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  1. Re:$20,000 per home? on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hell, sign me up for that job!

  2. Re:$20,000 per home? on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nope... didn't miss the point. ;)

  3. Re:$20,000 per home? on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 0, Troll

    Welfare doesn't create jobs...

  4. Re:Last time I checked... on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well then, the government can start doing my job then if it's their money. I'd love to see the bureaucrats design and develop rapid software solutions. ;)

  5. Re:$20,000 per home? on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...or $906,250 per job!

  6. Re:I want 64bit distro that has working Flash & on Unusual, Obscure, and Useful Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    Lenovo T61, Core2Duo running 64-bit (ndiswrapper isn't needed for 32-bit I thought... but it seems to be a great point of trouble for 64-bit builds that use flash with it.)

  7. Re:Blah on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    Not all Christians I know run around [shouting at] abortion doctors and tell everyone they're going to hell.

    But on the other hand, how many are trying to stop them.

  8. Re:Educated, not crazy and not afraid. on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    If we had a sales tax instead of an income tax, you wouldn't have to prove it. ;)

  9. Re:WOW on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    Some would say Iraq was religiously motivated. I'm not, but I have read it.

  10. Re:Educated, not crazy and not afraid. on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    One could pretty much sum up your questions to: "What right grants you the ability to have stuff when this other person doesn't have it?"
    Healthcare (Money)
    Steak (Money)
    Money ...

    It's Communism and it flies in the face of everything we were brought up under. (and I'm not saying that to be sensational.) I personally view our Constitution as a document that basically says: "You have the right to do as you please as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others to attempt whatever it is you are doing as well... and here's a government whose sole job is protecting those rights." Of course, people are going to disagree with that, but it's all good. ;)

  11. Re:Can't catch me on Things You Drink Can Be Used To Track You · · Score: 1

    Ok, not sure if this is a joke... but ouch. There has to be some kind of hair remover that's not going to stretch your sack when you use it.

  12. Re:Educated, not crazy and not afraid. on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    There's a sign along the road on my way to my parent's home that says something like: "Your sins will find you" in some farmer's yard... has been there for YEARS. I won't even get into the email footers I get on a daily basis.

    Also, you can't find those non-Christians in politics because as soon as the public finds out, they are voted out.

  13. Re:I want 64bit distro that has working Flash & on Unusual, Obscure, and Useful Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    Being a flash developer? :P

    I also run Debian (now Ubuntu) on my now 3 year old laptop with no sound issues and perfectly stable Flash 10 plugin (though I did install it manually, not using the ndiswrapper)

  14. Re:You know who else? on The State of iPad Satisfaction · · Score: 1

    Well, in a way you are right...

    If I spent $400 on something, I'm more inclined to tell people I like it so I don't feel like I wasted my money.

    If it was $5, I might be more inclined to tell someone if it really sucked.

  15. Re:"Earthshaking" on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Great... now I imagine him as Professor Farnsworth.

  16. Re:more importantly on Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    Unless of course he was joking...

  17. Re:more importantly on Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I'd call it Flash heavy, but I wrote a banner in Flash (Actually FlashDevelop using the Flex compiler) for one of our internal sites that's fairly basic and calls JS on page to simplify the layout of the page a bit. (allowed us to create a dynamic header based on content, user preference, minor animations, etc.)

    I frequently work on pages within this site and even if I have several pages open (each with their own flash banner) for pretty much my entire work week, I have practically no issues with memory leaks. Granted, I did have problems with Firebug memory leaks so I do have to be a little aware if I have the "network tab" enabled, but that's not because of Flash.

  18. Re:0.5 on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    Only if you use the Devlin's logic in the story where the every possible combination is:

    boy - boy
    boy - girl
    girl - boy
    girl - girl

    You are putting extra weight on the "boy - girl" combination. There are really only three possible solutions:

    boy - boy
    girl - girl
    boy - girl (or girl - boy if you prefer...)

    By pointing out one boy you know it's not a "girl - girl" outcome so that leaves you with two options:

    boy - boy
    boy - girl

  19. Re:Rubbish on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    I'm applying the sticks in the above equation to the children. (and I admit, I did say they were a different color which I should retract.)

    We know there are two sticks. Let's assume (because using color can equate to millions of results) that you know the only colors that exist are red and blue.

    The question can be rephrase to:

    I have two sticks of which one is red that I pulled out on Tuesday. What's the probability that the other stick is red?

    It is in fact, 50%. It's either red or blue. You don't know that they are different colors.

    There were two sticks in the box. The possible combination pairs would be:
    red - red
    blue - blue
    red - blue

    By pulling out a blue stick, you eliminate red-red leaving only two possibilities.

    The one solution gets everything wrong by deducing order.

    ie:

    girl - girl (can't exist)
    boy - boy
    boy - girl
    girl - boy (irrelevant, we already cover this situation above... by ordering them you've put weight on there being different sexes.) [this was my original point]

    So there are only two outcomes. You have two boys or a boy and a girl.

  20. Re:The real problem on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    It just goes to show you how people can manipulate numbers to mean what they want... then fervently defend that position as the right answer.

  21. Re:Rubbish on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    Because he didn't say, "Take two of my children."

    He said, "I have two children."

  22. Re:Rubbish on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    Why does it matter what order they are in. You only have two. If you have two sticks of different color and you put one in a box before the other and shake the box, it doesn't change the outcome of pulling out the red stick.

  23. Re:Let's try it without reading TFA on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    "Pop Music" is an oxymoron.

  24. Re:This is so irrelevent it's not even funny. on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 1

    Does it have 330 million users because everyone has it installed... or does everyone have it installed because it has 330 million users?

  25. Re:Open communication? on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 1

    Yep, your ex could have reached out to you to find out who did the roof on your last house because they did a good job.