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  1. Re:ur doin it wrong on 40 Million Identities Up For Sale On the Web · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot. OP would get copies of goatse.

  2. Re:Assign them numbers. on India To Issue Over a Billion Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    We'll just use a pair of 128 bit numbers. One which identifies your current status. The other identifies your presence to the public world.

    Then we'll just route them ;).

  3. Re:Sick priorities on India To Issue Over a Billion Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    The idea is that the one card will be a _central_ identifying entity, instead of the locally issued identifiers which are not valid outside that area.

    This will actually help the poor who migrate to areas with work, but still need subsidised food and cooking gas.

    India also has an immigration problem with Bangladesh and Pakistan. If you live in the US, imagine the entire population of Mexico migrating into the US every year.

  4. Re:The Mad Scientist Stuff is the Point! on Can Bill Gates Prevent the Next Katrina? · · Score: 1

    Then you just get a few billion starving people migrating into your country. It doesn't matter how many you kill, because they have nothing to lose.

  5. Re:How soon we forget on How Microsoft Has Changed Without Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    That's not Microsoft. That was a small company named Compaq, who took on IBM and won a legal battle about reverse engineering the PC BIOS, making hardware a commodity. Microsoft rode the wave.

  6. Re:Failover Planning (and this broke FiOS too) on Seattle Data Center Outage Disrupts E-Commerce · · Score: 1

    Not everything can always be hot/hot. Anything involving state and large data volumes, for example.
    Think large databases. You need block level hot/hot for redundancy. Now for real redundancy, you need the other datastore to be in a different geography, and under a different government. That's a lot of latency per transaction.

    Hot/Warm may be feasible.

  7. Re:Flat Earth on Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed · · Score: 1

    RDBMSes don't do non-relational data very well. Most of the names mentioned above don't deal with too much relational data in the first place.

  8. Re:Software engineering is not a new concept. on Does the 'Hacker Ethic' Harm Today's Developers? · · Score: 1

    That's the gap at lower levels now. My numbers are for people with ~ 8 years of experience.

  9. Re:Produce five times more than average on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 1

    Start paying the full price for the energy consumption and pollution. Stop pushing externalities to other places. Allow free immigration (I would so love to see Bangladeshis going to the US without hassles. They will soon have no place to live). I ask for nothing more.

  10. Re:From a Galactic Origin on Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle? · · Score: 1

    The wheel of time turns ...

  11. Re:Software engineering is not a new concept. on Does the 'Hacker Ethic' Harm Today's Developers? · · Score: 1

    The average wage in India is around 20K USD. You may be thinking of managers here (who explicitly do not code).

  12. Re:Produce five times more than average on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 1

    Because the cost of that energy consumption is being borne by the other group.

  13. Re:1/4 of energy for 1/4 of GDP on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 1

    Wrong units. Energy consumption measurements should be per capita, not per dollar. Also, how much of that is manufacturing?

  14. Re:Cap & Trade = Energy Rationing on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 1

    Developing countries meanwhile bear the brunt of climate change, as water becomes scarcer.

  15. Re:ABC Should Crack Down on Fake News Scam Sites Advertising On Real News Sites · · Score: 1

    There's already precent for this though. allofmp3.com is a nice precedent to cite. Visa and Mastercard already did this once, they should do it again.

  16. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    amusingly, the first two are dictatorships which reduce personal freedoms considerably.

  17. Re:quote on 14-Year-Old Boy Smote By Meteorite · · Score: 1

    Not accidental. I have read the entire Discworld series multiple times. Oook!

  18. Re:quote on 14-Year-Old Boy Smote By Meteorite · · Score: 2, Informative

    However, it is a well known fact that one in a million chances happen 9 times out of 10.

  19. Re:Cardboardium. on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    Ductapium.

  20. Re:PYTHON???? on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Think of Fortran as a specialist little language/DSL. Most people don't learn many DSLs in university (except UML and SQL).

    Fortran is a DSL for number crunching and matrix algebra.

  21. Re:No fortran - just Python on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Until you realise that Fortran has well tested and proven libraries which you would need to mostly reimplement in Python. See this comment for example.

  22. Re:The Mysterious Reoccurrence of Mr. Freckles on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 1

    Perhaps me. Perhaps not. I have said it often enough when describing Twitter to other people, and I haven't heard anyone else use it before I did.

  23. Re:No one seems to have mentioned this....... on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 1

    Where shall we have lunch?

  24. Re:No touchy! on Human Laughter Up To 16 Million Years Old · · Score: 1

    Oook!

  25. Re:Professional Engineer on How Software Engineering Differs From Computer Science · · Score: 1

    My software will work, with specific hardware, within certain hard tolerances. It will not work on a generic PC, or if you change anything, or do not follow instructions in the manual.