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  1. Re:1st censorship death sentence on Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Rome was a constitutional Republic for a almost 500 years of its history. I would not call them a bastion of freedom for the plebes.

    A republic still needs democratic institutions, and all mentions of democracy in the modern world means constitutional republic with democratic institutions.

  2. Re:TCP/IP still needs a rewrite on Vint Cerf on Why TCP/IP Was So Long in Coming · · Score: 1

    umm...a firewall is not the same thing as a Nat.

    IPv6 supports firewalls... AKA, the ability to create a checkpoint that looks at all packets entering/exiting the local network and deciding if that packet should be allowed to enter. What it does not allow is Network Address Translation, AKA, handing the mail off to a guy at the gate and letting that guy look up on a list what the mail address translates to as far as his system, and then delivering it.

    Cisco seems to think you are wrong as well.

  3. Re:Jesus... on Defunct Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit · · Score: 1

    That is why we have multiple satellites on the same path. The coverage blackout of an area is short enough to not make it impossible to avoid detection on large projects and operations.

  4. I will have to.... on Defunct Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit · · Score: 1

    I will have to keep an eye out for it. I don't want it fal[no carrier]

  5. Re:DRM is pointless on DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Well... Mozart died too young to even make that a meaningful statement.

  6. Re:Good in some ways... on Microsoft to Force IE7 Update on February 12th · · Score: 1

    Having a proper box model would solve most developer's headaches.

  7. Re:So... on Asteroid Missions May Replace Lunar Base Plans · · Score: 1

    it is more profitable to fly to an asteroid because then we are able to mine them.

  8. Re:Good freakin' luck... on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    Because I know nothing of what I speak or anything (I work for a hospital system and deal with the Director of Medical Education multiple times per week)

  9. Re:Not completely unbiased.. on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    I feel your debt pain. I want to get my masters but with a triple major (what was I thinking!!!) it is hard to pay that loan down.

    take my advice high school geeks... work your ASS off and get a scholarship!

  10. Re:Spoiled on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    I hate that. And where, pray tell will these companies find good seasoned staff that knows what they are doing if they do not train these idiots?

    The feds should do what they do for hospitals... reimburse companies who bring on young fresh out of college IT staff and send them through a rigorous OTJ training course. Then everyone wins. companies are not taking a huge financial risk by taking on a green horn or two, new ideas are injected into the companies IT department, young new workers get opportunities that did not exist prior to such a system, the H1B vista issues drops from the map, the tech sector stays competitive in the world.

  11. great idea on The Curse of Knowledge Bogs Down Innovation · · Score: 1

    maybe some developer jobs will open up that do not require 5 years of experience in every tech the job might us.

  12. Re:I bet the Mafiaa Won't Like That on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    I wish the Soviet Union had not fallen. Then you could use Communism in your comment and be right to have anger and resentment in your language. Since the fall of communism however, the right has made Socialism the evil economic policy rather than command economies.

  13. Re:I bet the Mafiaa Won't Like That on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    as opposed to China running free with their 30% tariffs being ignored.

  14. This is why I say FUCK the WTO on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    shit. as id we need another reason to pull out, but this one is just the most glaring reason... some international body has decided that a country can ignore our copy rights because we do not want our citizens to be able to access on-line gambling?

    an internal policy is being influenced by another country and as a reward for their affront to our internal policies, they get to ignore our copyrighted material?

  15. Re:Sorry on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    take it from another side. MIT might possibly make classes impossable to pass based on criterion referensing, but since they are designed to be that hard to push students as far as possible, then norm refernsing is used to identify the best and worst performing students.

  16. Re:Socialism on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 1

    I said access you fucking narrow viewed idiot.

    heart attacks are life threatening. an ER is required to take you and stabilize you. what if her father fell ill with a non life threatening problem? the ER could refuse treatment due to lack of insurance. For most people with out insurance in the US, the ER is used but only when their life is threatened by their illness, the rest of the time they are off work or spreading illness at work.

  17. Re:Sorry on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    you mean that they should not be grading on a curve? MIT? If they criterion referenced they would have a A- school wide GPA average. Criterion referencing does not work in such places.

  18. Re:Awesome on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    I was on topic to the GP. he asked did others read the article just to see what to take. I affirmed his inquiry, Added some color commentary about what I found in the article, and then described what I do currently to help keep my mind sharp. It all follows pretty logicaly.

  19. Re:Awesome on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    1) I do not drink enough milk, or eat eggs, etc
    2) vitamin D pills and Calcium Pills provide more of both for a longer period of time than milk. 1 bottle lasts me 2 months, and costs me 10 bucks. in that same period of time, the amount of milk I would buy just for normal needs, let alone over supplementing, would costs more than twice that.

  20. Re:Awesome on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    WTF?

    Dude, who the fuck said I thought it was cheating?

  21. Re:Sorry on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what about places like MIT where they use norm referencing for grading their students? I would certainly be pissed off at a doper because it directly affects my grade in the class.

  22. Re:Awesome on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yes,

    I was pissed off because they were all prescriptions.

    My Doc would not give those to me.

    I have however found that taking supplements does a decent job.

    I was very deficient in Vitamin D and Calcium because I do not eat foods high in those substances. I started popping D pills with calcium and now I feel a lot better, no more "crappy morning" syndrome. I think clearer too. I also take a B complex pill so I can make sure I get all my neurotransmitter precursors (B vitamins are used by the body to create almost all your neurotransmiters such as serotonin and dopamine, etc).

    I am also about to start a body cleansing regiment to remove toxins from my body such as aluminum, mercury, pesticides, etc. Hopefully that will make me feel even better.

  23. Re:NO thanks. on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    No, it means that it is no more dangerous than what we are already exposed to in the air and water.

  24. Re:Socialism on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 1

    Any HMO is a for profit insurer. Nixon created the HMO industry because he knew a for profit system would produce an industry that would make it harder to create a government run health system.

    HMOs killed that young Armenian girl in California last week. HMOs kill many people due to their management of care (the only way they make a profit is to reduce care to customers).

    Then you have the millions of uninsured and uninsurable (if you have had cancer or a transplant and need to buy insurance, you can't get it).

    Oh, and the fact that we pay more per capita for our crappy access to care than any other country in the industrialized world.

  25. Re:Compact fluorescent bulbs contain Mercury on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    don't eat any Tuna, you might have to call hazmat if you spill it on the floor since a tuna steak has more mercury than a CFL.