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  1. One HDTV screen is too tall on AMD Multi-Display Tech Has Problems, Potential · · Score: 1

    If the one big screen was wider vs taller that would work. But most of them are too tall to keep docs and apps at a comfortable level. I would rather swivel around a little than look up and down very much.

  2. Re:His Master's Voice on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean they wouldn't still look at you and see a roach.

  3. Re:Ever done business in China? on China's Research Ambitions Hurt By Faked Results · · Score: 1

    You try to turn a few things around, but everyone here knows who the person filled with hatred is. You are an Fing idiot if you think that book said anything about "culture" it only researches factors that led to faster advance towards more powerful states and determined that culture was NOT the major factor that people like you try to make it. Maybe you should go to Africa and see how you fit in? I bet some of the warlords could use a guy like you.

  4. Re:Ever done business in China? on China's Research Ambitions Hurt By Faked Results · · Score: 1

    Agreed. At some point it isn't the parents fault anymore. :) Still, I think it pays to look at all such situations with some empathy and understanding and defiantly not condemnation.

  5. Re:Ever done business in China? on China's Research Ambitions Hurt By Faked Results · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Very sad that this comment was highly moderated. Every argument above has been painstakingly debunked, more than once. Much of our modern state building civilization came from Africa and I am not talking about Lucy. Colonialism did force peoples together that didn't get along and this wasn't an insignificant contribution to the current state. Of course nothing is that simple and blame can be shared between hundreds of variables. If you think the BLACK AFRICAN people are different from the rest of us, then do read

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

    And try to remember we are all human, more so that you might like to think.

  6. Re:Depends on what you're coding on How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? · · Score: 1

    Oh that is so true. But the fact is most people can't get used to the idea of segmenting their day enough to give some others peace for a few hours.

  7. Re:Depends on what you're coding on How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? · · Score: 1

    You mean you only have on task at a time? Sounds like heaven. I have at least a half dozen projects going at once and all are hanging up another dozen.

  8. Re:never trust anyone who complains about "fairnes on Privacy Groups Want Feds To Investigate Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    Ok everyone, so we know now, Steve Job's Slashdot id is Uzik2.

  9. Re:Why would the smart kids want to stay in hs? on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    This depends on which classes you are in. In my high school AP Chem was a vastly different env than the time that shop classes with people smoking joints in the back. My school had both extremes and it was pretty much up to the kids which class they took. The only real difference I found in better high schools is they didn't have the joint smoking shop class part.

  10. Re:Why add a 5th year? on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    Why the bloody hell is Algebra even taught in high school? Like the last two years of grade school couldn't cover it as well for all but he ultra helmet wearers?

  11. Re:5th year? on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 2, Informative

    The practical effect of this *should* be just that the kids get a free year of collage on the state under the guise of another year of high school. Sounds like a great deal to me. So not so cruel. Many kids manage to cut close to a year off as it is with advanced classes. If this opens up those chances to a few more, then great as well.

  12. Re:I see lousy coders.... everywhere on How To Find Bad Programmers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is VERY rare, but I did run into one company that posted a sort of puzzle. It was a screen scrapping test with several layers. They did things like inserted hints in custom headers and if you didn't notice those, you would go on following the trail who knows how long to get to the end, which was a the email address to send your resume. So it only took about 30 min to do if you knew your stuff, it could take all day and more if not. It was FUN! btw I got the email address in about 2 hours, I did go down the wrong path for a bit and then went back and started looking at headers and cookies and found the clues.

  13. Re:Real world example on Whatever Happened To Programming? · · Score: 1

    Take away should be that this guy had to understand the problem in great detail to even evaluate these libs and in the end he did save a lot of time and probably is not too far away from being *able* to write a parser if he needed to. So it is a great best of all worlds example. Imagine how much worse it would have been had he not had open source code to look at. Another lesson he learned from this is that his need was someone unusual, which in itself is a good bit of knowledge to reflect on in regards to his project.

  14. Re:Soprano style on IO Data Licenses Microsoft's "Linux Patents" · · Score: 1

    That is NOT true. Para or not. A verbal threat only will get you put in jail in Canada. You don't have to wave a bat at someone in order for that to happen. Although it is true in the US all you have to do is call the wrong cop a bad name.

  15. Re:Soprano style on IO Data Licenses Microsoft's "Linux Patents" · · Score: 1

    That is right, we are talking about two crimes in that statement. Again, at least in Canada. I don't know of any law like that in the US re the threat. It is an interesting way to illustrate that people have fewer rights that corporations, esp on an international level.

  16. Re:Soprano style on IO Data Licenses Microsoft's "Linux Patents" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds cute, but straight to jail for extortion. The threat with a weapon, that you may or may not have wouldn't change that it is still a physical threat, not legal in Canada at least. However, we are just people, not super entities like corporations that now even get their own say legally in the US. It seems they can do the above with no issues.

  17. New Label needed on New "Spear Phishing" Attacks Target IT Admins · · Score: 1

    HA HA!

  18. Re:Lemme be the first to say on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 3, Funny

    I remember that Perl was not too good for web programming. It was unstable in a sense that variables sometimes got strange values inexplicably.

    Perhaps less(or more) drinking would help?

  19. Re:Lemme be the first to say on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah totally agree on that. DBI and JDBC have a great deal in common, but I still think JDBC is beautiful. With either you have to work fairly hard to be an idiot, or else just not bother to learn the whole of their specs. I don't think that should take more than a couple of weeks they just make *sense*

  20. Re:Lemme be the first to say on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 1

    Support for binding params in PHP has been there a LONG LONG time(5 years maybe more?), it is the culture that tends not to use it. I discovered it as a kind of odd hack sort of thing, not commonly documented when it first came out. One reason is it had to be adopted, it wasn't a part of PHP to begin with. WHY PHP didn't have it to BEGIN with, that is my issue with PHP. To hold true to its credo, I would think that binding params would be seemless and transparent with no need for a developer to make a choice. That didn't happen for some reason. I found the same to be true not too long ago with Ruby, it blew my mind when I read about its MySQL interface and oh that is coming soon. This was some time ago, but I dropped it right there. Rails could go stuff itself if basics like that were not in place. So I like Perl too, but you are not accurate in your statement or focus of blame.

  21. 100% and no big surprise it is that high. I am sure they defined "attack" as something with some level of sophistication, but the only level it takes is the level that gets in. Which isn't often very high.

  22. history and logic on Chemistry Tasks For the Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    1. In HS I found that chemistry was a bunch of here is how it works with little reasoning behind any of it. Enable your students to go beyond that, teach them how chem lit works. Have them go to the library and look up old metallurgical patents. 2. Inorganic chemistry is really cool, except when you teach it from a stupid text book. Many people say they don't get science because it DOESN'T make sense from a text book. Some of these people would make great scientists and don't even know it because they do not take things on faith! Dump the book but cover the topics in your own way. I bet you find some of those so called non science people really getting it when you present things in a logical/historical rather than a factual dump sort of way. Both of these will naturally result in a lot of Internet and lit research that both you and your students will have to do. And it is probably totally impractical for "modern" education"

  23. Say these letters really fast, it is a buzz on What Can I Expect As an IT Intern? · · Score: 1

    R - U - N

  24. Re:Simply put on Will Tabbed Windows Be the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    gee MDI with different click thingies. We have come so far.

  25. Re:Let's see.. on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Great threats to the U.S.A: Debt? or U.S. Manufacturing jobs going overseas for the last 4 DECADES? I wonder if one caused the other by any chance? Who got rich from that? Is the U.S debt our own special way of financing the biggest corporations who no longer feel that they have to have any dedication to their home country? Fine blame the government, but then you cast a blind eye to entities much more powerful?