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  1. Re:Jesus! on Has a Biochem Undergrad Solved a Cosmic Radiation Mystery? · · Score: 0

    Caesar sure got around back then.

  2. Re:Denerdification of the Industry on UK Universities Caught With Weak SSL Security · · Score: 2

    Silly question. Why not make the security of the university part of a few courses? One team sets up the defensive strategy, the next team the offensive. Switch mid term.

  3. Re:I'm for it. on Senator Pushes For Tougher H-1B Enforcement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it's just a skills shortage. We can't find anyone who's willing to work for $75kpa, who does exactly what we want them to do, but for someone else, with 10 years of experience in a language/product that's only been around for 5. That's why we need to hire people from overseas who can tell HR that they have 10 years of experience, and who will be willing to work for $70 kpa. It's simple really, and for the good of the nation.

    That, or companies could actually take on university graduates like they used to do, train them, treat them well, and have some high class permanents who know what they're doing. Oh wait, that's a long term strategy. And long term's no good because in the long term we're all dead anyway.

  4. Re:Darwin Awards on Army Creates a Directed Lightning Bolt Weapon · · Score: 1

    Power company? Doc Brown and Marty?

  5. Re:Not just Comcast on Comcast Pays $800,000 To U.S. For Hiding Stand-Alone Broadband · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To which they reply, if you buy my phone service *I* won't call you as long as you are stay subscribed!

  6. Re:The trick? on Carderprofit.cc Was FBI Carding Sting, Nets 26 Arrests · · Score: 2

    Geez, next you'll tell me that using dodgy sites through Tor to buy illegal crap with bitcoins mailed to your home address is a bad idea.

  7. Re:Pentagon work on Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward · · Score: 1, Funny

    98 to go then.

  8. Re:Pentagon work on Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    Then again, this project sounds like the scenes in all those hollywood movies where they throw a crapload of junk on a table and say, "We need to build a working relay station from only these parts!" Except in this case, it's using robots... in space!

    Anyone got McGuyver's phone number? I'm sure he can get the robot to do *something* with the duct tape and swizzle stick.

  9. Re:Question on Australian Telco Causes Minor Panic While Preparing Web Filter · · Score: 2

    Yes. That's why a lot of us are former users.

  10. Re:Don't wait for the plan to end on Australian Telco Causes Minor Panic While Preparing Web Filter · · Score: 2

    There are a few options in Aus. Vodaphone, Optus, cheap resellers of optus like Amaysim etc. Only fools and horses go with Telstra.

  11. Re:* WHOOSH * on U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab · · Score: 1

    the next thing we will know is that Apples owns the color white.

    No, only eggshell and off-teal. Apple wouldn't use 0xFFFFFF! Don't you know anything about design?!?

  12. Re:Elerium 115 on New Mineral Found In Meteorite · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Elerium 115 is right there on the shelf between the unobtainium and the pure weapons grade balonium.

  13. Re:Predictably... on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know, there's a reason why trading servers are still in the borough of Bank in London, on Manhattan island in New York, connected to newly laid fibre optic cable in Sydney etc. And it's not cheap real estate/labour costs. It's the speed of light. Seriously. Sub ms counts in this game.

  14. Re:Well, duh on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, recently we saw an idiot tax imposed on users of a certain version of IE at an Australian website. Now Orbits is doing the same thing. For the good of the community. You mac users keep on drinking the kool aid.

  15. Re:first post on Two UK Lulzsec Suspects Plead Guilty To DDoS Charges · · Score: 3, Funny

    Two teens have pleaded guilty to taking part in Lulzsec attacks

    Since they have pleaded guilty, it has made the world a betterer place to live in. Double plus good.

  16. Re:too much regulation! on Quiet Victories Won In the Loudness Wars · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We ran a TV ad for our company 12 years ago. Instead of screaming at our customers, we went the exact opposite way, and had dead silence for 30 seconds, with a bit of simple text on the screen. It was amazing the reaction we got. I guess on TV, silence is deafening.

  17. Re:too much regulation! on Quiet Victories Won In the Loudness Wars · · Score: 3, Funny

    because 70dB is well below the threshold of pain.

    He mentioned a "local" ad from a lawyer. I would imagine even at 1db it would cause pain. Possibly even with mute on.

  18. Re:License and registration please? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    Unless if you have japanese ancestors, it would probably be quite the struggle for them to want to take you in the first place.

  19. Re:License and registration please? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 0

    Eeees funny because it what say in movie!

  20. Re:Is this pump price? on U.S. Gas Prices Continue To Fall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Interesting that Rolling stone magazine wrote this article a while back. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405

    Note the whole thing about oil prices having been spiked as a bubble, and in the process of being respiked. Also note the whole thing on carbon tax credits etc. If true, I wonder how much longer the world at large will put up with such shenanigans?

  21. Re:Good and bad on The $100 Masters Degree From Udacity · · Score: 2

    Especially since here, cheating and getting away with it earns bonus credit!

  22. Re:Future of Education on The $100 Masters Degree From Udacity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it will eventually become accessible to only the upper class (as education always is).

    A famous man once said, give a man a fish, he eats today and owes you a fish forever. But teach a man to fish, and he'll be competing with you for fish tomorrow.

  23. Re:wow, common sense! on Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers · · Score: 2

    Your life insurance and TPD company would be most interested!

  24. I just can see what the South Park boys would say on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    To boldly probe where no man has probed before.

  25. Re:Is it necessary the vien come from a dead human on Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells Saves 10-Year-Old · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am more interested in the fact that her cells were harvested from her bone marrow, rather than gathered from umbilical cord blood and cryogenically stored at several thousand dollars a pop.

    Although it can't be a good news article for their business, it gives the rest of us oldies a bit more hope that we can benefit from stem cells.