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  1. Nothing to worry about on Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide · · Score: 1

    It's just some untested code forcibly installed on your computer due to a flaw in the release process.

  2. Re:Group work in school on When Schools Overlook Introverts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    School should be an environments where everybody gets to succeed triumphantly and fail misserably, with projects that are socially hyperactive, projects that require isolation and everything inbetween. They should teach self esteem and humility equally, let students learn their weaknesses as well as their strenghts and hand them the tools to deal with them.

  3. Somebody should tell "InfoWorld" the "World" part is a misnomer.
    It's really just a website, not an entire world.
    The "Info" part is debatable too.

  4. Re:Feel free to translate this haiku on The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll try a translation into english:

    Gender preference,
    parent poster is unsure.
    Fears he might like men.

  5. Re:Weigh it up. on EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And this is why the EU would like to forbid storing EU citizens' data on storage owned by US companies.

    I wonder how US companies are going to store personal details of non-US employees. Will Microsoft be forbidden from using their own servers for HR and payrolling?

  6. Re:Yeah! Only EU countries can spy on the EU! on EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US · · Score: 1

    It's kinda like nuclear weapons; the US has them themselves, but they will go to war against any country that they imagine might also want to have them.
    In this case countries would like to spy themselves, but they don't want to be spied upon by others.

  7. Re:Weigh it up. on EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US · · Score: 1

    US laws do not exist outside US territory.

  8. Re:The US needs a serious spanking on EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US · · Score: 0

    This isn't a ruling against a US organization, but a ruling against the entire US.

  9. Re:Lies! on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    And it would have been funny (or atleast, less unfunny) 10 years ago. Right now it's the equivalent of making jokes about what fools people who believed in flat earth were. The people made fun of no longer exist.

  10. Re:"a person's beliefs are personal." on Barbie Gets a Brain · · Score: 1

    I hardly think believes based on thousands year old books are "personal".

  11. Re:Can't wait for the outrage on Barbie Gets a Brain · · Score: 1

    Well, for one, it discriminates against dumb girls, implying to them they're ugly too, by means of sarcastic replies on their lack of intelligence.

  12. Re:MS uses what works on Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro · · Score: 4, Informative

    The big difference is that the TCP/IP stack used a BSD license but Linux has a GPL license.
    You can use BSD code, add a license notice (on original BSD license) and be done.
    If MS is offering the Linux distro to it's users, then it must make available it's Linux distro's code too.

  13. Re:Kleenex, Xerox, Band-aid on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    This. In the end this may be good for Microsoft, as it may ruin a successful competitor's brand name.

  14. Let me rephrase the question on Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? · · Score: 1

    Are certifications for jobs you don't want worth earning?

  15. Re:Shallow on Researcher Trying To Teach Computer What Women He's Attracted To · · Score: 1

    A picture gives you a pretty good indication of the type of woman the girl WANTS to be perceived as.
    High-angled boobshot? Insecure about rest of body.
    Duckface? Dumb as fuck.

  16. Re:won't solve much on HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff · · Score: 0

    Of course not. H1B visas are for workers with skills that aren't available in the domestic workforce.
    Important technical skills like how to live below minimum wage with no job security.

  17. Re:Seriously? on YouTube 'Dancing Baby' Copyright Ruling Sets Pre-Trial Fair Use Guideline · · Score: 3

    Also, since when is it "undue burden" to check that a law is actually being broken before invoking that law?

  18. Isn't it already in the DMCA laws that complaints must have some merit with regards to fair use?

  19. Re:Programmer's day? on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 1

    Well... september 14th in 2000, Windows ME was released.
    I find it ironic that programmers' day is the day before Windows ME release day.

  20. Why on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 0

    Why is Programmers' day ignored?

    If you don't know why its the 256th day then you probably aren't a programmer and there is no point in explaining.

    I dunno... perhaps the rest of the world percieves programmers as arrogant little know-it-all pricks?

  21. Re:K.I.S.S. on The Force Awakens With Devon's $28,500 Star Wars Limited Edition Watch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    313 electrical contacts... what does that even mean?
    Does it mean they didn't know how to make a simple PCB?

    It uses the same glass-reinforced nylon belts used in a 45+ year old aircraft... how is this a good thing?

    Also; the watch is garish and gaudy. A casio calculator watch looks more stylish than this..

  22. Wrong question on Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? · · Score: 0

    Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console?

    Is the wrong question to ask.

    Can We Trust Apple Fanboys to Buy Whatever Apple's Next Product Is?

  23. Re:DOM's got to go on Benchmark Battle, September 2015: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge · · Score: 1

    Ever tried adding a few thousand nodes to the DOM? It takes a very noticable delay even on the best hardware without any CSS.
    Sure, you can optimize it by generating the HTML code within JavaScript, but that isn't very nice code and doesn't negate the fact that DOM itself is very slow.

  24. Re:relatively unstudied scientifically??? on MIT Physicists Have Finally Cracked Overhand Knots · · Score: 3, Informative

    Note that this does not concern the mathematical term "Knot", which means something entirely different.

  25. Re:Who cares? on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 0

    Nobody cares... he has no chance at winning... more idiotic than Palin...
    So what you are basically saying is that McAfee will be the republican front runner very soon?