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  1. Acceptable though tacky because "as bad as" is a subjective judgement, an opinion. If you call someone a liar, they've either lied or not.

  2. Re:Not unless the kid hopes to get a job in the fi on Ask Slashdot: Educating Kids About Older Technologies? · · Score: 1

    Did you learn those things in class or on your own? Most well rounded people did it the latter way. I believe the argument was against having that much historic detail in the class load, not against maintaining the classes for people who are interested.

  3. Re:If it's gone use 410, not 404 on Fixing Broken Links With the Internet Archive · · Score: 1

    People setting up and deleting web pages are typically not the ones controlling the server. Your suggesting that every time someone deletes a hosted page, they request the provider serve a 410 for that page.

    Not gonna happen. Either the request or - presuming the slim chance the request *is* made - the serving of the 410.

    I have my own domains and I don't even do it because I make a lot of trash files for test purposes and that's an incredible pain in the ass for pages no one is supposed to see but me anyway and *despite* having a robots.txt, i have found them in search engines and archives. So archives are basically worthless as historic collections of functioning pages.

  4. Re:No. 404 is important! on Fixing Broken Links With the Internet Archive · · Score: 1

    This does not give the site owner control, only a voice to plead with. It's a suggestion, not a door, stopping no one who wishes to ignore it.

    The type of browser that would show old pages in the first place should be looked on as more likely to break robots.txt a well. As pointed out in other posts there are perfectly valid reasons to want a page gone, not archived. This precludes that choice.

  5. Re:I miss walls... on Office Space: TV Documentary Looks At the Dreadful Open Office · · Score: 2

    Hell, I'll beat that. I had to endure two women talking very explicitly about their last births. Ain't no stacked wall of manuals that can keep that out.

  6. Re:"post-food consumers" on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    This isn't about a dietary recommendation so much as a supposed complete dietary replacement. Big difference. I can recommend you eat fresh citrus, I wouldn't recommend you subsist on it.

  7. Re:Somebody wasn't paying attention on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    Your proclivities may not have been adapted by others, you know.

  8. Re:Need a transparent government on MIT Develops Inexpensive Transparent Display Using Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    Only the store and advertiser will be able to determine if it's worth the money to them. Ads aren't cheap now.

  9. Re:Hindenburg on Regulations Could Delay or Prevent Space Tourism · · Score: 1

    Wiki: "Of the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), there were 35 fatalities. There was also one death of a ground crewman." Still, only one third died, much lower than with say, a 747 loaded with 400+ passengers. And remember, one has to compare the worst to the worst. not Hindenburg to an average airliner crash.

  10. Re:The Problem on Marc Andreessen On Why Bitcoin Matters (And A Critique) · · Score: 1

    And collect them for weeks on end hoping to accumulate enough to purchase the thing you need whose price is increasing faster than your hen can lay? You know, like what happened in the Zimbabwe reference? It's a real-life analogue. It doesn't sustain. Deal with the knowledge.

  11. Re:The Problem on Marc Andreessen On Why Bitcoin Matters (And A Critique) · · Score: -1

    Other than essentially *screaming* the fact that they are a fabrication. You don't think that will exert a psychological affect on people's behavior towards them? Yes it will.

  12. Re:Here is why it doesn't on Marc Andreessen On Why Bitcoin Matters (And A Critique) · · Score: 1

    If you can't send a moneygram, what makes you think they have web access?

  13. Re:Certainly the government on Regulations Could Delay or Prevent Space Tourism · · Score: 2

    That is an incredibly ill-informed post. Robots are nowhere near ready to do any mining, ad hoc exploration, construction or any other damned thing past rolling around and pointing instruments a few inches away.

    "How about private funding?" It's being done. That's what the article is *about*.

    Actually, anyone referring to humans as waterbags is probably not to be taken as a harbinger of humanity's advancement.

  14. Re:So... on Fighting the Flu May Hurt Those Around You · · Score: 1

    Please, a week's worth of food isn't that much. Three boxes of cereal will do it. It dropped temp here recently and I decided not to go anywhere. Finally went out when I only had one can of butter beans left. It's much more a case of people simply not wanting to forgo their amenities and scrounge their pantries than anything else.

  15. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    No, it is not. Not under any intelligent translation of the legal phrase.

  16. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    Having a video camera pointed at a theater screen is illegal, on or off. People disguise the operational status of cameras all the time for nefarious reasons. What make you think they couldn't do the same for Glass?

  17. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    I know the simple solution for them will be to just not go see movies

    Much simpler solution - have a pair of regular glasses as well as the snooper-scopes.

  18. Re:Which shows that people don't understand on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 2

    The fundamental problem with proxy reconstructions is the premise that the collector can determine exactly *what* caused the proxy data. Tree rings (which appear frequently in the search results) presume a thin ring means less water. Could mean less light, a blight, a locust swarming and other things as well. Things that will not leave a trace. Proxy cherry picking is another problem. If two nearby trees show different indications, which to use?

  19. Re:Unprofessional all around on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    Hose one interview, the interviewer will flag your resume, and you are guaranteed to not be hired by anyone in the banking business.

    Bullshit. My entire career was in banking. No such thing.

  20. Re:Unprofessional all around on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 2

    crap like fashion choices, who you slept with (or didn't), and other superfluous garbage.

    As opposed to whether you like Ruby on Rails, believe all source should be free, or don't hate object oriented programming?

  21. Re:Unprofessional all around on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    To actually get the point across to them so they correct their behavior though

    I see your mistake. They will never assume fault. This was only a marginally humorous response.

  22. Re:Here's the sad part on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure the senior engineers at NASA won't be waking up screaming with angst at 2AM over your condemnation of their failed careers.

  23. Re: Obligatory Trainspotting on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 2

    There are jobs, false statements that sweeping are pathetic. Lower your expectations, get the "demeaning" job, work it until you find a better one.

  24. Re: Obligatory Trainspotting on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 1

    HR thought run amok. No, there are things that no one may expect to get an answer from me on. It's not their business and, in other words, over the line. If they think it isn't, their business won't be my business.

  25. Re:Don't stop innovating keyboards yet, please on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    Then I **highly** recommend the Verbatim keyboard. Nice and heavy, solid business-like feel with great tactile and audio feedback. I bought two, one for replacement if first breaks. Great keyboard.