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  1. Re:Question! on Ricardo Montalban Recalls Khan · · Score: 1

    Problem is in Deep Space nine; Kalos (spelling unsure) is ridged (well the clone is) butt, in the episode were Kirk, thanks to some rock people, fight Kalos who is quite human looking. (Episode is also with Lincoln) Interesting enough, also is the fact that Scotty says "they are all notorious evil figures in history" while later the klingons are more like noble savages. (The orginans said they will work together one day (remember the cold war)). Anyway the point is star trek is full of constituency problems.

  2. Re:Moderation Funny(+1)? on F-22 Avionics Require Inflight Reboot · · Score: 1

    This is what i had in mind when i moderated it funny

  3. can the maker of the software be sued? on Interesting Enemies For a Diagnostic Database · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the software gives bad advice you could not only sure the doctor going by its recomendations but also sue the software maker. Does the software come with a EULA that would protect it. Would it stand up in a court challenge ... Trial lawyers woudl have a fieldday.
    hell some of the doctors would probably cheer them on to kill the software.

    just my 2 cents

  4. Re:My university just got a grant to do grid comp. on Introduction to Distributed Computing · · Score: 1

    sorry try this link http://inside.binghamton.edu/March-April/4apr02/gr id.html

  5. My university just got a grant to do grid comp. on Introduction to Distributed Computing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My University just got a 395,000 dollar grant from the NSF. for more info : http://inside.binghamton.edu/March-April/4apr02/gr id.html">

  6. Re:Can you? on NASA Researching Antimatter Engines · · Score: 2, Informative

    im pretty sure it means measure of mass since the wieght depends on the gravity. And antimatter has mass.

  7. not off topic on LotR Cleans Up at AFI · · Score: 1

    Not off topic read the link (and the Moderator guidlines)

  8. Re:Remember all that junk about Eagle Scouts? on Fast Track to a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    I agree, Because the NAVY's technical schools wheen out those who cant cut it. My school (FireControl A school) in 1986 had a 75% attrition rate. It was so tought that if you failed 1 test you went in front of an Academic review board.(and if they didnt like your effort you were gone)I got through 6 years of the NAVY and never saw brighter people. I have 1 semester left to finish my degree in CS but would still hold my shipmates head and shoulders above most of my classmates. (with one brilliant exception)

  9. this is good until the goverment squashes on WEP Gets A Bit Stronger · · Score: 0, Troll

    Homeland security, Homeland security, Homeland security... this is the rallying banter of many in Washington. While I hold a concern for this also, I worry that our RIGHTS (inalienable) are going to be sacrificed. Should we expect Senate hearing soon on banning heavy encryption? Of course the business lobby might acutely help us here.

  10. heres a better article on UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers · · Score: 1

    http://planetanalog.com/news/OEG20010413S0034

  11. Academia encourages bad habits on Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling · · Score: 1

    One of the problems is that when people learn to code in college they are not encouraged to do error checking. I can understand why this is so. I once turned in a simple program that was on average a page to a page and a half of code (c++). I went back later to have some kind of mechanism (this was before I knew about try Ccatch circa 1995) that would catch people from inputting the wrong type and locking things up because of the error flag being set (if they did I re-set the bit and had them input again). Plus other things like other runtime errors and the like (divide by zero errors were always required to be checked). This took as much time as writing the original assignment and almost added a page of code (maybe a half page J ). The point is it wasnt required. Just the other day, (Im A Grad student now) I over heard a student tell a TA But the professor said we dont have to check if the input is valid he said assume it is.± Colleges and universities have gotten a lot better about documentation and the like, but much improvement needs to be done in getting people to catch runtime errors in their programs (especially c, c++, and java but java in some ways forces it upon you). The problem is the time factor that is involved. Im not sure I have the answer to that. Except I know that when you learn bad habits they tend to stay with you. It took me personally a long time to learn to document BEFORE (design) and during coding, but through discipline I changed my ways. If Professors forced people from the start to do such things(as in error checking) then when the projects got bigger maybe it wouldnt be so bad. And in so doing maybe it would filter into real world projects that people always consider error checking.

    Then again maybe not.

  12. 127 post and not one "imagine a beowolf cluster .. on Intel Promises A Cool Billion (Transistors) · · Score: 1

    I guess the moderation system works after all.

  13. crushed ego on Truly Off-The -Shelf PCs Make A Top-500 Cluster · · Score: 1

    "The individual machines that made up the I-Cluster are now out of date, each running on 733MHz Pentium III processors with 256MB of RAM and a 15GB hard drive."

    I run a 750MHZ machine I guess ill soon be out of date. MY GOD i have to buy one one so i can eek out that one extra frame rate in quake (even though i cant see it)

  14. Re:Finally a reason to watch Star Trek on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    You should watch free enterprise...its even better.!

    I would love to her the characters in that movie talk about the pilot.

  15. Recycled story on ABC's part on Lightning Research · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Im pretty confident ive seen the same thing on TLC or NOVA or discovery.

    Maybe this is something new.

    Can anyone tell me if the ABC one is the same.

  16. Re:Perfect Target on Sklyarov Indicted · · Score: 1

    He has the same rights as a citizen.
    Accept he can be asked to leave the country after.

    ON a slightly off topic (there goes my karma) subject,

    Convicted foreign criminals in the US can no longer be held in detentions indefinitely after their sentence.

    This was happening if the convict's country of origin wouldn't take them back. This was a recent court ruling.

  17. Re:Call me a troll.... on MySQL Gets Perl Stored Procedures · · Score: 1

    YOUR A TROLL

    ok... happy now.

  18. Functional languague as first on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 2

    something like Prolog or haskel.. Computer scientist at the undergrad level are in training to be Computer scientist to go on to a graduate level. Have some 2 credit courses that teach C++/java or any other language.

  19. We have received almost $2000 in donations on Freenet's First Employee · · Score: 1

    but there paying him 2500... at least there optimistic they will get 500 more. I plan to donate.

  20. I can call the school and find out the same thing on Software Tracks Kids At School · · Score: 1

    I could call the school tie up some mid level educrat every day and find out all this information. Its just allot easier now. As a Taxpayer I think the schools should put up all the data as a whole, sans the identify of the students. Then I as a taxpayer can hold the school board more accountable.

  21. Re:Wrong ism on Have the Baby Bells won? · · Score: 1

    also by the way nobody wants more arsnic...it is naturaly in the water. at 50 parts per million. at the proposed ten it would bankrupt most municapalities to clean it out of the water. Your hatred for captilism is your cause anyway.. Gee leftist have such a great enviromental record in eastern europe and Chinia.

  22. Re:Wrong ism on Have the Baby Bells won? · · Score: 1

    Thats Right the goverment gets lobbied...why because the goverment can tell business what to do. So why shouldnt they be able to lobby. Your fight is with the politicians. IF Your local goverments dont like what the comapnies are doing have them stop it. They have the power to.

  23. Wrong ism on Have the Baby Bells won? · · Score: 1

    The goverment dictating policy directly to a business at all levels is Fascism...Communists would provide the service and dictate to you the service the state provided you. Both systems suck.

  24. You both dont know what your talking about on Internet Drug Game Could Save Lives and Money · · Score: 1

    Lets start with this one... "People like Rockerfeller tried, but various liberals have been attempting to thwart such valiant efforts, making the penalties disproportional to the crime." Saying Rockerfeller as you called him is something other than a liberal is insane. "I want to be free to raise my children without having to have them exposed to drugs. Simple as that." Than move to Singapore...they have very little freedom you would fit right in. and as far as the root post goes... You want more social welfare programs to help the poor ...gee what about the 5 trillion!!!! dollars we have spent already. Those same people already get that DRUG. What people need is to wake up in their communities and lift them self's out...Some have already started. (Not out of their communities out of the plight) I don't pretend to have all the answers but ...Give me liberty or give me death.

  25. Oh My GOD...I Might be a clone!!! on Cloned Animals Show Grave Health Problems · · Score: 1

    "For example, some mouse clones grow fat, sometimes enormously obese, even though they are given exactly the same amount of food as otherwise identical mice that are not the products of cloning. The fat mice seem fine until an age that would be the equivalent of 30 for a person, when their weight starts to soar, said Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, a University of Hawaii researcher who first cloned these animals and has studied cloning's consequences in them. I had the same thing happen to me at 30 :)