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  1. Re:It's the problem on Print News Fading, Still Source of Much News · · Score: 1

    I don't need nearly the level of coverage on the latest missing, pretty, white girl. If more news outlets go under maybe the rest will not have the resources to cover touching, but unimportant issues.

  2. Re: Dropping Anchor on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    Do you seriously doubt that Iran has serious economic difficulties, and is proping itself up with oil money? Here's a recent cite; Google finds dozens.

    You probably weren't being intentionally funny but in today's economy, if you're propping yourself up with oil money, you're not having economic difficulties.

  3. Uh-oh on Denver Couple Unveils Homemade Service Robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...runs Linux with some instructions in Java..."

    Uh-oh, they used the J-word. Wait until the Slashdot Religious Order gets their hands on them.

  4. Re:Any othetr industry?? neve happened? on Logitech Makes 1 Billionth Mouse · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Hasn't Ford produced a billion cars yet? I bet for sure there have been a billion Twinkies made.

  5. Re:Canada Bill Jones would be proud on Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    The strange thing here is not that a fool and her money are soon parted but rather that the fool ever managed to get together with her money in the first place.

  6. Re:Lame response on Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple · · Score: 1

    He signed the non-compete. *HE* gave away his freedom. Not the State.

    Doesn't matter what he signed. You can't contractually agree to an illegal activity.
    Well, you can but you can't be held to it in a court of law.

  7. Re:Like to see this replicated on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    I've had a bone marrow transplant. It's not so much a transplant as a regeneration of bone marrow from the donor stem cells. In my case it was an autologous transplant, meaning I used my own stem cells. It sounds like the transplant being discussed is an allogeneic or donor transplant. An allogeneic transplant is no small procedure and I have to wonder if maybe the cure isn't as bad as the disease? After all, with treatment, isn't AIDS largely manageable these days? The fatality rate of an allogenic transplant approaches 1 in 5.

  8. What do they want? on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps today's protocols can be tailored, to make military networks "technically or physically inaccessible" to malicious traffic. "We'll start with blue," says Information Directorate chief Donald Hanson, using the military term for friendly forces. "If you're not blue, you can't come in."

    WHat a great idea. We could call it a "firewall" or something.

  9. Re:Houston, we have a problem.... on Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim · · Score: 1

    My guess it's higher than that. They didn't include how many people couldn't read or understand the question.

  10. Easy to fix this on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since PHP is open source, someone will make a fork with a different separator and the dumber of the two choices will wither away.

  11. Re:The 10 Line Perl Script that Cost Us $1000 per on Clean Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds to me like the problem was with the idiot who signed a SLA allowing for that much downtime and to the owners of pagers for turning them off without investigating. IT worked as it should have.

  12. Re:Falling Down on SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How many laws have you violated when it suited your purpose? I'd be willing to bet you do it a lot more often than a public person like a Mayor.

  13. Re:I hope on Sun's Java Will Be Free This Year · · Score: 1

    However, you should realise they don't do this because they are a charity. They do this because they think it will give them commercial gain.

    Thank you Captain Obvious

  14. Re:No internet connectivity since 2001? on Feds Now Allowed To Use Internet · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to understand why you think X is free from blame.

    Possibly because I never said X is free from blame. it will always be difficult to understand that which doe snot exist. What I said was that Y shares in Z's blame. When you learn to read, things will be easier.

  15. Re:No internet connectivity since 2001? on Feds Now Allowed To Use Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know about this particular instance but it's not uncommon for a government agency to outsource their IT work to consultants like Accenture and IBM. While it's fun to mock government incompetence, the fail might well come from the private sector.

  16. Re:The way things are going on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I presume that you love America?

    You can't really tell online because you can't see whether or not he's wearing an American flag lapel pin.

  17. Pascal??? on Are C and C++ Losing Ground? · · Score: 0

    It says Pascal jumped from #21 to #15. That seems pretty dubious to me. I've got nothing against Pascal - that's almost all I used in college. I just can't imagine that many projects deciding it was just what they needed.

  18. Re:Finally... on Charlton Heston's Impact On Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    How do you define an 'NRA Extremist'? Is it anybody who believes the citizenry should be able to defend itself from a tyrannical government?

    Now, that's kind of funny in a weird way. The gun nut crowd is the same gang that is lining up to hand over our civil liberties to the bush adminstration without a peep.
    If nothing else, it's unmasked the gun nuts as a bunch of gutless pussies with delusions of hero fantasies.

  19. Re:Damn on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1

    That's a little over-dramatic. It would more likely be something like, "bring me a receipt showing you voted for Tony and the drinks/dinner/hookers are on me".

  20. Re:Pork... on Talk to This Year's Quirkiest Senatorial Candidate · · Score: 1

    The last time I checked, SSA, Medicare/Medicaid and HUD were not explicitly mentioned as a role of our government in the Constitution,...

    As usual, nutjob paeoconservatives have no idea what's in the Consitution.
    The phrase "...promote the general welfare" certainly refers to the health and well-being of the population.
    Of course, the Republicans won't spend money on anything that can't be used to kill people.

  21. Re:Two Cents on Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks · · Score: 1

    That's why I prefer the company of mature women: they say a lot less, but what they say actually counts!

    I think it has more to do with their maturity than when they were born. Today's 'mature' women used to be as big a pain in the ass as twentysomethings are now.

  22. Re:Not surprised on Jobs Says Flash Video Not Suitable for iPhone · · Score: 1

    Flash - A tag for today's modern world.

  23. email subpeona? on Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since when did it become valid to serve notice vbia email:

    "Plaintiffs served a copy of the TRO and OSC on the Wikileaks Defendants via e-mail, per the Court's prior order, to the personal e-mail address for a listed officer of Wikileaks."

    If I ever get one of these, I'll just delete it and let them prove they delivered it.

  24. Re:Maybe the NSA has to cut the cable to tap into on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    4) Profit! (at least in terms of intelligence gathering and cyber-war capability

    You don't have to limit your profit to only intelligence gathering. Intelligence agencies have long been known for sharing information to give a local business the advantage over its foreign competition.

  25. Re:software engineering != computer science on Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 1

    They were also completely baffled when it came to not using an IDE to develop software. Makefiles had to be explained several times.

    Maybe you need to learn how to communicate to your students. Make is a tool. vi is a tool. An IDE is a tool. That your students knew how to use one tool but not another isn't necessarily a sign they can't program.