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  1. Cartman on Germans Pursuing Kiddie Porn In Second Life · · Score: 1

    Where's Eric Cartman when you need him.

  2. Umm on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 1

    Start your own business.

  3. Hydrogen on Linux as A Musician's OS? · · Score: 1

    Can someone tell me please, once i'd made a beat in hydrogen, how can i import it from another app and add base and melodies to it? what other app should i use?

  4. Re:Stop cowering before managment... on Bill Gates' Management Style · · Score: 1

    2 reasons. 1) the rent 2) there's the same bullshit everywhere.

  5. Re:The Java Platform on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I had planned to skip learning Java but now it's a language that I plan to learn. Say, can I use an interpreted scripting language on the JVM? Which one would be most suited?

  6. Re:What do you think? on Microsoft Looks To Refuel Talks With Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Gmail may have kicked their butts technically but it still has nowhere near as many users as hotmail. No where near.

  7. For someone who never played these games on Is Virtual Rape a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain how it actually happens?

  8. Poor guy on Wally Schirra Dead at 84 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exposure to too much space radiation must've killed him.

  9. Re:"How do we do that while balancing quality care on Can Technology Fix the Health Care System? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Umm, you're making it sound impossible to have decent health care that covers the basics. Most industrialized countries have done that, except the US, without resorting your "inhuman" suggestions.

  10. Re:Interesting question but I have do increase... on The Laptop as an Instrument? · · Score: 1

    Hey buddy, just in case you know. I really enjoyed Hydrogen last time I played with it, a few days ago, but once I'd made a beat, how do I get it into another application where I'd add bass notes and all those instrumental melodies to it? Do you know?

  11. Re:Next up in the news ... on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    "Congressman Dennis Kucinich and his family Apologize to Cheney for what he went through".

  12. Wow on Black Hole Cluster Spawns Massive Cloud · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A cluster of black holes is a literal clusterfuck.

  13. Re:Why does this surprise anybody? on Google's Data-Storage Fuels Privacy Fears · · Score: 1

    I have a few email accounts for different purposes (eg, usenet, official correspondence, etc - see, i don't want people whom i have official correspondence with find out my views on all things by google my usenet posts), and google freaked me out when it merged all my account so that my real name from the official correspondence gmail actually showed up on the account for the usenet nonsense stuff! I can not remove it, there's no setting for it, eventhough I'd set name and whatever it is that's in the preferences/settings it still knows it's me.

  14. Conclusion? on Is Your Printer Ripping You Off? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How come the article doesn't have a conclusion page?

  15. Re:IMPOSSIBLE! on Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond · · Score: 1

    Haha. Who thought this one up?

  16. 24 hour? on Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    What kind of IT work require 24 hour on-call?

  17. And vice versa on MySpace Takes on Google News and Digg · · Score: 1

    ultimately your recommended stories could be influenced by the likes and dislikes of your friends/heroes."
    As long as the recommendations are not automated. I don't want my friends to be "recommended" lotsa stories about Jenna Jameson.
  18. Re:its not just bees ... on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gees. Another free market Darwinist; "bees are just not being competitive enough in the marketplace of pollination and are being pushed aside. So what if the bees are wiped out, the free market of nature will fill up the gap with many other providers of pollination services".

  19. Re:You have to say this for the Russians on Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight · · Score: 1

    Umm, not just that. The difference is mostly cultural, not just political. See, in those countries Chess is, and always has been, for centuries and centuries, an admirable pursuit, for both nobility and common folks. In the Anglo-Saxon countries though, an interest in chess is considered a geeky and an undesirable attribute in an individual. Go to a cafe in those countries, even a poor-class cafe, you'll see a lot of chess and backgammon boards available for patrons to use. Really, I'm not kidding. You drink your tea or coffee and have a game of chess or backgammon. Everyone plays it in such countries, and hence everyone knows it and follows it. Not just Russia, but many other countries.

  20. Re:How often does this happen? on LED Forty Years Older Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Suppose corporation A and corp B are bidding for the proverbial great-invention-by-a-lonely-genius. Corp A wants to develop it, and corp B wants to supress it. Corp A can bid more because they intend to make a profit on it even after development expenses. So their net cost to buy is lower.
    I think you got this the other way round. The reason corp B wants to suppress it, usually, is because they already are making profits from a product that this invention could disrupt, whereas corp A only hopes to make them at some uncertain future point if they manage to take customers from corp B, after what will probably be considerable costs to bring it to market and let it be known. Who do you think can afford to bid more again? Corp B of course; they already have the money and can access more even 'cos they have a proven revenue stream.
  21. Re:What companies don't tell you they are watching on In EU, Internet Use From Work May Be Protected · · Score: 2, Insightful

    unless you happen to be so good at your job that you can still manage to get everything done *and* goof off, then all eventualities are covered.
    Ahhh. I wish it was that easy. The matter of the fact is that everybody goofs off and then they have to stay in late to finish the work they should've done during the day, and then they don't even finish it and act all stressed out and such bullshit. You, Mr "so good at your job" on the other hand, who gets everything done and dusted on time, will get the trouble because you'll "appear" to not actually be working! You'll soon hear complaints about you from colleagues whom you'd thoughts were friends and you'll hear management having issues with you 'cos you're not appearing serious about your work, you're not seeming to care about it, you're not seeming stressed out by it, you're not being inefficient enough so that you'd have to stay in late in the office, and so on. The matter of fact is that if you're good, everyone around you will conspire to shoot you down. Either through deliberate bitchiness or sheer natural unconscious bitchiness. Leave this fucking loser company you say; well, sure, but good luck getting references from them, or, in fact, this tends to be the situation wherever you go. Corporate culture just doesn't seem to encourage you to be good at your job, but, instead, to keep up appearances, just like executives keep up appearances that they actually matter when most of what they do in fact consists of somehow gutting the company any way they could for a little extra cash they could get away with.
  22. Re:thank-god-they-got-something-right on Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming · · Score: 1

    Lies? They are actually a benevolent government. The Chinese record in universal health, literacy and education, poverty eradication, rural development, and so on is exemplary for other nations to follow. The main comparison is with India, which had a similar situation to China 50 years ago. But China has done much better than India on those.

  23. What's the point? on Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model · · Score: 1

    Why would one want such a calculator when you can have a PDA?

  24. Speaking of DV on The DV Rebel's Guide · · Score: 1

    If I were to buy a camera this year, what format should it be? I read widely that miniDV is being phased out.

  25. Re:I hate Star Wars on Serenity Trounces Star Wars · · Score: 1

    I really dislike Star Wars, and I really disliked Firefly/Serenity too, but I just realised that I do actually like Wookies.