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  1. Moving up the ladder on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    The enterprise typical way of moving up the ladder is through management. Few of my friends stay in the technical field: they shift towards management.

  2. AOL on Sony Closing 18M CD/Month Plant · · Score: 1

    Thanks to AOL for requiring this humongous amount of CDs when they used to spam every single one of us in our snail mailbox with registration CDs.

  3. Natural selection on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    So, as natural selection gets on, there will only be beautiful women left on our ugly-to-become Earth in a millennium or two. Well, I cannot buy this, since I do not think there is such a concept as "absolute" beauty. There will always be ugly, average, and beautiful women.

  4. Groenland and the North-west passage on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    I say that the warming of the North Pole seems to more politcally and environmentally important than Antartica, right now. Politically, a passage through the North-West and the energy potential of the Arctic ocean will generate great political tensions. Environmentally, the melt of the Groenland glacier will cool the Gulf Stream and inject significant uncertainty in the gobal climate.

  5. Re:looks like something doesn't work properly on Evidence of Steganography in Real Criminal Cases · · Score: 1

    In fact, statistical analysis only gives a probability that steganography can be present, usually by analyzing the noise in the picture's compression. The article does not quite show how they could come up with such a number of suspicious images. An Mr. Schneier only talks about transmissions of pictures without context to be suspicious. So I personnally think there is still not much of a tool that can detect steganography and I am not talking about recovering the covert message!

  6. iTunes on Free the iPhone from AT&T · · Score: 1

    I think I saw that, anyways, you cannot get to iTunes with this hack.

  7. Re:what's happening on Canadian MP Calls For ISP Licenses, Content Blocks · · Score: 1

    Do not get me wrong, I am in favor of a free-speech Internet. However, this is not a black-or-white matter. I would personally not grant free speech to pedophiles, which is the spirit of section 8.

  8. Re:Can somebody give us a list... on NASA Think Tank to be Shut Down · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's the sole problem with fundamental research. When you do not come up quickly with answers having practical use for ordinary people, your budget gets cut.

  9. Re:Who needs a version of the PATRIOT Act... on Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws · · Score: 1

    Wow! Perfectly put, also that Trudeau has been able to put the blame on Quebec's PM for getting the army in the streets...

  10. good starting point on Professors To Ban Students From Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia is a good starting point to get an overview of a subject and pointers to where more in-depth information is. Since Wikipedia is a voluntary project involving voluntary writers and reviewers, you may not get the same level of review on an article that you could reading a book edited by Springer, for example. Anyway, Wikipedia is very interesting project that should be evolving!

  11. Re:the reverse is true on Wikipedia and the End of Archeology · · Score: 1

    Well, your argument doesn't stand. Languages and writing codes evolve just as computer technology does. Just remember, for instance, that without the Rosetta stone, a significant number of hieroglyphs would not have deciphered. So much for writing on stone to make knowledge last longer.

  12. Re:I'm about to start the road to divorce on IT and Divorce? · · Score: 1

    If you've been with wife-to-be for a few years and you think it goes well enough to get married, then changing your *official* status should not change a thing. Just keep the balanche: 1/3 work, 1/3 family, 1/3 sleep et al.

  13. Overthrown on MIT Names First Female President · · Score: 1

    This is just yet another hint that women, being generally more inclined to make the necessary efforts to perform in life then men, will take over all leadership positions, one by one.