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  1. Re:@_@ on Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 1

    I don't see how one can apply most of the new algorithms to harder equations, with out the fundamentals and memorizing the problem (3x+8)*(7x-2) becomes much harder also how does one do (5x^3 + 7x^2 - 4x + 3) / (2x -1) with the new math. Like C and other lower level programming languages these fundamental skills are necessary in solving harder problems more efficiently. All your doing by teaching the new math or Java in light of C or long division is forcing students to learn the fundamental skills while trying to learn other more complicated concepts at the same time.

  2. Re:That they aren't primarily a programmer? on How to Recognize a Good Programmer · · Score: 1

    I can't even count how many times I've spent the week fixing and optimizing crappy code written by you math types, just because you used FORTRAN back when it was new and now use Matlab in no way makes you a competent programmer.

  3. Re:morons on The Secret to Raising Smart Kids · · Score: 1

    The real question to determine if slow kids can make them selves smart is; are there any glue eaters that became members of Mensa.

  4. I declair shenanigans on FCC Delays Vote On Cable TV Regulation · · Score: 1

    Government regulations rarely accomplish anything most of the time it's just a political grandstanding. Coal workers would not have a problem, they belong to these things called unions, that negotiate their hours worked. The evil coal companies would not want their workers to breath in coal dust due to lawsuits so they would mandate air filters. The evil car companies have a reason to build safe cars it's called lawsuits and their reputation. If let's say Ford builds a truck that does poorly in crash tests by say the insurance institute for highway safety (even though it passed the government regulation) then Ford's sales for said truck will drop until they redesign their truck to make it safer. Not all regulation is bad I'm quite grateful that plumbing fixtures come in mandated sizes, but the market is much better at correcting the problems then the government.

  5. That depends on your definition of is on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1
    Not so fast my friend! He was a Christian deist, so he believed in God, Morality, and Jesus (just not Jesus being God). He even called him self a Christian a quote from the Jefferson Bible.

    "[The Jefferson Bible] is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." Not to mention he attended church services in the house.
  6. Re:Could or Should on Sony Developing Gigapixel Satellite Imaging · · Score: 1

    I bet CTU would be able to lose them with the new camera, more so if they sent up a perimeter.

  7. Re:Good or bad? on Chicago Developing 'Suspicious Behavior' Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    They'll just have to put up a sign, Parking here will result in you car being disposed of by the bomb squad at the owners expense, just think of how little congestion there will be.

  8. Re:Welcome to the Dark Ages on FCC Says Analog TV Lives Until 2012 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cell Phones are finally getting rid of analogue, verizon will stop carrying analogue in 2008. Until they come out with a 3W digital phone I'll guess I'll have to connect my phone to a large parabolic antenna.

  9. The French on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    The US had all ready labeled the French as cowards way before they disagreed with our policy. April 30, 1995 Groundskeeper Willie "Bonjourrrrr, yah cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys!"

  10. Re:Johnson & Johnson are RIGHT! on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Wolfestien got the right to use the trademark from J&J or from the redcross.

  11. Re:Different on Coping Strategies for Women in IT · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The fact is that girls and young women are not encouraged to pursue IT or computer science, so they don't. Career women are pointed towards administrative, HR, or other areas where women dominate. This isn't just due to interest, it's due to societal pressure on them to not learn tech skills because appearing too geeky would make them unattractive or get them to be socially shunned."

    This is the biggest bunch of BS, I never was encouraged to pursue computer science, I was simply interested in it and persued CS in college. No one was there telling me when I graduated H.S. that CS is the future I all ready had my mind made up. Further more most kids interested in tech are picked on or socially shunned for being geeky remember the movie NERDS. The fact is if your truly interested in IT then you will persue it, it's high time we stopped blamming society for these problems.

  12. Re:protecting criminals = liberal shill? on ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates · · Score: 1

    The ACLU is too buisy protecting the rights of pedaphiles to look at child pornography, to fight for your right to for cancer sticks in a bar. All I'm saying is that the ACLU has a liberal agenda, yes liberal and democrat can be used interchangeably. From refusing to defend a shirt saying homosexuality is a sin while defending a shirt that says "gay is OK", or fighting to stop any christianity from entering a public school while ignoring the public schools that have muslim footbaths, and muslim prayer time led by faculity members.

  13. Re:And they're going to lose.. on ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The ACLU will protect criminals at all costs, they don't care that the cars are on public roads, and that police calling them in is no different. For quite some time the ACLU has moved away from protecting the rights of people to being a liberal shill.

  14. Re:I think the bigger problem on Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers · · Score: 1

    When the idiot Ted Strickland took office one the items that the previous administration was working on was implementing a security policy for sensitive data. Ted decided to not continue this action, and now my Identity will be stolen because I worked for a state school 4 years ago. The best part of it all is the notice they sent me which stated that my SS# was stolen and they offered to give me 1 year of credit protection, because who ever has the disk would need to know how their program works in order to see my SS#. Whew I'm relieved that my SS# is not stored in ASCII no way could anyone be able to read an unsigned long they might have to choose between big-endian and little-endian.

  15. Re:Does Anyone Really Use Their Wii Anymore? on Nintendo - "Everyone is a Gamer" · · Score: 1

    The problem is simple, Zelda one of their flagship games was watered down, tiger woods was rushed to production leaving out many features and jumpy game play. They need games that would lend them selves to using a pointer, besides call of doodey, star wars games seem to fit the bill. The potential for great games is what people were sold on, it's now a 10 months since their release, and their best game is Zelda. It's not about revolutionizing the gaming industry it's about having quality games.

  16. Re:Credit BS = Karma on Credit Industry Opposes Anti-ID Theft Method · · Score: 1

    If a company is ignoring the laws then hire a lawyer they will fix the situtation and get you some cash for the damage to you name.

  17. Re:Huh? on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    Cheney and Bush do not need protection they did nothing wrong, all Libby did was commit perjury, the same thing Clinton did. Valerie Plame name was leaked by Richard Armitage to the papers (Armitage was not charged), later Libby mentioned her name to the papers. This whole case is politically motivated just like the Clinton impeachment. Many people have stated that the outing of Plume was not an offense that it was common knowlege that she worked for the CIA and that outing her wsa not a crime yet the investigation went on. I'll tell you what you can have Libby in jail but you have to give up the Clintons' for WhiteWater, Ted Kennedy's for Murder, and william Jefferson for Bribery and Racketering.

  18. Grammer Fan Boyz on The Psychology of Fanboys · · Score: 2, Funny

    The most biggest group of Fan Boys are the Grammer Fan Boyz. I Can't remember the last time the wasn't corectid for my grammer. They are clearly the mostest annoing, I can deal with the lennox, MS, Mac, OS/2 zellots but them grammor Folks are awful.

  19. Re:So using this logic.... on Michigan Man Charged for Using Free WiFi · · Score: 1

    I will agree that there is crime if they have posted somewhere "Free WiFi for CUSTOMERS ONLY" if they don't, then they have made no attempt to warn him of wrong doing. My ananology would be hiking in a state park and wondering on to private property, if the owner does not have NO Tresspassing signs or fences then Yes I have tresspassed but owner has no expectation of privacy.

  20. Re:Not too bad, but... on PC World 's Best 100 Products of 2007 · · Score: 1

    The Logitec Harmony Remote is hands down the best gadget I own, It beats out my WII, HD plasma, Ipod, OSX 10.4, Razor, and Myth TV (only because I haven't upgraded to HD yet). The harmony remote is a dream come true It's one of the few gadgets I would have the most trouble giving up. Sorry if this sounds like and advertisement but 98 is a joke.

  21. Re:Power consumption = 14 Tev... ORLY? on A Detailed Profile of the Hadron Super Collider · · Score: 1

    Actual power consumption is probably enough to power a dozen DeLoreans. I think not 14.52 jigga watts of electricity is a lot.
  22. The Spoon Companies are next on eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spoons and spoon makers are responsible for numerous people being fat, without spoons they couldn't shovel in the lard it would simply run through their forks. Anyone supporting spoon companies is directly responsible for fat people and should be ashamed.

  23. Re:The healthcare market has only one impediment. on Can Technology Fix the Health Care System? · · Score: 1

    The one thing you're forgetting is if people have to pay less for the government entitlement programs then they will have more money. Contrary to popular belief people don't burry the extra money in their back yard, they invest it or purchase goods, all of which improve the economy and reduce unemployment. Americans entitlement to long life is ridiculous I'm sorry but if you need 20 different pills a day to stay alive maybe it is you time to go. In the US today you can get treated regardless of your income, race, health ins .... It's nearly impossible and costly to save 100%, 95% is more realistic. I know the socialist mantra is save everyone but not everyone can or wants to be saved, look at all the socialist countries; Canada, North Korea, China, and Cuba all have health care and most poverty issues there will always be the haves and the have not's. I just like being incharge of my health car and employment instead of the govrnment.

  24. Re:Why bother getting into CS on Tech Sector Expansion Blunting U.S. Job Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Your Buddy is his own boss so he has to pay Health ins, Retirement, Social Security and money for maintaining and running his equipment. You on the Other hand make 87,000 I'm sure the company you work for matches for a 401K say 5% or your income that's 4K, then there is Social Security, Health Insurance, and other benefits, probably about 10K. Now your employer still has to pay for the building you work in, maintenance, accounting, equipment, and so on. Your buddy may make more gross but his net is probably comparable or less to what you make.

  25. Re:And this is.... on HP Stops Selling Printers, Starts Selling Prints · · Score: 1

    I own just about everything, computers, cars, TV, Stereo except my house the bank owns it right now. What you fail to understand about capitalism is when HP's competitors create similar printers and sell them to the public HP will have to sell their's to be competitive. HP is simply trying a different business strategy. Right now paying per page with HP might be cheaper then the cost to own and maintain a printer, this is why HP is able to do this.