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  1. Re:How far do we take this? on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 1

    Well, while there are approximately as many males as females, you can't say the same about race and sexuality. Seriously, you'd be forcing every non-straight individual to hold 10 jobs just to keep up. Heaven help them if they're non-white as well....

  2. Re:Shut down before it could damage itself? on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 1

    I grok what you did there.

  3. Re:Robots.txt on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    Because crawling some incompetently constructed forms could disrupt services?

  4. Re:the third parties are running idiots too..... on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ^ it should be obvious that "hand over records" should be replace with "wiretap people".

  5. Re:the third parties are running idiots too..... on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then Obama flip-flopped on FISA and voted for a bill containing telecom immunity.

    You know, I still don't get the huge deal with the telecom immunity. Yes the telecoms should be punished, at least as a preventative measure so that in the future companies think twice before following illegal government orders. And yet, the truly guilty party are the government officials who made those orders. Why are we so intend to lynch their stooges when the masterminds are getting away scot-free? Are we just settling because we know they're above the law? Isn't there a bit of a double standard here?

    Just try thinking of it from the company's point of view. The government orders them to hand over records. The government obviously shows a disdain for the constitution and considers anyone who stands in their way to be terrorist accomplices. What's going to happen to you when you say 'No'?

  6. Re:USR8054 on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    Same for my Trendnet TEW-432BRP. Quite often it does this in the middle of a game or a multi-gig download (or maybe that's the only time I notice.)

    Oh and I also have to set up a continuous ping to the router, or it randomly kills active connections within a minute or two. Not good for watching streaming anything.

  7. 2ms response time? on Computer Optional For AOC's New HD Display · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing this will be one of the models that uses dithering to fake its claimed "millions of colors."

  8. Re:There is only One True Doctor! on Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    Doctor Who is a show. The character is simply The Doctor.

  9. Re:I did it too, on a smaller scale on Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System · · Score: 1

    Just wait a second here..... You transfered a company from a paper payroll system to electronic in 2 hours? I suggest you get cracking on this foreign oil dependency thing. Shouldn't take you more than a month or so for both design and implementation.

  10. Re:Sword of Truth on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    I don't think pre-teens would be interested in all the rape though.

    As far as fantasy goes, I'd suggest David Eddings' Belgariad/Malloreon for the lil' ones.

  11. Re:Asimov's Norby series on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    Norby is exactly what I was going to suggest. I'd only read the first few though so I don't know if they stay good or not.

  12. Re:Dangerous slide on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It's their way of going green.

  13. Re:Checks and Balances on Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions · · Score: 1

    Hey, at least we have The System left. That's the most important part, right?

  14. Re:I'm George Bush on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 1

    Careful, now they have your confession.

  15. Re:Pentium 75? on Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips · · Score: 1

    Division? Every time? I thought you had to let a cat walk over the keyboard and then press DELETE?

  16. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Your kilometrage goes down though.

  17. Re:Redundent -- read selectively. on Head First C# · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did you read the intro? I have a couple Head First books (preps for Sun's EJB and Servlet exams) and I believe in the intro it states that the book uses repetition of important concepts to make them "sink in".

  18. Re:I find the obsession with tech in the class bad on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    Memorizing multiplication table was always outdated.

    Seriously? Are you saying that never in your life have you needed to know off the top of your head at 6 X 7 = 42? Or would you have used your knowledge of numbers and arithmetic operations to do "6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6"?

  19. Re:Nice! on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    you would still have one to many Apple laptops.

    Ah, so you'd be making it a server?

  20. Re:scary. on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could a microwave gun really hit a single head out of a crowd?

  21. Re:Getting laid more on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 4, Funny

    Toot with this i can now insert the message "Sleep with me" in the heads of attractive women everywhere!!!

    Denise Richards & the olsen twins here I come..

    Ok, now I'm confused.

  22. Re:Nikopol Trilogy on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 1

    Kinda like Discworld with boxing? Is there an Egyption God/dess of Fate?

  23. Re:That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever hea on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 1

    You just talked about it, therefore you're out.

  24. Re:Web presence? on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What he's saying is that now some sleazy site might generate your name and if it's uncommon enough you will have web presence that you probably won't like.

  25. Re:You have remote root? A few ideas :-) on Best Way To Get Back a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a story about Canadian homeowners losing their houses because someone impersonating them sold it? And the courts said the new owners would get to keep houses since they paid for them?