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  1. Re:Your taxes at work on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    Apparently you missed the Yuan dynasty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y...

  2. Re:Strict government control is not good on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1

    When you say "loose government control", some people hear, "anarchy". Just like when you say, "lower taxes", they hear, "elimination of all taxation". No intermediate states are contemplated, or even considered possible.

    That seem like yet another failure of the education system to me

  3. Re:What the hell is a helium bomb? on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most bombs become useless shortly after their first use anyway.

  4. Re:The Fascists Have Won on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1
  5. Re:We don't shun those who should be shunned. on Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? · · Score: 1

    I don't know what part of the world you are from, but I started learning C++ in high school in 98. Once I got to college most courses used Java, but my C++ knowledge was always useful.

  6. Re:I think... on Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Not harder just different. For one I prefer .Net's lambdas to Javas.

  7. Re:I think... on Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    You must be doing it wrong. I have done CI many times in .Net. Sln files are not trivial to deal with, but they make life easy if you know what you are doing.

  8. Re:Accomplishments? on Vatican To Digitize Prohibited Archives · · Score: 1

    such as myself

  9. Re:What ended up in Windows 7 that was in OSX on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    Stickies and Disk Utility have been around since OS8 at least, maybe even System 7.5

  10. Re:Odds of dying in terrorist attack on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    and here i thought 1 in 500000 was near zero. silly of me.

  11. Re:Wide Screens SUCK! on Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens? · · Score: 1

    I agree. I have 2 1080p monitors at work and it is just silly. I tried having one landscape, but it turns out 1080 is just stupid horizontal as it is vertical.

  12. Re:Signal to Noise on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 1

    this is twitter-worthy.

  13. Re:Bumer it doesn't support G3 Macs ... on MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Why only open source? on Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment · · Score: 1

    I second the question about limiting to open source. A good package management system that can could make using SxS painless would be awesome in an enterprise environment.

    Since this is open source and .msi based I assume you will be leveraging WiX somehow?

    I hope this isn't going to be a big collection merge modules with duplicated component guids...

  15. Re:Man... on SGI Rolls Out "Personal Supercomputers" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only on slashdot are computer viruses worse than nukes.

  16. Re:It didn't work for microsoft... on Reports Say Apple May Manufacture Its Own Chips · · Score: 1

    Last time I disassembled a Mac the motherboard was designed and manufactured by Apple. Granted this was back in the early PPC era, but it goes to show that they have done it before.

    They even had the designer's signatures on finished boards. Always a nice touch I thought.

  17. Re:Days gone by on AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development · · Score: 1

    "Yup, many of my firsts on the internet involved Netscape Navigator...I haven't used it in years, but I am still a little bit sad to see it go. Goodbye, comet-flying-over-a-global-sized-N...you were the gateway to a hell of a lot in my youth."

    Remember the Breathing 'N'? That was the last version that really liked, not sure what the number was though - or if it was only for Mac.

  18. Re:Any reason to switch? on First Look at RHEL 5 - From the New, More Open Red Hat · · Score: 1

    Well put!

  19. Re:Dangerous precedent being set on Linden Labs Sends "Permit-and-Proceed" Letter · · Score: 1

    Two strings walk into a bar. The first strong goes up to the bar tender and says "Give me a beer". The second string goes up to the bar and says "Give me a beeriomc3#@%c()". The first string then says to the bar tender "You'll have to excuse my friend here, he isn't null terminated."

  20. Re:virtual money on Taxing Virtual Gaming Assets · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you can get insurance for things like canceled accounts.

  21. Re:Ask yourself this... on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Well said! wish I had mod points.

  22. Re:Real poverty is less than average, not just les on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Your doubt is misplaced. I did exactly what you described and now live in an excellent neighborhood and have much better health care than I did before.

  23. Re:I'm not surprised on Slashback: ICANN, OLPC, Agile, Yahoo, BayStar · · Score: 1

    That kinda like giving a man a fish instead of teaching him to fish. Perhaps with a computers they can educate themselves and create businesses. As long as they don't learn to phish.

  24. Re:No explanation? on The Mystery of Oregon's 'Dead Zone' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps these scientists should refer to William of Ockham and his principle.

  25. Re:Just me? on Israeli Company Creates Nano-Armor · · Score: 1

    I don't think these are mutually exclusive options. Besides its seems the army is more likely to run into people with armor piercing muunitions than police