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  1. "artistic differences" on "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle · · Score: 1

    With mustard on, and because that's what Larry pays them to do.

    I think it's pretty fair to guess they had some kind of disagreement (about the future openness of java? whether it has a future at all?) but there's some kind of confidentiality clause.

  2. Re:Any ideas why? on "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle · · Score: 1

    He's speaking in code. The translation is "Ellison's lawyers will feed by balls to the dogs if I don't keep quiet".

  3. Re:Schools vs. Killing brown people on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    (why is "brown people" a part of the parent? It's silly and distracting.

    Because nobody - neither you, him, nor me - can be bothered to change the subject line.

  4. Re:On a related note on Warhammer Online Users Repeatedly Overbilled · · Score: 1

    Unless the overdraft limit is infinite, it doesn't really make a difference, does it? It just means the 23rd repeated charge will bounce rather than the 17th.

  5. Re:Where's my computerized credit card? on Warhammer Online Users Repeatedly Overbilled · · Score: 1

    Interest? No credit card charges interest if you pay the balance promptly every month.

    And if your bill is several thousand bucks more than you budgeted for, because some company overcharged you 20 times?

    And how difficult can it be to get a credit card? I had one in college when I had no regular source of income.

    Were you asleep all of last year?

    http://www.economist.com/surveys/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=15793116

    "Parents must now give their consent before their children under 21 can get a card. "At a time when our economy is in a crisis and consumers are struggling financially, credit-card companies are gouging them," said Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

    Noxious as some of the card-companies' practices were, they did allow many more people to hold credit cards. Bankers say the new restrictions may cut the number of credit-card holders by up to 45m. That is almost certainly an exaggeration, but there is bound to be a drop."

    If I get hit with a fraudulent charge, they just cancel my card and waive the charges, and issue me a new one. In the meantime, I keep using my other cards. If it's Visa, I might have to sign a declaration listing the fraudulent charges. If it's Amex, they just take my word for it.

    Fine - until the person at the other end had a shitty day and they tell you to get bent.

  6. Re:Great Business Plan on Warhammer Online Users Repeatedly Overbilled · · Score: 1

    This is why major financial systems are not written in VB.

  7. Re:a better question on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    Except #1 is false, as pointed out by Mikkeles. Now kindly fuck off.

  8. Re:a better question on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    hey, retard... do you know what the word "AND" means?

    It means for the overall statement to evaluate as true, both (or all) sub-conditions must evaluate true.

    next time you quote me, don't cut off a sentence and change the context.

    It's called "lazy evaluation". Look it up.

  9. Re:Just for the sake of balance... on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 1

    With quotations it's a well known fact that the longer ago they were invented the truer they are

    Incorrect.

    For example there was a story written thousands of years ago. It says the Earth was created out of nothing by a bearded man in a white dress and it took him six days. All that happened a few thousand years before the story was written.

    Nobody is mad enough to believe that.

  10. Re:Where's my computerized credit card? on Warhammer Online Users Repeatedly Overbilled · · Score: 1

    It looks like they had tied their bank accounts directly to their Warhammer accounts, without any debit card in the middle.

    Mmmm, isn't that how a debit card works?

  11. Re:Where's my computerized credit card? on Warhammer Online Users Repeatedly Overbilled · · Score: 1

    Not everybody has a credit card, let alone two. It's getting more difficult to get one. Plus you'd still get stung for a lot of interest.

  12. Re:Truly on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 1

    Should learn English. Most of the kids he taught were Mexican, and he was an icon to them.

  13. Re:Truly on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 1

    Or "plato o plomo". That works too.

  14. Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster? on What Chernobyl Looks Like In 2010 · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, your friend is 3Jqooq?

  15. Truly on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 1

    Truly an American icon. Or at least a Mexican one.

  16. It's April 1st in Bulgaria on Councilman Booted For His Farmville Obsession · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's April 1st in Bulgaria already. They never changed to the Gregorian calendar.

  17. Re:Call the boss on Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    if you're gonna hire someone, would you rather have one of your employees vouch for them, or have to rely solely on the impression you've gotten by chatting for an hour or two?

    Probably depends on the employee. I've worked with utter assholes that were recommended by people already in the company.

  18. Re:The market pays what a service is worth. on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 1

    The market always works. It can take its own sweet time to correct itself

    This broken watch always works. It only works once every twelve hours.

  19. Re:Bing Seems No Better on Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not the 20 relevant ones that's the trouble, it's the thousands of irrelevant ones.

  20. Re:Deadlines on NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System · · Score: 1

    400k and I won't even think about trying. That's my final offer and I'm unanimous in that.

  21. Re:Can You Say ... on NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System · · Score: 1

    On Manhattan not living expenses he could easily not do it.

  22. Re:It's pretty amazing on New Ancient Human Identified · · Score: 1

    The matter at issue is whether or not there's any substantial genetic component to measured differences between intelligence levels in racial groups or whether that is due primarily to cultural and environmental effects.

    If only we could find people who are genetically foo, but raised in a bar environment we might be able to solve that question.

  23. Re:I recommend blau.de on Best Pre-Paid Data Plan For a Visit To Germany? · · Score: 1

    the "unlimited" plan contains 5GB per month at 3G speed. After that it's limited to GPRS. Same situation with the 1GB data plan.

    The 1GB plan includes 5GB at 3G speed? Where can I sign up?

  24. Re:Part of a general pattern on Switzerland Pursues Violent Games Ban · · Score: 1

    No, he thinks they should obey the law just like everybody else has to.

  25. Frist on Google Makes $500M a Year On Typos · · Score: 3, Funny

    They won't maek a penny out of me!