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  1. Re:The problem is... on Software Developer Beats Pirate in Boxing Ring · · Score: 1

    I would tend to prefer a restriction to blunt melee weapons. 2 reasons, first most people are afraid of blades, and blood making the blade as much a psy weapon as a physical one. second, its moderately harder to kill someone accidentally with a blunt weapon.

  2. Re:I'd say earlier than that on Babies Can Learn Words as Early as 10 Months · · Score: 1

    Baby's talking baby talk is a lack of consistent muscle control, Adults talking baby talk to babies is a lack of consistent mental control.

    IMO, Mama is an acceptable term, baba isn't.

    If you say bottle, and the baby goes bababababa, there's comunication. If he sees the bottle and goes bababababa there's comprehension. As his muscle control improves so will his enunciation.

  3. Re:The Complete List on Required Knowledge for a Career in Network Security · · Score: 1

    Bonus points for Identifying the Real world hacker portrayed in Swordfish. Clues: Arizona, ex wife, restraining order, daughter.

  4. Re:Donate the books on Solving the Home Library Problem? · · Score: 1

    Wow, I had no Idea that I was rich.

  5. Re:Why software? on Solving the Home Library Problem? · · Score: 1

    And to this, I have one thing, an old and very wise saying about borrowed books

    there are two kinds of fools, those that Lend books expecting them back, and those that return them.

  6. Re:Why software? - insurance on Solving the Home Library Problem? · · Score: 1

    IF you have a library of that size, you tend towards duplication. And when you frequently end up acquiring unnecessary duplicates, you begin to want to be able to quickly and efficiently determine whether a book you wish to buy already exists on your shelves.

  7. Re:BookCrossing on Solving the Home Library Problem? · · Score: 1

    I think the AC was also counting each section of the newspaper(a,b,c,d) as distinct books, reducing the shelfspace substantially, and again rendering his opinion irrelevant.

  8. Re:Insightful? Ha! Snide more like on Solving the Home Library Problem? · · Score: 1

    Because Dewey is MOST effective when you have a wide spread, most personal libraries, even of that size tend toward excluding certain large categories, making dewey less effective. Dewey is also mostly USELESS for fiction.

  9. Re:BookCrossing on Solving the Home Library Problem? · · Score: 1

    With the exception of the barcode scanner not being particularly effective, readerware provides a very effective screen scraping and cataloging tool, I'm very happy with it, and so far in about 2 weeks, my wife has managed to get about 2k of the ISBNS entered.

  10. Re:I love irony on GPL Price-Fixing Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    Using terms like pro se, etc informs the reader that they are in the presence of legalese, and should(?) be aware that some words may have slightly different meanings than in common parlance. For example, must, should, shall, will, etc.

  11. Re:Education starts only with opportunity on Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    Opportunities come every day. Every minute. The trick is seeing them and seizing them, And while it may be HARDER to do that when you are hungry, its not impossible.

  12. Re:Why? on Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I think you are blowing smoke since you provide no link to a copy of the OEM agreement with the relevent portion missing.

  13. Re:Throwing Stones on Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    Yes, but which Crank? Stallman or Gates?

  14. Re:Education starts only with opportunity on Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, most of those people are starving because the food relief sent from US/ASIA/EUROPE Rots on the docks because the ruling government wants those people to starve, they are also starving because of drought famine and disease eliminating what little crops they can grow.

  15. Re:Pimply faced kids on Torn-up Credit Card Apps Not So Safe · · Score: 1

    Because believe it or not, some people still use carbons to validate credit cards.

  16. Re:Pay more for less! on SCO Offers Up The 'SCAMP' Stack · · Score: 1

    UAMP is Pronounced Whomp, which is what IBM is just starting to do to SCOX.

  17. Re:Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt on SCO Offers Up The 'SCAMP' Stack · · Score: 1

    There will be NOTHING left of SCOs, There is no basis to there lawsuit. IBM spends more on Coffee in a quarter than SCOX is worth. IBM could have bought SCOX out and ended this 2 years ago. THEY DIDN'T This means that they intend to Burn SCOX down, stomp the ashes, Salt the earth, burn the Salty ashy earth, and flush it into a refuse dump.

  18. Re:Once again, misinformed people get up in arms. on Bully Gets In Trouble With School · · Score: 1

    Responsible Self defense is different from vengence. Grabbing a chair, a bat, a broom, carrying a knife(while in violation of school rules and technically illegal is not on the same order as slaughtering at least a few innocents along with the guilty), etc are self defense techniques. Acquiring an arsenal and exacting vengence is different, and in my opinion(as someone who has been bullied) unacceptable.

    The response of the school to responsible self defense still tends to be removal of the student, but that is a civil, not a criminal tool.

  19. Re:Boys who cried wolf on Chinese Bloggers Stage Hoax · · Score: 1

    And of course the behaviour of their governmental heads was intended to convince us that they were up to shennanigans.

  20. Re:(Don't) Call Your Congressman! on The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay? · · Score: 1

    Cost per patient applies to each procedure. For example an appendectomy or 4x heart Bypass, etc.

  21. Re:Once again, misinformed people get up in arms. on Bully Gets In Trouble With School · · Score: 1

    Appropriate authority is your fist in his teeth.

    Relying on "The appropriate authorities" is what led the columbine shooters to a feeling of desperate helplessness and their extreme response.

    If someone has a knife, and wants your wallet, TAA may come along later and investigate, but 9999 out of 10000, thats all they are going to do. You are there, take responsibility for your own safety and security, and we will all be safer and more secure.

  22. Re:(Don't) Call Your Congressman! on The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay? · · Score: 1
    You already pay for tons of thing you do not directly benefit. Like Army, Police, FireFighters, Roads, ...
    I benefit from every one of those, things, I also even as a person without children benefit from a STRONG educational system, because an educated populace is an upwardly mobile populace. And tends towards less criminality.

    I don't benefit from The dole, because the dole encourages those accepting it to continue to depend on it.

    I might benefit from a national health system, but nationalized medicine almost always costs more per patient than private health care.
  23. Re:Why I like books on eBooks - What's Holding You Back? · · Score: 1

    You are either space challenged or too cheap to buy more shelving.

  24. My thoughts on eBooks - What's Holding You Back? · · Score: 1

    I expect Ebooks to be successful useful and valuable

    For Reference Volumes
    For works of Rarity
    For works of Obscurity
    For Items where interfacing with the original would damage it irreperably, but the exact format of the original must be maintained

    I do not expect Ebooks to be successful

    For casual Reading
    For Volumes that are easily Replaced or Lendable

  25. Re:e-books redux... still not going to happen. on eBooks - What's Holding You Back? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is something Softer about black ink on white paper that I haven't yet encounter on screen. I always feel slightly jarred reading on screen vs paper. it is less relaxing and the information seems to transfer differently. And its not resolution or refresh AFAICT.