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  1. Re:Taxes on Help Me Get My Math Back? · · Score: 1

    that's why God, on the eighth day, created cheap tax software. We don't have to think, just plug in the numbers.

  2. Re:If you can't handle calculus, science isnt for on Help Me Get My Math Back? · · Score: 1

    you can't say such a thing without knowing what specialization a person would have. Statistics is the bread and butter of some work, for others just plugging numbers into formulas that have been known for a century or two (my job at national lab was like that for 10 years!), for others the heavy duty tensor calculus or partial diffy-Qs. Same situation in engineering.

  3. Re:Another one ... on Postgres Project To Go NoSQL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    content? No, this is abuse by trolls under sensationalized headlines and duped stories...for content, you want wired.com or geek.com just down the net. stupid git.

  4. Re:I've got the cure on Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug · · Score: 1

    yes, but transmission rate is very low - so not likely.

  5. Re:That's fine on Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer · · Score: 1

    heh, found out name changed in some english speaking countries for political correctness' sake ("scouter", "scout leader")

  6. Re:That's fine on Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer · · Score: 1

    false, a troop is led by a Scoutmaster, and can have many eagle scouts.

  7. Re:That's fine on Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer · · Score: 1

    why would it be short-sighted? not making Oracle one dime, just costing money. And, if no longer given the artificial resource-injected community, in a few years when it becomes obsolete crap that won't run on newer hardware, may as well be dead.

  8. Re:I've got the cure on Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug · · Score: 4, Informative

    wrong, throat gonorrhea is quite common, and transmissible to your penis via oral sex.

  9. Re:What? on Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug · · Score: 1

    Syphilis and chlamydia rates are also going up after being down in the 90s, and they also are curable diseases.

  10. Re:Seven years for eight hours work on Novell Wins vs. SCO · · Score: 1

    they do have a T-shirt and mug and mouse pad shop; I'm buying the "SCO Sinks" mouse pad

  11. Re:Seven years for eight hours work on Novell Wins vs. SCO · · Score: 1

    take your meds, and quit obsessing, Maureen.

  12. Re:Um..no on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 2, Funny

    I volunteer to work as a humble civil servant in your society, and for a supreme sacrifice to the cause, for the sake of loyalty, purity and clarity of purpose, I'm willing to forgo the blackjack.

  13. Re:Organ sale? on Novell Wins vs. SCO · · Score: 5, Funny

    yes, the brains should be quite valuable, never having been used

  14. Re:WTF? on Students To Live Like Ancient Roman Gladiators · · Score: 1

    those who have been buggered find passing much easier. It's retention that sometimes is a problem

  15. Re:the more attention you give morons... on Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick · · Score: 1

    I expect the worse from lawyers, among the lowest scum of the earth. A judge is a promoted lawyer. Sometimes lawyers get to be president.

  16. Re:Why not "strangelets"? on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 0, Troll

    that will be later, when they ramp up to 14 TeV, we have a 90% chance of perishing in a "stranglet conversion". However, the legal department of the LHC has advised the directorate that this situation poses no risk, as dead people don't seek redress of grievances via litigation

  17. Re:TFA on Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The poor foetus was a lobotomite, you insensitive clod.

  18. Re:How many Libraries of Congress on LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV · · Score: 1

    ah, but Ballmer threw the chair across his office to hit a table. Using round numbers, assume a ballistic lob with starting height of 1 meter to peak of 2 meters high to table 5 meters away also of one meter height with 20kg Aeron chair in 10 m/s gravitational field. chair will fall that one meter vertically in sqrt((2d)/a) =~ 0.5 seconds, so up and down in 1 second. And that's the time the horizontal travel must take, so horizontal initial velocity is 5 m / second. Vertical initial velocity is a*t for half the lob = 10 * 0.5 = 5 m / s also. Vector sum is sqrt(25 + 25) = 7 m/s. BallmerChairEnergy (BCE) is thus 0.5 * 20 * 7^2 =~ 500 joules.

  19. Re:In case you don't know much about it on Open Source Deduplication For Linux With Opendedup · · Score: 2, Informative

    hundreds of virtualized desktops per physical server does happen, my employer sells such solutions from several vendors.

  20. Re:Armed Revolt? Really? on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    CO2 is quite a minor greenhouse gas compared to water vapor, which is the most powerful. Unless you have a good working model for water vapor, I suggest you quit aping what you read somewhere out of some nebulous feeling of guilt that mankind must be punished for using its minds and muscles to increase our quality of life and life span.

  21. Re:Quit WHINING. on Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data · · Score: 1

    they opt you in and lob your information to all their partners. then you come along after notification and opt out. see the problem?

  22. Re:Quit WHINING. on Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data · · Score: 1

    your response is not valid in the case when you are OPTED IN by default to have your previously restricted information given away

  23. Re:Get Real on The Mono Mystery That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is infamous for its poor source code control, software bloat, proneness to malware infection, so your label of their developers as "smart people" is laughable.

    Microsoft has threatened to enforce its software portfolio at various times.

    But I'm sure the air and view is much clearer and cleaner with your head jammed up Bill Gates' ass.

  24. Re:Good News on The Mono Mystery That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    more like a porn star

  25. Re:Good News on The Mono Mystery That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    at my employer I'm the "Enterprise Linux Engineer", so I get to design systems with free software, sometimes implement them including migrating clients from closed source, and sometimes head up software development projects. It's 80% fun for money, the other 20% is when clients are being a pain in the ass.