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  1. Re:I'm not wearing any underwear on Doing the Laptop Drive of Shame · · Score: 2, Funny

    (interpret "or" here in the Boolean sense).

    We english-speaking humans have devised a shorter method for explaining that. Behold: "and/or"

  2. Re:Gotta agree with that. on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Or you can spend you life whining about why no one gave you any breaks. The choice is yours.

    See, you were making valid and thoughtful points until this statement. Why did you have to go off into a fucktard personal attack and ruin the post, asshole?

  3. Re:I prefer this idea: on Free Games As a Solution To Game Piracy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Trying a demo doesn't do much when your video card tends to lock up on the stage after the demo, or other such unforeseeable events.

  4. Re:what's the big deal? on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    The Crusades didn't quite make it to Persia, which was one of the scientific centers of the world.

    You might know it as "Iran" now.

  5. Re:what's the big deal? on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    ID is not testable, provable, falsifiable, based upon any observable evidence, able to be observed in any fashion, able to offer any predictions, or accepted as a scientific anything by any reputable experts.

    It's not a challenging point of view, any more so that my point of view that I am in fact Jeebus Cristo.

  6. Re:End up in court on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The common argument is that it may fit into a philosophy class - as you've mentioned - but there's little reason to even do that since it doesn't appear to be a well-defined argument of any import

    I don't know, I think it could fit in well with the other religious creation stories. Raelism, Xenu, or any of the various myths in this wikipedia article could be bunched together with it. Think of it as an education in different cultural beliefs.

  7. Re:Sure on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    I'm going to come clean your car. I'm going to charge you $10,000. You didn't ask me to do it, but I decided to anyway - now pay me.

    I'm going to tell you, as my employee, that you should hold on to this bucket, hose, soap, and sponge. Also, your place of work is this very dirty car, and that said car is unacceptably soiled.

    Now don't come crying to me asking for compensation if you take it upon yourself to wash the car.

  8. Re:Have you tried ... on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Blackberries just make it worse, but the symptom isn't the devices, it's people's attitude.

    The symptom is most certainly people's use of Blackberries. The CAUSES, however, are their attitudes.

  9. Re:Gotta agree with that. on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Lots of lawsuits over this issue will change the work relationship between employee and employer -- to disadvantage the employee, I think.

    The work relationship between employer and employee is always at a distinct disadvantage to the employee. Individuals suing over unpaid time won't change that on any measurable scale, one way or the other.

  10. Re:Turned it down on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    You've never heard of twitter? You must be new here.

  11. Re:not that big of a problem on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except for a large number of businesses that are of sufficient size to run DNS services, and which demand some level of support with their mission critical operating systems.

  12. Re:The language of engineers on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Many languages have genders for their nouns/articles/adjectives, as well as irregular verb conjugations. It's not exactly unique to German.

  13. Re:About time! on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 1

    When I said grants, I was including any variety of non-loan educational assistance, including scholarships. Your opinion likely still stands, but I wanted to be sure I clarified.

    When someone is paying for tuition at $2500 per class, an extra textbook isn't much. However, many student who would have serious financial trouble caused by textbook prices are forced to go to a lower cost institution like a smaller state school or community college. The $1000 or so per SEMESTER tuition is increased dramatically by 4-5 books at $150+ each.

  14. Re:Re Tricks of the trade on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 1

    Tricks of the Trade:...

    When returning books: Find the UPC of the "New" edition, slap it on your old edition and return it. Do it during the highest rush when the checkers in are just trying to get through everyone. I think I would net around $100 a semester buying $5 books and returning them for $30. Screw you book store.

    Tricks of the Trade:... When returning books: Find the UPC of the "New" edition, slap it on your old edition and return it. Do it during the highest rush when the checkers in are just trying to get through everyone. I think I would net around $100 a semester buying $5 books and returning them for $30. Screw you book store.

    No, it's called fraud. On this scale, it's quite the petty misdemeanor.

  15. Re:I hated buying textbooks.. on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any reasonably intelligent student who is shelling out their own money, and not daddy's bankroll, will triple check the title, edition, and authors of any textbook they buy.

  16. Re:About time! on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 1

    When $2400 is paid for through grants and loans, the $100 textbook doubles an unemployed student's out-of-pocket costs.

  17. Re:Dirty thieves on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 1

    The professors require the use of the new editions. Just as bad.

  18. Re:Dirty thieves on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 1

    The 8th edition will no longer be available from the publisher. Here's the ISBN on the new edition. Here's a free copy of the new edition. The bookstore will have to order the new edition for next semester. End of story.

    Then you can happily move to either a different book (that is older but still in print), or give your students an extra week or two to acquire the book online or from off-campus used book stores.

    You don't have to bow to the publishers. Many professors don't and things work out just fine for them.

  19. Re:Tap an Ethernet Cable? on 9 Reasons Why Developers Think the CIO Is Clueless · · Score: 1

    I made an ethernet tap last week to hook up a new Snort box.

    *sniff sniff*

  20. Re:Too many assumptions. on 9 Reasons Why Developers Think the CIO Is Clueless · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jim? Is that you posting from the desk next to me?

  21. Re:Practical Value? on What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam · · Score: 1

    She did, a fake PayPal account.

  22. Re:They can already throttle encrypted traffic. on Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling · · Score: 1

    whoooooosh

  23. Re:It's a FAAAAAAAAKE! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Have a link to a source on that?

  24. Re:It's a FAAAAAAAAKE! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    My mother (and mother-in-law) do the same thing. It's sort of like dressing up for a family dinner once in a while, just grin and bear it.

  25. Re:100% fake on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You must be from a different part of Florida. This is community college level composition!