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  1. Re:Agreed. on Hardware or Software Major? · · Score: 1

    Hardware is almost entirely the domain of H1-Bs. There is practically nothing interesting in hardware these days (as far as EE or circuiting) because it's all repetitive work. Chip design is a repetitive, unexciting field. Designing fabs for smaller cores is a completely different field, and all the interesting research, for stuff like optical storage, have nothing to do with EE. Take laser optics or chemistry if you want to research. That said, companies will pay a fortune for someone who can actually speak English and is willing to do the thoroughly unintellectual work of hardware design.

  2. Re:Follow the ping packets! on FCC to Push VoIP 911 Requirements · · Score: 1

    The whole point is to prevent you from using VOIP on your laptop. If it ain't owned by Ma Verizon, you shouldn't be using it. SBC/BellSouth aka Cingular and Qwest/MCI will fold very shortly. Behind every corporate "scandal" there's a winning lobbyist. Remember how GE took down Enron by running panic stories on NBC.

  3. Re:Maybe on Windows... on RealNetworks Invests in Legitimizing Free Music · · Score: 1

    Easier to shovel, but harder to slop.

  4. Re:Man flamebait or what. on RealNetworks Invests in Legitimizing Free Music · · Score: 1

    You bring up a good point. Don't look for impartial news, look for accurate. The Economist may be more right leaning than the Times, but it's by far more informative and honest.

  5. Re:Man flamebait or what. on RealNetworks Invests in Legitimizing Free Music · · Score: 1

    why are you hoping for something you haven't already been told to hope for?

  6. Re:Potential Uses on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA · · Score: 1

    What if you missed one or got one wrong?

  7. Re:ISO 8601 on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's backwards. We don't want the least significant digit first. We already know what bloody millenium it is. However, knowing the day without knowing the month is almost always useless unless you're talking about the current month, e.g., "on the 18th", but no good if you're talking about "May 18th. So the American version is correct. The month, followed by the day as a unit; with year optionally appended.

  8. kind of irrelevant now on Tridge Releases BitKeeper-Compatible Tool · · Score: 0, Troll

    Isn't it kind of irrelevant now that nobody uses bitkeeper anymore and it will be broken in the next release that all paying customers will be forced to upgrade to?

  9. Re:I Robot on BBC Reviews Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    The Zeroth Law is the problem with modern (and several ancient) societies. The idea that you can do evil to (hopefully) accomplish good. Civilized (Western/Christian/Liberal/Democratic) thought says consequences be damned, just do what's right. You can't control the universe, but if A) someone does, it's best to hope they'll do the right thing too or B) if we someday do control the universe, it'd sure be nice to think we'll do a reasonable job of it. It's only pig fuckers like Mohammed and Lenin that think somehow once they're enemies are all crushed they'll magically become the nice guys they wanted to be be all along.

  10. Re:Hardwired wouldn't have sucked AS BADLY. on BBC Reviews Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    If you can't see it, it can't be that bad.

  11. Re:the LSB is RPM centric on Why Aren't More Distros Becoming LSB Certified? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you just need a tarball and a custom install script and a way to check for dependencies and a way to install or link to those dependencies.

  12. reality on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    Public Rest Areas are the most common area that sexual abductions occur. Most sexual predators are addicted to pornography. It doesn't take a genius or evil Christian to figure out that you don't want rapists lurking in rest areas looking at porn and waiting for victims to assault or kidnap.

  13. Re:So nothing can display it correctly? on Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    the standard is broken. In so many places. In acknowledging that it is broken especially. For instance, CSS is supposed to get rid of table positioning, right? But CSS explicitly forbids non-"block" elements (like or ) from having widths. The result? You have to use tables to enforce width. So to make a form with correct horizontal alignment & width you have to use a table. Position is broken even when it works, not to mention it is a Very Bad Idea.

  14. Re:My opinion hasn't changed on BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus and Tridge · · Score: 1

    What happens if Tridge's client sucks? What happens if it corrupts older files? Then block Tridge's client from accessing. Require a password or something. Reverse engineering is legal, hacking into a server is not. By making the server publicly available, he is implicitly granting access to all. An open door is not a reasonable expectation of privacy, so says the Supreme Court (whether the court is allowed to declare laws or not is another issue.)

  15. Re:My opinion hasn't changed on BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus and Tridge · · Score: 1

    Or just has an RSS feed like interface to pull patches from. And a tool to mark them as read/applied/failed/etc.

  16. Re:Let's get the politics out of the way on Slashback: Electioneering, Blimps, Shuffling · · Score: 2

    Actually, it was a suspected fraudulent recount that gave the Democrat (Gregiore) the victory. An election official (you know, the ones who count the votes) was quoted as saying "third times the charm!" when his preferred candidate won after two other counts that had the Republican (Rossi) as winner.

  17. Re:I was unclear about YARV. Let me clarify on Ruby On Rails Showdown with Java Spring/Hibernate · · Score: 1

    by and by, you may be proven wrong> Consider the following exchange, already in common usage:

    "How are you?"
    "O.K."
    "What's wrong?"

  18. Re:Janitors/electricians of the 21st century on How Much Respect Do You Get? · · Score: 1

    If only to be paid as well as car mechanics... or to be able to be as incompetent without blame.

  19. Re:Does... on Hack turns GIMP into Photoshop Look-alike · · Score: 1

    Adobe could drastically cut photoshop piracy (by something like 90%, at least in the USA) by lowering the price of Photoshop. Not only would this dramatically increase their revenue, it would be a bane for the Gimp.

  20. Re:Dun dun dun... on The State of the Scripting Universe · · Score: 1

    ddd... better hold it up to a warped mirror.

  21. That's worldwide on Creaky Operating Systems Form IT Foundations · · Score: 1

    In the US, Windows 98 and less is less than 8% of the installed base.

  22. Re:Upgrade to 5 on PHP 5 Power Programming · · Score: 1

    I can't believe there aren't a lot of hosting companies out there willing to be a little more bleeding edge and charge a premium for newer features like PHP5. Is customer support really that big of a hassle. Oh, nevermind. I just remembered why every couple months I see an auction for a bunch of 1U servers and think "I could get into hosting..." only to realize that I don't WANT to get into hosting, even if I could make money at it.

  23. Re:Upgrade to 5 on PHP 5 Power Programming · · Score: 1

    especially when php already has the builtin reflection capability to find the parent's class name

    you could easily create super like this:

    function super()
    {
    eval("parent->" . get_parent_class() . "()");
    }

    I'm sure there is some subtle gotcha (besides having to handle arguments), no reason not to include something like that instead of the __construct() method.

  24. Re:perl6 is a mistake on Run Perl 6 Today: Pugs 6.0.11 released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And when world communism is finally implemented for real, there will be no poor or hungry on unhappy or unhealthy and anything that doesn't accomplish all this isn't really communism.

  25. Re:Reading Perl code? on Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom · · Score: 1

    But it takes very little effort to cut and paste unexecutable Python code.