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  1. Re:SSH on Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? · · Score: 1

    I purchased a "Manged Hosting" VPS. That way I don't need to administrate the server myself.

    Also, the service is great. Why? Because I pay them "treble or quadruple" of what a shared account does. It's amazing what they can do when you pay them enough money to hire people.

  2. Re:Face-to-face combat on What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Isn't that exactly the opposite of what the history of warfare shows us?

    Frankly, I'd rather be shot than have to face a Marine with a knife and his war face on.

  3. Re:People problem. on What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Talk to other people about it? You mean besides all the other remote drone pilots?

    Or the next guy up your chain of command? Or your military councilor? Or your spouse? Or your priest/rabbi/whatever?

    Hell, there's probably forum those guys hang out on.

    If there's one thing that's lacking in the modern world, finding people to talk to isn't one of them.

  4. Re:What's worse? on What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesn't matter.

    It's like saying "What's worse? Being shot at with a bullet or having a limb sliced off with a sword?"

    We're switching to bullets anyway.

  5. Re:Boo hoo on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 1

    I didn't see anything about being a tax cheat.

    He was following the rules and loopholes just like the large corporations do. The IRS nailed him because he doesn't have the resources to fight the IRS like a large corporation would.

  6. Re:There's more to this story on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you cut your hand badly, just go to the hospital and pay for them to fix your hand.

    You're all worried about playing the game. Stop paying insurance, put the money in a medical savings account, and stop playing the game.

  7. Re:Boo hoo on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 1

    The point, is that the guy was rich.

    In his Manifesto he was complaining about how much less money he was making in Texas compared to California. He was a whiner, and from the method of his rebellion, an incompetent and a coward.

    There are plenty of people who "Fight the power" either peaceably or through violence. They usually do it in a way where they face the consequences of their actions afterwards though.

  8. Re:As for Apple... on Google, Apple Call Workers' Race & Gender Trade Secrets · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking about the subject a lot lately, and I have a theory.

    You rarely get jobs by putting in your resume at some job board site. You have to do it through your contacts. People you know or socialize with.

    If you're not socializing with people of other races, and a job opens up, the people you end up telling will be the same race as you.

  9. Re:God who is not God. on "Immortal Molecule" Evolves — How Close To Synthetic Life? · · Score: 1

    "Now, it may just be cognitive cob-webs but who is to actually say that God is not waiting for us beyond the last theorem?"

    Oh! That's in the second to last theorem.

  10. Re:Very bad idea on New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Actually it's better than going to a 4 year university.

    College doesn't bring the return on investment like it used to. Do the first two years cheaply and then finish your degree at a 4 year college.

    Or do you really need to spend huge sums of money to make your 101 classes worthwhile?

  11. Re:Everybody calm down... on Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy · · Score: 1

    The way I understand it, a corporation was sued by it's shareholders by not being aggressive enough.

    I don't have a reference, but it does make sense.

  12. Re:Warfare and gaming is automated, no going back on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 1

    "None of modern existance is automated."

    Is this a joke? Why do you think we even have the word "Automation"? It's because we automate a LOT of stuff. Right off the bat I can think of the computer control system for your car.

  13. Re:Conspiracy Theories on A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow · · Score: 1

    "Think about who you are siding with and why you believe in what you believe."

    Because they refuse to release or "lose" their raw data.
    Because there has been no "Statistically Significant" global warming for the past 15 years. (Phil Jones)
    Because the press has touted some Global Warming "science" as peer reviewed, when it hasn't.
    Because a climatologist that says there is Global warming and he can prove it will get money, but I've yet to hear of a climatologist get funding for showing there is no problem.
    Because the solutions have minor predicted results, but require enormous upheaval in the way we do things and enormous cost.
    http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/press/proved_no_climate_crisis.html

    Because those who are claiming it's an emergency, don't act like it's an emergency.

  14. Re:Who will build them? on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 1

    If Nuclear energy wasn't regulated to death by the Government, I would have chosen it as a career field.

    This administration wants to build two more reactors. What happens when the next administration wants to tear down 6?

    Getting a degree in Nuclear science is about as useful as getting a degree in winning blackjack in Vegas.

  15. Re:Conservatives? Who cares? on Obama's Space Plan — a Conservative Argument · · Score: -1, Troll

    When in power: transfer as much wealth as possible to the very rich

    What's the visible difference between that, and transferring as much wealth to those who can get things done? Also known as "Successful people that create wealth".

  16. Re:In the meanwhile, we're spending $1 TRILLION/ye on Obama's Space Plan — a Conservative Argument · · Score: 1

    It's your fault you know. You didn't hope hard enough.

    Hope HARDER dammit!

  17. Under a very narrow set of conditions... on A Printer That Uses No Consumables · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Great, so long as you never pin the paper up, fold, wrinkle or spindle it. Never get oil on from your fingers on it, coffee stains, pen marks, or tape residue.

    Until they include a box that will shred the old "Paper", melt down and extrude new paper, this is worthless.

  18. Re:Inconsistency. on Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks · · Score: 1

    Then you have 10,000 groups of 100 each. +-50 birds.

  19. Re:Spaghetti Code on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    You also distilled 3 months of work into 4 paragraphs on Slashdot.

  20. Re:We never needed foreign workers on Are Silicon Valley's Glory Days Over? · · Score: 1

    When I was doing IT for the University library, some Indian student and I were tasked to assemble some metal shelves. He was aghast. "Don't we have *people* to do that sort of thing?"

    I blinked in surprise. "We *are* those people."

  21. Re:There's a very long way to go kids. on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    "...the millisecond they start to learn they're out of the original developer's control, and so you'd probably never be able to identify why one version of your artificial being was successful but another wasn't."

    It's called a core dump.

  22. The bright shiny future. on Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills · · Score: 2, Funny

    This adds a whole new layer of meaning when your Dentist goes "Whoops!"

  23. Re:Is anyone else sick to the back teeth... on Dune Remake Could Mean 3D Sandworms · · Score: 1

    I saw my first modern 3-D movie last week. It was fantastic.

    Yes, it's a gimmick. It won't make a bad movie good. Lets look at other gimmicks that movies developed:

    Sound
    Color
    CGI special effects.

    So get used to 3-D. It's great, and I want all movies to have it. Whether it's "When Harry met Sally" or "Avatar"

  24. Re:VHS, x86, Microsoft Windows on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    Pirating IS the wrong answer.

    Copying is ok though.

  25. Re:Loan guarantees on Obama Budget To Triple Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees · · Score: 1

    Because when the government starts blocking businesses from building Nuclear Plants, they'll be on the hook for paying for their interference. Literally. In cash.