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  1. Re:ChAir Force on Behind the Scenes With America's Drone Pilots · · Score: 1, Troll

    So either I can choose the man who reviers a child molester (Muhammad had sex with 9 year old child) and straps a bomb to his chest to go blow up women and children in crouded shopping areas, or a guy who tries to kill him from a lazy-boy who does not target innocents.

  2. Re:Like I said. 0.1% of the comments. on FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't be a problem if women stayed in the kitchen like they are supposed too.

    Yes I am trolling and now the comments are tainted by my sexist claims please feed me!

    I would bet the 90% of the sexist comments were made by trolls and the other 10% by guys who spent a lot of time fixing an error made by a woman so instead of calling that woman, a no talent ass clown, a pillow biting homo, or a inbred moron, as they would a man, they say women can't code which usually pisses off the woman so it hit it's mark.

  3. Re:It is possible. on FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Kind of like this.
    Girls suck at math

  4. Re:TERRORISM!! on Massachusetts Police Can't Place GPS On Autos Without Warrant · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Children's income tax is applied to the parents who are legally accountable for them so it's the parents who are taxed. Children are basically property of their parents until they turn 18 any money they make is their parents and the parents are liable for their shenanigans too.

  5. Re:In a movie on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    The new hearts are basically a screw in a tube that rotates little damage is done to the hearts but little is know about the effects of not having a pulse. During strenuous activity blood pressure increases I wonder if people with out a pulse would have thinner vessels and be more susceptible to an aneurysm.

  6. Re:Privacy on Auto-Detecting Malware? It's Possible · · Score: 1

    Just think of it this way you give them you bank id and password and they keep you safe. Where do I sign up.

  7. don't need the 1.21 GW yet on "Time Telescope" Could Boost Fibre-Optic Communications · · Score: 1

    Not varying time but varying the speed of light over a pulse, still pretty cool but no need for the delorean yet.

  8. Re:Is this news? on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 1

    So when can i expect you to open up one of these stores, oh you just want to throw out ideas that won't work and claim to have a solution. Please tell me how this retail chain is supposed to handle peak times (Christmas, back to School) there will be more calls to your experts so you will temporarily need more people just to lay them off skilled labor is not that easy to come buy and will not take a job knowing they will only work a couple of months.

  9. Re:Is this news? on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 1

    A fool and his money will soon be parted, as long as it's not my friends or family why should I care. I could care less what you and your friends do with a broom stick in the privacy of your own home.

  10. Re:huh? on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can never remember a time when shit hits the fan and I'm able to keep down time to a minimum and getting glory, just gripes about down time. IT never has glory because nobody cares about IT until something goes wrong then it's the IT guys fault, and every second of down time is because of their incompetence.

  11. Re:Let's be honest here. on Why Games Cost $60 · · Score: 1

    Any company making money is evil and excessive greed, from evil big oil, to the evil health insurance companies, to the evil greedy bankers, all are evil for making money or at least trying to make money. So it now time to take down these evil video game companies that are teaching the children to be violent and making profits.

    Barack Hussein Obama! He said we must be clear today! Equal work means equal pay! mmm mmm mmm!

  12. Re:News for Nerds ? on AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful · · Score: 1

    Because you can get aids from the toilet seat, come on everybody knows that.

  13. Re:$8000 for a single processor on SGI Rolls Out "Personal Supercomputers" · · Score: 1

    When someone says server class think redundancy. If a something breaks on your cheapo server it will be down until it is repaired costing the company money in lost productivity, or even sales. With a "server class" system a singular point of failure will not kill it and the part can usually be hot swapped so NO down time. Trying to build redundancy into a chepo server would be a lot of work easily costing more to build then a "server-class". Lets say you did manage to build a server on the cheap with redundancy there will be no one to fix it or diagnose it if the builder is unavailable so unless you plan on never vacationing I would stick to the out of the box solutions.

  14. Re:Its the usual castle gate mentality on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    Real control freak teachers don't even let students use a calculator because there is nothing a calculator can do that a students should not be able to do faster.

    Here are just a few things that a calculator will do much faster multiplying large numbers for instance Pi and just about anything.
    Natural Log
    Power if x or y are large, negative or complex then x^y will take more time
    Trig sin, cos, tan, arctan, ... referencing a lookup table and then multiplying it will take much longer.
    Matrix inversion
    Thats all I got off the top of my head

    You are right it is about teachers, if teachers were good at their job then students would understand what they are typing into their calculator to get the answer, most poor teachers fail to effectively teach the why in math so students become mindless zombies just entering numbers into the calculator.

  15. Karate != Bad Ass on Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to think karate gave people magical powers that made them tougher but it doesn't, they will probably get beat up more often because they think they are billy badass and can fight there way out of any situtation. Learning dance steps (katas) and breaking boards will not make children less susceptible to Chester the child molester who outweighs the child by 150lbs. Teaching your child not to trust creepy looking guys with mustaches and vans would be more effective, also keeping an eye on children would do wonders.

  16. Re:Where is the controversy? on Secret GPS Tracking Now Legal In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    but you forgot to mention that Gates became abusive of the officers and was repeatedly told to calm down which was verified by the dispatch recordings where you can can clearly hear Gates throwing a temper tantrum. The police detained Gates and released him at no point were the officers out of line just Gates. The only thing the police department did that was wrong was not charging gates with disorderly conduct because of his stature.

  17. Re:Good luck with that one .... on Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites · · Score: 5, Funny

    And besides who RTFA anyway.

  18. Re:Fembot?!? on How Wired's Hiding Writer Was Found · · Score: 1

    Death by snu-snu!

    Hooray!

  19. Re:Resources are finite on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 1

    Lets start to go through the list of great inventions grandma saw if she liven from 1880-1960 as the article states
    -Car, nope invented in the late 1700's the gas car in the late 1800's
    -Plane, Gliders have been around for some time all that happened was people attached an engine to it
    -Plastic wrong plastic has been around since 1855
    As with many inventions they are realized by a better understanding of our universe most inventions don't become "big inventions" until later down the line.
    Lets look at what the article missed.
    Nano-tech, this technology is just in its infancy and the potential can all ready be seen from ultra hard materials to a more efficient computers and new medicine delivery systems.
    Quantum Computing - again still in it's infancy but none the less it has been invented
    Tissue engineering -Mice that can grow human Body parts

    These are just a few off the top of my head that the article missed, the inventions now are just as profound it's just that because inventions happen in so many different fields it's easy to miss and overlook many of them.

  20. Re:Interesting stuff on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    The fighter will never be out of the loop for one simple reason latency, fighter UAVs would use satellites to send and receive information, a mobile command unit with a direct link to the fighter would be a high value target and a beacon, so the long latency time will always be a problem. Second in order to give the UAV pilot full situational awareness an array of 10-15 high res cameras would be needed all those cameras are going to add weight and diminish the stealth design.

  21. Re:Simple fix? on Wind Farms Can Interfere With Doppler Radar · · Score: 1

    Filtering out the windmill's interference may seem trivial but any time you start removing data you run the possibility of removing an actual signal, a wind turbine will alter the wind flow creating turbulence which is causing the probelm and last time I checked it was not trivial to model wind turbulence.

  22. Re:Just what we need on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately some scientist discount their own work because it contradicts the Sky is Falling notion. The last 5 years have seen a cooling trend none of which was predicted in models yet these models are still used and accepted, the average temp has risen 0.7 degrees which is well below any of the error tolerances of models. This is mainly due to the models inability to predict cloud cover and sun intensity which causes them to incorrectly adjust the predicted average temp. All I and most reasonable people want is that before radical changes are made, that will drastically effect my pocket, in the name of protecting the environment, that further evidence and a rational discussing be had. The EPA and other Climate change proponents have refused to have open discussions with it's opponents. The is and will always be a problem because the Chicken little crowd refuses to listen to criticism and the no man made warming crowd refuses to look at the data both groups are fueled by the terrible job the other side is doing at finding the truth. Hopefully forcing the two side to discuss will lead to better science and a better understanding of our environment.

  23. Re:Ethical question on Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the lecture Al

  24. Re:free upgrades? on Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28 · · Score: 1

    Actually you missed my point the GP stated that point upgrades are free so I could upgrade from 10.0->10.1->10.2->10.3->10.4->10.5->10.6 for free which is not the case but the GP was being a duesh so I decided to be an ass.

  25. Re:free upgrades? on Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28 · · Score: 1

    So it cost nothing to upgrade from 10.0 (Cheetah) to 10.6 (snow leopard) good to know!