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  1. Re: Insufficient Data on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 4, Funny

    This doesn't exactly paint you in a goid light. The architect was right. Welcome to functional style programming.

  2. Re:Really??? on Microsoft Is a Dying Consumer Brand · · Score: 1

    I'll add to that and say it was one of the worst things for Microsoft also. Not breaking them up has allowed Microsoft to stagnate.

  3. Re:Oh shut up on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    You might have to illuminate the difference between liberterians and anarchists. From an non-US perspective it seems to be debating whether the pot or the kettle is more blank.

  4. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Good point. I'm off to smash some windows.

  5. Re:I've heard of this before. on Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray · · Score: 1

    My mother has a glass hedgehog on her desk, basically a clear glass ball.

    There are little burn marks all over the desk from where the sun has hit it.

  6. Re:What? on WikiLeaks Founder 'Free To Leave Sweden' · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse results with aims. Also, never understimate incompetance. Although the administration of GWB truly reached new heights of incompetance....

    The *aim* was to establish US supremacy in the region. WMD, democracy etc was a fig leaf. The *result* was to diminish US stature worldwide, reduce US influence in the region and increase Iranian influence in the region.

  7. Re:Advice on Review: Halo: Reach · · Score: 1

    Life is too short to read books spawned by movies or games, particularly sci-fi. I'd prefer not to us my min to go sifting for diamonds through raw sewage.

  8. Re:hey, close down craigslist on Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe · · Score: 1

    Murder and rape have victims. Dope, prostitution, and noncommercial piracy don't.

    Prostitution is tightly tied to people trafficing. Not all prostitutes have a choice about their line of work (and I am not talking about a financial choice).

  9. Re:Making use of a database on Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier · · Score: 1

    A corollary to this: data structures tend to very long lived. Screw up your database structure and you will have to live with it for a long time. This is typically because it is hard to migrate from one data structure to another.

  10. Re:200,000 dollars on Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle · · Score: 1

    Truth is an ultimate defence for civil libel in England and always has been.

    No it is not. There is a two factor test, one is whether it is true, the other is whether it is in the public interest. To successfully defend against libel both must be fulfilled.

  11. Re:Only if they can do it with out getting shot on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Texas the place where someone caught two burglars, forced them to kneel at gunpoint and shot them in cold blood? He was aquitted.

  12. Re:Troubling on ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order · · Score: 1

    We don't have an "empire"...

    Don't be ridiculous. The US has military bases in most of the civilised world and a lot of the less civilised world. The US feels free to intervene (using military and other means) throughout central and south America whenever they don't like the results of an election.

    The US is probably the only power in the world that you could say has an empire.

  13. Re:Start with Python on Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes · · Score: 1

    How does the perl hammer feel on the fingers? Perl is one language I've spent a fair bit of time on and decided to not use unless forced to. It shares that category with VB6. Perl massively tends towards unmaintainability.

  14. Re:Finally on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 1

    Where the hell was Petraeus when we invaded these countries?!

    In the case of Iraq he was saying don't invade....

    I'll have to dig out the quote from The Accidental Guerrilla (written by his senior advisor on counter-insurgency.

  15. Re:End of violence? on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 1

    Sure, full credit to Petraus and Bush for the surge. However no credit to Bush for going into Iraq in the first place. Even Petraus said going into Iraq was a stupid idea before the event.

    Obama does deserve credit for opposing the war before it started (which matches Petraus' position).

  16. Re:changing passwords frequently makes no sense on Passwords That Are Simple — and Safe(?) · · Score: 1

    There is also one more:

    3. You are expecting people to remember too many passwords

  17. Re:D-Link=Garbage. AEBS=Full of Win. Sholto = Shil on Cheap ADSL Holds Up 802.11n Router Design · · Score: 1

    Second that on the DLink. I picked up a DLink modem that fell over on a small rsync over SSH. Junk.

  18. Re:A few bad apples on Seattle Hacker Catches Cops Who Hid Arrest Tapes · · Score: 1

    FWI: Your shift key is right next to the Z.

  19. Re:mustard is a chemical agent? on Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC · · Score: 1

    The more I look at it, the harder it is to see the Germans as particularly evil. They didn't start the war, that's for sure. And Britain and France didn't have a moral advantage over them in any way.

    That is not correct at all. The war was primarily fought and resolved in France and Belgium. Aside from the actual trigger for the war (and the domino effect that followed), Germany did invade Belgium and France. Germany does not have the moral high ground in this one at all, Britain, France and Belgium do. Aside from, Germany also was the first major power to declare war. In addition the initial situation that enabled the war was created primarily by Germany's attempt to become a great power to rival Britian, France and Russia.

    The war degenerated into an appalling mincing machine and the British and French do not have any moral high ground on the conduct of the war. They do have the moral high ground on how the war was started.

  20. Re:C# and F# on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    The 3.5 stuff that lets you create a readonly or write only property as part of the declaration is nice though. Getters and Setters are a waste of space (however 'pure' they might be).

  21. Re:You're right, but that's how it works. on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    I'd like you to point to a single case where this has happened.

  22. Re:You're right, but that's how it works. on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Way to be inflammatory. Who is suggesting anything needs to be done at gunpoint?

  23. Re:Pro / cons on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Not for type 1 diabetes.

  24. Re:Health insurance is a tax now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    The US is incapable of change due to the large libertarian minority in the US. The rest of the world knows these people from their history books as anarchists. As anarchists object to any effective form of government anarchists distrust any government initiatives.

  25. Re:niches on 5 Reasons Tablets Suck, and You Won't Buy One · · Score: 1

    It isn't priced like an item with high margins. I don't think you are correct. I think they are going for the middle ground on sales.