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  1. Killing on Telecoms Facing $50 Billion Lawsuit for Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Killing thousands to save millions? The logic of that has been debated long ago, and the indoctrination of this dogma has long been put in practice. Whether it applies to this bunch or not, is another question altogether.

  2. Exactly... on DDT or Malaria -- Which is Worse? · · Score: 1

    Normal mosquitos don't come down with the disease, they are just carriers. From what I read, it seemed clear to me that the new mosquitos have something different, such that they can't spread it. The Yahoo article in the original article is dead, but here's a link that's still live: http://www.hmnews.org/article2604.html It says: ...the single-chain antibody blocks both human and chicken malaria parasites from invading mosquitoes.

    So, having looked back so that I am sure of what I read, again, the genetically enhances mosquitos aren't carriers.

  3. Re:And go where? on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    A man has a ray of sunshine enter his dank, dark cell and he thinks himself wakened from his nightmare, when it be but a brief reprieve.

  4. Re:And go where? on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    There are no museums, art exhibits or a mall where I live or anywhere but the larger metropolises, and there is no place to volunteer. Same problem with classes.

  5. I've walked many sidewalks in many cities... on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Very rarely am I passed. I suppose when I lived in Muncie two years ago, with Ball State University, if I waited for classes to let out, I would have run into someone, but everyone else would have been busy getting to their next class for the most part.

  6. PC? on Ken Kutaragi's Famous Last Words · · Score: 1

    You never play DVD's on your PC? Wow.

  7. Sentence does not parse on Making the Most of IT support? · · Score: 1

    What does:
    The company somehow discovered that I had more pressing work to sit on my butt in another building doing nothing until it was time for the next round of layoffs.
    mean?

  8. Re:And go where? on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    As I wrote that, I pondered how the restaurants made money with no one there, and then I realized: Takeout, even the Chinese Buffet. Oh, and I also go to Steak and Shake.

  9. And go where? on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sometimes I go out to eat at Taco Bell or Arby's or a Chinese Buffet. Usually they're empty, though sometimes there are people much older than me there, mostly grey hairs, sometimes a mother with her, I'm guessing junior high school daughter, sometimes there are couples. There are stores, a Wal-Mart and Gamestop. What should I do? Saying to get out of the house is one thing, but everyone else is hiding out in their house, because there's nowhere they want to be, nowhere to be.

  10. This isn't a free market on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have been completely shut out of it and am currently on disability with no end in sight and no opportunity for it to be brought to an end in sight. Voc Rehab and the Mental Health 'profession' is a huge, obscene, lawsuitproof, joke.

  11. Re:Immoral to worry about anything else on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 0, Troll

    In that case, I see a growth market for companies that steal from the rich that aren't their shareholders to give to the rich that are their shareholders, since profitable is not the same as legal.

  12. Re:The whole point of being an employee on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're wrong. That's the whole point of having an employee. The whole point of being an employee is to accrue benefits to yourself, otherwise we'd all have employees and not be employees, which is where robots, not needing to accrue benefits to themeselves, come in.

  13. We have something better on DDT or Malaria -- Which is Worse? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mosquitos that are resistant to malaria, meaning that they are no longer carriers of malaria and can no longer spread it to humans, but the Slashdot article was very muddy on that!

  14. Re:DDT Use on DDT or Malaria -- Which is Worse? · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't mosquitos, but the malaria they carry. Furthermore, the Slasdot title is confused, the choice isn't between DDT and Malaria, but DDT and mosquitos that are no longer malaria carriers and therefore cannot transmit it to humans.

  15. I don't get it? on DDT or Malaria -- Which is Worse? · · Score: 1

    What are you trying to say exactly? I don't see how your statement correlates with the goal of keeping people from getting sick from malaria.

  16. Let me see, something living or something inert... on DDT or Malaria -- Which is Worse? · · Score: 1

    I choose life! And as a bonus, there's genetic improvement! Now when will I be able to improve my own genes?

  17. Re:Relationships in the modern era... on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Fine, I'll just tell that to my imaginary friends, as those are the only kind you can meet these days.

  18. What I gather on Light so Fast it Travels Backward · · Score: 1

    Positive speed causes the expansion of space, negative speed causes the contraction of space.

  19. But he said negative speed Re:/Obvious on Light so Fast it Travels Backward · · Score: 1

    And as space has no negative coordinates, the light must be travelling through some sort of E-space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors'_Gate

  20. Re:Program Complexity != Word Count on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and you can submit the same essay to more than one class!

  21. Relationships in the modern era... on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Given the dying state of society, I find anyone suspect when they claim to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. If people against homosexuality spent as much time helping people get together as they did harping against homosexuality, I wonder if there wouldn't be as much homosexuality because it seems some of it is due to lack of options.

  22. Re:Getting out on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure that once people had enough money, defection became a lot easier too!

  23. "Severe" interference? on Electric Companies Get Involved With Broadband · · Score: 1

    From what I heard the only complainers were the ARRL, who are not the end all and be all of radio transmission.

  24. Re:Getting out on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    However, it is my understanding of the stock market that you can only get out of owning a company if someone wants to buy that company. and if a company is really that bad, then no one would want to get in, so where are we again?

  25. Re:Defection Re:Communism on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I have neither lived in the USSR nor do I have enough money to invest in the stock market, so I don't have much perspective with which to judge the two.