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  1. Re:Clearly a very serious issue, but on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    Hell, it fits in both. "News for nerds" does not require it to be IT or tech. Nerds can be and are interested in other things.

  2. Re:I wonder if they have IPV6 support on Hundreds of IP Addresses Make Pirate Bay a Hard Target · · Score: 2

    That's evil. Whoever implements that needs a raking over the coals.

  3. Re:Now Seeding on "Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't include them.

    You're archiving a directory with the assumption that you are archiving those files and their data, unmodified, and not including anything else the format doesn't support. Like everyone else. Mac is operating on the assumption that it knows better than you, and deviates from this pattern.

    How would you like it if a tar archive came along with a __UBUNTU filled with unnecessary crap related to Canonical's (non existing but just imagine it exists for the benefit of this point) proprietary indexing system? You bet your ass the rest of us Linux users would be driven up the wall.

  4. Re:Not true... on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 2

    Aaah, affirmative action: "they cannot help themselves, we must take care of them"

  5. Re:I don't think so on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 1

    No. Women tend to be reared in a way that makes them this way. "Gender roles" and all that. Dolls vs Action Figures.

    I know women who are more interested in compilers than anything cute and fuzzy.

  6. Re:This is what the government does... on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 1

    IT is one of the last places we can do that!

    BWAHAHA!

    Sure, if you're one of the ones at the top. Just like any other industry, everyone else gets screwed.

    I was a datacenter sysadmin (one of two, the other was my boss and a direct report to the CIO) with a few certificates including a recent RHCE, and I made a whopping $35k/year with almost not benefits... and that was one of the better paying jobs available. In a large city.

  7. Re:The real issue here... on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately you cannot know the quality of the output until the output is made.

    If you toss out the "lowest bid" in an attempt to get better quality, you're merely going to get the same low bidders artificially enlarging their bids to provide said illusion.

    I don't have a solution. I'm merely pointing out how difficult paying attention to that metric would be.

  8. Re:Oh come on... on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 1

    +5000

    That said, who uses open/close quotes? I mean, besides Frosty Piss.

  9. Re:I laught at the western countries when I look on Pollution From Asia Affects US Climate · · Score: 1

    I haven't bothered yet though, I already have really bad lungs so the little damage more can't be that serious.

    You won't be saying that when the little bit that's left goes and you start coughing up more blood than air you breathe in.

  10. Re:America never generate any pollution? on Pollution From Asia Affects US Climate · · Score: 2

    So, even though we've "been there done that" we shouldn't be offering up for easy the lessons we learned the hard way?

    No, Asia wants to say "you're not our daddy" and do things their own way, and learn it all the hard way unnecessarily.

  11. Re:the internet does not live in the ether on Internet Defense League: A Bat Signal For the Internet · · Score: 1

    Hitler lost because he was not a good strategist/tactician and repeatedly ignored/refused the suggestions of his generals... and because he significantly underestimated the resolve and/or manpower pool of the Russians.

    He also lost in part because Japan did something stupid, and provoked the US from joining into the fun. (for those of you who just can't resist, I'm not saying the US won the war. I'm saying the US did become a major player, and may not have done so till much later (if at all) had Japan not bloodied our nose)

  12. Re:Why Iran REALLY wants a nuke : on Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Yep. Because you'd be glassed, instead of taken over.

  13. Re:Actually this isn't a joke on Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter · · Score: 1

    If you want to bring them to their knees accidentally loose some F-22s over Iran.

    Yea, that would probably do the job. That said, it would also irritate the neighborhood a bit, as well.

  14. Re:What advances have we made? on Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Also, machining it without poisoning your whole team and/or the surrounding town is fairly involved.

  15. Re:Scrap Yard Blowout!! Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!! on Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Someone's taken a liking to your commenting. Smells like you got a copycat stalker.

  16. Re:Is Iran really such a threat? on Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter · · Score: 1

    A dupe, for one.

    Meaning that I posted similar words in more than one story? I wasn't aware that was forbidden.

    It's not. We just don't like it, hence your getting modded down.

  17. Re:the big problem is going to be getting new pilo on Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter · · Score: 1

    I know someone who knows someone who did training for the Iraq.

    Basically if anything broke or happened, it was "hands of the controls and start praying" - no corrective measures, no evasion, no ejection.

    They had to pound that out of them, and did so with only limited success. Seems to be a cultural thing.

  18. Re:Very, very interesting - but.... on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1

    Well, my point was big watermarks get in the way of those cases where attribution isn't even possible: eg, personal use.

  19. Re:File with Perpetual Motion & Travel to the on Bessel Beam 'Tractor Beam' Concept Theoretically Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Oh look, you tried to be a smartass and put body text into the subject, and you got truncated, bitch!

    (seriously, don't do that.)

  20. Re:di3k on Bessel Beam 'Tractor Beam' Concept Theoretically Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    ... did someone just divide by zero in here?

  21. Re:A-Ha! on Bessel Beam 'Tractor Beam' Concept Theoretically Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Pop quiz! What's infinity squared?

  22. Re:TFA says on Bessel Beam 'Tractor Beam' Concept Theoretically Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    An infinite amount of energy in an infinity large space is impossible, but if you treat those as "approaching infinite" you'll find the net energy for a given area inside to be approaching zero.

  23. Re:So how long until the drones can be armed by th on Bessel Beam 'Tractor Beam' Concept Theoretically Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Stanley Tweedle, Number 476329-43 Department 511 Level 4! Report to security!

  24. Re:Netflix, not "legal actions" on BitTorrent Traffic Falls In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I've already cancelled my Hulu Plus account over that. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.

  25. Re:Windows = Easy + User Friendly on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... but it really isn't! If you can manage to find someone with zero experience, Windows does not magically make sense to them.