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  1. Re:This should be a subscription, not a book... on Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart · · Score: 1

    VB5 was an incomplete implementation of 6... Things were broken from 4, DIFFERENTLY than they would be broken from 4 to 6. Further, things that worked in 5 did not work the same way in 6. With the jump from 6 to .NET, there was a post on google groups/deja about the vast list of things where the entire logical context changed. So YEAH, Every version change since 4.

  2. Re:Thank Allah for the distraction on RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? · · Score: 1

    So you're a Condorcet fan?

  3. Re:Christianity == Crazy Cult [Read all first] on RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? · · Score: 1

    Three score and 10 has for at least several millenia been the expected lifespan of an adult. Feel free to research for yourself.

  4. Re:Fallacy on RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? · · Score: 1

    The Goddess L???

    You mean SWMBO.

  5. Re:Fallacy on RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? · · Score: 1

    Or you could recognize that that is a figure of speech in use today that can clearly be identified as meaning to the 4 compass points or even in every direction.

    I won't go into the various passages that identify the earth as round or spherical, I will leave that as an exercise for the reader.

  6. Re:are you fucking kidding me? on RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? · · Score: 1

    Every Generation believes they are the first to have discovered the apparent contradictions, but oddly enough, there are volumes discussing and explaining the misunderstandings that lead to the identification of these items as contradictory that are as much as 1000 years old.

  7. Re:Canada on French MPs Consider P2P Downloads Again · · Score: 1

    I thought Bono was responsible for all the problems we're having with copyright and music.

  8. Re:If the content companies are so pissed... on French MPs Consider P2P Downloads Again · · Score: 1

    Well since there are only Seven Basic stories What do you propose to make movies about without remakes?

  9. Re:Depends on what you mean by free speech on French MPs Consider P2P Downloads Again · · Score: 1

    A careful distinction between highly offensive speech and "fighting words" must be made, and IMO is best left to the courts.

  10. Re:Your tax forms on Minnesota GOP's CD Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Flat taxes will NOT always ahve a disproportionate effect on low-income citizens. Most flat tax scenarios provide for a base income exemption and for taxation on income beyond that baseline. Call it $25k per household wage-earner and $6k for every household nonwage-earner That allows a 2 income no kids household $50k baseline exemption. IF thats too high, an ~40% penalty on additional wage-earners to make it $25k for first wage-earner 15k for second and no bonus for additional wage-earners. There is your magic $40k. There are plenty of ways to NOT penalize low to middle income families and implement a fair flat tax.

  11. Re:Welcome to 1982 on Let Joe Average Help You Code · · Score: 1

    If LISP is the answer, you completely misunderstood the question.

  12. Re:Anachronism: Metal Keys on Unlock Your Doors With a Knock Code · · Score: 1

    At Defcon last year, I watched demos of every sort of lock being picked in under 15 seconds. Kwikset and the like were even quicker. Only two brands of lock managed to last longer then 30 seconds, and one of them is believed unpickable due to the precision methods used to produce the mechanism.

  13. Re:Anachronism: Metal Keys on Unlock Your Doors With a Knock Code · · Score: 1

    TIme consuming and tedious, what color is the sky in your world. anyone with any degree of skill using a set of picks can open the door as quick or quicker than you can with your key.

  14. Re:Good, I'm glad the fucker is being sued on Da Vinci Code Author Sued · · Score: 1

    And gardner is easily as engaging a writer as Brown, and the weaving of fantasy, archaelogical fact, and scripture together makes for a truly engrossing read. Its really a pleasure to test my critical reading and research skills to that level.

  15. Re:Microsoft will not fragment like linux on Microsoft Confirms 6 Versions of Vista · · Score: 1

    NO, actually its not. I'm not sure where you got that impression, but I've poked around Media Center, and its Not built on the Pro Framework.

  16. Re:Pardon me... on Indestructible Super Mug To Save Humanity · · Score: 1

    Do they make sippy cups in Stainless steel? Cool.

  17. Re:Bah. on Indestructible Super Mug To Save Humanity · · Score: 1

    One way to discourage parachutes is a clever application of the size rules.

  18. Re:Currently not worth the educational investment on U.S. Science Gap Fictional? · · Score: 1

    In NO state are teachers required to have a masters. In fact, in many localities they aren't even required to have a bachelors.

    If the previous level had not passed the students on until they had the tools to participate in the next level of instruction, then there wouldn't be the problem of "less intelligent" students.

    That being said, I understand that part of the problem is the (less small every year) group of parents who refuses to accept that their children are the stupid ones and demands (more successfully every year) that their children be promoted regardless of skill or knowledge.

  19. Re:Who uses blank CDs? on Canada's CD Tax Out of Hand? · · Score: 1

    Or if you want to change-proof the data you are passing on so it doesn't get corrupted by virii or such. I've got several recovery disks that are around 100MB

  20. Re:Microsoft will not fragment like linux on Microsoft Confirms 6 Versions of Vista · · Score: 1

    You've posted this at least twice,and you're just as wrong as the first time. Media Center is just Home with what used to be Plus pack, and 64 bit comes in professional only. Further, Tablet and 3rd world aren't applicable to consumers.

  21. Re:Tax Instant Refund Scam; Loan, not Refund on H&R Block Goofs on Its Own Taxes · · Score: 1

    And thats different from a loan and interest how?

  22. Re:Currently not worth the educational investment on U.S. Science Gap Fictional? · · Score: 1

    IF the teacher doesn't have more knowledge than the student, then she's wasting her time and his time. Period Full stop!
    IT doesn't matter how good she is at passing on her feeble knowledge. Period Full stop!



    Paying teachers better is a choice.. When the guy holding the flag at the roadside on his first day is making more than a teacher at retirement, there is a problem with priorities. Fix that problem and you fix the system. Period Full stop!
    Other teachers know when the students are coming to them unprepared from the previous class. AND THEY DO NOTHING Thats accountability, and its not being done.

  23. Re:Currently not worth the educational investment on U.S. Science Gap Fictional? · · Score: 1

    Well, your mistake is teaching, research mathematicians make better money, Teachers will always be underpaid until they are willing to take the hard steps of weeding out the worthless chaff, and demand pay based on performance.

    As long as teachers, and teachers unions continue to put up with ~50% of teachers knowing less than the uppper 10% of the student population, then they will be underpaid and unappreciated.

  24. Re:Don't see it here on U.S. IT Hiring Increases Despite Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    YOur employer will have to apply for it, but applying for an upgrade is no more difficult than re-activating a suspended clearance(what you have since you aren't actively using your clearance).

  25. Re:Don't see it here on U.S. IT Hiring Increases Despite Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Which you would have noticed, if you had read the rest of the page you linked.