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  1. Re:Create simple rules on Technologies To Improve Group-Written Code? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fire bad programmers. They will undermine all your attempts if you let them.

  2. Re:Divided government is good on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 1

    "Fewer taxes get raised."

    Hahahahahaha. They are politicians. They will always unify to take our money. Seriously, even if they can get nothing major done, they will still manage to pass bills that are mostly pork.

  3. Re:Bad idea on Bogus Experts Fight Your Right To Broadband · · Score: 1

    They could if they provided results giving me the information that I want.

  4. Re:WHY XHTML are going unnoticed ? on HTML to be 'Incrementally Evolved' · · Score: 3, Informative

    If your web site is part of a federal contract, it has to be compliant.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508

  5. Re:greater or lesser evil on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1

    The correct answers are No, No, and No. Just because you can refuse to answer them outright doesn't mean they aren't yes or no questions.

  6. Re:India. on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Actually, thats not true. My student loans are keeping me here. I could earn enough to live in India. I could probably not earn enough to make my student loan payments.

  7. India. on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    India.
    My family.

  8. Re:For the record... on Apple Should Get Out of Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Wow. I'm flattered really, but what idiots moderated this to +5. Or even to +2? Insightful? Informative?

  9. Re:For the record... on Apple Should Get Out of Hardware? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we PLEASE stop spelling "fanboy" as "fanboi"? It is stupid.

  10. Re:Tyrany of the Majority on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    What exactly are you trying to say?

  11. Re:Not Surprising? on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After the disappearence of his wife, they saw the arrest coming. (If your estranged wife disappeared you would be the number one suspect.) He did not say that he saw him killing his wife coming, or that he even thinks he did it.

  12. Re:Average Bus Factor Number? on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 1

    For everything I have worked on, it has been less than or equal to 2.

  13. Re:No charge.. on What Inept Billing Software Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine had a similar thing happen. Except when he wrote the $0 check, they called him a few weeks later and asked him not to do it ever again, because it crashed their accounting system. Divide by zero.

  14. Its easy. on Why Software Sucks · · Score: 1

    I know why software sucks. Its simple. If you have a physical product, and you make a mistake and need to fix it, it is very expensive to either get back all the broken products and fix them or to make replacements. Thus, you dedicate a lot of resources to make sure there aren't mistakes. With software, it is almost free to provide upgrades and patches. Thus, few resources are dedicated to quality control.

  15. Re:Plenty of Room on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the informative link. I will change my statement from:
    "If you've got a job, and don't mind the government taking your money and burning it in NYC, its a great place to live."
    to:
    "If you've got a job, and don't mind the government taking your money and burning it, its a great place to live."

  16. Re:Plenty of Room on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 1

    Its a great system.

    You've been in business for 10 years in NY. You have stuck it out, despite the high taxes. Your competitor hints that they might be tempted to move in across the street. The state gives them several years without property taxes, a break on corportate taxes, and probably some capital to help them move in. The politician who made it happen presumably gets a new Mercedes.

  17. Re:Plenty of Room on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 1

    Upstate New York (specifically Rochester)
    Pros:
    Autumn: beautiful
    Winter: I like the cold, I love the snow. I love sitting inside in January with my family and a cup of hot chocolate and watching the snow fall through the frosted windows. I love skiing. I love doing donuts in empty parking lots.
    Space: I don't like the congestion of big cities. I like open roads. I like seeing the sunset over the trees. I like the woods. I like driving down the road to my wife's grandfather's farm and getting fresh onions. I like seeing starts at night.
    Entertainment: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: very good. Geva Theatre: Season cheap seats - 8 shows for under $100. The Little Theatre: art and independant films. Strong Museum: fantastic museum for kids. Downstairs Caberet Theatre, Genesee Country Village and Museum, Eastman Theatre, Mercury Opera, a handful of clubs, a few art galleries. Big names at stadiums and arenas in Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse. 6 Flags Darien Lake. Not as much entertainment as NYC, but enough for most people. Less than 2 hours to Niagara Falls, and less than 4 to Toronto.
    Food: A high southeast asian population = great Indian and Thai. Best BBQ north of the Mason-Dixon line. Quality Italian. Buffalo wings. A fantastic grocery chain (Wegmans) that most ex-Rochestarians list in the top 5 things they miss about Rochester.
    Roads: Lots of freeways, short commute times. I do 25 miles in under 30 minutes twice a day.

    Cons:
    Taxes: high.
    Newspapers: Stupidly liberal. (There are non-stupid liberal papers in the world. I can deal with those. But the ones around here are stupid.)
    Economy: Xerox and Kodak are moving everything they can to China and Mexico. Small businesses are popping up, but not fast enough. The market has shifted from a lot of manufacturing to more high-tech. Good for the well educated. Not good for used-to-be lower middle class.
    Public Transportation: The bus system is inadequate for most people.
    Public Schools: suck. There are some good private ones. I will home school my kids.
    Entertainment: If you are looking for lets-cram-in-and-try-to-look-cool-with-our-designe r-clothes-and-listen-to-techno clubs, you're out of luck, move to NYC with the rest of the metrosexuals and trendy conformists. If you are looking for jazz or blues you are, sadly, out of luck.

    If you've got a job, and don't mind the government taking your money and burning it in NYC, its a great place to live. Just get a good record player and some old jazz on vinyl.

  18. Re:Plenty of Room on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, NY does not have the highest income tax rates, property tax rates, or sales tax rates; but it does have the highest overall tax rate.

  19. Re:Plenty of Room on US Population to Top 300 Million · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the rest of the rust belt, but there is a reason why upstate New York is shrinking that might not be obvious to the rest of the country. We have the most corrupt state government and the highest state taxes in the country.

    The politicians don't seem to understand that if they keep raising taxes to provide services, the employers are going to leave. The people don't seem to understand that if they keep voting for these politicians, their employers are going to leave.

  20. Re:Unrealistic? on Zune's Wireless Almost Totally Worthless · · Score: 1

    Leave your portable music player in your car at night. Have it sync wirelessly with a playlist on your computer. Fresh songs for your morning commute.

  21. Re:How do you learn to create software ? on Patent Case With FOSS Implications · · Score: 1

    I mostly agree with your ascertation, but lets get one thing straight: The Christian National Emperor's policy is not, and will not be, based on Christianity. Many leaders invoke the name of some religion that they do not follow in an attempt to gaim legitimacy; Bush (or his puppeteer) is no different.

  22. Re:Still .... on RFID-Reading Passport Scanners Installed · · Score: 1

    But you don't show your cookies to anyone other than the one who gave it to you. Else you would be trackable.

  23. Re:moderate parent insightful on Judge Refuses To Convict Hacker · · Score: 1

    Lawyers are people too!

  24. So what? on Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling · · Score: 1

    What does having the password allow you to do? Surely you can't actually get money out of it. Can you make it not charge the $1.50 per use?

  25. megapixels don't matter! on Seitz's 160 Megapixel Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if you have a bijillion megapixels in your cell phone camera. Tiny crappy lense = crappy pictures.