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  1. Re:Needs patching.. badly. on Review: Battlefield 2 · · Score: 1

    reminds me of the good old days of CS. Bunny Hopping while unloading a clip and taking someone out from 100 feet away. Jump and prone with your scope on and fire just as soon as you land to get the head shot. Man, I feel like I should be in the retirement home.

  2. Re:An image of the chart. on Revamping The Periodic Table? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I think this is just a cute mock up to make science look interesting. It doesn't look like it helps a real scientist out.

  3. Re:Useless. on SiteKey to Prevent Phishing · · Score: 1

    Could also do it by IP Address, or possibly MAC address too.

  4. Re:The Reason Why...Simple on Gates On Future of CS Education · · Score: 1

    I do love computers, so I switched from CS to IST (Information Science and Technology) so that I could do things like Project Planning, Project Management, Resourse Management, Risk assetment, etc. All the job skills that a CIO needs. I personally think it was a good choice for me, because coding wasn't that exciting for me. I never felt like sitting in front of the computer all night trying to solve something, though I have since the IST major does have programming as a part of the curriculum. But for others, there are other majors that deal with computers, that is not a CS degree. By the way, I'm an IT Manager right now, and I graduated May 2004.

  5. The Reason Why...Simple on Gates On Future of CS Education · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is because we believe/afraid that we wont have a job when we get out of college due to all the out sourcing going on in IT. People don't want to spend all their money on a great education, to not have chance at a job when they graduate. So they look into other majors, while possibly doing some code on the side. Simple as that.

  6. Re:Put the blame where it belongs. on Government Pressure on ESRB · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I did over dramatize it a bit, but I was just trying to get across that it is not the game, but the bad parents out there. Even though I did kind of make it sound like the game warps every kids mind, but it does do it to some. Those kids are like 9 years old usually, so its the young minds that end up getting warped.

  7. Re:Put the blame where it belongs. on Government Pressure on ESRB · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I blame the parents for buying the game and allowing them to play it in the first place. Its a fantacy game for people like me who want to have a little fun and break the law without doing it in real life. Kids play it and think its the real word, thus they go out and shoot people thinking they can get away with it like they did in the game. Parents really need to start parenting, and not the government doing group parenting for everyone just because some parents don't.

  8. The two words have been stoppinig new products on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Patents, and Lawyers.

  9. Re:Backdate e-mails on White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users · · Score: 1

    Yeah, then the boss asks the employee why the email was late, and they say it was sent in the morning, but got delievered in the afternoon. Then the IT guys get called in to fix a problem that doesn't exist. IT guys read said email and check the headers, and see that it was sent in the afternoon, just on a computer that had its hardware clock back by the user, at which point the user is questioned. They of course deny everything. Reset hardware clock and test to see it stays set. Tell boss its fixed, and that should be the end of it. Nope, the vicous cycle just starts up again next week.

  10. Re:Next in line... on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    yeah, I thought it heard that perfect 10 was sueing google for linking to pictures.

  11. Sue for the sake of suing on The Internet Archive Sued Over Stored Pages · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Man, that is all people do here in America, find ways to sue other people, just to get easy money. Its no longer about the hard work and gratification of making something, its all about the money.

  12. Re:fp? on Tracking the IT Job Market with a Bot · · Score: 1

    I second that, nice work. Lets see some statistics from this too. Like where jobs are going up and where they are going down. That kind of stuff.

  13. Re:Shrinking bandwith to prevent illegal downloads on Dell and Napster Going Directly to Colleges · · Score: 1

    not everyone knows how to setup and run a ftp server, nor find the local one on campus. But hey, kazaa will find it all for you, just need to install it. You can search, just double click to start downloading, makes it easy, so college students use it.

  14. Not suprising on Forget Phishing Just Buy Personal Info · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell, you can buy your wife while in Russia. I would expect to be able to buy just the info on other people's wifes.

  15. http://wilstar.com/theories.htm on Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought gravity was a Law, not a theory.

    Scientific Law: This is a statement of fact meant to explain, in concise terms, an action or set of actions. It is generally accepted to be true and univseral, and can sometimes be expressed in terms of a single mathematical equation. Scientific laws are similar to mathematical postulates. They don't really need any complex external proofs; they are accepted at face value based upon the fact that they have always been observed to be true.

    Some scientific laws, or laws of nature, include the law of gravity, the law of thermodynamics, and Hook's law of elasticity.

    Hypothesis: This is an educated guess based upon observation. It is a rational explanation of a single event or phenomenon based upon what is observed, but which has not been proved. Most hypotheses can be supported or refuted by experimentation or continued observation.

    Theory: A theory is more like a scientific law than a hypothesis. A theory is an explanation of a set of related observations or events based upon proven hypotheses and verified multiple times by detached groups of researchers. One scientist cannot create a theory; he can only create a hypothesis.

    In general, both a scientific theory and a scientific law are accepted to be true by the scientific community as a whole. Both are used to make predictions of events. Both are used to advance technology.

    The biggest difference between a law and a theory is that a theory is much more complex and dynamic. A law governs a single action, whereas a theory explains a whole series of related phenomena.

  16. Re:Bullshit on Study Finds Value in Email Spam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if sending a bunch of porn spam to the wife, might get her to do some of the kinky stuff that gets sent in them? Hmmmmm.

  17. Re:Human Instincts on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, if you catch and kill all the fish, then it looks like you are going to have to move the village, or starve to death due to your ignorance.

  18. Re:Actually it is 42 on The BlackBerry Infringing on Other Technologies? · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm God, and I made it first, so there is prier art. So no patents for you.

  19. Just because you say you are, doesn't mean you are on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    Doesn't he need to prove himself in front of the councel or something before he can just call himself a "Jedi". And where is this "councel" he proved himself too. Also, doesn't he need a master under which he trained. He can't just go around anouncing this stuff, he must stick to the order of things.

  20. Re:Looks real but... on First Picture of new Motorola iTunes Phone? · · Score: 1

    The red phone that is in the same picture frame as the iTunes phone is not the same phone. The flip phone in the frame with the iTunes phone is the one that is down at the bottom. So there is no flipping on the iTunes phone. I do notice a switch in the bottom left, which might be a switch between being iTunes and phone. Flipping it turns off the colored green area, and the numbers light up. The whole thing might be touch sensitive too. http://img172.echo.cx/img172/338/phone17vd.jpg

  21. May I be the first to say on Deep Impact Comet-Smashing Video · · Score: 4, Funny

    We hope the mission is a Smashing success.

  22. Re:Fantastic! on At Long Last, NeoOffice/J 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Pages doesn't have Grammer checker yet, only Spell checker. Something every word processor needs. Don't get me wrong, Pages is very good for the creative type, really great at handling text and pictures together.

  23. Hey hey hey! on New Star Wars Movie From the Makers of 'Troops' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another ASP bites the dust!

  24. Re:Verifying the Theory on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 1

    You are onto something. If Marty kills his dad, then he can't be born, which means he never meets the professor, so the experiment never happened.

  25. Re:The hole in Apple's lineup on Apple Making a Spreadsheet? · · Score: 1

    But even after it opens the "safe" file, apps get the "This is the first time you are running this program, are you sure you want to run it?" prompt if something tries to just auto start itself just after download.