on Conspiracies And Probability · · Score: 1

    Much more than the intern affair, or UFO coverups, or drug cartel ties, the inability of our 30 billion a year intelligence apparatus to 1) prevent an attack on U.S soil many years in the making and 2) catch the one man pegged as responsible for the deaths of 3000 US civilians indicates such a HUGE DEGREE OF INCOMPETENCE and stupidity and SLUGGISHNESS and bureaucratic paralysis that i no longer believe these people are capable of ANYTHING.
    Conspiracy? These are the people sending out student visa's to highjackers 6 months to the day of the bombing!
    Coverup? I frankly dont get how these CIA and FBI and NSA people are able to make it into the office each morning. How are they able to tie their shoe laces, really?

  6. Re:Yes: LET ME MAKE IT AN EMPHATIC NO on Is FORTRAN Still Kicking? · · Score: 1

    Fortran is SUCH A pain to troubleshoot.
    Its very easy to make mistakes
    Its easy for mistakes to go unnoticed.
    Typically used with legacy systems, you end up dealing with INCOMPREHENSIBLE manuals.
    However much you try to comment in your program, it will be pretty much of 0 value to anyone else.
    Dont do it......

  7. Why does NYT report on this? on NYT Discovers the Panopticon · · Score: 1

    Some excellent points about archived NYT articles raised above. The irony of a tabloid (NYT = tabloid, by definition, in fact) raising alarms about privacy clearly goes unnoticed by the NYT editors.
    What is there real motivation? Why bother?
    Fact: for most NYT readers, the Internet is a new, mysterious, vaguely misunderstood and scary thing. Feed on fear = sell more papers.
    I hate that useless rag....

  8. Re:OH gee on NYT Discovers the Panopticon · · Score: 1

    Thats just too silly.
    Hey, how is this.... DONT USE YOUR REAL NAME IN CHAT ROOMS.
    I thought that was pretty obvious from the start. Maybe, its just living in New York.

  9. Re:Obvious on Passwords May Be Weakest Link · · Score: 1

    I wonder how tough it would be to crack SSN number passwords. These are easy to remember, but GOTTA be tought to crack....

  10. Re:Another set of options.. on What Do You Do When CS Isn't Fun Any More? · · Score: 1

    Yep, I bet its just the pre-graduation blues. Its like: this is it?? Now, you release me upon the unsuspecting world? Now, i know all there is to know??!? There HAS to be more to it than that.
    I like the Prozac recommendation. I mean, i totally flipped out my last semester in school.
    It will pass. And as to pay: plenty moolah still splashing around this industry, and there will be for many more years to come.

  11. who needs gold? on How Feasible is a Cash-Less Society? · · Score: 1

    The value of money is not contigent upon whether its backed up by gold or not, but rather how likely is it ot be accepted in exchange for good and services.