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  1. Re:Cameras in our hands on Thinking About the SnitchCam · · Score: 1
    Err, it WAS a large commercial passenger jet.
    I don't think the problem is getting information onto the net but in getting rid of the crap that is out there.

  2. Re:Whaaaaa! on Online Game Event Sparks Player Riot · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Hey, how about lighting up a little? You are being a jerk also.
    My point was that laws exist to redress a need. A law stating that men and woman are equal exists because that were not always treated as equals.
    Most of your links do not work. I am not sure I trust a site called www.womenintheancientworld.com especially when they don't have any footnotes or references.
    The link http://www.virtual-egypt.com/newhtml/special/women /index.html/ is very good and I stand corrected about there being no evidence, though I did find this quote:
    "Actually, the bulk of the evidence for the economic freedom of Egyptian women derives from the Ptolemaic Period."
    And they use words like "seems" and "at least in theory" a lot so I may still be right about the answer being very different at various times.

  3. Re:Whaaaaa! on Online Game Event Sparks Player Riot · · Score: 1
    HaHaHa, you are so cute when you are inaccurate.
    If Egypt had these progessive laws of which you speak but offer no evidence for, then they must have needed them. That would mean that women where not always treated as equals. Maybe the game takes place in that period of history?

  4. Re:800 SF? on Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon · · Score: 1

    You don't need to run AC in Hawaii? But I agree about location, this house would not be as effective in Seatle or Florida.

  5. Is it just me on Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers · · Score: 1
    or does Ashcroft give others the creeps?

    I have a lot of trouble agreeing with anything he does because I dislike him.

  6. Re:Meanwhile, in the city... on Getting Serious About Fuel Cells · · Score: 1
    So you'r saying there are only 10 'cities' in the US and the rest are towns?

    http://www.demographia.com/db-uscity98.htm/

  7. How do you steer it? on Japanese Deploy Solar Sail · · Score: 1
    You can't tack without a keel so you would need to be on a broad reach away from the sun. You would have to have some fuel or you would most likely miss your destination, which adds to the mass you need to accelerate. The further from the sun you get the less acceleration you would have until at some point you would need to drag the sail in and drift.
    Has anyone calculated what the maximum speed for one of these would be? There must be a limit on how large you can make the sail and still deploy it in a reasonable amount of time. I guess you could shot it toward the sun before deploying the sail.

  8. Re:Prizes can also lead to shoddy engineering on 1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another Explodes · · Score: 1
    > Amateur enterprise is very good. Amateurism is not. Nothing wrong with wide eyed amateurism. No one is asking you to fly in one of these and they accept the risks. Lots of people were killed when cars and planes where in an early stage of development.
    "Any enterprise that involes movment from one location to another holds a certain amount of risk"

  9. Re:Good or bad? on Stored Procedures - Good or Bad? · · Score: 1
    That's were an application server would come in. If it were J2EE you would put this logic in the EJBs. Not putting business logic in the DB makes it easier to maintain and also makes it possible to change the DB if needed (though THAT never happens).

    A previous post mentioned 'data logic' in the DB. I thinks that is a good way to think about it, limit it to data integrity.

  10. Re:Hmm... on Celebrity Casting For LOTR · · Score: 1

    Death has improved some of them.

  11. Re:Play original quake obviously on Ethernet at 10 Gbps · · Score: 1
    You have to count in the time to burn and read all the DVDs. Unless you have thousands of writers and readers this could add considerable time to the latency.

  12. Speaking of Zen on Let the Mindgames Begin · · Score: 1

    Symbolicly, isn't this how the last president was elected?

  13. Re:And in other news... on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1

    Asimov was the first to use the word "Robotics" in print. Naming something does give one domain over it.

  14. Re:Not entirely useless... on Are IT Certifications Meaningless? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Having Certs to get past the the first barrier in getting hired is one big issue.

    Another is yearly performance reviews at a large company. I have been pressured to get a cert so that I would have a 'positive action' to report on my review. But then, oddly enough, there was an issue about the company reimbersing me if I tried to get in a cert in an area unrelated to my work.

    I figured if I had to get a cert I might as well learn something new. The company was only willing to pay if they could use the cert in marketing me. Humm, so I guess that is really two other issues with certs; quick checks on reviews and companies selling consoltants.

  15. Re:The books should have some focus on Collaborative Online Textbook Project · · Score: 1

    The states are running out of resources in many cases. Offer a cheap text book and some would structure their programs around it.

  16. Re:Carry a gun on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    No, carry the gun, but never pull it out and use it. The martial arts idea has the same effect but takes a lot longer to develope. If you feel powerful you will project that in your body language and the bad guys may deside there is easier picking elsewhere. If someone does mug you, for God's sake just give them your stuff. Nobody's life is worth an iPod.

  17. Good code, mixed message idea on JBoss Caught in Anonymous Posting Scheme · · Score: 2, Interesting
    JBoss is an odd sort of open source project anyway. The developers are trying to make it a paying concern. There is no documentation that comes with JBoss, but you can buy it on the web site (it is inexpensive). The developers also sell consulting services, so that while sometimes you can get good help on the forums there can't be any incentive for the developers to answer forum questions.

    IMHO there should be more of an air gap between the OS project and the for profit JBoss group. But they did produce a good product, so maybe $$ is a good motivational tool even in the OS arena.

  18. Re:No way on Iomega Ships 35GB 'Son of Jaz' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No troll, I agree. I had a JAZ 1 drive and it was junk. Iomega replaced it 3 times before the warranty ran out. They did not even question me when I would call and say it crashed and ate all my data, just gave me a return number, so I guess that were getting a lot of irate calls.
    Man that was frustrating.

  19. Boring, but true story on UML Fever · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A worked on a new development project a while back and we decided to try XP for the design and development cycle. Another project in the same department started at about the same time and used Rational Rose and produced a lot of UML design specs up front. We had part of our application up and running to the users satisfaction within 3 months, but then ran into a major design oversight that bogged us down for the next 3 months. The other project didn't start to program for 2 months and didn't have anything really to show the customer after 6 months. In the end both projects were killed.

    The moral: There are no magic bullets.

  20. Re:Where is article writed located? on Microsoft's Paul Allen Funds ET Search · · Score: 1
    I am sorry, after seeing the peso pictured I would have to say it has nothing to do with the $ symbol.

  21. Re:Thankyou sir on Compensation for Bandwidth Costs is Extortion? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Fox is the only entity in the known universe LESS neutral then /.
    Acid is more neutral then Fox.

  22. Re:You got to be kidding me on Sam & Max Sequel Canceled · · Score: 1

    No, I was one of the 1000 who bought this one and it is not that good. It was not bad, just nothing memorable.

  23. Re:A toy? on Two-Legged Home Robot, Coming Soon To Japan · · Score: 1
    >> assuming it dies the job

    Dude, is this a Frudian slip or what?

    And beside, most old fokes would be scared of the damn things and not want them in the house.

    What we need are some elder care trained dogs or monkeys.

  24. Re:There's another on Munich Struggling with Linux Transition? · · Score: 1
    This view is %100 backward. The PHBs that have no techno savy pick MS because all they understand is Word and Excel.

    I would think these desisions are made for monetary reasons (either direct or indirect). Steve is just blowing purple smoke (those guys hate us because of 'politics').

  25. Patenting software on DVDCCA Claims Patent on CSS · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Here is an interesting article I found about copyright and patents and the patenting of software:

    DISTINGUISHING PATENT AND COPYRIGHT SUBJECT MATTER

    Not sure I agree on the hardware equivalent of software test for patents, things are not that cut and dry most times.