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  1. Re:The tech guys and not some PHB should be singin on Industry IT Security Certification Proposed · · Score: 1

    Ah, but it isn't supposed to be the techie signing the paper.

  2. Re:Ditch Java on Can Android Without Dalvik Avoid Oracle's Wrath? · · Score: 1

    I have to wonder how many of those cheap programmers are worth what their pay.

  3. Re:Moot on Can Android Without Dalvik Avoid Oracle's Wrath? · · Score: 1

    Security Nightmare is all I have to say.

  4. Re:And What's next? on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    Although, some of the opinions from the leaked cables that have been blasted may have been rude, crude, and bigoted; there is a problem here; if you start punishing people for honest opinions they will start lying to you.

  5. Re:Well good. on Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation · · Score: 1

    I take exception to the cannibal comment. At least they eat what they kill. MS just hangs the rotting corpses up out side the gates.

  6. Re:How convient on China Building City For Cloud Computing · · Score: 1

    Of course this this would negate allot of or more than the advantages because of higher bandwidth usages and decryption and encryption times and hardware usage.

  7. ID and creationists can't stand the stand heat on New Mexico Bill To Protect Anti-Science Education · · Score: 1

    They're all about pointing out gaps in knowledge that support evolution never mind the evidence that frames those gaps, then they use religion or philosophized feelings to support their point of view. Then, if you even try to point out that the bible has room in it for evolutionary ideas they usually slap you down and it gets very uncomfortable after that.

  8. Re:The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke on WikiLeaks Nominated For 2011 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Just wait Wikileaks will get around alienating every one eventually.

  9. Re:What an ugly move to discredit wikileaks on WikiLeaks Nominated For 2011 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Well, half of those seem to be just for trying. It evidently isn't as significant as I thought.

  10. Re:Microsoft can't be all things to all people on The Microsoft High-Profile Exodus Continues · · Score: 1

    What they really need to do is invest, grow and incorporate if they can't innovate internally plus clean their management house.

  11. Re:Aren't all Dating sites more or less hacked? on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    No, what they do is sell cars that need major work after 4 years or so many 1000 miles (end of warranty.) There are also parts companies who make parts that break right after the warranty runs out.

  12. Video-games re-purposed on Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers · · Score: 1

    There'll be gaming fat farms and self improvement gaming; You're looking at it wrong.

  13. Re:Proposition on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be even easier to include the source code in the memory of the the dash board so it is always is in compliance or integrate a isolated ROM chip from which the source code can be downloaded if having it in part of the the system raises objections.

  14. Re:Good test case on Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy · · Score: 1

    They are only immune for detaining them for the authorities and only if they believe and only within reason. Her arrest happened after at their insistence so...

  15. Re:Well yes... on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    I have always taken this claim with a grain of salt. Statistics can always be manipulated or there was one interesting fact I ran into one day is that Cubans are very proud that there are no street-people/children(can't remember which) in Cuba. They have made a concerted effort to get a roof over everyones heads. Something I assume would be hard to do in larger countries.

  16. He's on the board on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 1
    And, I don't think he's there for his own edification either. Plus, is that a paying position?

    He also sits on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, an advocacy group that pushes stricter copyright laws.

  17. Re:profit is the point on Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees · · Score: 1

    if energy companies can put it in a pump and sell it alongside cigarettes,beer, and condoms they will sell it. if someone discovered how to make ethanol from cellulose in unlimited quantities for 50 cents a gallon and the oil companies could sell it for $1.25 a gallon, oil companies would happily sell it. "drill,drill,drill" is about having control of supply. If supply is cheap and guarunteed, then drilling no longer matters

    The problem with with this is that they would lose all their infrastructures value and could lose profitability. Right now they own the market and have plenty of excuses to gouge prices. If this process makes small scale production easier and cheaper, that would open the market to competitors and they would lose excuses for price gouging.

  18. Re:And.... on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    Why not? British people occasionally sue the NHS (National Health Service). It doesn't make them very popular -- they're taking public money if they win -- but there's nothing to stop them suing, and sometimes they win.

    Amtrack, Postal Service, Social Security... Nope, they all suck.

    Because your right-wing governments don't fund them properly.

    I don't want my health care decisions handed over to the same group of losers that are wasting my retirement funds.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was the insurance companies and the banks that wasted all the money, and it's the insurance company that's deciding your health care.

    I believe they were referring to social security when they said retirement.

  19. Not true either on Too Easy For Bank Accounts To Spring a Leak · · Score: 1

    I personally have had accounting errors happen in my simple retail account. Even if the private banks are more careful(which isn't given) their odd accounting practices make this more likely.

  20. Re:New Math of the 1960's - they invented it on Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians · · Score: 1

    Did they actually push "New Math." As you said it was imported. They were writing to college audiences. This stinks of jumping on the band wagon. Someone heard how great this was from publisher's salesmen and demanded kids learn it.

  21. Re:therefore on Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research · · Score: 1

    Maybe your adviser is being used to get research & development outsourced to pirate, and investment capitol for previously pirated research & development.

  22. Maybe not critical? on Software Quality In a Non-Software Company? · · Score: 1

    There may be software is out there already. If not then it could be a selling point that could give them a reputation.

  23. Depends on Software Quality In a Non-Software Company? · · Score: 1

    I would make sure I knew what was happening. They may be quietly trying to solve the problem without drawing attention to it. If they are not or it looks like their solution is going to flop I would look into starting a company that sold the software. Don't go the venture capital route you'll end up with the same mess you are in now.

  24. Re:My Scorecard on McCain Releases Technology Platform · · Score: 1

    These statements all have plenty of weasel room so I hardly ever put much faith in these types of promises.

  25. Re:Why? on Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising · · Score: 1

    Not having a policy on an issue that you do not have enough information on is not a bad thing and far better than promoting a bad, impossible, or impractical one.