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  1. Re:Still going strong on Human Genes Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    Birthrates are indeed a problem. You need about 2.1 baby per women to sustain the current population. Currently a few countries cant even match 1, and most european countries have an average of around 1.5.

  2. Re:Danes everywhere... on Peter Naur Wins 2005 Turing Award · · Score: 1

    As i recall it, Anders Hejlsberg was part of the team behind Delphi too.

  3. Re:Democratic Cheeting; request "Do Over" due to l on Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies · · Score: 1

    Now, I should not feed the trolls but:

    An election has to be fair, it has to be so without any posibility of error. Errors have been proven. If these errors can be blamed on the democrats lock them up for treason, if these errors can be blamed on the republicans lock them up for treason. A democracy cannot accept a single error in the voting process.

  4. Re:What other War Footage .. on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 1

    By all means let us see them, because we keep forgetting just how ugly war is and what it does to people.

  5. Re:No Calculators in Math Class (going off-topic). on Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone · · Score: 1

    Well, I think an itegration feature is usefull. Why? Simple you can check that you got the correct result.

    As for elementery math, well yes it is a waste.

  6. Re:The problem is consistency on Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone · · Score: 1

    There is one in Danish aswell:
    The teacher said the priest was a fool.
    The teacher, said the priest, was a fool.

  7. Re:Empty life on Interview with a Botmaster · · Score: 1

    Relax, I dont demand that he or anyone else stop chatting. It is a fun thing to do but I do not want to do that all day (and the day after that etc). You may wish to do that - and that is fine with me, but i think in the end you want to do more, i know i would. I am not saying in anyway that he is not allowed to do so just that I think it would be a dull life. There are those who consider my current life dull as well, and that is okay with me.

  8. Empty life on Interview with a Botmaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So he sits home and chat all day? that sounds like a pretty empty and dull life to me.

    I would not mind not having to work for the money, but i would properly do some programming or simular nerd activites.

    Just sitting and chatting is okay, but not allday everyday.

  9. Re:I've been thinking... on Outsourcing Evolving · · Score: 1

    I have heard the conventional wisdom, that you should buy in stead of renting often, but i am not sure this applies always.

    As it has been stated, the housing market is expensive and i dont think it can hold this value much more. So if i buy a house now, i am going to pay maybe 2 times the amount i would pay if I buy when the market collaps.

    Say the market collapses in five years. With at 30 year houseloan, i would have payed 1/6 of it. If i wait and buy at the correct moment, i would saved 1/3 of the price of the house.

  10. Re:Copyrights won't expire in the U.S. on Consumers vs. IP Owners: The Future of Copyright · · Score: 1

    The Beatles is a British (ans in England, Europe) and united states law does not (yet) mean anything here.

  11. Re:Universities and schools on Korea Plans to Choose Linux City, University · · Score: 1

    Did that also mean personal machines, or just those the universities owned?

  12. Re:That's a lot.. on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Hey, when/if this ever comes out they will have finished the spec for 100GB networks. Then the difference between mp3 and wav in terms of downloads speed is essentially null.

  13. Re:ripping vs encoding on Best Method for Automated CD Ripping? · · Score: 1

    Well, you could store your files as ArtistName-Album-Tracknumber-Title.wav
    And then just have your script slice the filenames and set the id3 based on this.

  14. Re:I an just see the trials on CourtTV now on Prostitutes Call for a Ban on GTA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whore with brains: "I plead the fith"
    Attorney: "Oh shit"

  15. Re:Paper documentation on UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows · · Score: 1

    So next time the printer jams, I get to jam his fax as well? What is the number?

  16. Re:Could it not be a "honeypot" operation? on Outrunning China's Web Cops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Life is full of risks and so is trying to access banned items. Yes this might just be a honey pot, Or it might not. If you are truly interested in freedom, you are going to have to make a choice: Surf the web and risk getting arrested, or continue to be a sheep.

  17. Re:Yeah, Right on France Moving Forward on Legalized P2P · · Score: 1

    Yes, but sooner or later a company will need thiere software to have a certain feature, it currently does not. So they will pay someone to add it.

  18. Re:Retro-Gram on Western Union Ends Telegram Services · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you could get the format for the WWI/II death telegrams. I would make a different political message.

  19. Re:Information vs. proof. Re:Necrodendrology on Western Union Ends Telegram Services · · Score: 1

    I did so about a month ago. I dont think my cousin has internet - let alone email. And if he does it is properly a shared account. By sending a dead tree letter, I can be sure he opens it.

    I send letters to my maternal grandparents from time to time. They dont have a computer, so email is out of the question.

  20. Re:Who out there stilll doesn't get it? on Clock Ticking for Nyxem Virus · · Score: 1

    I dont expect the IT guys to be perfect, but i do expect them to be better than a simple virus sent in an email. If I had tried to hack the system, I would be to blame. There is however always atleast one person on a large enough network that dont understand that they have recived a virus. If any none trusted person can infect the system (apart ofcause from their personal files) simply from running a virus then the security of the system is not good enough.

    Yes if I activated a virus on the network it would be my fault - but i would assume the IT guys put in some sort of system to prevent it, since their jobs consist of makeing sure the IT facilities are aviable.

  21. Re:Who out there stilll doesn't get it? on Clock Ticking for Nyxem Virus · · Score: 1

    That is the reason i (at the school) dont care what i open - if it can infect the system the IT guys did not do their job. Not that i get much vira email

  22. Re:guarantee the "right"? on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    So, they should have explicited added: "The inclusion of these rights does not remove all other rights of citizens".

  23. Re:No particular, but any? on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    So buy a ticket to the state line - walk across it, and buy a new ticket. Or just get a fake ID.

  24. Re:Er... on Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought as well - plus what happends in an emergency if you have to have some of your friends pickup your child - say you need to rush to the hospital?

  25. Re:Cringeley should be even more creeped out on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    Nah, you can go ahead and have phone sex again - if you did it before the NSA properly have tapes of you and the damage is done.