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  1. Re:What is wrong with America & American Airli on Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets · · Score: 1, Insightful

    On 9/10, you could have said that about hijackers flying a plane into a building and killing 3000 people. What would be your point?

  2. PC, no Word on Goodbye Cruel Word · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I never use Word. Each time I've gotten a new system, I've deleted it. I use TextPad for quick and Word Pro for professional.

    That said, I just read her article. 'Twas a tale told by an idiot apparently. She can't do what is easy and carps about that which is nothing.

  3. Re:What created the universe? on Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science · · Score: 1

    "For example, as we know it there are some parameters in the standard model of physics that have to be set just right in order for the universe as it is currently set to exist."

    Bad phrase. Source of your error.

    As we know it, there are some parameters in the standard model of physics that must have certain values in order of the universe we observe to exist.

    Stated that way, you don't need a cause for the "settings".

  4. Re:Sellouts on Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science · · Score: 1

    Up until the point that the body of knowledge refuted them, yes.

  5. Re:Logic vs Faith on Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science · · Score: 1

    Your explanation did a lot of dancing around the word objective. It's not a simple word and you have appeared to use it several ways while trying to seem to use it only one. Try explaining yourself without the word and see how it does. I can interpret "objective historical claims" at least three ways, for instance.

  6. Re:what's the problem? on PI License May Soon Be Required for Computer Forensics · · Score: 1

    And you are investigating data systems that are not your client's, why? That's what PI's do. They investigate the doings of others and show up in court.

  7. Re:Worrisome? on PI License May Soon Be Required for Computer Forensics · · Score: 1

    Um, your analogy is crap. A PI may not even need to access a computer, depending on the type of work they do. However, a digital forensics expert may very well have to do investigative work in order to provide courtroom testimony. Not to mention, the difference in outlay for the two is quite striking.

    For someone in the data business, you're pretty inept at knowing how to start.

    Google "Private investigator" license obtaining -- The second link shown is:

    http://www.oregonpi.com/licensing.htm

    It's a reasonable place to start. There you will learn it's a state by state thing.

  8. Re:Abso-fuckin-lutely on Intel Resigns from One Laptop Per Child Project · · Score: 1

    Uh, no.

    fascism, n.
    1. (sometimes cap.) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
    2. (sometimes cap.) the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.
    3. (cap.) a fascist movement, esp. the one established by Mussolini in Italy 1922-43.


    That does not exist here, regardless of how much you wave your little hands and stamp your little feet.

  9. Re:This isn't as obvious as it looks on Proof That Practice Does Make Perfect · · Score: 1

    Don't denigrate yourself. You have an innate talent and you practiced with a deliberate intent. You didn't sit and contentedly draw stick figures for 44K hours. I too am an artist, although I sculpt. There are those who will never in their lifetimes, regardless of the hours put in, be able to sculpt well. They simply don't have the innate spatial abilities. That's what talent is, underlying abilities.

    You have them, otherwise you'd be drawing extremely fine stick figures.

  10. Re:just training on Proof That Practice Does Make Perfect · · Score: 1

    "After taking a year of karate, ..."

    That, chum, is the basic definition of sophomore.

  11. Re:Sheesh on Proof That Practice Does Make Perfect · · Score: 1

    May your wish come true -- living with every friggin' memory of every friggin' thing you've ever experienced. After a couple of years of that, come back and we'll charge you an arm and a leg to undo it.

  12. Re:Past vs past. on Surveillance Rights for the Public? · · Score: 1

    You might read up on England during Charles Dickens time, or New York during the early 1800's, or....

  13. Re:uh-oh, better ban sunglasses at airports on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 1

    Uh, did you quit logic studies in kindergarten? You cannot prevent something that did not happen (terrorist attacks utilizing airliners). That does not mean however, that the fact that there were zero incidents is not in part due to the measures.

  14. Re:How beautifully naive. on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 1

    Nice straw. Being observed and making note of their behavior for further observation is not a full cavity search or being hassled for hours. Good spin for effect, though.

    People don't give people "funny looks" by accident. They do it on purpose, then claim later they're misunderstood. Been in IT long enough to know there's generally a victim mentality coupled with a minor god complex.

    Anti-authority and pro-chaos are two distinctly different things. Not attempting to find and stop bad guys is pro-chaos.

    "I fundamentally do not agree..."

    OK, I'll bite. Explain to me why you might disagree that someone lighting a shoe bomb is not a bad guy doing a bad thing. That's what this is about. To carry on with that note: you may disagree with using "unreliable" methods, but I note you provide not a single suggestion as to a "reliable" one.

  15. Blogs on Rails Bigwig Rails on Rails Community · · Score: 1

    And here so many people a few days ago were saying how there was no reason or benefit to Google up someone's blogging or online life during the hiring process.

  16. Re:Yeah on Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation? · · Score: 1

    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a dream is just entertainment.

  17. Re:Yeah on Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation? · · Score: 1

    TFA suggests that it is possible to have dreams which train your subconscious by association.

    This is related to another practice technique, fantasizing. The cerebellum is engaged at a low level when you fantasize. Practice - as long as you are fantasizing correctly.

    Conversely, when an actual fight situation comes up, you're more likely to do poorly if your conscious mind is engaged.
    Our brains work without our consciousness--and given training, they do far better without our consciousness.

    Uh, no. That's too general. I think what you're trying to say is if you attempt to micromanage with your consciousness, you can screw up, but I guarantee that I can watch in detail what I'm doing when sparring and still not interfere. Add to that, your reflexes don't have a damned thing to do with your overall goal. If you sit there waiting without conscious though on some level, you'll get outflanked or tricked. You'll also not launch any attacks.

    This form of training likely has its origins in the lower life forms which perform complex tasks that seem to transcend simple ROM, e.g., wasps.

    What the hell does that mean - read only memory? Instinct? Instinct is hardly like memory being read out. You guys gotta stop trying to map biotic behavior into computer jargon. Don't fly.

  18. What I always wanted on Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th · · Score: 1

    Someone loading the dice on what I get back from a search. At least with the current crop, I can more or less figure what they're doing. With a dynamic, anything goes approach, I seriously doubt I'll be using it much.

  19. Re:Republicans on What Did You Change Your Mind About in 2007? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Same time the Democrats did.

  20. Runs on Windows? on Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, unless it was an operating system problem and not bad data or bad programming, what's the point in mentioning that other than childish bashing?

  21. Re:Fire at WILL on How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet · · Score: 1

    While interestingly, here in fly over land, it doesn't by and large make people fearful. You hear about them when interviewed by reporters who snip out comments from the context, but when you work next to them, no.

    The level of hostility at termination in the US is not terrible. Most people get depressed, not hostile.

    Sounds like you would like to be able to leave whenever you want, but not get fired for whatever they want. Why the double standard?

  22. Re:Well, no kidding! on How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet · · Score: 1

    Then you didn't read his post. Said explicitly he's pliant and considerate to those who work well. Those nine of ten shit employees you mentioned deserve what, exactly?

  23. Re:Not much is new here. on How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet · · Score: 1

    While your sentiment sounds good, it is clearly not the case. There are many venues which have in the agreement for hire clauses stating the employee will behave in ways that won't negatively impact the employer. Don't sign and don't take the job, fine. But to say they're doomed is untrue. Most banks, for instance.

  24. Re:Seems to Make Sense on Necessity of Dark Energy Questioned · · Score: 0

    To be analogous, your example explosion must occur in a void and originate from a point.

  25. Re:You mean we can publish our own shit? on Writers Guild Members Look to Internet Distribution · · Score: 1

    Now. Pull up a screen play on the internet, read it and get back to us if it's entertaining or shallow writing.