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  1. Re:Thanks for trolling, please try again. on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    "What is there to admit? He never made a mistake in regards to the war."

    He wasn't asked if he made a mistake in regards to the war. He was asked to name 3 decisions that he later thought were mistakes, and how did ge go about correcting them. He couldn't name one in the debate, he refused to answer a similar type of a question in this Q&A session.

    Those sort of people are dangerous and do not belong in the White House.

  2. Re:Hello Pinocchio, Nice Nose on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    What's a little hypocricy after lieing through your teeth for four years.

    The whole "flip-flop" issue is complete nonsense to being with. It's typical mud-slinging cooked up by some "clever" campaign strategist to make nice soundbites. It has no basis in reality once you go deeper than the soundbite.

    It's kinda sad that the sitting president doesn't think he can get elected on his own merits, but has to come up with this sort of garbage to have a chance to win. It speaks volumes about what sort of a record Bush really has.

  3. Re:Hello Pinocchio, Nice Nose on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's truly amazing that this president stubbornly maintains he never makes mistakes (other than in appointing people, apparently) and once he makes his mind, he never changes it.

    His answer to the last audience question during the 2nd debate revealed an overbearing arrogance, unwillingness to learn from past mistakes, shame over his record during the presidency or all of the above.

    In my work life, these type of people have been the absolute worst to work with. They are stubborn know-it-all types incapable of seeing other points of view and impossible to come to any sort of compromise, ever.

    Proletariat of the world, unite to cast your vote against Bush

  4. Re:Next stop: Thousands of lawsuits against John D on Supreme Court Rejects RIAA Appeal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At least it forces the RIAA Stormtroopers to follow due process. It's also going to cost them more than using mail merge to send out the DMCA notices.

  5. Re:Still too heavy on Hibernate in Action · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree.

    That's why I use tools that do all that for you. Hibernate comes with a bunch of them, or you can use one of the excellent Eclipse plugins.

  6. Re:Where is that Murphies law article on Hibernate in Action · · Score: 1

    "I'm working with Hibernate now and I desperately need to read the documentation to find out how to do something and you lot have gone and bloody /.ed the site."

    Same here. Sucks big time.

    Might as well read some more /. then :)

  7. Re:They intended to get arrested on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Heh.

    The real news appears to be that the Commission on Presidential Debates has refused, multiple times, to be served by court papers to halt the 3rd debate.

  8. Re:Get rid of them? Vote? on Copyright Law Mashup Moving Through Congress · · Score: 1

    " You must be kidding.. tell me how you intend to get rid of them by voting."

    If you look at who is drafting the bills like the INDUCE Act, you'll find that it's a very small group of corrupt legislators. You don't have to get rid of "them", just about half a dozen people.

  9. Re:Open Letter to Sen. Hatch on Copyright Law Mashup Moving Through Congress · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He's not a dumbass at all. He's just greedy and corrupt. There is a slight difference.

  10. Re:Time to use those guns to assert your rights on Copyright Law Mashup Moving Through Congress · · Score: 1

    It's not the government, it's the few rotten apples so thoroughly corrupted by bribe money from the entertainment industry they no longer represent the people.

    There's only one thing you can legally do to get rid of them. Vote.

  11. Coming Real Soon Now (tm) /. style on A Selection From 'Running Money' · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow. An article advertising a review that's about to be posted to Slashdot.

    Why didn't you just wait until the review was ready? Must be a slow "news" day.

  12. SpaceShipOne is not tourist-safe, yet on Space Tourism is Off and Running · · Score: 1

    Given the various problems during at least two of the last SpaceShipOne flights, I don't think tourists should fly on that thing yet.

    Hopefully they'll spend some of that $10M price money for further development and getting rid of the little glitches they've had.

  13. Re:You wish you worked for google? on Google Faces Employee Retention Challenge · · Score: 1

    It's not about envy or inadequacy. It's about the work environment.

    Unless all the Google millionaires are all extraordinarily humble people, a large percentage of them will start flaunting their newfound wealth in ways that would make working there not fun, the same way it would not be fun for a porn star among bunch of monster dicks.

    And the same way working under uber-bosses in some of the investment banks is not fun, because the people you work for feel like because they're wealthier, more successful and more entitled than you, they can make you do anything they please and treat you anyway they want. Yes, I have experience.

  14. Re:You wish you worked for google? on Google Faces Employee Retention Challenge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You cut my sentence off taking it copletely out of context.

    To take the analogy into the porn industry...I wouldn't want to work for a porn movie studio where all the other porn stars got penis enlargement treatment, and I did not, because you joined the studio after the "Enlarge Your Penis Day".

    Not that I would need one, of course *grin*

  15. Re:You wish you worked for google? on Google Faces Employee Retention Challenge · · Score: 1

    LOL. Well said.

  16. Re:You wish you worked for google? on Google Faces Employee Retention Challenge · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You don't want to work in a company where almost all your coworkers are millionaires, and you're not, because you happened to join the company after the IPO date.

    Maybe in 3 - 5 years, when most of the millionaires have left, but I would certainly NOT join Google right now, unless my stock options strike price was at pre-IPO levels (which it won't).

  17. Re:Intellectual Property (No Trespassing) on File Trading Law Would Include 'Willing' Traders · · Score: 1

    "Threatening to throw people in jail for sharing files is akin to say, huge sentences for selling marijuana."

    There was a better analogy in another post.

    It's like threatening to throw people in jail for copying textbooks.

  18. Re:Spammers....Riiiigggghhhht on Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hotmail's WebDAV interface was, and apparently still is, riddled with holes that prevented spammers from using it in the same way they were abusing the formmail.pl scripts a few years ago.

    Microsoft announced time after time that they'd plugged those holes, but every time within a month or two spammers found another hole, and started abusing the Hotmail WebDAV interface again.

    There's plenty of discussion on this on news.admin.net-abuse.email over the years.

    I don't think it ever was as bad as formmail.pl was, but there were a few high profile spammers specializing in using Hotmail WebDAV exploits.

  19. Re:Ehm.. on Flash Mobs a Threat to Security? · · Score: 1

    I think the suggestion was what if among those teenage girls is someone, who's not there to gawk at Prince William, but to kill him?

    With a flash mob, it's kinda hard to know who the hell is among the crowd.

  20. Re:Illegal Immigrants unnecessary to U.S. economy on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 1

    "Most jobs held by illegal immigrants are not "middle-class" jobs."

    Then we agree, that there is no middle-class squeeze, as indicated by the original poster, from illegal immigrants?

  21. Re:Illegal Immigrants not necessary to U.S. econom on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 1

    So you're saying the us middle class would pick grapes at winerys? Or clean tables at McDonalds? Or clean toilets in bus stops?

    If so, I think someone's definition of middle class is way off.

  22. Re:not true. on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 1

    Again, illegal immigrants are not squeezing the middle class, because the types of work they do are the ones no middle class person in the US would ever do.

  23. Re:Pathetic on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The illegal Mexican immigrants are NOT squeezing the middle class in any way. There is nobody in the middle class that would their jobs.

    Several researchers have actually said the illegal immigration is good for the country, from the job market perspective, that is. Sure, illegal immigration brings other problems, but they sure as hell aren't taking any jobs away from the us middle class.

  24. Re:Worst geography knowledge...ever on Computer Viruses Cripple Colorado DMV · · Score: 1

    Denver, Detroit, close enough :)

  25. Worst computer related reporting...ever on Computer Viruses Cripple Colorado DMV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reporter is a complete pussy.

    Tens of thousands of Detroit drivers are without service, and the DMV rep says:

    "People understand that we are living in a computer world."

    Uh. The followup question should've been "why the f*** did you let a virus infect a critical computer system?"