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  1. Re:Well.. on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    If you instead had forced the use of network-resource and maybe revision control a developer can keep working from a different machine, though productivity may take a hit due to the unfamiliar environment.

  2. Re:Avoid the birds on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    I think large enough flocks of birds register on radar, you might need lower radar though. If radar is not working, try sonar arrays around the airport. Would need a lot of test though to make sure the sonar doesn't turn the rest of the wildlife crazy.

  3. Re:Medical research on Why Isn't the US Government Funding Research? · · Score: 1

    Public funding combined with charity funding already covers more than half of all medical research, and more than 90% in critical diseases. The companies making the discoveries get the patents regardless of where the funding came from.

    The big money is currently in lifestyle drugs and lifestyle diseases, and this is where the drug companies own research money goes.

  4. Re:Well.. on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    No, your problem is that you are doing the wrong job. You are an IT supporter, you are not a developer supporter.

    The general IT department in most companies should stay the hell away from developers. The requirements for software development are vastly different from those of accounting, sales or managers. Therefore the development departments either needs to do their IT themselves, or have a special development support.

    In linux shops the division comes natural as the developers are using Linux and everyone else are using Windows. So you have the Windows IT people, and you have the internal Linux support for the developers.

  5. Re:You want the truth? on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If something was working yesterday and it isn't working today, you broke it.

    Either that, or you are running Windows. Great for preserving a career in an otherwise dull company, but the first thing to rid off if you have actually work to do.

  6. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    For the same reason we'll allow tens of thousands to die every year in auto accidents due to driver error but we'd never consider automating driving because maybe somebody might die every year or two due to a computer error.

    No, it is because computers can't read traffic yet.

  7. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    But last time I checked, most commercial airline crashes were due to technical problems, and not pilot error.

    You should check again, sober this time.

  8. Re:Two Year Associate's Degree of Liberal Arts on 11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics · · Score: 1

    It's also an incredibly shallow triumph of an Olympic grade platitudinous pandering politically correct aphorism. The kid's teacher says he can "see right through the complications," but he's still been brainwashed into thinking that he's not unusual. What a shame. And how typical.

    If he thought he never better than everybody else. Just like every other 11year old does, he wouldn't have been able to absorb that much knowledge from his teachers in such a short time.

    Being curious and humble makes learning faster, also makes leaps outside of common knowledge harder, but you don't need those until later.

  9. Re:Gratz to the Pirate Party on Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat · · Score: 1

    Piratgruppen in Denmark is older than Piratpartiet, they just never came up with the idea of becoming a political party.

  10. Re:Bravo! on Pirate Party Wins At Least One European Parliament Seat · · Score: 1

    Something is very wrong with the Swedish political system.
    Don't they know the opposition party is supposed to claim they oppose unpopular laws like those then do nothing about them once they're voted into power.

    The problem is that in Sweden for the last 50 years, the government was the social democrats and the opposition was the various center-right parties. A few years ago the opposition won the majority and has formed a government. The parties hasn't gotten used to the switch so the opposition is the government and the social democrats are just confused. (This is seen from neighboring Denmark, local Swedes may have a more detailed view).

  11. Re:Maintain the impression they're ahead? on Apple To Face Challenge At WWDC · · Score: 1, Informative

    If the competition is designing new iPhone like devices, they are moving backwards. iPhones were outdated when they appeared, and are even more outdated now.

    If anything the competition is learning from Apple marketing, and is getting better at branding and promoting their mobile devices.

  12. Re:Of Course on Can "Page's Law" Be Broken? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly firefox 3 vs 2 is an excelent example. Especially because Firefox between major releases have been know for the opposite: Getting slower with each minor release.

    There are also examples of the opposite. The KDE 3.x got faster and faster for the entire generation, while KDE 4.0 was much slower again, but here 4.1, 4.2 and especially the next 4.3 is many times fast than the 4.0 release.

    So I don't think Google's ideas are unique. The issue is well known and fought against in many different ways in especially open source.

  13. Re:AOL is being spun off? By their subsidiary? on Time Warner Confirms Split With AOL · · Score: 1

    Yes, after restructuring. They are trying hard to hide the the fact that AOL bought Time Warner.

  14. Re:Why!? on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    A scientologist would have had a better chance of getting elected.

  15. Re:Why!? on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    They may be modern, but they are not religions. They are cults. There are however trends within both with less-cult like followers, they are just not very accepted or tolerated by the main branch of the cult.

  16. Re:Webkit? on Lightweight C++ Library For SVG On Windows? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pulling QtWebkit in is not exactly light weight. But Qt actually has another SVG rendered that implements the SVG tiny standard. Using QtSvg is still several megabytes of Qt libraries though, so except for the nice C++ interface, not the solution for the original question.

  17. Re:no. on Dot-Communism Is Already Here · · Score: 1

    As vegi's don't eat meat, so if you eat meat then surely you are closer to being a cannibal than someone who doesn't eat meat???

    The same way a man with a potato-peeler is closer to being a jack-the-ripper that an man with a herding stick.

  18. Re:Nothing new, but encouraging on Dot-Communism Is Already Here · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, nowadays the stereotypical hijacking means someone shouting "Allah Ackbar!" and killing everyone on board. That means the smartest thing to do is to attack him immediately, even at the risk of getting a knife on your guts.

    No, actually not. Things are just more complicated now. All the hijackings worldwide the last 7 years have been the peaceful type of the 70s,80s and 90s. We just know of one instance where three different planes where hijacked the "new" way, but it is still extremely rare, and any given hijacking is very unlikely to be a suicide mission, and risking the lives of everybody on the plane is still a really foolish bet.

  19. Re:Hell yeah on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    Modern religions maybe, but the Catholic church and later the protestant churches funded universities and research. It started with Theology (the science of God), but later branched to more secular sciences. What I guess we now have to call the European traditions of Christianity have not been much at odds with science, even Galileo was funded by the church before being backstabed by another church branch. The science of antiquity was preserved by Christian monks before the Renaissance finally brought back a passion for secular philosophy.

    In some ways the freedom of religion may have forced religions to be more predatory in the US that they have traditionally been.

  20. Re:Emacs on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    vi is not an IDE or emacs competitor. Now vim on the other hand...

  21. Re:So what we're saying is... on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    Depends on who you ask. A paleontologist would count them as separate species, since paleontologist can't check for interracial viability.

    Also the question is: How long does it take for separate dog races that can't physically crossbreed before they are also genetically incapable of crossbreeding.

  22. Re:Already Happened on Is The Best Game One You Were Never Intended To Play? · · Score: 1

    Counter Strike is the most prominent example, being originally a community mod for Half Life (until absorbed).

    A more recent example is Oblivion. It was game with great potential, but lousy execution and horrible design decisions. Only the mods made it a great game.

    Fallout 3, might go the same way, though the basic game is much better and obviously influenced by the popular mods for Oblivion.

    Paradox games such as Europa Universalis III, and Hearts of Iron 2, usually also has mods which improves or expands gameplay, though the most popular mods are mods improving the graphics.

    For the space strategy nerds. Space Empires both IV and V was imbalanced and had poor AI in vanilla. Also here the mods are the real game, which improves everything from technology trees, balance and even AI.

  23. Re:So what we're saying is... on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    No. It is more like some people walking in a deep forest. The creationist say: There are not trees, the forest is not proof of the existence of tress. The scientist then hangs a big fucking sign on one of the trees in the forest that says "Tree".

  24. Re:Profiling? on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    I think the correct workaround here is valgrind.

  25. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    Better than that: It would be legal. It is like overclocking a CPU, it has been tested in court. They might try to protect it using an EULA but they invalid most places, and often overruled even where they are legally accepted.