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  1. Re:a REAL kaleidoscope ... on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Myself is still undecided (about half a century later) whether this kaleidoscope (which I still have) was harmful or not :)

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  2. a REAL kaleidoscope ... on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    ... I mean a true phsical instance with moving parts :), not a virtual one.

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  3. Re:I have not RTFA. on Microsoft Offers to License the Internet · · Score: 1

    Finally, we have found a slashdotter who doesn't know how to spell Internet.

    Now this is not fair. This one only missed that CTRL-T does not work in non-dedicated environments :)

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  4. Re:The real reason it's not a threat on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    If one transforms the parents remark into "People Volunteer to Make Uninformed Choices" you must shift your argument into "the educational system does not better".

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  5. Re:Amazing ... on Schneier On Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    Any voting system that requires trusting any one counter is inherently flawed.

    From my view one can also put it like "a system where the chances that candidates rigg elections are above a to be defined threshold is inherently flawed".

    Besides, there is no such system that does not require "trust" at a specific level (I am not sure if I should add "if [plain] humans are involved"). However, I fully agree that observation as described is essential.

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  6. Amazing ... on Schneier On Electronic Voting · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... that counting poses so much problems if done electronically.

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  7. Re:And that's why.... on How Journalists Distort Science with Balance · · Score: 1

    ..as long as you're mostly concerned with the social lives of celebrities and your neighborhood pet accidents.

    Most people are. I did market research for the press for a couple of years and that established a lot of evidence regarding this, though definitely not any truth. Well.

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  8. Mirrors ... on 2004 IOCCC Winners Source Code Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.de.ioccc.org/years.html#2004

    also tw, au, es, www1.us

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  9. Re:Sometimes you gotta take a look around. on The Lessons of Software Monoculture · · Score: 1

    The attitude that says 'what 1971, how obsolete' is the reason we get so much cruft created by people who just think they can do better, for the sake of something 'new' and 'different'.

    Ooops, I was not clear enough. I am exactly of the opinion you state but had the impression that the parent was selling s. th. old for new. Obviously my mistake.

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  10. Re:You lose some and you win some on U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty · · Score: 1

    So all that the chart tells you is that the low income states voted for Bush.

    Which again fits somehow, though the victims (followers) may (probably?) not be held responsible (but yes, I know about the problems that you pointed to - even if you would use test scores you run into problems as there is no real culture free/fair method of assessing intelligence (thinking basically along the lines of BERNSTEIN here)).

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  11. Re:Sometimes you gotta take a look around. on The Lessons of Software Monoculture · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some would argue that the process of refinement by iterative design, which is the subject of many texts in the field ...

    Program Development by Stepwise Refinement
    Niklaus Wirth
    Communications of the ACM
    Vol. 14, No. 4, April 1971, pp. 221-227.

    What is the year now, please ?

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  12. Re:You lose some and you win some on U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty · · Score: 1

    You will inevitable lose some jobs, but you will also gain some jobs, but that isn't as obvious.

    Yes, and Germany gives some proof, but the concept is too difficult.

    See this.

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  13. Re:Is Slashdot a "blog"? on The Scoop on Bloggercon III · · Score: 1

    Just wondering if others here think it's weird when Slashdot is called a blog.

    Yes, I think it is weird as well. Though, ./ might be more of a weblog than what for instance the Zawodny ... (name them) league provides, which is pure egomania (IMHO).

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  14. Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Germany and Japan weren't annexed after WWII

    Well, if Germany is considered, it was appendixed instead.

    Nothing I can complain about, but I might point to the Morgenthau plan which (to my knowledge) was considered viable by Roosevelt. The difference was that then political control loops were in place that in the end lead to (more) rational behaviour. From what I perceive today, feedback is missing.

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  15. Minor Interest ... on FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... to be infered on behalf of slow response of the crowds.

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  16. In Science it is $Serendipity ... on Murphy's Law Rules NASA · · Score: 1

    ... not mistakes. Have a look

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  17. Urban Legend on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/autos.htm

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  18. Anthropology: Mead ... on Portable Usability Labs As User Research Tools · · Score: 1

    The most famous comes from anthropology. Watching and Observing Chimps in the wild like Jane Goodall.

    Aha. Up to now I thought that Margaret Mead deserved the honour.

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  19. Re:before /.ers wake up on A Tapeless Digital Camcorder For Your Pocket · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As you might have read, my wife and I are having our first baby. So, of course, we needed a video camera.

    Sometimes I wonder how mankind had come to a certain stage of development without.

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  20. Anti-aging quest ... on Ray Kurzweil On IT And The Future of Technology · · Score: 1

    In the mean time, he's pursuing his anti-aging quest and takes about 250 supplements to his diet every day!

    He could take it a little more easy :)

    So you would say it's the main purpose in training Taiji?

    P.K: The classics say the main purpose in training Taiji is to achieve longevity, which in the Daoist teaching means immortality or the ability to survive after death in your diamond body. The Buddhists talk of enlightenment which means to create a body of light for the same purpose. After death you live on in your energy body one way or another. If your energy body is strengthened and refined through correct effort during your lifetime then the deeper aspects of yourself become independent from the body, immune from death in your crystallised energy body. If you haven't achieved that, then you either gradually fade from all individual existence or return in a body to try again to escape the rounds of life and deaths. This is the truth of life. It is well understood by all real teachers. Other purposes for Taiji are minor ones, created by people in normal life, usually to nurse the body and make it more comfortable, or to attain fighting power and the dubious respect that confers. Unfortunately concentrating on health or self-defence may just make the mind more attached to the body, strengthen the ego and block internal development.


    loc. cit.

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  21. Re:once again... on Probe Crash Due to Misdesigned Deceleration Sensor · · Score: 1

    Sounds much like a fence-post error at a hard to detect spot with checking taking place at sleepless overtime hours with an average of n input channels open while acting on at least least m scenarios.

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  22. Re:once again... on Probe Crash Due to Misdesigned Deceleration Sensor · · Score: 1

    I sure hope whoever missed that gets fired!

    What about the idea that the system where such a slip is attributed to the individual but not the production environment with all its facets is intrinsically flawed ?

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  23. Re:Programming versus Software Engineering on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    ... a good software engineer ...

    Which would perhaps translate into "software manager, MBA".

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  24. Re:Career Change on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    ... don't much like agreeing with him, but I think Bush was right in the debate the other night when he said that the 21st century economy is going to necessitate job and career changes ...

    Oh dear, this already sailed with the label "Lifelong learning" way back fifty years (or so).

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  25. Re:Whoa! Behind the times! on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does cost more than it saves first place.

    But it is an easy enough concept to communicate from one managerial level to the next higher one.

    And it is safe, as the responsible one will be promoted by the time the cost wave hits back.

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