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  1. Re:Finally on "Spooky" Science Points Towards Quantum Computing · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, have you figured out yet why you're still single?

  2. Re:Entanglement and causality? on "Spooky" Science Points Towards Quantum Computing · · Score: 5, Funny

    The problem is that, as I understand it, this would happen ten minutes before I press the button. Whoops! You see, when I de-entangle the first electron the disentanglement on the other side happens five minutes in my past. When the machine disentangles the second electron, the other electron is five minutes in its past. Totalling to ten minutes. Can you see what I'm getting at? I'm assuming this argument isn't new - What mistake have I made here? I'm not sure, but I think you just invented time travel!
  3. Re:Real? on Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Romantic relationships are built on ATTRACTION. No, that's just it. Romantic relationships start with attraction, but where two people take it from there is up to them. Think about people who have been married a long time -- perhaps your grandparents. Do you think there is much physical attraction left after 50 years of marriage? How about arranged marriages? Many arranged marriages are extremely successful, and in many cases the two people never met before they got married.

      People who think relationships are built from attraction are the types who are likely to have infidelity in their relationships and/or are the most likely to get divorced. Successful romantic relationship cannot exist without caring, trust and honesty. Successful romantic relationships can exist without attraction -- it's done everyday.
  4. Of course Schwartz would say that. on Sun CEO Says NetApp Lied in Fear of Open Source · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sun's biggest competitor to Solaris when it was a closed-source product was Linux. Sun feared free software. For a while, they played lip service to supporting it, but now that they've come around to GPLing Java, open sourcing Solaris 10, well, they've shown that they are more serious about free/open source software than ever. Of course, Sun continues to sell closed-source, proprietary software, but that's another story.

    And we all accuse other people of acting the way we do (or used to).

    But anyway, isn't ZFS under a license that can't be used in the Linux kernel, anyway? So it's incompatible with the GPL, not really 'free software'?

  5. Re:Real? on Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as the relationship STAYS online, it's fine... But meeting the person in real life can be a disaster. Maybe, maybe not. My cousin is married to a woman with whom he was in an online relationship. I know of others who have had mixed success with converting online relationships into IRL relationships. It's kind of like turning a friendship into a real relationship -- sometimes it can work out, other times it won't. It all depends on the two people involved and how ready they are for the relationship and how honest they are with each other and whether or not there is good trust built between them.

    And that's the big clue, guys -- relationships aren't built on sex, love, lust or any of those things (though they help to get a good relationship going). Relationships are built in characteristics like caring, trust, and honesty. If any two people share these characteristics with one another, no matter how they met, who they are, or what part of the world they live in, they can have a successful relationship, online or offline.
  6. Re:Data mining tool on DHS Ends Data-Mining Program · · Score: 1

    The government powerful enough to do everything for you is powerful enough to do anything to you. Hi, Fred Thompson!
  7. Re:Tricky business on New Way of Extending Satellite Life Saves Millions · · Score: 1

    Why not use a float system like a car? Only one designed to work in microgravity?

  8. Re:About damn time... on Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unfortunately, it's not the supreme court that remembers about those ... quaint old "rights" and "warrants" and "due process". And guess where this ruling is heading... Into the hands of Chief Justice Roberts? There are probably enough dissenting votes on the Supreme Court to keep the ruling from being overturned. Ginsberg, Souter, Stevens and Kennedy, I'm guessing will vote to uphold the ruling.
  9. Re:Wow on Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    I agree with you. Unfortunately, I also fear that Marrero's wording will just inspire the legislature to pass a new bill circumventing the Fourth Amendment and this ruling, ensuring everyone that this needs to be done for "national security" in order to "protect" us from the "terrorists."

  10. Re:The guy... on Are Relational Databases Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Data storage is another area that can be improved, with Object Databases (really just fancy relational databases with their own access methods) showing how it's possible to store something more complex than integers and varchars. First off, databases can store something more complex than integers and varchars. Secondly, what you're describing is the heart and soul of a Product Data Managment (PDM) or Document Management system, such as those available from companies like UGS. The database contains pointers to the raw data, with the database storing all of the metadata. Special daemons retrieve the raw data from various vault servers.
  11. Re:Why is the article tagged Sci-Fi? on Some Moray Eels Have Two Sets of Jaws · · Score: 1

    Okay, but the Xenomorphs of the Alien series of movies weren't eels. This is as much of an article about Sci Fi as an article about nanobots or the so-called 'transporter' technology that allows a single degree of freedom of one electron to be 'transported'. IOW, it's not.

  12. Why is the article tagged Sci-Fi? on Some Moray Eels Have Two Sets of Jaws · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Am I missing something here?

  13. Re:Batteries on Mars Rovers Return to Exploration · · Score: 1

    Hope they're not Li-ion. I just hope they're not made by Sony...
  14. Re:More than just 802.11n with the 1250 on Cisco Announces 802.11n Products After All · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, but try explaining that to the bean counters at the places I've worked. They believe that somehow they are "saving money".

  15. Re:More than just 802.11n with the 1250 on Cisco Announces 802.11n Products After All · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm...but how many companies really just upgrade the modules on existing Catalyst switch backplanes? Most of the companies I've worked for that use Catalyst switches usually just get a whole new backplane when it's time to ugprade? Why? Most of the time, the switches are leased and/or managed by an outside company. In many cases, it's easier for accounting purposes to just swap the whole unit out.

  16. Re:Penelope? Eudora? WTF? on Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora · · Score: 1

    Penelope, like Eudora, is a name from Greek Mythology. Only thing is, unless my Greek Mythology is very rusty, Eudora and Penelope don't have much to do with each other. It seems that Ambrosia or Coronis or Phaola would have been better names.

  17. Re:That wiki makes my head hurt on Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora · · Score: 2, Informative

    Can anyone un-WTF that paragraph for my tired little brain? Eudora is basically like Thunderbird, and Penelope is an extension that works with either to make it behave like...Eudora? Wait, what? From what i can gather, I think you got it.

    Why you'd want Thunderbird to behave more like Eudora, I don't know. I guess a lot of Eudora users (full disclosure: I used to use Eudora back when I had dialup and Windows 3.x) might like a version of Thunderbird that behaves like Eudora in terms of key bindings, toolbars, etc.

    The question is: If Eudora/Penelope is a plugin for Thunderbird, why not make a 'Linux Eudora' as well?

  18. Re:Oh, sure. on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 1

    Here, I think you might find the definition of this word to be useful to you.

  19. Re:Oh, sure. on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From your link:

    DHS spokesman declined to say whether the air carriers had offered to provide the training, or whether any agencies would accept it. "The survey is flawed and self-serving," said department spokesman Jarrod Agen. -- Government Executive My response (to DHS, not to you): I think your comments are flawed and self-serving, sir. You keep taking away our rights, and the rights of foreign guests of our country, all for a self-serving agenda involving the criminalization and corruption of the U.S. government, a slide of our system from democracy into fascism, and all for what? To enrich you and your powerful friends' pocket books? I spit on you!
  20. Oh, sure. on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not? In the U.S., don't we already record fingerprints at birth? Let's just all do this.

    If you're against this, you probably have something to hide and you should be prosecuted anyway. If you didn't do anything wrong, you have nothing to hide, so why you should care? After all, we need to be protected from the terrorists!

    You can't be against this, because it will protect the children. After all, if we have their DNA and they're kidnapped, we'll be able to find them quicker. Will someone please think of the children?

    *sigh*

    I'm moving to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific to start my own country. Anyone care to join me?

  21. Re:Saddam on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 1

    You might wanna ask this guy, although he's probably just an urban myth.

  22. Re:Gov't got him? on Steve Fossett Missing · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what they did when Jim Gray came up missing, especially since he's well liked by some of the best and brightest minds working in the information technology and computer science fields. Unfortunately, all of their best efforts have been, so far, to no avail, so they've suspended their efforts.

  23. Re:NeoPagan? on Separation of Church and Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Let me guess... the NeoPagans have a perfect score on their own ranking, right? Let me guess... you didn't read the link at all, did you? The reason the ranking was created was to evaluate neopagan groups, since, prior to the ABCDEF's creation, there was no reasonable way to determine if some small group nobody's heard of is a cult or not.

  24. Re:Ah ha! on States and DoJ Divided On Microsoft Antitrust Success · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me or what. Even if you compare the SRP of Windows 3.1 (149.95) with a discounted price (139) today, which is an unfair comparison anyway, $150 vs. $140 isn't a price drop, it's effectively a price increase based on those massive economies of scale you just mentioned. Compare that to the Dell Inspiron Vista Premium Laptop, at $800 today, a Dell similar Dell notebook, featuring a 25 MHz 386SL processor with a 60 MB HDD (no, that's not a typo, that's 'megabyte'), was around $3000.

    So if we compare the laptop price difference with Windows, Windows Vista Home Basic should cost around, what? $50 or so? And actually less, since Home Basic is a crippled OS.

  25. Re:Am I the only one ... on Separation of Church and Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Be that as it may, I suggest take an honest assessment of your chosen religion's (or any other religion's) practices by evaluating it against the Advanced Bonewits Cult Danger Evaluation Frame> . I think you'll be surprised as to how high many 'mainstream' religious organizations score against this particular evaluation, which is founded in sound, modern psychological theories about mental health and personal growth.