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  1. Re:Some kind of... on 2016 Bug Hits Text Messages, Payment Processing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do *you* often work with years as floats?

  2. Re:Oh hell no. on Critics Call For NASA TV To "Liven Up" · · Score: 1

    The baseball advertisements are almost all during natural breaks in the game between half-innings (the main exceptions being pitcher substitutions).

  3. Re:Why did he not succeed ? on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    One problem that al Qaeda has is that their most operationally successful teams don't survive to strike again. If we weren't doing such a bang up job of recruiting for them, they'd already be washed up.

  4. Re:Didn't think App Store piracy was that big on App Store Developer Speaks Out On Game Piracy · · Score: 1

    In the US, you can download the episodes straight to your iPhone, $1.99 for standard def, the morning after the air. I just downloaded episode 5 a minute ago (but in high def to a computer at $2.99). The series is very obviously patterning its visual and dramatic style, and some of the character development, after BSG.

  5. Re:So we can't afford Patrolling Police Officers.. on Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But *who* will watch the watchers? Almost certainly, someone with a stake in continuing the program; so abuses will still go unreported.

  6. Re:It is harder ... on Comparing Microsoft and Apple Websites' Usability · · Score: 1

    Compare http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/navigation/ and http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Introduction/introObjectiveC.html to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2x7h1hfk.aspx [Looking at the ObjC page, I have to say that it isn't what I'd expect from Apple; and the MSDN site has gotten better lately.]

  7. Re:Fact checking? on OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 · · Score: 1

    You have *never* had a disk fail on you? Give it time. Give it time.

  8. Re:Dock/Taskbar design on OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 · · Score: 1

    I find it very hard to believe that his 9 year old PC will run Windows 7. It might *install* Windows 7, but run it? Usefully? That's not a knock against Windows 7, which is the first decent MS desktop operating system product released since, I don't know, NT 4? But I really can't imagine trying to run Windows 7 on a machine that was sold with Windows ME or Windows 2000 on it.

  9. Re:Dock/Taskbar design on OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 · · Score: 1

    Would you have preferred that they had charged you $399 for OS X 10.1?

  10. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, if you want to develop applications for distribution to other customers, it'll cost you $100. You can install on your own phone in various other ways.

  11. Re:Hmm on Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently · · Score: 1

    The first chapter is a good intro to the book.

  12. Re:No... on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 2, Informative
    From the very article you're citing:

    Mr Justice Burton [i.e., the judge who made the ruling in question] said he had no complaint about Gore's central thesis that climate change was happening and was being driven by emissions from humans. However, the judge said nine statements in the film were not supported by mainstream scientific consensus.

  13. Re:No... on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 1

    Fox News is the propaganda arm of the Rebpulican Party. MSNBC is the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Frighteningly, the most credible news organization in the world right now is the BBC.

  14. Re:Hmm on Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Here are two examples of the kind of research he is talking about:
  15. Judicial Activism on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So an organization that loves to complain, loudly and vocally, about "judicial activism," now wants judges to rescue it from the policies of the Congress of the United States and the unary Executive that they helped to create? Now that's a rich vein of hypocrisy.

  16. Re:Beware of namechanges on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1

    IBM is still International Business Machines. BAE changed its name when it bought out Marconi. BP is still British Petroleum; an attempt to deemphasize petroleum products in their branding led to a drop in morale and so they are back to re-emphasizing it.

  17. Re:10 reasons why aliens might not use radio on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1 and 2 are both well known hypotheses. 3 is very unlikely, since we pick up radio emissions from natural sources all the time. 4 is very unlikely, but possible. 5 well known hypothesis 6 interesting! 7 very, very unlikely, given the natural sources we know about 8 what transmission medium does the telepathy use? Is it EM based? Is the range infinite so you don't have to use EM for long distance comm? 9 Yes, it's a bit silly. Radio isn't all that powerful. 10 Yeah, heard that one before once or twice, but not a well-known one. Good job! 11 well known hypothesis : all we can find at this point is beacons, and nobody is using them 12 well known hypothesis : optical works better, but of course is highly directional, and we're not on line of sight

  18. Re:0.1 the speed of light? on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    That's not the speed of the fastest vehicle they'd have; that's the speed of the wavefront of civilization. Think of it as the difference between the 3 months it would have taken a Viking ship to reach Vinland and the 700 years it took for there to be cities in North America with the infrastructure to send out their own ships to explore. That said, there's a big difference between "well, maybe a warp drive might be possible" and the fact that we are pretty sure 0.3 c or so *would* be possible, given technologies we haven't developed yet, but can give a good scientific case for. The big problem isn't accelerating to those speeds; it's doing so in a way that wouldn't harm people or delicate electronics.

  19. Re:So MA is bringing back slavery? on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 1

    The more highly specialized you become, the more likely it is that you can't change industries. But educated? I suspect you are confusing education with training.

  20. Re:California is right on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 1

    You've never heard of EMC? You've never heard of iRobot?

  21. Re:non competes only make sense when... on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, because MITRE, Raytheon, Biogen, EMC, iRobot, Akamai, Analog Devices, Tyak, Varian, Millipore, Textron have all fled Boston for Silicon Valley.

  22. Re:Clarification on Best Grad Program For a Computer Science Major? · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of real-world programming jobs involve writing programs to keep track of money. The interesting ones involve abstract algebra, vector calculus, probability theory, or differential equations.

  23. Re:Business or Accounting on Best Grad Program For a Computer Science Major? · · Score: 1

    Does English to theoretical CS in early forties (no wife or kid) count?

  24. Re:In Other News... on Network Neutrality — Without Regulation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Our recent meltdown was due to credit default swaps that were all dependent upon AIG in a system analogous to a star-topology network. You've been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh.

  25. Re:In the same boat... on Java, Where To Start? · · Score: 1

    No, he's arguing with your inability to distinguish between an IDE and a web platform. You committed a category error, analogous to saying "I started using English, but then I switched to motion pictures."