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  1. When will that happen? on AT&T Won't Terminate User Service For RIAA Without a Court Order · · Score: 1

    If you pay AT&T like $40-$120 a month, then they don't want to cut your service.

  2. Because the experiment used violent games on Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision · · Score: 1

    Granted using the word violent is sensational, but the "action" games tested were violent. And the games that would have similar effects are probably mostly violent games. You could probably create a non-violent games that increases the ability to see color contrast, but probably no one would want to play it.

  3. In other news, I don't use AT&T on AT&T Has Begun Issuing RIAA Takedown Notices · · Score: 1

    And I will not use AT&T as my service provider in the future.

  4. learn databases instead on Programming Language Specialization Dilemma · · Score: 1

    I say take a different angle. You know at least three languages and that's good for entry level. To develop more commercial skills, learn to develop database applications (in whatever language you want). Databases are key in most commercial development.

  5. How much did Pluto have to pay? on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    Remember in Illinois you can buy Senate seats. I'm thinking Pluto either greased the right wheels or is friends with Mayor Daley.

  6. Well on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Is it good to take a stand? Yes.

    Am I going to sacrifice my own career for this cause? No.

    While they shouldn't snoop, It isn't going to stop. Don't you snoop out your potential employers?

    Just don't let any non-friends see your Facebook.

  7. Re:Cameras don't watch people on A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner? · · Score: 1
    That's a different dimension. You should do that *AND* have effective law enforcement.

    Well, it is not a different dimension. Doing both costs money. America already has the highest incarceration rate. Our education leaves something to be desired. Therefore, you get more bang for your buck in education.

  8. Re:But other states could block... on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    Only if you have national results. Wyoming could just withhold their vote counts and tell everyone who simply won their state or who won districts.

  9. But other states could block... on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    Small states like Wyoming might want to protect the electoral college. Couldn't they withhold their actual vote counts to ruin this scheme?

  10. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    I disagree. I would pick the larger one as deer shit.

  11. In Soviet Russia on New Ads That Watch You · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia bad joke writes you!

  12. Re:That was quick, but normal on WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test · · Score: 1

    Storage generally doubles every year. Exponential growth is a wonderful thing.

  13. Re:When will it end? on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well psychology is a real experimental science. Economics isn't. That is why economics is strongly affected by politics. Do you ever hear of liberal and conservative chemists? Or even psychologists? Furthermore, economics doesn't want to acknowledge the findings of psychology, so it is just plain wrong on many things. Economics is a social science like sociology. It is a discipline that attempts to be reasonable, but is ultimately not guided by the discipline of experimental results or even the need to only propose testable ideas. There is a lot of sophisticated math in economics, but without experiments that is just a rich toolbox to make up any story you want about anything.

  14. Re:Your local free/reduced medical clinic.. on Tech-Related Volunteer Gigs · · Score: 4, Funny

    It sounds good, but it doesn't leverage any IT skills. I think the poster would like to manage a database that controls the schedule of when people suck your cock, for example.

  15. Very much a pro-market piece on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1, Troll
    Indeed. This piece actually contains no argument that the QWERTY is better than the Dvorak. It simply states that believing the Dvorak is better implies that markets aren't always perfect all the time. Therefore we must not believe the Dvorak is superior because that belief if not consistent with the free market religion.

    It goes on to say that the researchers who demonstrated Dvorak's superiority didn't explain their methodology well enough. After that everyone accepted the general observation that Dvorak is faster and less stressful do to a secret communist conspiracy.

    If this guy is so obsessed with the fucking Dvorak vs. QWERTY debate why doesn't he conduct the experiment again with more stringent methodology? It would be a stunning victory for free market theory if he proved that the QWERTY survived only because it was superior even though it was designed to be slow. Of course, if the experiment doesn't go the way he wants, he'll have to change his religion and I suppose he's not ready to do that.

  16. It does reduce stress on Playing Tetris Is Good For You · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From what I've seen people do primarily play Tetris to decompress and reduce stress. No won says Tetris is super fun or exciting. It's just something to absorb your attention after a hard day. I don't know if the effect it has on traumatic stress is an extension of that, but I tend to think it is.

  17. Re:I Call Bullshit on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 1

    You are right. The Israeli government does engage in murder, hides murder, and engages in bigotry worse than the KKK's. They are indeed as bad as the Nazis that run the death camps. The state of Israel is a shrine to Adolf Hitler and his spirit will live forever in the state of Israel.

  18. Re:I Call Bullshit on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 1

    The only logical point to Godwin's law is to defend genocide if it occurs.

  19. An idea whose time has come on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    I think you can teach most children some basic programming. It advances computer literacy and teaches logical thinking. After all, for many students the only thing they get out of Algebra II is a lesson in thinking. It would seem you can get similar benefits with a programming class. I don't think programming should receive as much emphasis as reading or anything. However, it seems sort of crazy to say that there shouldn't be any programming in the K-12 curriculum.

  20. Re:Why don't they add an option... on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: 1

    Well, then there would be a record. If you have chickswithleukimia.com blacklisted, then your wife and kids could go into the blacklist list and see that you put it in. A record of the fact that you don't want people to know you look at that site is an admission that you go there.

  21. Re:So what does it mean for PCs? on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Well this is true. However, by that rational they don't really need to develop microprocessors anymore because they are idle most of the time. However there is some marginal advantage to increasing the percent of time an idle processor is available. Because even with two processors there will be a little bit of time that some processes spend in waiting in a queue to be run.

  22. Re:So what does it mean for PCs? on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    What they are saying doesn't apply. The problem is specifically that a supercomputer usually runs one big demanding program. Right now, my task manager says that I am running 76 processes to look at the internet. So I could easily benefit from extra cores as each process being run could go on a separate core.

  23. On a related note: College Tuition unaffordable on Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities · · Score: 1
    Study: College Tuition Increasingly Unaffordable

    Back in the United States, a new report shows college tuition is becoming increasingly unaffordable for most Americans. The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education says college tuition and fees have increased by 439 percent since 1982. The cost of attending a four-year public university now amounts to 28 percent of the median family income, while a four-year private university would account for 76 percent. The Centerâ(TM)s president, Patrick Callan, said, âoeIf we go on this way for another twenty-five years, we wonâ(TM)t have an affordable system of higher education.â

  24. Why would they hype it? on Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The iPhone is Apple's one and only phone and it's on one provider. The G1 is the first phone with Google's Android operating system. In a few months there will probably better Android phones. If Google thinks it has a something really great here, they might as well let the hype build slowly. In fact, they probably want to rely on the phone companies to hype their phones.

  25. Re:Of course we'll be alive after collisions on LHC Success! · · Score: 1

    7*10^12 eV in a proton is also enough to reach a considerable fraction of the speed of light. Therefore, if the particles are stable they will also be moving faster than escape velocity of Earth and will go away. I'm not saying you're wrong about them black holes evaporating. I just want to point out whatever people worry about happening is already happening.