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  1. Re:Green mustache? on The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1
    Well...tell us, then. Did you sympathize with the laid-off factory workers?

    We need some reality checks here. Real life memories to defend (or destroy) the article.

    Go ahead. This is /.

    What's the worst you could be modded?

  2. Re:30 or 40 years ago ... on The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1
    Operative term here is started. Then there was NAFTA, which surely some of the younger programmers will remember?

    O.K., NAFTA didn't send jobs overseas, but it had the same effect for factory workers.

  3. Perspective on The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1
    O.K., I know how to program, but you know what I get paid for? Teaching others how to USE the computers. Believe it or not, there's a lot of them out there that still don't know how to turn on a computer, much less use it.

    So I train for money, and program for fun.

  4. Re:A matter of trust on snopes.com's David Mikkelson Interviewed · · Score: 1
    Gee, I don't know.
    Anyone who admits to having both cats and rats for pets is pretty impressive.

    Besides, if you RTFA, you'll see they engaged in a little leg-pulling themselves, just to see how much people will swallow.

  5. no...but on Desktop Linux Sliding in Under the Radar? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    sounds good to me, especially if I can do it without admin rights on an NT or 2000 machine.

  6. Re:Short Staffed on Keeper of the Objects · · Score: 1
    I'd place the protection of our planet far above infighting which undermines funding:

    "There's a lot of infighting in this business. Not everybody likes everybody," [Marsden] says.

    Can't help wondering what's going on when they only get $130K of a total $3.5 million funding from NASA for asteriod searches.

  7. Build your own on Linux-Controlled Segway Robot · · Score: 0
    1. Get CAN equipment
    2. Build and install LAPcan drivers and CANLIB
    3. Connect CAN equipment
    4. Download CVS snapshot of Player
    5. Build Player with Segway RMP support
    6. Start Segway RMP
    7. Start Player
    8. Play!

    Yep, wasn't doing much this afternoon. Looks easy enough. Guess I'll just try it out.

  8. Re:I don't suppose on Spamfighters Get A Hold Of Spammers' Incoming Mail · · Score: 1, Funny
    Contrary to popular belief, spammers do care. Sample sympathy e-card:

    Lonely in Cyberspace?
    Lost contact?
    Find that special person:
    [insert favorite spam ad here]

  9. Re:hmm on Wi-Fi Woods · · Score: 1
    It's about integrating technology and learning:

    1. learn about biology

    2. learn about uses for current technology

    The teachers already know about #1 and #2. Kids don't.

  10. Re:Technology can be a distraction. on Wi-Fi Woods · · Score: 1
    Distractions can be good - especially if it distracts their attention towards something worth learning.

    Of course, I can see it working the opposite way:
    "Hey! Look at the games on this thing!"

  11. Site's back up! on NASA's Cool Robot of the Week · · Score: 1
    But the links on the site are being slashdotted!

    aargh!

  12. Month long week just shortened on NASA's Cool Robot of the Week · · Score: 1
    The file telerobotics_page:coolrobots.html you requested was not found. Back to 198.116.66.245.

    Way to go.
    Get them back on track at NASA

  13. Hey, who's flying this thing? on Giant Hailstones Can Spoil Your Flight · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can't help wondering why the pilots just flew into the storm. Either it didn't look that bad, or they had the plane on autopilot and weren't watching the storm scope.

  14. From the Nando Times article on Effective Vaccine For Malaria · · Score: 2, Informative
    Using a strain of the smallpox vaccine known as MVA, the researchers found it had "a rare ability to selectively boost" T-cells - critical immune cells that attack invading disease - that have been primed in advance by the malaria protein...
    MVA is also being used in trials in Africa in an effort to boost the immune response to AIDS.

    The MVA (smallpox) vaccine is much safer, although less effective against smallpox. But its main purpose in this case is to boost the immune system, especially in fighting malaria. Sounds promising, especially given the low cost and safety.

  15. babelwhat? on Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Boris Schwartz, deputy leader of the parliamentary group, takes position: "the decision Munich town councillor per Linux into the monopoly-like position of Microsoft will strike a breach. With the city Munich decides for the first time a large German municipality for open SOURCE often commodity. Beside larger economy for the city this is also a contribution for genuine competition on the market for software.

    Gotta love those computer translators...

  16. IANAL on Non-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits · · Score: 4, Informative

    but the last time a lawyer explained the non compete laws to me they were enforceable on a limited basis, with the limitations differing by state.

  17. Roaming with stings attached? on Robotic Teleconferencing · · Score: 4, Interesting
    giving the user the ability to roam hallways, hold conversations and interact remotely through the robot.

    I donno - how long are the cables (visible in the pic)? Of course, being only the second version, with "off the shelf" parts, it looks pretty interesting.

  18. Did they learn something from the junk fax law? on Cornucopia Of Spam Bills · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Two participants said the bill initially was to have been modeled after the federal "junk fax" law that bans all unsolicited fax marketing.

    Prior to that law I was getting zero junk faxes, and now I'm getting an average of 5 a week.

  19. sourceforge? on Grid Computing at a Glance · · Score: 1

    Sounds like sourceforge projects; especially the discussion on standards and protocols going on in oss4lib right now.

  20. Re:Next generation? on Hi-Tech Weed-Killer · · Score: 1
    you used a weed whacker on poison ivy??
    Didja learn anything?

    But seriously, I had to deal with some rampant poison ivy - the vines were the size of tree trunks. I cut through the vines and put Roundup on the cut part and every poison ivy leaf I could find. The poison ivy still came back. I think there was a network of roots throughout the yard.

  21. Crop rows? on Hi-Tech Weed-Killer · · Score: 5, Funny
    You've got to have your plants in rows for it to recognize them?

    Guess that eliminates my garden...

  22. Generate oxygen on their own?? on US & Russia Pencil in Mars Launch by 2018 · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:

    The participants, who will be given 3 tons of water and 5 tons of food, will undergo training on how to act in hazardous situations, the official said. Water and oxygen for the "flight" will be generated by means of the participants' own life processes.

    I don't think I want to watch...

  23. so this means we're overdue? on Newly Discovered Fault Under L.A. · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But seriously, is anyone going to tell us how soon to expect the next big one, or are we just supposed to extrapolate for ourselves?

  24. cell phones and geography on Geocoding All Content · · Score: 1
    Wasn't this one of the "hot" new technologies for web-enabled cell phones? The carrier picks up your geographic location, and sends ads along with the page being displayed, for businesses located near you.

    Interesting new twist, though.

  25. primes and primal screams on Another Breakthrough in Prime Number Theory · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is there a connection?