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  1. Re:Apply on Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    Fo sho. The best way to get an entry level job is to work for minimum wage. Companies who advertise about hiring new grads could give a shit about your degree, because your degree isn't worth anything except smaller liability for the recruiter. They are just glad to put you on bitch work for pennies.

  2. Re:Grand Central? on Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert Says · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm thinking you don't have much experience with .NET. During my projects it has always run comparable to native compiled code when I write my code with the mindset of a C++ programmer and not a VB one.

  3. Open source cred? Important to whom? on Why Microsoft Can't Afford To Let Novell Die · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People really think Microsoft gives a flying fuck about its open source cred when their entire product line is bolted away?

  4. Re:Perish (reasons why flash is not supported) on Five Years of YouTube and Forced Evolution · · Score: 1

    It's a noble concept but platforms are so different that you end up rewriting a lot of client UI regardless.

  5. Re:Strikers Vow on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    It isn't capitalism that failed, it is the nonstop meddling of the federal government in the private sector which has distorted it to no end. Capitalism isn't even given a fair chance anymore, but oh the statists love their favorite scapegoat when things go wrong. Compassion is something you as a citizen are supposed to provide willingly of yourself, it makes for terribly inefficient government policy. Are YOU compassionate, or do you want credit for dictating like a monster, who gets to own what?

  6. Re:Hahaha, good one. on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    None of what you say has any weight whatsoever because, even with Iraq having a functional republic, the Left is still calling Iraq a failure. They politically can't afford not to. YOU politically can't afford not to, even here in Slashdotland. Take a hike.

  7. Re:Hahaha, good one. on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    That challenge is DOA, declaring Iraq a failure again and again is just a mere grammatical difference from wanting the U.S. operation in Iraq to fail. At some point these same politicians need Iraq to fail to bail them out of the hole their remarks dug for them. Right Pee Wee?

  8. Re:Where there's a will... on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 1

    I'd define it even simpler. I'd say, how much fun you're having while playing for the reward. If not so much fun, then it's hardcore. The worst MMO's make you trade pure pain for the gain, rather than skill.

  9. Re:Disappointed, but not surprised... on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Believe me, voters on both sides grapple with this very same hope every time they vote.

  10. Re:Change? on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wait till you see all the people killed when he socializes our healthcare on the lie that "it will help the economy".

  11. Re:Bait & Switch on Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets · · Score: 1

    Never doubt the potency of 1000 cuts. Have faith, sir (or madam).

  12. Re:Bait & Switch on Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets · · Score: 1

    I wish to God I could mod this straight to 5.

  13. Re:Change we can believe in. on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1

    We're fucked if the government expansion of the 20th century can't be reversed. Our present fiscal course is unsustainable.

  14. Re:It's government corruption. on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1

    Someone like you deserves to get lasting credit for the things you write. Create a Slashdot account, stop posting as AC.

  15. Re:It's government corruption. on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1

    Could I impose on you to provide the source? I'd like to read this myself too.

  16. Re:Do not want on Social Security Administration Launches E-Health Info Exchange · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah we would all love it but things never quite seem to work out that way. This shit ought never to have been created at the federal level.

  17. Re:Can we stop enabling these people? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Lesson, you are replaceable. If you are not replaceable, then you are too dangerous to have.

    Sounds like someone opposed the TARP bailouts. Welcome, fellow capitalist!

  18. Re:ultimately reduces consumer choice on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Believe me I'm no fan of using IE for traditional browsing or bending pages to its will, especially with how slow it's gotten over the years (though its cache is great for stealing content files). But at some point we have to realize that wanting to purge <1MB of iexplore.exe from a Windows install that takes >1GB isn't good sense or admirable disk management, it's just blind religion.

  19. Re:ultimately reduces consumer choice on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    EverQuest 2 uses the Mozilla engine in-game, and IE for the launcher I believe. At work I've written C++ and C# software that uses the HTML control for cleanly auto-formatting status displays and rich inline help information.

    In Vista when you don't have a legitimate product key, the OS opens an IE window for you to buy one online. Likewise, the help files viewed in the HTML viewer optionally connect to the internet for extra or updated content.

    You'd think the people here on Slashdot would actually pretend to be half as fucking innovative and intelligent as they portray themselves, and realize browsers are core to 21st century operating systems.

    Governments need to get their fucking noses out of our shit before they end up with insurrection and overthrow.

  20. Re:Reputation on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    That's right, because the U.S. was always a helpless little child for 200 years that constantly worried what the world thought of it and always asked the world for permission to wipe its own ass before doing so. Words of a fucking submissive sheep, grow some balls. Wait till the novelty of a black president wears off and you really see what a liberal monster you've unleashed, that's when there'll be gnashing of teeth and wailing in the night.

  21. Re:Obama on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Do handouts remove poor people from poverty? Not really. Some investment that is!

  22. Re:Followed up? on Mac OS X on x86 Videos Get Apple's Attention · · Score: 1

    How mindlessly hypocritical.

  23. Re:Mod this insightful! on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 1

    As it seems to be the only post so far that acknowledges the fact that US Congress doesn't rule the world or the internet.

    By choice, not by inherent weakness.

  24. Re:How on Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted · · Score: 1
    When creating a trackerless torrent file, you still have to embed in it the IP address of at least one "reliable node". In other words, at least one BitTorrent client must remain in the swarm at all times to seed others with addresses of their peers.


    Bingo. That's the starting point I was trying to figure out. Why did it take so long for someone to say it? And me being a small owner of a hosted website (and supposedly the one to benefit from trackerless torrent), where am I going to find this peer?
  25. Re:Blank Reg on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    Guess what. As it stands even without a federal ID card, it would be stupid for a bank to blindly loan money without knowing an assload about the person receiving it and his/her ability to repay it. It's dangerous in an era of widespread election fraud for the federal government not to be able to verify each unique living voter.

    You already present your life's story when receiving loans and grants, already present a passport when travelling abroad, already present ID for adult, tobacco, and liquor purchases and dance club entrances; and are already required to keep your license and registration on your person at all times merely for driving your car... so why the Chicken Little routine? Why the banter?

    The only serious question is the constitutionality of it. But even that is solved because (a) the states are the ones producing the ID's, and (b) Article 4 Section 1 says Congress gets to make the laws determining how the "public Records" of the states are to be "proved".