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  1. Re:A lot of numbers mean nothing on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    How is two 19% of 37.27? It's less than 6% of 37.27. Nineteen percent of 37.27 is slightly over 7.

  2. Re:Cloud storage is public, deal with it on Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe · · Score: 1

    your snail mail box is accessible by the public and so is your P.O.Box is on public property..

    Yrs, but it's inefficient for the government to get information by raiding PO boxes.

  3. Re:Microsoft never ceases to amaze me on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1

    But I'd still prefer using a Windows 8 touch screen.

  4. Re:What a load. on Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art · · Score: 1

    Au contraire, some of them were written in the 16th century.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_William_Shakespeare's_plays

  5. Re:What happems on In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But if most people make $17k/year, how are corporations going to threaten workers with outsourcing?

  6. What happems on In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What happens when corporations can no longer exploit global wage differences?

  7. Re:Why is this Nancy Grace bait posted on /.? on Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case · · Score: 1

    with apologies to MacBeth: Not all great [Firefox's] oceans can remove the blood from this [passenger seat]!

  8. Re:Are we still dragging this out? on Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case · · Score: 1

    You, as many people here, are equating guilt and innocence with "something which did or did not happen" and this is not the way the system works.

    Yes, I am equating guilt (moral, not legal) with "something which did or did not happen". Your system does not get to decide what the facts are.

  9. Re:Are we still dragging this out? on Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case · · Score: 1

    No, we can also use the terms morally. If there were no factual basis for guilt or innocence, then why have trials? Why not just convict/acquit people for any reason whatsoever?

  10. Re:Are we still dragging this out? on Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case · · Score: 1

    Someone may be morally guilty of murder without being legally guilty.

  11. Re:Only me? on KDE 4.10 Beta1 Released · · Score: 2

    If that is so, would Version 4 be the sum of Versions 3 and 1?

  12. OK on Reading and Calculating With Your Unconscious · · Score: 5, Funny

    My students can't even do this consciously. :)

  13. Re:Obligatory ref on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a rubber hose be better than a wrench? If you hit people upside the head with wrenches, they're not going to be able to give you much information.

  14. Re:Public, private, practical on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    Would you be willing to work for NASA if your Social Security number were posted on a publicly available website?

  15. Re:Space age? on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 2

    Actually, the use of "it's" as a possessive is constitutional, as it literally occurs in the (US) Constitution.

  16. Re:They waited this long because? on NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops · · Score: 1

    If it isn't rocket science, then how would NASA understand it?

  17. Re:I can say this on The Empire In Decline? · · Score: 1

    At 450 kB/sec, it would take 10,000,000 seconds. That's about 115 days. YMMD.

  18. Re:Math Prof here... on Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked · · Score: 1

    I suppose lowering your paranoia is out of the question?

  19. Re:HP calculators on Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked · · Score: 1

    HP improve its calculators? Are you mad, Laughing Radish? How would the CEO have time to acquire Compaq?

  20. Re:I'm serious. Try using math. on The Data Crunchers Who Helped Win The Election · · Score: 1

    An artifact of the electoral college. Besides, 21K votes in NH is quite a few.

  21. Re:I'm serious. Try using math. on The Data Crunchers Who Helped Win The Election · · Score: 2

    No. Obama would still have had 272 electoral votes. He has 303 right now (not including Florida) and OH/VA are only worth 31 EV combined.

  22. Re:I'm voting AGAINST whitey on Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012 · · Score: 1

    Does Romney have any daughters? I know that he has five sons.

  23. Re:Interesting on Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump · · Score: 1

    In a pain pump, there's a syringe containing the pain meds, and you can watch the syringe depress as meds are requested by the patient and see exactly how much is being dispensed.

    Is that a PCA (patient controlled analgesic)? If so, isn't the point of PCA that you don't need the nurse present?

  24. Re:Interesting on Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump · · Score: 2

    I would assume they would already know that tools are not infallible and if things are looking right get another source of data.

    Even if it is a correct assumption, what feedback would they receive that the pump is infusing at the wrong rate?

  25. Interesting on Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you teach that to nursing students?