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  1. Re:The Politically Incorrect Answer on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 1

    They rank down at the bottom because they're generally overtaxed all to hell by the illegals. And yeah, try taking illegal mexicans who are probably the kids of migrant workers - not much chance of a good educational base or real motivation to learn.

  2. Re:Sorry right wing but I have to do it... on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 1

    Well they do - I'm one. Of course, being a liberal means you're for limited government and personal freedoms, which is far removed from the caricature painted by the likes of Rush and Ann Coulter. Of course Neo-cons aren't conservatives - there really aren't any conservatives or liberals around these days - they just disagree on how to screw with us. I'd say they're largely authoritarian.

  3. Re:Sorry right wing but I have to do it... on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 1

    Neoconservative: def. Modern American liberal who espouses a few reactionary social positions. Loves to tax or borrow and spend. Loves to 'engineer society' though government action. Government power is a good thing to a neoconservative.

    That's kind of sad - you don't even know that neocons are the arch conservatives of the GOP (self identified, too). Or are you just having a troll?

  4. Re:It's totally culture on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 1

    For God's sake, everyone, you're racist if you think this is genetic! Okay, it's not the school system, but it's still the culture. It has to be.

    Are you kidding? I say Black culture and people call me racist for that. Never mind that it's the only thing that fits.

  5. Re:The Politically Incorrect Answer on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 2

    No, that's not it. It's that we tell them that it's OK not to speak english while they're in school instead of demanding that they learn it in a year or so and putting them in regular classes. For that matter, we don't really demand good results of kids on anything, and it shows.

  6. Re:Costly Waste of Time on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 1

    Selling near cost when you're a large company can mean selling below cost for the other guy; since they usually sell a fair bit above cost (no credible competition) and can vary rates by locality, the customer pays more because any potential competitors will be sucked dry in short order. Since the market is not being efficient, it needs attention, and a city owned network is one way of doing that.

  7. Re:Costly Waste of Time on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 1

    No, I'm saying that the network is cheap to run. Upstream bandwidth is cheap in bulk compared to actually building out a citywide network.

  8. Re:Government could have fought back on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 1

    How is that relevant to a city permitter? He'd be as likely to suggest that the city and telco collaborate on their digs and share the cost. Shocking, I know.

  9. Re:Costly Waste of Time on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 1

    Dude, once the network is built, it doesn't cost much to run. I swear, you're the sort of git who'd oppose running telephone service to a farm because it isn't profitable, like that's some sort of godhead.

  10. Re:Costly Waste of Time on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the barriers to entry are high and, when competition does emerge, the telcos usually grind them into the ground be selling near their cost. It's basically a market failure, so you get this sort of thing, which isn't bad, especially if the gub opens it up to people buying space on the network.

  11. Re:Costly Waste of Time on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 2, Informative

    Research the rural electrification project and ATT's subsidies for universal service. Then look at the bitching over Greyhound dropping routes that are both unprofitable and the only ones touching some small towns.

  12. Re:About overclockers: on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1

    Who cares about you? The problem with easily OCed chips is that people will sell a 2.4G part as a 2.5G part for more money and then intel gets burned when it fails.

  13. Re:Reasons to virtualize a production database on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    Ok, I can see virting a DB and leaving the SAN alone (assuming it tests okay), but all those other things are things you can already do with a DB - a DB is basically a virtual machine that holds data, and adding a DB to a server is a matter of a few commands to create the tablespace, extents, and all that crap and set up basic permissions.

  14. Re:I dunno.. on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    Disks were either sata or sas - given that they were DB servers and recalling the specs, I'd say it was RAID5 SAS. I don't even want to think about Oracle over NFS.

  15. Re:I dunno.. on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    open source, most likely. Not sure if they were using 3.0 or not, but we had a major hit on IO with virts.

  16. Re:They can't collect or process on Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well · · Score: 1

    What you need is research into good multistep filters: you shouldn't be trying to swallow all the data, you should be trying to throw away as much as possible. This will reduce your central processing boxes to something manageable, possibly even cheap.

  17. Re:Seems on Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, what you need is to stop making people hate you - go after al queda, sure, but the guys killing soldiers in Iraq aren't terrorists for the most part, they're resisting a foreign invader. Tell me, does Canada have a big problem with foreign terrorists?

  18. Re:I'd run on that platform. on Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The no fly list doesn't identify people, just names, and it's very exact, so changing charles to chuck will defeat it. The upshot is that it's utterly useless for stopping bad guys, so you can't even identify who's on there - John Smith is on the list, but there are 10,000 of them.

  19. Re:I dunno.. on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    At my last work, we ran into some serious problems using xen virts for DB apps; luckily, we found out about the problems before entering prod, so it didn't impact us operationally.

  20. Re:I'd Get Fired If I Followed These on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    I guess you've never had to deal with a manager that gets a bug up their ass about something and applies it well out of where it should be.

  21. Re:I dunno.. on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    why would you ever virtualize a production DB?

  22. Re:All this sounds nice, but there's another side. on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    You would have waited through half the other direction's light?

  23. Re:All this sounds nice, but there's another side. on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    Nope, the light turned red, I started my turn, and the guy punched it, headed right for me. The intersection was clear, but he was going to go through it anyway. So sorry, guess you never drove around DC - your rules would get you killed.

  24. Re:Someone tell the European on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    Yeah, conditions vary, but some idiot from socal who's never seen snow can drive in Michigan in the winter - no questions asked. And yeah, any mouth breather can get a license here. Lotsa fun.

  25. Re:Performance? In a Ford? on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    That isn't a Ford - it's manufactured by Saleen.