User: Khashishi

Re:Smart Holsters!

On: Hardware That Recognizes You

If you are scared of that not working, I suggest you don't drive a car since A)The cars electics could fail or B) Traffic lights could fail.
They can and often do fail. The difference is that the odds that it's an emergency situation are a hell of a lot lower in the case of the car and traffic lights.
Well it may not be an emergency before your car fails, but it may very well be one after it fails.

Re:WHY DON'T WE BOMB THE DRUG FIELDS?

On: Round-Up Ready Coca Plants

then we'll get mutant, explosive-resistant, man-eating coca plants which will take over the world

Re:like anti virus companies

On: Anti-Spyware Vendor Partners with Spyware Company?

So, are you saying that anti-spyware companies will have their business destroyed as well? Or are lusers too dense to make the connection in this case?

Re:Let's Get Some Facts in This Biatch =) (formatt

On: Election Day Discussion

Sure we know Bush is an idiot. The problem is that we know that Kerry is an idiot also.

I feel bad for the guys

On: Spam-maker Hormel Spends to Reclaim Name

but they will never reclaim the name

condorcet is broken

On: Pre-Election Discussion

Condorcet voting strongly favors the middle.
Given parties A, B, and C, where A and C have opposite views and B has moderate views, most A voters will choose B over C and most C voters will choose B over A. What this means is if A and C are mostly balanced, B will win. This is the case even if A or C actually had the majority and B had very few top votes.

What this means is that you will end up with all serious candidates acting the same, vying for the middle, trying to displease the fewest number of people, by having no strong position on anything.

why do we need top level domains at all?

On: Two New TLD's Near Approval

couldn't it just be www.google or http://slashdot?

I'll sell you my pentium 1 for $100, ballmer

On: How Cheap Can A PC Be?

I'll even pay for shipping.

simple solution

On: Keeping Computers (And People) Warm In Winter?

remove heatsink

miscategorized

On: Secure, Portable, Virtual Privacy Machine

this is more of a gadget than a your-rights-online

Re:Librarian Annoyer becomes TV DoS device

On: The Universal Off Button

What you really need is a remote-control-remote-control. That way you can control your hidden remote control remotely.

Re:Where did the oil come from?

On: Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed

Geez, on that scale rocks are impatient.

Re:Human survival

On: Russian Mock Mars Mission

New rule, if you come out before 500 days, they will shoot you.

Re:The shortcomings of SQL

On: An Alternative to SQL?

SQL syntax is far too wordy that it really hurts usability. It's not _too_ painful when you are writing a software interface, but when you just want to make some quick queries at the prompt, it's godawful to have to type lines which wrap around the text window. Seriously, couldn't we change

select (id, desc, name) from mytable where flag = 1

to something like (a lot of options here)

mytable(id,desc,name):flag = 1

and

select * from a left join b using id where a.foo = 'bar'

to

(a*b|id):a.foo = 'bar'

and

insert into baz values (1,2,3)

to

+baz(1,2,3)